As soon as Zheng Congyan was sent away, Zhao Fan immediately recruited a few Shangshu into the palace to discuss the plan of the Tang Dynasty.

Now Zhao Fan's most concerned thing is the education problem of Datang, the so-called century-old plan, education-oriented, only perfect basic education, can effectively improve the quality of the people.

The so-called national quality is not just a simple matter of being polite or not littering, and it is too narrow to summarize it in this way.

From the viewpoint of later generations, the national quality includes political quality, ideological quality, moral quality, professional quality, aesthetic quality, labor and technical quality, physical quality, and psychological quality.

The quality of the people is the foundation of a country's true strength, just like Germany after World War II, after two world wars, the whole country was devastated, and it can even be described as a ruin.

But after the war, it took only a few decades for Germany to rebuild from the ashes, all because of the extremely high quality of the Germans.

However, it is a very slow and painful process to improve the quality of a nation's national name, in this era, only the children of the rich can read, and most of the children of poor families are illiterate and do not even know the words.

Datang's official school system has "two museums and six schools". Hongwenguan and Chongwenguan only admit the children of the emperor's relatives and relatives, Guozixue only accepts the children of civil and military officials above the third grade, Taixue only recruits the children of officials above the fifth grade, the four schools only recruit the children of civil and military officials above the seventh grade, and calligraphy, arithmetic and law schools recruit "scholars below the eighth rank and the common people".

But in today's Tang Dynasty, the people are struggling to survive, the officialdom is corrupt, and the chaotic battles and training between the feudal towns have become difficult, so what else is the national quality to talk about? What's more, in this era, the imperial court did not have a national budget for education expenses at all, and reading became an extremely difficult thing.

However, the nine-year compulsory education system in later generations, Zhao Fan thinks it is still very good, and it can indeed solve many problems, but the problem is, if you want to implement nine-year compulsory education, where to find so many teachers? In addition, where is the budget for compulsory education......

And if you want to implement education for all, it will inevitably touch the interests of the major families, these families have almost monopolized scientific research in the past, just like Du Ruhui's Du family, to Du Rangneng's generation I don't know how many generations, Du Rangneng can still be the prime minister, and it is estimated that it is very difficult to carry out national education in this matter.

"Your Majesty." When Zhao Fan was thinking about how to implement nine-year compulsory education, Du Rangneng had already hurriedly walked in with Kong Wei and Wei Zhaodu.

"Du Xiang, you are here, please sit down."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty's brows are furrowed, but what's the trouble?" Du Rangneng sat down and said respectfully.

"That's right, I want to popularize our Datang's national education, it's really a so-called century-old plan, education-oriented, this is applicable in any era. However, we in Datang do not have special funds for education, and we do not have enough teachers, so I am afraid that this matter is a little difficult. Zhao Fan poured hot tea for several Shangshu and said slowly.

"Your Majesty, it's not difficult to say this, but it's not easy to say it's not easy, if Your Majesty really has a heart, the ministers will definitely relieve Your Majesty's worries." Du Rangneng smiled.

"I think so, we have so many children born in Datang every year, but there is no suitable place to place them, this time has been a long time, the children have nothing to do all day long, idle, it is inevitable that many people will go astray, it is better to be like this, from the treasury to pay for these children, to open some schools for these children, to gather them, and then arrange for Mr. to teach them some basic knowledge, in this way, our Datang will also emerge more outstanding talents."

"And it can also give the people a hope, whether they are rich or poor, their children have hope in the future, through their own hard study, to get a better life, so as to realize the possibility of knowledge to change their destiny."

Zhao Fan pinched his somewhat swollen forehead, slowly said his plan, and then quietly watched everyone's reactions.

To Zhao Fan's surprise, his Shangshu masters not only did not show any intention of objecting, but seemed to be very happy.

"Your Majesty is wise, if this matter can be implemented, it will be beneficial to my Datang Society, and let everyone in the world who wants to read have books to read, this is a real great cause!" Kong Wei looked excited and said happily.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what I said is to let all the people study, and even the best ones can become officials, won't this touch the interests of your family?" Zhao Fan was stunned for a moment and said with some curiosity.

"Your Majesty, the generals and others are thinking too narrowly." Wei Zhaodu, the head of the household, smiled and said jokingly, "Your Majesty may not know that there are many officials in our court, all of whom are from poor families, and since the implementation of the imperial examination, the family gate valve may still occupy some advantages, but it is far from controlling the scientific examination." ”

"What Lord Wei said is that we, the courtiers, are not from any family, we are all His Majesty's people." Li Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, also smiled and said softly.

……

Zhao Fan's face was speechless, he had prepared a speech for a long time, but it was useless, these ministers expressed their support for the implementation of education for all, and even Zhang Jun, the secretary of the Criminal Department, also proposed that he was willing to donate part of his family wealth to support Zhao Fan's plan.

"My idea is to first gather children between the ages of five and eleven for six years of enlightenment education, which includes basic literacy and arithmetic, and after the completion of these children's enlightenment education, select a small number of extremely outstanding and potential children for continuing education, as the reserve talents of Datang officials for training, and the rest will be carried out for three years of professional education."

"The so-called professional education is professional education in all walks of life, such as medicine, such as carpenters, such as blacksmiths, etc., my purpose is to let these children, after receiving education, be able to have a skill, and have a better livelihood in the future, and at the same time, it can also cultivate talents needed by all walks of life for our Datang, what do you think?"

Zhao Fan said all his plans in one breath, and he also understood that education like in his previous life was not suitable for the current Datang, and education was also a gradual thing, so he could only take it slowly, step by step.

(End of chapter)