Xuande

Chapter 705 Reform Enters Deep Water Area

As soon as these words were spoken, the subordinates and staff all showed expressions of surprise.

Is Liu Bei planning to attack someone again?

Could it be that……

Is it a person of the ancient literature school?
I have to say that too many previous cooperations and mercy have given many people the stereotype that Liu Bei and the ancient literature school wear a pair of pants, making everyone feel that Liu Bei's policy is completely ineffective for certain groups of people. It was not issued against them.

Even if the previous wave of [-]-[-] conflicts and disputes seemed to more people to be a moderate cooperative action, there were some conflicts between the two sides, but in essence it was a happy cooperation between Liu Bei and the ancient literature school.

Liu Bei still cares about the ancient literature school.

This stereotype brought Liu Bei a lot of convenience in a specific historical period, making his series of actions more successful without affecting his reputation.

Of course, this situation also brought some troubles, and the biggest trouble is the current situation——

He wants to promote a comprehensive reform of the governance system, but so many people stop him and are unwilling to cooperate with him, and then use this as a threat to ask him for benefits.

To put it bluntly, some people don't think that Liu Bei's reforms are aimed at them. They always think that Liu Bei's reforms are in their interests and for their sake.

Every reform is the redistribution of their internal interests.

General Liu is here to send us warmth!
Indeed, in the previous series of reform actions, they could always benefit from Liu Bei, get more benefits, and make their family stronger, which gave them a kind of inertial thinking.

So until now, they suddenly found that Liu Bei's next action was not good for them, but had a lot of disadvantages, so they couldn't sit still.

But they were very wrong.

Because from the very beginning, Liu Bei did not regard them as his own. Liu Bei never considered himself a high-ranking scholar. He had no relevant recognition. The reason why he became a scholar was because he needed this identity.

With this identity, he can do more things, accumulate his own team in the process of slowly developing, accumulate enough political influence, and then launch some actions against the ruling class above.

It is worth mentioning that almost all the students in Sili Academy and Taixue come from the upper middle class, and there are no real peasant children.

But in Liangzhou state school, there are still some peasant children.

The reason is simple. Liangzhou was the first to implement the collective farm policy and comprehensive literacy policy, as well as food and living subsidies for Liangzhou students. Liu Bei specially used part of the salt sales money to subsidize state schools for students from poor families. There are some subsidies, and it is stipulated that even children from farm families can enroll.

He set up a state school preparatory school outside Liangzhou State School, specially recruiting the younger children from rural families who had received literacy education earlier to study some basic courses, and after they mastered the basic knowledge, let them They pass the entrance examination of the state school to enter the state school.

And more importantly, because the upper class forces in Liangzhou were wiped out by Liu Bei, and the number of scholars was the rarest in the whole Han Dynasty, basically after the second batch of students enrolled, the entire Liangzhou still existed. The children of scholars and powerful families will be fully enrolled.

The children of the powerful family of scholars have almost fully enrolled. Their number is too small to produce so many children, and the number of students enrolled in Liangzhou State School is still the same every year.

So where do they all come from?

Obviously, there are other sources.

Since the third batch of students enrolled in the first year of Jian'an, the students of Liangzhou State School were born in rural areas. They are all peasant children.

There is no way, the children of the powerful scholars are all gone, and they are all wiped out. Liangzhou State School has only one source of students.

That is to say, over 90.00% of the graduates from the Liangzhou State School who graduated in the fourth year of Jian'an and were arranged by Liu Bei to serve as representatives of collective farms and grassroots officials in the county government were from peasant families. Batch students are completely different.

In the future, when the batch of students who graduated in the fifth year of Jian'an came out, they would no longer be the children of powerful scholars, but all the children of farmers from collective farms.

Regarding this matter, there are no disturbances in Liangzhou, because the real problem is that if there are no rural children to enroll, Liangzhou State School with well-equipped teaching facilities will have no students.

Moreover, as Liu Bei, the master of reading, who he wants to recruit as a student is his own business, and it is not up to others to dictate. He has the qualifications and rights, so there is no outside interference.

Liu Bei's control over Liangzhou is straightforward, and others habitually don't express any opinions on Liangzhou, even though Liu Bei has publicly resigned from the post of Liangzhou pastor.

Liangzhou Zhouxue’s education of rural children can be regarded as an epoch-making event, because before that, there was almost no possibility of receiving education for rural children. Only Liangzhou Zhouxue did it practically, and also gave food and living subsidies. .

It's like paying someone to come to school.

Some people questioned it, but they were rejected by Liu Bei with the Confucian educational philosophy of teaching without discrimination, teaching students according to their aptitude, etc., and then insisted on enrolling students and running schools.

Do you understand what is the master of reading?

What I say is what I say, in my school, I call the shots!

In addition, in areas where the construction of collective farms is relatively complete, such as some areas in Sanfu, he also followed the Liangzhou model.

After the first few years of development, local food production under the collective farm model began to enter an explosive period.

With a more reasonable distribution model and a more relaxed tax environment, every household began to have food reserves, and began to have the need and possibility to educate their children.

At this time, the collective farm will hold a general meeting, and everyone will discuss together, and together, at least one young child in the family will be liberated from the land and sent to a state school to study.

After reading and practicing calligraphy, one is a man of culture, one is a scholar, and has a bright future.
At this time, Liu Bei continued to provide subsidies with the money from selling salt, and then asked some farms in the Sanfu area to send their children to study in preparatory schools in Liangzhou to expand the scope of enrollment and continue to train their own team.

These students who have no other political support other than Liu Bei will become Liu Bei's most solid supporters after entering the officialdom. Their existence and large number will make Liu Bei fully equipped with the strength to wrestle with the world's famous families .

Right now, hundreds of peasant children have begun to step into the political field, and have begun to lay a solid political foundation for Liu Bei at the lowest level. As time goes by, the advantages of peasant children in terms of numbers will gradually be revealed.

When the Modern Literature School was still there, when the reactionary forces such as Yuan Wei and He Jin were still there, and when the huge slave-holding groups were still there, Liu Bei still had great demand for the Ancient Literature School and the eunuch group. Power is not enough to defeat everything.

But right now, the Jinwen School has been liquidated, and a group of reactionaries headed by Yuan Wei and He Jin have also been liquidated, and even the huge slave-holding group was severely slashed by Liu Bei because of the division from top to bottom.

And so the importance of his once-key allies has plummeted.

Moreover, as the reform enters the deep-water area, the role and significance of the ancient literature school and the eunuch group to Liu Bei will also change from mostly positive to mostly negative. This is due to the development of the times and cannot be changed by manpower.

(End of this chapter)