After Xiong Jun entered Fuyi Middle School, he was naturally a top student, and his family also followed, and his brothers and sisters were also very competitive and admitted to their target school. This is second only to a few major events in the family, and being admitted to the government school is not comparable to being admitted to the county school. One level higher is the Taigaku of Kyoto. This kind of honor is very heavy on the Xiong family, which is an ordinary family, and you must know that in ancient times, it was a very high-risk investment for a family to train a scholar.

A full-time student not only cannot contribute labor to increase his family's agricultural productivity, but also eats and drinks for nothing and requires his family to spend savings to support his schooling. Not only did the whole family tighten their belts to pay for tuition, but they also bought a lot of books, pens, ink, paper, and inkstones. These things are all luxury goods that are very expensive compared to the income of the peasant family, and the average family will almost have to bear the risk of bankruptcy if they want to cultivate a valuable scholar (whether they can reduce taxes and labor for the family or even increase the family's local voice, or at least ensure that the benefits produced are greater than the investment spent on him). Therefore, if you want to take the imperial examination, you must at least have a certain amount of material strength and family background.

The law of the jungle is still shown in the imperial examination, once you pass the examination, you can become a privileged class, and the family property will naturally increase with the increase of status and lifespan. The resources in hand can at least ensure that the family can afford the cost of education for their children and grandchildren. If there is a smart person who has an eye for later, he will definitely buy a large collection of books at home as the intellectual reserve capital of his children and grandchildren, whether it is to reduce their future book fees or to buy the hearts of the children of poor families by lending, it is a good deal. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, many Jiangnan book collectors collected thousands or tens of thousands of books at home for this reason, and this kind of fanaticism can only be justified for this reason.

But through the mass construction of schools and a cheap printing industry, this possibility was completely shattered. The benefits of plummeting costs of education and learning are comparable to saving civilization.

It was impossible for the children of the Xiong family to read ten books in their lifetime, but they had read at least 300 books in the three or four years of study. In addition to the subset of classics and history, a large number of science, industrial and agricultural technology, astronomy and geography, mathematics, physics and chemistry theory are all compulsory courses. A thin atlas can make students realize the vastness of the world, and with a simple brainwashing, they can become qualified immigration advocacy volunteers. Overseas and Indochina have a large amount of land without a home, and the advance payment of immigration contracts is enough to settle down, so that many customers with landless land at home have become the main source of customers for immigration companies.

Several distant relatives of the Xiong family got a hard-to-find immigration ticket under the guarantee of Xiong's father, each of which requires a guarantor, without the sponsorship of the sponsor recognized by the Chenji immigration company, there is no land and land and a series of immigration preferential treatment and benefits, many black immigration companies take advantage of the weakness of the landless poor to get the land to live, specializing in fraud and slave trafficking, defrauding the poor of the last bit of life money and disappearing without a trace, or signing a deed of sale, It was transported to the southwest Zhulu, where there was a shortage of manpower, and it was sold to local tyrants as slaves and farmers.

Many of the Xiong family's relatives benefited from the business opportunities and financial resources brought by the immigration business, such as the income from being an intermediary and guarantor, the preferential treatment and windfall profits of being a supplier, the land and real estate obtained after successful immigration, and the wages earned from part-time work. These incomes far exceed the income from cultivating the land facing the loess and turning its back to the sky.

These are only indirect benefits, and the direct benefits come from the improvement of the quality of the family produced by reading, not only to increase the influence and prestige of the local area (the Xiong family must be consulted or asked to come forward for all kinds of labor and resource distribution work that were originally decided by the chief and the village elders or presided over by large households), but also obtained a lot of wealth.

The director of the newly established cooperative is Xiong Li's family of Xiong, and Xiong's father has also become a well-known businessman in the village, going back and forth between the prefecture and the county seat and the surrounding towns every day, helping the Chenji Group to expand its business in other towns and villages, and rarely going home. The courtyard at the front door has been converted into a bungalow for the sales department, the backyard has been converted into a warehouse, and the living bedroom and living room have also been converted into offices and money banks. The Xiong family has long bought a small courtyard in the county seat, and the original old house has become the most magnificent house with many intellectual functions such as supply and marketing cooperatives, credit cooperatives, and agricultural technology propaganda institutes.

What's more significant is that the Xiong family has become a hot topic of discussion, and the core point is that reading changes the fate of the family, and has become a benchmark and forward for the Chenji Chamber of Commerce to import values in the local area, which is the main purpose of the Chenji high-level attention to the Xiong family.

In addition to the economic and spiritual and cultural benefits, the Xiong family and the crossing of the public obviously have received political and honorary benefits, the Xiong family has the opportunity to become the Great Song Empire non-imperial examination official family, the crossing of the public will also be the brand into the grassroots, so that the little contact with the urban economy of the bottom of the village also understand the Chenji group, from this win-win is also the consistent practice and habit of the crossing.

Typical examples have been erected in the villages of various state capitals, just like the Xiong family, and schools such as Hope Primary School have also been overcrowded with the support and propaganda of countless typical models. This is the victory of modern civilization and the victory of values, and the policy of fooling the people in the old era seriously restricts the economic structure, and the bottleneck of human resources in the transformation from a small peasant economy to an industrial society disappears.