Song Youliang continued with a smile: "However, I do have the idea of expanding Haiyangwei School. This school not only teaches the four books, five classics and six arts, but also teaches medicine, agriculture, military science, hundred crafts, etc.~~"

"Why is that?" Wei Delu asked, in his image, the school was the place where the sages were taught.

Song Youliang smiled and replied: "In this world, there are not only scholars, but also farmers and craftsmen, right?" In fact, Song Youliang wanted to say in his heart: Not everyone can take the imperial examination, in case you fail to pass the examination repeatedly, then at least there is a craft to make a living

Today, the total number of residents in Haiyangwei from all walks of life is close to 30,000, and there are at least 3,000 school-age children aged six or seven. In addition, there are many half-grown children who are fourteen or fifteen years old and less than twenty years old, and the total number is two or three thousand. Song Youliang decided to include all these people in school education.

After the news came out that Haiyangwei was going to establish a school and openly recruit Mr. Teach, both the military households of Haiyangwei and the Tunding were very supportive and agreed, and even the officials of nearby states and counties were very appreciative after hearing about it. It is said that everything is inferior, only reading is high. Respect for knowledge, no matter who is in the mind of the Ming Dynasty at the moment, this concept is deep-rooted. In Dengzhou and the nearby Laizhou area, even the Confucian forest also praised Song Youliang's righteous deeds.

Although there are still many readers who think that Song Youliang is still just a military household in the final analysis, he is just better at goods than other military households, so he got rich. Nowadays, running a school is nothing more than vassal elegance. However, most readers feel that having said that, it is better to do better than not to do well. It always makes more sense for people to run schools than for those rich businessmen, flying eagles, lackeys, and prostitutes, right?

Even some businessmen of Wuhai Yangwei also plan to donate enthusiastically in order to win the favor of this promising Lord Song and leave a good name. Because Song Youliang promised them that anyone who donated to run the school would write down their names on the merit tablet in the school. In this way, those businessmen who have always been despised and full of copper stench also feel that they have suddenly taken a big step towards the road of Ruyaswen.

Before the school building was completed, a notice was posted on the notice board of Hai Duong Wei, called "Hai Duong Health School Regulations", and the content was relatively simple: first, all children over the age of 7, regardless of gender, must be sent to school by both parents; Article 2: During the school period, students shall be subject to semi-military management, and they shall live in the school for free in normal times, and shall have free clothing, food, housing and transportation, but they may go home one day a month; Article 3, if the concealment is concealed, divided by a fine of ten taels of silver.

As soon as this regulation was issued, the people of Haiyang talked about it.

"The way of the world has really changed, I have seen the government urging rents and forcing parents to sell their children and daughters."

"I haven't seen anyone who forces parents to send their babies to the school, it's still illegal not to send the baby to the school!!"

"Lord Song is also kind, it's better to let the baby know a few words than to be blind like us!"

"What about literacy? Haven't you come back to farm? Can you read and write and plant in the ground? ”

"Not necessarily! Look at the artisans, they make more than us! ”

"Better than strength, faster than diligence, I don't have to be worse than them!"

"Yes, but doing handicraft work is not only more than strength, but also faster than diligence. I've heard that they have to do their work according to the pattern. There are pictures, words and symbols on the pattern, can you see it? ”

"That~~I can't understand it~~"

"That's it, so it's better to be literate~~ Don't live in vain, hurry up and send the baby to the school, in the future, it will definitely be better than you and me!"

"Yes, send the baby to the school!"

Song Youliang's school divides the children into two parts, the younger children start with enlightenment and literacy, and then teach some traditional etiquette, archery, calligraphy, and mathematics. When he was a teenager, he taught some agricultural technical knowledge, some business management knowledge, and even Western natural science knowledge and theology, and also had some military training. From the age of 18, they are officially divided into subjects, and the liberal arts mainly study business and agricultural management. The Martial Arts Branch is divided into military technology and military administration. Military technology mainly trains military personnel, while military management only trains grassroots officers.

The current Haiyang Health Science is just a prototype. Song Youliang plans to set up specialized commercial, agricultural, and military academies when conditions are ripe in the future to train practical new talents for the country. At present, the students trained by Haiyang Health School are all used by themselves

Almost at the same time, the first public medical center in Haiyangwei was also completed and opened. He is directly under the jurisdiction of the Haiyangwei Command Embassy, not for profit, and the funds are allocated by Haiyangwei, and he also accepts social donations. Whoever donated money in this medical center, the medical center would beat gongs and drums and pull banners to thank you. The doctors are all invited from all over the world, although they are not necessarily famous doctors, but they are definitely not barefoot doctors who walk the rivers and lakes. In addition to solving daily diseases for the people of Haiyangwei, this medical center also has an important function. It is to inoculate newborn babies with smallpox, which is called "pox".

Almost at the same time, Haiyangwei's first nursing home also began to be built, called Anle Hall, which specially adopted some poor and lonely elderly, distributed rations and cloth every month, and people would visit and comfort them during the New Year's holidays, so that they could enjoy their old age in peace and happiness. Like Hai Duong Wei School, Anle Tong also accepts private donations. This kind of ancient nursing home, also known as "Futian", donated to Futian, which is equivalent to accumulating virtue for his family and descendants, and for a time the wealthy businessmen have donated generously.

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, people said that "the old have a benefit", that is, the monarch's reward for the elderly is a special gift, and he is not required to have any merit.

In the Tang Dynasty, Chang'an had a nursing home, also known as "Beitian Hospital", to adopt poor and sick elderly beggars, and the government sent special personnel to take charge of their affairs, which were specifically managed by Buddhist monasteries.

The government of the Northern Song Dynasty initially set up two Futian Courtyards in the east and west of Bianjing. At the same time, all localities are ordered to use the houses and property of the extinct households as funds to support the widows, widows, the lonely, the old, the sick, the disabled, and the helpless, and if they are insufficient, they are to supplement them with the interest money from the official houses and the standing positions.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court ordered the establishment of Jizhong Houses in all walks of life, taking in widows, widows, lonely and disabled people who could not support themselves, giving rations and firewood. The lonely old man has a piece of cloth and a piece of silk.

In the Ming Dynasty government, there was also a special law for the adoption of orphans and the elderly, and the "Ming Law and Household Law" stipulated: "All widows, widows, lonely and sick people, poor and have no relatives to rely on, can not survive on their own, and the official or private person where they should adopt but does not adopt, will be given 60 rods; If food and clothing should be given, and the officials debit from it, they will be regarded as self-theft. ”

In the nineteenth year of Hongwu, it was stipulated that widows and widows who had no dependence were given six stone rice every year; In the first year of Jianwen, it was changed to three stone rice, so that relatives could raise it on their behalf, and those who had no relatives to invest in were put into the nursing home. In the first year of Tianshun, two county nursing homes in Daxing and Wanping were opened, one in each county, to provide two meals a day for the inmates. In the second year of Chenghua, he ordered that all the poor people in the capital be admitted to the almshouse. Sixteen years ago, the capital supported more than 7,490 orphans and elderly people over the years, supplied more than 26,900 stones of rice and more than 7,400 horses of cloth.

In the first year of Jiajing, he issued an edict to adopt the poor people in the capital, and in the sixth year, he ordered to set up a district of a nursing home in each of the five cities of Beijing, and adopted all the poor people. In nine years, the magistrates were ordered to conscientiously manage the nursing homes, and in the tenth year, they were ordered to adopt the poor people in the capital. Since the beginning of the twentieth year, in January every year, they have distributed 200 stone rice porridge in the capital every day, and the people who receive it will give a ladle, which is enough for three or four people to eat.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the implementation of the nursing home was relatively good, but in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the country's financial resources and corruption, this system mostly existed in name only. Not to mention the prefectures, officials vigorously embezzled the money and rice of the almshouses. At present, in some nursing homes in the capital, those widows and widows are lonely, and they can't receive three stone rice a year.

The predecessor was a health center, and it was a poor health center, so naturally there was no such thing as a nursing home. But now that Haiyangwei is getting richer and richer, the issue of supporting the elderly is also on the agenda. The establishment of Haiyang Wei'an Le Tang has also made Song Youliang and others win a good reputation, enhanced the sense of belonging and cohesion of Haiyang Wei military households, and also made outsiders yearn for the life of Haiyang Wei. Sure enough, as soon as the news came out, the people of Denglai's generation, whether it was the common people or the gentry, were full of praise when they mentioned Song Youliang.

Song Xuezhu, who had been appointed governor of Shandong, soon learned of Song Youliang's righteous deeds. He has always advertised that he has a clear conscience in doing things, but he is a little confused at the moment. Although when he used to defend Jinan, Song Youliang's method was a little vicious, but it was "extraordinary times, extraordinary things", and he was forced to make this decision. Now Song Youliang has greatly promoted education, set up an entertainment hall to support the elderly, and reclaimed wasteland to resettle displaced people, all of which have been done by those loyal and virtuous ministers in history. Now that the officialdom is dark, there are fewer and fewer officials who have the heart to do good things for the people and do practical things. Such a young military household, is it too much to blame him for participating in his impeachment with such fierce words? Isn't it too demanding? If he is really convicted and imprisoned, is he strangling a young talent for Daming?

Looking at the grain that Chen Yuyun transported back from Haiyangwei, the more Song Xuezhu thought about it, the more he regretted it, and finally bowed to the north and said: "Thanks to the wisdom of the saint, he didn't listen to my little old man's stupid words, not only did he condemn him, but he was also promoted to guerrilla." Long live my emperor, long live, long live!!! ”

Song Xuezhu immediately found Deng Qian, a scholar in charge of education in Shandong, to discuss how to help Song Youliang. Deng Qian said: "It's better for us to select a group of talented people from poor families who have failed many times and recommend them to teach in Haiyangwei." But if Song Youliang doesn't want it, wouldn't it be embarrassing? “

Song Xuezhu's stubborn temper came up, he immediately repaired a copy of the book, sent someone to Haiyangwei, and asked Song Youliang to accept his heart. And said: "If Deng Xuezheng sends Mr. Jiaoshu here, you don't want it, then the old man will go away in person!" ”

Ten days later, Deng Qian successfully completed the task, sent twenty Xiucai to Haiyangwei, and brought back a reply letter from Song Youliang, in which he expressed his gratitude to Song Xuezhu. The words are respectful and polite, and there is no grudge at all. He also expressed the hope that more talented people will be enriched into Haiyangwei's school.