For this part of the reading and writing players, Confucian classics are just shell embellishments to fool the blurred vision of the world.
The real direction of cultivating them is to cultivate hard-working backbone seed players who have different ideas and agree with Liu Bei's new line.
They are the main support force for the new system Liu Bei wants to promote in Liangzhou. Their growth and expansion will become an important basis for Liu Bei to promote further reforms in the future, and they are the driving force behind the advancement of history.
Therefore, Liu Bei actually cares more about the ordinary class composed of these reading and writing players than the elite class.
But in addition to elite classes and ordinary classes, Liu Bei also plans to set up a state preparatory school to exist as a school to reinforce basic cultural knowledge.
It is worth mentioning that this preparatory school was used to connect with the collective farms.
In Liu Bei's plan, he plans to select a group of school-age children from major collective farms to enter this preparatory school every year. The number does not need to be too large, but free education should be provided.
They are provided with food, housing and education. After they have completed the knowledge they need to master in this preparatory school and become reading and writing athletes, they can enter the state school for further study.
Previously, Liu Bei had arranged for personnel to carry out literacy campaigns in collective farms, but the effect could only be said to be okay.
Due to the lack of educational tools and formal educational venues, literacy efficiency is actually not high.
Moreover, most peasants have no intention of learning to read and write. After barely recognizing more than 100 or 200 characters under the supervision of the instructor, they no longer pay attention to this. They also learn very slowly, and few have that kind of talent. type player.
They feel that if they have this time, it is better to plant more land, work more, earn more income, eat more rice, and put in more effort than to spend time and effort on learning to read.
They don't think they can get any visible benefits from reading, such as eating an extra bite of rice or something.
They cannot see the long-term benefits and do not want to see them.
Compared with adults, young farm children are better off and learn faster. Farmers are generally willing to let their children learn a few more words to avoid being blind in the future.
Of course, it was limited to this. The farmers had never thought about further education, and he didn't think they would have the opportunity to be exposed to it.
Educational resources are extremely valuable in this era.
But by coincidence, Liu Bei is one of the officially certified players who has mastered this precious resource.
Therefore, Liu Bei also plans to conduct subsequent selections based on how well they can read. Every year, a group of smart children who can read well and learn quickly will be selected from the collective farms to enter the state school preparatory school, where they will be given a more systematic basic education, and then placed in the state school. They have a way to get ahead.
Although the route is narrow and the opportunities are limited, they are there after all.
Since there is no realistic basis for promoting the imperial examination system in the short term, Liu Bei must open up his own competition track within the existing game rules, conduct differentiated competition, and strive to open up a new blue ocean.
Whether they are scholars, elites from large landowning families, or reading and writing athletes from small and medium-sized landowning families, they are all considered a minority among the people in the entire Han Dynasty.
The bottom class, which accounts for more than 95% of the total population, is the real mainstream.
If we do not absorb their strength and introduce them into the "Xuande Company" through various means, the "Xuande Company" controlled by Liu Bei will be established based on "underprivileged children" such as small and medium-sized landowners and powerful powerful people. Woke up.
This is not good.
With the behavior of these "children from poor families" today, I am afraid that it won't be long before they become more powerful than the elite. In the future, the country they lead will not be much better than the country led by Liu Xiu.
These "children from poor families" can only be regarded as excessive. The ones who really need to be promoted are the children from farm families.
The farmers' children are at least one level away. The changes they pursue will be more thorough. Even if they change in the future, it won't be so fast. Using them as a basis for future innovations can be considered targeted and supported by people.
Moreover, Liu Bei also had his own reasons for wanting to push academics downward.
What did Master Kong say?
There is no distinction between education and distinction.
No matter what others think, what Liu Bei means is that no matter who he is, as long as he is an individual, he can receive education, and there is no distinction between high and low.
What, you want to question Confucius?
Questioning Confucius at my school?
You are very brave.
That's solved.
The rest is nothing more than technical means and economic expenditure. For Liu Bei, who has the advantage of salt and iron and does not like a luxurious life, it is not impossible to gradually take the lead in promoting academic downwards in the Liangzhou area.
He has that financial base.
In fact, some far-sighted people have been working hard to push academics downward since ancient times, hoping that more people can learn things and open up people's wisdom.
Although their purpose is not to improve anything, but to allow everyone to bathe in the "sages' enlightenment" and thereby understand the Confucian ethics, so that they would rather go hungry than to be "loyal to the emperor and patriotic" and reduce the occurrence of peasant uprisings.
This is the purpose of a considerable number of "Disciples of Confucius" who advocate the popularization of education.
But in any case, they impart culture to ordinary people and objectively promote the development of education.
However, the mainstream forces of the ruling class have always been sober. They have not done anything through administrative measures. On the contrary, they are still hindering the process and do not want too many people to learn knowledge in case they are dissatisfied with the status quo.
From a purely profit perspective, these people do not want too many people to master knowledge, otherwise it will be inconvenient for them to continue to live a luxurious life hereditary.
The two forces have been ebbing and flowing, and they have been in constant struggle. The former has never been able to defeat the latter. It was not until the arrival of major changes unseen in a thousand years that this situation was completely broken.
Liu Bei didn't want to wait that long.
Whether it's movable type printing or papermaking, he has a way here. With some tinkering, an industrial chain can be formed within three to five years, and the technical difficulties of promoting academic promotion can be completed.
But crucial political system issues require another level of power to break through.
He never cared about whether he and his family could last for thousands of years.
Rather than maintaining this decadent hereditary and neglectful family "business", he wants to overturn the table, smash it all to pieces, and reshape cultural heritage.
The more families there are, the more ruined the country will be. The more hereditary neglect there will be, the more unlucky people will be. Therefore, it will be better to let these guys disappear and replace them with a new group of people. .
Although this is also time-limited, it doesn't matter. It is impossible to expect it to be done once and for all.
Any idea of a once-and-for-all solution will be shattered, and anyone who expects one reform to be fully successful is just dreaming. Only through constant change and constant tossing can the world have hope.
From this perspective, the original intention of the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty was wrong. If it was tinkering in order to restore the existing ruling order, the idea of founding the country was destined to fall apart.
Therefore, although Liu Bei's surname is Liu, he plans to carry out an earth-shaking operation to clean up the filth accumulated in this world for hundreds of years.
For this goal, Liangzhou Prefecture School is the starting point of all this.
For Liu Bei, Liangzhou Prefecture Studies are of great significance, and for others, Liangzhou Prefecture Studies are also of great significance.
Although everyone who enters this state school can become Liu Bei's disciple, as we all know, disciples are free-range, and disciples are serious beings who are deeply bound to their teachers.
If you want to really stand out, you can't just be a disciple.
(End of chapter)
