Compared with the social studies of the Ming Court, the free education of the People's Army has just spread from Huizhou City to other parts of Guangdong, and with the addition of the original more than 100 schools, the entire Guangdong People's Army has opened more than 900 free schools, which is still in its infancy, and with the increase in the number of graduates of three-year education, the number of primary schools will continue to rise rapidly, which shows that the People's Army attaches great importance to education.

Of the more than 800 newly established schools, half of them are inside the city and half are outside the city, and the number of ordinary people outside the city is far more than that of the people in the city, but it is easier to build schools in the city, anyway, the People's Army will continue to build schools outside the city in the future, it is only a matter of time.

Such a choice by the KPA may result in some people losing their qualifications to enter the academy, which will not admit students older than 15 years old, but the KPA will carry out literacy education in the future, and when the time comes, men, women, and children will have to read and write.

The People's Army established more than 800 free schools, and the gentry and businessmen were originally just amazed by the People's Army's generosity, and it was also seen that the free schools were a place to train the descendants of the People's Army.

But then one thing surprised the wealthy businessmen very much, the school actually notified the wealthy merchants in the area where the school is located when recruiting students, and the sons and grandsons of the wealthy businessmen can also enter the school established by the People's Army to read and write.

Some big families will set up their own private schools, invite literati scholars or people with their own culture to be teachers, and the children of the family descendants can enter the private school to read and write, and if there is a vacancy, the family will also allow some servants' children to follow the master to study.

However, large families that have not established private schools often invite literati and scholars to teach privately, and at least one person at a time, or more than two or three people.

Most of the gentry businessmen are more and more convinced that the People's Army will be able to overthrow the Ming Court, so it is of great benefit to their own families to have more connections with the People's Army.

If someone in a family holds a mid-level or high-ranking officer or official in the KPA, even if they are limited by the rules set by the KPA and cannot take care of the family, once outsiders know that the family has high-ranking KPA officials, they will also be sought after by outsiders and can get more benefits in business cooperation.

For example, the Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao sisters newly married by the metropolitan governor Fang Nan, the status of the Qiao family in the area ruled by the People's Army has suddenly improved, and it can basically be included in the top ten, I don't know how many wealthy businessmen want to have a relationship with the Qiao family, if the Qiao family wants to do business, most businessmen are willing to take the Qiao family together and give the Qiao family as much money as possible.

As long as there is a relationship, maybe just "one sentence", it can benefit the gentry and businessmen a lot.

Most of the wealthy businessmen preferred to let their sons or grandsons of the right age enter the academy, but one of the rules of the academy made them very hesitant, and after graduating from the academy, they needed to be dispatched by the People's Army.

This is a good thing and a bad thing for the gentry and businessmen, students can enter the army or the government after graduation, and enter the people's army system, which is a good thing, but the family heir cannot be lined up, the heir will become the next head of the family (patriarch), they focus on the family, in the people's army system, they don't have much time to worry about the family business.

Soon, the gentry and businessmen made a decision that the heirs could not enter the free school to study, and other school-age sons (grandchildren) could be sent to the free school to study.

However, the admission qualification is not in the family, but in the area around the school, a school enrolls thirty-five to fifty students at a time, the school teacher first determines the list of school-age students from the household registration officer, according to the distance from the school, first row eighty people, and then the teacher and the official go to their homes together to inform.

There is also no need for parents of school-age people to make an immediate choice, they have three days to think, they can accept it, they can also refuse, they refuse, the admission qualification is moved back one place, and the KPA will not force it.

After all, there are only more than 900 free schools set up by the People's Army, with a maximum enrollment of 45,000 students, and the number of school-age students in the areas ruled by the People's Army is nearly one million.

The People's Army is now free education, but it is not yet universal basic education, mainly because the number of free schools is too small, and it wants to popularize basic education, so that those who do not want to go to school can enter the schools, and this time will be at least ten years later, when there are enough graduates of three years of education under the rule of the People's Army to become teachers.

After ordinary people suddenly learned that their children were eligible to study for free in the school, many people immediately cried with joy and directly expressed their willingness to let their children enter the school to study, they knew that the opportunity to read for free was not easy to come by, as long as their children could read and write, the fate of the family may continue to change.

The admission qualification is in the person, not in the family, and the big family wants to bring the children of the school-age family who live elsewhere back to the mansion, and this time they will not be able to get the admission qualification.

Jiang Ci, Xia Jingshan, Liang Xin and other big businessmen knew that the People's Army's academy was going to recruit students, and they all looked for people to entrust them, and wanted to send their school-age sons to study in the academy, but they were unsuccessful.

The gentry and businessmen knew the importance of free schools, and also got the news that more schools would be established after the People's Army, and soon they thought of an important question, this free school continues to cultivate literate people, the army, the government and other places will be full one day, and there is no place for the literate to arrange, so let them all go to farm?

This kind of problem is the limitation of the thinking of the gentry and businessmen, who could not imagine that with the development of science and technology, industry, commerce, etc., a large number of literate people will be needed in the future.

The emergence of literate people, even if researchers account for only a small part, can help the development of science and technology, and it is too difficult for ordinary people who do not know a single word to develop science and technology.

With the progress of science and technology, industry and commerce have also made great strides, and illiterate people can contribute in the factory, but the factory also needs literate skilled workers, and it is impossible for a store to be illiterate clerks, and it is definitely necessary for literate people to keep accounts and collect accounts.

Under the rule of the Ming court, there were enough literate people, but the development of industry and commerce was too slow, mainly in agriculture, and there were not so many literate people, and there were more literate people, which would seriously divide the interests of the literate group.

For example, social studies, which can cultivate a large number of literate people, will make the literate group resist, even if they want to teach people to read and write, at least establish a school, collect tuition fees and then teach people to read and write.