Xuande

Chapter 347 Liu Bei Doesn't Want to Wait That Long

For these literacy players, Confucian classics are just shell embellishments, used to fool the world and blur their vision.

The real direction of cultivating them is to cultivate hard-working core seed players who have different ideas and agree with Liu Bei's new line.

They are the main supporters of the new system that Liu Bei wants to promote in Liangzhou. Their growth and strength will become an important support for Liu Bei to promote further reforms in the future, and they will be the driving force for pushing history forward.

So compared to the elite class, Liu Bei actually cares more about the ordinary class composed of these literacy players.

But in addition to the elite classes and ordinary classes, Liu Bei also plans to set up a preparatory school for state studies, which exists as a school for strengthening basic cultural knowledge.

It is worth mentioning that this preparatory school was used to connect collective farms.

In Liu Bei's plan, he plans to select a group of school-age children from major collective farms to enter this preparatory school every year. The number does not need to be too large, but education should be free of charge.

Food, lodging and school are included. After they complete the knowledge they should master in this preparatory school and become literacy players, they can enter the state school for further study.

Previously, Liu Bei had arranged for personnel to carry out literacy campaigns in the collective farms, and the effect can only be said to be acceptable.

Because of the lack of educational equipment and formal educational places, the efficiency of literacy is actually not high.

Moreover, most peasants don’t have much interest in learning how to read and write. After barely recognizing more than 100 or 200 characters under the supervision of instructors, they no longer pay attention to this. They learn very slowly. There are very few talented players of that kind. .

They think that with this time, it is better to cultivate more land, do more work, earn more income, eat more rice, and put in a little effort rather than spend time and effort on learning to read.

They don't think they can get any visible benefits through literacy, such as eating an extra bite of rice or something.

They can't see the long-term benefits, and they don't want to see them.

Compared with adults, it is better for young peasant children to learn quickly, and peasants are generally willing to let their children learn a few more words, so as not to be blind in the future.

Of course, it is limited to this, and the peasants have not thought about further education, and he does not think they have the opportunity to get in touch.

Educational resources are extremely valuable in this era.

But by coincidence, Liu Bei is one of the officially certified players who has mastered this precious resource.

So Liu Bei also plans to follow up with selection based on how much he can read. Every year, a group of smart children who can read more characters and learn quickly will be selected from the collective farm to enter the preparatory school for state schools, where they will be given a more systematic basic education, and then put in the state school. They are a step up.

Although the route is narrow and the opportunities are limited, they are there.

Since there is no realistic basis for promoting the imperial examination system in the short term, Liu Bei must open up his own competition track within the existing game rules, conduct differentiated competition, and strive to open up a new blue ocean.

Whether it is a scholar, an elite from a big landlord family, or a reader-literate player from a small and medium-sized landlord family, they are all considered a minority among the crowd in the entire Han Dynasty.

The bottom five, which account for more than 90.00% of the total number of people, is the real mainstream.

If their power is not absorbed, and they are not introduced into the "Xuande Company" through various means, the "Xuande Company" controlled by Liu Bei will be established on the basis of "children from poor families" such as small and medium-sized landlords. Woke up.

This is not so good.

With the behavior of these "children from poor families" today, I am afraid that it will not be long before they will become more powerful than my predecessors. In the future, the country they lead will not be much better than the country led by Liu Xiu.

These "children from poor families" can only be treated too much, and the ones who really need to be promoted are the children from rural families.

The peasants are at least one layer away, and the reform they pursue will be more thorough. Even if it will deteriorate in the future, it will not be so fast. Using them as the basis for innovation in the future can be regarded as targeted and supported.

Moreover, Liu Bei also has his own argument for wanting to promote the downward movement of academics.

What did Confucius say?

There is no class.

Regardless of what others think, when he comes to Liu Bei, it means that it doesn't matter who he is, as long as he is an individual, he can receive education, and there is no distinction between high and low.

What, you want to question Confucius?
Questioning Confucius in my school?

You are very brave.

That solved it.

The rest is nothing more than technical means and economic expenditures. For Liu Bei, who holds the benefits of salt and iron and does not like extravagant life, it is not impossible to take the lead in promoting academic downgrading in Liangzhou area step by step.

He has that financial base.

In fact, some far-sighted people have been working hard to promote academic downgrading since ancient times, hoping that more people can learn something and open up the wisdom of the people.

Although their purpose is not to improve anything, but to allow everyone to bathe in the "education of sages", so as to know the Confucian ethics, so that they would rather be hungry than "loyal to the emperor and patriotic", and reduce the occurrence of peasant uprisings.

This is the goal of quite a few "disciples of Confucius" who advocate the popularization of education.

But in any case, they impart culture to ordinary people, which also objectively promotes the development of education.

However, the mainstream power of the ruling class has always been sober. They have not done anything through administrative measures. On the contrary, they are still hindering this process. They don't want too many people to learn knowledge, in case they are dissatisfied with the status quo.

From the perspective of pure interests, these people don't want too many people to acquire knowledge, otherwise it will be inconvenient for them to continue to live a luxurious life.

The two forces ebb and flow and have been fighting all the time. The former has always been unable to fight the latter. It was not until the arrival of a major change unseen in a thousand years that this situation was completely broken.

Liu Bei didn't want to wait that long.

Whether it is movable type printing or papermaking, he has a way here, and he can form an industrial chain within three to five years and complete the technical problem of promoting academic downgrading.

However, crucial political system issues require another level of strength to break through.

He never cared whether he and his family could survive thousands of years.

Rather than maintaining this decadent hereditary "business" of family traditions, he wants to overturn the table, smash it all, and reshape cultural heritage.

The more families of the fourth generation and the third father, the more the country will be ruined, and the more hereditary successors, the more unlucky people will be. Therefore, it will be better to let these guys disappear and replace them with a group of people. .

Although this is also time-limited, it doesn't matter, it is impossible to count on once and for all.

Any idea of ​​once and for all will be shattered, and those who expect a single reform to do its best are dreaming. Only with continuous reform and continuous tossing can the world have hope.

From this point of view, the original intention of the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty was wrong. It was destined to fall apart from the idea of ​​​​founding the country by tinkering in order to restore the existing ruling order.

Therefore, although Liu Bei's surname is Liu, he intends to perform an earth-shaking operation to clean up the dirt that has accumulated in this world for hundreds of years.

For this goal, Liangzhou State School is the starting point for all of this.

For Liu Bei, the significance of Liangzhou state studies is very great, and for others, the significance of Liangzhou state studies is also very great.

Although everyone who enters this state school can become a disciple of Liu Bei, as we all know, disciples are free-ranging, and disciples are serious and deeply bound to the teacher.

If you want to really stand out, you can't do it with just one student.

(End of this chapter)