Turning sociology into a business, the officials of the Ming Dynasty operated as follows:
Do you want to study?
No money yet?
No, I don’t have money to study.
Don't you want to study?
Have money?
Yes, that's okay. You don't have to go to the club to study. I'll find someone to answer your questions when your name is called.
Your family has money but no time to study?
Busy herding cattle and moving grain?
You have to go to school, there is no future for you as a cowherd, so you have to go to school and herd cows to whomever you like. Unless you give me some benefits, all of your sons will have to go to social studies.
The so-called "being betrayed by wealth, allowing them to be stupid and stubborn, and not allowing them to study" is the truth behind the failure of social studies in the early Ming Dynasty.
Gu Zhengchen wants to develop primary education in Quanzhou Prefecture, and it will be done naturally. Otherwise, why waste so much money, food and manpower on the children? But whether this can be done depends on Lao Zhu's words.
When I was in Jinling, I was busy with selling goods, treasure banknotes, preparations for opening the sea, etc., and I didn't think about sociological issues, but now I have to think about it.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Li Lie who wanted to start a big fight, and shook his head: "Social studies need to be postponed. Now is not the time to launch social studies."
Li Lie looked at Gu Zhengchen in surprise and spoke quickly: "The imperial court has issued an edict, how can the government postpone it? It is about education, how can we not do it as soon as possible? Gu Zhifu, countless people are eager for children Be able to read and write, be sensible, understand filial piety and brotherhood..."
Gu Zhengchen picked up the tea bowl and asked after Li Lie finished speaking: "Professor Li, are you familiar with the "Da Ming Law"?"
Li Lie was stunned and didn't understand what Gu Zhengchen meant.
Gu Zhengchen looked at Du Sanjia and Wang Jing: "Du Xundao, Wang Jiaoyu, when you two were enlightened, sir, could you please recite the laws and regulations?"
Du Sanjia and Wang Jing shook their heads.
In the enlightenment stage, we only learned some simple contents, such as "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", "Thousand Character Classic", etc., and then came the "Analects of Confucius", "Great Learning" and other books.
Gu Zhengchen knocked on the table and said solemnly: "Your Majesty has made it clear that Social Studies should take "Da Ming Law" as its main subject, and also study Confucian classics. Until Your Majesty takes back this order, Quanzhou Prefecture will not establish Social Studies."
Social studies have been opened and the children are here, how to teach?
Learn the word "白", white in the daytime, the compound word is "rob in the day", and the sentence is "Anyone who robs people's property in the day will be punished with a hundred rods and three years in prison"?
Do we still need to tell the children that if a brother or sister beats a younger brother or sister, an uncle or aunt beats a nephew or grandnephew, or a grandparent beats or kills a grandchild, he will be punished with a hundred canes and three years of imprisonment?
"The Laws of the Ming Dynasty" is a reference book for professionals. It is not appropriate for children who do not know a few words to read this kind of book. It can also easily cause psychological shadow to the children. Either they will spank them many times or chop off their heads. This Learning is scary.
Seeing that Li Lie still wanted to speak, Gu Zhengchen shook his head: "I will inform your majesty about this matter, and I implore your majesty to turn the priority of sociological education into Confucian classics. Professor Li, if you really want to revitalize Quanzhou Prefecture's education, you can start today Let’s start making preparations.”
"What are you preparing for?"
Li Lie asked.
Gu Zhengchen smiled calmly: "Fifty households have one commune. There are 39,260 households in Quanzhou Prefecture, and more than 780 communes need to be set up. Has Professor Li ever thought that there are so many Confucian teachers in Quanzhou Prefecture? "
Li Lie frowned.
There are 300,000 people in Quanzhou Prefecture. It is not difficult to find hundreds or thousands of people who are literate. However, there are many who are literate, and being literate does not mean being knowledgeable or being able to be a teacher.
In such a large-scale sociology, Mr. is a big problem.
What’s even more difficult is that social studies mainly deal with people in the countryside, and the villages are not in the city, but scattered in remote areas. It may not be possible to find two suitable teachers in a township, and the shopkeepers of the coffin shops cannot be dragged away. Be a sir?
Gu Zhengchen looked at the disappointed Li Lie and realized that it was unrealistic for him to establish social studies extensively, so he walked out and said: "It is not impossible to do a good job in education in Quanzhou Prefecture. As long as you can find a way With a hundred Confucian scholars, I can solve the problem of studying for three thousand children."
"really?"
Li Lie was pleasantly surprised.
Gu Zhengchen said solemnly: "A gentleman's words."
Li Lie respectfully bowed to Gu Zhengchen, and then straightened his chest: "I hope that one day when the imperial court opens the imperial examination, Quanzhou Prefecture will have prepared talents."
Gu Zhengchen nodded slightly, watched Li Lie and others leave, and then wrote a document, proposing three strategies to optimize social studies, and hoped that Song Lian and others would compile a pinyin dictionary as soon as possible so that it could be printed and distributed to social studies.
Before the paperwork was finished, the paperwork for writing off the money and grain was delivered again. Just after the approval was completed, the paperwork from the magistrate of Hui'an was delivered again...
The enviable life of a prefect is actually not a happy one every day. He spends more time sitting behind a desk, processing official documents, asking questions to this person, and asking questions to that person.
The next day, it was still dark.
Gu Zhengchen had already stood up and repeated his sword moves.
Lin Baifan didn't understand that Gu Zhengchen only had one sword move. It was said that he had practiced it for nearly two years and never changed it. However, he never tired of it and practiced it day after day without learning other sword moves.
After sheathing his sword, Gu Zhengchen began to practice bow and arrow.
The magistrate's house was not big enough and there was no target fifty steps away. Gu Zhengchen could only set up a target on the corridor outside the door. The target was still more than ten steps away from the magistrate's house. Nie Yuanji did not have to worry about being shot to death by an arrow falling from the sky, because Gu Zhengchen couldn't shoot seventy steps at all...
Draw the bow, release it.
The arrow goes out, the arrow falls.
Gu Zhengchen was not impatient and trained little by little.
At first I couldn't even find the target, but later I was finally able to hit the target, but my accuracy was still too bad, I couldn't hit the target at all, and sometimes I missed the target.
There is always a process of learning.
Focus!
Gu Zhengchen stared, the arrow flew out from the bow and hit the bull's-eye steadily!
Lin Baifan, who had been watching, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, surprised, and then looked at it for a while, oh, it's luck...
After finishing the morning exercise, the government office clicked Mao.
All kinds of official documents piled up again.
After Gu Zhengchen took care of the affairs, it was almost noon when Gu Cheng came to urge him. Gao Tai, the head of the bank, was already waiting outside the government office.
"Tell Official Cheng Le of Hui'an County that the autumn tax is unavoidable. Don't send out documents to ask questions again and again." Gu Zhengchen threw down the documents, stood up and said to Lin Tangchen: "The houses must not be simple and crude. They need to be able to withstand wind and rain, and drainage ditches must be dug. There should be no waterlogging in the trough. The people who live there are naturalized in Quanzhou Prefecture, including the people of Quanzhou Prefecture. Their hearts should not be chilled by the negligence of the government office. "
Lin Tangchen quickly agreed.
Gu Zhengchen turned to Nie Yuanji: "You have the responsibility to clean up the military status. There are twelve sergeants in the Quanzhou Guard who cannot bear the pain of training and want to leave the military status. Let them deregister and become farmers."
Nie Yuanji asked: "If these soldiers of hundreds of battles are deregistered, wouldn't it be a loss of combat effectiveness?"
Gu Zhengchen shook his head: "Sergeant Bai Zhan? Haha, you think too highly of them. Anyone with some backbone will not be unable to withstand the pressure of training. These people are soldiers and are used to eating and drinking together. Without the spirit of hard work and courage, not only will they not be able to kill the enemy on the battlefield, but they will also drag down other soldiers."
Nie Yuanji asked cautiously: "I heard a piece of news, but I don't know whether it is true or not, saying that Magistrate Gu plans to recruit more than 2,000 soldiers from the Quanzhou Guard?"
Gu Zhengchen nodded: "That's right."
Nie Yuanji was sweating on his forehead: "Is it appropriate to directly plunder nearly half of the army of one guard? How to arrange for the eliminated sergeants to be converted into civilian households?"
Gu Zhengchen shook his head and said solemnly: "You don't need to consider whether it is appropriate or reasonable to do things at the guard station. You only need to cooperate with Commander Huang to let the sergeants deregister. You can't hold on to the sergeants who have lasted for the first three months. , all became farmers, and the sergeants who survived three months, even if they were eliminated from the Quanzhou Guards, they could still stay in Quanzhou Prefecture."
Nie Yuanji didn't understand what Gu Zhengchen meant.
Lin Tangchen wanted to understand and interjected: "What does Governor Gu mean, that the eliminated sergeants will form a unit to defend the coast of Quanzhou?"
Gu Zhengchen clapped his hands: "That's right. The coast of Quanzhou Prefecture is not small. How can we keep hundreds of thousands of people safe with just a few guard posts? Yesterday, I sent a document to the Governor's Office, hoping that the imperial court could transfer some sergeants. Going south, we may allow Quanzhou Guards to recruit two thousand troops, and set up Chongwu, Shihu, Fuquan, and Kinmen offices along the coast. You should stop asking about the affairs of the guards and do your best to handle the affairs of the government."
Nie Yuanji and Lin Tangchen looked at each other bitterly.
Gu Zhengchen is the commander of the Quanzhou Guard. He has the right to make decisions about everything there. It is really difficult for officials of the two government offices to say too much about the affairs of the Guard Camp.
After leaving the government office, Gu Zhengchen took Gu Cheng and Gaotai to the Tazilou, accompanied by Lin Baifan as a guard.
Outside the tower.
The owner, Chen Yanxuan, was waiting outside the door. Seeing Gu Zhengchen and others walking towards them, he quickly walked up to greet them: "It really makes the Tower a lot brighter for Magistrate Gu to have a banquet in the Tower."
Gu Zhengchen smiled and said: "Dr. Chen, please make the dishes simpler and add more vegetables, otherwise I will have to pay for them on credit."
Chen Yanxuan laughed loudly and said, "To thank Magistrate Gu for his kindness, why not give me a five-table banquet?"
Gu Zhengchen waved his hand: "No, it is whatever it is. Don't let me bear the blame. Corruption is not just about passing money and treasures, eating and drinking for free, and not giving credit. This is also corruption based on power, which is unacceptable. Gu Cheng, one I will remember the dishes and pay clearly according to the price of the tower."
Gu Cheng responded: "Master, don't worry."
Chen Yanxuan admired Gu Zhengchen's persistence even more. As soon as he arrived at the tower, a group of businessmen had already walked down from the second floor. Looking at the young man in front of him, if Hu Dashan hadn't called out "Gu Zhifu" first, no one would have dared to recognize him. .
Gu Zhengchen cupped his hands and exchanged a few words.
Chen Yanxuan smiled and said, "Why don't you invite Magistrate Gu to come to the second floor to talk?"
Hu Dashan, Lu Sanyuan, Tang Dabang and other businessmen all said yes and gave way.
Gu Zhengchen was not polite and walked through the merchants and up the steps to the second floor. Hu Dashan guided him and arranged for Gu Zhengchen to sit down. All the merchants who followed him also sat down.
"Uncle Hu, why don't you introduce me?"
Gu Zhengchen did not hide his relationship with Hu Dashan. He could not hide this relationship even if he wanted to. Gu Qingqing and Liu Qian'er were from the Gu family, and they both learned business from Hu Dashan. Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang both knew it, so there was no need to hide it.
But this sentence from Uncle Hu still stunned the businessmen present. Even Tang Dabang, Huang Ruyu and others who had been drinking with Hu Dashan and others a few days ago were also shocked.
Seeing that Gu Zhengchen was so open-minded, Hu Dashan stood up and cupped his hands and said, "I didn't dare to say much without the permission of Magistrate Gu. Now that Magistrate Gu cares about me and calls me uncle, I have the guts to make an introduction. This is Hu Tiaohua, a Hangzhou businessman and a local businessman in Jinling." He Sifang..."
