Ma Qiang's free primary school is also a thought again.

Many people in later generations said that they can't let their children lose at the starting line, which is not rough, if people are creatures, if they don't study hard when they are teenagers, lay a foundation, and want to remedy them when they grow up, it is basically impossible.

The scholars, the Hanmen and the Qianshou basically lived a completely different life when they were teenagers, and the scholars and even the Hanmen could have enough conditions to study and even communicate with the Confucians, while the Qianshou even had few opportunities to read and write.

The reason for this is still economic problems, for ordinary people, any labor force is extremely precious, even if they are only seven or eight years old, but they can also help herd, cut wood, and reduce the burden on the family.

It is too difficult for such a family to give up this labor force and spend extra money on education.

Therefore, whether it is Ma Qiang or later countries, compulsory education is implemented in primary education, and children can receive education at an almost negligible cost in the form of subsidies.

Of course, although Ma Qiang has food in his hands now, he can't withstand all the children in the whole plain country, so he will only have less than a thousand children in a county town to enjoy this treatment.

"I wonder what kind of scripture the minister is going to teach?" Mi Zhu asked.

"Most of the wealthy families have family education, and most of the people who come to me are poor children, and what they learn is not to reach the princes, but only to have a skill, so that the family can be fed and clothed in the future, so except for a few who are gifted with scriptures, I am ready to let people teach mathematics, law, medicine, and engineering, so that they can get out of the school, enough for food and clothing."

Ma Qiang didn't say anything about science, after all, small-scale teaching and public teaching are two different things, Ma Qiang is ready to make science a miscellaneous science mixed with other disciplines first, and then slowly expand the scope when he has enough strength in the future.

"Teaching students according to their aptitude is a good strategy for the prime minister." As a businessman, Mi Zhu naturally would not look down on these miscellaneous studies.

And in Mi Zhu's view, if everyone learns the scriptures, it is ridiculous and generous, how can this kind of public school be compared with the family study of the big clans, so that those poor families read the scriptures every day, I am afraid that in the end they will not even be able to eat.

There are not many scholars who starve to death, but the students who starved to death were a team.

Mi Zhu stayed in Pingyuan City for a few more days, delivering grain on the one hand, and accepting the special products of the Red Star Camp from Youzhou on the other.

When Ma Qiang entrusted Mi Zhu to buy grain, he helped him recruit scribes to come to the plain as instructors, and then said goodbye to the Mi Zhu brothers.

- Prime Minister's Office

"As of yesterday, the ten counties in the plains have reported the end of spring ploughing, and the projects of land reclamation, field washing, and ditch digging have also come to an end." Hua Jing reported to Ma Qiang with a plate of bamboo slips.

Hou Ba has been complaining of illness these days, and Ma Qiang asked Hua Jing to directly do the work of Guocheng.

Ma Qiang saw that Hua Jing's hands were shaking, and hurriedly asked Huang Xu on the side to help bring the bamboo slips over.

Ma Qiang opened the bamboo slip, looked at it, nodded and said, "Okay, now it's May, the spring ploughing is over, most of the people are free, just right to build water conservancy, so as to further open up the wasteland tomorrow!" ”

"No!"

"By the way, I heard that you Hua's family has a talent, named Hua Xin, and Guan Ning and Bing Yuan are called a dragon, my plain country is just employing people, I want to recruit these three people, I don't know what Hua Juncheng can do?"

Ma Qiang directly called Hua Jing a county leader, which can be regarded as giving weight.

Hua Jing swallowed his saliva excitedly, this weight is indeed enough for him.

"The talents of the three people of Ziyu are twice as good as mine, if the minister of state is willing to use it, he can be recruited by the county order, and Ziyu will come! As for Bingyuan, I heard that he lived in seclusion in Yuzhou Mountain, but I don't know where it is. ”

Magistrate?

Is it so cheap?

"Then I'll write a letter, you help me pass it to Hua Xin, I heard that Guan Ning lives with him, so I will recruit it together, as for Bing Yuan, if the dragon head and dragon tail are here, will the dragon's belly not be there? I'm not in a hurry. ”

"No!"

Ma Qiang hesitated for a long time about whether to use these three people, he actually wanted to use the cadres he had trained, but it took time to cultivate, in the past few years in the dormant plain, he did need some talents to help him take care of local government affairs, this dragon three people are either good at government affairs, or good at education, they are rare talents, but they can be used.

After Hua Jing retreated, Duan Ying was pushed in by Duan Yu, Duan Ying handed a letter with a smell of sweat to Ma Qiang and said, "Gan Daochang has lived up to his mission and has successfully divided the Taishan thieves, among which more than 30 thief armies of Chang Feng and other sizes are willing to surrender, but Gan Daochang said that there are many people who are not willing to die and are unwilling to be lowered, so Ming Gong should prepare as soon as possible." ”

Ma Qiang opened it and looked at it for a while, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Taishan County belongs to Yanzhou, since they are unwilling to be subordinated, they will give them official positions, I think the imperial court will also be willing to take out a few county orders in exchange for Taishan thieves to go down the mountain to recruit peace." ”

Ma Qiang is ready to be generous to others.

Duan Ying smiled and said, "Ming Gong and Ying think the same, Wen He also said to Ying before, Ming Gong should be a soldier, not a general, and a person not a mountain!" The division and chaos of Mount Tai is only good for Ming Gong, not bad. ”

"It's up to you to do this, and you must let those thieves happily hand over their military power!"

"Ming Gong rest assured! Ying will make them satisfied! ”

After Duan Ying retreated, Ma Qiang thought of the school that was about to open, so he walked to the back hall, the back hall that had been burned down was not repaired on a large scale, but was converted into a laboratory by Ma Qiang, where a cross-era improvement of technology was being made, that is, papermaking!

Paper has been seen everywhere in this era, but the quality difference is high, mostly used by Taoist priests, literati and ink writers are still used to write on bamboo slips, silk silk, and Ma Qiang to reduce the cost of education, improve papermaking is a scientific and technological point that must be lit.

And in the plain country, there is a material that Ma Qiang has always wanted but didn't have before - bamboo.

Bamboo is one of the cheapest and most suitable materials for papermaking, and the emergence of papermaking in China is inseparable from the large number of bamboo forests in China.

But Ma Qiang only knows some principles of papermaking, but he doesn't know anything about the process.

The principle determines whether it can be done, and the process determines how it can be done.

Ma Qiang is no shortage of toilet paper now, what he wants to do is high-quality paper that is tough and moist, light but not slippery, white and dense, and pure in texture.

"Ah!! Failed again! ”

I saw Qingcheng looking at the dried paper, and scratched his hair in annoyance, the originally black and smooth hair was almost on par with Einstein.

"Sister Qingcheng, we have made progress this time, I found that as I thought, the difference in water acidity and alkali has a great impact on papermaking, but we have not experimented enough, and we need to further understand the scientific laws."

It was Zhang Ning who said this, she had already taken off her robe, put on a white scientific research uniform, held a pencil and a notebook in her hand, and wrote and drew there, looking more like a scientific researcher than Qingcheng.

If you ignore that height...