The cost of knowledge stems from the difficulty with which it is transmitted.

For example, bamboo slips are more difficult to spread than books.

For example, engraving printing is more difficult than movable type printing.

For example, the logistics and affluence of the most difficult key nodes at this time.

In this era, people like Wang Dali want to learn to read and read, and only have their own family heirlooms.

Why do you say that the status of farmers is higher than that of merchants?

Please, that's just to say, the farmers they are talking about are not peasants but out-and-out peasant landlords.

The status of a landlord is certainly higher than that of a merchant.

If you are a landless peasant, it is not normal for the poor to be despised by the rich?

What's more, at this time, the poor are like mud legs in their eyes, and they can discard and despise goods at will.

Even the rulers don't want these mud-legged people to gain knowledge, but just want them to work hard and farm and farm and farm every day in order to survive for themselves.

To put it in a simple chicken soup for the soul, that is, the sheep herding child is to build a cave, and then marry a wife and have children, and the son who is born continues to herd sheep.

"Knowledge and science can make a lot of things more efficient, and efficiency can give people a lot of advantages!" Li Hang continued to speak slowly.

Efficiency is actually very easy to understand, and at this time, even Ying Yun is a little confused.

He sighed and took out what he had prepared.

"This is a new kind of plough stick, this kind of curved plough stick can effectively improve efficiency, and can plow the land very easily, the most important thing is that even if you do not cooperate with the ploughing ox, one person can do the things of two people, and if you cooperate with the ploughing ox, one person can plow more land with one ox. And that's not counting the effect of the waterwheel, how much do you think they will benefit from this knowledge once it is developed? Li Hang said slowly.

"It's not enough to have you, what those people learn to do, these things should be learned by those talents!" Ying Yun said as a matter of course.

What the limitations of this era!

Li Hang sighed helplessly, at this time they still didn't understand that knowledge could only begin to unfold gradually when it was combined with practical work.

In order to be able to organically put this knowledge into practical life, if there is no relevant experience, or there is no urgent need, I am afraid that these people will not do these innovative designs.

It can be said that the progress of the entire human race is driven by demand.

No matter how powerful Li Hang is, it is only for a while, even if he has a thousand years of knowledge, he always has his own shortcomings.

But if this knowledge is disseminated, stimulated by these practical needs, those people will start to do these things on their own, and they will even start to innovate themselves driven by their own needs.

At this time, even Ying Yun didn't understand, and Li Hang didn't know what to say, after all, Ying Yun was one of the first people to contact him and knew him well, and the person who was most affected by himself, even if Ying Qi was just eating and playing with himself, if he really wanted to say that he was affected, he was at most slightly interested in military affairs, unlike Ying Yun, who was affected in all directions.

"Ying Yun, let me ask you, if it weren't for your need, would you do something very carefully?"

After thinking about it, Ying Yun shook his head. "Why would I do this if I don't have to?"

"That's right! Only people will do it when they need it, such as these craftsmen, when they need more comfortable tools, they will think about making new tools to cope with the current situation, such as drills and blowers, they can make these things according to experience when they don't have the knowledge, if they learn the knowledge of the system, they can design and manufacture more efficient equipment. And this uplift ......"

"As long as it is promoted nationwide, the overall efficiency can be improved!" Ying Yun was taken aback!

If this is really as Li Hang said, dividing these things, wouldn't it lead to the improvement of the whole country?

Or the pursuit of knowledge for the whole country.

But this is ......

Confucianism will not let Li Hang go!

No matter how much they mastered the knowledge, Confucianism still mastered the way to become officials at this time.

It can be said that Confucianism is orthodoxy, and Confucianism is the thing that rules everything.

"In this way, Confucianism will not let you go!"

"Not necessarily! What if His Majesty asks for "Nongsang" to be added to the assessment? ”

Although the book "Nongsang" is not yet comprehensive, it is obviously very suitable for grassroots officials.

There is also the book "Emergency Response", which is also very suitable for these grassroots officials.

"One of these two books is the basis of agriculture, and the other is to deal with all emergencies, once these situations arise, they can directly follow the map, if Your Majesty wants, directly add these to the assessment, and these so-called scholars will also begin to learn my things. Even if they disdain it, as long as they want to be officials, they must memorize it, and when the time comes, they will never forget it. They'll remember it all when they use it! "Even if they don't admit it, they're learning their own science.

Even if they despise it, they remember it firmly in their minds.

It's the same as the high school knowledge of later generations.

Even if you say that you will not use these geometry, functions, physics, chemistry, and biology knowledge in your life, as long as you pass the college entrance examination, you will remember some of it for the rest of your life.

Even if you don't need it now, when you see something, you immediately remember it.

Like dust explosions, like parabolas in certain games, etc., etc., these are like imprints in the depths of your mind.

"They won't deal with me, on the contrary, they will beg me to pass on this knowledge, once these ordinary people have mastered the way of literacy, it will also be good for them, of course, the competitive pressure has become greater, after all, now is the best time to test." Li Hang smiled, at this time, let alone winning, even the craftsmen on the side were stupid.

What is detected?

"The sentence of educating the world, in the end, is it what they say, or is it sincere!"

Li Hang said slowly.

If it is a real great Confucian, a real person who is dedicated to the country, they will definitely understand their own approach, and even encourage themselves to do so, and only when the literacy rate is high can they help the promotion of Confucianism, and only then can they achieve the cause that their ideal saints have not completed in their lives: to educate the world, if they just want to weaken their competitors, then they will come to Li Hang's trouble.

This kind of person does not mean that your knowledge is different from theirs, and they will boycott you, but they are worried that more people will learn to read and write, and more candidates will emerge and steal their opportunities.

This is the same as the so-called urban people in later generations crowding out the rural people, thinking that they have robbed them of their opportunities.

Are the real masters afraid? They are not afraid at all, the more people in a city, it means more opportunities, it is precisely those who are at the lower level, they are afraid of this, they will not be flexible, they will not look for opportunities, they are just blindly worried.