Liu Muzhi was a little surprised: "Security? Do you mean the guards at the official school? It should be left to the garrison to take charge."
Liu Yu shook his head: "We don't have many troops left in Qingzhou. If we have to divide a few hundred people to guard this official school, I'm afraid that the guard strength in other places will be insufficient. Moreover, in the future, this kind of Xiangxu, school, including not very Important warehouses should not be guarded by soldiers, but security groups should be set up to be responsible for the safety and security of such civilian institutions."
Liu Muzhi nodded thoughtfully: "This sounds good, but according to your idea, why should these be used as security guards? Oh, the retired soldiers who are security guards will be paid separately. This is also It’s not a small expense. It’s okay if a civil service school retains 300 to 500 sergeants. But if this model spreads to all states and counties in the future, the court’s expenses will skyrocket.”
Liu Yu smiled slightly, and finally blurted out what he had been thinking about for many years: "The solutions are all thought up by people. If you want to reduce the burden on the country, then let these places that receive security services pay for themselves, just like this Lan Xiang We can industrialize education through official schools.”
Liu Muzhi's eyes widened. He had obviously never heard of this word: "Education industrialization? What does it mean?"
Liu Yu said calmly: "That is to say, when we open schools and run bureaucracies, we cannot pay for it free of charge from the state. They should come to school. Those scholars who want to become officials must pay their own tuition, right? "
Liu Muzhi laughed: "Since ancient times, it seems that people rarely have to pay for their studies. Besides, this is an institution that trains officials for the country. It should be paid by the country. If you let them come, People who want to study have to pay for it, but I’m afraid no one is willing to do it.”
Liu Yu shook his head: "This is different. Even if you study in ancient times, as long as it is not an official school but a private teaching, you still have to pay tuition for apprenticeship. For example, Confucius, he charged tuition for meat, not for free teaching. Even Confucius This is true for Masters, and scholars of later generations are not exempt from the vulgarity. What's more, the establishment and daily maintenance of schools require manpower and material resources. However, many schools allow disciples to engage in this kind of work, replacing or partially replacing it with labor service. It’s just tuition.”
Liu Muzhi said sternly: "But giving a few kilograms of meat and a few pigs to become apprentices is completely different from your idea that part of the tuition fee can support the income of hundreds of security guards. Let's take our military pay as an example. A soldier earns five bushels of rice and ten kilograms of meat per month, plus one hundred dollars. If this expense were converted into the income of a security guard, it would cost almost two hundred dollars a month. It would cost two thousand four hundred dollars a year. That is to say, two hundred dollars a month. The annual income for half a year is almost the same as the total amount of this reward. So how much do you plan to ask a student to provide?"
Liu Yu said calmly: "In addition to security guards, the income of teachers and doctors in this kind of official school should also be paid from the tuition fees given by students. It should be almost twice that of security guards. According to your calculation, it is four hundred a month. Up to 500 yuan. Assuming that one doctor teaches 20 students and one security guard manages 20 students, the number of students is controlled at 5,000 to 6,000. Each student pays tuition and security fees for a month, which is almost 300 yuan. Forty dollars, plus five dou of rice per month for food, fifty or sixty dollars. If you go to this school, you should pay about one hundred dollars a month."
Liu Muzhi's expression softened slightly: "The monthly payment is one hundred, and it costs one thousand two to one thousand five hundred dollars a year. This is not too expensive. Most ordinary scholar families can afford it, but the key point is that they don't have this kind of money." Consciousness, you know, going to school and becoming a teacher has not cost so much money since ancient times. Moreover, these are just costs. If the court does not provide money to subsidize it, the funds for running the school will only be more, nothing else. Said, just the manpower, material resources, and wood needed to establish the official school are not a small amount."
Liu Yu said calmly: "Since it is the industrialization of education, in principle, these costs must be borne from the students' tuition fees. Ours is an official school, which teaches the knowledge of managing the countryside and serving as officials. Even after graduation, you can choose the best and directly give people the opportunity to become an official. This is different from ordinary schools. If you regard this as an opportunity to become an official and directly spend some money to receive qualification training, it will definitely change the world. People’s consciousness.”
Liu Muzhi smiled and said: "But to be an official, you never need to go through this official school. You know, in Wudi and Jingzhou, the nephews and nephews of distant branches of aristocratic families or the village heads under them can be appointed as officials directly. This has been the case for hundreds of years since the Jin Dynasty moved to the south. Going forward, under the Qin and Han Dynasty systems, it was the three elders who were responsible for grassroots governance among the people. Just like you, it was also because your father was an official and you had local prestige. I just pretend to be straight, and I haven’t received any job training.”
Liu Yu shook his head: "It is this system that makes the grassroots government run out of control. Slowly, local powerful officials replace the state-appointed officials. Fatty, the main reason why I have this idea of ruling the country with students from the official school is The purpose is not for money, but to control the appointment of officials in the hands of the country, not in the hands of local powerful people or aristocratic families."
Liu Muzhi frowned: "Aren't you afraid that the scholars who go to the official school will pay for it, and education will be industrialized. In the future, the scholars who come to school will regard being an official as a business? If you really become an official, at least We have great power at the grassroots level, so when the time comes, we must not intensify our efforts to recoup the cost?”
Liu Yu said sternly: "Is it possible that in the past, when the children of aristocratic families ascended to the nobility, or recruited officials according to the situation, this seemingly costless system of selecting officials, no one would be corrupt? None of the children of the aristocratic families are rich. With thousands of hectares of fertile land and hordes of servants, wives and concubines, why would you stop harming the country and enriching yourself just because your family is well off?"
Liu Muzhi smiled and said: "That is another extreme situation, because it is too easy to get. Besides, what aristocratic families can inherit is often power. It is human nature to rely on power to become rich. What I mean is , those who are willing to go to the official school are often the lower class scholars, just like you and I when we were in Jingkou. Although they have scholar status, their families are not rich. If such people go to the official school, you have to charge them money, which is difficult to guarantee. He will not feel that he has suffered a big loss, or even borrow money to go to the official school, and then pursue rewards through corruption."
Liu Yu said in a deep voice: "To prevent corruption, we rely on the laws of the court and the supervision of the people. We cannot believe in the beauty of human nature, so we must set up various systems to supervise the use of power and give officials enough to live their lives. The salary to live a decent life is just like you and me. If we can work as an official and the whole family can be tax-free and have an income of hundreds of dollars a month, but once corruption is discovered, we will be jailed and our property will be confiscated. Then we will still risk it. Is this a risk?”
(End of chapter)
