Chapter 552: Winning the hearts of the people

Liu Tantou was lining up and talking to his father-in-law. ＂＂

After chatting for a long time, he learned that the old man was not an ordinary farmer, but a family of scholars who cultivated and read heirlooms. A few years ago, there was chaos in Hebei, and the son of the old man was conscripted into Liaodong to deliver grain, but he never returned. At first, the family thought that something bad had happened in Liaodong, but later they learned that they were actually staying in Liaodong with King Chen.

After the spring of the second year, although his son was a weak scholar, he entered the Wushuai Mansion as a clerk, although he was just a small official without grade, but it was also a surprise. Years later, the father-in-law moved to Liaodong with his family, and got the land and house, plus the reward his son received, but the family also got rid of the chaos in Hebei.

With the Liaodong Army entering Hebei, the son of the old man was also transferred to the Beijing Imperial Court in Shangshu Province, although he was only a minor official from the seventh grade, but he was also a Beijing official of the sixth department. After his son settled in Beijing, he moved to Beijing with his family. However, after Gaoyang's hometown was recovered by the imperial court again, the old man with a strong sense of local still returned to his hometown.

After returning home, he opened a private school in the countryside to enlighten the children of the village. However, the school is not big, only one of them, but there are many children. This time, he heard a letter from his son in the capital saying that the imperial court was intending to promulgate the school system in Liaodong in Hebei.

According to the school system of the imperial court, for every 100 households or so, there will be a school for each 100 households, and a primary school for every 1,000 households. The county has a county school, and the county has a county school. Among them, the school set up by Bao and Li, Bao is Mengxue, specializing in enlightenment, and the primary school set up in Li Zhong is a school for entering after enlightenment. These two halls are official schools that must be opened in the local area, and the imperial court bears the expenses and salaries of the husband, and the local government bears the maintenance of the houses, tables, chairs, and maintenance.

The county school is not mandatory, as long as the children who are willing to go to school and can afford the cost, they can go to the county school. The county school belongs to the higher education school, and you must be an excellent county school student in order to enter the county school middle school students. The students of the county school can participate in the selection examination of Shangshu Province every year, and the outstanding ones are selected as court officials.

I heard that above the county school, in the center of the imperial court, there are several more advanced colleges, namely Taixue and Guozijian and Jiangwutang.

Among them, Taixue is mainly Confucian humanities education, and the cultivation of officials and literati in cultural education is the mainstay. The students who have learned too much are not officials who are academic, but who teach and educate people.

However, Guozijian is a junior college, which mainly focuses on cultivating junior college talents. Guozijian has the Law Museum, the Calligraphy Hall, the Arithmetic Hall, the Siyi Hall, which specializes in cultivating translators, the Taiyi Hall in the field of medicine, and the Sitian Hall in the field of astronomical calendars. Its students are mainly talents with excellent performance in various specialties, and the descendants of those officials and aristocrats.

The lecture hall specializes in training elite officers and advanced and senior generals.

The three colleges are the highest institutions, and after completing their studies, everyone has the qualifications to become officials. In addition to the three major government-run colleges, the imperial court also encouraged private schools, even the most advanced academies, which could also be opened privately, as long as various conditions could meet the approval of the imperial court.

This time, the old man came to the county seat, in addition to participating in the Wujia Conference, one of the main purposes was to come to the county Taishou and the Gaoyang County, who was in charge of the school and teaching, to discuss the review of his private school and ask the county to send one or two teachers to help him teach the children of the private school.

Liu Tantou has never studied, and he recognizes a word when he falls. However, he had the same extraordinary respect for these literate literati as ordinary people. After entering the city, he even took the initiative to buy a string of sugar men and gave them to his father-in-law's nephew and grandson. …,

After the two entered the city, they agreed to go together for a while, and then went to the mansion together, and he went to sell the skin on his back.

After Liu Tantou sold his skins and bought a lot of related items, he could already see people everywhere along the way. Grinding shoulders and heels, innumerable. When he arrived at the agreed place, he saw that the old man was already waiting for him there. In addition to the old man and his nephew, there were two soldiers with swords on the side.

The old man smiled and said, "I just went to see Lord Tixue, but I didn't expect that Taishou was there." He met Xiao'er, and because he was worried that the Wujiao Conference would be too chaotic, he sent two parent schools to take care of Lao'er together. ”

Liu Heitan is also a veteran who has eaten military rations and been on the battlefield, so he felt very cordial after seeing these two soldiers, "The two brothers are good, my brother also fought Liaodong three times back then, and when I saw this horizontal knife, I felt cordial." ”

When the two soldiers who were silent heard that this black man had fought Liaodong three times, they couldn't help but be respected, they were just foot soldiers of the Liaodong Army in Hebei, and they had never been to the Liaodong battlefield. But I also know that now in the court, whether it is the court or the army, it is controlled by this group of Liao soldiers, and they don't dare to take it big for a while.

After a few people converged, two sergeants opened the way, which saved a lot of trouble, and soon arrived at the venue of the Wujiao Conference, an abandoned military barracks in the north of Xianyu City. Liu Tantou glanced at it, and saw that what he saw at this time was all black human heads, which were dense, even denser than the dense infantry formation of their platoon back then.

The north wind was howling, but no one felt cold, so many people were huddled together, not only was it not cold, but they were already sweating like rain.

In fact, it is also a Buddhist charity conference. To put it simply, a few monks, chanting sutras on one side, and other people chanting sutras and praying on the side. In ordinary disaster years, asking for rain, or for example, when a big person is sick or something, there will usually be a high-ranking monk spontaneously, or the government will pay for it, or the rich family will pay for the Lent meeting.

And during Lent, the most attractive thing for the people is actually the almsgiving at the fasting meeting. Every time there is no meeting, there will be almsgiving. On a large scale, each common person can not only receive a portion of fasting, but also receive a variety of grains, cloths, and other items.

In today's Hebei, everything is rebuilt after chaos, and the people have not even completely solved the problem of food and clothing. At this time, 10,000 monks gathered at the Wujia Conference, and the scene was naturally not small. If you don't rush anything else, just rush to the amount of food and cloth that will definitely not be less, and you can already make the people in the vicinity flock to it.

There was still unmelted snow everywhere in the venue, and the icy cold wind was blowing, but the fiery hearts of the people were not affected in the slightest.

Around the large venue, a long line of cauldrons had already been placed, and boiling hot porridge was boiling in each pot. The porridge soup is not thin, but very thick and thick. Not only can you see the grains of rice, but there are also many red jujubes, white lotus seeds, yellow beans and other foods in the white porridge. The people in the queue were very happy, and for every person who lined up, the monk who gave the soup porridge would very politely put a big spoonful.

On the side of the cauldron, there were monks there sending yellow cloth bags, each of which contained not only a bucket of grain, but also several pieces of clothing and a few feet of cloth. Such a gift package makes those people grateful. Everyone who took it would come forward and kneel and kowtow and recite the scriptures.

However, the people are not only grateful to the Bodhisattva, although this time, the monks initiated the meeting. However, at this time, all the food, cloth, and clothing distributed at the conference were transferred by the imperial court.

On the side of the monks, there are also a large number of local officials, and on each cloth bag, there is also the mark of the government. In such a move to win over the people, the people are still very polite. Moreover, in addition to Gaoyang County, the local government offices of all counties under the rule of the Hebei Imperial Court at this time also distributed materials before the New Year to the people in accordance with the standards of the Wujia Conference. …,

Although everyone may not get much, a bucket of rice, a few feet of cloth, and one or two old clothes donated by those well-wishers. But when it adds up, millions of people are a huge number. There were people in the imperial court who objected, especially the household department, which has not yet solved the food shortage. However, in the end, Chen Kefu signed the Prime Minister's Order and implemented it strongly. If there is a way, if you want to crack down on a group, you have to win over a group. Since he is aiming at the powerful family, the hearts of ordinary people need to be appeased even more.

A bucket of rice, a few feet of cloth, a few old clothes, and everyone who received it was grateful. The same imperial court, a few years ago bankrupted them and displaced them. But a few years later, the new court in Beijing cared so much about the people that it not only allowed them to return to their hometowns, divided the fields and land, but also provided them with food to tide over the difficulties. Even when the Chinese New Year is approaching, the court has not forgotten them.

Everyone is praising the sage of the Son of Heaven, the kindness of King Chen, and the bodhisattva heart of the high monks and masters. However, the people are more grateful to Chen Kefu, and everyone knows that the court can have such a big change because His Royal Highness King Chen thinks about them. This was the case when His Royal Highness was in Liaodong, and at that time they were envious and tried their best to escape to Liaodong. Now that King Chen has finally arrived in Hebei, they have also lived such a good life. There are even many people thinking that it would be better to let His Royal Highness King Chen be our emperor, otherwise, if one day the emperor of the Yang family is the same as Yang Guang, everyone will be finished.

The people are the most simple, they don't know too much etiquette, what imperial power is the son of heaven, they only know that what is good to the people is a good emperor. The one who makes the people hungry and clothed is faint.

Many elderly people hugged the cloth bags they had received, and said excitedly that in the past, they still remembered the scene of abundant food and clothing when the emperor was opened, and imagined the happy life at that time. are all looking forward to the fact that as long as the imperial court continues to be ruled by King Chen, it will not be long before they will return to the way they were when the emperor was in power, and maybe it won't be long before His Royal Highness King Chen will create a republican and prosperous era.

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