Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 117 Handan toddler
The plan of the bookstore is progressing steadily as Li Tai expected.

After a day of self-study and thinking, the students who left decided to stay and continue to build the bookstore.

Li Tai himself was not sure whether Li Tai's words had infected them or not.

But what Li Tai can be sure of is that most of the students definitely go back and think about it carefully, and find that the only way to really use their knowledge is to open a bookstore.

Others, either compete with people in their own system for agricultural officials, or compete with people in Mingjing Jinshi subjects.

The former is still possible, but the latter should go back to the place to take the exam slowly, first obtain the qualification to come to Chang'an to rush for the exam.

Once again, these people are from good families, not descendants of aristocratic families, let alone landlords of common clans.

For these families, they can support a child to study for three or four years, but as long as it is not the kind of ordinary family that is particularly gambling or has a long-term vision, it is really difficult to support a child to continue to study .

It is not necessarily their short-sightedness that makes these children have to choose jobs that can be realized immediately, but their families cannot afford to support a labor force that does not do production all the time, especially learning itself is still a very expensive thing.

Therefore, in the bookstore, they can not only earn their own living expenses, but also have the capital to continue their studies, especially since the job seems to be quite a decent job, these students are quite happy.

It's like a librarian, although in Li Tai's view, this profession is either the first choice for fishing, or it's exclusive to big bosses.

But for the vast majority of students, they hope to become a librarian just because this career is decent and can help them continue their studies, so the competition for librarians is still quite fierce in the school.

However, a large part of the positions in agricultural colleges, including librarians, can only be held by students or teachers of agricultural colleges. If they do not have a formal status in the school, they cannot work in the school.

This is also the reason why Chen Kai entered the bookstore. He was originally a librarian, but as he was about to graduate, either he stayed in school and became a teacher's assistant, or his planting project was valued by the campus, or his librarian was at the end of his life .

And this time when he entered the bookstore, Chen Kai was considered a very positive person, and Li Tai also hoped that he would perform well.

To be honest, the development of the bookstore must have been unfavorable at the beginning, because Datang's literacy rate was really worrying.

The mainstream customers of my bookstore at the beginning must be students trained by Confucianism. Even if they will not resist the books of agricultural schools, it is definitely unrealistic to ask them to agree with the knowledge in them.

And Li Tai's customers are not them, or that sentence, Li Tai's goal is farmers and good families.

Besides the enlightened people among them, the most important ones are the students who left the agricultural college.

That's right, Li Tai didn't simply want to sell books to make money from the beginning, the function of the bookstore was to be the contact point for the students from the agricultural college.

The Tang Dynasty is not modern, and there are not many things that can be provided for entertainment, at least for the low-level people or good families.

It is enough for people to use words for entertainment, especially for the good family who are literate at the bottom, but it is difficult to change their fate. The semi-monthly magazines and magazines I publish are the spiritual food specially prepared for them.

With their graduation certificates, they will enjoy a [-]% discount.

If these students who left the school really only regard the school as a school after leaving, they will forget about it after leaving, and they don't even buy these bimonthly magazines and magazines with school information, then Li Tai will not force it.

But these agricultural school students who came to buy semi-monthly and monthly magazines with their diplomas will naturally become Li Tai's core backbone at the grassroots level.

Now what Li Tai needs is to train them more and more, and to train them to have monthly, semi-monthly, magazines and other books.

If I need the literacy of the people at the bottom, I have to start with these people.

To be honest, Li Tai understands that he will definitely invest a lot in the early stage to do this, especially to cultivate the reader market, and it is normal for him to get nothing in the past few years.

However, as the number of students in agricultural colleges gradually increases, the entire market must be getting bigger and bigger.

In particular, farmers really found ways to increase their production or increase their wealth from these monthly and semi-monthly magazines, which aroused their subjective initiative. Even if they could not read, they would take the initiative to buy a copy of these monthly and semi-monthly magazines.

After my children are out of school, let them translate the above words, and then the bookstore will be able to gain a firm foothold.

At that time, the bookstore can even use these bimonthly and monthly magazines as simple elementary textbooks to teach ordinary people literacy and spread agricultural ideas.

The most important thing is that because the cost of trial and error is too low, the common people dare not try and make mistakes, which seems short-sighted.

But when they do reap the rewards from the knowledge of the monthly and fortnightly magazines, they will also become the swarm of their biggest selves.

So for the bookstore, although Li Tai's future is quite big, but Li Tai knows better that if the food needs to be subsidized by himself for two or three years, he will definitely get benefits in the fourth year. If you want a real harvest, it will be ten or even 20 years later.

Before that, at most, I used the bookstore as a base of contact with the graduates of the agricultural school.

For example, helping some moral students who are really in trouble at home, for example, because they were conscripted to serve as military soldiers, they have no way to take care of their own students, for example, students who were bullied by local wealthy families but have nowhere to redress their grievances.

All in all, agricultural colleges will become their strongest backing, and Li Tai can also cultivate his own supporters in a reasonable way.

For Li Tai, fame is always his weakest point, especially Li Chengqian, as the prince, born to inherit Li Shimin's fame and the support of Confucianism, and in this regard, it can be said that Confucianism is the strongest in terms of reputation.

I don't want to surpass Li Chengqian in this point, but at least I have the qualifications to compete with him.

Therefore, I have to gain fame, but the reputation I need is different from Li Chengqian's.

"Let's do it first!" Li Tai looked at this scene, the chess piece in the bookstore, let's go down and have a look first.

From Li Tai's point of view, even if Li Chengqian sent someone to watch him open a few bookstores, could he really guess his intentions?

Such a subtle and silent layout of moisturizing things, when they really play a role, it's time to fight Li Chengqian head-on.

But what Li Tai didn't know was that his meticulous and silent layout for moistening things actually fell into the eyes of caring people.

Because in the agricultural college, there are several teachers who support the students, Chu Suiliang is practicing calligraphy in the dormitory at the moment.

His handwriting gives people the feeling that the weight of flesh and blood is balanced, and that both hardness and softness are combined, clear and vigorous, handsome and unrestrained, strength and beauty, bone and rhyme tend to be one, but the spirit is particularly compelling, at least Li Tai's handwriting is There is no qualification to use it as a background.

"Brother Dengshan, you have never stopped writing. No wonder you can write such a good handwriting. It seems that you have everyone's courage!" Liu Rengui praised.

Chu Suiliang smiled proudly, and changed the subject: "Brother Zheng Ze came back so early, how many students signed up for the bookstore?"

Liu Rengui also understood that Chu Suiliang paid more attention to the new bookstore in the school than his evaluation of other characters.

"A lot, basically I went back and thought about it all night, and decided to continue going to the bookstore!" Liu Rengui shrugged and said,

"At least a few liberal arts students I know are more in favor of going to bookstores.

What's wrong, what's wrong with this?The bookstore also buys and sells story books and introduces the knowledge of agricultural schools to farmers.

It is in line with the behavior of King Yue! "

"Because it's King Yue's actions, it seems that there is something wrong with it!"

Chu Suiliang sighed, "You are not in Chang'an, so you don't know that we have won the King of Yue, he is no ordinary prince!"

Liu Rengui sighed: "I have also heard about the wiseness of the king of Yue, like killing locusts to relieve disasters, gathering victims of disasters, building high tombs...

To be honest, if I hadn't come to Gaoling in person, I couldn't believe that this place was just a ruin three years ago. "

"Hehe!" Chu Suiliang said, "In the early days of Zhenguan, when the sage had just ascended the throne, the king of Yue spoke rudely to Kong Yingda and insulted Confucianism. Long ago..."

After Chu Suiliang said this, he paused slightly, knowing that he couldn't say the next thing.

Chu Suiliang took a deep breath before continuing, "An eight-year-old child, in such a situation, steadfastly seized every opportunity to become the present priest of the agricultural school, and at the same time a well-known official in the imperial court. .

If the bookstore is a trivial matter, does he need to come over to encourage it in person? "

"You can see clearly!" Liu Rengui felt thoughtful when he heard Chu Suiliang's words. Indeed, with Li Tai's performance all the time, although everyone couldn't understand what Li Tai's operations were, no one dared to underestimate him. Look at Li Tai's actions.

But Liu Rengui thought for a while, and said, "But what's the benefit of opening a bookstore? Spreading the reputation of the agricultural school, spreading the reputation of the king himself, or giving the liberal arts students of the agricultural school a place to eat? I don't understand, can you tell me?"

"Where do you think I am smarter than you? If only I could understand things that you can't figure out!"

Chu Suiliang continued, "I just think that the behavior of the king of Yue is very different in the past, except for giving the liberal arts students a place to stay.

The king of Yue must have his purpose in establishing the bookstore, but I can't see this purpose! "

"Then do we want to study?" Liu Rengui asked after hearing Chu Suiliang's words.

After all, the main purpose of these people coming here is to study, and then go to Jiangnan to open a branch school.

Therefore, he was naturally very concerned about Li Tai's actions. Now Li Tai made such an operation, which made Chu Suiliang puzzled!
"Learn, even though we don't know what King Yue is going to do, what's wrong with us learning it!"

Chu Suiliang said calmly,
"The students of these agricultural colleges have only studied for four years, and to us, they are only at the level of elementary school.

Who will read the manuscripts they write, I am afraid they are just for their own entertainment, but we can let more outstanding talents write more handsome articles, and even comment on Confucian famous places!
Although I don't know what King Yue does, but it's better than King Yue! "

"Are you going to fight against the King of Yue?" Liu Rengui frowned when he heard Chu Suiliang's words.

Chu Suiliang said: "Blue is better than blue because of blue, and ice water is colder than water because of it.

The sage asked us to study the Agricultural Institute of the King of Yue, isn't it just to prepare for surpassing the Agricultural Institute in the future!
Otherwise, it would be great to increase investment in agricultural colleges and train more water transportation talents, why bother us to come here. "

"You can understand the holy will!" Liu Rengui said, "Then you say, the king of Yue is very capable, why should the saint check and balance the king of Yue!"

"Of course it's for the prince..." Chu Suiliang said this, and immediately closed his mouth, saying,

"The heart of a saint is something you and I can't guess.

However, I believe that if we can't do better than the King of Yue, then how can we show our talents.

The bookstore must be written down first, maybe it will be used in the future. "

Liu Rengui watched as Chu Suiliang planned to swallow the jujube whole, learn it first and then talk.

Although Liu Rengui felt that there must be something wrong with it, but since Chu Suiliang didn't listen to the reminder, that's fine.

To be honest, compared to Chu Suiliang, who was born in a family and has been with Chu Liang since he was a child, his vision can be said to be far-sighted, and he sees many things more clearly than himself.

But Liu Rengui came from the bottom, and he has considerable sympathy for the people at the bottom, especially the good families at the bottom.

Therefore, he felt that the agricultural college was a great supplement to the peasants who had always been at the bottom.

The more he stays in this agricultural school, the more Liu Rengui can feel that studying here is quite fulfilling.

Many novel low-level ideas and many brilliant farming techniques can all appear here.

Although the peasants don't know how to write poems and songs, and they don't know how to govern the country, they also have unexpected creativity, especially in things like farming.

To be honest, Liu Rengui could tell that all the people sent here by the imperial court, as long as they put down their bodies to study, basically grew up, especially the four people in his dormitory, so this is indeed a pretty good school.

But unfortunately, the background of this school is still not enough, whether it is teachers or students, especially the accumulation of academics, many things that are difficult for ordinary people are almost easy for me and others.

Everyone hasn't graduated yet, and it's just because they have to wait for the first wave of wheat harvest.

But after the harvest, if there is nothing else to do, it must be inevitable to leave this agricultural school and establish a Jiangnan branch.

(End of this chapter)