The reason why the three high-ranking officials were so surprised by the phenomenon that everyone could read the newspaper was because literacy and hyphenation were really a very remarkable thing in the Ming Dynasty. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Ming Dynasty was ruled by the Son of Heaven and scholars, and at the local level, scholars were actually members of the ruling class. Even if the court official sees a talent, he must be polite and give three points. Although the original intention of this system design was to use Confucianism, which was immersed in the idea of "loyalty and filial piety", to stabilize the rule of the Zhu royal family and form a stable superstructure. But after hundreds of years of operation, a local tradition has developed that literacy equals personal ability and prestige.

If you are literate and hyphenated, you will be able to read and understand reason, you will be able to understand the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and you will know what you can and why you can't do it. If you are literate and hyphenated, you can read the official notices and even the court newspapers, and know the major events in the world.

The insight and ability of a literate person is very different from that of an illiterate.

Not to mention that in places like Tianjin and Shandong, the government publishes newspapers, and literate people can read the newspapers directly. Once you can read the newspaper, what important news from the imperial court, the trends of the Tianjin Kingdom, the latest policies, and even the domestic and foreign situation and even the latest business opportunities and changes, you will be able to know everything.

A literate person with a little training is a qualified military officer or government official, which can be described as a talent in this era. The entire Fanjiazhuang is basically literate, so how strong will Fanjiazhuang be?

What shocked Wang Chengen even more was that Li Zhi's readers were all different from Confucianism.

The Zhu Ming royal family and the Confucian scholars shared the world, and after hundreds of years of development, this kind of common world became the only choice. But in Fanjiazhuang, Li Zhi's literate people don't talk about benevolence and filial piety. Selecting talents from among these people, who had not been brainwashed by Confucianism, to manage the country was a new option for Li Zhi.

This is an option that could change the nature of a regime.

Wang Chengen knew that what Li Zhi repeatedly propagated and instilled in the school and newspapers was "public morality". So the government composed of these literate people in Fanjiazhuang will be a public moral regime?

How terrible will a regime in which everyone is literate and everyone pays attention to public morality, and a regime in which everyone is ashamed of internal friction, have?

Looking at the people who were reading leisurely with newspapers, Wang Chengen's face was cloudy and cloudy, and his color changed several times.

Li Xing heard Wang Chengen's inquiry, and said lightly: "Father-in-law Mingjian, after more than ten years of hard work, now all the school-age children in my Fanjiazhuang have entered primary school. For adults, we have free literacy classes, and the literacy rate in Fanjiazhuang is currently more than 80 percent for adult men, and 40 percent for even adult women. ”

Wang Chengen snorted coldly and asked, "In the literacy class, is the idea of public morality taught?" ”

Li Xing smiled, and secretly said that this Wang Chengen is a smart person, and he immediately saw through the intentions of his eldest brother Li Zhi. Li Zhi taught public morality classes in Fanjiazhuang and Tianjin while eradicating illiteracy, striving to make every literate person have a certain degree of public morality.

"Father-in-law Mingjian, one-third of the curriculum in the literacy class is public morality, and the newspapers promote public morality every day, and even the governments of Tianjin and Shandong do it every day to reward those who have public morality to benefit the society, and punish traitors who do not have public morality and endanger the interests of others."

"Fanjiazhuang, these literate people, can now be said to be reserve officials in Tianjin, Shandong and the three northeastern provinces. Every month, the eldest brother recruits officials in Fanjiazhuang to enrich the government of four provinces and one town. ”

Wang Chengen took a breath and shook his head, looking a little dazed for a while.

Today's Li Zhi is no longer the original Wuxia Ameng.

With so many people who have read books, Li Zhi has cultivated a culture completely different from that of the Ming Dynasty, and cultivated a completely different interest group from the Ming gentry. If Li Zhi was just a superb craftsman in the past, relying on advanced and powerful technology, now Li Zhi has created a powerful new society.

In the future, even if Li Zhi doesn't do anything, this public morality society with very little internal friction will continue to exert its strength outward.

Cao Bianjiao and Yang Guozhu glanced at each other, and they were also a little touched. Although the two of them are not as far as Wang Chengen thought, Fanjiazhuang, which has so many scholars, is really shocking.

Everyone took their seats in surprise, and the shopkeeper came up to greet them. Li Xing is a regular customer of this restaurant, and after a few strokes on the menu, he ordered three tables of dishes.

After a while, a steaming seafood feast was served. Those seafood are garlic prawns, steamed seven-strip grouper, fried cod, fried herring, etc., all of which are rare high-quality seafood that can be seen in Beijing.

Yang Guozhu was born in Xuanfu, where have you eaten seafood in the inland part of Shanxi? He took a sip of soju, took a bite of a piece of cod meat, and couldn't help but praise with a face full of enjoyment: "It's really delicious, this meal is so rich, I'm afraid it will make the governor spend a lot of money!" ”

Wang Chengen nodded and said, "I didn't expect such a folk restaurant to serve such a seafood feast." If this feast is in the capital, I'm afraid it won't be served without a few dozen taels of silver. This meal, I'm afraid it will eat up the price of a Beijing dwelling. ”

Cao Bianjiao looked at the furnishings in the restaurant, felt that it was not luxurious, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Lord Governor, could it be that these seafood products are very cheap in Fanjiazhuang?" ”

Li Xing laughed and said: "Lord Taibao guessed correctly, my fishermen in Tianjin and Shandong use steamships to trawl fish, and seafood here can be said to be cheap and affordable for everyone." ”

"This cod, for example, is a large cluster of fish. In the past, sailboats could not go deep into the sea to fish, and occasionally caught a few of them and sold them for a sky-high price of seven dollars a pound of silver. But with the steamer trawling, fishermen can go deep into the open sea and spread a large net to easily catch thousands of catties of cod. Nowadays, this cod is a daily edible fish in Tianjin, and it only costs 50 yuan per catty. ”

Hearing Li Xing's words, Yang Guozhu's eyes widened, looking at the white and tender cod meat on his plate, and he was speechless.

Fifty wen a catty, this raw seafood is cheaper than pork.

Li Xing said: "As for the pair of shrimp, the steamer trawls the net, and there are as many as there are. Now the shrimp has been sold for 40 yuan a catty, which is the daily food of the people. ”

"As for this herring, it is more affordable, and it has been sold for 20 yuan a catty, which is the same price as vegetables."

"Even the most expensive grouper, I heard that it costs one or two or five dollars a pound of silver in the capital, and it only sells for seventy yuan a pound in Fanjiazhuang. Slightly more expensive than pork prices. ”

Li Xing said with a smile: "Not to mention that such a restaurant can be served, even if it is the daily food of ordinary people, they will also buy some to eat." The people of Fanjiazhuang earn two or three taels of silver a month. You can afford to eat these. If the three angels don't believe it, go and look at the other people's tables in the restaurant, and the tables have these kinds of seafood. ”

Wang Chengen had never seen a trawler, and when he heard Li Xing's words, it was as if he had heard a fantasy. His face was cloudy, and he looked at Li Xing's face without saying a word.

How are the people of Fanjiazhuang living so well?

It's impossible! The Son of Heaven can't eat these seafood every day.

Wang Chengen stood up abruptly and walked straight to the other people's tables, as if to expose Li Xing's lies.

However, after turning around, his face changed color, like a dirt bun entering the city, his face full of frustration and incredulity.