Reading for freedom and self-worth, for the strength of the country, and for the rise of the nation.

Zhang Hongbin's speech was summarized in the above three arguments. Seriously, his speech is indeed inadequate, but it doesn't matter, there are so many royal literati, and after optimizing and beautifying, it has become an excellent speech that is inspiring and inspiring.

This manuscript was spread, not to mention those who read, even the people under the rule of the Qin State, from the high-ranking officials and nobles, to the common people of Limin, all set off a reading boom.

Zhang Hongbin published a manifesto in the weekly magazine at the right time, threatening that in the next four years, libraries of various sizes would be built in various parts of Shaanxi, and as long as local residents could obtain the qualification to enter the library to study with their identity certificates. At the same time, in the large libraries of prefecture-level cities, a special discussion area is set up for readers to discuss with each other.

Zhang Hongbin's prestige has thus gained considerable improvement. Whether it is a reader who can't afford to buy books, or can't get enough books, or those poor people who are eager to read, but have no money to buy books at home, they all absolutely support and support Zhang Hongbin's benevolent government.

Who doesn't want their son to be able to make a living, and who is willing to be a liba, a farmer, a merchant and a small worker for the rest of his life? However, I used to be poor, even if I wanted to read, I couldn't buy books, and the printing technology was not so advanced in those years, so the cheapest book cost more than 100 yuan, but how much savings did the peasants have a year?

I don't have money to buy books, so I naturally have no money to go to a private school. If you can't learn knowledge, you can only inherit the family business and continue to farm. It's okay to be a yeoman farmer, if you become a rich peasant, you can cultivate and read heirlooms, if you are a tenant farmer, then there is basically no possibility of getting ahead. It's good now, you can read for free, although there is no teacher to solve your doubts, but I heard that the discussion forum will arrange a day every week for teachers from various schools to come and sit in charge for a day, and then it will be good to ask for advice.

Zhang Hongbin's surprise was not over, and it was not long before the weekly magazine issued another decree that night school literacy classes would be held in various parts of the Qin State, and each place would set up a size, and the size and scale would be set up completely according to the size of the local population. To attend this training course, you only need to take the identity certificate of a local resident to sign up, and after signing up, you can get a set of enlightenment teaching materials, which can be obtained for free, and then you can take this teaching materials for free, and if you don't understand anything, you can also ask the teacher.

Classes are held in the evening, and there is only an hour and a half, so in this age of going to bed at seven o'clock, it is okay to spend three hours attending a lecture. I went to bed at ten o'clock, and when I got up at six o'clock the next day, I slept for more than eight hours.

Although it is only a literacy class for the enlightenment process, you can read books for free and get textbooks for free, which is like a dream for the majority of people. Some smart people quickly figured it out, if you don't enlighten, how can you read the books in the library? If you can't read the books in the library, what's the difference between opening a library and not opening it? In the end, it is still cheaper for those who are literate, and it is completely time-consuming for the illiterate to go there.

More than 10 days later, the construction of the first elementary school and the first middle school was completed.

The primary school curriculum is not only Chinese and mathematics, but also basic ideological and political skills, as well as labor classes, physical education classes, biology classes, music classes and calligraphy classes. The main courses are Chinese, mathematics and ideology and politics, and the rest are used to cultivate children's interests and hobbies and cultivate personal sentiments. In fact, among the so-called six arts of the gentleman, music, physical education, calligraphy and mathematics are somewhat touched.

There are more courses in the three years of junior high school, less calligraphy and labor classes, more geography and history, and at the same time, basic physics and chemistry have not yet been taught; The three-year high school curriculum has more basic chemistry and more esoteric physics, but of course, it has not yet entered the intermediate level. However, as in the future, high school began to be divided into liberal arts and sciences, and different subjects were studied according to their interests.

After graduation, those who pass the examination will enter Huaxia University, and the science department of Huaxia University should also be established at that time; At the same time, those who fail to pass the exam can also choose to study in sports schools, polytechnic colleges, medical universities, agricultural colleges and other junior colleges.

Zhang Hongbin also gave a speech, and it was rare to say a lot better in the second speech, and even in the third speech, he shamelessly stole "Young China Says", and after a slight revision, the students applauded thunderously, and even the teachers and other listeners who were watching were applauding loudly.

Seeing that the education career is starting to get on the right track, Zhang Hongbin is still very satisfied. It's the most time-consuming, and it's also the riskiest. For example, in the future, it will take more than ten years to cultivate a talent, and if someone else comes to foreign countries and waves a hoe, he will pry others into his own country, so that the country will spend more than ten years of investment in vain. And this feeling is as if I am obliged to help other countries cultivate talents, how aggrieved it is to say.

Rao is like this, Zhang Hongbin still wants to promote education, only when education goes up, thinking can be improved, and only when thinking is progressing will people learn to think and learn to reflect. Only education can cultivate the talents you need, not the introduction of talents who cry for your father and mother, especially those who are introduced, may not meet your own needs.

The risks are not impossible, one is that there is a chance of being pried into the corner, and the other is that if the mind is active, maybe some irrational things will be done, such as rebellion, such as revolution.

Besides, if the revolution is a trend of the times, then even if it is strongly hindered from its germination and growth, it will only last for a hundred years at most, and it must pay the price of completely destroying and rebuilding all the achievements of education. If it reaches that point, it is better not to have universal education from the beginning, but if it does, it is necessary to have the awareness that the day will come and the means of how to cope with it.

I finally returned to my office, and at present, Shaanxi, Daming and Houjin are all peaceful, and life is very peaceful. Only the rebels were a little more miserable, first Wang Jiayin was killed by traitors, and the rebels lost a leading and convincing big brother. Immediately broke into the general Li Zicheng, successfully promoted to the king of Chuang, the old king Gao Yingxiang, was ambushed by Lu Xiangsheng and arrested in an operation, and sent to Beijing Lingchi to be executed.

In fact, according to the report of the internal guard, the battle situation at that time was very strange. It is said that Li Zicheng is near Gao Yingxiang, if he goes to the rescue, there will naturally be no possibility of being arrested, but Gao Yingxiang is now arrested, if there is no Li Zicheng's hands and feet inside, I am afraid that no one will believe it.

It is conceivable that Li Zicheng, who has been suppressed by Gao Yingxiang for so long, but is silently developing his own power, is no longer willing to be subservient to others.

It's just that I don't know if it's for the sake of acting more realistically, King Chuang's power has been weakened to a fairly low level, but anyway, Li Zicheng has become independent, and how far he will develop in the future depends on his ability.

You must know that several of his generals and military advisors have now been dug into the corners by themselves. Without the two generals Hao Shaoqi and Yuan Zongdi, can Li Zicheng still command the army to fight against the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty so calmly? Without Li Yan, would the slogan of 'King Chuang come and don't pay for food' still exist?

As for Zhang Xianzhong, he originally rebelled with Li Zicheng this year, but now he has occupied many areas in Guizhou, and it seems that he has the meaning of entering Sichuan. If this person enters Sichuan, will he also have a massacre of the people of Sichuan, as in history? If that's the case, Zhang Hongbin really can't look at it.

The rebels are now very busy, busy dealing with the pursuit of officers and soldiers, dealing with the expropriation of materials in new territories, busy expanding their ranks, and busy discussing how to make money.

These have nothing to do with Zhang Hongbin, and Zhang Hongbin has a matter that he attaches great importance to deal with from time to time.

It was sent by the firearms workshop to report that there was a new product to be displayed in wood. Well, at that moment, Zhang Hongbin remembered the 'Mu's Chongzhen Three-Year Style' series of firecrackers. Originally, Lao Mu said that since Zhang Hongbin had succeeded the king of Qin, whether it was changed to the Qin king calendar or something, but Zhang Hongbin felt that it didn't matter if he was more generous, and even if the dynasty changed, there was no way to deny the fact that there was really a Chongzhen year in history, so it didn't matter if he changed his name or not.

When he came to the firearms workshop, Lao Mu came to Zhang Hongbin with a firecracker.

From the outside, it should be a normal firecracker, but the appearance is very different from the ordinary firecracker. The biggest difference is that it is larger and has six barrels, which makes it feel like a revolver.

Wait, this thing is actually ......

I once remembered that Dai Zi in the Qing Dynasty invented the 28-round Lianzhu firearm, which was completely the prototype of the machine gun. And this one has only six barrels, which seems to be relatively poor. But then again, Zhang Hongbin hasn't seen the twenty-eight rounds of firecracks, God knows what it was like originally?

"Old wood, what's this thing?" Zhang Hongbin took the firearm and looked at it carefully.

"To put it simply, it uses the kind of rubber you gave, so the airtightness is very good, so the reload is changed to the rear load, instead of the traditional front load. Of course, the so-called primer of His Highness cannot be made yet, so this kind of fire is opened in the rear, and the fixed gunpowder is placed in each barrel, and then the original state is restored, and at the same time the mini bullet is placed in the muzzle.

The design principle of this firearm, which is based on the principle of the revolver, ensures that the conversion of the firing gunpowder and the barrel can be carried out at the same time as the trigger is pulled. It can be said that as long as the trigger is pulled, the flint will be able to ignite the gunpowder and directly fire the next shot. In other words, this firearm can shoot six times in a row on the basis of the range and power of the original firecracker! Old Wood said proudly.

Well, it's really a repeating firebolt, the difference is that it's a machine gun, it's better to say that it's the kind of repeating rifle of later generations.

But even then, it's a good step forward.

Even the wisdom of the ancients really can't be underestimated!