When people were in Qin, Shennong reincarnated at the beginning

Chapter 62 Compulsory education in Daqin.

Soon, Daqin was going to have a three-year compulsory education, and this matter was spread.Every citizen of Daqin has the opportunity to study for three years and study for three years for free.

Hearing this news, everyone was overjoyed, no matter if it was a rich businessman or a wealthy household, or a poor commoner.

Everyone has the idea of ​​​​hoping for a child to become a dragon. Knowledge in this era is in the hands of a few people.Whether ordinary people or rich merchants, they have no access to knowledge at all.

And once the three-year compulsory education is carried out, it is tantamount to giving these bottom-level ordinary people a chance to get in touch with knowledge.

"Heaven has eyes. My son is so smart. He will not have to live a life with his face facing the loess and his back facing the sky like me in the future." On the ridge of the field, an old farmer raised his head to the sky and shouted.

In a rice shop, a big fat man in Chinese clothes with a ruddy complexion smiled and said to the same little fat man, "Son, you will be able to study after a while. Dad has earned enough money in his life." , I beg you to be an official, and our business will no longer need to be suppressed."

"Father, can I read?"

"We are merchants, who is willing to accept me as an apprentice?" The little fat man asked in confusion.

In the cognition of the little fat man, if this person wants to study, he must first join one of the schools of thought.

However, these days, when the famous teachers of all schools choose their apprentices, they have to choose carefully.His family is a merchant, in the eyes of those learned people, they are the kind that stinks of copper all over their bodies, and it is not easy to learn from them.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen are at the bottom of the pyramid of social structure.If these learned people want to take in apprentices, they would rather take in poor peasants as apprentices than take in their children from a family of merchants.

Of course, it is not easy for children from poor peasant families to learn from a teacher, because most of them cannot afford the Shuxiu that they need to give to the teacher.

What is Shuxiu? Shuxiu is the tuition fee that apprentices have to pay to the teacher. This is handed down from Confucius at that time.

The Master said: "If you do more than cultivate (xiū) by yourself, I am not without instruction."

What does this sentence mean?

To understand this sentence, one must first understand what Shu Xiu is.Shuxiu is bacon, and this Shuxiu is not a piece of bacon, but a whole ten pieces of bacon.Ten strips of bacon are tied together, which is called Shuxiu.

What does this sentence of Confucius mean, that is, anyone who comes to worship me as a teacher with ten pieces of bacon, I will teach him.

Listen to this in reverse, that is, if you can't produce ten pieces of bacon, then how are you begging me, and I won't teach you.

In the era of material scarcity in ancient times, some people may have never tasted meat from birth to death.And this ceremony of apprenticeship requires a full ten pieces of bacon, so this will send most of the poor people out.

Moreover, famous teachers pay the most attention to their backgrounds when accepting apprentices, and people from merchant backgrounds, even if you are rich, they will not be accepted.In this way, knowledge is monopolized by the gentry.

"Hmph, we don't worship any teachers. We go to public school, which is our public school run by Daqin."

"You can only go to school for three years. It's not a good thing. It is said that it is difficult to get one in a thousand people in Jixia Academy. I don't know if you can pass the exam."

"I heard that as long as you can bid for the construction of a public school and be responsible for the expenses of this public school in the future, you will be able to get a spot to recommend to Jixia Academy."

"There are dozens of food stores in our family, not to mention one public school, but ten or eight public schools. Your father and I can support them. Now, we have to see if we can give you the entire recommended quota." The big fat man said to himself.

The fat man thought to himself that after going to public school, he just had the opportunity to learn knowledge.But in three years, what can I learn from this.

It is said that those who have worshiped famous teachers are all ten years old.

Three years of public school plus the six years of Jixia Academy, this is barely ten years.But this Jixia Academy is not easy to get into, you have to be the best to be selected.It is said that it takes tens of millions of people to choose one. The big fat rich man has no confidence in his son, so he thinks about building a school and getting a recommended place for his son.

Now, Daqin is not the only one thinking about this matter, but anyone with a little money in their family is thinking about this matter.

Soon, bidding actions have already started in various places.It can be said that Li Mu completely underestimated the enthusiasm of these businessmen, and the businessmen participating in the bidding have far exceeded Li Mu's expectations.

It has to be said that Li Mu's entire plan can be said to be flawless.The businessmen are not short of money, and they are responsible for paying for the construction of the school, managing the school, and then giving them a place to recommend to Jixia Academy.

These recommended students are not the same as the students who are officially admitted to Jixia Academy from public schools. Students who are admitted to Jixia Academy by themselves, they are admitted for free, and they do not need to spend a penny during the study process.

And these recommended students, although they get the same learning conditions as the students admitted to Jixia Academy, but they need to pay a lot of tuition fees every year.

The merchant maintained and built the public school, and then obtained further opportunities for his offspring to enter the Jixia Academy.

The annual tuition fees paid by these recommended students can completely supply the operation of the entire Jixia Academy.In this way, the Jixia Academy became a perpetual motion machine.

As long as the ratio of recommended students to normal students is maintained at a certain rate, then Jixia Academy can continuously provide Daqin with talents, and Daqin doesn't need to pay for anything.

The bidding meetings in various places have ended, and the whole bidding meeting is very hot, and the construction right of each school has become a hot item among businessmen.

The enthusiasm of these businessmen exceeded Li Mu's expectations. Li Mu even temporarily added a matter of being responsible for the students' board and lodging during the school period to the bidding conditions, and these businessmen were still very eager to compete.

For these businessmen, as long as their descendants have the opportunity to gain access to knowledge and have the opportunity to make a name for themselves, it is worth the high price.

The number of places in Jixia Academy is too heavy. This is the only school in Daqin, and the students of this school can even be called the emperor's disciples to some extent.

It can be predicted that the students who graduate from this school will have a bright future ahead.

Because of this, under the bidding of the merchants in turn, these merchants almost fought during the whole bidding process.In the end, though, the purse has to do the talking.

However, merchants are the most savvy, and those merchants who are not very wealthy have started to compete in groups.Two or three, but four or five good businessmen jointly fund and bid for a school, one place each year, and several companies take turns to get it.

(End of this chapter)