Huangzhou this year is destined to be unstable.
After rectifying the officialdom of Huangzhou and formally establishing the three prefectures, Zhan Changfeng chose Qingya County near the sea as the test site for the new policy.
Qingya County is the poorest among the counties in Huangzhou and has the smallest population. It has thirteen small fishing villages under its jurisdiction. The people make a living by fishing. Correspondingly, the folk customs are relatively simple.
Although a bit unkind, in the eyes of superiors, simplicity is equivalent to being easy to change and easy to guide. It is easier to draw on white paper than to write on black paper.
Zhan Changfeng established a military academy in Qingya County to take in children from poor families and train them again. The maximum age of the children was no more than eleven years old.
She wants a clean white paper, and she wants to teach them another way of thinking before their ideas are assimilated by the world.
At the same time, Zhan Changfeng asked Fang Heng to lead the bachelors to study the culture of Zangyunjian and re-edit the teaching materials.
This set of textbooks is divided into nine levels from the easiest to the most advanced. The first level is the most basic literacy and arithmetic. The learning progress is three years. The first goal Zhan Changfeng has set is to educate all children in Huangzhou within the next ten years. All can receive first-class education.
In addition, it is knowledge suitable for everyone to learn from the first to sixth grades, but starting from the seventh grade, the directions are refined and taught in administration, military, water conservancy engineering, agricultural breeding, etc.
This educational system has not yet been formed and has already shocked academic schools. The plans are so grand that we dare not speculate.
Later, it was no longer just literati and bachelors who were compiling these textbooks. Water transportation, old farmers, and craftsmen all joined in.
Behind this education system, there is also Zhan Changfeng's adjustment to the future officialdom. She wants professional people to hold corresponding official positions, instead of being able to guide the country by knowing a few poems and songs.
This also means that future official positions will be more streamlined and closer to reality.
However, at this time, the reform brewing in Huangzhou has not been noticed by China, and the outside world is still fighting for the position above tens of millions of people.
But Yuzhen was disturbed and felt uneasy. Jun Wenjiu put down the flask and laughed heartily. The drizzle outside the corridor is like cow hair, and it has been flying for years.
"Master..."
They stood outside the history of this place, so of course they could see it more clearly, but Yuzhen didn't dare to admit that Prince Changsheng would do such a thing.
"She really wants to change the status quo?!" Yuzhen seemed to see the carriage of fate turning a corner and being driven to another future. How dare she!
Jun Wenjiu held his head and sighed as if in a daze, "There are many strange people in the world, I really hope I meet one."
What Yuzhen saw was Zhan Changfeng's behavior that went against common sense. He was surprised by her courage to overthrow the old system. Perhaps he also thought there was something wrong with her for doing such a thankless thing with little hope.
Jun Wenjiu, on the other hand, was lamenting her ability to drive the direction of the world, admiring her education of mortals, and wondering about the ambition that she could not see through.
"I'm not worried about the rest, but if she really wants to reestablish the Chinese martial arts, how should the Si Xun Mansion deal with it?"
Yuzhen turned his attention to the incident itself. He had no doubt that if the Chinese martial arts rose and Xiaohan Town would be exposed to the world, then these Dharma practices, together with Zangyunjian, would naturally appear in the eyes of the world.
Si Xunfu is undoubtedly the intersection between the monastic world and the mortal world. What will they do when the Taoist and mortal world collide?
Isn't the purpose of Si Xunfu to ensure that the two do not interfere with each other and do not hinder each other?
Jun Wenjiu reminded him, "Si Xunfu is not involved in the secular world. If the world is going to change, let it change. You can just cope with the changes by remaining unchanged."
Yuzhen was still worried, so he went to Qingya County to visit the Military Academy with Cui Gu and Liu Zhao, the other deputy hall master.
The poverty in Qingya County is well known. At first glance, the newly built Military Academy is just a few large tile-roofed houses, standing in a deserted suburb with few people. It’s hard to imagine that this is the beginning of change.
Zhan Changfeng didn't ask them what their purpose was, and just said, "Since they are here, I will show you around."
Yuzhen was also magnanimous, "It's just what I want. I'm glad the prince is here to help."
As Yuzhen walked, he discovered that the houses were arranged according to the Eight Trigrams. When he was passing by, a ruler suddenly flew out of the window. Of course, he was able to avoid it, but he was still startled.
Zhan Changfeng seemed to be used to it, "The group of people inside were discussing the impact of ditch layout on grain yield. The people in the fields are direct, please forgive me."
"I understand, I understand." Yuzhen and the others listened outside the wall for several quarters of an hour. Soon their ears were filled with all kinds of dialects, and they couldn't understand what they were arguing about.
There are so many dialects and I don’t know how they communicate.
Walking to the next room, several people looked in through the slightly opened windows and saw several disheveled people burying their heads in the pile of books, and one person lying on the ground with his butt sticking out, writing and drawing. Curious, Cui Gu looked in to get a better look. Suddenly he saw an angry face with a sloppy beard and black eyes. Snap, the window was thrown shut!
Cui Gu touched his nose that was almost hit: "..."
Who are these people!
Zhan Changfeng said from the side, "They have been working day and night to sort out the existing arithmetic rules. They haven't had a break for several months. It is inevitable that they will be a little irritable. Please forgive me."
The three people hurriedly said, "Haha, I understand."
Then he walked to the next room. This time Cui Gu made up his mind to stay away from the window, but before he could reach the door, someone with sharp eyes saw him. A group of people came out and dragged the three people into the house.
"I heard that martial arts follow the heart and law follows heaven. What is the specific difference between the two?"
“Are the laws of heaven and human desires at odds with each other?”
"Can a person exist as a ghost cultivator after death? What are the requirements for becoming a ghost?"
"Excuse me, what do you think about Zhuang Sheng's death and his laughter?"
“Should the gender of men and women, the ages of old and young be treated equally or separately?”
"Do you know how to poop? Where do you poop? Can you wipe it with tissue paper or just recite a spell?"
Hey, that last one was too much!
Yu Zhen escaped in embarrassment and straightened his Daoguan, "They..."
"They are studying monastic civilization and are a bit enthusiastic. Please forgive me." Zhan Changfeng smiled and said, "Your mansion will not reject these people who are thirsty for knowledge, right?"
A dead Taoist friend but a poor Taoist, Yu Zhen silently pushed Cui Gu back when he was about to break free, "Of course not."
Deputy Hall Master Liu Zhao was smarter. He immediately locked the door after hiding out, completely cutting off Cui Gu's way out.
"Ahem," Liu Zhao straightened his torn clothes and asked, "Prince, why don't you see people practicing martial arts and writing?"
"At this hour, they should be at the martial arts training ground, so come with them."
The martial arts training ground is located in the center of Bagua. The site is very vast, at least three miles in length and width. There are various areas in it, including pile driving, archery, and horse racing. But what is surprising is that apart from teaching, they are all children.
They looked over and saw a group of five or six-year-old children standing in a military posture. Both boys and girls.
Yuzhen Liu Zhao was silent in thought. It would not be strange to see this scene in Zangyun Stream, but in China, it would be a bit strange.
"What do they want to learn?" Yuzhen asked tentatively.
Zhan Changfeng said, "Learn to be a good person."
"What will you do after you learn?"
"Know what you have to do."
Yuzhen twirled his beard and said, "Prince, do you think your decision must be right? Is the turmoil caused before the results are really worth it? It has been like this for thousands of years, do you have to change it? If you do this, what will happen to you?" What’s different about dictating other people’s lives?!”
"It may not be right, but it will be better than the past; it is worth it; it must be changed." Zhan Changfeng looked directly at him and answered the last question slowly, "I am indeed dictating other people's lives..."
Zhan Changfeng pointed at the people in the martial arts training ground, "But they can't resist."
Yuzhen's expression became solemn, and he couldn't figure out her mentality.
Zhan Changfeng chuckled, "In the future, they can question Gu and resist Gu, but you are not qualified to judge whether their lives are being manipulated."
Yuzhen was silent, and then had nothing to say, "I can't understand what you are thinking."
Zhan Changfeng didn't take it seriously, "Just like you can't do what I'm doing."
Liu Zhao was a martial artist, and he didn't have that much to say, "Isn't practicing martial arts also a happy thing? It's better than dying in the one-third of an acre of land at home."
He only knew that most of these children were sent here from poor families. Staying at home, the better thing is to run for a living, the worst thing is to be sold as a slave, or die of famine before reaching adulthood.
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to practice martial arts in this military academy, have enough food and drink, and strive for a different way out?
Liu Zhao's words calmed down the atmosphere a bit, and Yu Zhen got off the road and said, "I'm the one who got caught."
