In his previous life, he developed the habit of working from 9 to 5 in the morning, although the office was located in the front lobby and the second hall, Yang Lin still maintained this good habit.

Unlike the officials in the previous life, who were close to everything, and now that a number of functional departments have been established, after determining the general direction, the daily affairs are basically handed over to the departments, and Yang Lin is simply responsible for coordinating major affairs.

After nearly four months of busyness, nearly 300,000 taels of silver and 500,000 quintals of grain were spent, the problem of displaced people was basically solved, the abandonment of land was gradually decreasing, the localities were becoming more and more stable, and the whole of Sichuan showed the appearance of great governance.

Although the money spent during the period is like flowing water, but the situation has finally reversed, according to everyone's estimates, if the next two years are smooth, Sichuan will end the turmoil since the Chongzhen years.

Everyone thought that they could breathe a sigh of relief, but there were many incidents in government affairs, and they must not be able to make people worry.

The first thing to encounter is the township test, since the end of Chongzhen, the world has been disturbed, although Zhang Xianzhong has also held a township test, but the Ming Dynasty has not yet held a township test.

Now that Sichuan Province has recovered, many students are eagerly looking forward to the imperial court holding the imperial examination in order to realize the wish of leaping into the dragon gate.

Yang Lin seems to be confident, thinking that now he has just suffered a military disaster, the place is dilapidated, many families have no surplus food, if the township test is held in the provincial capital, the surrounding area is fine, if the road is far away, you need to borrow money and grain from the rich, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but unchanged.

The main purpose of the imperial examination is to select people with both ability and political integrity for the imperial court.

Nowadays, township offices have been established in the local area, and public schools have been gradually established in various prefectures and counties in Xinguangfu, so that those who have learned well and are dedicated to benefiting the local community can also come out to do things.

Some people may think that they are talented and difficult to display in the local area, but they can also go to the provincial capital to take the military training school and government affairs school to benefit the local area in the future.

In the past, the Loyalty Hall was set up in the army to train grassroots military personnel, but now the scale of the Volunteer Army has been greatly expanded, and it is necessary to continue to study and study in order to temper the ability to lead the soldiers.

The so-called government affairs school completely draws on the experience of Zhongyongtang in the past, and conducts training in batches for all township mayors in the province, or officials above the head of the sixth house, so as to summarize and cultivate the actual government affairs ability.

Saying a thousand things and ten thousand, and explaining them all over the place, anyway, the current conditions for the imperial examination are not yet mature.

I thought that everyone would be happy to surrender, but for a long time, Qian Bangxin shook his head and said: "My lord, you, you have changed the ancestral system a little, you are ruling the country with officials."

The Yuan Dynasty implemented the rule of officials, and in the end the country was made into a miasma by these small officials. ”

Yang Lin was stunned in his heart, and the whole person looked quite aggrieved, shaking his head and saying: "According to the inspector, you have misunderstood, how can you rule the country with officials?"

I am suspending a session of the imperial examination, hoping that those people of insight will enrich the officials, everyone knows that I am in the name of the Ming Dynasty to implement the co-governance of the gentry and gentry, according to the inspector and the adults have been more local officials, thousands of miles for the officials to come to the place, both ends of the black, to understand the local public opinion, it is even more difficult, so it is just to give many rural officials a chance.

In such a place, the nominal co-governance of the officials and gentry actually became the co-governance of officials, officials, and squires, and some of the more radical ones were said to be completely ruled by the officials. ”

In addition to Yin Chengqi's concierge, most of the others here are well-educated people, and some have even been magistrates and have been deceived by officials.

When it comes to the endangerment of the officials, there is no end to it.

Although everyone still holds the ancient concept of learning and excelling, it is undeniable that the importance of the training of small officials is not admitted, so that they can pass the test a little.

Wave after wave of unsettled, just the imperial examination was dragged over, but then the Department of Education Xu Confucius complained bitterly, and the implementation of public schools was not funded enough.

In ancient times, private school education was implemented, and wealthy families, local noble families, and middle-class families often saved money and hired private school teachers to educate the children of the clan, hoping to be able to read and write and understand things, and expected the best of the clan to be able to take the imperial examination of the vast lintel of the high school.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were many private school schools in various places, and some townships (fields) often had more than ten private school teachers open and teach, which obviously caused a waste of resources.

Let's take a look at each school, a private school teacher with more than a dozen students with a huge age difference, everyone has a huge age difference, and their knowledge and opinions are completely different, how can they teach according to their aptitude?

Yang Lin often lamented that if a central primary school was established in the bazaar and a primary school in the surrounding villages, as was done in the previous life, the history of private school education would be ended.

In the first year of Longwu (1645 AD), the volunteers entered Shunqing Mansion and were scolded for forcibly levying taxes such as merchants, customs and mining income.

In addition to the necessary personnel expenses, the surplus money and grain are used to build water conservancy, roads and bridges, and to open public schools.

I thought this was a good thing, but Pandora's box was opened, and only now did I realize that it was a bottomless pit.

From ancient times to the present, Chinese attach great importance to education, and now I have heard that the government subsidizes the establishment of central schools, just like many swarm sports in previous lives, and local governments have responded.

In Shunqing Mansion, Tongchuan Prefecture, Bazhou, Dazhou and other places, the local squires took the lead, and the government followed closely behind, and everyone rebuilt some idle temples and Taoist temples into new-style schools to recruit children from the countryside to go to school.

In just one and a half years, more than 100 new public schools have been established in Sichuan Province, and the trend will intensify in the future.

Ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, this is a major event of a century-old plan and a thousand-year plan, and everyone dare not be sloppy.

Xu Kongtu talked eloquently, and said vigorously that the local finance was surprised, and hoped that the provincial government would come up with money and grain subsidies.

Over the past year, although he knew that the public school was in full swing, but now when he heard Xu Confucius say this, Yang Lin was also quite interested, looked at the other party and said with a smile: "Senator Xu, in the past, some people often scolded me behind my back, saying that the merchants and merchants were assigned to the mines, and the wine were taxed, and now there are still people scolding like this?" ”

Everyone burst into laughter, and Xu Kongtu shook his head and said, "My lord, don't talk about ordinary people in the past, including the lower officials, they often complained, thinking that you offended the local squire.

Not to mention anything else, take the merchant endowment as an example, in the past, those ruffians in the bazaar did not accept it, and they collected more than the government.

The adults collected all these people's fat and people's ointment, and then returned them to the ordinary people through various channels, which really responded to this sentence taken from the people and the people.

But now the local government has to build water conservancy, roads and bridges, and the local government wants to open public schools, all of which require money.

My lord, this time we robbed the Haoge camp, and with money and food, can you readjust the division method? ”

Yang Lin shook his head and said, "Everyone, although I was born in poverty and didn't see any silver taels when I was a child, I don't think I'm a miser.

Now that the Tartars have entered the Central Plains and occupied the two capitals in the north and south of China, they will expel the Tartars and restore China in the future, and there will be many places where money will be needed in the future.

Our volunteers have won successive battles, and have robbed Zhang Xianzhong's Haoge camp successively, intercepting about 4 million taels of silver, but there are many places to spend money.

The three armies were rewarded, 300,000 taels were spent before and after, and the military was insufficient, and 700,000 taels were extracted from them.

This time, 800,000 taels were used to settle the displaced people and stabilize prices.

The remaining is only two million taels, which is mainly used as a monetary reserve, and it is necessary to deal with natural and man-made disasters.

In the past few years, there has been a shortage of wars, and in many places the money and grain cannot be collected at all. ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and after a long time, Xu Confucius asked: "My lord, since money and food are tight, can this public school be suspended?" ”

Yang Lin looked quite pained, and looked at everyone: "Everyone, we are all readers, of course we know the importance of reading.

Reading mainly opens our minds and enables us to better understand things.

In the past, everyone thought that they could not study if they were as ignorant as a village man and as reckless as a sergeant in the army, but in the past few months, I have led troops to fight, and I have realized that it is a big mistake.

Whether it is training, combat, battlefield casualties, the number of enemies killed, etc., a slightly knowledgeable unit is far stronger than other troops.

Since the local government is keen to establish public schools, we must not abandon it, we must steadily implement it, and we must use social forces to implement it. ”

In the next few years, we came up with many ways to implement public schools, including local solicitation funds, local gentry funding... and other ways to steadily establish public schools.

At the same time as the construction of the public school, the government school and the lecture hall are also in full swing.

First of all, it is the government affairs school, and the enrollment scope is mostly officials such as township heads and directors of six houses, which are selected by the local government and carried out rotation training in batches.

In ancient times, private school education mostly taught the Four Books and Five Classics, and many people were born with talents, and their ancient literary skills far exceeded those of ordinary college students in previous lives.

However, ancient Chinese education attached great importance to social science education and despised natural science education.

The teaching courses mainly include ancient traditional arithmetic, geometric principles just introduced from the West, basic natural knowledge, basic financial management knowledge, basic water conservancy knowledge, and the way of officials, etc., with a semester of one year.

The lecture hall is a training school for middle and senior generals established on the basis of the Zhongyong Hall, which mainly includes various military arts and formations, Sun Tzu's art of war and other military books of the past dynasties, various weapon combinations, strategy and tactics, army organization, etc.

Some draw on the works of their predecessors, such as Sun Tzu's Art of War, military training records, etc.

Some have adopted new textbooks, such as strategy and tactics, army organization, and so on.

As long as I have time, I will go to the school every once in a while to discuss current affairs with everyone.