Zhang Dai was terrified with boundless horror, which was even more terrible than the legendary emperor's request to shave his hair, and said: "But that civil servant has to manage the government!" ”

Guo Jiefang said: "Yes, so our requirement is to be an official from an official." ”

Zhang Dai knew that the young man in front of him was a beggar three years ago, and he didn't expect him to know anything about the subtleties, and said: "But if you don't understand the scriptures and become an official, you will ......."

He had the heart to say something, but found that he couldn't say anything.

Guo Jiefang was very arrogant, and he asked the elders how to receive these businessmen who were interested in getting closer to the elders.

However, the elders had a lot of opportunities at this time, but they could only get a simple response: "In this era, Jiangnan merchants basically can't appear as a separate force, so it's good to receive them properly." ”

Just kidding, people don't care.

Of course, if you charge more students, the salary performance will be higher, right?

Zhang Dai was in a very bad mood.

Originally, he thought that this kind of school was just for the children of peddlers and pawns, so it would be too much to force him to learn the Four Books and Five Classics.

In fact, this also gave Zhang Dai a new way of thinking, after all, in the Ming Dynasty, too many children spent their lives reading those useless things, which can be regarded as a political hidden danger.

His idea is very simple, in the future, the children of the scholar clan can go to those academies, ask more clever gentlemen to take exams, and go to various "Ivy League" places to study, which is definitely an elite education 365 days a year, and those dolls, learn a word, engage in a happy education, educate them to accept their fate, and be happy to be a servant and serve others.

But now, someone told him that the imperial capital was completely different here, and he was naturally as uncomfortable as eating a worm.

"So I suggest that you don't need to build your own school, the students we have cultivated seriously are all of good quality, there are really a few of them, even the elders praise them very much, it is very simple to take the exam in the future, and your children can also mix personal feelings in it."

Everywhere there is a favor is not.

But Zhang Dai has no good impression of this school at all, this is no longer a robbery of his money, but a place where what his life represents is completely denied.

When it's time to eat, the canteen here is served by a food truck, which can be regarded as an attraction point to attract the common people to send half of the children to study, of course, most people are not short of this money, but if you can save it, it is not, and the current imperial capital is really not the level of children to participate in labor.

There is no need for those teachers to participate at all, naturally there are catering companies that deliver the prepared meals to the school gate, and then the students on duty come quickly, collect them according to the list, and send them to the classroom.

Many students eat while doing questions, Zhang Dai is not short of this stutter, but he is still very interested, he is not young, how many bloody storms have he experienced in the late Ming Dynasty, and he knows that the world is like this, as long as he is careful to deal with it, he can deal with any situation.

Each group of students on duty pushed a trolley full of food boxes and a large bucket, and when they arrived at the classroom, they began to distribute the food to everyone's table, and when they began to eat, they would also take out a cup and go to the big bucket to pick up the soup.

The soup is egg soup, and the food box is very full, the bottom is rice, but there are many kinds of meals on it, at least Zhang Dai's eyesight is excellent, in addition to the braised eggs that will inevitably be in everyone's food box, there will also be shredded meat, tofu, fungus and other things.

Zhang Dai quickly understood why it was rumored that a certain merchant sent someone to deliver goods to a certain camp outside the city, and happened to see those soldiers start a gang, and after seeing what they ate on weekdays, the descendant who was originally loyal and could kill people for his master asked to enlist in the army on the spot.

These things are by no means rare in Zhang Dai's opinion, they are all ordinary goods, but he definitely can't afford to feed all his subordinates to eat.

Of course, there was no need for it originally, in Jiangnan, landless peasants are the mainstream, in a lifetime only a few days to eat white rice and white noodles, most people can't eat enough, less than 40 years old, only need a not very full and good meal, you can find loyal coolies.

In an instant, he thought of a kind of person, Jiading.

In this era, many military generals and even literati raised a group of family members, most of whom were clansmen and township parties found from their hometowns, who ate and drank well on weekdays, and even occasionally arranged women, basically asking you to exchange your life for the glory and wealth of your master at a critical moment.

That is, the family will eat this kind of meal.

But these are just little dolls.

"It seems that they really feed these children as their descendants."

Zhang Dai also began to be in awe.

In history, every long-standing dynasty has its own basic plate, even if Wu Zetian is the emperor, those Beimen scholars have also contributed a lot in it, and before the change of Tumubao in my Ming Dynasty, the nobles are still very powerful.

With such an explanation, it can also be explained that the imperial capital is naturally full of children of the new dynasty and nouveau riche, even ordinary people may have a deep relationship with the elders, and it is not so difficult to understand it as a descendant.

So this self-explanation also made Zhang Dai feel a lot more at ease, isn't it, for the rulers of all dynasties, how can a group of loyal dogs like Confucianism be so useful, and they don't need them, it's not right to think about it.

This kind of thing is not necessary to talk about people like Guo Jiefang, who have no scheming and concentrate on doing things, rather than being a person and harming others.

Those little dolls ate very quickly, but all of them were cleaned up at all, and the students on duty waited until they were all full, and then pushed the cart to wash the food boxes, and the time was just 1 o'clock away.

The new primary school does not pay attention to any rest time, for the elders, time waits for no one, 10,000 years is too long to seize the day, European scientists already have their own scientific research system, if China does not step up the time to build its own scientific and engineering system, how to maintain a little progress?

No matter how it is pressed, it is necessary to create its own first batch of scientists and engineers within ten years!

Zhang Dai was still in a bad mood at this time, although this school was well arranged, but in essence it did not exceed his insight, it was nothing more than preaching and solving confusion, the examination system was an invention of the Chinese, just like those who boasted about how advanced Europe was, if there was no Chinese to spread the past papermaking, how could the century-old translation movement be carried out?

Without the 100-year translation movement, there would have been no medieval Europe, no Renaissance, no Age of Discovery, no geographical discoveries, no Industrial Revolution, and no computers to watch films.

However, history admits that the starting point of the century-old translation movement was the capture of a few Tang people during the battle against the Tang army.

The Arab paper industry began in the middle of the 8th century, and after the Battle of the Talas River in 751, a number of Chinese prisoners of war were brought to Samarkand, and a document states that the prisoners of war came from China. One of them was proficient in papermaking, so he began to make paper, which became a major product of the Samarkand people, and was exported to all parts of the world.

For an extreme patriot of China, this person can be called an unknown and sinful figure in the history of the Chinese nation, and his crimes are so heinous that he deserves to be executed, but as a prisoner, given the Arabs' tradition of abusing prisoners, this person may not be willing to do so.

Therefore, in the essence of civilization, at least the people of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how ignorant they were, still had self-confidence, and the school of the elders was still a factory in essence.

It's just that the products produced are people.

At 1 o'clock, it was supposed to be class, and Zhang Dai was about to leave, but he found that something was wrong.

The atmosphere is changing.

The judged papers were taken back, and Guo Jiefang had many documents in his hand, constantly walking back and forth in the corridor, talking to people.

Zhang Dai watched from outside a classroom, where the atmosphere was very wrong, and every student was there, as if waiting for the execution to be executed.

The female teacher lowered her head, seemed to be a little impatient, and suddenly said: "This time, the students in this class are in the top 30 in age, and there are only 3 people in our class, this is not good, you have to work hard, if you don't upgrade early, you will be the same as them!" ”

Next, she read: "Li Siyuan, Jing Keshou, Ya Yi'an, Tan Lang, you have been here for six months, and you are all crane tails every week, okay, the basic course can be over, you can pack it and go home, and let your parents get the certificate of completion in a few days!" ”

When the four little dolls heard this, they all started crying, but the others did not say words of comfort or ridicule, but lowered their heads and began to look at their own papers!

The woman seemed to be angry, with such a few unlucky eggs, don't think about this month's bonus.

Zhang Dai vaguely felt that something was wrong, looking at the movement inside, the crying children had no one to pay attention to, and the few children who were mentioned to be promoted to a higher level rushed out quickly and headed for a new class.

In fact, in every classroom that represents the words of the junior primary school, there are a few children who rush out like this.

They didn't seem to have any nostalgia for the original class, so they walked into another class, and of course, under the guidance of several teachers, they walked into those classes that represented the upper primary classes.

Originally, your classmates, classmates from college, high school, junior high school, junior high school, and elementary school, have little chance of meeting again when they grow up.

This is not the first time this kind of parting has happened at Yuqian Elementary School.

For those who entered the new class, Zhang Dai noticed that there were obviously fewer people in the classrooms here, there were basically forty or fifty people in the junior primary class, and thirty people in the upper primary class, and the tables and chairs were much better, and there would even be some small potted plants, and even various decorations were better.

"What's going on?"

Guo Jiefang was busy with excitement, saw the inquiry, thought about it, and said: "This is the mystery of this school, the junior primary school teaches the most basic compulsory education stage, and those who meet the monthly examination standards can be promoted to the junior primary school and start specialized education." ”

It's a new situation, and he said, "So, what's going on with those weeping children." ”

"Some dolls can't really learn, how good it is to let them go home early, to report a special craft, learn to be a carpenter, how good it is to be a cook, this is also for their good, half a year, if they don't learn it, they don't learn it."

There are many explanations for learning, Zhang Dai has the impression that there are indeed several people in the family, but I am a stupid person who can't even do a sentence.

"But I didn't cry like this, and those students ran to the high school class so quickly."

Guo Jiefang said: "It's not that there is a subsidy, and the food is different, when they go home, they have to eat their parents, how much is that cost?" If you enter the high school, the treatment will be higher, it will be the same as what I eat, in case you learn well, and enter the middle school opened by the elders, it will be even more amazing, and those are all future ministers of the dragon. ”

Guo Jiefang himself is also studying hard, hoping to get out of the current situation of the child king as soon as possible, of course, those physical chemistry, it is not easy to learn deeply.

Zhang Dai has gradually understood the truth of this school.

In essence, he doesn't understand the meaning of the factory, but compared to the traditional private school, the so-called teacher-student friendship is broken here, the students study hard, just to leave the teacher's class, the teacher teaches desperately, just to produce a few more students who can climb up, and for those who can't climb up, they are driven away.

In essence, this is something even colder than the imperial examination.

"But those who are ......"

"Elimination."

Zhang Dai said: "Oh, the eliminated children may not be able to open their minds, and one day, they can ......" suddenly thought that the teaching here itself is not the Four Books and Five Classics.

"What's the matter, go to the test yourself, after all, they have a higher starting point than others, and they will be older in the future, so it's no problem to take a fixed position."

Zhang Dai noticed for the first time that there is also a distinction between upper primary school and junior primary school, and junior primary school is very basic, and all he learns is literacy and arithmetic.

After opening his mind, he entered the high school, and the things he learned deepened, anyway, Zhang Dai noticed that the things that the students there memorized were very different, and he couldn't understand the words of the periodic table.

The elders are also forced to be helpless with the shift system, everything in the imperial capital is being created, there is a lack of talents, it can be said that one can be used, and when it looks like it is almost, he went to work, and it has become fashionable to work while taking wages while training and learning on the job.

At this point, the training of officials in the Ming Dynasty was basically only concentrated in the high-level jinshi, and they would enter the six departments and other departments as observers to learn and train, but the role was limited, not to mention, for those at the county order level, there was basically a lack of this kind of training, so they could only figure out their own way.

If you are faced with the real situation, it is basically a regular occurrence of helplessness, and the later it comes, the more the local officials who have been in charge of the affairs for generations become more and more handy with the grassroots officials.

(End of chapter)