Wu May's royal court institutional reform news, quickly sent to Zhao Xuan hands, Zhao Xuan took this message to see the name of the director of the Department of Education, could not help but ask out loud: "This Director of the Department of Education, Gongsun Pan is the Qimen Mountain of that great sage?"
"Yes," replied the secret agent, bowing his head and clasping his fists.
Next to him, Jo Man-jae was interested in the Education Division. "Is the Education Division an open school house?"
"A little bit the same, also a little bit different, the Department of Education is the management of the whole of the Wu Kingdom of the schoolhouse, the Wu Kingdom in Ulsan and Kangcheng set up two big schoolhouse, but with the usual schoolhouse is not the same, each student will be under the guidance of several tutors, each tutor has to teach dozens, or even hundreds of students, that the Gongsun Pan not only served as a director of the Department of Director of the post, but also served as the tutor of the schoolhouse in Kangcheng. " The secret agent told what he knew in full.
"Foolishness, with one tutor teaching so many scholars, how can the scholars possibly learn the essence of the tutor!"
Zhao Wenzai shook his head, he didn't agree with this way of nurturing talent, too many students would distract the tutor's energy, and the tutor wouldn't have enough energy to focus on cultivating good disciples.
"Not bad, a scholar educated in such a perfunctory manner cannot excel." Zhao Xuan also agreed with Wen Zai's opinion, he himself was taught by three tutors, meticulously for ten years, before he became outstanding today.
"My Lord, I think that Gongsun Daxian is also a person who sells his name."
Zhao Wu Zai Bo Yao shook his head, princes and nobles children, which children are not recruited masters alone to teach a few years, that Gongsun Pan even agreed to such a way of teaching, I think there is no real talent, will only pat the horse sloppy, cast the master of the good, in vain, he is the reputation of the great sages.
"In fact, that Gongsun Pan to go to be the director of the Department of Education of the Kingdom of Wu is also good." Zhao Xuan suddenly had a smile on his face, when he and Gongsun Pan had their repartee at Qimen Mountain, Gongsun Pan gave him the impression that his talent was not worthy of the name, and his insights were ancient and old-fashioned. As the saying goes, what kind of tutor, what kind of students, such a person to serve as the director of the Department of Education, that the entire Wu students will be taught into the mediocrity of the old-fashioned do not know how to adapt.
Thinking that the court of the Kingdom of Wu would be filled with mediocre people in the future, Zhao Xuan couldn't help but be in a good mood, such a Kingdom of Wu was not something to be feared.
While Zhao's rulers and ministers were discussing the matter of Wu's schoolhouse, Zheng Yuming was testing Gongsun Pan, and now every time he saw him he had to ask Gongsun Pan a question first.
"What wears a red robe on its body, has a real heartburn in its belly, and stirs up a fire in its heart that jumps eight feet high?"
"Premier Minister, what is this rare thing?" Gongsun Pan frowned and thought for half a day, but couldn't figure out what it was that Zheng Yuming wanted him to guess.
"You don't even know this? Firecrackers ah!" Zheng Yuming stared intently at the change of expression on Gongsun Pan's face.
"Firecrackers? What is it? Bamboo?" Gongsun Pan muttered in his heart, where is there a bamboo that wears a red robe, this is probably another thing from the Bermuda Kingdom. Since he followed Zheng Yuming down the mountain, Zheng Yuming always discussed some strange things with him, those things were said to be owned by the Bermuda Kingdom, Gongsun Pan had never heard of it and had never seen it.
"Alas, pretty much." Zheng Yuming could be sure by this point that Gongsun Pan was not a twenty-first century traveler, not only was he not a twenty-first century traveler, he was not a traveler of any era, Gongsun Pan was a native of Great Qin.
When Zheng Yuming learned that the wooden stick on the courtyard door and the broom on the path, are Gongsun disk placed there to be used on him and Zhao Xuan's test, the heart is shocked, this test is clearly the twenty-first century is quite famous interview trick. Zheng Yuming suspected that Gongsun disk is also from the twenty-first century traveled to, they intend to say in front of Gongsun disk some of the latter days only have something, but Zheng Yuming's test in addition to cause Gongsun disk curiosity and sideways glance, did not test Gongsun disk has a trace of the twenty-first century traveled through the person's clues and clues.
"Prime Minister, this is the budget for opening a compulsory elementary school house." Gongsun Pan handed over a piece of white paper filled with carbon characters, he wanted to start the elementary school in Wangdukang City earlier.
Zheng Yuming received the white paper with a sad face. "The elementary school budget can't be allocated until the second half of the year."
Wu financial money is very tense, the country's finances, in addition to industrial and commercial on the tax revenue, other places currently need to be subsidized out, Chu Chao Hui's army consumption is also a giant, if not earlier smuggled from the palace inner library of jewels and jade, by the Wu Mu to the surrounding vassals exchange into gold, transferred back to the hands of Zheng Yuming expenditure, Wu financial long ago went bankrupt.
"It's not until the second half of the year." Gongsun Pan was a bit disappointed.
"Please rest assured sir, in the second half of the year, the finances will become more and more relaxed, and elementary school can be opened on a larger scale." Zheng Yuming comforted Gongsun Pan.
"Haha, fine! Then is it possible to open a few more by next year?"
Gongsun Pan's eyes lit up.
Zheng Yuming invited Gongsun Pan to come down from the mountain, is to let Gongsun Pan for the state of Wu breeding talent, Gongsun Pan in Zheng Yuming's mind, is a science and technology talent, both scientific theoretical knowledge, but also practical hands-on ability, such a tutor educated children are the pillars of Wu.
"As long as there are enough teachers, elementary school will be opened all over Wu." Zheng Yuming nodded his head affirmatively.
Zheng Yuming's certainty, but let the Gongsun disk will be skeptical, the cost of starting a compulsory elementary school is not a little bit of half a point, according to the Gongsun disk, Wu's financial income from the first stage of the industrial and commercial aspects of the agricultural aspects of the national tax cuts, from the original 30 percent per mu reduced to 10 percent, tax cuts at the same time, but also in the various parts of the large repair of the water conservancy, which the number of investment is huge. And in order to promote high-yield food crops, grain seed are on credit to farmers planting, until the farmers harvest and then return the number of grain seed, this measure, and need to fill in many funds.
The longer Gongsun Pan was in the royal capital, the more he understood the financial expenditure of Wu, the more he was worried about the revenue, and he was afraid that the compulsory education program for all that appealed to him was just a castle in the air, unattainable.
Zheng Yuming to the second half of the year has the bottom line, because the East China Sea coast of the remodeled salt field, from May, has been harvested, today's salt production is higher than the original dozens of times.
Because the output of the salt farm will continue to double, the wholesale price of the salt farm sold to the merchants is one-third lower than the original, the merchants who have heard the news have already rushed to the salt farm from all directions, Zheng Yuming believes that the salt of the East China Sea coast of the Kingdom of Wu will be given to the merchants because of the increase in the profit margins, the merchants who are seeking profit will be sold all over the Qin Dynasty, and the Qin Dynasty's coins will also flow continuously into the pockets of the Kingdom of Wu.
In August, the Kingdom of Wu opened three elementary schools in the royal capital Kangcheng, Ulsan Dacheng, and Nambu, where students are free of tuition and fees and are served a free lunch at noon. These three schools are the first pilot programs, and by next year, they will be opened in all counties of the Kingdom of Wu.
At this time of Qin Confucianism is not yet prevalent, social etiquette of men and women have not yet become a common rule, Zheng Yuming intends to let the girls are also eligible to enter the school to enjoy the education, and therefore deliberately stipulated for the enrollment of young children of the whole population. Unfortunately, the three schools enrollment situation let Zheng Yuming very disappointed, in addition to the Nambu have a few girls into the school, Kangcheng and Dacheng elementary school are no girls to school enrollment.
In August not only was the elementary school bustling with enrollment, but a large number of students had also gathered at the entrance of the North Academy in the royal capital, Kang City, most of them coming from all over the Kingdom of Wu, and a small portion of them coming from the surrounding vassal states. They came to register for the entrance examination, and only those who passed the examination were qualified to enter the North College for further study.
"Please take the numbers in your hands, don't make any noise, and enter the premises to take your seats." A middle-aged man with a few guards stood at the academy's main gate, maintaining order for the scholars to enter.
"Sir, the student came late and didn't sign up, can he go in for the exam first?" A dusty sixteen or seventeen young man gasped and ran to the middle-aged man to request.
"You just arrived in Kangcheng?" The middle-aged man heard that the young man's accent was from out of town.
"Yes, student Yang He, a native of the State of Lu, has set out from his home since he received the news of the opening of the academy in Kangcheng, but unfortunately, he was still a little late in traveling day and night." The green clothes Yang He was wearing had been washed white, he was carrying a large backpack on his back, and the shoes on his feet were worn to the point of exposing his toes.
"Then go ahead and take the test first, and fill in the information at the enrollment office afterward." The middle-aged man saw that the young man had traveled a long way to seek education, and rose to cherish his talent, taking a temporary number plate out.
"Thank you sir!" Yang He was overjoyed and bowed towards the middle-aged man, receiving the temporary number plate and hurriedly walking into the examination room.
Yang He walked into the examination room, unloaded the large bag on his back and put it in the corner, and took his seat against the number plate in his hand, at this time, the examination had not yet begun.
Yang He sat down and realized that although he had been accommodated to enter the examination room, he still could not participate in the examination, because he did not bring a pen and ink into the examination room, he brought a knife for carving bamboo slips. The whole country of Wu had already switched to paper instead of bamboo slips.
"This kind brother, could you lend me a charcoal pencil?" Yang He could only borrow it from a candidate close to him.
The candidate sitting next to him was comparable in age to Yang He, with a clear face and a cold demeanor, and when he heard Yang He borrowing a pen from him, he lifted his eyes and coldly glanced at Yang He.
"Eh, I have just arrived in Kangcheng, I have not had time to prepare, if you have any extra, can you lend it to me?" Yang He couldn't care less about the candidate's coldness, and still had the cheek to request.
"Here!" The clean-faced candidate pulled out a charcoal pencil from his cloth bag and handed it to Yang He, this kind of charcoal pencil was made in Wu, and this candidate only bought and used it after he arrived in Kang City, he only bought two of them. The clean-faced candidate's bag was just as unforgiving.
"Thanks a lot!" Yang He received the charcoal pencil and thanked him repeatedly. "My name is Yang He, may I ask what is your name, kind brother?"
"My surname is Fu Chou." The clean-cut candidate spoke his name in a low voice only after a long time.
After Yang He passed the written examination and was accepted by the North Academy, he signed an agreement with the North Academy and applied for a study grant. The reason why Yang He traveled from Lu to Wu to study at the North Academy was because the North Academy had famous scholars to teach him, and Yang He could not afford to hire famous scholars in Lu. Secondly, because the North Academy would provide living expenses for the academy, so that Yang He could study without worrying about food and clothing, but he was unable to seek financial assistance in the State of Lu, and not only could he not go off to study, but also had difficulties in his life.
When Yang He learned from the merchant that as long as he signed an agreement with the North College of Wu, he could further his studies without any worries, he was immediately moved, and borrowed a sum of money from his clansmen and rushed to the capital city of Wu. The agreement with the North College is only to stay in Wu after graduation and work for two years to repay.
Yang He finished the enrollment formalities, received the dormitory number plate for his future stay, and picked up his big bag to look for the dormitory. The student dormitory in the North Academy was two to a room, and when Yang He pushed open the door of the dormitory, he found that his roommate was actually Fu Chou, who had lent him a charcoal pencil.