Late Tang

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"The squadron leader always runs so fast every weekend, as if he is rushing to reincarnate." Seeing Guo Tao rejecting the proposal to play together on weekends, waving his hand and disappearing without a trace, the squadron leader of Guo Tao Qin Ming helplessly spread his hands to the other team leaders, his face full of helplessness.

"I guess I should rush back to help with things." Team leader Zhao Xing said.

"Or it's because I have a good friend at the girls' school." Another team leader, Liu An, laughed and said, with a look that you all know.

There are now many schools under the jurisdiction of [***], and the ten Scout schools are just a part of all the schools.There are primary schools in every village, middle schools in townships, and in counties, the original county schools have become senior high schools, enrolling many more students.In the past, no matter whether it was a private school or a county school, there were very few students, but now the schools in the town [***] not only do not charge money, but also provide subsidies, and scholarships for good grades can even subsidize the family.With such opportunities, the number of students in elementary, middle, and high schools has greatly increased.There are even two academies in southern Liaoning and Dengzhou, where almost all the students are gifted.

In addition, there are Dengzhou Lecture Hall, Beisha Non-commissioned Officer School, Duli Town Sailor School, Qingnicheng Cavalry School, Dengzhou Engineering School, Changxing Medical and Nursing School, etc. in the town [***].

In addition to these professional long-term schools, there are also many short-term training schools.For example, various technical training schools generally provide three-month to half-year training, and send technical apprentices to various mining and civil engineering industries.

In addition, in view of the current situation that the town [***] has a large number of female workers, the town [***] has also established a lot of girls' schools.In addition to learning literacy, arithmetic, drawing, and music, the girls' schools also provide a lot of skill training. For example, the medical school has gynecology, pediatrics, and nursing departments. In addition, there are many professional skills trainings such as tailoring, cooking, and teachers.

When this girls' school came out, it attracted opposition from many people at first, but it didn't take long for everyone to accept it.Each workshop has signed a recruitment agreement with each school in advance. The salaries of these girls who come out of girls' schools will be much higher than ordinary female workers.And it's almost free at school, with free meals and even free school uniforms.

The current Dengzhou City has built many new workshops and schools, as well as a large number of residential areas and commercial markets in the southeast of the original old city. A larger-scale Dengzhou New City has initially formed here.

Walking on the broad street, because it is the weekend, groups of energetic students can be seen everywhere.

Li Jing, Li Rang, Li Chun, Han Anmin, Xiao Dingbang and other major officials in Dengzhou are all dressed in ordinary white straight gowns, and they all put on some makeup, and they didn't hug each other. Just like the gentlemen in the most common schools in Dengzhou.

To talk about the most diverse types of people in Dengzhou right now, the first is the male and female workers in various workshops, and the second is the soldiers of various ministries in Dengzhou, such as the town [***], Pinglu Army, the United Army, the Navy Army, the Township Army, Scouts, as well as military police, security forces, urban management teams, etc., and then there are students and teachers in various schools.

Since the establishment of a large number of schools in Dengzhou, many scholars and scholars from the Tang Dynasty have been attracted.Most of them came to apply for the staff of the shogunate, and some came to the academy to study.Others came to be teachers.

The town [***] is now very powerful, and it is rich and stable that is rare in other places in the world, so many scholars have come to Dengzhou.However, it is not that simple to enter Dengzhou to be an official or an official.

The civil servant examination in Zhen [***] is simply better than the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty, and the admission ratio reaches [-] to [-].This so-called civil service examination is a new policy recently launched by Li Jing.All the official positions under the jurisdiction of [***] will be publicly recruited.After the written test and interview, the final admission is based on the grades.

All positions other than Liunei Jiupin are admitted by the civil service examination.Although only clerks are recruited, for many scholars, the town [***] has good treatment and excellent conditions, and Li Jing also stated in the announcement that the clerks who have passed the civil service examination, as long as they have good performance in their work, will not be assessed. If you are excellent, you can be promoted gradually, and finally you can even break the threshold between officials and officials, and you can be promoted from officials to officials.

This alone is enough to make countless people come to take the civil service exam.

However, there are too many monks, and although Li Jing has recruited civil servants for a hundred positions, large and small, after the first civil service examination, there are almost 10 people who came to apply for the examination this time.Although the vast majority of those who signed up were blind participants, the local Dengzhou people who gave it a try.However, the number of literati who came here was still as many as nearly [-].Young and old, it was more lively than going to Beijing to rush for the exam.

In the end, only a hundred people were admitted, although Li Jing said that there will be a civil service examination in the first month of the year, and more people will be admitted by then.But many literati eventually returned home.However, most of them don't want to leave after they come. Although they can't be civil servants, they still have other places to go.Various schools in the town [***] are recruiting a large number of teachers, among which the remuneration is good, the salary is high, and the benefits such as the New Year's Day are also good, especially Li Jing has a regulation, which makes them very excited.If the teachers who teach in various schools in the town [***] take the civil service examination, they can get extra points.In particular, those who have obtained the qualifications for the imperial examinations in the various states of the Tang Dynasty also have extra points.

Because of this extra point, many literati stayed and entered the school to teach.Another point is that being a teacher is indeed very easy, and the accommodation conditions are also very good.In particular, Li Jing built two large libraries with a collection of [-] volumes in Dengzhou and southern Liaoning, which can be said to be one of the reasons that attracted them to stay.Even every school has a library with thousands of volumes of books.

The teachers of each school, like the students, also have a unified teacher uniform, that is, a deep cross-collared coat with a white background and a black border, and a Confucian scarf with black gauze as the outer surface and linen lining.

Li Jing and the others were all dressed in teaching attire today, wearing dark clothes with a white background and black collar, black gauze scarves on their heads, and even holding a folding fan in the cold weather.A few people walked on the street, but they immediately had a sense of elegance.

Han Anguo shook his folding fan lightly and said with a smile: "Previously, the young marshal proposed to build these schools with funds from the treasury to expand the enrollment of a large number of students, but all tuition fees were waived, and even board and lodging were provided for free, subsidies and scholarships were provided, and even high salaries were paid to hire I have come to teach you a lot. At the beginning, the old man was against it all the way, and he went to bring brother Xiao together, and contacted many officials to make a deal. But now it seems that the old man is indeed wrong."

Han Dingbang also nodded repeatedly. At the beginning, Li Jing wanted to run a large school, even a school, a military school, a military school, a technical school, a technical school and a girls' school. The appearance that everyone can read, write, and count, aroused his great worry.Since ancient times, it has been believed that reading can only be read by a very small number of people, and it has even become the patent of aristocratic families.

The imperial examinations in the Great Tang Dynasty once severely damaged the noble families. Later, the aristocratic clans finally changed and adapted to the imperial examinations. Instead, they used the imperial examinations to make it easier for the aristocratic clans to enter the court, and they accepted the imperial examination system.But Li Jing's school-running method, coupled with his civil service examination, is even more powerful than the imperial examination.With a large number of schools running, almost everyone can study regardless of their background, and the civil service examination allows these scholars to enter the officialdom without recognizing their background.

This is the deepest worry, this is the long-term concern.The more recent worry is that running so many schools, hiring so many teachers, and subsidizing so many students will be a huge burden for the town [***].

But now it seems that his worries at the beginning are no longer a problem.

"Running a school does cost money, but we are not afraid of spending money now." Li Jing smiled, "We don't just rely on land to survive, we are still a business, and we take part of these profits to subsidize the school. Come on. In the short term, we are constantly throwing money into it, but we don’t have to wait for the long term, we can see the benefits in the short and medium term.”

The trade business in the town of [***] is booming, and the demand for commodities is huge.Each workshop began to divide labor more and more finely, and the demand for professional technicians increased.In the past, a blacksmith may have to learn for more than ten years, but now, in various workshops, the profession of blacksmithing is divided into countless processes. In a technical school, one of the skills is specially trained for a short period of time, and the learning time may be shortened to several. month time.The combination of these workers who have only been trained for a few months can also complete the work that a blacksmith who had to study for more than ten years can do.

The output of the workshop increases, the scale expands, the profit from sales increases, and the tax revenue received by the town [***] also increases, and the income of the people increases, consumption increases, transactions increase, and the economy is better.

The money Li Jing invested in running the school before will soon be subsidized from the increased tax.

Moreover, this is only a short-term benefit.In the long run, the more craftsmen and technicians in the town [***], and even the talents who can read and count, the greater the help for long-term development.

"Dengzhou Wharf passes through the old Dengzhou City to the new Dengzhou City, ten cents a piece, and there are still vacancies. Hurry up and get on the bus if you want to go!"

An extended four-wheeled carriage slowly stopped on the side of the street, and the coachman on the carriage shouted loudly.

Li Jing looked at the red-painted four-wheeled carriage. The carriage had a canopy, and there were ten seats inside. There were already four or five people sitting there, all of whom were businessmen in silk and satin or literati in Confucian robes.

Ten Wen is not too much, but it is by no means too little.It is about [-] miles from Xincheng to Dengzhou Wharf.A trip full of ten people costs one hundred Wen. This carriage is a double-drawn horse. It is estimated that it can run three or four times a day, which is three to four hundred Wen. It should still be profitable. (To be continued.)