In Shangshu Province, the children's laughter is still there. It is leisurely time recently, and the princess and the prince are playing takraw ball.
After Zhang Yang finished writing his reply to the Hexi Corridor, he put down the pen in his hand and looked up at the prince.
"Does His Highness the Crown Prince have any other ideas about government policies?" Li Chengqian nodded and sat down.
"Based on the experience of opening bookstores in previous dynasties, I selected some better experience methods, as well as relevant classics on the establishment of Taixue." The founding of Taixue has a long history, and now the Tang Dynasty has continued the establishment of the Imperial College, and It includes Taixue, Guozixue, calligraphy and legal studies.
Most of those who achieved Jinshi and enjoyed literary fame were born in Liangjian. During the Han Dynasty, he expressed his wish for your majesty to establish the Imperial Academy and appoint masters to educate the people of the world. During the Han Dynasty, the Imperial Academy reached its peak with more than 30,000 people.
After the peace of the world in all dynasties, the emperor would create a place for cultivating scholars similar to Taixue in selecting officials.
Li Chengqian's official policy was mostly based on experience gained from these aspects. Zhang Yang took the scroll handed by the prince and opened it to read the contents.
"His Royal Highness, what does your teaching mean for us?"
"Let there be many scholars in the court and more people in the imperial examination." Li Chengqian finished speaking without thinking, but he saw Zhang Yang smiling and asked curiously: "Is there something wrong?" Zhang Yang shook his head and said: "Your Highness the Crown Prince It's really real." Li Chengqian said in surprise: "Isn't it supposed to be like this?" Zhang Yang put his hands on his knees,
"Teaching is not just for the imperial examination, it is a big undertaking."
"Big business?"
"Yes, a big cause!" Zhang Yang picked up the bamboo water cup he carried with him, took a sip of hot water, and then covered it.
"If the teaching is only for the imperial examination, it will be too utilitarian, which will lead to students only studying about the imperial examination and not knowing about farming and life."
"Your Highness, how many people in one study room do you think can take the imperial examination?" Li Chengqian was speechless for a while and didn't know how to refute.
Zhang Yang smiled and said: "I conservatively estimate that only three or two students out of a hundred can pass the imperial examination, and these three or two people will have to face thousands of troops and horses to cross the single-plank bridge, and they will have to squeeze their heads from all over the country. Among the tens of thousands of students taking part in the imperial examination, less than a hundred can stand out.”
"That's true." Li Chengqian nodded in agreement.
"So I think that the significance of supporting education should be to educate people first, and the imperial examination is the second." Zhang Yang said with emotion,
"Let students adapt to this era and let them know the changes that will occur in this era in the future. In the teaching process, it is also important to let students understand how to behave and treat others, to persuade them to go on the right path, to be good people, and to have a better future. Life."
"Educating people is a bright light, letting thousands of people know what the Tang Dynasty is like and what the world is like. This is what students in remote areas need more, to broaden their horizons and let them understand the vastness of the world. The Central Plains have the courage to go out, and their direction is the direction of our teaching."
"Students should develop all-round morally, intellectually, physically and aesthetically. They can also work in the fields. They are physically strong and can pick up hoes to cultivate the land. They can also pick up books and talk about the Spring and Autumn Period with others. They can also live as they want." Li Chengqian was silent for a while. ,
"Before... I was lonely and narrow-minded." Zhang Yang said with a smile: "Don't be offended, Your Highness. In fact, my teacher did the same thing back then. He found students who had made mistakes and let them continue to study. Getting back on the right path is the most important thing." Li Chengqian took a deep breath.
"I understand that teaching and educating people is the right path in the world, and the imperial examination is the second best."
"That's it. In the future, I want to open a technology-related academy to teach craftsmanship-related and technology-related courses, or to overcome technical problems, so that Datang will have more talents with related technologies." Zhang Yang thought,
"I call this a technical college. It will allow children in Datang to have a place to learn technology in the future, and also allow children to learn a skill that they need to survive." Li Chengqian praised,
"Shilang Zhang has always been a visionary. I am looking forward to having such an academy."
"This is all for the future. Let's talk about it next time." Zhang Yang opened Li Chengqian's articles of association and said
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that a master is sent to one place. I think this is not enough."
"How many manpower are needed?" The Tang Dynasty was no better than later generations. Now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, there are still people in more remote places who don't even know the surname of the owner of this land.
Not to mention randomly sending a teacher to the local area and saying that he is here to teach, hoping that the villagers in the area will cooperate.
This is unrealistic and can easily lead to local rejection. Zhang Yang continued to talk,
"We can send an official to the place in the name of inspecting the place and checking the fields, and let the master accompany him. We can also send three or two more officials to lobby, so that the local wise people can respond."
"On the one hand, you can check the land and households, and on the other hand, you can open official schools. It is indeed a good way to kill two birds with one stone." Li Chengqian nodded heavily, feeling that the country of the Tang Dynasty was more stable.
"If we just send a wife to teach, the local county magistrate may not pay attention, let alone how the local villagers will cooperate..." The sky is once again cloudy, this year's winter is long, and the weather is changeable. , the weather was fine in the morning, but in the afternoon, the wind was freezing to the bone, and the half-melted snow began to solidify slowly again with water droplets.
In the Shangshu Province, Zhang Yang told His Royal Highness the specific steps of opening an official school, from the initial fee of 3,000 guan to 18,000 guan a year.
Another huge expense. Li Chengqian recorded all the key points of this conversation. When he walked out of Shangshu Province again, he turned to look at Li Anyan, who was standing straight at the door.
"Your Highness, do you need a humble position to capture him now?" With these words again, Li Chengqian tapped his forehead with the scroll in distress,
"You follow me back to the East Palace."
"Here." After sending the prince off, Zhang Yang took out a boiled tea egg from the pot, opened the shell and took a bite. It was very delicious.
Then he fished out a few and took them back to his wife and two little girls to eat.
"His Royal Highness, the tea eggs are ready to eat."
"Here we come!" Li Zhi hurried over. Zhang Yang wrapped the tea eggs in a piece of cloth, put them in his arms, and quickly left Shangshu Province.
At night, it was still snowing heavily. At home, the family is sitting around eating hot pot. Li Yue picked up a piece of spinach and ate it while holding the scroll in her hand.
You cannot talk or do anything else while eating at home. This is the rule of the family. The two girls have always followed the family rules, but the teacher can.
Family laws and regulations seemed to have no impact on the teacher, and the master didn't say anything. Xiao Wu and Xu Hui continued to eat their meals.
After dinner, Zhang Yang calculated the current accounts of the Central Government and Hexi Corridor and allocated another 10,000 guan. Only then did he realize that the money was not enough again. After including next year's salary, there was still a shortfall of 50,000 guan.
If Xue Yantuo can recover the cost and make a surplus in the first battle, the minerals from there can be transported to make up for the gap. Lishan also lacks coal mines.
It could be a turnaround. Chen Liang’s affairs were only arranged in the autumn, but they have not yet yielded any results. The little bear was lying at his feet and snoring. Zhang Yang put his washed feet on the bear's back and looked at the arrangements for the imperial examination in the coming year of Zhongshu Province.
After washing, Li Yue whispered: "Husband, it's time to rest."
"Well, rest." At night, the cold wind was howling again, and whispers came from the house. Li Yue whispered: "This new pajamas is not easy to wear at all."
"Why is it hard to wear..."
"It's so tight..."
"Really? Let me see."
"Husband, please stop making trouble!" The next morning, Li Yue took away her husband's claws and got up to comb her hair. Zhang Yang sat up sleepily.
"Is there anything you haven't done today?" Looking back, she glared at her husband's lazy look.
"A batch of old grain will be shipped to Chang'an City today, and my husband still needs to arrange manpower to deliver it to the Hexi Corridor."
"Yes, that's what happened." Zhang Yang stood up, put on his coat, and ruffled his wife's newly combed hair again.
Under her angry eyes, Zhang Yang walked out of the room contentedly. When he opened the door, he saw a thick layer of snow. The little bear immediately rushed out and jumped happily in the snow. The snow was still falling.
I washed briefly, cooked porridge with last night's leftovers, ate a whole meal, and went out early.
At this moment, outside Chang'an City, a group of officers and soldiers were escorting grain and grass on the city wall. There were horse-drawn carriages in a row. There were nearly a hundred horse-drawn carriages in the long queue.
Cen Wenwen was leading people to approve it. Seeing this, Zhang Yang hurriedly stepped forward,
"Eh? Brother Wenwen, so early?" Cen Wenwen snorted coldly,
"I've arrived before dawn. I've verified everything correctly. I'd like to ask Mr. Zhang to take a look at it." Zhang Yang opened the account book and took a look at the number. This is the first batch of grain stored in the official warehouse in Taiyuan, totaling five thousand shi.
"When can we leave for the Hexi Corridor?"
"You can do it now." Cen Wenwen put his hands behind his back,
"Does Mr. Zhang need to be weighed again?" Zhang Yang put away the account book and said with a smile: "Brother Wenwen is very relieved when doing things." He then gave a few instructions to the escorting officers and soldiers, letting them rest for a day before setting off to escort to Hexi. corridor.
Cen Wenwen added: "Please also ask Mr. Zhang and the lower officials to go to Zhongshu Province to report back."
"Brother Wenwen please come first." The two of them walked back to Chang'an City together. Cen Wenwen glanced at Zhang Yang beside him from time to time.
"Why don't you wear an official hat or official boots?"
"I woke up too late. I was so anxious to go out that I forgot about it." Zhang Yang looked down at his cloth shoes.
"It's okay to be Xiumu now. If we usually go to court early in the morning, Shilang Zhang can't do this."
"Brother Wenwen, you are right." Everyone in the court was preparing for the imperial examination in the coming year, and the emperor also had to pay attention to people's livelihood. These days, the snow fell sometimes and stopped sometimes.
It's not bad, but it's freezing enough to make you shiver. Under the escort of Li Junxian, Li Shimin took Li Lizhi and Li Zhi as they walked along the Jinghe River. The siblings' cheeks were red from the cold.
Even sticking your hands out of your sleeves is a kind of torture. At this time, I really want to go back to the palace, go to Shangshu Province, sit by the stove to keep warm, and boil tea eggs to eat.
When we came to the upper reaches of the Jing River, there was originally a sluice. The water is stored when the flow of water is strong. When there is a drought, the sluice can be opened to release water to irrigate the fields.
Because of the heavy snow these days, the sunny weather in the past two days caused the snow to melt a lot. This also resulted in greater water flow in the river.
Yan Liben stepped forward to report.
"Your Majesty, I will take people to repair it now. However, it is the season when the water flow is relatively large. Even if the sluice gate is reinstalled at this time, it may not be stable. Once the water upstream comes down, the gate will definitely collapse." The cold wind brought snowflakes falling, The river was not frozen and the current was fast.
Li Lizhi looked at part of the salvaged gate and asked curiously: "Are all gates like this?" Yan Liben nodded.
"Your Highness, Princess, it's just an ordinary sluice. This style is often used to facilitate opening the sluice and releasing water." Li Lizhi smiled and said,
"Young slave, do you still remember the principle of the boat tip that your brother-in-law taught you?" Li Zhi nodded,
"Of course I remember, my brother-in-law also said the relationship between the force-bearing area." As soon as the words passed through his mind, Li Zhi suddenly remembered,
"Father, actually I heard from my brother-in-law that there is a stronger water gate." Yan Liben smiled, thinking it was Tong Yan Wuji,
"His Royal Highness, Prince Jin, are you talking about the iron sluice gate?"
"Of course not." Li Zhi picked up a stone and drew on the ground.
"This is a triangular cone-shaped gate. Its width is equivalent to the width of the river, but the water force it receives is smaller." While drawing, Li Zhi added: "And it can also use water power to make the water gate stronger, because it is Triangular cone shape, the pointed side of the cone faces the direction of strong water flow, and is used as the gate of two sluices. When they open and close, it becomes a triangular cone shape."
"And because of the water impact upstream, the two doors will be buckled together under the impact of this water flow. The stress on the inclined surface is smaller than that on the front, and it is more stable."
"This is also because the bow of the hull is tapered, so it can travel through the water with less resistance." Yan Liben understood the reason and nodded clearly.
"Although this method is good, His Highness King Jin has neglected something." Li Zhi stood up again and saluted: "Master Yan, please speak." Yan Liben held the volume in his hand and looked down at the picture drawn by King Jin. , the picture is quite realistic. Is this what Zhang Shilang taught?
He immediately said: "Your Highness, Prince Jin, since there are two interlocking cone-shaped sluices, once too much water is stored upstream, how can manpower be greater than water power to open this triangular cone-shaped sluice gate." When the amount of water above is too large, It will press the floodgate, and it will be difficult to open it again.
This is a horizontal gate, and it will still receive full pressure when it is opened, which cannot be pushed by human power.
Li Zhi knelt down and continued drawing, saying,
"What Master Yan said is related to water pressure. Because the water level difference between the upstream and downstream will create a huge water pressure. It is easy to solve this problem. We only need to design two small windows at the bottom of the sluice. Open the small window before opening the sluice. Release some of the water flow.”
"When the water levels at both ends become the same, it will naturally reduce the water pressure upstream. The smaller the water level difference, the smaller the water pressure." Li Zhi suddenly raised his head,
"On the contrary, when the water gate is closed, the lock can be opened, and the gates of the two water gates will be closed naturally with the water flow, without spending too much manpower." Yan Liben said with emotion: "The clever use of water power can even move a thousand pounds, and it is so subtle. I admire it." Li Lizhi nodded with satisfaction after hearing this.
"I am usually very attentive when listening to my brother-in-law's lectures."
"Those are all small experiments given by my brother-in-law. What I learned from them may be what my brother-in-law often says about applying what you have learned." Li Shimin looked at his son and daughter in surprise. What did Zhang Yangping teach my children? ?
