I am the Empress Dowager!

Chapter 358 I want to go to school!

"Ah Da, Ah Da, come here quickly and put down what you are doing. Come here quickly!"

In a remote alley in the capital of the Han Dynasty, an old woman rushed into the house with a scroll of bamboo slips copied from an unknown source.

Then he shouted loudly towards the young man who was helping to repair furniture at home.

The place where they are located is the capital of the Han Dynasty. Here are the most powerful people in the Han Dynasty, as well as countless princes and nobles of the Han Dynasty, countless noble families and powerful people.

But here, there are also countless people.

Like the mother and son here today, the people in Guizhou are extremely poor.

They were wearing the roughest coarse linen clothes, with countless patches sewn on them, and they were even obviously very ill-fitting.

In the house behind the young man, there seemed to be some babbling sounds. Their voices were not loud, and they sounded like children who were not very sensible yet.

Some of the voices were not clear enough, but overall they were shouting that they were hungry, and there seemed to be the sound of children crying.

These countless scenes and sounds vividly represent a poor family.

At this time, as the hostess of the family and the young man's mother, she put the wooden slips in her hands directly into her son's hands with excitement on her face, and at the same time threw the tools in his hands aside.

The excitement was palpable, and there was uncontrollable excitement in his tone.

"This is what my mother just saw from outside. It is said that our Majesty personally ordered that children from families like ours should be given the opportunity to study.

But we didn’t know the details, so my mother asked that official to make a copy for her.

It is said that the imperial court allows people like us to study. You are the eldest son of the family, and our neighbors say you are the smartest child in this area.

Ah Da, it would be great if you could study in the imperial school! "

Seeing his mother's excited expression, the young man showed no joy. On the contrary, there was a bit of helplessness on his face.

"What are you talking about, mother? This school is not the only one. Didn't our Queen Mother say a few years ago that we want to promote education?

But in the final analysis, that's all.

In our family, only my father can still work as a farmer. Although my grandfather and grandmother are not old, their health is not as good as before. My great-grandfather is already old, and the annual decoction costs a lot of money.

If I go to school, who will take care of my younger siblings?

Grandma, don’t even think about it. Besides, what if there is such a place? Even if it exists, it has nothing to do with us! "

Looking at her son who had a calm face and whose tone was calm but full of disappointment and helplessness, the woman couldn't help but lower her head.

But soon she was excited again.

"This time is different. I heard that His Majesty personally ordered it, and the court allocated money and food. Not only did it not have any strings, it said that we don't need to pay for the dried meat.

And they will also give us money and food so that we will not be unable to live because of the loss of a child.

That’s what they say anyway.

Take this immediately and go to the blacksmith shop next door and ask your Uncle Zhang to take a look at it and see what is written in it? "

Although Deng Sui had been promoting education and building schools for many years, these things had nothing to do with them, the common people in Guizhou.

After all, in this era, the benefits that a young man can bring are visible to the naked eye, and they are also crucial to a family.

Asking the young people in the family to give up their farmland and go to school instead not only saves a labor force, but most importantly, gives them a share of income. This has already stumped most Guizhou heads. And there are a lot of things needed for studying. Even the simplest bundle of ten dried meats is enough to stump most Guizhou people.

This is not a embarrassment for the teacher. Reading is not something that happens overnight. The writing and ink that follows, the bamboo slips that follow, and the many things that follow are not something that can be compared with ten pieces of dried meat.

This Shu Xiu is telling everyone that there is a threshold for entering this school!

Fortunately, it is not that the people in Guizhou do not have their own methods and opportunities to learn and read.

In addition to Liu Long's order this time, there are two other places where they can learn to read.

One is to join the army and become a border guard for the Han Dynasty, and they are also the kind who guard the border and farm fields all year round.

The second is to enter an official workshop and become a craftsman of the imperial court.

The former is because as a frontier guard, you not only need to farm, but you also need to record many things.

Just like when Liu Long was in charge of the northwest, the garrison in the northwest had these rules. For example, the number of people guarding the border posts was not many, probably just a few.

Ten people guard a small outpost, responsible for monitoring the movements of the aliens and lighting up smoke as a warning at any time.

This is their mission.

But in addition to these, they have to record many things every day, and this has been done by the soldiers guarding the border since the period of Emperor Xiaowu.

Records of the daily work of the garrison soldiers in the "Diary Book", records of the registration of weapons and equipment in the "Guard Equipment Book", records of food distribution, records of clothing storage, etc.

In order to be able to do this, the garrison soldiers here also need to accept Mongolian books such as "Cangjie Pian", "Jijiu Zhang", etc., as well as spells and so on.

Its purpose is to liquidate food and grass, etc.

In addition, the imperial court also provided them with a large number of bamboo slips, which they could also make themselves, just for practicing calligraphy.

As well as some contracts and letters, they need to solve them by themselves, so there are naturally educated people in the army.

On the other side is the craftsman. As a craftsman of the imperial court, everything he makes is related to the imperial court.

Therefore, they must record everything about themselves and engrave their names on the finished products. If they are illiterate, they will be easily plotted.

That means the whole family will lose their heads together.

Therefore, the craftsmen of the official family are also the same, and they work harder than the soldiers.

After all, soldiers can ask their comrades and friends for help, but who among these craftsmen would dare to pin their heads on someone else's waistband.

These craftsmen have some strength, but they are not without brains!

So the woman directly dragged the young man out, and then pushed hard towards the blacksmith Zhang's house, telling him to go quickly.

And it took half an hour to get there.

When the young man came back again, the old woman immediately put down the child in her arms, and then rushed towards him like flying.

"Ada, how are you?"

"Mom, I want to go to school!"

(End of this chapter)