Wei and Jin Cooks

 From the late Han Dynasty to the present, the clan monopolizes political power through the system of selecting officials.

Sima Zhao killed the emperor in the street and ascended the throne. In order to control the government, he killed many people. Wasn't he the one who killed the famous Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, including Ji Kang and others?

But even so, the Sima family can't get rid of the powerful family. They can kill individual people, but they can't kill all the powerful families.

 So in order to consolidate his rule, Sima had to co-govern with aristocratic families.

However, after Emperor Hui came to power, aristocratic families began to be harvested like leeks.

Every king rebelled and was cut off. The most severe ones were Shi Le and Liu Cong who went south. Especially in the battle when Shi Le blocked and killed Sima Yue, 70% of the officials in the court and 80% of the noble families in Luoyang died at his hands.

Only the old, weak, women and children survived. In that battle, half of the Jin Dynasty's aristocratic families were defeated. In the subsequent wars, numerous aristocratic families were killed and injured, so now there are not many left, and even fewer have the right to speak in the court. .

Because they had fled south in large numbers, once Zhao Hanzhang regained the place, he started from the bottom up, opened schools everywhere, and counted the population, so that the noble families who left their homeland and lost their land had no foundation.

There is only one most powerful family in China today, and that is the Zhao family.

 Even the Wang family, which was very prosperous for a time, is now falling apart and unable to lead the family to compete with the imperial power.

 So Zhao Hanzhang's talent recruitment examination was carried out smoothly.

 The talent recruitment examination is the greatest tool to break the monopoly of wealthy families, and the new academic system is the soil laid under the talent recruitment examination.

China's knowledge monopoly for thousands of years originally had only a very thin thread connecting it to the outside world, supported by the conscience of some people and the saying of Confucius that "there is no discrimination without education", but now it is fully Open it, thousands of thin lines connect it to the outside, and its nutrients are transported out through these thin lines, so that people all over the world, regardless of their origins, can absorb this part of the nutrients through the school and slowly grow stronger.

Zhao Hanzhang did not want to follow Huang Chao's old path and physically eliminate the powerful family.

Everything in this world has two sides. Without the aristocratic family, the gentry and nobles will replace it and become the other side of ordinary people.

Therefore, there is only one thing she has to do, which is to ensure the interests of the vast majority of civilians in the world and safeguard the legitimacy of their rights and interests legally.

There is no need to be too persistent in eliminating some people. Since there are two sides, then while ensuring the interests of the other side and strengthening them, can't we suppress the other side?

 That is what education should do.

The number of civilians is huge. As long as one person among tens of millions of people goes from elementary school to county school, then to state school, to Imperial College, and finally to the court to fight for their interests, her goal will be achieved.

She hopes that one day, the officials sitting in this hall and in the yamen of various places will come from all walks of life and from all fields, and their advancement path will be relatively fair, and she will be satisfied.

 Hence, education has been established as one of the most important national policies, ahead of the economy and alongside agriculture.

As we all know, China’s agriculture has always been regarded as the foundation of the country, and the country’s basic tax revenue depends entirely on agriculture.

People can live without clothes or shelter, but they cannot live without food, so protecting agriculture is to save lives.

  Zhao Hanzhang mentioned education as equally important as agriculture, which shows how much he values ​​education. She cannot guarantee that every child can attend a county school, but she can work hard to ensure that every child attends a three-year primary school.

 In three years, they can learn common words, learn the most basic arithmetic of addition and subtraction, count to one hundred easily, and learn many famous sayings about life.

In order to allow them to learn the most useful things in the limited time, which may even affect their lives, Zhao Hanzhang ordered the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial College to revise textbooks together, and he personally supervised and gave guidance.

  The newly compiled textbooks were repeatedly rejected. Even though Zhao Cheng had a good temper, he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.

He Xun was also going bald, so he couldn't help but talk to Zhao Cheng, "Why don't Zitu go to the palace and ask Your Majesty, what kind of textbook does she want?"

Xunfan silently pushed out a stack of paper.

He Xun has stopped reading, "Your Majesty said that you need to learn common words within three years, and also learn the principles of life and work, so we compiled the "Thousand-Character Classic" and "The Analects of Confucius" separately. Then she said that the content was too heavy for the children. We are afraid that we will not be able to learn;"

"We cut out the content and added that the local dialects are different in different places. In order to unify the elegant dialect, we annotated the elegant pronunciation and meaning. Your Majesty also felt that our teaching was too slow and the knowledge was too scattered, which was not conducive to memory. He also said that there was too little practical information. ," He Xun pushed back the stack of requests, "I can already memorize His Majesty's requirements by heart, and I don't think any edition does not meet the requirements, but the manuscript I am waiting for has been sent back five times!"

 He wanted to know her more specific requirements. For example, what was she dissatisfied with in the five editions submitted?

Xunfan, however, was not in a hurry and even consoled him: "Now the school is still using the old textbooks. There are still several months before the school starts on August 19th. We only need to submit the manuscript two months in advance. It will be in time."

He Xun felt that he was peaceful and stable enough, but he didn't expect Xun Fan to be more stable than him. He couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhao Cheng.

Zhao Cheng lowered his eyes and thought, then raised his head after a moment and said firmly: "I'm going to meet His Majesty."

They were able to hold on, but he couldn't mess with it like this. He insisted on writing this set of teaching materials within two months.

 Zhao Cheng immediately entered the palace.

Zhao Hanzhang had been waiting for him for a long time. As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Hanzhang asked: "Have you ever taught children between the ages of seven and ten in the countryside?"

Zhao Cheng frowned: "I have given lessons to both fifth-year and sixth-year students."

"To stand out from the elementary school and enter the county school, you must be smarter than the average child," Zhao Hanzhang said: "And what I want now is that the three-year students will not waste time in the school and can understand what the teacher teaches. Eighty percent of knowledge, and this 80% includes simple arithmetic, common words used throughout their lives, and some of the most basic principles of life, it’s that simple.”

 This is not simple at all!

Zhao Cheng's face was full of seriousness, "Your Majesty, they only have three years, and you still want us to educate and entertain..."

"Happiness is the source of learning," Zhao Hanzhang said: "I don't want them to stop at the third grade. After three years, some children will enter the county school to continue studying, but more children will either voluntarily or passively go home to farm. "

"This does not mean that they will stop here. Now is not the past. My newspapers and newspapers are scattered everywhere. In the future, there will be more and more print media. They can understand the wider world through newspapers and learn more. Knowledge."

"Books are getting cheaper and cheaper. As long as they are willing and pay a little money, they can buy the books they want and continue to study," Zhao Hanzhang said, "So I want you to teach them to have an unyielding desire to learn." Hardship, unyielding fate.”