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Chen Fei has already solved an important question, that is, the question of what will be taught in the future of this Qiushi Academy. In the future, this Qiushi Academy will teach four years of basic courses, including Chinese arithmetic and some Confucian classics. Most of the children from rural areas will also be arranged to learn the advanced technology of agricultural farming, so that they can return to the countryside to continue to cultivate the land and produce more and better food. And Chen Fei will only choose a relatively small part of them to study the Confucian classics, and then strive for the imperial examination, or do academics. Because if a large group of people go to the imperial examination and do learning, then what if there is no one to cultivate food? Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the vast majority of the people can cultivate food, and then the stability of the country and the nation can be maintained.

The so-called popularization of education is not to let every student have a high level of knowledge, but to let them have a certain level of education and popularize ordinary knowledge. As for what kind of advanced culture, no matter what era it is, it is definitely not the mainstream. Therefore, Chen Fei is just allowing them to learn basic common words, and there are many basic arithmetic, what natural phenomena. These courses are not difficult, it won't take long, four years is very sufficient. As for the most cheating English, this doesn't need to be learned at all, so it makes it a lot easier for everyone.

"Chen Fei, you taught the people how to cultivate the fields, but I'm afraid that many people won't be able to hold on! Because they have been studying for six years, they need to learn a lot of things, and during these six years they are all non-productive people. And there are a lot of costs to bear, which they bear on their own. What pen, ink, paper, inkstone, this is still the most. Although I have been in the palace for many years, I have also heard that paper books are very expensive, and a pen is very expensive. A pen is almost the living expenses of a family for a month. And there is no upper limit to the more, depending on the skill and reputation of the pen maker. With such a high cost, I am afraid that not many people can afford it. So if they want to continue studying for six years, I'm afraid it's still a little difficult!

"The cost of education!" Chen Fei was still sighing, obviously a little helpless.

Of course, how difficult it was for Chen Fei to educate the people in ancient times was not because the ancient officials didn't want to, but because there was no such economic condition in ancient times. First of all, although papermaking has been invented in ancient papermaking, the price of rice paper is still high, after all, it takes a year to make a piece of rice paper. No matter what, you can't reduce the price. As for the paper once it is expensive, then the books written on paper will naturally be expensive, and as for the ink brushes, they are also expensive. Ordinary farmers usually support their families, and most of them are just enough to live, where is the extra money to support a non-productive student.

Even if it is only six years of study, it is beyond the reach of the people. So everything is for Chen Fei to figure out a way, after all, he is the county magistrate of a county. In later generations, the county magistrate of a county is also responsible for reducing the cost of education. Allowing more children to come to school is one of the responsibilities of future officials. Therefore, Chen Fei has always been the standard of future generations of officials to demand himself, and this problem of reducing the cost of education is unavoidable, if it is not possible to reduce the cost of education. Once the people can't afford the pressure of these costs, it will naturally cause a wave of dropouts. At that time, could Chen Fei still be able to force them to stay?

And Chen Fei can't subsidize those students by himself, after all, Chen Fei has already subsidized the tuition fees. And it also subsidizes them with a bowl of chicken soup every day to supplement their nutrition. Chen Fei has done enough, if Chen Fei is asked to bear the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, this Chen Fei will definitely not be able to afford it.

"Since I can't afford it. That is to find a way to reduce the cost of education for the people. Chen Fei thought.

Chen Fei immediately said to Princess Wanchun: "After the dividends of the second batch of chicken farms come down in a few months, you might as well buy some bagasse, and then we will build a paper workshop." Also, I'm going to set up a book printing workshop so I think we can make a lot of cheap books. ”

"Make a paper workshop? And a book printing workshop? Is this any use? Princess Wanchun asked.

Chen Fei immediately replied: "After my observation during this period of time, our current trend in Datang is to use ordinary bamboo paper, as well as hard yellow paper, both of which are very inferior. And high-quality white paper is only exclusive to dignitaries. And I have a new kind of paper, although it may not be as good as rice paper, but it is countless times better than bamboo paper and hard yellow paper. The most important thing is that their cost is very low, not even a fifth of that of hard yellow paper. So you say this can be used? With this paper, we'll have a lot of cheap books. ”

"As for the book printing workshop, I also have a corresponding method for this. In the past, we used to use block printing, but I have a method called movable type printing, which can reduce the printing cost by half, do you think that this way the books will be cheaper? So as long as we get cheap books, everything can solve the education cost of a large part of the people. As long as the cost of education is reduced, the people will be happy to send their children to study. ”

Chen Fei had to continue to open a golden finger for the sake of these people's reading problems, that is, the more advanced papermaking technology in later generations. These papermaking techniques are less expensive and use bagasse to make paper. Sugarcane was also planted in the Tang Dynasty, and many people used him to extract sugar. Of course, these cane sugars are not only expensive, but also of poor quality, and the sugar of this era is only brown sugar, not the kind of white sugar that is as white as snow. The cost of bagasse is almost zero, because people in this era would not have realized that bagasse could make paper. Even if Chen Fei was willing to help them dispose of these bagasses, then those sugar mills might even send them to Chen Fei for free. After all, this kind of bagasse is generally going to be burned, and if someone is willing to help them deal with it, then they will save trouble! As for the movable type printing technique, this is something that was only invented in the Song Dynasty, and it can be used to print books on a large scale.

With these two technologies, the price of books has plummeted, and I am afraid that it is less than a tenth of what it used to be. You must know that the books of the Tang Dynasty, the price of a book that is not thick is dozens of dollars, which is almost equal to the income of more than ten acres of land for a year, so the price of books is so.

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