The first batch of students to receive compulsory education have already graduated.

The eldest was fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger one was eleven or twelve years old, and those with excellent grades were assigned to village primary schools as mathematics teachers.

As long as you have good math scores, you can become a teacher at the age of eleven or twelve!

A few with excellent grades were recruited to Ji'an Province for further study and could work as middle school math teachers.

For the time being, the current educational reform can only be carried out in the seven counties of Luling, Jishui, Anfu, Taihe, Xiajiang, Xingan, and Yongxin. The main reason is that there are not enough mathematics teachers, who used to be taught indiscriminately, and many village and town schools did not offer mathematics classes at all.

This situation will be alleviated in another year or two, and there will inevitably be a large number of qualified math teachers.

At the very least, teaching elementary school is sufficient.

In the primary education of New China, many mathematics teachers taught students while learning on their own. Especially in rural areas, a ruined temple, a blackboard, a teacher, a group of students, is a school.

Under this kind of educational conditions, hundreds of millions of migrant workers who can write and calculate have been trained.

Under Zhao Han's rule, it was almost the same, saying that it was three years of compulsory education (it was four years before, which was a bit unbearable), but in fact, the teaching was messy. Many old pedants, while teaching students, learn on their own. After a few years, the quality of the students is not good, but they have learned mathematics by themselves.

Luling County School was officially renamed Luling County Middle School.

Originally, the school year was due to start in August (lunar calendar), but due to the delay of the floods, many things were not prepared, and it was delayed until the end of September.

Zhao Han personally attended the opening ceremony, and the scene was not lively, because there were few teachers and students in the school.

In the six towns of the county, the mayor presides over the graduation examination, and the top ten can be promoted to county-level middle schools for free. There is only one middle school in the county, with a total of 60 publicly-funded students, and the rest of the students must study at their own expense.

At present, there is only the first year of secondary school, with 187 students and 8 teachers of various subjects.

It must be admitted that in these large counties of Jiangxi, the atmosphere of reading is really very strong. In the first year of secondary school, it is very new, and there are 127 students who are self-funded. Some of them are self-financed, even from ordinary peasant families, and send their children to middle school with a small amount of food and clothing.

In the future, there will definitely be more and more self-financed students, and the second county middle school will be opened at that time. The address of the school has been selected as Wuxing Town in advance, which is one east and one west from the county seat, which can take care of the students in the county.

"Greetings to Mr. Zhao!"

When Zhao Han appeared, the principal took all the teachers and students to make a move.

Zhao Han immediately returned the salute and said loudly: "In the future, it will be changed to welcome, not welcome." I don't need your respect, I just want you to rejoice when you see me! ”

The principal immediately re-appealed: "Welcome Mr. Zhao!" ”

The principal's name is Zhang Chunqin, an old boy gave birth to one, and he has not yet been admitted to Xiucai in his fifties. In order to provide him with education, the whole family was about to starve to death, and after Zhao Han occupied the city, the scientific examination in Luling County was interrupted, and Zhang Chunqin simply went to the village to learn to be a teacher.

Zhang Chunqin knows traditional arithmetic, and he learns mathematics very quickly, and he is the only teacher in the whole village.

In this year's graduation exam, four of the top ten in Wuxing Town were taught by Zhang Chunqin. When Zhao Han learned of the situation, he immediately summoned him personally, encouraged him to continue his self-study, and appointed him as the first principal of Luling County Middle School.

At this moment, Zhang Chunqin also stood behind Zhao Han, and then looked at all the teachers and students with his head held high.

This is the highlight of his life, Zhang Chunqin thought that he was hopeless in the Xiucai examination, how could he think that one day he would be able to do the county school teaching. He didn't think that his ability was too poor, but that there was a problem with the previous imperial examination system, and he actively supported the education reform, and determined that Zhao Han would definitely be the emperor in the future.

Some people think that Zhao Han's education is messing around, and naturally there are hardcore supporters like Zhang Chunqin.

Zhao Han began to speak: "Congratulations, all students, for becoming the first batch of students in Luling County Middle School. The imperial examination is excellent, but how to conduct the imperial examination and how to conduct culture and education is debatable. The Emperor Chongzhen in Beijing, as well as the princes of the court and the court, all felt that there was a problem with the selection of officials for the imperial examination. Therefore, they took the township test and the meeting test, increased the art of war, and restored the recommendation system in the early days of the dynasty. They were all wrong! ”

"You can see that Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Nanzhi, and Zhejiang all have famine this year. It is rich and prosperous, and it is already cannibalistic! Why? Not only natural disasters, but also human disasters. Many officials in Zhejiang have committed great crimes. In the year of the New Year, they did not think about disaster relief, but still exploited the people. Confucius and Mencius are righteous, benevolent government is the first, these officials, and sages have all read into the dog's belly! ”

"The officials elected by the imperial court can do things in 12 out of 10, and 9 out of 10 can only talk in vain. Officials who talk about things often make officials who do things unable to do things. I reform culture and education and reform the rule of officials, that is, I want to select officials who can do things. You are all the first batch of students of the new culture and education, and you will definitely do great things in the future, and you will be able to sweep away the filth and seek the well-being of all people......"

"You read the Four Books and the Five Classics, and you study mathematics, all of which can be used to do things. If you have gone to secondary school, you know that if you do not have a student who has not been promoted to secondary school, even if you cannot become a teacher, you are willing to recruit as an apprentice. How so? Because they are literate, they can do math, and it's easier to use it, so they don't have to put more effort into teaching it......"

"From now on, you will not be an official, nor a teacher, nor a scholar, but you will easily make a living......

"In cultural and educational matters, being an official is not the only purpose. Those who read must first learn to be a man, and secondly, they must learn to do things. can be a man, can do things, where in the world can not be ......"

As Zhao Han said, many students with poor grades are very willing to be recruited as apprentices, because they can save a lot of training costs.

These students, after graduating from elementary school, are about 10 to 13 years old, have a cultural background, and learn everything quickly.

If it was the previous one, either the big families would train their own domestic slaves, and then throw them into shops and workshops to become apprentices. Either recruit apprentices from the society, and it takes five or six years to train one, which is as easy as now?

Children in rural areas, especially in mountainous areas, are more than willing to go to the cities to become apprentices.

Even if the family divides the land, it can be taken care of by other family members. If you can't farm, you can still spend money to hire short-term workers, and the income from working in the city is more than enough to hire short-term workers to do farm work.

This is the advantage of the new education system, which allows students to better integrate into society.

Of course, the premise is three years of compulsory education, otherwise the cost of education for children at the bottom is too high, and they may not be willing to go to the city to do apprenticeships.

And to have a stable social environment, under the governance of the Ming Dynasty, apprentices must ask for gifts, and more than three good people must be guaranteed. Under Zhao Han's rule, it doesn't matter, taking out the primary school graduation certificate is more reliable than any guarantor. Even if something happens, such as donating money to run away or something, you can ask the government to go to the school to investigate the family information.

After Zhao Han finished speaking, he bowed to the teachers and students, and the teachers and students also returned the salute.

Among the more than 100 students, there were a few older teenagers, or young people, about 20 years old. He must have studied at his own expense, his family conditions were not bad, and he didn't dress like a civilian.

Eight teachers, six classes, two resting, rotating classes.

In addition, several school workers were recruited to do some chores, and the school canteen was contracted to merchants. If you don't contract, there will definitely be a miasma, and the cost of food will rise sharply.

As for the businessmen who do their hands and feet on the food, hehe, the ancient scholars were all treasures, believe it or not, they went directly to the county government to petition!

Zhao Han stood outside the window and looked in, this class was teaching "Geometry".

This is also the reason why there are only seven county-level middle schools for the time being, because there are only seven people who know "Geometry" and are willing to be teachers. Moreover, these seven people are also half-, teaching and self-learning at the same time, after all, they only got "Geometric Original" last year.

But seven seeds were sown, and three years later, there were hundreds of graduates who knew Geometry.

Passing on the torch!

Zhao Han went to another classroom, where he was teaching the first book of the "Four Books", "University", which began with "self-cultivation and family governance and peace in the world" to establish a correct outlook on life for students.

After watching for a while, Zhao Han left silently, his mood was very good, and it was more refreshing than the defeat of the official army to expand the territory.

When will you find time to put "Physics" out as well.

He forgot that it was too profound, but he still remembered the basic knowledge of mechanics in junior high school. The first and third laws of Newtonian mechanics will never be forgotten in this life, but the second law is a little difficult to remember.

It's okay, I can remember two, I am already at the forefront of Europe, after all, Newton has not yet been born at this time.

The school is very close to the General Military Mansion, and it is nothing more than a walk from the south city to the north city.

Zhao Han paced back slowly, and very unexpectedly met a person, Xu Xiake, who passed by here last year, came back.

Xu Xiake in history, this trip did a lot of immoral things.

Before the goods arrived in Jiangxi, they were already running out of money, so I borrowed ten taels of silver from a friend halfway. When he was in Hunan, he was ransacked by bandits, and only a silver ear scoop was left in his body. He went to Hengyang again to borrow money from a friend's son. But the son of a friend had no money, so he could only help contact the local association, mortgage the rent of the Xu family's twenty acres of land, and borrow twenty taels of silver. At the same time, the head of the eunuchs of King Gui's Mansion mobilized the eunuchs to donate fourteen taels.

When he arrived in Guangxi, an official gave him a set of horse cards.

Holding this horse card, you can use the post station carriage and horse, you can eat and drink in the post station, and you can also make the people work for free.

Then Xu Xiake began to mess around, often using horse cards, and asking the villagers to carry sedan chairs. In addition to the luggage, seven or eight sedan chair drivers had to be used, and even once the young man ran away, he also asked two women to carry the sedan chair for himself. The villagers still have to feed and drink for him, and he can't eat too badly, in his own words, it's called "boiled egg pulp", at least he has to eat eggs.

This horse card can only be used in Guangxi, and after entering Yunnan, Xu Xiake has to rely on himself. Once he stripped naked and wrapped himself in a quilt, hung up all his clothes, shoes and socks and sold them, because he really had no money, and finally sold a skirt.

"Why did the gentleman come back?" Zhao Han asked.

Xu Xiake sighed and said: "There is chaos in southern Hunan, and it is difficult to move an inch. The slaves below were dead, and they were robbed of all the money they had borrowed, and they sold all their clothes, and they were left with this shabby piece that no one could buy. Tell me the truth, I ...... I came back begging all the way. Under Mr. Zhao's rule, it was really rich, and it was difficult to beg for food in southern Shonan, so he had to pick wild fruits and eat wild grasses. After entering Jiangxi, there were many people who were willing to give alms. ”

Zhao Hanqiang held back a smile and asked, "How did Xiangnan have a mess?" ”

Xu Xiake said: "Hengyang has been occupied by the rebels, all the counties in Hengzhou are thieves, and there are Miao people in the southern prefecture. I finally raised some money and was robbed three times. ”

Zhao Han immediately became serious: "Let's talk about it in detail." ”