The tradition of the Great Zhou Dynasty is that only for the education of their children, the people are willing to spend money.

As for the rest, they are eager to split the penny in half.

Over the years, although the imperial court has built many new schools, they have only spread to the county level.

Further down the township level, the imperial court's finances, mainly the limited number of teachers, could not be promoted nationwide.

At present, only the old capital of Beiping Mansion, the new capital of Luoyang Mansion and the prosperous areas of Jiangnan can achieve 100% youth education.

As for those remote areas, it is very good for villages and towns to achieve an education rate of 20 percent.

Now, Zhang Lingyang has decided to implement education for all, even if he sacrifices several years of industrial construction.

Because if we do not take advantage of this to popularize the education of young people across the country, the gap between the rich and the poor in the local area will only widen as time goes by.

Even now, when it comes to education, there are already significant differences in the level of education in different places.

Take the rich Jiangnan region as an example, the level of education is already developed. Now add to that the education funds distributed by the imperial court. The education funds allocated by the local government have been donated by the wealthy businessmen and gentry, and the education of young people in the Jiangnan area has been thoroughly popularized to every village.

On the other hand, in the southwest and northwest regions, because the local economy and culture are not particularly developed, and the economic development is also very slow, at most it can only be popularized to the youth education at the township level.

Neither scholars from the imperial examination nor students from the Royal Academy were reluctant to go to those remote areas to teach, so over time, the level of education became more and more backward.

In the spring of the 15th year of Tai'an, the imperial court promulgated new regulations on education, and all students and scholars who went to backward areas to teach and had reached the age of five years had the right of priority in the imperial examination and the subsequent work allocation.

Five years is not a long time, but it is not a short time.

This is especially important for those scholars and students with mediocre talents. Because in the normal competition for resources, they simply can't compare to those who are extremely talented.

Therefore, it is better to settle down and carry out volunteer teaching work, and once the five-year period is reached, they can choose the job they are satisfied with.

And for those with outstanding talents, the imperial court will naturally not waste their talents in teaching, because in these five years, they may lead the people of a poor county or government to open up a road to prosperity, or in five years, they may make breakthroughs in a certain technical field.

Genius, in any era, is preferential!

Since the imperial court had limited financial resources and could not take care of the education of every place, private donations were smoothly proposed and implemented.

In the spring of the 15th year of Tai'an, the imperial court issued a decree indicating that those who provided education funds to poor areas would be given honorary titles by the top ten imperial courts in the past years, and each province would also provide commercial preferential treatment to outstanding donors in their own provinces.

Not only that, but at the end of each year, they can also receive a summons from the Son of Heaven.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime good time for low-status businessmen.

Therefore, the decree has been issued, and countless wealthy businessmen have rushed to sponsor children in poor areas.

Of course, the most outstanding performance of this is not the others, but the royal family.

Every year, the royal family allocates a certain amount of money from the treasury to support education in poor areas.

According to the statistics of the Ministry of Rites, in the fifteenth year of Tai'an alone, tens of thousands of poor children were assisted by the royal government, and the education funds allocated were as high as more than 200,000 taels of silver.

For the royal family of the Great Zhou, 200,000 taels of silver is a drop in the bucket, but the royal family is not only responsible for the education of young people in poor areas, but also bears the medical expenses and pension expenses of patients in some poor areas.

In the fifteenth year of Tai'an, the royal family built hundreds of nursing homes across the country to take in those lonely and widowed elderly.

In addition, during this year, the royal treasury also allocated as much as one million taels of silver to treat the incurable diseases of the people everywhere.

This national medical tour was proposed by Zhang Lingyang, specifically arranged by Empress Wang, and specifically responsible for the Tai Hospital, and plans to travel to the corners of the mountains and rivers across the country in three to five years to provide the best medical services for the people in various places.

Among them, in addition to improving the image of the royal family, one of the most important factors is to improve the medical level of the imperial doctors.

The doctors who worked in the Tai Hospital, no matter how good their medical skills were. But since entering the Tai Hospital, their treatment methods and programs have inevitably declined and are insufficient.

The main reason for this is that since they entered the hospital, they have faced a lot fewer patients every day, and they have encountered a lot fewer incurable diseases.

Over time, the level of medical care will inevitably decline.

Therefore, in response to this drawback, the royal family also issued a new rule, that is, the seat of the imperial physician is contested every five years, and the method of survival of the fittest is carried out.

This invisibly put a lot of pressure on the doctors who are currently working, so they are very positive in this national tour.

Moreover, in order to avoid formalism, this time their rounds were mainly aimed at some poor mountainous areas. As for the rich regions and cities, don't even think about it, the royal family didn't list them in the work plan at all.

In the spring of the fifteenth year of Tai'an, the imperial court issued a decree that was not only these, but also many other contents.

Among them, the most eye-catching is that the imperial court decreed that each province can independently plan and plan its own university halls.

After the imperial court assessment, as long as the required standards are met, the construction will basically be approved.

At this time, the eighteen provinces of the Great Monday competed to report to the imperial court and prepare to build their own universities.

After a detailed review, a total of 20 universities were built in 18 provinces.

Among them, according to the basic education level and teachers, it is divided into three levels: A, B and C.

Without exception, first-class universities are all in prosperous areas such as Jiangnan.

However, in order to balance education in various places, the imperial court still allocated a certain amount of funds to support higher education in the southwest and northwest, so as to achieve a national balance in education.

In addition, the imperial court also officially established a newspaper: the Great Zhou Royal Daily, which was proofread and printed by the Ministry of Rites.

Not only that, but various localities have also set up their own provincial newspapers, and military newspapers have also been set up in the army.

With the rise of newspapers and periodicals, universities around the world have also followed the trend and set up school newspapers.

For a time, the whole country was chaotic and complicated, and there were all kinds of sounds......