After hearing Chen Zhou's words, Cao Cao also thought of Yingchuan College.
"What you are saying is that you want me to gather the strength of the Cao family and the Xiahou family to establish a private school?"
he asked.
"No, if the master wants to establish a private school, then his intention to oppose the aristocratic family will be obvious, and it will be more likely to be opposed by the aristocratic family."
Chen Zhou shook his head slightly and said: "I think the Lord can propose to rebuild the Imperial Academy, but this Imperial Academy must be in his own hands, and bind the court and His Majesty, and disguise the private school as the Imperial Academy."
Dong Zhuo burned down Luoyang and also the Imperial Academy.
When the emperor moved the capital to Xu County, he only took the imperial court away. There was only one temporary palace in Xu County for the emperor to live in. Many of the palaces in Luoyang, as well as the Imperial College and other departments, have not been rebuilt.
Taixue has long been destroyed.
However, Taixue is the highest-level academic institution within the Han Dynasty, and has always been the supreme existence in the hearts of many scholars.
For example, Cao Cao was also a student of the Imperial Academy when he was young, and he learned a lot from the Imperial Academy.
"Rebuild Imperial College?"
After hearing Chen Zhou's suggestion, Cao Cao suddenly fell into deep thought.
It is actually not difficult to rebuild the Imperial Academy, and it is naturally not difficult to package the private education of the Cao family into the Imperial Academy.
But there is another important thing in Taixue, which is books.
Without books, how can we teach knowledge?
"Back then, Dong Zhuo set fire to almost all the classics of Luoyang Imperial Academy, including the life-long efforts of my teacher Cai Yong."
"If you want to rebuild the Imperial Academy, you will need a large number of classics."
"My Cao family is not a wealthy family, and neither is the Xiahou family. The collection of books is neither large nor complete."
"There are many books, but only one or two volumes."
"It costs a lot to recreate books now. Making one or two copies of a book is far from being able to support the Imperial College's book collection."
"It can be said that the cost of making books is greater than that of rebuilding an Imperial Academy, and it also takes more time than rebuilding an Imperial Academy."
Cao Cao shook his head slightly.
The collection of books in Luoyang Imperial College was accumulated by the Han Dynasty over hundreds of years, not overnight.
Unfortunately, it was burned to the ground.
If Cao Cao's re-established Imperial Academy cannot even guarantee its books, wouldn't it mean that those aristocratic families would laugh at them and lose their face?
At that time, the library collection of Taixue was not as large as that of a private school, and it was so embarrassing that it was thrown into my grandma's house.
"Actually, the book problem is easy to solve."
Chen Zhou listened to Cao Cao's concerns and smiled calmly.
Books are really a simple thing.
This involves the papermaking and printing techniques that many time travelers like to use. After Chen Zhou traveled through time for several years, he was finally able to put these two technologies to use.
"Is there a way to cross it?"
Cao Cao's eyes lit up.
If Chen Zhou could solve the problem of books, then it would not be impossible to rebuild Imperial College.
This also gave him a lot of feasibility and a lot of things he could do.
"There is a way!"
Chen Zhou nodded and said: "I don't know how to describe the specific method. As long as the master has a way to make a template for all the books, I can make a lot of books in batches and at low cost, and give them to many people." It’s no problem for the people in the capital to have a book.”
"real?"
Cao Cao knew that Chen Zhou was very powerful, but he didn't expect that he could be so powerful. He just chose to believe it and solemnly said: "I will leave all the books to Du Zhi, and then I will prepare to report to His Majesty to rebuild the Imperial Academy."
Chen Zhou said: "My lord, you can play whatever you want. I will not let you down. In addition, my lord, please note that if you want to break the situation, you must recruit common people and poor families. In fact, within the Imperial Academy, you can open another Mengxue."
"Mongolian education?"
"The Learning of Enlightenment."
Chen Zhou explained: "It is to create a place for ordinary people's children to learn. If they want to learn to read and read, we at Taixue can give them this opportunity and develop the people at the bottom."
Cao Cao thought for a while and asked: "In these troubled times, it is difficult for ordinary people to even eat. How can they have money to send their children to study?"
Chen Zhou said: "This is also easy. Common people can enroll in the school free of charge. If you cooperate with the Mi family, you should be able to make a lot of money, and use part of it to help the common people. If it doesn't work, I will bring Captain Jin with you. Dig a few more royal tombs for your lord."
"My lord can serve as the sacrificial wine for this new Imperial College, completely binding it to the Cao family."
"The lord has given them a chance to dig out capable people from among the common people. They are all his disciples. The Yuan family's disciples and former officials are all over the world. Isn't that how they came about?"
"Children of common people are idle at home. Let them go to a private school to study. If they succeed in their studies in the future, they will definitely remember the lord's kindness and become the core of the lord's future governance."
Chen Zhou continued.
After hearing this, Cao Cao pondered for a long time. After thinking deeply, he could understand the benefits of what Chen Zhou said.
It is indeed a long process to support ordinary people.
If his support is successful, the benefits will be huge in the future.
If a commoner does not have a prominent family background and is his student, he will not use his family to hold himself hostage like the aristocratic family does, and the way to become an official will not be monopolized by the aristocratic family.
And his Cao family is the largest family in the world.
Just like Liu Han's Liu family, it is also the largest family in the world.
"Thank you, Du Zhi, for pointing me to a clear path."
Cao Cao had to admire Chen Zhou's idea of breaking the situation.
If used well, it can change the world.
This idea is quite advanced.
"I'm just giving you a general idea of how to implement it and how to select capable people among common people. These need to be refined by you, my lord."
Chen Zhou said: "This is the only thing I can do. I don't understand the rest."
Cao Cao said nonchalantly: "The direction Du Zhi pointed out is more important than refining how to do it. If there is no direction, we don't even know what to do. Our Cao family cannot live without Du Zhi!"
Because of this, he attaches so much importance to Chen Zhou.
At that time, in order to save Chen Zhou, he could temporarily not embarrass Liu Bei and negotiate with Liu Bei calmly.
Chen Zhou, it’s so important.
"My lord, you are serious."
Chen Zhou thought about it again, finished saying everything he should say, and then asked, "Master, do you have any other questions?"
Cao Cao said: "Not yet, but I have to trouble Du to make books. I will send the needed books to Du as soon as possible."
"This is no problem, and it's very simple."
Chen Zhou said confidently.
Cao Cao received Chen Zhou's response and left with satisfaction.
Chen Zhou saw Cao Cao off and came back to drink a glass of warm wine. He looked at the snow falling outside and said with a smile: "It's time for papermaking and printing to appear in advance."
This is a must-have for time travellers.
"Evil, let's go out of the city."
Chen Zhou said again.
"good!"
Dian Wei made arrangements immediately.
Now the number of tiger and warrior warriors guarding Chen Zhou's house has increased to two hundred. They are equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and armor. Even if two thousand enemies come, these two hundred can kill them.
In the inner city, the situation where two thousand enemies appear to deal with Chen Zhou will basically not happen unless there is another accident like Zhang Fei.
But Cao Cao will never let this accident happen again!
Chen Zhou must be completely protected.
