Wang Meng, the servant of the ministry, had another taste, he intended to send his daughter to the East Palace, but the prince did not accept it because of Queen Dugu, however, the daughter's life was also delayed, after this incident, although the prince returned to the capital, no family dared to come to propose, because no one knew whether marrying Wang Meng's daughter would offend the prince, if he let his daughter marry a small family casually, Wang Meng was reluctant, not to mention that Wang Meng was not sure whether the prince had any intention of his daughter, so he could only wait year after year. More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

After the death of Queen Dugu, Wang Meng had the hope of sending his daughter back to the East Palace, but the prince didn't mention it, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he couldn't take the initiative to send his daughter out, if the prince refused again, he would become the laughing stock of the entire officialdom, and his daughter would have no shame to live anymore.

Now seeing the will of the palace draft, thinking of his daughter, Wang Meng couldn't help but sigh a little, the draft only requires girls between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, but the daughter has been delayed for more than ten years in vain, if there is regret medicine, he would rather not introduce his daughter to the prince at the beginning.

When he returned home, several maids greeted him and shouted, "Master." ”

Wang Meng nodded and asked, "What about Miss?" ”

"Miss is in the embroidery building."

Wang Meng frowned: "Why are you stuffy in the embroidery building again, it's good to walk around the garden in such weather." ”

"Yes, master, the slave maid will go to the embroidery building immediately and call the young lady down." Seeing that his master seemed to have a bad face, a maid hurriedly replied obediently.

"No need, master go by himself."

"Yes." The maid looked at Wang Meng's face, and she didn't know why her master was unhappy. Step aside. lowered his eyebrows and eyes, and he didn't dare to breathe.

Wang Ying's embroidery building is on the edge of the back garden, through a corridor, Wang Meng stepped into the back garden of his own land, the capital is every inch of land, although Wang Meng is a servant of the ministry, a number of high-ranking officials, this garden still can not be compared with Wangjiawu in Qingzhou, however, it covers an extremely wide area. Pavilions, lakes and mountains, everything, it is spring at this time, all kinds of flowers in the garden are gorgeous, fragrant and pleasant, but unfortunately it is a little deserted. There was not a single master except for the servants who were in charge of cleaning, pruning in the garden.

A jingling sound came from the embroidery building, the sound of the piano was melodious, but with a little resentment, and the scenery of this spring did not match, Wang Meng's eyes couldn't help but sour when he heard it, and he boarded his daughter's embroidery building.

Hearing footsteps, the sound of the piano stopped, and Wang Meng went upstairs. I saw Wang Ying standing at the door in plain clothes, and bowed to Wang Meng: "Father is here." ”

The years don't seem to have left any traces on Wang Ying's face, but the previous youthful appearance is completely gone, but there is a more thrilling beauty, if you don't know, at most you will think that this Shu in front of you has just passed her twenties, in fact, Wang Yingdi is more than ten years older than that.

With a thin face, Wang Meng suddenly remembered an idiom in his heart, but this idiom is so bitter for his daughter, but. If he hadn't had this idea ten years in advance, people would always wake up to their practices when they were old, Wang Meng couldn't help but be surprised, am I old?

Indeed, he is nearly seventy years old. It's long old. Wang Meng's face showed a piece of love: "Ying'er, why don't you go for a walk in the garden in such a good weather?" ”

"Reply to my father's words. The child doesn't want to move. ”

"That's not good, you're still young, it's good to go outside more."

"Yes, the boy will clean up and go down." Wang Ying said softly, although she said to her father that she was young and disapproving, although her appearance is still the same, her heart is already old, a woman has not married after thirty, what hope can there be in this life, if it were not for her father, she would have escaped into the empty door, just such a green light ancient Buddha for a lifetime, going to the garden will only mess with her state of mind.

Seeing his daughter re-enter the embroidery room, Wang Meng wanted to open his mouth to say something, but he didn't know whether to tell his daughter about the emperor's draft, if his daughter was interested, he would fight his old face and not want to enter the palace to explore the emperor's tone, if his daughter can enter the palace, whether she can get the emperor's favor or not, it is better than the current situation.

After a while, Wang Ying changed into a light green dress and walked out again, the father and daughter paced in the garden together, after a period of calm, Wang Meng said: "Ying'er, father is sorry for you, if you didn't ...... father back then" Before she finished speaking, Wang Ying had interrupted Wang Meng's words: "Father, needless to say, isn't this very good, if it is my father's plan, how can the Langya Wang family stand in the capital, the child has never blamed his father." ”

"This ......" The daughter said the truth, but Wang Meng couldn't say it anymore, so he could only sigh.

Although the draft is related to the overall quality of his harem, Yang Yong didn't ask about how to draft, now it's not the future, that is, there is no TV, no camera, he can't ask even if he wants to, not to mention that if he is too active, there is always something that doesn't seem to be done by Mingjun.

Yang Yong is now concerned about the school's education problems, canals, navigation, and imperial examinations, none of which can be completed in a short period of time, Yang Yong does not have the patience to wait for one to be done before doing the first thing, these three things, the canal, the navigation of the river have been started, but the imperial examination is still a shadowless thing.

Among the three things, the canal is undoubtedly the most expensive, the navigation is the most risky, but the most troublesome is the imperial examination, after all, the imperial examination to change the recommendation system of the family gate, seriously infringing on the interests of the family, compared to the canal and navigation, as long as there is enough money to invest in it will always have an effect, and if the imperial examination is not careful, it will cause turmoil in the family of the gatekeeper.

If you want to carry out the imperial examination, you must first have enough lifts, and you must absorb a certain proportion of the children of the poor family, otherwise it will lose its meaning, the education of the Great Sui has experienced a process from the rise to the ban, in the early days of the emperor, Emperor Wen of the Sui attaches great importance to education, not only set up the Guozi Temple, so that it is separated from the Taichang Temple to become the country's highest educational institution, and in the traditional Guozi School, Taixue, and the four schools and the establishment of calligraphy, arithmetic, law, the formation of a six-school system, in the states and counties have set up official schools.

It's just the early years of Renshou. Yang Jian suddenly ordered the abolition of Taixue, Simen, and state and county schools. Only more than 70 students of Guozixue were retained, and the reason for its abolition was that the emperor believed that schools at all levels had no names and were empty for years.

100 years of trees, 10 years of people, from the early years of the emperor to the first year of Renshou to abolish the school, the middle is full 20 years, with ten years as a generation, there are two generations of students who have entered the official school, and in the early years of the emperor, there are only thousands of people who have entered the official school. At its peak, it surged to 70,000 or 80,000 people, but later it began to decrease again, and by the first year of Renshou there were still more than 40,000 people.

It's just that even if these people are successful in their studies, except for those who are from their own families, the rest of them can't find a way out at all, and they have studied for many years. The shoulders can't be picked, the hands can't be lifted, no wonder Emperor Wen of Sui thinks that there is no list and there is no time to spend the year.

Even if there is only one official school in one prefecture and one county, and there are nearly 2,000 schools in the more than 400 prefectures and more than 1,000 counties in the country, and two to three teachers in one school, the court needs to pay an extra 5,000 or 6,000 people, and there are only 30,000 or 40,000 officials in the whole country. Although Yang Jian was extravagant in his later years, he was just frugal all his life after all, and it was natural for Emperor Wen of Sui to choose to abolish the school.

Fortunately, it has only been four years since Yang Jian decreed the abolition of schools, and at that time, the holy decree was not severe, but it was said that it was appropriate to keep it simple, and some local state schools were still retained, and some official schools were converted to private schools, even if they were abolished, the students and teachers were still there. Just re-order the restoration.

In April of the second year of the Great Cause, along with the draft decree, there was another decree in the prefecture and county, that is, to restore the local government school, and so far, the state has specially allocated 100,000 yuan per year. 200,000 quintals of rice as the cost of running a school. The school premises were financed by the magistrates themselves.

With 100,000 yuan and 200,000 quintals of rice, the court is unprecedentedly generous. In the past, during the Kaihuang period, it was only 50,000 yuan a year and 80,000 quintals of rice at most.

However, the magistrates still did not have much enthusiasm for this will, most of the magistrates put their energy into the election for the emperor, if the local can produce an imperial concubine, what a great honor, as long as the imperial concubine can say a few good words in the emperor's ear, it is easy to get promoted and make a fortune.

As for the restoration of schools, 100,000 yuan is distributed to each county in each state, and on average, it is only more than 50 yuan and more than 100 quintals of rice in one county. This money and food will cover the annual salaries of two to three teachers and the food of twenty to thirty students.

Calculated by 20 students, each person will be given six buckets of rice per month, 80 yuan, nearly 20 yuan will be removed in a year, more than 100 quintals of rice, and more than 30 yuan of money will be left.

It's just that no one opposes this will, and it's always a good thing that the money and grain can be allocated from above, although the magistrates are embarrassed to be greedy for this money and food, as long as they put up a shelf, there will always be a little meat. With this in mind, the local officials carried out the emperor's decree and rebuilt the school, and the teachers and students who had been sent home were all brought back, but after four years of abandonment, most of the schools have been diverted for other purposes or are dilapidated and unseemly, both teachers and students are only crowded into dilapidated school buildings, and in some places can only use the firewood buildings of the official offices as school buildings.

Compared with the indifference of the magistrates, the teachers and students who received the order to reopen the school were moved to tears, and compared with the officials' salaries, the teachers' salaries were undoubtedly low, only four or five yuan a year, plus ten stones of rice. It's just that these meager salaries are the guarantee for them to feed their whole family, and the court closed the school all of a sudden, and in the past few years, I don't know how many former teachers were almost forced to hang themselves.

The same is true for students, where the court gives food to the students can also barely support themselves, once the school is closed, they are also equivalent to cutting off their livelihood, those who are young, if they are already adults and the poor people in the family are suddenly pushed into an embarrassing situation, although they were poor in the past, they can't pick their shoulders, they can't lift their hands, they just have food, at least they can not be starved to death, and they can't study now, so they can only pick up a hoe again and do farm work, barely making a living.

For them, picking up the hoe again is undoubtedly a very humiliating thing, a few years later, the arrogance of the former scholars was suddenly lost, and now they can read again, which is equivalent to picking up the dignity that was lost before, almost as soon as they saw the notice of the government, both the former teachers and students, were immediately gathered, shouted long live to the tablet of the new emperor, picked up the book and read aloud.

Although the magistrates were not alarmed about the rebuilding of the schools, with the arrival of the emperor's will, the official schools in various prefectures and counties were quickly established, but the enthusiastic draft of the magistrates was somewhat hindered.

Although many people do everything possible to send their daughters to the palace, there are indeed people who don't want their daughters to be drafted, but these people who don't want to send their daughters to the draft are some local families, only such people have the courage to resist in secret, and they don't want their daughters to suffer in the palace.

Such daughters are often the best, and it is very likely that they will be selected, so before the draft notice is posted, the local families who first got the news have begun to pull Lang matching, and quickly find a good husband for their daughters to marry, it is very likely that the magistrate received the holy decree and was happy about which daughter in the city was suitable, and rushed to visit the door the next day, and was dumbfounded.

"I'm sorry, the villain just recruited a son-in-law yesterday."

For such a local matter, of course, the magistrate knows very well, if the relationship is good, he can only turn a blind eye, and if the relationship is not good, he can't find evidence and is helpless, the court will not support the draft and cause local chaos, fortunately, the east is not bright and the west is bright, after all, such people are a minority, and most people are still willing to send their daughters to the palace.

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