Emperor Liu Hong

() Liu Hong is so eager to popularize education for all, and it is also after careful consideration.Not only did the official system he reformed require people to strengthen their education to open up their wisdom, but Liu Hong brought civil and martial arts to the people, and education must be popularized as soon as possible.

If only Wu was returned to the people, the problem would not be too big.But now that Liu Hong has classified the literati into the people, that will not work.

China has always attached great importance to literati, making literati proud to the core.Let the literati be compared with the other four peoples, the literati will definitely feel that this is a cheap thing, and of course they will not be willing.In order not to break out conflicts, Liu Hong decided to let the whole people know how to read and write.Let everyone become literati, and naturally this problem will not exist.

"Your Majesty, your idea of ​​making the whole people literate is very good. But in my opinion, it is a bit unrealistic. Those common people are busy with making ends meet every day, how can they have time to read and write?"

"Sima Aiqing, what you said is very reasonable." Liu Hong first affirmed the newly promoted minister of the Ministry of Education, and then said: "If there is no benefit, it is definitely impossible to make the whole people literate. But , we can use benefits to lure the common people to read and write.”

"Seduced by benefits?"

Liu Hong's words immediately confused Sima Hui.

"By the way, it is to lure with benefits. We can use the method of exchanging literacy for money and food to encourage literacy among the whole people."

Before Sima Hui could react, Liu Shu asked, "Your Majesty, I don't know how you want to reward? Although the state treasury has a lot of money now, this is a matter involving the whole people. If you reward on a large scale, the state treasury will No matter how much money you have, you will never be able to afford it.”

Liu Hong took out the Thousand-Character Classic, Hundred Surnames, and the improved Three-Character Classic that he had prepared a long time ago, and said, "This is the three books of Enlightenment that I have compiled. As long as you master them, the common people will basically be That's enough. In addition to the pinyin I invented, there are four items in total. I decided that each event will award [-] baht, or the equivalent amount of food. And for the four plenums, the award will be [-] baht or equivalent food, for encouragement."

After hearing this, Liu Shu and Sima Hui were all stunned.After half a day, Liu Su came to his senses and said to Liu Hong: "Your Majesty, the population of the big man is more than 6000 million. Even if half of them can read and write, there are still 3000 million people. Five thousand yuan per person is five silver coins per person. Calculate it More than 1 million to [-] million silver coins are enough. The treasury can’t afford such a large amount of money.”

"Uncle Emperor, the matter is not that serious. Now most of the people are not full enough to eat, they will choose food. In this way, our cost will be reduced a lot. Besides, it is a long-term process for the people to read and write. It will take at least several years to complete. If the money is spread over several years, it will be even less. In this case, the treasury should be able to bear it."

Let the whole people be literate, this is a great achievement, no one is not tempted.Especially Liu Shu and Sima Hui, both of them are supervisors, if this matter is done in their hands.Then they will definitely be famous forever.

Especially now, Liu Hong has made up his mind.It seems that Liu Hong has also thought it over.He even considered such a big expense, and they all wanted to go crazy with Liu Hong.

Neither the prime minister nor the Minister of Education objected, and the decree was passed.And as soon as it was reported to the world, it immediately caused a sensation.

In the eyes of ordinary people, people who can read and write are all capable, and they dream of joining it.But now, the emperor rewarded them for learning how to recognize characters. Even if it was for money, they must recognize all the characters.

Not only ordinary people, people from hundreds of schools and Confucianism were also extremely excited.Teaching without discrimination is not only the tradition of Confucianism, but also the wish of all schools of thought.Now that the emperor has given an order, they are all within their lifetimes, and seeing the possibility of completion, it's no wonder they are not excited.

Liu Hong's decree drew applause.Even if the voice was slightly different, it was directly drowned in the applause.However, Liu Hong was quite sober. He knew that in order for the whole people to read and write, it was not enough for the people to be willing to learn, but someone was willing to hand in it.

At this time, Sima Hui was also worried about this problem.He thought about it, but couldn't solve it.In the end, I had no choice but to go to the palace to discuss with Liu Hong.

Liu Hong knows very well that Chinese people, especially literati among Chinese people.Most of the time, it's just talking and not doing it.Especially those hard things, they are all fooling others to do it.As for themselves, they just stood aside and yelled twice.Therefore, it is basically impossible to point these literati to take the initiative to teach people literacy, especially those remote and desolate places with difficult conditions.

In this regard, Liu Hong is also quite a headache.But now Sima Hui is also stumped, making this incident directly affect the implementation of national literacy.Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, Liu Hong will solve it.

"I was also thinking about what Sima Aiqing said just now, but there is no good way." Speaking of this, Liu Hong glanced at Sima Hui, who was obviously lost, and then said: "But as the saying goes, under a heavy reward There must be a brave man. I think that as long as I give enough rewards, there should be someone who is willing to teach the people how to read."

Hearing this, Sima Hui immediately became excited and said, "Your Majesty, what kind of reward are you going to use to let those literati teach the common people how to read?"

Liu Hong thought about it for a while, and said: "Now everyone is interested in the title. So I will use this as a reward. Those who teach the common people to read will be given certain merits so that they can get the title. "

Speaking of this, Liu Hong had a solid foundation in his mind, and then said: "The course we set has four items. As long as he can let a person learn one of the four items, I will give him two points of merit. If He let a person learn all the four items, and he will give him ten points of merit. This merit point can make him a meritorious citizen. If you teach ten, he is a honorary citizen. If you teach a hundred, he is a quasi-baron .If you teach a thousand people, you can get [-] merit points, which will make him a true nobleman. Ai Qing thinks, is this reward enough for me?"

Hearing this, Sima Hui was completely excited, and kept nodding his head saying that it was enough.

In fact, Liu Hong's reward was indeed heavy enough.During the Han Dynasty, learned people taught, and there were thousands of disciples at every turn.Now that Liu Hong rewards people heavily to lure people to become literate, the number of people will only increase.Therefore, as long as the literati teach with their heart, it is absolutely not a problem for one person to teach thousands of people.

This merit point is enough for them to become real nobles.Not only themselves, but even their offspring are guaranteed.So, this is definitely a big prize.

However, due to such feats, it is too easy to obtain.Therefore, Liu Hong imposed restrictions from the very beginning. This policy will only be implemented for three years, and will be automatically canceled after three years.After all, to make people literate, mainly depends on the school.