In the end, Li Xiu still didn't tell Princess Pingyang about the ship sent back by Li Chengdao, but reluctantly passed it perfunctorily under the pretext that he was thinking about the school. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoA few days later, the school finally began to officially enroll, and it was ready to start after the Shangyuan Festival.

Early this morning, Li Xiu came to the school to sit in town, today is the tenth day of the new year, and it is also the day of the school's official enrollment, the enrollment information has been spread out as early as the New Year, and a few days ago he also officially sent someone to notify the surrounding Zhuangzi, these days the surrounding villagers are also discussing the matter of children going to school.

Tian Chip has also taken office, officially serving as the head of the school, in addition to him, there are more than a dozen newly recruited scholars, they are the first batch of gentlemen in the school, most of these scholars are not young, many people have participated in several imperial examinations, but they are all named Sun Shan, which makes them feel that the imperial examination is hopeless, it just so happens that Li Xiu is recruiting Mr. here, and the treatment is good, so in the years ago, these gentlemen have been recruited.

After breakfast, Tian Chip and these gentlemen moved the table out and lined up in the open space in front of the school, ready to welcome the students who came to sign up, and Li Xiu also gave the school a very appropriate name, called Xinzhu Primary School, after all, this was originally Xinzhu County, of course, the key to such a name is that Li Xiu is lazy, after all, the last time in order to name his daughter was enough for him to have a headache.

At the beginning, there were a lot of students who came to sign up, there were a lot of people around each table, most of them were parents with their children to sign up, and the form of registration was also very simple, only need to register which village the students are in, what is the name, but most of the parents of these children have no culture, and the names they take are also strange, what are the names of the two dogs, cows, etc., and they don't care, in fact, many children from poor families have no serious names, and when they go to private school, The private school teachers will give them an official name.

Li Xiu has also been observing the children who came to sign up today, and found that the children who came to school were all boys, and they couldn't even see a girl, which made him shake his head helplessly, although when he let people inform him before, he said that both men and women can come to school, but the atmosphere of Datang is still not as good as that of later generations, and no one dares to send their daughters to school, after all, this is in the era of Datang, it can be called a big rebellion.

In fact, this is not surprising, the status of men and women in ancient society was very different, even in the Tang Dynasty, which was known as the open, the right to education has always been in the hands of men, although some aristocratic women will also receive some education, it is mostly for the cultivation of their character, not for the sake of making contributions in the future like men.

Women really enjoy the right to education, or the Republic of China period, and it was still the Central Plains in a thousand years of great changes, and by the impact of foreign trends, this has made women's social status improved, Datang is now stable and strong, it is even more difficult to make major changes in society, Li Xiu alone can not change the atmosphere of the entire society in a short period of time, so he has no way to do this.

However, these people who signed up didn't last long, many people went to the school to visit after registering, and then left, but the queue for registration became smaller and smaller, and when it was almost noon, there were not many people who came to sign up, which made Li Xiu also surprised, and then stepped forward to Tian Chip and asked: "Tian Shanchang, how many people have signed up now?" ”

"Qiyu Concubine, there are a total of 376 children who have signed up now, but it's a bit strange." Tian Chip immediately reported it, but at the end he showed a puzzled expression.

"What's weird?" When Li Xiu heard that there were only more than three hundred people, he frowned at the moment and said, there are at least dozens of surrounding villages, although these villages are not big, like Li Zhuangzi only has a dozen households, and there are only one or two hundred households, but so many villages together, I am afraid that the number of children must be at least a few thousand, but now there are only more than three hundred people who have signed up, which is too little.

"Pony, just look at the registration list." At this time, Tian Chip sent the list he had just sorted out to Li Xiu and said.

At that moment, Li Xiu took it and looked at it, and found that the list was registered with the names and addresses of the registered students, although the names were messy, but there was nothing, but when he saw the address, he frowned slightly, because seventy or eighty percent of the students who signed up were from Wuzhizhuang, and there were very few students from other Zhuangzi who came to sign up.

"How so?" Li Xiu couldn't help frowning at this time and said, although he also expected that many poor families might not send their children to the school, because many children can also help with some work at home, but in order to attract these children, not only does the school not charge money, but also has a free lunch, such a generous condition should be able to attract many children to go to school, right?

As for so many children from Wuzhizhuang to sign up, Li Xiu was not surprised, first, Wuzhizhuang were all veterans who had retired from the Women's Army, they all followed the caravan to do things, the remuneration was very good, and they didn't have to farm and work, so the children in the family were idle, and they came to school to save worry and effort. Of course, this also has a lot to do with Ma Ye's help, after all, as long as Ma Ye gives an order, almost all the school-age children in Wuzhizhuang are sent.

"Donkey, why are almost all the children who come to sign up from the same Zhuangzi, and there are very few students from other Zhuangzi who come to sign up?" Tian Chip had just taken office for a few days, and he was not familiar with the surrounding situation, so he also asked Li Xiu strangely at this time.

Li Xiu was also thinking about this matter at this time, and explained it to him with a wry smile at the moment, which made Tian Chip suddenly realize. At this moment, Li Xiu suddenly saw Boss Liu with more than a dozen children to sign up, these children Li Xiu knew, all of them were the children of the Li family Zhuangzi, and it seemed that the entire Zhuangzi children were brought by him.

"Uncle Liu, why are you here so late, I thought you weren't coming just now." When Li Xiu saw Boss Liu, he immediately stepped forward to greet him.

"Master, you are doing a great deed for us tenants, how can I not come, you see, I have brought the children of the whole Zhuangzi!" Boss Liu said and pointed to the children behind him, of course, these children are boys, in the eyes of Boss Liu, girls will marry someone else sooner or later, so they are not people in Zhuangzi at all, even if they live well now, but girls can only be fed and clothed, and it is still impossible to go to school.

Li Xiu immediately arranged for these children to sign up, and then he pulled Boss Liu to the side and asked: "Uncle Liu, I built this school mainly for the tenants in the family, but most of the people who came to sign up today are people from Wuzhizhuang, and there are very few real tenants, what is the reason for this?" ”

Just now Li Xiu realized that he was thinking too simply, thinking that the school could attract the children of the tenants to go to school for free, but he didn't expect the reality to slap him, which also made him finally remember to ask Boss Liu for advice, although Boss Liu is not short of money now, but his thinking is no different from those poor tenants, so he will definitely be able to give himself an answer.

"It turns out that the main family wanted to ask about this, but in fact, if the school was not built by the main family, I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to send the children in the Zhuangzi in." Boss Liu smiled at this time.

"Why, not only does the school not need money, but also provides a lunch, and they can read and write here, why don't they want to come to such a good thing?" Li Xiu asked very puzzled when he heard this.

"Master, you are wrong, it's because it's so good, that's why they don't dare ......to come," Boss Liu smiled bitterly at this time, and then explained to Li Xiu, which also made him finally understand the thoughts of these tenants.

It turned out that most of the tenants didn't dare to come, it was really because the conditions of the school were too good, and they didn't charge money and took care of the food, which made the tenants feel that there was no such good thing in the world? In contrast, if Li Xiu collects some tuition, more people will be willing to send their children here.

"That's it?" After listening to Boss Liu's explanation, Li Xiu also said with some tears and laughter at the moment, he didn't expect that the conditions of the school were too good and would scare people.

"That's not all, the lord you built this school with a good intention, because you want the tenants' children to read and write, but it takes time to read, the tenants' children can top half an adult at home, cutting pigweed, collecting firewood and other work are done by these children, if they go to school, there will be fewer people in the family to work."

When he said this, he saw Boss Liu smile a little embarrassedly, and then continued: "In addition, there are many people who think that the children of our tenant families can farm as long as they have the strength to farm, and this kind of thing is not something we can do, in fact, I used to think so, but Su Niang scolded me that day, so today I sent all the children in the Zhuangzi." ”

After listening to Boss Liu's explanations, Li Xiu finally understood, in fact, to sum up Boss Liu's words, the tenants' reluctance to send their children to study is nothing more than three reasons:

The first is the distrust of the school, I can't believe that such a good thing will fall on my head, the second is that I want my children to help the family work, and the third is that they don't pay attention to knowledge, in other words, they are ignorant, after all, their ancestors have never read a book, and there are very few people who really understand the phrase "knowledge changes fate", of course, it is not nothing, such as those few who send their children to the family.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu couldn't help but smile bitterly, but then asked Boss Liu: "Uncle Liu, I really want the tenants' children to study, whether it will be beneficial to Datang or themselves in the future, I wonder if there is any way for you to let the tenants send their children to study?" ”