Looking at the guards, Zhang Yue turned over and dismounted, stepped forward, and said: "I am a Chang'an scholar, come to Xinfeng to pick up the wind, and I can hear the sound of reading in Guiting in summer, so I came to see ......."

When the guards heard this, their expressions immediately softened a lot.

The leader even smiled and said, "If you are a wind picker, then you can enter the township school...... However, do not disturb the normal order of the township school! ”

It's just that the words unconsciously revealed some arrogance, a trace of arrogance.

Zhang Yue didn't take it to heart, just thanked him, and then walked towards the gate of the township school with Liu Jin and others.

Pushing open the door, a huge courtyard appeared in front of me.

Beyond the courtyard, you will find a spacious hall.

Dozens of boys sat on the ground, each holding a bamboo slip, shaking their heads and reciting: "Cangjie writes books to teach the heirs......"

The book made by Li Si back then has become a necessity for enlightenment education in today's Han Dynasty.

A white-haired old man in his sixties sat at the head of the hall, his eyes sweeping at all the children.

He heard footsteps, raised his head, and saw Zhang Yue and Liu Jin.

There was a slight surprise in his eyes, but he didn't get up.

It seems that in his opinion, as long as these outsiders do not disturb the order of this township school, they are left alone.

"Yangli Township School, there are so many Mengzi ......" Gong Yu said in amazement: "I'm afraid that the school-age boys in the whole village have already arrived!" The three elders in this yang are really elders! ”

Even Liu Jin nodded and said: "Confucius said: "The husband and the three have my teacher, and the ten-room city must be faithful, and if you don't deceive me, you will meet the elderly when you go out, and you should ask ......for benefits."

There was a dark look in Zhang Yue's eyes.

According to the Han system, there is a pavilion in ten miles, and the number of households in a pavilion is about 50 to 200.

Some pavilions may or may exceed this number, but not by much.

Because the pre-AD agricultural economy and society could not carry too many people gathered in a small village.

In the hall in front of him, Zhang Yue counted it, and there were at least 30 Mengtong between the ages of five and six to eight or nine.

It is equivalent to saying that almost all the school-age boys in Yangli have come to this township school to study.

It's horrible!

Even in later generations of China, the enrollment rate in some rural areas may not be so high.

In other words, behind this terrifying enrollment rate, I am afraid that there is something else hidden.

Just thinking like this, suddenly, from the other side of the township school, there were bursts of neat footsteps.

Zhang Yue turned his head to look over, but saw dozens of young men, dressed in bamboo armor, holding wooden guns, carrying bows and arrows, led by two men who looked like military attachés, running in unison to the courtyard not far away.

These teenagers are about thirteen or fourteen years old.

The body is not fully developed, and the face is childish.

Zhang Yue even saw a few children who were still wearing pigtails and looked to be at most twelve or thirteen years old.

The children were obviously unable to keep up with the others, and barely ran into the courtyard, already a little out of breath and unsteady in their steps.

"Yang Wu!" When a military attache saw this, he strode over and whipped it at one of the children who did not stand firmly!

Syllable!

The whip made of bamboo strips struck the edge of the bamboo armor on the child's body, making a crisp sound.

"If you don't take your training seriously, do you want to grow up and become an official or even a son-in-law? Well! The military attache reprimanded loudly, and all the children bowed their heads.

Becoming a son-in-law is naturally miserable in the Han family, and there is no status at all, and in many families, even domestic slaves must have a high status.

As for in the eyes of the government......

The government will control the life and death of slaves, and according to the Han law, the master will pay compensation for killing or mutilating slaves and maids for no reason.

If it's a son-in-law......

Dead in vain, don't ask at all!

But when is it miserable to even be an official? They are also used to educate and reprimand children as a means of intimidation?

Not only Zhang Yue, but Liu Jin was also dumbfounded.

"I don't want to!" Almost all of the children, including the one who had been whipped, straightened their chests and replied loudly.

"If you don't want to, you have to train hard, and you can't slack off!" The military attache said, "Now, rest for an hour, and then start practicing archery!" ”

"No!" The children cheered, ran to the corridor, and then took off their bamboo armor and sat down on the bluestone steps in twos and threes.

Zhang Yue walked over lightly and walked in front of the child who had just been whipped.

This child is at most twelve years old, and after taking off the bamboo armor, his body suddenly became smaller, and he looked a little thin.

However, Zhang Yue found that his eyes were very firm.

Not at all like a child of this age.

"Little friend...... Zhang Yue squatted down, smiled at him, and asked, "Why don't you even want to be an official?" ”

"What's so good about being an official?" When the child heard this, he didn't think much about it, so he replied: "Even if you can have a rank, it is only a hundred stones a year old, and you can only get three or five thousand dollars......

"Even if it is a county lieutenant or an official of the county rafters, he has 600 stone a year, and he has to pay 10,000 yuan!"

"You still have to camp and be respectful to the villain!"

"How can I do it, my husband?"

When he said this, the little boy had a calm face and spoke clearly, and it was clear that he had been taught with similar words countless times.

It's like a schoolboy in later generations, who was taught by a teacher at school - if you don't study well now, what will you do in the future......

Zhang Yue listened to it and asked, "What should the husband do?" ”

"Of course, the big husband has to use his immediate work to gain wealth!" The other party clenched his fists without hesitation and said: "Get on the horse as a soldier, fight on the battlefield, and take the enemy's head among the ten thousand horses!" ”

"Such wealth can be expected, and the family has to be revitalized!"

Zhang Yue listened to the shock.

The Han people are a people who do not shy away from talking about wealth and nobility.

In fact, whether it is Confucianism, Legalism, or Huang Laoshi, the purpose of everyone studying and becoming an official is to become rich and noble.

Before Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, when he was a peasant, he left a famous allusion - Gou Fugui, don't forget it.

As for poverty, in the Qin and Han dynasties, it was the original sin!

When Su Qin was poor, even his family and relatives looked down on him.

Therefore, there is an allusion to the idiom before and after the conference and the cold state of the world.

In the Han Dynasty, this situation became even more out of control with the vigorous development of industry and commerce in the world since Wenjing.

When the famous minister Zhu Maichen was threatened with divorce by his wife, he said bluntly: I was fifty years old and rich, and now I am more than forty.

Luan Bu, a famous minister at the time of Taizong, once said publicly: The poor and lowly cannot humiliate themselves, and they are not human! Wealth can't be happy, not virtuous!

Among the literati and doctors in the world, there is a famous saying - a gentleman is ashamed of poverty and is happy and rich.

The pursuit of wealth was deeply engraved into the marrow of every class in the Han Dynasty society.

So much so that the history books record that 'if a mortal cannot be elected as an official, and he cannot govern his life as a businessman, the township party will not be ashamed'.

As for the so-called heavy agriculture and light business, the upper peasants are divided into the last and something......

It's just the three princes and nine kings in the court.

In the folk, a family of more than one million is called a vegetarian seal.

It was regarded by many as the status of a prince.

Many of the rich even have countless brain-dead fans to worship......

The fanatical pursuit of wealth in the whole society has made the Han society full of vigorous vitality and surging enterprising spirit.

At the beginning, Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang, hollowed out the Western Regions, was named the marquis, and worshiped as Jiuqing.

instantly detonated the entire Han society.

Countless young people have learned from Zhang Qian's good example, followed his footsteps, and went all the way to the west.

They crossed the desert, passed through the mountains, and many of them even relied on their feet to travel all over the Western Regions, opening the first piece of music for the Han family to run the Western Regions.

After Li Guangli defeated Dawan, countless Legalists joined the army one after another, learning from Zhao Shi's example, and wanted to find a marquis.

Even kings are not surprised by this.

Zhang Shizhi, a famous minister of Emperor Taizong, once told Taizong: Your Majesty loves Xingchen, and he is rich and noble.

The first emperor's prime minister, Shen Tujia, also said to the first emperor: Your Majesty loves the fortunate people, and the ministers are rich and noble.

Dr. Jia Shan said more bluntly: Wealth is the authority of the master.

Today's son deeply understands this truth, and since he ascended the throne, he has relied on two tricks to win over people's hearts and stabilize his rule.

The first trick is to scatter wealth, and the second trick is to reward those who have made military achievements.

It's just that......

Zhang Yue never imagined that in this township school in Yangli, a teenager less than twelve years old could pop out such words and have such a cognition.

Behind Zhang Yue, Liu Jin and the others also fell silent.

After a long time, Liu Jin sighed: "Even a twelve or thirteen-year-old child knows the truth that if you want to be rich, you should take it immediately...... No wonder many people say that now that the rites and music have collapsed, people's hearts are no longer ancient......"

Zhang Yue heard it and knew that His Royal Highness's Wen Qing was sick again.

This eldest grandson, everything else is good, but it is too idealistic.

Deeply influenced by Gu Liang's education, he has a psychology similar to that of Confucianism in the later Song and Ming dynasties.

But as a traverser, Zhang Yue felt that what the child in front of him said was indeed a little too shocking.

But......

Who doesn't want to be rich in this world?

Who doesn't want to live a good life?

The pursuit of wealth and power is human instinct.

Suppressing this instinct will only lead to a deformed society.

And it doesn't necessarily make a difference.

On the contrary, like the current Han society, Zhang Yue is very comfortable.

No one is ashamed of words, even Confucian scholars like yellow, orange and orange gold, and can express their love without pretentiousness.

This means that Zhang Yue can let go of his hands and feet and do a lot of things.

"Your Highness......" Zhang Yue walked up to Liu Jin and whispered softly: "The minister thinks that there is nothing bad about this situation now......

"The minister hears it: Cangli is solid and knows etiquette, food and clothing are enough to know honor and disgrace, etiquette is born in existence and waste in nothing, so the abyss is deep and the fish is born, the deep mountains and beasts come out, and the people are rich and the benevolence and righteousness are attached to it......"

"Does Your Highness think that a poor and lowly person, a person who is in danger of the future, can understand benevolence and righteousness, and can know loyalty and forgiveness?"

Liu Jin listened to it, but after thinking about it carefully, he had to admit that it was indeed the case!

Every time Zhang Shizhong can always find a novel angle to convince himself......

Liu Jin was also convinced.

It's just that......

Liu Jin looked at these young men in front of him, and he naturally knew that the training method of these young men was Wei Wushu's training method.

Although Wei Wushu has been eliminated for many years, Liu Jin has long been familiar with the information about the first professional army in history.

Wei Wushu is a professional army program tailored for the Wei army by Wu Qi, a famous general in the early Warring States period.

The requirement is that every soldier can wear three layers of heavy armor, carry heavy cross-country in half a day, trek 100 miles on foot, arrive at the designated place, and still maintain combat state and combat capability.

In the early Warring States period, relying on the powerful combat power of the terrifying Wei Wushu, Wei State punched Qin Chu and kicked Qi Zhao, which can be called the supreme in the world.

Now, although the era of belonging to the heavy infantry cluster like Wei Wushu is long gone.

However, as far as Liu Jin knew, the criteria for selecting sergeants for the sixth lieutenant of the Northern Army still followed the standards of Wei Wushu.

It's just that after enlistment, they are trained as cavalry.

Therefore, there is no doubt that the purpose of training these teenagers in the township school in this yang is to send them to the sixth lieutenant of the Northern Army or the field elite cavalry cluster of the Han Army.

In other words, this township school is not so much a place for teaching and educating people as it is a large battalion for training officers!

It's not a scholar who is trained here, but a general!

This made Liu Jin feel a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Zhang Yue naturally saw it.

However, today's Han society is like this.

Wu Guiwen is light!

Don't you see that even children know about it?

A civil official, even if he achieves Jiuqing and eats 2,000 stones, he only gets 200,000 or 300,000 yuan per year.

And a pawn of the Han army, an ordinary knight, has a one-year-old military salary of 20,000 yuan!

What's more, you can also make blame and mediocre money.

At present, the market price of the responsibility is at least 11,000 yuan a year, and if it is a border area, an additional 10,000 yuan will be added.

In other words, a normal soldier's annual military salary plus extra money is 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, which is better than that of officials at the grassroots level.

If there is a war, the beheading will be meritorious, and the reward will not know how much.

Li Guangli's war against Dawan, on average, each soldier, including the man, was rewarded with 40,000 yuan.

And the loot has not been counted......

Moreover, in the army, the fist is the largest, as long as you make a contribution, promotion is like a collapse of urine.

For ordinary civil officials, three moves a year is very remarkable, which is a miracle.

In the army, warriors who have been promoted more than a dozen levels a year often appear.

Therefore, the people will naturally vote with their feet, especially in the northern counties, those bitter cold lands, barren land, and underdeveloped border areas.

The whole society, including those powerful families, is all proud of martial arts.

Civil officials or something are just the way out for the family's defective products and obsolete products.

However, in the eyes of the literati, especially in the eyes of the literati in the land of Qilu, this is evidence of the collapse of etiquette and music and the confusion of people's hearts.

In fact, this is completely the psychology of jealousy and saying that grapes are sour if you can't eat them.

If it is in the Qilu area, it can also fight the Huns, and it can also earn so many benefits, you see that they still say that the etiquette has collapsed!