Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 211 Changes in Yixiali
The villages in Yixiali were all paved with stone roads, and the thatched cottages were knocked down and rebuilt into brick houses. The whole Yixiali was completely different from before Zeng Mu took office.

Now Zeng Mu is not in Yixiali, and the person in charge of the daily affairs of Yixiali is an indigenous security chief who used to be in Yixiali.

Li Yan looked at a small two-story building with great interest and asked, "What kind of place is this?"

Jiang Zhong is an aboriginal security chief. Because of his diligence, he is in charge of temporarily managing the daily affairs of the post when Zeng Mu is not there.

There was no notice before the king of Jianning came, and Jiang Zhong was suddenly notified the day before that he would come to visit the post.

Jiang Zhong was in a hurry, just cleaned up the sanitation in the village, and waited for King Jianning's convoy.

Jiang Zhong cautiously welcomed King Jianning into the post, but the prince who was in charge of Longyou was less arrogant than the county magistrate Jiang Zhong had met, and only asked Jiang Zhong some questions from time to time.

Jiang Zhong immediately said: "His Royal Highness, this is the school."

"School?"

Li Yan looked at this small two-story building, and there was a small sports field in front of the building. He didn't expect that a school could be set up in this posthouse?
Many villages along the way have study classes, but they are only literacy classes, that is, a thatched hut, some tables, chairs, benches and a blackboard, and the elders use the slack time to teach some simple things.

But it was the first time Li Yan saw so many villages in a school as large as Yixiali.

"Who is in charge of teaching on weekdays?" Li Yan asked.

Jiang Zhong said, "It's Master Xu."

Master Xu?Yang Yan, who was in the entourage, was very puzzled, he had been in Longyou for a while, and those who could be called masters should be well-learned Confucian scholars, but he had never heard of a prominent family surnamed Xu in Longyou.

Although Datang learned the lessons of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, in order to break the problem of academics being in the rich, he established Taixue in Chang'an and built schools across the country.

However, the two capitals of Taixue can only accommodate outstanding students from all over the country, and the students from the two capitals alone occupy most of the places in Taixue.

Since the Wu Zhou Dynasty, local schools have been continuously abandoned by local governments.

Therefore, family studies and ethnology are still prevalent in Longyou, while official studies are sluggish.

This is also something that can’t be helped. With the continuous deterioration of land annexation, the local finances gradually cannot afford the social functions of running schools and other spending money, which gradually leads to the abandonment of government schools.

The current situation in Longyou is like this. Except for the ethnology of a few big families, the children of ordinary well-off families have no way to study at all.

Yang Yan was able to become an official in Hexi Jiedu Mansion because the Yang family was a prominent family in Wuwei.

Jiang Zhong replied: "Master Xu is the master invited by Chief Zeng, and he was also a dental soldier of His Highness."

Now Li Yan understood that the head of the station is really a clever person, he even invited a player to teach the people in the territory.

After a while, Xu Lei came out of the school and saluted Li Yan.

Li Yan nodded slightly, and led everyone into the school.

In the square classroom, there are desks and chairs, and a blackboard on the wall. This is similar to the school in Li Yan's impression.

Xu Lei has already written half a blackboard, and it seems that he just ran out of teaching.

Li Yan said to Xu Lei: "Master Xu, continue with the class, I just need to sit by and listen."

Xu Lei seemed to be ordered by the principal to open the class, and went back nervously to continue the class.

But soon he relaxed, isn't it just an open class?As an excellent teacher, I don't know how many sessions I have in a month!
Xu Lei resumed his lecture, while Li Yan pulled out a bench at the back of the classroom and sat down.

The accompanying Yang Yan and others also sat on the benches, listening to Master Xu's lecture.

Today is a Chinese class, which is taught to children who have just turned seven in Yixiali, that is, a class to teach children literacy.

Yang Yan watched Xu Lei's lecture with great interest. Teaching young children to recognize characters is called enlightenment, which is the most important stage in a child's learning process.

When Yang Yan was enlightened, the Yang family specially invited a famous teacher, a retired civil official from the Hexi Jiedu envoy's mansion, to enlighten the disciples of the Yang family.

If Kaimeng can't lay the foundation well, it will take more time to make up the foundation in future studies.

This Mr. Xu enlightened more than 20 young children at once, which was not an easy task.

All I saw was Xu Lei writing rows of Chinese characters on the blackboard.

"At the beginning of human beings, nature is good, nature is similar, habits are far away."

These twelve short words made Yang Yan's heart tremble.

A group of three words is catchy to read. Sure enough, Xu Lei recited it once, and asked the children below to read it, and they could remember each one quickly.

These three-character short sentences use commonly used Chinese characters, but the twelve characters have a clear meaning, which raises a pedagogical question, why are people originally good, but everyone grows up? Will it look different?

"If you don't teach, your nature will change. The way to teach is to be specialized."

This sentence explains the problem of the first twelve words. Why children who are also good-natured grow up to be different is because of education.

This is a persuasive article, and it is an excellent persuasive article!

Yang Yan has also been enlightened, but what he read at that time was "The Essentials of Enlightenment". Although this is also an excellent textbook for enlightenment, this enlightenment book is all four characters per sentence, but it is not like Master Xu. The Kaimeng article is so subtle and catchy.

After the students finished reading, Xu Lei handed out paper and pencils to the children, asking them to draw on the three-character scriptures on the grid.

Li Yan stood up and watched a child in the back row carefully copying and writing on the matt, feeling very satisfied in his heart.

Pencil is a writing instrument that has become popular among the officials in Jianning Wangba Mansion and Sanzhou Governor Mansion.

The biggest advantage of this tool is that it is not tiring to write, and you can hold the pen for a long time to write without getting your hands dirty with ink.

Yang Yan's Bureau of Salt and Iron often needs to calculate and fill in data, so a large number of forms are written with pencils.

Looking at these children's decent traces in the tracing book, Yang Yan suddenly understood why Yixia Village was so prosperous and was rated as the No. [-] Mile in Shazhou.

The level of humanistic education alone is far superior to other villages.

Many children's pencil writing is better than the officials of the Salt and Iron Bureau. Yang Yan admires Master Xu's teaching ability even more.

Yang Yan is not one of those sour literati, writing tools, of course, the more convenient the better.

Pencils also have disadvantages, but the writing speed is much faster than that of brushes, and more importantly, it is easy to carry and can be used anytime, anywhere.

Now that Yang Yan is familiar with the use of pencils, he only uses brushes when drafting formal documents, and uses pencils for writing and calculation.

Allowing children to use pencils to teach calligraphy can save paper and facilitate writing, which can also enable children from poor families to enter school.

Unexpectedly, there is such a master as Xu Lei in a village like Yixiali.

The next class was arithmetic. Xu Lei taught a special symbol used by food merchants, which was also the Arabic numeral Jiang Lun promoted in the General Administration of Salt and Iron.

This time Yang Yan was even more surprised. These half-grown children are actually quite good at mathematics. Not only are they proficient in addition, but they even learned the table of multiplication formulas.

Li Yan highly praised the schools in Yixiali, and appointed Xu Lei on the spot as Shazhou Xuezheng, responsible for building more schools in Shazhou.

For Xu Lei, a six-test player, this is also a heaven-sent opportunity.

As a six-test player, Xu Lei is not good at fighting, so he accepted the invitation of Zeng Mu, the head of Yixiali, and set up a school in Yixiali.

Xu Lei is a major in pedagogy. He has two courses in Chinese and mathematics in the school. Chinese uses the "San Zi Jing" to teach children literacy, while mathematics uses the arithmetic part of elementary school mathematics textbooks to cultivate children's arithmetic ability.

The children in Yixia also cherish the opportunity to learn.Yunniang and several other outstanding children had already graduated from elementary school, and were brought by Zeng Mu to work in the laboratory of the pharmaceutical factory in Liulinli.

Now Yunniang can send [-] yuan to her family every month, which is more than what Yunniang's mother earns from moving hot water in the service area of ​​Yixiali.

The last time Yun Niang went back to visit her relatives in the post, she brought a lot of sugar pills for the school children.

The children gathered around Yunniang, listening to her talk about life in the willow forest, and listening to Yunniang talk about the prosperous Gaochang City, these children strengthened their belief in learning.

In the past, ordinary people were unwilling to read and write because they could not pass the imperial examinations and become officials.

As for the ordinary jobs in the prefectures and counties, those are monopolized by powerful families, and have nothing to do with ordinary children from poor families, let alone ordinary people farming.

But it’s different now, learning to read, writing and counting, the workshops in Xizhou, Shazhou are scrambling for it, and the salary for one month is more than farming for half a year.

An excellent student like Yun Niang was brought to work in a pharmaceutical factory by Chief Zeng. It is said that the monthly salary is more than that of ordinary officials in the Governor's Mansion!

Now the governor's office and the county government are expanding their recruitment of officials. As long as they can write and count, they can take the exam, and if they pass the test, they can become officials of the imperial court.

In the village next door, there were two young students who relied on their own skills to be admitted to the county government as officials, and successfully ate the imperial food.

All these are motivating the children to study hard. Li Yan is very satisfied with Xu Lei's teaching, so he recruits him to study politics in Shazhou and is responsible for organizing several new schools in Shazhou.

Rectifying armaments, setting up education, and developing the economy, Yang Yan felt that King Jianning was unfathomable.

In the past, the prosperity outside the Guan was far less than that of the four counties in Hexi, but King Jianning has been in power for less than half a year, and the wealth of Shazhou has surpassed that of Wuwei.

King Jianning's ambition is not small, Yang Yan's heart became hot.

If King Jianning can occupy the entire Longyou, he will have the capital to compete in the Central Plains in the future.

Yang Yan looked at King Jianning's young face. If King Jianning could become emperor in the future, wouldn't he be a hero from the dragon?
(End of this chapter)