The right of underage girls to receive education cannot be sacrificed, and the only thing Dai Yan can consider is to reduce the number of years of education that children receive. As for the final years of free and compulsory education www.biquge.info Dai Yan thought about the final period of free and compulsory education, and after consulting with the officials of Taoqiu, he finally set it at four years.

After four years of free compulsory primary education, all students will be tested uniformly, and a third of the outstanding students will be able to continue four years of secondary education. The rest of the students are left to fend for themselves.

Even though Dai Yan has reduced the length of primary school and set strict rules for the selection of secondary schools, the finances are still unable to meet the requirements. Especially in the first few years of education, its investment will definitely be the largest!

Because it is just starting to run education, there are currently the largest number of children between the ages of 6 and 12 in Taoqiu, and these people will go to school together, and the whole Taoqiu needs to build more than 20 new primary schools in a short period of time.

This first places a requirement on the number of teachers. Fortunately, after so many years, Dai Yan has communicated with the Mo family and the peasant family, so that the number of these two schools has been greatly improved! With the existence of disciples from the Mo family and the peasant family, the problem of teachers can be regarded as solved for the time being.

However, in order to balance the power of the various schools in Taoqiu, Dai Yan also had to establish a new normal school, so that each school could cultivate teachers, so that each school could still maintain balance in the next generation.

And the hardware measures of the school, the construction of more than 20 schools at the same time, if Dai Yan completely uses the wealth in his hands to do it, it is not impossible to do it. However, in that case, the payment of the salaries of the entire Taoqiu officials, the allocation of various scientific research, the investment in the army, and the construction of the basic infrastructure of Taoqiu will be greatly affected! A lot of big projects will just get to a standstill!

It is impossible for Dai Yan to stop the entire Taoqiu just because he wants to run education!

So he thought of borrowing money. In China's history, when the government came to "borrow" money, it never really borrowed money, but directly apportioned it, and Dai Yan did not want to use this way of killing chickens and eggs to raise money. As the saying goes, if you borrow and you repay, it is not difficult to borrow again, but if you use apportionment, which is similar to robbery, it will be really difficult to borrow money in the future.

After being silent for a period of time, Dai Yan did another major event on the Taoqiu Exchange: issuing bonds.

Dai Yan issued 50 million yuan of Yifu education bonds to the entire Taoqiu. The bonds have an interest rate of 20% per annum and will be repaid gradually over five years.

In Dai Yan's mind, bonds are guaranteed by him personally, which can be regarded as a financial instrument with stable returns, and should be very popular in the entire Taoqiu market, right? However, to his surprise, once the bonds issued by the Yi government were issued, they quickly cooled down in the market, and only a few people were interested!

Dai Yan was extremely depressed about this, and later found a good businessman to inquire privately, and he learned about the concerns of these businessmen.

Thanks to the economic development of Taoqiu over the years, all walks of life are extremely prosperous, and the industry in the hands of businessmen has long exceeded 20% of the annual income, and the annual interest rate of 20% of the bonds, they really don't have much interest!

And Dai Yan's previous establishment of Taoqiu University also gave businessmen a bad start. Although in Dai Yan's view, the establishment of Taoqiu University is a major event that is beneficial to the entire Taoqiu and even all businessmen, but most businessmen have not been able to see the benefits from it. They began to support Dai Yan, and it was just a habitual return.

Moreover, the establishment of an institution such as Taoqiu University was also due to the fact that businessmen valued the professors in the university. If this university produces a few talents like Zhang Yi in the future and becomes the face of a great country in the future, their investment will be considered to be rewarded. But what does investing in building a primary school do? In the eyes of the merchants, this is a thing that does not make any profit at all!

When Dai Yan saw this scene, there was no way, he wanted to scold these businessmen for forgetting their righteousness for profit, and even wanted to raise money through tough means, but after thinking about it for a long time, he finally endured it.

Subsequently, in order to sell the education bonds, Dai Yan directly guaranteed this bond with the income of the Taoqiu Exchange, and with such a mandatory guarantee, the creditor does not have to worry about the problem of not being able to repay the debt when it expires!

Subsequently, Dai Yan instructed Taoqiu Daily, and even several newspapers controlled by the Yi government, to launch a huge public opinion propaganda work throughout Taoqiu!

He wants to let the whole Taoqiu know his determination to run education, and let them know that running education is not for him to speak for himself, but for Taoqiu's future!

Dai Yan even published an article in the newspaper himself: "I have a dream, and I hope that in the future, all young people in Taoqiu can have a meaningful childhood through education." I dream that one day, the descendants of the humble people of Taoqiu will be able to change their destiny through education. I dream that in the future, as long as the children of Taoqiu are willing to work hard and struggle, they will be able to become the mainstay of the entire Taoqiu, and even the backbone of the Song Kingdom! ”

In the face of this affectionate call of the lord of Taoqiu, those common people who felt that they were dispensable for the first time began to be truly excited! The merchants were reluctant to buy the bonds, they took out their only net worth, bought these education bonds one by one at a price of a few hundred or a thousand dollars, and finally ate all the bonds of 50 million yuan!

Dai Yan used the latest printing press to print a picture of a child at his desk being taught by a teacher, where he worked hard to practice calligraphy.

In this era, reading and writing was still a sign of nobility, and the common people of Taoqiu also saw hope in this simple picture: My children can also become nobles in the future.

This issuance of bonds made Dai Yan disillusioned with businessmen for the first time, he knew that sometimes it was impossible to really make these businessmen obey their orders just by relying on wooing and sharing benefits, and sometimes they must also support opponents who made them pay attention!

Therefore, when the Mo family formed a society similar to the later trade union among the workers of Taoqiu, and began to confront the bourgeoisie composed of merchants, Dai Yan adopted a tacit attitude. Soon, the two-party political situation composed of the two major factions in Taoqiu gradually took shape, and Dai Yan no longer completely sided with the businessmen, but began to control the situation of the entire Taoqiu as an arbiter.

With such a huge amount of money, Dai Yan quickly approved the construction plan for the first phase of 10 primary schools. Most of these ten primary schools will be relatively evenly distributed throughout the Taoqiu area, in the Taoqiu City, most of the houses occupied by the original rangers in Taoqiu, after the living environment of Taoqiu has been improved, Dai Yan will move out of the common people, and then tear down all these houses, and re-use bricks and stones and even steel to build a solid campus!

Dai Yan attaches great importance to the quality of the school, because it is directly related to the future of the next generation in Taoqiu! He sent the most demanding craftsmen of the Mo family to carry out the acceptance, and he would trouble the contractor if he was unqualified at all!

Such a huge investment in education soon led to a huge increase in the demand for masonry and cement produced throughout the pottery mound, and many people began to enter the industry again. After the completion of infrastructure construction, the school purchased desks, books, pen, ink, paper, inkstones, etc. in large quantities, which also made the rapid development of Taoqiu-related industries!

For the entire Taoqiu, this kind of unintentional investment in education is actually a disguised stimulus to the economy!

When the first schools were finally built, the compulsory education law for the entire Taoqiu was promulgated. This decree stipulates that all Taoqiu subjects, whether rich or poor, with children between the ages of 6 and 12, must be sent to school to receive compulsory education provided by the Yi government. Anyone who disobeys will be fined hefty to the parents by the Taoqiuyi Mansion!

There have always been relatively few such strongly-worded mandatory decrees in Taoqiu, which makes the hearts of those few parents who have other thoughts beat a drum in their hearts. After the implementation of the compulsory education law, Taoqiuyi Mansion continued to dig deeper, and indeed found a few parents who refused to send their children to school, and Dai Yan immediately gave severe punishment!

However, on the whole, the implementation of the compulsory education law in Taoqiu has received far more support than opposition! Parents are not fools after all, and of course they know that reading and writing in school is extremely beneficial to their children, parents themselves, and even their families!

And the implementation of such a decree also caused a shock in the entire area around Taoqiu. Especially the nobles of the surrounding countries, when they heard that Dai Yan, the king of Taoqiu, was teaching his people to read and write for free by borrowing money, they all expressed their appreciation for Taoqiu's behavior.

The Lu country around Taoqiu, which prides itself on being the state that inherits the Zhou rites, naturally does not want to be left behind in education! Soon, Lu Jinggong, the monarch of the Lu State, called on Confucian students and scholars from all over the country to go to Qufu and began to discuss the policy of implementing the compulsory education law. However, with the fact that most of the wealth of Lu is concentrated in the hands of local wealthy families, Lu Jinggong does not have much money in his hands, and the territory of Lu is far larger than the city of Taoqiu, Lu can only implement a simple three-year compulsory education law near the capital Qufu.

And in the Teng country near Fengyi, what he did was much stronger than the Lu country. Teng used to have the assistance of farmers, plus during the reign of Teng Wengong, the monarch was wise and virtuous, although Teng was a small country, but the wealth of its people was indeed far from being comparable to that of Lu. Teng's territory is only fifty miles, unlike Lu, which has a relatively large area, so Teng quickly implemented a compulsory education law covering the whole country, and like Taoqiu, it is four years of compulsory primary education!

Other small countries in the surrounding areas, such as Wei and Zou, as well as Shanyang Jun of Wei, have implemented compulsory education of varying degrees in their territories, and compulsory education has gradually become the standard configuration of surrounding small countries. The surrounding powers, such as Qi, Wei, Zhao, and even Song, directly ignored such a decree. The reason for this is also very simple: if a large country has excess wealth, wouldn't it be better to spend it on the country's army, so why spend this money to teach the mud-legged people to read?

And the first place to promote compulsory education, Taoqiu is also highly praised by the surrounding bachelors! Mencius, the Confucian leader who originally had a dispute with Dai Yan, even praised Dai Yan in public in the Jixia School Palace for implementing "benevolent government", which is the beginning of the royal road!