The appearance of Song Shihui made Yang Xuan realize the importance of talents again, and he also became more and more aware of the limitations of the knowledge of ancient scholars, as well as the limitations of the imperial examination.

If it is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought were in full bloom, and schools of thought such as Mohist and Taoist schools were slightly involved in natural science research, then after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty overthrew Confucianism, Chinese scholars for more than a thousand years were completely biased towards social science research and ignored natural science research.

In order to get ahead, the reader first reads the Three Character Classics and the Thousand Character Classics, and then reads the Four Books and the Five Classics.

Although there were four major inventions in ancient China, such as gunpowder, papermaking, compass, and printing, and there were agricultural technologies of one kind or another, they were undoubtedly the summaries of thousands of years of people's experience, and there was little theoretical research among them.

How can 10 years of trees and 100 years of trees change this situation? The great man tells us that education needs to start from the baby.

If the reform of the civil service system in Shunqing Prefecture was a survival need, now it has defeated the Tartars and Liukou one after another, and after gaining a firm foothold in Sichuan, the reform of the education system is for the needs of development.

How to change the education system in the late Ming Dynasty, or the traditional Chinese education system, as long as a little comparison, can easily draw the following conclusions.

1. Change private school education to school graded education: Unlike the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was open to the world, the court advocated the co-governance of monarchs and ministers, and the local government advocated the autonomy of the officials and gentry. I hope that the children of the clan can get ahead and bare the lintel.

Just like the author's ancestors, in the early Qing Dynasty, Huguang filled Sichuan to Sichuan Province, which lasted more than 100 years to the sixth ancestor period with a slight yield, and after being able to collect more than 100 loads of grain every year, it was convenient for the brothers in the clan to donate a part of the family property as the public property of the clan, and invited scholars to come to the clan to educate the children of the clan.

In the countryside, this is not only the case of the author's ancestors, but also other big families in the countryside. Take the administrative village where the author is located (one in the Ming and Qing dynasties is equivalent to three or five administrative villages now), there are three surnames of Chen, Yang and Zhang, the largest number of people, the richest is the Chen family, the clan not only has public fields to establish private schools, but also has an ancestral hall to hold a court meeting during the New Year's Festival.

The Yang family, to which the author belongs, and the Zhang family, another big surname, although not as good as the Chen family, also have public fields, and they invite private school teachers to educate the children of the clan every once in a while.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, or in feudal society, private schools were everywhere, and the respect of the elderly for scholars was not inferior to that of contemporary times.

But from the perspective of modern people, although there were many private schools in the Ming Dynasty, the children of the clan went to school together, regardless of age, reading, or ability.

To change this status quo, that is, according to the modern education model, the integration of private schools, the establishment of new schools, according to the age and the number of books to grade education.

Second, natural science education should be added to school education.

As mentioned earlier, since ancient times, China has been inferior in everything, only the reading is high, from ancient times to the present, the generation of people who have read poetry and books is like a carp crossing the river, there are not many people, but because they have not experienced the Western Renaissance, or have experienced the Western natural science system education for hundreds of years, the education process ignores natural science education.

What the protagonist has to do is to gradually introduce natural science education on the basis of traditional education, such as mathematics and geometry education in primary and secondary schools, simple physics education, chemistry education, geography education in middle schools, etc.

It can be said that when the Tartars were driven out of Hanzhong, after temporarily relieving the threat of the Manchu regime and the exiles, Yang Xuan thought about how to establish a modern school graded education system.

A month and a half after returning to the CD Mansion, on this day, the county teachers and scholars gathered together at the Governor's Yamen to begin a serious review of the issue.

These teachings are also suffocating one by one, since the Jiashen years into Sichuan Province into the war, the local schools are in ruins, the scholars have been killed many people, everyone is finally looking forward to a peaceful years of the governor Yamen to reopen the township test, their protégés can also be raised to have a good birth.

Now when I heard Hou Ye mention how to teach and educate people, everyone talked about it one by one, and Yang Xuan shook his head again and again, what everyone said was not unreasonable, but it was too far from his main body.

Yang Xuan was anxious, and Xu Kongtu was even more anxious about the academic politics around him, Xu Kongtu Chongzhen was a jinshi in the early years, and he was the governor of Qiongzhou at the time of the great change in Jiashen.

As a scholar and politician, Xu Kongtu of course knew Yang Xuan's true purpose, raised his hand to stop everyone from continuing to speak, glanced at everyone and said: "Everyone is well-read, what they say is not unreasonable, but the truth that everyone said is different from what we want to eliminate this time." ”

When everyone heard this, everyone was dumbfounded? Although the scholar has a very high social status, he is still essentially a Qingshui Yamen, is there any major disadvantage in this Qingshui Yamen?

Xu Kongtu looked proud, and after talking with the adults for several days at night, he became more and more problematic, and now looking at everyone's eyes, he immediately asked what is the benefit of reading? How to teach students according to their aptitude in the process of studying?

Everyone was in an uproar, everything was inferior, only reading was high, of course, studying was to get ahead, of course, to get promoted and make a fortune.

Xu Kongtu shook his head again and again, and immediately took out the rhetoric that had been prepared for a long time, the most basic purpose of reading is to read and hyphenate words, not to be blind, and not to be bullied by outsiders.

The purpose of reading is to get ahead and bare the lintel.

Everyone was not convinced at first, but now that they hear what the Shosei said, it is difficult to raise any objections.

What is discouraging is that although people do not object to the purpose of reading, there are various ways to change this situation.

In order to calm everyone's arguments, in the end, Yang Xuan had to go out and personally explain the benefits of graded education in the school.

Seeing that Hou Ye had such an opinion, it was not easy to object, so they had to nod their heads in agreement.

After two days of persuasion, the implementation method of the new school graded education was basically determined, that is:

1. The Sichuan Provincial Xuezheng Xu Confucius convened the local scholars and the editors of the teachings to form an editorial committee to edit the educational textbooks of Chinese, mathematics, nature, geography, history and other educational textbooks.

2. Establish teacher training courses in each province and select readers to train teachers.

3. Promote the graded education of new schools throughout the province, and plan that within two years, each county needs to establish a complete primary school, each province needs to establish a new middle school, and the province needs to establish a new university.

4. Within five years, each township will establish a complete new primary school, and each lane will establish an incomplete new primary school.

5. Encourage local squires and the government to jointly set up new-style schools, and the government will give certain educational subsidies to teachers in new-style schools.

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Yang Xuan used his power to strongly implement a new style of school education, and Xu Confucius summoned more than 100 Xiucai to discuss the curriculum setting in Phoenix Mountain all day and night, and there were disturbances in various places in the locality, and the whole scholar became restless.

In a township in Xichong County, Shunqing Prefecture, a few scholars in cotton robes sat in the teahouse, not stretching out their big hands from their pockets to pick up the teacups and take a sip to dispel the cold air outside.

A scholar in his forties shook his head and said: "Ten years ago, I had a fame in the show, and I thought that I would be able to achieve good news in the future, but who would have expected that I would not be ranked many times, and now I am leaving home to become a teacher in this private school."

There are more than 20 students in the hall, and their level is uneven, some have just started to read the three-character scripture and the thousand-character scripture, and some have finished reading the four books and five classics, but these children are quite naughty, and they worry a lot all day long.

Now that the government has posted a notice, I don't know what this public school looks like? ”

Another rich man in a leather jacket next to him shook his head and said, "Although Yang Xuan was born in a scholarly lineage, he is treacherous and hypocritical, doesn't Mr. Zhou know it?"

Yang Xuan kept saying that he was exempted from the three salaries, but there was one condition, that is, the land was re-cleared, you don't know that after the re-clearance, the money and grain collected after the re-clearing were more than the three salaries that the imperial court had sent in the past.

Yang Xuan skillfully set up a project to collect what business endowments, customs endowments, salt endowments, mineral endowments, etc., and punished and fined them if they delayed a little, which made people angry. ”

Wang Gongzi is a large family within a radius of dozens of miles, relying on power in the past not to pay taxes, after the re-clearing of the land area increased dramatically, he needed to pay more than 100 quintals of grain every year, and was punished at the beginning of this year for underpaying money and grain.

After that, the Wang family resolutely opposed the new policy, and Wang Gongzi even invited three or five friends to gather together to criticize the current politics, claiming that this practice completely subverted the co-governance structure of the official gentry.

Zhou Jin set up a private school in the Wang family, and everyone had to echo each other, so as not to break up unhappily.

Zhou Jin is more than 30 years old, Chongzhen won the show, and then participated in several township examinations, because of life forced to Wangjiazhuang to open a lecture to supplement the family.

On this day, there was news that the government was preparing to establish a public school, and the government was recruiting a large number of public school teachers.

Those who are selected not only do not need to leave their hometowns to switch and teach, their jobs are guaranteed, and more importantly, their income is high.

Thinking of being looked down upon by the owner on weekdays, Zhou Jin was unwilling to be lonely, and decided to go out to try his luck despite the opposition of the prince.

Because of his fame as a showman, he didn't need to take the county exam, so Zhou Jin came to Shunqing Mansion City that day.

Just after noon, Zhou Jin rushed to Yushan Academy, but before he reached the street, there was an endless stream of people on the road, and everyone called friends in twos and threes to rush to the academy.

Zhou Jin felt strange when he met so many people for the first time, and hurriedly stopped and asked the passer-by: "Brother Tai, this crowd is more than in previous years, why are there so many people?" ”

A middle-aged scholar with a burnt face and a thin figure next to him said with a smile: "After passing the college exam, he has changed from a child to a Xiucai, and this time the exam is a gentleman who teaches Xiucai."

Those who enter the public school will have an annual income of more than 20 taels of silver, and they can also ensure that the family has no worries about food and clothing. ”

Zhou Jin nodded emphatically, and hurriedly lined up to register, after a day of exams, Zhou Jin was successfully shortlisted as a teacher in a public school, and the main work in the next three months is to learn basic arithmetic knowledge (the level of Chinese arithmetic is relatively poor), and discuss and determine the primary teaching materials.

It was on this day that Zhou Jin slowly understood the purpose of primary education, that is, after five years of study, students will be able to read and hyphenate words, and be able to simply calculate and deal with some geometric problems.

Instead of the timidity of the Thousand Character Classics, Four Books and Five Classics like in the past.