"There is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book!"

"Everything is inferior, only reading is high!"

For thousands of years, almost all Chinese have known these two sentences, even under the "prosperous era" of Manchu enslavement, those people who did not have enough food and "ate chaff and drank thin" once pinned their fate on reading. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Reading, for the vast majority of people, is a luxury!

Even if there is a saying that "poor literature and rich martial arts", ordinary people can't afford to read. For the vast majority of people, reading has always been an unattainable dream.

"Send me to the familiar hall"

Since he was a child, Ah Yue proposed it to his father once. And his father looked at him, and then only replied softly:

"Home...... I don't have any money at home! ”

Yes, the family has no money, not only no money to buy paper and pencils, but also no money to send them to the familiar hall as a "bundle".

"When the family is better in the future, let's study again......"

For their family, whose family is only a few thin fields, reading is simply a distant dream.

If you don't study, it doesn't mean that you will give up your yearning for reading, although the family is poor, but because of the proximity to the town, so the young Ah Yue will always squeeze into the bookstall to listen to people's stories, and also remember some of the more famous words "Since ancient times, heroes have suffered a lot, and they have never been a great man", as well as "You are poor people to always be poor, but you will not be out of the woods." ”

If you are poor, you will be able to change. Although his family is poor, Ah Yueyue will always secretly persuade himself in his heart.

"Ah Yue! Since you want to get ahead, you can change it by studying in the future......"

This sentence, he said from the age of seven to the age of fourteen, for seven years, but the family is still poor and can't open the pot, and his father still can't take out the "bundle", and he himself is also to supplement the family, and he goes to the inn as a buddy, earning a few hangings a month - this is because his family is from the same clan, and the reason why he is smart is because among the teenagers of the same age in the village, he is literate, although he only knows three or four hundred words, and most of them can recognize or write.

But even so, in the shop, he slowly recognized some words from the shopkeeper, and by the time he was twelve years old,

However, after the Chinese Dynasty established its capital in Nanjing, it immediately stated that "it is a great task of the government today to choose the rules of civilized nations and gradually revitalize the schools of the whole country." He also announced that he would achieve "no one in the city who does not learn, and no one in the family who does not learn". At the same time, what the scholars learned in the past fell behind overnight, and the future self-cultivation and career must use Western knowledge.

When all this was opened, it seemed to have no effect on Ah Yue, when he was a man in the inn, in addition to boiling water and feeding horses, he could also see some newspapers read by outsiders, and he could also see the school mentioned in the newspaper, and he could see the school that didn't cost money.

"If only one day, there would be a school here that doesn't cost money......"

Ah Yue has been looking forward to this, he is looking forward to the school that does not require money to open to the town, and then he can enter the school, and then change his destiny through learning in the school. However, he did not completely pin his hopes here, he has been saving money, and in a few years, he has saved three or four oceans, but he is still far from studying.

That is, when hope was about to be shattered, Ah Yue heard some rumors - the town was going to build a school without tuition.

In the first year of Kaihong, education was given top priority in a series of work carried out by the new imperial government. In March of the first year of Kaihong, like other places, Yingzhou Prefecture first set up a provincial primary school, which is a model school for compulsory education.

"The children of the government are not limited to farmers, businessmen and businessmen, and can be enrolled", not only are tuition fees exempted, but even books, pen, ink, paper, and inkstones are paid by the government. Four months later, another one opened, and in September a new one was opened. The locations are located inside and outside the city, so that there are a total of three primary schools in Yingzhou Prefecture.

However, with a population of millions and hundreds of thousands of school-age children, a few schools alone are not enough. As soon as he took office, he launched a huge plan to build 265 new schools, opening 37 schools the following year on the basis of the previous three.

However, the number of teachers is insufficient.

If the number of teachers is not enough, then recruit and train! Perhaps in the Yingzhou Mansion for hundreds of years, culture and education were not prosperous, there were not a few people in the hundreds of years, and there were not many talents, but there were still so many scholars, so they pulled the young people among them to the normal training, just like other regions, and compared with other provinces, Nanzhili naturally has relatively sufficient education funds - after all, Nanzhili can get more special funds for education, after all, Nanzhili is the land under the feet of the Son of Heaven.

That is, in September of the second year of Kaihong, before the prefect was transferred, he achieved his goal and set up 265 schools in Yingzhou Mansion, and Huji, where Ah Yue was located, also built a primary school hall naturally.

The school does not need to pay tuition, and even the books and pen, ink, paper and inkstone are paid by the government, that is, the government, as the newspaper says, which is something that has never been done for thousands of years, but even so, people are still watching, just when people are watching, the fourteen-year-old Ah Yue chose to sign up, he happens to be stuck at the boundary of the compulsory education age limit - 14 years old, according to the education order 7 to 14 years old teenagers must receive education, and his age happens to meet the standard.

Compulsory education in the Chinese Empire was only three years!

Although the emperor himself preferred to implement the six-year compulsory education, but limited financial resources, there was simply not enough financial resources to implement the six-year compulsory education, and even the three-year compulsory education did not have enough funds, in order to support the education of the royal family every year spent as much as 20 million yuan for education.

"Come every year!"

The relatively limited financial resources make the three-year compulsory education a helpless move.

But even so, just three years of compulsory education, but to the greatest extent to expand the horizons of every student, although in order to save money, students do not have textbooks, teachers with teaching wall charts to teach them, but they learned from the teaching wall charts to the national language, geography, nature, know the seven continents and four oceans, know the pyramids of Egypt, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the British Big Ben......

The three-year junior primary school education has changed many people, so that every educated person can be used for life, and even in the agricultural technology class, they know how to select seeds, how to keep seeds, how to cultivate, how to hoe grass without harming crops, and learn the "secret that is not passed on" to those rich peasants who are good at farming.

Education can really change fate!

Ah Yue never doubted this, at least, if it weren't for the fact that he was studying in school, I am afraid that his family would have been moved to another place as a pauper because he only had more than 4 acres of land, because he was a student, so he was not among the migrants - because the colony had not yet universalized compulsory education.

At least at this point, education changed Ah Yue's fate, but now, after graduating from elementary school, Ah Yue once again feels a sense of uncertainty in the face of the future.

"Ah Yue! Since you want to get ahead, you can change it by studying in the future......"

When the once upon a time expectation appeared in his heart again, looking at the junior high school graduation certificate in his hand, Ah Yue, who was already seventeen years old, was a little confused, he didn't know how he should choose, and he didn't know where his future path was.

Because after reading the book, he realized that his fate had not changed much at all. His life has not changed, and his family is still barely able to eat. If you want to change your destiny through studying, you must not only go to junior high school, but also go to high school, and after finishing high school, you must also go to middle school, and then go to university...... In this way, his fate will be fundamentally changed.

For children from poor families, if they want to cross this threshold, there are only two choices, one is to apply for a five-year normal school, and after graduation, they will become a teacher in the junior primary school, and get a salary of 11 yuan a month. Either or apply for a junior military academy. In addition to these two options, there are also some technical schools that are also free, however, most of those technical schools are nearby and local. There is not a single technical school in Yingzhou Prefecture. As for the junior military academy, you don't even have to think about it, if Ah Yue can be ranked in the top ten in the whole prefecture, he can also get a letter of recommendation from the prefect, and his grades are impossible to get the prefect's recommendation, not to mention, all those who apply for the junior military academy are the best academically.

As for the normal school, Ah Yue also applied for the examination, and Yingzhou Mansion has a provincial normal branch, the first three years in Yingzhou Mansion, and the last two years in the provincial capital, but Ah Yue fell off the list by one point, which means that the normal school has no chance with him, and the 11 yuan primary school teacher's salary is naturally not available.

Now, he has his diploma, which means that he is going to say goodbye to the school. But his fate has not changed because of education, if education has changed anything, it is to change his vision and make him more eager for the outside world.

"Maybe, I should go out and take a look outside......"

Ah Yue's heart was thinking, he didn't want to guard so many acres of land anymore, he knew what was waiting for him if he kept it any longer, he would be moved to overseas colonies like those lazy people in the village, maybe the colonies had a lot of land, but he didn't want to leave China.

"Where can you go?"

Although he had studied geography, now, when making this decision, Ah Yueyue still seemed a little confused, he didn't know where he should go, and he also didn't know whether his decision was right or wrong, just like reading a book.

Is reading a book wrong?

Of course, it's right to study, if it's wrong, I'm afraid it's not good enough, otherwise, maybe now he has been admitted to the normal school, just like some classmates, five years later, the two students who were admitted to the normal school, the fate will change dramatically, they will become the envy of all their peers in the whole town, if they work hard and have certain achievements, more than ten years later, they may even get the title of His Majesty the Emperor to become a "public scholar".

Gongshi, this is the lowest title in the Chinese Empire, it cannot be hereditary, it is just a knighthood. But this is the difference between the scholars and the people, after obtaining the title of "Gongshi", they will be the most authoritative people in the countryside. In addition to those who have distinguished themselves in society, those who have served the public for more than 15 years are also likely to receive the title of "Prince", and the faculty is the most likely of them.

A salary of more than 100 yuan a year, plus honors that are likely to be obtained in the future...... However, all of this is someone else's, and has nothing to do with Ah Yue, and now he must think about his fate and future.

"What should I do?"

Just when he was thinking about his fate, the words of his classmates came from there, Wang Dashan is also Ah Yue's best friend, he saw Ah Yue's appearance, he knew his friend, and he was thinking nonsense there, in fact, who is willing to live a life so plainly? .

"Ah Yue, in fact, I wanted to tell you yesterday, my father said, in fact, the junior primary school is enough, this is not the Lin Dong family in Fucheng just set up a yarn factory, people can be named to recruit fifty junior high school graduates, but also to send to the provincial city of technical schools to study for half a year, it is not bad to enter the factory, the income is also good, if you become a foreman, you can get at least ten yuan a month......"

When Wang Dashan was talking, he looked at his friend with some envy, compared to him, Ah Yue undoubtedly had more advantages.

"You have won the certificate issued by the prefect, mathematics is so good, and accounting is the first in the school, I dare to say, as long as you go to that, then Lin Dong's factory is not rushing to ask, if you are lucky, maybe you can learn an accounting or something, and slowly let Lin Dongjia take a fancy to it, and be a bookkeeper......"

Now the most profitable business in China is to set up a factory, not only need money to run a factory, you need money to build a factory, buy machinery, you also need people, you need people to operate the machine, you need people to manage, and compared with those old-fashioned scholars, those rich people who don't know about the factory at all, all put their hopes in the technical school in the provincial capital, but the students in the technical school have signed a contract with the factory when they enter the school, but this is not to say that they don't have the opportunity, they can also send people to the technical school through their own money, to"Commissioned training" is used to provide short-term training to dispatched personnel.

With the short-term training of the technical school, coupled with the guidance of the technicians sent by the machine manufacturer, it only takes one or two years for these people to become the technical backbone of the factory, but this kind of work is obviously not suitable for the old readers, compared to the old readers who only read the books of the sages, those who understand mathematics and know science The students who graduated from the new school, even if they are only junior students, are more suitable than the old scholars. At least they don't exclude machines.

"Go to the factory ......"

Saying these words, Ah Yue's whole person suddenly became confused, could it be that he really wanted to go to the factory?

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