"I'm playing Age of Empires, and I'm going to have to slowly upgrade my village to a town."

That being said, reality is not a game after all. In the game, as long as you collect enough resources and meet the corresponding conditions, click on the upgrade option. But in reality......

The village is the foundation of the new city, but when Lu Ren came here, he immediately found that the houses and roads in the village were actually very bad...... Although it will definitely be demolished at some point, Lu Ren doesn't want to be too casual. For Lu Ren, if everyone lives badly, then there will be no good rest environment to recover their strength; Poor roads mean that the transportation of raw materials and various supplies will be affected as a result. Therefore, Lu Ren immediately made adjustments, and transferred part of the personnel and materials that were being built in the new urban area to improve the living environment and traffic roads in the village.

In addition, Lu Ren also demanded that a school be built in the village, so that all the children of the current village residents could be gathered for "compulsory education...... He pays for all the expenses that the children need to study, even the food money! To this end, Lu Ren also specially convened a "enlarged meeting" of the residents of the village, which was semi-mandatory anyway, requiring all children between the ages of six and twelve to study, and giving certain help and preferential treatment to those who needed help with their children if they had difficulties at home.

In fact, at that time, their children had free books to read, and in addition to being able to cover two meals, who would not be happy? As soon as this "enlarged meeting" was held, some people even raised the question of whether the age group could be expanded a little more, and it seemed that there were still many people who had reached adulthood and had children who wanted to study, but they made Lu Ren very upset. That is, Lu Ren reacted quickly, and finally re-subdivided the age group of the so-called "compulsory education". The specifics are:

Children between the ages of six and 12 are fully "compulsory" and study full-time. The schedule is in modern time, and the morning class is from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. 11 o'clock to 12 o'clock eclipse; 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., afternoon class, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. snacks; Then school is over. At this age, it is required to come to the school.

Teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 are not forced to work in the morning and attend half-day classes in the afternoon, because they have basically started to do things. Those who come to read can take care of snacks, that is, a dinner. If you don't read it, you can do whatever you want.

For adults over the age of eighteen, Lu Ren's arrangement is to open a night school! Of course, tuition is free, but meals are not included. There is also a progression between these three age groups. For example, after the school starts, children who are already 12 years old in the first year can only eat school meals for one year, but they can still study half-day classes in the following year, and so on.

Don't say anything else, as soon as this night school opens, Lu Ren still has to think about the lighting. There were no electric lights in those days, and it was dangerous to rely on candles and torches alone. The second is that it will break everyone's eyes. In the end, Lu Ren simply mobilized a batch of glass from Zhen to make windproof oil lamps, supplemented by mercury glass mirrors, and the brightness was no problem.

As for the blackboard and white lime pen, they are small things that are not difficult to solve.

In addition, Lu Ren also thought about what to learn, and finally decided to teach him to read and read first, and leave him alone with any sages and sages. In fact, the people who come here to study are all civilians, and those with slightly better families will be sent to the official academy in the small city of Yizhou, which means that most of the children who are willing to send their children to study do not want to be "blind".

But Lu Ren also made a different choice, that is, to specially transfer a few people who are good at calculation from the industrial personnel. It is necessary to teach the basic mathematics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and then to teach the abacus. To put it simply. Lu Ren just arranged the curriculum for the first to third grades of primary school.

It's not that Lu Ren doesn't want to choose more, he even wants to move out related physics and chemistry. It's just that in this way, the size of this small village is completely unacceptable. If the children really need to study, they might as well be sent directly to the academy in the small city of Yizhou, so Lu Ren gave up after weighing it several times. Don't say that Lu Ren is useless, even if this Nima is in modern society. Aren't there any schools in backward villages that have a junior high school or higher?

Then this basic village is lively, choosing land, building roads, building houses, and being busy everywhere. Lu Ren himself hid in his room and prepared some math and geometry textbooks and explained them in detail to a few selected "math teachers", because this thing was needed anytime and anywhere when building a new city.

I thought it would be difficult to teach, but it turned out to be a little bit of a problem. Speaking of which, the people selected by Lu Ren were also craftsmen in the dockyard earlier. If you really want to calculate those geometry problems, it's not bad at all, no matter how you say that people can deal with material calculations every day! As for teachers who teach literacy, it is not difficult to find, just pick a few scholars who are a little older and have read a lot of books but are not well-known, and such scholars, Zheng Xuan grabbed a lot of them.

After a few days of busyness, Lu Ren went back to his room and lay down on the bed on this day, muttering weakly: "Let's do it first, I'm tired to death!" ”

Tired is tired, but Lu Ren knows the value of tiredness in his heart. According to his idea, the education method implemented now will cultivate future talents for Yizhou in the future. Maybe the method used by Lu Ren now has been spread after it has been effective, and it may be said that other families will follow suit.

Everyone knows that talent is the foundation of success, and a family with many outstanding talents will undoubtedly be a strong family. Therefore, any far-sighted sect master will value this method of providing excellent talents for the family. In fact, this method has been used by families for a long time, such as Xun's Yingchuan Academy. The reason why it is said to be emulated is not the way of cultivating talents, but the way of maintaining this way of education, that is, the economic provision of "compulsory education" in Lu Ren!

At that time, reading and learning could be said to be the patent of the scholars, and to put it bluntly, you can't read if you don't have money! Pen, ink, bamboo (paper has not yet been promoted, silk is too expensive), inkstone, which one does not cost money? In addition, the maintenance of the academy and the living expenses of the teaching gentlemen are all out of the pockets of the students.

Of course, there are also some celebrities who are wealthy and don't care about these or for their own fame and other factors will accept a few poor scholars as students for free, for example, Liu Bei is Lu Zhi's student, but Lu Zhi doesn't like Liu Bei very much, could it be that Liu Bei is too poor?

But it must be a very small number. The real family took the money to set up and maintain the operation of the academy, as far as Lu Ren knew, there was no such situation at all. Even people of the same race are unable to pay tuition fees and therefore fail to study. The famous Xun clan has many such situations.

What Lu Ren did was to break this situation and transfer the tuition expenses from his personal financial burden to the family, but why did he do this?

If the family wants to have enough economic ability to maintain the expenditure on talent training, it is necessary to further start from enhancing the family's economic strength. And how to enhance the family's economic strength? Just a few leading figures who are officials? How many acres of land grows food? Not enough, right? The best way to do this is to transform the traditional landlord-bureaucratic type into a commercial conglomerate type (the bottle is PS here, how could such a word suddenly come up?). Only in this way can the family be provided with strong financial resources.

On the other hand, the family originally only valued business for the purpose of cultivating talents, but when the talent training was formed, it was also found that it also had strong financial resources, and the emergence of a large number of outstanding talents could greatly improve the strength of the family. Then put these talents into the corresponding fields...... It's a virtuous circle.

Lu Ren had made such an assumption, the Lu clan began to use this method from himself that could not see any effect in a short period of time, as long as his descendants maintained, about three to five generations, the Lu clan would have a family talent advantage that was enough to be proud of the world, and at that time, the Lu clan would be much stronger than other families in any aspect. As soon as other families realize the benefits of valuing business and using their wealth to nurture talent, they will naturally take advantage of it.

Furthermore, the mainstream pattern of society at that time was the family type. When one family after another turns into a business group, it is followed by a change in the concept of the whole nation. At that time, if the kings want to move that set of bad Confucianism, I am afraid that it will be useless to fool the people, and what will follow will be the formation of a commercial empire.

However, Lu Ren also thought that the Tang and Song dynasties in history actually belonged to commercial empires, but the "empire" was not thorough enough, and in the end it still went into decline. Why is this happening? Lu Ren is not a historian or a sociologist, and the only thing he can think of is the sentence "Absolute power brings absolute corruption", but Lu Ren can't think of any solution to this. And it is clearly not realistic to promote democracy in such times. Lu Ren had a second-best deal in his heart, but he hadn't fully grasped what to do. Furthermore, the mainstream pattern of society at that time was the family type. When one family after another turns into a business group, it is followed by a change in the concept of the whole nation. At that time, if the kings want to move that set of bad Confucianism, I am afraid that it will be useless to fool the people, and what will follow will be the formation of a commercial empire.

However, Lu Ren also thought that the Tang and Song dynasties in history actually belonged to commercial empires, but the "empire" was not thorough enough, and in the end it still went into decline. Why is this happening? Lu Ren is not a historian or a sociologist, and the only thing he can think of is the sentence "Absolute power brings absolute corruption", but Lu Ren can't think of any solution to this. And it is clearly not realistic to promote democracy in such times. Lu Ren had a second-best deal in his heart, but he hadn't fully grasped what to do. (To be continued.) )