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  Chapter 229 227 [Luling County Middle School]

  The first batch of students to receive compulsory education have already graduated.

  The older ones were fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger ones were eleven or twelve years old. Among them, those with excellent grades were assigned to work as math teachers in village and town primary schools.

  As long as you have good math scores, you can become a teacher at the age of eleven or twelve!

  A small number of students with excellent grades were recruited to Ji'an Prefecture for further study, and could serve as middle school mathematics teachers.

  Current education reform can only be rolled out in the seven counties of Luling, Jishui, Anfu, Taihe, Xiajiang, Xingan, and Yongxin for the time being. The main reason is that there are not enough math teachers. Before that, they were taught indiscriminately. Many rural schools did not offer math classes at all.

   This situation will be alleviated in another year or two, and qualified math teachers will inevitably emerge in batches.

   At least, teaching elementary school is enough.

  In the primary education in New China, many mathematics teachers teach students while self-studying. Especially in rural areas, a ruined temple, a blackboard, a teacher, and a group of students are a school.

  Under this educational condition, hundreds of millions of migrant workers who can write and count have been trained.

  Under Zhao Han’s rule, the same is true. It is said that it is three years of compulsory education (it was four years before, which is a bit unbearable), but in fact the teaching is messy. Many old pedants teach students while learning by themselves. After a few years, the quality of the students was not good, but they learned mathematics by themselves.

  Luling County School officially changed its name to Luling County Middle School.

  School was supposed to start in August (lunar calendar), but due to flood delays, many things were not ready, and it was delayed until the end of September.

  Zhao Han attended the opening ceremony in person, and the scene was not lively because there were very few teachers and students in the school.

  There are six towns in the county, and the mayor of the town presides over the graduation examination. The top ten can enter the county-level middle school for free. There is only one middle school in the whole county, with a total of 60 public-funded students, and the rest of the students have to study at their own expense.

  Currently only the first grade of middle school, with 187 students and 8 teachers of each subject.

   It must be admitted that the reading culture is really strong in Jiangxi counties with major imperial examinations. In the first year of middle school enrollment, which is very new, there are 127 students at their own expense. Some students at their own expense, even from ordinary peasant families, save money to send their children to middle school.

  There will definitely be more and more self-funded students in the future, and the second county middle school will be opened by then. The address of the school has been selected in advance as Wuxing Town, which is one east and one west from the county seat, which can take care of the students in the whole county.

   "Welcome Mr. Zhao!"

  When Zhao Han appeared, the principal brought all the teachers and students to bow.

  Zhao Han immediately bowed to return the salute, and said in a loud voice: "From now on, it will be changed to welcome, don't greet me. I don't need your respect, I only hope that you will be happy when you see me!"

  The principal immediately bowed again: "Welcome Mr. Zhao!"

  The headmaster's name is Zhang Chunqin, an old boy who was born in his fifties and has not been admitted as a scholar. In order for him to study, the whole family was starving to death. After Zhao Han occupied Fucheng, the examinations in Luling County were interrupted, so Zhang Chunqin simply went to the village school to be a teacher.

  Zhang Chunqin knows traditional arithmetic, and he can learn mathematics quickly by himself. He is the only teacher in the whole village.

  In this year's graduation exam, four of the top ten in Wuxing Town are mountain children taught by Zhang Chunqin. When Zhao Han learned of the situation, he immediately summoned him in person, encouraged him to continue his self-study, and appointed him as the first principal of Luling County Middle School.

  At this moment, Zhang Chunqin stood behind Zhao Han step by step, and looked at all the teachers and students with his head held high.

  This was the highlight moment of his life. Zhang Chunqin thought that he had no hope of being a scholar, but he never expected to be a county school teacher one day. He didn't think that his ability was too weak, but that there was a problem with the previous imperial examination system. He was very active in supporting education reform, and determined that Zhao Han would definitely be the emperor in the future.

   Some people think that Zhao Han's education is messing around, and naturally there are die-hard supporters like Zhang Chunqin.

Zhao Han began to lecture: "Students, congratulations, you have become the first batch of students in Luling County Middle School. The imperial examination is excellent, but how to conduct the imperial examination and how to conduct culture and education is debatable. The Chongzhen Emperor in Beijing, and All the lords of the court felt that there was a problem with the selection of officials in the imperial examination. Therefore, they increased the military strategy in the provincial and general examinations, and restored the recommendation system in the early days of the country. They were all wrong!"

"As you can see, there are famines in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Nanzhi, and Zhejiang this year. Even if Zhejiang is as rich as Zhejiang, people cannibalize people! Why is this? Not only natural disasters, but also human disasters. Many officials in Zhejiang have committed heinous crimes. In the year of great hunger, they didn't think about relief, but still exploited the people. The classics of Confucius and Mencius, benevolent government is the first, these officials, sages and sages have read the dog's belly!"

"Twelve out of ten officials elected by the imperial court can do things, and nine out of ten can only talk. The officials who talk about it often make the officials who do things fail to do things. I reformed culture, education, and official management. I want to select people who can do things. Officials. You are all the first batch of students of the New Culture and Education. You will surely make great achievements in the future, and you will be able to clean up the filth and seek the well-being of the people..."

"You read the Four Books and Five Classics, you study mathematics, and you can use them to do things. You have studied in middle school, and you know that students who have not entered middle school, even if they cannot become teachers, merchants are willing to recruit as apprentices. Why is this so? Because they Literacy, they know mathematics, it is more convenient to use, no need to spend more effort to teach..."

   "From now on, even if you don't become officials, don't become teachers, and don't pursue learning, you can easily earn a living..."

   "Being an official is not the only purpose of culture and education. People who study must first learn to be a man, and secondly learn to do things. Know how to be a man and do things, and you can't go anywhere in the world..."

  As Zhao Han said, merchants are very willing to recruit many students with poor grades as apprentices, because they can save a lot of training costs.

   These students, after graduating from elementary school, are about 10 to 13 years old. They have a cultural foundation and learn everything quickly.

  If it was changed to before, the big family would either train their own slaves, and then throw them to shops or workshops as apprentices. Or just recruit apprentices from the society, and it takes five or six years to train one. How can it be as easy as it is now?

   Children in rural areas, especially those in mountainous areas, are very willing to go to cities as apprentices.

  Even if the family has divided the land, other family members can take care of it. If farming is not enough, you can still spend money to hire part-time workers. The income from working in the city is more than enough to hire part-time workers to do farm work.

  This is the advantage of the new education system, which enables students to better integrate into society.

  Of course, the premise is three years of compulsory education, otherwise the cost of education for lower-class children is too high, and they may not be willing to go to the city to serve as apprentices.

   Moreover, there must be a stable social environment. Under the governance of Daming, apprentices must ask for entrustments and gifts, and more than three good people must form bonds. Under Zhao Han's rule, it doesn't matter, taking out the primary school diploma is more reliable than any guarantor. Even if something happens, such as running away with money, the government can go to the school to investigate family information.

  After Zhao Han finished his speech, he bowed to the teachers and students, and the teachers and students also bowed in return.

  Among the more than one hundred students, there are actually a few older teenagers, or youths, about twenty years old. He must have studied at his own expense, and his family conditions are not bad, so he doesn't look like a commoner in his clothes.

  Eight teachers, six classes, two people take a break and take classes in rotation.

   In addition, several school workers were recruited to do chores, and the school canteen was contracted to merchants. If it is not contracted, it will definitely be a mess, and the cost of food will skyrocket.

  As for merchants tampering with food, hehe, scholars in ancient times were treasures. Believe it or not, they went directly to the county government to petition!

  Zhao Han stood outside the window and looked in. The class was teaching Geometry.

  This is also the reason why only seven county-level middle schools are set up temporarily, because there are only seven people who know "Geometry" and are willing to be teachers. Moreover, these seven people are also half-baked, self-study while teaching, after all, they only got "Elements of Geometry" last year.

  But the seven seeds are sown, and three years later, there will be hundreds of thousands of graduates who know "Geometry".

Passing the torch!

  Zhao Han went to another classroom, where he was teaching the first "Great Learning" of "Four Books".

   After watching quietly for a while, Zhao Han left silently. He was in a very good mood, which was even more refreshing than defeating the army to expand their territory.

   When you find time, you can also compile "Physics".

  He forgot what was too advanced, but he still remembered the basic knowledge of mechanics in junior high school. It is impossible to forget the first law and the third law of Newtonian mechanics in this life, but the second law is somewhat unclear.

   It’s okay, I can remember two, and I am already at the forefront of Europe. After all, Newton has not yet been born at this time.

  The school is very close to the General Military Mansion, and it is nothing more than walking from the south city to the north city.

  Zhao Han walked back slowly, and met someone very unexpectedly. Xu Xiake, who passed by this place last year, came back again.

  Xu Xiake in history did a lot of immoral things during this trip.

   Before the product arrived in Jiangxi, I was almost out of money, so I borrowed ten taels of silver from a friend on the way. When I was in Hunan, I was ransacked by bandits, leaving only a silver ear pick. He ran to Hengyang again and asked his friend's son to borrow money. But the son of a friend has no money, so he can only help contact the local union, mortgage the land rent of the Xu family's 20 acres of land, and borrow twenty taels of silver. At the same time, the chief **** of King Gui's Mansion mobilized the eunuchs to donate fourteen taels.

  When he arrived in Guangxi, some officials gave him a pass horse card.

   Hold this horse card, you can use the carriages and horses of the post station, you can eat and drink for free at the post station, and you can also enslave the people to work for free.

   Then Xu Xiake started to mess around, often using horse cards to force the villagers to carry sedan chairs. Including the luggage, seven or eight bearers would be used, and once the young man ran away, he asked two women to carry the sedan chair for him. The villagers still have to provide him with food and drink, and the food should not be too bad. In his own words, it is called "boiling eggs and offering milk", at least eggs must be eaten.

   This horse card can only be used in Guangxi. After entering Yunnan, Xu Xiake has to rely on himself. Once he took off the quilt and hung up all his clothes, shoes and socks for sale, because he really had no money, so he finally sold a skirt.

   "Why did you come back, sir?" Zhao Han asked.

Xu Xiake sighed and said: "Southern Hunan is in great chaos, and it is difficult to move an inch. The servants below are dead, all the money they borrowed has been robbed, and the borrowed money has been robbed, and even the clothes are sold, only this dilapidated one is left. No one can buy it. To tell the truth, I... I came back from begging all the way. Mr. Zhao’s rule is really rich, and it is difficult to beg for food in southern Hunan. You have to pick wild fruits and eat wild grass. After entering Jiangxi, there are many people who are willing to give alms.”

  Zhao Han held back his laughter and asked, "How can there be such chaos in southern Hunan?"

   Xu Xiake said: "Hengyang has been occupied by rebels. All the counties in Hengzhou are thieves, and there are still Miao people in southern prefectures. I finally managed to raise some money, but I was robbed three times."

  Zhao Han immediately became serious: "Let's talk about it in detail."

  (end of this chapter)