Chapter 24 Education is not for education's sake
The planting of the clover has been completed, and the spring ploughing is nearing the end, and the little Earl Tang suddenly found that he was idle again. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Of course, this leisure does not mean that Count Tang has nothing to do, he still has to go to the streets every day, and he has to go to the countryside to inspect for ten days and half a month.
What is he mainly looking for? Well, most of the time, I go to the town to see how the sacraments are done. After all, no matter how much Priest Philip is packaged as a saint, this 'sacrament' is also a new thing, and the public is always a little unaccustomed to new affairs. Moreover, this 'sacrament' stipulates that hands should be washed five times a day, face washed three times a day, teeth brushed twice a day, and feet washed once a day, which is indeed too cumbersome for ordinary peasants, so that often some peasants will forget about their work, which needs to be supervised by Count Xiao Tang himself - as for counting on the knights, this 'sacrament' has nothing to do with their interests, so they don't care!
Therefore, Count Tang can only supervise himself, but this supervision, Count Tang can't say that I will press your hands, your face and your feet into the water to help you wash them, what is this like!
Therefore, the little Earl of Tang rode most of the time, followed by a few servants, and wandered the streets all day long, as if he were a stubborn person. But Count Tang is really not stubborn! You look at Count Tang wandering around the street as if he is fine, but in fact, Count Tang has been concentrating on observing the physical and mental conditions of the people on the street, and he has to painstakingly assess what the health situation is, whether it is progress or regression compared to before. To tell the truth, this hard work is much more tiring than hard work.
Occasionally, when he went to the countryside, Count Tang would wander around the farmland, and he would go to see how the wheat was growing, whether the water was good this year, whether the ground was fertile, and whether the clover that had just been planted had sprouted...... Oh, the last item Count Don doesn't have to go in person, now the clover involves the interests of the knights themselves, and they are much more diligent than Count Don Jr.
However, even so, Count Tang was still tired like a dead dog every day. Desmond was originally a mess, a rotten appearance of nothing, a waste to be built, any plan or work was very hard, but now it was all pressed on the little Count Don alone.
No matter how good Count Xiao Tang is, he is also a person, and he will not be separated. Besides, before the crossing, Count Tang was just an ordinary engineering dog that could be seen everywhere, and now he is slowly becoming ruthless, and all the strategies and intrigues he has learned are still realized little by little in the confrontation with knights and peasants, how can he understand these things when he lived in the ivory tower before.
Thus the Count of Don Jr. often felt that he was out of breath, and this pressure began to accumulate from the first day of his crossing, from the time he had to wipe his ass with leaves when he first went to the toilet, and then to the failure of the knights to dig a canal, all the way to the robbery of the monastery, where the knight of Alcobar forced him to cut off the ascetic's head!
God! Count Tang is not a murderer, and his memory is also very good, the eyes of the ascetic monk at that time will still echo in Count Tang's dreams at night, haunting his heart and soul, and keeping him awake at night.
Therefore, Count Don is about to be driven crazy! In this era of darkness and suffering, he has no relatives, no friends, no lovers, he can't confide in anyone about his helplessness, and he can't show a little vulnerability, otherwise he has to be careful that someone is plotting against him.
As for other outstanding rulers, Qin Shi Huang has Li Si Zhao Gao, Tang Taizong has Fang Mou Du Duan, Zhu Baba has Liu Ji Tanghe, when the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lao Mao not only has Zhou Gong Deng Gong, he also has 4.8 million party members who have completed the Long March and fought the war, and are determined to bear hardships and stand hard work! And what about Count Don Jr.? He only has a packaged 'saint', a group of people who push back, and a group of brutal and bloodthirsty knights!
So the little Count Tang realized that the reason why he was so tired and had to fight with the knights and peasants was entirely because he had no one to use!
That's right, Count Tang was wrong from the beginning, and all of you who haven't crossed or are ready to cross also remember that the first thing after crossing is to run a school and open education.
The purpose of this school is not really to cultivate some kind of high-educated and high-quality talents -- at least not the main goal, now that the industrial revolution is still far away, the demographic dividend is enough for the little Tang Earl to eat for hundreds of years, and there is no need for ordinary farmers to master knowledge. But the main purpose of running a school is that it can produce a group of 'students' who can understand people's words, be organized, and know how to obey orders.
To put it bluntly, the original purpose of running schools and opening education was to be able to train a group of qualified obedient and capable subordinates for the rulers!
It's a hard thing to say, but it's true.
For example, military training, the most basic thing in military training is to practice the queue, if you let educated, organized and disciplined students come to stand in the queue, basically there is no need for any instructors to deliberately remind them, and there will be no problem to turn left to right. But if you let a group of illiterate, for example, medieval peasants come to stand in a queue, this is simply going to be a dead person, it will take three months to train discipline at the beginning, then it will take another three months to stand in the queue, and then it will take another three months to turn to the left and right, and most of the half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and the combat effectiveness of this group of peasants has not yet been guaranteed!
Another example is digging ditches, let educated, organized and disciplined students do this kind of thing, there is no need or very little need for people to supervise, and students are educated, they know that digging ditches is for their own good, they will dig seriously, will not think about laziness. But the peasants of the Middle Ages were different, as it has been described before, even if you take a whip, they may not be willing to move!
So after the crossing, the first thing is to run a school, that is, to educate, as long as the status is a little more stable, this thing must be done, and the sooner it is done, the better.
So Count Tang understood it, and he decided to run a school.
The first batch enrolled a total of 60 students, 18 males and 42 females.
Most of the men were the children of serfs, and most of the women were the children of peasants.
The reason for this large-scale difference is that the students recruited by Count Tang this time were all recruited from the children of serfs and peasants, and the condition that Count Tang gave to the serfs was that as long as the children graduated and could pass the exam, then they could become free people, which was simply fatal to the serfs (serfs have been serfs for generations), so they were willing to send the boys in their own families.
But the peasants are different.
The peasants didn't know what Count Xiao Tang was doing, they were free people themselves, and they didn't know the conditions that Count Xiao Tang gave to the serfs, so they were reluctant to send their children over.
But the little Count Don still has a way, remember the villages where the pragmatists made comparisons? At that time, it was said that the last village would have to add half of the tax, which was a matter of life for the peasants!
Therefore, the little Count Tang made a condition, as long as the peasants of this village were willing to send their children over, then this 'half of the tax' could be exempted.
Therefore, for the peasants in this village, this condition is simply extremely good, but even if the conditions are so good, the peasants still have their own calculations: the peasants are reluctant to give away their own boys, because boys are the future of a family and the pillars of the family, so there can be no mistakes. So the peasants sent their own girls, anyway, the little Tang didn't say whether he wanted a boy or a girl.
On the day of the opening of the school, Count Tang did his best to hold a grand opening ceremony.
Some people may think that ceremonies are superfluous and unnecessary, but whether it is a school, a church, or a triad, there must be a reason for it, and a solemn ceremony can increase the cohesion of the group - make the new members feel that they have found a place to be promising, feel accepted by new social relations, feel that they are valued members, and so on......
For this reason, the little Count Tang specially put on a costume.
In order for children to wrestle with their parents and traditions, they must assume the appearance of authority in order to be in charge.
In a primitive society where everyone was equal, there was no "crown" or "scepter", and people of the same tribe knew each other and were equal.
However, one tribe cannot defeat the alliance of several tribes. And if several tribes want to unite and send troops together, the leader must dress differently, otherwise, how will the people of the other tribes recognize him?
If you don't recognize it, the end of having a lot of people and no command is tragic.
The necessity of the commander's special costume was confirmed by the counterattack against Vietnam. In the past, in the army, it was believed that officers and soldiers were equal, and that they should also be equal in dress, and that they knew each other anyway.
But then in a battle, the commander died, the soldiers ran away, and when they met together, how could they determine who to listen to?
The man claimed to be an officer, really?
As a result, the insignia of the officers' attire was restored
From the clan society to the tribal confederation, chiefs, whether in the East, in the West, or on one of the islands in the South Pacific, wore splendid costumes, crowns, or multicolored bird feathers, and sat on high seats, so that people could see that they should listen to him.
In this way, the others learn whose orders to obey, and they can move forward or backward under the command of a definite commander.
Those clans, where everyone was equal, came and went as they wanted, and no one but me could command the opponents of a distinct class society, and they were defeated and retreated, and at last they were driven out of the fertile and abundant lands, and their existence could only be seen in some barren and deep mountains that were inaccessible to the people.
The class society in which people oppress others is more advanced than the primitive and free society in which everyone is equal.
The more organized they are, the more they can win.
Therefore, the little Earl Tang was dressed so that people could know that he was completely different from the parents of those students. Such a stark contrast is to give the students a deep first impression: this person, he is the one who is in charge of everything, their life and death.
Every student who entered the school was actually not young, and they were at least junior high school students before Count Tang crossed over, but they didn't have a suitable dress to wear, and several of them even came bare-chested, which was not suitable for their identity. As students of the little Earl Tang, in a sense they were 'protégés of the Son of Heaven', and they were also completely different from the others, so they were all given a new set of clothes, white tunics.
During the ceremony, the little Count Tang told them to pick up the hemp rope that was placed in front of them and tie it around their waists.
Then tell them, and the parents who are standing behind them, that if they can study well, they will get a red silk belt (silk is very expensive, more expensive than gold) and a respected free man, and the belt is ready, and it is here, whether they can get it or not, it depends on their efforts.
After that, a pair of iron shackles were put on display, explaining what kind of fate those who did not study hard and made trouble.
Count Don Jr. said that mischievous children, as well as children who failed three exams in a row, were to be sold to slave traders. And what happened to the slave traders, these children, who had lived in this dark age since childhood, understood it.
The policy of carrots and sticks has always been the most effective, so these children are honest, and the parents of these children, they are also honest.
After the grand opening ceremony, these people were sumptuous in their hospitality.