Liu Hong's eagerness to popularize education for all was also deliberate. Not only did he reform the official system, but he needed the people to strengthen education and open up the wisdom of the people, and it was up to Liu Hong to bring the civil and military to the people, and it was also necessary to popularize education as soon as possible.

If only the military is returned to the people, it is not a big problem. But now that Liu Hong has returned the literati to the people, it will not work.

Huaxia has always attached great importance to literati, which has made literati proud to the core. Let the literati be compared with the other four peoples, the literati will definitely feel that this is a bargain thing, and of course they will not be willing. In order not to break out into contradictions, Liu Hong decided to simply forget about the literacy of the whole people. Let everyone become literati, and naturally this problem does not exist.

"Your Majesty, your idea of making the whole people literate is very good. But in Weichen's view, it is a bit unrealistic. Those people are busy every day to make ends meet, how can they have time to read and write? ”

"Sima Aiqing, what you said makes a lot of sense." Liu Hong first affirmed the newly promoted Shangshu of the Ministry of Education, and then said: "If there is no benefit, if you want to make the whole people literate, it will definitely not be possible." However, we can use profits to lure people to read and write. ”

"Lure with benefits?"

Liu Hong's words directly confused Sima Hui.

"That's right, it's to lure with interests. We can encourage literacy for all by exchanging literacy for money and food. ”

Before Sima Hui could react, Liu Qi asked, "Your Majesty, I don't know how you want to reward?" Although there is a lot of money in the treasury now, this is a matter that involves the whole people, and if you give a large-scale reward, no matter how much money the treasury has, it will definitely not be able to bear it. ”

Liu Hong took out the thousand-character text, the hundred family names and the improved version of the three-character scripture that he had prepared a long time ago, and said: "These are the three Mongolian classics that I have organized. As long as they are mastered, the people will basically be enough. Coupled with the pinyin invented by me, there are four items in total. I decided to give each of them a prize of 1,500 baht, or the equivalent amount of grain. And the four plenums were awarded, and 5,55 baht or the equivalent of grain was awarded for encouragement. ”

Hearing this, Liu Qi and Sima Hui were all stunned. After half a day, Liu Qian came to his senses and said to Liu Hong: "Your Majesty, the Han Dynasty now has a population of more than 60 million, and even if half of the people are literate, there are 30 million people. Five thousand dollars per person is five silver coins per person, and it takes more than 100 million to 200 million silver coins to be enough. With so much money, the treasury absolutely cannot afford it. ”

"Uncle Huang, the matter is not so serious. Now most of the people don't have enough to eat, so they will choose food. In this way, our costs will be reduced a lot. Besides, the people are literate, and this is a long-term process, and it will take at least several years to complete. If you spread that money over a few years, it will be even less. In this case, the treasury should be able to afford it. ”

Making the whole people literate is a great achievement, and no one is not impressed. Especially Liu Qi and Sima Hui, both of them are in charge, if this matter is done in their hands. Then they can definitely go down in fame.

Especially now, Liu Hong's determination has been decided. It seems that Liu Hong has also thought it through. Even such a big expense, he took it into account, and they all wanted to go crazy with Liu Hong.

Neither the prime minister nor the Ministry of Education objected, and the decree was passed. And as soon as it was reported to the world, it immediately caused a sensation.

In the eyes of ordinary people, people who can read and understand words are all capable of doing so, and they want to join them in their dreams. And now, learning to read and write, the emperor even gave a reward, even if it was for money, they must recognize all those words.

Not only ordinary people, but also people from hundreds of schools and Confucianism are also extremely excited. Teaching without class is not only a Confucian tradition, but also the wish of a hundred schools. Now that the emperor has given an order, they are all in their lifetimes, and they see the possibility of completion, so it's no wonder that they are not excited.

Liu Hong's decree attracted a lot of applause. Even if it was a little different, it was directly drowned out into applause. However, Liu Hong is quite sober, he knows that in order for the whole people to know how to read, it is not just that the people are willing to learn, but that someone is willing to pay.

At this time, Sima Hui was also worried about this problem. He thought about it, but he couldn't solve it. In the end, I had to go to the palace to discuss with Liu Hong.

Liu Hong knows very well that the Chinese people, especially the literati among the Chinese people. A lot of the time, it's just talking. Especially those things that are more difficult, they are fooling others to do it. And they themselves just stood aside and shouted twice. Therefore, it is basically impossible to point to these literati to take the initiative to teach people to read and write, especially in those remote and desolate places with difficult conditions.

In this regard, Liu Hong also has a headache. But now Sima Hui is also stumped, which makes this matter directly affect the implementation of national literacy. Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, Liu Hong has to solve it.

"What Sima Aiqing said, I was also thinking about it just now, but there is no good way." Speaking of this, Liu Hong glanced at Sima Hui, who had obviously become lost, and then continued: "But as the saying goes, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward. I thought that as long as I gave enough rewards, there should be people willing to teach the people to read. ”

Hearing this, Sima Hui immediately became excited and said, "Your Majesty, what kind of reward are you going to use to let those literati teach the people to read and write?" ”

Liu Hong pondered for a moment and said, "Aren't all the people interested in the title now?" That's why I'm going to use this as a reward. For those who teach the people to read, they will be given a certain amount of merit, so that they can get knighthoods. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Hong's heart also had a bottom, and then said: "There are four courses we have set, as long as he can make a person learn one of the four, I will give him two merits." If he had made a man learn all four, he would have given him ten merits. This merit point can make him a meritorious person. And the church is ten, and he is the lord. There are a hundred churches, and he is a brigadier. If there are a thousand churches, you can get 10,000 merit points, and you can make him a real noble lord. Aiqing thinks, is this reward heavy enough? ”

Hearing this, Sima Hui was completely excited, and kept nodding his head and saying that it was heavy enough.

In fact, Liu Hong's reward is indeed heavy enough. During the Han Dynasty, learned people taught, and there were thousands of disciples at every turn. Now that Liu Hong is rewarding people to become literate, this number will only increase. Therefore, as long as the literati teach with their hearts, it is absolutely not a problem for one person to teach thousands of people.

This merit point is enough for them to become real nobles. Not only themselves, but also their descendants are protected. So, it's definitely a big prize.

However, because of such feats, it is too easy to get. Therefore, Liu Hong made restrictions at the beginning, and this policy was only implemented for three years, and it was automatically canceled after three years. After all, if you want to be literate, you have to rely on schools.

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