Unconsciously, located in the south of the Daimyo's Mansion, the original Hebei East Road to pacify the Yamen, but now it has been transformed and hung up the signboard of "China School".

Because it is on the same street as the original Hebei Road Transit Division Yamen, the environment here is much quieter and more remote. The school was chosen here, and Wang Song also took a fancy to the quiet learning range here.

In fact, not only here, but also in the Daimyofu City, there are three identical Chinese schools, but this one is the largest.

A stone tablet about one meter wide and about three meters high, engraved with six red characters of "sacrifice, responsibility, and nation" stands on the flat ground on the left side of the main entrance of the school. On the flat ground to the right of the gate, a stone tablet of almost the same size is inscribed with the words "Knowledge is power". The font is vigorous and powerful, and it is written by Li Ruoxu, a famous man in Hebei.

As Li Ruoxu, who left ink treasures and shocked future generations, the charm of his font is of course impeccable. The two stone monuments, one on the left and one on the right, with white stone and red characters, form a unique scenery that attracts teachers and students and idle people in the past.

In terms of educational level, the "Zhonghua School" is only a primary education school, which is equivalent to six years of primary education in later generations.

In essence, children are the future of the country and the hope of the nation. Whether children can grow up healthily is related to the future and destiny of the country and the success or failure of the nation.

Children entering the "Chinese Academy" are between the ages of 6 and 13. Children not only have to receive a complete education in Chinese culture, but also mathematics, geography, history, etc. Perhaps in the near future, Wang Song will prepare some elementary physics and chemistry education for them to guide their interest in learning.

In addition, the physical education class in the school is also a big special. Queues, athletics, pull-ups, push-ups, and finally "spear stabbing" and horseback riding.

As for archery, it was habitually abandoned in favor of grenashing practice. In this era of firearms, archery became a hobby, not a compulsion.

At the gate of the Chinese Academy, it is bustling every day, full of parents and friends who send their children to school. However, overcrowding did not occur, and everyone followed the rules. No one wants to show their stupid side in front of their own children.

In this era, there are not as many social security hazards as in later generations, and naturally there are not so many "student slaves".

According to the list posted by the official government of the daimyo government, all children between the ages of 6 and 13 must receive education, even "migrant workers" from outside the city.

In order to avoid conflict, children attending other schools are not forced to transfer to these new "Chinese schools".

At the same time, when it came to girls' schooling, the daimyo government did not make it mandatory, but adopted a free choice. After all, compared with the previous dynasties, the atmosphere of the Great Song Dynasty was open enough, otherwise there would be no famous Li Yi'an.

However, after all, this was 900 years ago, not the modern civilized society of later generations. Once it causes a huge backlash among the people, the gains outweigh the losses, and it also runs counter to the purpose of running the school.

As long as the gap is gradually opened up gradually, perhaps in twenty or thirty years, the enrollment of girls in school will become logical.

Since it is a hot summer, Wang Song also adopts the winter and summer vacations and the two-week rest system in later generations, after all, this is the best combination of work and rest that has been verified.

"Xianggong, since the first year of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, it has been more than 600 years. The imperial examination has gone straight to the heart and lungs, and it is deeply rooted. It is a good thing to run a school in the public sector, aiming to make the poor and the rich and poor equally receive knowledge. However, the fame, wealth and future of students in life all lie in the imperial examination. Whether the "Chinese Academy" can continue is closely related to this. ”

Li Ruoxu said a little vaguely. But Wang Song still heard the meaning. The imperial examination has been deeply rooted, and Wang Song abolished this imperial examination, and his new education is very likely to be unsuccessful.

"Li Gong thinks about it, but don't worry, there are always exceptions."

Wang Song shook his head and said: "Hebei and Hedong have been eroded, and it is naturally much simpler and easier to implement than Jiangnan. In the final analysis, it is the question of students' future employment, which is fundamental. ”

"In all dynasties, scholars only wanted to be officials, but they ignored officials. The two words of officials, officials are more important than officials, and the rule of officials is the foundation of the country, because these officials are the people who do things at the grassroots level and deal with the people, which is also the foundation of the "Chinese Academy". ”

As for the future of the students, Wang Song did not fully explain. That is, with the development of society, talents in science and technology are the driving force for social development. He needs such scientific and technological talents, even Confucianism is also practical learning, so that this era can continue to develop in an orderly and powerful manner in his hands.

The ruler is clear. He hoped that the students who came out of the "Zhonghua Academy" would become a clear stream of society in the future, and that they would wash away the turbid officialdom that had been formed in China for thousands of years.

In a society where power is everything, nepotism is prevalent in officialdom, and many people are proud and not ashamed. One person attains the Tao and the chicken dog ascends to heaven, which has always been the norm in Chinese officialdom.

Just like the Great Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's reformers and Sima Guang's conservatives eventually evolved into party struggles.

Wang Anshi cracked down on conservatives, and a large number of opposition members were denounced in the Wutai poetry case. When Sima Guang came to power, he demoted all the officials of the new law, and at the same time abolished all the new laws that had been implemented for nearly 20 years.

In 1086 AD, Sima Guang and Wang Anshi died in the same year. On the contrary, party strife has intensified, national policies have wavered, and state affairs have become increasingly unstable. Just like the shame of Jingkang in history, the surrender faction and the main battle faction took turns to come to power, which eventually led to the tragic tragedy of the country's destruction and the death of the monarch.

The terra nullius land of the two rivers can be vigorously promoted this "Chinese Academy". Once it is completed, it can be seamlessly connected with the administrative school, which is enough to change the status quo of Lianghe education.

"Xianggong, if the Xuanfu Division does not open the imperial examination, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the scholars of the world."

"There are only one or two hundred people a year, and at most four or five hundred. The "administrative school" of Lianghe, plus the recruitment of talents, is at least 1,000 people. To say that it has chilled the hearts of people all over the world is probably an exaggeration. ”

Wang Song laughed, and his expression became serious.

"If you just want to be an official, mediocre, inactive, or even use power for personal gain, fill your pockets, where can the Great Song Dynasty court be a gangster, under the rule of my Xuanfu Division, don't even think about it!"

Li Ruoxu was shocked. The Great Song Dynasty did not suppress annexation, did not restrict officials from doing business, did not punish corruption and bribery, and officials were all rich and flowing. When I came to Wang Song, we had to pay attention to the rule of officials, and many of these old-school officials were conservative and did not keep pace with the times, so I am afraid that they would have to fall behind.

"Xianggong reclaimed the barren tuntian in the two rivers, set up an industry, organized and trained a new army, and pacified and educated, although it is a merit for a thousand years, but this matter of building a school and opening up the wisdom of the people seems to be quite inappropriate."

"Oh, Gong Li has something to say, listen to me."

Wang Song couldn't help but be stunned. It seems that Li Ruoxu has different opinions on the matter of compulsory education.

However, he is not an arbitrary person, Li Ruo's hypocrisy is as fierce as fire, and he goes straight to the point, but he complements the cautious Ma Kuo and Huang Zong.

"Although Xiang Gong is a scholar and a martial artist, he may not be well-read. Xianggong has ever read the book of Shang Jun"

Wang Song looked at the cautious Li Ruoxu, laughed, and instantly understood the meaning of his words.

It was made by the famous minister of Qin during the Warring States Period, and it was also listed as the first forbidden book in the world.

I didn't expect this Li Ruoxu to have read this book, and he also admired these evil arts so much.

"It turns out that Li Gong also knows Shang Ying's five techniques of controlling the people, and he has a soft spot for it?"

Shang Ying's five techniques of controlling the people, one people, weak people, tired people, humiliating people, and poor people. One people is a foolish people, and the five techniques are the way of the emperors and kings of the past dynasties, and this is an undeclared secret.

Closed audition, let the people be ignorant; Let the people work all day long, ploughing endlessly, and have no energy to think nonsense; If the people are humiliated, the officials will be respected, and the dignity of the people will be lost; Strict taxation, the people struggle all day long on the food and clothing line, people are poor and short-minded, and it is easy to control.

This is the policy of the weak people, and compared with the true Confucian ideology of "education without class", "the people are precious, the society is secondary, and the monarch is light", it is really thrilling and ugly.

This can't help but remind Wang Song of the allusion of "always lacking three taels of silver" in later generations.

, recorded the data of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty: Chinese farmers have always been coarse grains, green vegetables, can occasionally eat a meal of eggs, except for festivals or special times, meat rarely appears on the table.

At that time, an average middle-class peasant family in China had an annual income of about 32 taels of silver, but its expenses were 3 taels more, 35 taels; During the same period, the first industrial revolution broke out in Britain, the invention of the steam engine, etc., which was a great revolution in the history of technological development, which ushered in the industrial age of replacing manual labor with machines.

China, which has led the world for thousands of years, why does no one study the "steam engine"? The difference between income and expenditure of "3 taels of silver" is the culprit. A family earns 32 taels a year but spends 35 taels, lacks 3 taels of silver, can't let go of eating, and has no surplus food at home, who has the leisure to study the "steam engine"?

Shang Ying's "Five Techniques of Controlling the People" was a compulsory discipline for ancient emperors. When the people solve the problem of food and clothing, they will think about other things. Qianlong's "lack of 3 taels of silver" is the so-called imperial technique of "poor people, weak people, foolish people, and tired people".

Li Ruoxu's face turned red, but his expression was very serious.

"Since Xianggong knows the five techniques of controlling the people, and knows the strategies of fooling the people and the weak people, why do you want to run a large school and open up the wisdom of the people, don't you know that "if the people are foolish, it is easy to govern, the people are weak and the country is strong, and the people are strong and weak". The way to govern the country lies first in the weak people." Isn't it contrary to the way of governing the country to run schools on a large scale, open up the wisdom of the people, and teach without class?"

The court of the Great Song Dynasty used literature to control the military, but it was also the scholars and the king who ruled the world together, except for a few cultural elites, most of the people, aren't they all honest poor people.

If the people were rich, there wouldn't have been so many uprisings. According to the history of the Song Dynasty, in the more than 300 years of the Song Dynasty, there were 433 peasant uprisings, but the scale and influence were relatively small, and the largest was the Fangla Uprising during the reign of Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty. A large reason is that the Great Song Dynasty court implemented a policy of raising soldiers, as soon as there was a famine or the people rebelled, the court recruited a large number of young and strong people from the exile population to enrich the source of soldiers. Everyone went to serve as soldiers and ate the imperial food, how could anyone rebel.

However, this caused the Song Dynasty to have the malpractice of "redundant soldiers", and in the end of the Song Dynasty, the army was uneven, and the country's military expenditure was huge, and it became a cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

"Scholars die of righteousness, kill themselves, die for the Tao, and die without regrets. If the wisdom of the people is not opened and the law is used to restrain behavior, will not the people be ignorant and ignorant, and will only know small profits but not great righteousness, and will have no blood and bravery, and will not have the spirit of martial arts?

Wang Song let out a long sigh. Without knowledge and ideas, how can a nation rise and become great

Just like this war, the people and soldiers have to know why they are fighting, otherwise it will be like in history, so that there is the shame of Jingkang, the south of the Yangtze River, and finally after Yashan.