Jurong, County Academy.
Under the sycamore tree, on the stone table, black and white confront each other.
Gu Zhengchen held a sunspot and turned it between his fingers from time to time. He saw that Liu Gui made a move, and then followed suit. However, the positions of the two spots, one in the south and one in the north, had nothing to do with each other.
Liu Gui frowned and looked at Gu Zhengchen: "The county magistrate's move is really hard to understand."
Gu Zhengchen smiled calmly: "I am not good at chess, I just play casually, but Liu Jiaoyu thinks about every step and calculates every move. In this way, it seems that he has the overall situation in hand and is steady. But with all due respect, chess is like life, there is no There is no talk of regretting the chess, but there is no talk of stopping. People walking on the road are like boats floating on the river and sea. If they don't advance, they will retreat. There is not so much time to think about it. "
Liu Gui was ashamed. He was complaining that he had spent too long thinking about playing chess.
But whoever plays chess with you must be careful. You are making moves without using any ordinary moves. You don’t consider the center of the star at all, but go to the corners to make moves. This is a weird chess move. You don’t want to think about it. OK?
Sun Tong, the instructor, came over with a plate of washed hawthorns and placed it on the stone table. He looked at the chess game and frowned: "Is the county magistrate planning to fight from all sides?"
Gu Zhengchen threw the chess pieces in his hand into the chess jar, clapped his hands, picked up a red hawthorn, took a bite, and suddenly felt sour, frowned and swallowed it: "You also saw it, Jurong Weaving Compound , The tailor compound has been built, and now it seems that some of the original worries have disappeared, and these two compounds will continue to operate. At present, the county government is preparing a craftsman compound to specialize in craftsmanship matters. "
Liu Gui and Sun Tong nodded.
Jurong County has undergone amazing changes in just twenty days.
The county government gathered more than 4,600 people to enrich the weaving courtyard and tailoring courtyard. In addition, there was also a craftsman's courtyard. The influx of these people into the county has brought many business opportunities, with more butcher shops, vegetable shops, grocery stores, grain shops, cloth shops, medicine shops, etc.
Even the restaurant, which had not been visited by many people in the past and was on the verge of closing, has recently seen better business. There are many more businessmen from other places. Seeing business opportunities, some locals have opened shops to sell Jurong's local specialty herbs.
All in all, Jurong is getting lively.
Liu Gui, the instructor of the county academy, and Sun Tong, the instructor, also went out for a walk every day. Naturally, they saw the changes in Jurong, and they were also very clear about the trends of the county government.
Sun Tong was a little strange and looked at Gu Zhengchen: "County Lord, these don't seem to have much to do with the County Academy, right?"
Liu Gui just watched and did not ask questions.
Gu Zhengchen picked up another hawthorn and got used to the sour and sweet taste. After chewing it, he stood up and said, "The three courtyards focus on people's livelihood. However, if Jurong wants to truly transform itself, it must attach importance to education."
"educate?"
Liu Gui and Sun Tong looked at each other.
Gu Zhengchen said seriously: "Xunzi said that when a country is about to prosper, it must value its master and respect him. It has been six years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Although foreign enemies still exist, the country has been established and the world is about to prosper. At this time, education should be promoted The way is to practice the teachings of saints, cultivate talents and use them for the country."
Liu Gui took a step forward and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, it's not that we don't want to teach, it's that there are no new students in the county academy. Previously, the imperial court suspended the imperial examinations, which severely hindered the students' studies. Later, the county magistrate transferred more than half of his students to the county government. Now the county academy has lost several students. Guo Xu and others also did not come to the academy because they were busy with family affairs..."
Gu Zhengchen waved his hand and said solemnly: "The education in the county school is only for students and scholars, not for ordinary people's families. The education I want to provide mainly recruits people between the ages of eight and fifteen. Children from common people’s homes are enrolled in school, taught to read, read and learn the knowledge of saints.”
"Children?"
Liu Gui was a little shocked.
"Yes, they are children!" Gu Zhengchen nodded heavily, as if he had thought of something. He raised his head and looked at the sky, and said deeply: "Education must start from childhood."
Liu Gui took a deep breath, and Sun Tong was also touched.
Gu Zhengchen looked at the blue sky, his thoughts a little confused.
According to the historical process, in more than a year, that is, in the eighth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang will issue an edict to establish a social school in the country, with one social school for every fifty houses in prefectures, prefectures, and counties.
Lao Zhu suffered the disadvantage of being uneducated, so he attached great importance to education.
Middle schools such as Fuzhou County School have been established. Although Guozixue has not been renamed Guozijian, its status as a "university" has been determined. After all, it can directly submit to the imperial court, and graduates will be assigned jobs...
The eight years of social studies in Hongwu filled the last gap in education: primary school.
Social Studies is recruiting children between the ages of eight and fifteen.
However, the social studies advocated by Lao Zhu were ruined by others. It may be that the officials were too poor and lacked money, so they turned their attention to social studies.
Government, state, county officials and subordinate officials control social studies:
If you want to study, do you have money? If you don’t have money, what will you do? If you want to study, you have to pay.
Oh, you don’t want to study, you want to go back and herd the cows, but that’s not possible, you have to stay and study, you have to stay and make up the numbers.
And that one, you and your father are the only two people in your family, right? Well, you need to help your father with farm work and don’t have time to study in social studies?
That's not okay, you have to come.
You don't have to come if you don't want to come, but you don't have to come to social studies if you pay...
Social studies were directly linked to money, which was directly ruined by others. In those years, it did not play a real educational role. Of course, the main course taught in sociology at that time was not the Tao of Confucius and Mencius, but the Tao of Lao Zhu—"The Law of the Ming Dynasty."
I don’t know what Lao Zhu was thinking about asking his children to read and recite the "Criminal Law". If we let the children recite the "Criminal Law" in future generations, it is estimated that a lot of people will be autistic and will not even want to go to school.
In order to prevent Lao Zhu's "good intentions" from becoming a "bad thing", Gu Zhengchen planned to pilot a primary school in Jurong in advance to create primary school education and explore a complete set of education processes. When Lao Zhu wants to use it, he will directly adopt "Jurong" This is the "model" to promote primary schools.
Liu Gui understood Gu Zhengchen's thoughts and asked solemnly: "How many babies do you plan to start with, the county minister?"
Gu Zhengchen looked at Liu Gui and moved his mouth slightly: "Liu Jiaoyu, how much do you think is appropriate?"
Liu Gui thought carefully and replied: "If the county minister really wants to practice the way of a saint in Jurong, there cannot be too few. I think the first batch of dolls should be about a hundred."
"One hundred?"
Gu Zhengchen frowned.
Sun Tong thought that Gu Zhengchen was too many, so he said from the side: "We can still teach a hundred children."
Gu Zhengchen shook his head and looked at Liu Gui and Sun Tong majestically: "What I want is to revitalize Jurong's education. How can a mere hundred children represent the prosperity of Jurong's literature? Now that the county government has some financial resources, , we might as well take a bold step forward and recruit three hundred children first, and then recruit them one after another later. When the college is completed, the number of students should not be less than one thousand."
"one thousand?!"
Liu Gui and Sun Tong were shocked.
If this really happened, wouldn't he also have a thousand disciples? The last person to have more than a thousand disciples was Confucius...
However, one thousand students is too many. It is unrealistic and the step is too big.
