Chapter 114: Literacy for All
readx;?“ My lord! Why did you suddenly order so many books! That's not a small amount, it's 600,000 copies! Each book is thirty texts, but it is also 18,000 pieces! The autonomous region's finances have just eased, so how can it withstand such a toss-up? Yuan Chuan burst into tears. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
When Li Yu told him that he had ordered 600,000 copies of the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", he cried.
He knew that Li Yu had wanted to promote education for all for a long time, but he had no conditions before. As a scholar, he naturally agrees with this kind of education. The problem is that he is also a county governor of the autonomous region, and he really can't be happy to see that the finances of the autonomous region have always been in a state of loss.
As a result, the joy of educating the whole people and the helpless 'mixing' of financial losses directly broke down in tears. In fact, this is already very good, if you change someone with poor psychological tolerance, you may go crazy directly!
"This is just the beginning, I'm afraid that I will order 300,000 copies of "Mathematics" later! However, it is more cumbersome to print, and it is said that it costs fifty wen each; In addition, "Hanyu Pinyin" also needs to buy 300,000 copies, and it also needs 50 copies! Li Yu said without scruples.
"But the financial ...... of the autonomous region," Yuan Lian reminded, and he really had to be reminded, and even severely refused!
"Isn't there a year of tax exemption this year? The court is not in a hurry, what are we anxious about? Money is something, if it is not circulated, it is just a pile of scrap metal, and it is useless!
If you think about it again, now that we have promoted the enlightenment of the whole people, when they have money later, do they want to buy better books to further their studies? For example, "Spring" and Autumn", "Book of Songs" and "Analects" or so on, we are not obligated to distribute them for free, right?
They will definitely have to 'spend' money to buy it at the printing house, and the printing house will definitely expand the scale of production even further. As a result, factories that manufacture ink and paper will also have to expand their scale, and the prices of raw materials for making ink and paper will naturally increase.
Even these factories pay their workers, and when they have money, they can buy books to read, and they can also buy good food or clothes. In the end, in the process of 'trading', these money will generate taxes, and eventually return to our government. But at the same time, everyone in the autonomous region benefits from this economic chain, and the entire autonomous region becomes more prosperous as a result.
On the other hand, if they are allowed to develop on their own, not to mention when it will take for education for all, the natural economic improvement will be very slow. What was supposed to be a three-month affair has to be postponed to three or even ten years, and as an official, do you think you are qualified? After Li Yu finished speaking, he looked at Yuan Lian.
Yuan Jian is just a traditional reader, where does he know what economics, and he was suddenly speechless. Thinking about it seems to be sophistry, I can refute it, but I don't want to have limited knowledge, but I don't know how to refute it.
"The autonomous region belongs to adults, you have to take it easy with this financial problem!" In the end, I can only remind Li Yu of one sentence.
"The autonomous region is not mine, it belongs to the people of the autonomous region! It's also from the Han court! You and I are actually no different from these people, but the division of labor is different! Li Yu shook his head.
"This word is spreading, but it's a bit rebellious!" Yuan Chuan smiled bitterly.
"There are always people who are reluctant to have the power in their hands, but they don't think about who gave them the power in their hands! Forget it, it's not interesting to say this, speaking of which Yao Qing seems to have joined the ink 'door'? Li Yu smiled and then changed the subject.
"I want to improve my academic level, so I joined Moxue, but I didn't join Moxue!" Yuan Jian shook his head and said.
"I see, Named Disciple!" Li Yu nodded, and suddenly realized.
Nowadays, the Mozi Guild opened by the Mozi Gate is fully open to the autonomous region, and even people from outside who are interested can join with a temporary ID card. However, at the beginning, they were all registered disciples, that is, they were initially interested in Moxue.
This part of existence generally does not teach too profound things, only in some knowledge for the country and the people, and for the people. There will even be a set of martial arts for self-cultivation and 'sexuality', as well as some simple craftsmanship.
Unless it is a special case, such as Xu Shu, who has been recommended by him to the inner 'gate' to become a disciple of the inner 'gate', the other registered disciples have to undergo a one-year assessment, and the most loyal ones are actually those who are loyal to Li Yu, and they are promoted to the disciples of the outer 'gate', and they begin to teach some basic martial arts, advanced craftsmanship and more advanced theoretical knowledge.
In this way, in another year, those with superior grades can be promoted to inner 'door' disciples. At this point, he has basically become an admirer of Li Yu, even a devout believer. During the year when the outer 'sect' disciples were in the same year, the constant brainwashing and personality cult would continue, so that these disciples would trust Li Yu unconditionally and obey him unconditionally.
The so-called promotion is mainly aimed at the existence of worshippers and devout believers.
After being promoted, they were exposed to more advanced ideas about republicanism, socialism, productive forces, etc., for the first time, and began to get in touch with something deeper. As long as someone's loyalty falls below the 'follower', then they will be disqualified from the inner 'door', and may even suddenly fall ill and die at some point.
In the end, these people who were selected by the 'fine' were Li Yu's hardcore followers, and through the bittersweet memories and the spread of the red 'color' thoughts, they developed this part into candidate members of the party members, and after the formation of the political party in the future, they would become hardcore active party members.
Li Yu feels that there are too few people in this world who recognize revolutionary ideas, socialism, and even ** ideas. Relying on him alone to publicize and guide, he can't do it without more than 30 years.
But on the other hand, it will be more efficient to continue to cultivate such hardcore molecules, and then spread them from top to bottom. Not to mention the outer 'door' and registered disciples, who have initially come into contact with the people-oriented inside, and after getting used to it over time, they can also maintain a friendly attitude towards revolution and socialism, at least they will not feel disgusted.
It is not surprising that some people from certain families will be disgusted, but these people generally do not become inner 'door' disciples. Li Yu said that he wanted to support the people to fight against the family, but he didn't say it was for fun.
As long as there are about 300,000 outer 'gate' disciples among the 550,000 people in the autonomous region, and another 100,000 or even only about 50,000 inner 'gate' disciples are cultivated, he will be sure that he will make a revolution. It really can't be done, in the end there are more than 50,000 young people who can become the main force to fight guerrilla warfare in these 100,000 mountains. Of course, he's been avoiding that from happening.
There are some things he won't tell Yuan Lian to them, even if Yuan Lian is not from a family in the traditional sense. But in the end, he came from a bureaucratic family, and he was also a big landowner, and even if he may sympathize with the people, it is based on the position that he is a 'bureaucratic class', but he 'pitures' the people, and does not really look up to them.
Classes exist, they will still exist even after the revolution, but if they can weaken the concept of class, they are advanced!
Of course, there must be a foundation for all this, that is, food and clothing and enlightenment 'Meng', food and clothing Li Yu has worked hard to do it, and enlightenment 'Meng' must also be carried out simultaneously, it is okay to be fed, clothed and idle, and can recognize a few words, so that people will be interested and free to participate in the ink 'gate'. Otherwise, for them, these are unattainable existences, and they will subconsciously avoid them.
Yuan Lian was still skeptical in the end, but he was undoubtedly persuaded by Li Yu's sophistry, and he planned to take a look. Taking the half-year financial growth as a bet, Li Yu made a bet with him.
If the fiscal revenue increases significantly, then he will not care how Li Yu governs the autonomous region in the future, and will even learn the concepts of economics from Li Yu; On the contrary, what Li Yu is doing must first ask for his consent!
The next day, 600,000 copies of the Qi'meng' reading materials were directly distributed. As long as it is a citizen of the autonomous region, each household can get two copies. As a result, only about 400,000 copies were given away, and the remaining 200,000 copies were all sold at the price of 50 yuan, but they were flocked by merchants and sold out directly.
In this way, he directly earned nearly 10,000 yuan, and the financial loss was reduced by 60% at once. If you don't consider the labor, the 'spending' fee of the whole people's enlightenment is still more cost-effective.
For merchants in other places, "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" are good enlightenment "Mongolian" reading materials, the key is to use thread paper bound books, light does not take up space, 200,000 volumes do not weigh much, scattered out of hundreds of copies per person, one person can carry away, but sold to other places, a hundred Wen is definitely not a problem.
This is also the government removed the words 'price 30 wen' at the back of the book, otherwise they are afraid that they will have to reprocess it.
As a result, two days later, Li Yu directly took out the "Hanyu Pinyin Annotations" and distributed it, this book was customized for 300,000 copies, and another 100,000 copies were bought by merchants, and the official selling price was 60 Wen, as for how many of them were arbitrary.
In the evening of the same day, the government at all levels officially issued a notice that a two-hour night class for literacy would be opened in the evening. As long as the people are holding ID cards, they can go to the class with the "Hanyu Pinyin Annotation", "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text". The most important thing is that the course is free!
People with local resident cards are given priority to enter and can sit down at the very front. Non-resident with ID cards may also observe, but will have to give up their seats to local residents.
The villagers who had received Li Yuqi's 'Meng' education at the beginning were directly hired by the government as temporary teachers, some of whom were only in their teens. For them, this education can even be said to be a new experience.
Li Yu also told them 'privately': "When you educate others, you also just consolidate the knowledge you have learned!" ”
Maybe it's the children who always want to behave well in front of adults, and they are really working hard to prepare for class. Although it may not be very good, it is also a transfer of what they have learned.
In this way, for about a month, the Chinese pinyin should be recognized by the people. And this "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", each word has pinyin marks on the top of the head, so even if it is not taught, at least you can try to read it through at home.
In fact, many merchants have never read at all, at most they can write their names, and even look at numbers. With such an opportunity to eradicate illiteracy, they naturally do not miss it. When I really threw myself into it, I realized that with the help of Hanyu Pinyin, it was not difficult to read through the books.
In fact, they already have some foundation, as long as they understand how to use Chinese pinyin, it will not be a problem for them to read through the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text". The point is that they will also sell what they have learned as a commodity in other places, and it is unknown what kind of chemical reaction will be produced.
After the people learned how to write their own names and learned to read the 'Meng' book, many people could occasionally recite a few words in the crepe language. There are a few people who have good conditions, and they are no longer satisfied with enlightenment, so they enter the ink 'door' to learn more advanced knowledge......