Feng Yunshan looked down, and found that it was not early, it was already past lunch time, and he didn't care so much about the rise of what he said at the moment, so he turned around and beckoned to An Dehai, the eunuch who was waiting on the side, and An Dehai immediately ran over.

"Order the imperial dining room, let them directly get the food to the side hall of the court, and ensure that every Aiqing has a simple meal, no need to be extravagant and wasteful, just eat it within a quarter of an hour." After speaking, Li Shanlan, Minister of Education, and Cheng Huancai, Vice Minister of Feng Yunshan's court, glanced at each other and said, "Next, I want to hear about the situation in the imperial court in terms of education. ”

Li Shanlan hurriedly sent out a loud report: "Your Majesty, as the focus of the five-year plan, the imperial court has always regarded the civilization and enlightenment of the people as an important task, and the Ministry of Education, with the assistance of various ministries of the imperial court, has basically built up the country's education system. Different education methods are adopted for people of different ages. For children under the age of 12, the Ministry of Education, in cooperation with the Ministry of Police and the Ministry of Agriculture, has set the objectives of the compulsory education system and adopted the Interim Regulations on the Compulsory Enrolment of School-age Children, which binds the people in the form of national law to send their children to basic primary schools for education, otherwise they will not only have to pay more food taxes, but also have their land cut off, and even the village head and neighbors will be jointly and severally fined. By the end of last year, more than 87 percent of children between the ages of 7 and 12 were enrolled in compulsory education, and the remaining 13 percent were in remote mountainous areas, grasslands, and deserts, mainly concentrated in Mongolia, Qinghai, Western Xinjiang, and the newly occupied Ninan Province, North Korea, and the northeast region. For other adult people, the form of tutoring for out-of-school people is mainly implemented in areas where conditions permit, and forms such as agricultural slack cram classes and night schools are widely carried out, and the "National Education Implementation Regulations" were promulgated in the fifth year of Taisheng to make more people literate. However, due to the lack of teachers and the resistance of the public, this area is not too ideal, and as of last year, the literacy rate of the adult population was less than 8%. ”

In addition to the army and weapons and equipment, Feng Yunshan is most concerned about education. Hearing Li Shanlan's recital, he was generally satisfied. The enrolment rate of school-age children is 87 per cent, and the adult literacy rate is close to 7 per cent, which may not seem like a good figure, but in reality, it is not easy to achieve such results with this staggering overall base. At the end of last year, the total population of the country was 451 million, 7-12 years old school-age children, Feng Yunshan knew that according to the sample sample, the proportion was roughly 7.5%, so it should be 33.82 million, according to the results of the Ministry of Education's statistics, the total number of children enrolled in school last year was about 28.747 million, so the proportion is about 85%, because the 33.82 million is the total number of school-age children estimated by the sample, therefore, this error is within the allowable range, it can be said that this proportion is normal.

As for adults, the literacy rate is close to 7%, which is a significant achievement from the base of 451 million people. The original literacy rate was difficult to achieve even 1 percent, but if it is increased to 7 percent, the actual number of literate people will reach 31.5 million, which is actually a huge number. Don't look at the proportion is not high, less than 7 percent, but this number is more than the total population of the United States or the United Kingdom at this time. It can be said that for every percentage increase, 4.5 million more people are literate, which is equivalent to the education of the entire population of a small European country, which is already a remarkable achievement. Therefore, Feng Yunshan is not in a hurry, the so-called century-old education, under his vigorous supervision and support, it is not easy to achieve today's point. After all, the foundation is too thin, and there are only so many literate people that in the relatively barren northwest region, the local local government even reported that the account offices that can read and settle accounts a little can be forcibly changed careers and sent to schools around the country to serve as teachers, just like that, there are still not many teachers, and even the teachers in the local school-age children's schools cannot be satisfied, let alone night schools for adults.

In the end, there was really no way, Feng Yunshan ordered that most of the students who could barely serve as teachers in Zhili, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liangguang, and Huguang, which were provinces with many old-fashioned scholars, and new-style schools, were sent to poor areas to teach. In the end, in desperation, the police bureau dispatched police divisions and sergeants to forcibly send these scholars or students in the new-style schools to various places to serve as teachers. Fortunately, it was agreed with them at that time, and in only a year or two, as long as they cooperated with the good teaching of reading and literacy, they would be given a generous subsidy, and they would be exempted from military service, and these forced teachers finally settled down.

In the past two years, with the rise of teacher training colleges in various places, the first batch of Imperial Normal University, Southern Normal University, East China Normal University, and so on have cultivated a number of three-year normal graduates, so the shortage of teachers has been alleviated. Of course, it is only the kind of relief on the surface: a junior school or a secondary school, assigning one or two normal graduates to teach, and the others are still some private school teachers and bookkeepers who make up the numbers temporarily, in fact, there is still a serious shortage of personnel, a class of students can not move hundreds of people, crowded into the auditorium to attend classes, and the teachers in charge of the class rotate every day, busy for more than ten hours, and there is no rest for several months.

At this time, there is no provision for single rest and double rest in later generations, but except for the traditional festivals such as Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Spring Festival, all the rest do not rest.

However, this will all slowly get better. With the graduation of the first batch of graduates of the teachers' colleges established in the provinces the year before last this summer, tens of thousands of teachers will be enriched into secondary and primary schools in various places, and those private school teachers and amateur bookkeepers will be replaced, and let them teach adult literacy in night schools, or return to their original lives, and the schools in various places will be enriched one after another. Otherwise, as in the previous two years, schools were built in various places, but there were no teachers in the school buildings, and only one teacher could teach everything in the field, but no matter how it was, it still had some effect, of course, this was mainly due to the various teaching materials published by the Ministry of Education.

These textbooks were originally the framework proposed by Feng Yunshan, and then he personally participated in the review one by one and revised them several times. For example, the language, of course, is not called a language like later generations, but adopts the name of the Republic of China: Chinese.

In order to compile a good set of Chinese textbooks, Feng Yunshan resolutely abandoned the criticized Chinese textbooks of later generations, but carefully recalled the Chinese textbooks of the Lower Republic of China period for reference. After all, the Chinese textbooks during the Republic of China period claimed to enable many people to support themselves and live in the chaotic society of the Republic of China just after finishing primary school. It has to be said that imitating the Chinese teaching materials during the Republic of China, the Department of Compulsory Education of the Ministry of Education completely followed Feng Yunshan's requirements. The font of the whole book is made of many famous calligraphers, the body is square, the pen is strong, rich in masculine beauty, and the whole book can even be used as a calligraphy copybook. The texts are illustrated in each lesson, using traditional Chinese freehand techniques, only black and white, but they are rich in the charm of Chinese ink painting, rather than blindly copying Western textbooks and not learning the old-fashioned vertical Chinese. Of course, the most important thing is that it reflects Feng Yunshan's original request: Chinese textbooks should pay attention to cultivating children's national and patriotic hearts from an early age, and teach them Chinese virtues. In this way, the texts are not traditional preaching, but there are daily words full of life, and they are accompanied by vivid and simple illustrations and illustrations, which play a role in moisturizing things silently. Feng Yunshan believes that nearly 30 million school-age children, after a few years, after the compulsory education of the school, even if they do not continue to study, can quickly integrate into society and become independent and self-employed, patriotic and promising people.