Ji Chang: "Lu San, can you understand what they are saying?"
The coachman Lu San shook his head and said: "My lord, you don't even understand, let alone your subordinates."
Jichang stopped a villager and asked, "Excuse me, my father-in-law, what is a village school?"
"You are a foreigner, right? You don't even know about it in your hometown school?"
"I won't be able to tell you for a while, so just follow us and take a look."
The surrounding villagers cast contemptuous glances at him.
Ji Chang had this intention in mind. When he was about to get on the bus, he found that the road was already crowded with people, so he abandoned the bus and walked ahead, ordering the driver to wait for them at the exit of the township.
The group walked for a quarter of an hour and finally arrived at a nearby village.
After seeing this countryside, Ji Chang was stunned.
Is this definitely a mountain town?
Every household is a mansion of a wealthy family, and there are hundreds of them standing on the flat land in front of you.
In front of these courtyards, there are small bridges, flowing water, flowers, trees, and some weird appliances.
Many old people and children are playing and playing on it.
This is considered a suburb, isn't Xiqi a hell?
"Is this the Paradise of Cave Heaven?"
Ji Chang was dumbfounded.
"What kind of paradise is this? This is Dongyang City. Outsiders are really ignorant..."
At this time.
A village woman walked by Ji Chang, glanced at him, smiled wildly, and covered her mouth.
Ji Chang's face suddenly turned red with embarrassment.
"The Master is here!"
At this time.
In the spacious place at the entrance of the village, a carriage came.
An old man holding a stack of Jizhou paper stepped out of the carriage.
The old man ordered someone to set up a table and shouted:
"Don't worry, the young master has expanded the Dongyang Township School, and all children will have the opportunity to enroll."
He trailed off.
The villagers cheered and praised Su Changqing, almost praising him as a saint.
Hearing these compliments, Ji Chang felt guilty.
He felt that compared with Su Changqing, he was not even half a saint.
Ji Chang stood in the distance and listened to the master for an hour, and finally understood what a rural school was.
The rural school was originally an internal school in an academy built by Jizhou for the villagers in the township. Like the Jizhou Academy, it was specially designed to provide education for the children of the villagers.
This academy is Dongyang-eup Academy.
There are three levels of academies: rural schools, rural schools, and colleges.
The rural school is a place for young children to learn, the rural school is a place for young people to study, and the college is a place for adults to study.
After students from rural schools and colleges graduate, those with outstanding performance will have the opportunity to go to Jizhou Academy.
and.
Children under the age of ten are exempt from tuition fees.
According to Master's wishes, this rule was established to allow villagers to send their children to rural schools as soon as possible without delaying their enlightenment.
Su Changqing actually built a school palace for rural villagers.
Ji Chang was completely shocked this time.
The villagers were just slaves of the nobles. They farmed for the nobles. It was a kindness to be rewarded with food and some money from their masters.
These rough and tumble people, a group of slaves who are only qualified to farm, actually have the right to read and write?
Whether in Xiqi or Chaoge, reading and literacy were the rights only the nobles had.
If everyone could read, read, and understand the truth, how would the world be governed?
"Won't they rebel?"
Ji Chang was confused.
After learning what the rural school was, Ji Chang quietly left Dongyang City, passing by the Dongyang City Academy that was under construction.
He looked up.
This academy is several times larger than the mansions of some nobles, and is even comparable to a royal palace.
"Is this a rural academy?"
"The Imperial College in Xiqi King City is only this big."
How much money did Su Changqing earn in this world, that he could waste it so much and build such a luxurious academy for a village?
Xiqi sold Jizhou paper for twenty taels of gold each, and a random master actually had a stack of it in his hands.
Isn't this paper worth tens of thousands taels?
Ji Chang admitted that he was jealous.
If the Xiqi royal family also has Su Changqing's ability, why worry that his idea of governing the country cannot be promoted throughout the world?
Why worry about not being able to rule the world?
but.
Ji Chang quickly calmed down.
Although he was jealous, he was not afraid.
No matter how powerful Su Changqing is, he is just a businessman and does not understand the principle that all kingship in the world comes from the army.
The recruitment and mobilization of soldiers and horses in any part of the Eight Hundred Fang Kingdom cannot be hidden from the eyes of the world.
Although Su Changqing did business all over the world, Jizhou's army did not increase by one person.
Every year, the elderly, the weak, the sick and the disabled return to their hometowns from the army.
This is something everyone knows.
Without soldiers and horses, one cannot dominate the world.
So he is not worried that Jizhou will threaten his ambitions.
There was only one person who threatened him at the moment.
The king of the Shang Kingdom with the most powerful army in the world.
Emperor Xin.
this moment.
Ji Chang made a decision in his heart that went against his ancestors.
In this trade negotiation, no matter what the innate numbers say, no matter what Su Changqing's request, he will agree to it.
He wants to work hard to govern, he wants to work hard, and he wants to use Jizhou's goods to arm Xiqi's army.
"Let's go back to Jizhou."
"If Su Changqing doesn't leave the customs for a day, I won't return to Xiqi for a day!"
Ji Chang was hit hard. He hurried away and soon came to the exit of the township.
"kindness?"
"Where's the coachman Lu San?"
At the exit of the township, Ji Chang did not see Lu San's carriage.
He frowned and continued walking forward until he reached the edge of the wide and straight road, but still didn't see Lu San.
"It turns out that Xibohou is here."
At this time.
A familiar face rode over on two wooden wheels.
Ji Chang suddenly had a bad feeling.
The visitor was none other than Qiao Yiqiao, a junior official in the Road Administration Department.
The voice came over before Qiao Yiqiao arrived.
"Lu San was caught driving against the grain. When he was being punished, he suddenly drove away. On the way to escape, he hit and killed a villager's ox, and crushed several pear trees guarding the roadside."
"Now he has been arrested and is being held in prison."
"Hsibohou, please prepare money to redeem people,"
Qiao Yiqiao tore off a piece of yellowed paper and handed it to Ji Chang's hand.
What is written above is the crime committed by Lu San.
One long line.
Very eye-catching.
"In accordance with Taoist prohibitions, criminal regulations, and civil laws..."
"Several crimes were punished concurrently, and he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, fined two hundred gold, and compensated to the villagers for an ox and three road-protecting trees."
Ji Chang looked at the paper in his hand, his vision went dark again, and he almost fainted.
"What a bastard!"
…
Half an hour later.
Ji Chang, who was exhausted after walking, stopped the carriage of the Jizhou Academy Master just now.
Take a ride back to Jizhou.
Get in the car immediately.
The master was full of knowledge, spoke well, and spoke with insight, which made him feel ashamed.
What he said was knowledge that he had never heard of before.
What kind of culture is the key to rejuvenating the country?
What kind of martial arts overwhelmed them?
Any martial arts palace is a bunch of ordinary people.
…
Even if you study with Xiqi Tai for a hundred years, you may not be able to catch up with the knowledge of Jizhou Academy at this time.
Ji Chang thought so.
I wonder if the immortal who passed on his innate knowledge can do all this?
