After everyone's voices gradually became unanimous, Xiao Zhen approved Sancho's proposal to establish an academy in the capital that both men and women could attend and did not need to be educated.
Xiao Zhen agreed to the academy's proposal, but it would still take a lot of effort to open the academy.
The cheaper art of papermaking and printing Sancho had already practiced on the plane of Benevolence, the Healer.
Now that I am back to my old business, all I need to worry about is covering up some of it and finding ways to make these two technologies appear in front of the world in a reasonable way.
Sancho was unwilling to spend this energy, so he simply took advantage of the darkness at night, put on night clothes, visited the residences of several skilled craftsmen, and directly threw these two technologies into their residences.
In this way, Xiao Zhen's policy of improving the status of craftsmen must be smoother.
While waiting for the advent of these two technologies, Sancho concentrated on finding teachers for the first compulsory education school in Daqi.
Students in this academy rarely need to learn many things from the books of sages, nor do they need to learn any strategies for governing the country.
This is an academy set up for common people to teach those useless things. It is enough to teach the counties and states to govern the country and secure the country.
What common people should learn is how to survive and how to keep their stomachs full. Literacy, numeracy, agriculture, and craftsmanship are what they should learn most.
These teachers were actually easy to find and did not cost Sancho much effort. When the new papermaking and printing technologies shocked the world, she had already arranged all the trivial work.
But after the arrangements were made, Sancho did not immediately open the academy to enroll students. Instead, he first found Lu Yuncheng and Sang Lanzhu, hoping that they could cooperate to open several workshops.
"Workshop? What kind of workshop?" Lu Yuncheng scratched his head, "Why do you want to open a workshop? You are short of money. I will give it to you as much as you need."
Sancho felt a little worried. Lu Yuncheng was very rich now.
"By opening a textile workshop, aren't you doing business with the nomadic people outside the customs? Their wool and other materials are all excellent textile materials. I want to pass this technology on to the female workers in the workshop."
If people are asked to send their daughters to school for no reason, those people will definitely not do it.
In their minds, it is proper for men to study. What kind of books should their daughters read?
The daughter should stay at home and work.
In order for people to agree to women's education, they must first create employment opportunities for women. As women can also create wealth and value for the family, then they will naturally send their daughters to academies.
Lu Yuncheng was not stupid either. With a flash of his mind, he figured out Sancho's intention and actively suggested: "I don't think you have to just learn to weave wool. You can also learn to embroider and weave brocade. My family has special embroidery girls and weaver girls." , I can let them go to your academy to help teach."
"Good brother!" Sancho patted Lu Yuncheng on the shoulder and accepted his kindness.
Sang Lanzhu is also quite active on this matter.
After returning from Youzhou, she learned that she had been expelled from Sang Mansion again, but this time her mother and brother were also expelled with her, and this time, she was not like last time. Hesitant.
Nowadays, she is no longer the clueless girl who could only indulge in willful ways. She already has a heart that is so tough that no one can break her.
She wanted to do more meaningful things like her brother, instead of being confined to the back house and being an ignorant woman like her mother.
After negotiating with Lu Yuncheng and Sang Lanzhu about the workshop, Sancho finally officially started recruiting students for the academy.
She named the academy Fuze Academy, which means blessing the world.
She was already a priest of the Imperial Academy and could no longer serve as the mountain director of Fuze Academy, so she hired Sang Qi as the mountain director of Fuze Academy.
Sang Qi and Sang Yunli were once loyal supporters of the eldest prince. After the fall of the eldest prince, those who once belonged to the prince also lost their bright future.
Although Sang Qi had his shortcomings, he was soft-spoken, lacked independent opinions, and was always led by Sang Yunli, but no one was perfect, and his reputation and knowledge as the top scholar were the best signs of Fuze Academy.
Away from Sang Yunli's influence, Sancho believed that he could be a good teacher of Fuze Academy.
Long, this is what Sang Qi personally promised her.
Fuze Academy's admissions method is also very unique.
Sancho arranged for people to go to various villages to conduct door-to-door publicity, clarifying the nature of Fuze Academy, and making it clear that all Fuze Academy students, regardless of gender, would be assigned jobs if they had excellent grades.
And women are treated more favorably.
Don't be constrained by studying. The academy also distributes books. Students only need to bear their own food and drink. They also learn practical literacy, numeracy, craftsmanship and other things that ordinary people often need to learn from apprentices. After completing their studies, they will also be assigned jobs. ? !
The people who heard this were shocked. Why could they not believe it?
Can such a good thing exist in this world?
You know, it's not that they don't want their children to learn these things, but these things are simply not something they can learn if they want to.
Not to mention something as simple as magic, even if you want to learn carpentry, you have to study under a master for a few years before you can even scratch the surface.
This Fuze Academy teaches them for nothing and doesn't stop cultivating?
This sounded so absurd that not many people believed it for a while.
Until the imperial court issued an imperial edict and announced it to the entire capital.
This imperial edict immediately caused the people in the entire capital to explode.
This is actually true!
Fuze Academy, which was suddenly ignored by anyone, was overwhelmed by the people from Beijing who came to register.
Sancho did not need to do the next thing personally. In the end, Fuze Academy enrolled 500 students, including 420 boys and only 80 girls.
This data is within Sancho's expectation.
Just wait, wait for three years later, when the first group of children from Fuze Academy graduates, and when the eighty girls are accepted by the various workshops run by her and Lu Yuncheng, the number of girls in Fuze Academy will increase. .
In the past three years, Sancho has not been idle. He encouraged Lu Yuncheng and Sang Lanzhu to open more workshops. At the same time, he encouraged Xiao Zhen to encourage innovation and reward those craftsmen who invent and innovate.
In just three years, under Xiao Zhen's rule, Da Qi's national power increased several levels, and its prosperity began to show.
In the past three years, the number of students enrolling in Fuze Academy has increased year by year, and of course boys still account for the majority.
But regardless of whether they are boys or girls, all the children who study at Fuze Academy work extremely hard because they understand how difficult this opportunity to study is.
At the end of the three-year period, Sancho fulfilled his promise by assigning these five hundred children to major workshops or allowing them to continue studying.
These five hundred children were like advertisements for Fuze Academy. They became famous all over the country in an instant, letting everyone know the name of Fuze Academy.
