This Xu Confucius was born as a scholar and can be regarded as a well-educated person, but his pioneering nature feels obviously insufficient.

After thinking about it, Yang Lin smiled and said: "Brother Xu, if you ask these countrymen outside, everyone thinks that those of us who are officials are surnamed Su Xiafan in the sky, of course we have to solve the problem for them, instead of complaining all day long."

This money is not born in the sky, although it is difficult to do, but there is still a way. ”

Xu Kongtu spread his hands, shook his head and said: "My lord, although the lower officials are full of poetry and books, they are not talented in helping the world.

To solve the problem of money and food, we should open up sources and reduce expenditure, and the lower officials have also been quite attentive since they took office.

The money that should not be spent, Xia Guan did not spend it indiscriminately. But open source is really insufficient, and now there have been rumors in the local area, some people say that adults are superficially light-hearted, but in fact they collect more taxes than anyone else. ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "What Master Xu said is right, of course, this financial aspect should be open source and reduce expenditure, and the aspect of reducing expenditure is to save if you can, and spend less if you can."

But this is not an indiscriminate collection of taxes, but the development of the local economy, the world makes money, of course, should also pay the necessary taxes.

Since ancient times, it has been said that Shinong Industry and Commerce, Gaozu set a twenty tax on the field, and if the other taxes are lower than the field tax, is it not a joke?

If this is really the case, the peasants can plead not to be based on agriculture, as long as the land is not taxed at 20 taxes, if the land is taxed at 30 taxes, the country is not based on agriculture, and the people will only be grateful. ”

Xu Kongtu looked embarrassed and said with a smile: "My lord, although I didn't understand what you said at first, I understand the truth after this year.

In the past, it was often said that agriculture was the foundation, but the commercial tax could not be collected at all, and the salt tax was also lost in large quantities, which was indeed a mistake for the imperial court.

If the adults were born a few years earlier, if they could advise the first emperor not to levy three salaries and strengthen the taxes on commerce, customs, salt, etc., if this is the case, my Ming Dynasty will not be in exile, and it will be difficult for the Tartars to enter the Central Plains.

My lord, thirty-six lines of work are champions, and all walks of life have their own development laws. ”

Yang Lin was stunned in his heart, smiled and said, "As a parent official, how can you know such pedantic?

If nothing else, let's just talk about our traditional practices.

For a term of office, the most important thing is to build water conservancy in the local area. Let's think about it, if there is more water conservancy in the local area, the dry land is turned into paddy fields, and the people can ensure their harvest in drought and flood, will it not improve the local people's livelihood? Can it increase local land income?

If roads and bridges are built, roads are wider, trade routes are smoother, commerce is prosperous, and the people are rich, can we increase the income of the land endowment?

The development of industry and commerce, everyone says that there is heaven and Suzhou and Hangzhou, why Suzhou and Hangzhou are paradises on earth, that is, a hundred lines are developed. If our local business is prosperous and all industries are developed, can we talk about whether we can increase our income?

There is also the expansion of other industries, not to mention anything else, just to say that the implementation of public schools this time, on the surface the yamen has invested too much money, but in fact, the yamen only makes money.

Although it takes money to build a school and money to hire teachers, think about it, how much profit will be brought by other aspects?

Students need pen, ink, paper and inkstone to read, some are produced locally, some are not produced locally, although this tax can be reduced, a little lower than the normal level, but everyone think about it, the production of pen, ink and paper inkstones, these people always have to buy other things, these will always bring monetary benefits. ”

Everyone smiled awkwardly, and some secretly shook their heads, this adult is young and has a lot of ideas, everyone thinks that this establishment of an office is a great act of kindness, a great benevolence, how can it be a business in his place.

Xu Kongtu's face was round, and after thinking about it, he still arched his hand: "My lord, the school should educate everyone for good, ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, you and I are all disciples of Confucius, and this education should focus on cultivating local talents." ”

Yang Lin smiled awkwardly, how could he inadvertently show the views of his previous life, thought about it, suddenly stood up, and arched his hand: "Lord Xu is a two-rank jinshi, Lord Xu is educated." Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, the future public school should be a place for students to learn knowledge. ”

Listening to this explanation, Xu Kongtu certainly has no opinion, but he has a lot of opinions on the educational curriculum.

In ancient times, basic education mainly used private school education, and private school teachers were hired by major families and local leaders to educate the children of the clan.

For those who study well, either by the family land, or by the family donations, and then go to the state, county, and provincial colleges for further study, the best of them enter the Guozijian.

Just as Xu Confucius said, everyone is a scholar, and there is no opinion on education, and the biggest opinion of everyone is the curriculum that is about to be compiled into a book.

Ancient education is generally 1-3 years for the literacy stage, mainly learning the Three Character Classic, Thousand Character Classic, after which the study of the Four Books and Five Classics, so that the cold window for ten years of hard study, and then participate in the imperial examination.

Drawing on modern experience, the same is true for education for all, with 1-5 years for basic primary education, with the first three years for literacy and 3-5 years for subsequent education.

There is no opinion on these, and the biggest opinion is the curriculum.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Three Character Classic, the Thousand Character Classic, the Four Books and the Five Classics were mainly taught, and after the improvement, mathematics education was added to the national education, as well as a subsequent introduction to the country's history and geography.

Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you are not afraid to go all over the world, and it is not too big a matter to increase the knowledge of mathematics, history, and geography for students.

In the past, the Three Character Classics and the Thousand Character Classics have been tempered for hundreds of years, and the words are concise and concise, although it is quite laborious to learn (that is for ordinary people, and it is completely different for Xu Kongtu, a super scholar born in Jinshi), what a good enlightenment textbook.

There is no need for such a good enlightenment textbook, Yang Lin actually organized the compilation of a set of very vulgar Chinese textbooks.

As at the beginning: I am Chinese, I love our motherland.

Our country has two capitals and thirteen provinces, and we are a friendly big family.

Since the founding of the Yellow Emperor 4,000 years ago, our country has been multiplying to this day.

The Yangtze River and the Yellow River run through the east and west, nourishing the people on both sides of the river, and are our mother river.

The Great Wall stretches from Jiayu Pass in the west to Shanhaiguan in the east, which is our barrier against the invasion of foreign invaders, and also our base for stabilizing the Quartet.

We will uphold benevolence, propriety, wisdom, and belief in the five constants of Confucianism, and be a useful person to the society.

……

This is really a little two slang, how can you be elegant?

Holding the textbook, Xu Kongtu looked quite excited, it was too ridiculous, how could he learn such a thing in the sacred school?

Yang Lin listened patiently, and after seeing that the other party said that he was tired, he also asked the other party continuously.

Learn one subject, of course, love one, the textbook is simple, the main thing is not to make students foggy, the main thing is to make students like to read, not tired of reading.

This is true of common sense, but in today's world, how many people know this common sense?

Xu Kongtu argued with reason, and finally invited the children of the state academy, and surprisingly, among the thirty prison students, none of them were able to answer these common sense knowledge (such as the beginning and end of the Great Wall).

Xu Kongtu was speechless, and it was not good to attack the new textbook again.

After temporarily shelving the textbook controversy, as a super scholar from Jinshi, Xu Kongtu certainly has an attachment to building a school that ordinary people can understand.

In order to save money and build more schools, Xu Kongtu came up with a good way, that is, to change the temple and Taoist temple into a school, so as to save a lot of investment in school construction.

Since the introduction of Buddhism into China, due to the gradual deepening of the theory of reincarnation in the hearts of the people, everyone is in line with the fatalistic view that there is nothing to suffer in this life, as long as the future generations enjoy happiness, as long as the next life is invested in the rich and noble, everything now is worth it.

Not to mention that every county, even every township has built many temples and temples, and some townships have more than two or three.

Now the world is in turmoil, the people can no longer worship the temple monks like the peaceful and prosperous times, some temples or destroyed in the war, some temples and monks fled, it can be said that in addition to some large temples, many small temples are very dilapidated.

In that case, why not vacate some of the vacant houses in the monastery, especially the dilapidated ones. (In the Confucian Lin Gaiden, Zhou Jin set up a museum, which was also in the temple).

The temple is not engaged in production, and Yang Lin has always wanted to restrain its development, and now that Xu Confucius and others have proposed it, of course, why not?

Immediately set the following strategy, for monks, Taoist priests, in the name of protection, then concentrated on a few points.

The school is mainly rebuilt from temples and Taoist temples, and the township is the unit, and if the township vacates enough space, then a public school will be established in that township.

Setting up a museum to teach is a great act of kindness among the people, and now that the war is in chaos, Yang Lin is not afraid that the monk and Taoist priest will not agree.

As everyone said, Confucius had only 3,000 disciples, and if he really established a public school in the local area, there would be more than 3,000 students.

Xu Kongtu was full of interest, and of course he also wanted to make great progress, and he insisted on ensuring investment in education.

Now some people are connecting with each other, and some people are openly or implicitly saying that Yang Lin is tyrannical and expropriating, which is not much better than the three salaries in the past.

In the past, the government increased the three salaries, and although the burden on the common people was heavy, the local squires and yamen officials had a lot of money.

Now since Yang Lin is in charge of the local government, he has standardized local taxes, and although the three salaries have been abolished, he has withdrawn the privileges of local gentry and customs levies, which seriously infringes on the privileges of gentry and officials.

They spread rumors all day and night that the government was leviing and extorting money arbitrarily, claiming that the government now collects more taxes than the imperial court in the past, in an attempt to mobilize poor scholars in those places and arouse everyone's antagonism and resistance.

If public schools are promoted on a large scale, a primary school will have at least six teachers (one per grade, plus a principal) and a central school with 12 teachers (five in primary school, three years in secondary school, two in each class, plus a principal), which will not only benefit the local community and win the hearts of the people, but also win the hearts of the lower class readers.