The big man has a living father

Chapter 244 Limited Space (Happy New Year!)

"Huo Guang also has reasons to say that. What kind of books do other people teach? What kind of books are these? Your six years of compulsory education is provided free of charge by the state, which makes sense, but what they teach is so good that not everyone can learn it. What's wrong with charging tuition?"

Huo Guang proposed charging for education and privatization, which was supported by many people.

Ever since Mehev started writing books, it has become normal for businessmen and workers to write books.

Since the launch of Science News, it is no surprise that scientific books have appeared.

After so many years, the Science Daily has published so many volumes of the annual edition, not to mention books in professional fields.

From "Postpartum Care of Sows" to "Stocking Knitting Technology", what industry cannot publish books?
Don’t be fooled by the names of these books which may not sound impressive; they are actually very expensive!
For those ordinary new students, if they really want to find a temporary job, they can only help people write and read letters, or work as an accountant in a shop with simple accounts.

If you really want to find a high-paying job, you still need to study.

Many of the various in-depth learning technologies have core technology thresholds.

Most of these core technologies are written in various books.

In fact, the prices of many books are outrageous.

Currently, the price of a six-lesson combined edition for children is about ten yuan. If it is a used book, you can buy it for only two or three yuan.

But a book like "Steel Woodworking Tool Processing Technology" has a market price of 55,000 yuan per set.

Not only is it expensive, but the text is also very difficult to understand and complicated. You may not be able to understand it just by buying a single copy.

These people already have the idea of ​​paying for knowledge.

Books are there for anyone to buy, read, or even rent. Chang'an now has libraries and books collections.

But there are some things that you can’t learn just by reading a book without hearing them with your own ears. And without the guidance of a master who has practical experience, you won’t understand even if you listen.

Sometimes, even the teaching of a master is useless and the student must be guided step by step.

These are all education industries.

These industries represent the best in their respective fields, the so-called elites.

Because who else could have written these books? Who else could have been a teacher?

Therefore, the commercialization of education proposed by Huo Guang quickly gained support.

Even though ordinary people may not understand it, these elites from all walks of life hold the power of speech.

Apart from anything else, are ordinary people qualified to publish articles in the Dahan Daily?

But the elites from all walks of life are all veterans of the column section.

Of course, they want to speak out in support of the commercialization of education.

Moreover, the volume is extremely loud.

Huo Hai also read the Dahan Daily. After seeing many articles advocating the commercialization of education, Huo Hai posted the newspaper on the bulletin board of the Ministry of Agriculture.

People passing by thought it was some new order and ran to see.

Then I realized that it was a newspaper and I was not mistaken at the beginning.

After reading these articles, they also couldn't figure out what Huo Hai meant.

But, after all, there are still talented people.

Huang Ba soon understood and published an article in the Dahan Daily.

As the top scorer in the second imperial examination, Huang Ba is very famous.

In the first session, there were few candidates and most of them were ordinary people from Chang'an, so Ju Yuan was very legendary, but he could not be said to be the best candidate in the country, because the candidates at that time did not come from all over the country.

The top scorer of the third session was not young at all, as he was in his thirties when he was admitted.

What about Huang Ba? Huang Ba, the top scholar of the second term, is still less than 20 years old.

He is a role model for almost every new teacher in educating students.

After Huang Ba joined the new business reform, he soon came to the Ministry of Agriculture and served as the Minister of Agriculture. Huo Hai once praised Huang Ba, "You are not Huang Ba, you are Xueba." Later, Xueba became the standard term to praise all those who are good at studying.

Huang Ba was willing to write the article, and of course it was easily published in the Dahan Daily.

The article is called "If Education is Commercialized".

Huang Ba’s article has no answers, only questions.

[If education is commercialized, if the price of white paper for the young Minister of Agriculture Huo Hai nine years ago was 10,000 yuan per stack, what would the Han Dynasty be like today? ]

If education had been commercialized, and if the new learning had not been taught free of charge to children from decent families, would the new learning have been able to spread in Chang'an?

[If education is commercialized, and if the tuition for a new elementary school is as high as 10,000 yuan, how many people can read in the Han Dynasty now? ]

[If there were not so many scholars in the Han Dynasty, would there be so many books today? Would anyone stand up to support the commercialization of education? ]

[If the Han Dynasty did not have so many scholars, would there be so many new research results, would there be the current technological prosperity and economic development? ]

[If the economy is not developed, will education be commercialized? ]

[If it weren't for the advancement of technology, who would need to go to school? 】

Huang Ba asked questions one after another, filling up an entire article.

Every question has a definite answer. Since the reader can understand the question, he should know the answer.

This entire article of questions overshadowed all the articles written at the same time by people who advocated the commercialization of education.

The new students who were reading the newspaper also came to their senses.

At the beginning, the elites said that the research results that took them a long time to produce should not be taught for free. They worked hard and suffered for so many years to produce these results. If they were taught for free, what would that be?
If the person who learned it later achieves remarkable results but still remains poor, wouldn’t it be a waste of his learning?

From a student's perspective, this statement is very popular.

Who among those who learn does not believe that he can rise? Who thinks that he will never be able to learn right after starting to learn?
Since they think they can learn well, even if those who learn are still very inexperienced, they have already fantasized about the day when they become a big boss. Naturally, they think that such rights should be protected.

This kind of thinking is the same as the children of migrant workers who read books for two days and consider themselves literati.

But there are also differences.

This statement does make sense.

However, after Huang Ba’s incident, everything was different.

From the current perspective, Dahan’s development to this day relies largely on Huo Hai making his things available to the public for free or at ultra-low prices.

But even at a super low price or even for free, the Huo family still became the richest people in the country.

So, why?

Some smart people saw the answer from Huang Ba's question.

In fact, the elites will not make less money no matter what price they set for the books.

Pricing a set of books at ten thousand yuan simply means fewer people buy them and the price is a little higher, but you still make that much money in total.

I ordered twenty-one books, ten books in a set, for a total of two hundred coins. It was cheaper, so naturally more people would buy it, but I still made the same amount of money in total.

So, what is the essence of commercialization of education?

It is to control the number of practitioners.

For example, the book on woodworking tool production details why various tools are designed in this way, what kind of woodworking work and technology they are designed to achieve, what strength of steel is needed to design them in this way, where are the fragile parts when in use, and where they are easy to break, what angle of the drill bit is easier to drill into the wood, and what angle is least likely to break.

If you don't understand these, and just look at a woodworking tool and try to make it, it is basically impossible to use it. Even if you can, it will break down very quickly. If you don't buy this book, it is basically impossible to make your own woodworking tools. If you buy it, you can make them.

So, what is the purpose of controlling the price of this book?
Of course, this is to reduce competition, and the author needs to ensure that the tools in his factory are the best-selling ones.

Then comes the problem.

If that's the case, why write a book? Why not just not teach anyone and pass it down in your family? ?
Family tradition? Isn't that the method used in the past?
What’s the point of writing a book if you don’t want people to read it?
If you think about it, you will understand.

Writing a book is for fame, not letting people read it is for profit.

Fame and fortune, fame and fortune. Fame can bring greater profits, but one must be willing to give up a certain amount of profits in order to become famous.

After writing this book, the author of this book basically became a leader in this industry. If there is a student in the future who has learned design in this area and is very talented, but he has no starting capital, he can only work for others.

What would he choose?
Of course, it is to join your idol, join the industry leader, and join the factory of the author of this book.

There are not just one or two such people. They will become the driving force of this factory, continuously providing the factory with technical patents, and step by step turning this factory into an insurmountable peak in this industry.

This is just the simplest form of fame and fortune.

There are many benefits to publishing a book.

Therefore, there is a situation where a book is written but not read.

After Huang Ba wrote the article, people on Huo Guang's side, after a brief silence, began to publish various articles again.

It's nothing more than constantly reinforcing those views.

The reality is that not everyone may have read Huang Ba’s articles, but if there are more articles supporting the commercialization of education, more people will naturally read them.

……

In front of Huo Hai, Huang Ba asked: "Grand Minister of Agriculture, I don't understand one thing, why do they want to commercialize education?"

Huo Hai didn't even raise his head: "Moat."

Huang Ba: "Moat?"

Huo Hai: "Big merchants are like living in the city. Unlike small merchants who can become merchants as long as they have some sales skills, big merchants need their own core technology. The more confidential the core technology is and the more popular the product is, the higher the value of this big merchant will naturally be, and the more unshakable his position will be."

“If someone can master a technology that everyone needs, but only he can master it, he will become one of the richest people in the world.”

For example...a job.

Contrary to what many people imagine, among all of Huo Hai's industries, except for economic means that he created out of nothing, among the real physical businesses, the porcelain factory has the highest profit, the best return and the most stability.

People can live without transparent glass windows, wear clothes made of cotton, and build houses without bricks, but it is difficult to eat without bowls.

If you don't use a bowl, are you going to use a stone to knock a stone bowl?
Huang Ba understood the meaning of moat but did not comprehend the meaning of class.

So Huang Ba asked the second question: "Stop others from crossing the river?"

Huo Hai put down his pen, walked to the side, picked up a box of mahjong and poured it on the table.

Then they were stacked in a row and arranged neatly: "The rule is that the upper layer cannot be completely supported by a lower layer, which means that at least two lower layers must support one upper layer."

"Rule 1 is that starting from the second layer, each mahjong needs a space equal to the number of its own layers N plus to survive."

"Put it up."

Huang Ba took a look and started stacking them according to the rules.

All the bases on the first layer are densely packed and neatly arranged.

But starting from the second row, first of all, one mahjong must occupy three squares. Secondly, the second layer cannot be supported by a single mahjong. Just like building a brick wall, there must be no seams.

In other words, at least four grid bases are needed to place a mahjong tile.

After the second layer was put in place, the problem became how to put in the third layer.

Huang Ba soon understood and added another row of densely packed bases, and arranged the second layer in the same way.

In this way, two bases and two second layers can support a third layer.

Looking at the base and the huge third layer of mahjong on it, Huang Ba reacted: "This is..."

Huo Hai looked up at Huang Ba, then returned to his desk to continue processing official documents.

Huang Ba understood the class and the pyramid structure.

I now understand more clearly what a moat means.

Because the space on the third floor is limited, it can accommodate only those few.

If a new one comes in, one will be pushed out.

It turned out to be the case.

Huang Ba: "Then why are they willing to write a book about their skills and experience?"

Huo Hai: "If there are no rules, who would want to be at the bottom? Why do we need to have rules? It's because people at the bottom think they can climb up."

Huang Ba felt that Huo Hai's two short sentences had touched his soul.

Huang Ba suddenly realized that the reason why he was willing to come to the Minister of Agriculture's Office was because all the new business reform rules were formulated by the Minister of Agriculture.

Technology and rules are bound together.

Industry technology and industry rules are bound together.

Huang Ba: "I know how to defeat them."

Huo Hai looked up: "Tell me about it."

Huang Ba: "Separation of powers."

"Aren't we always discussing patent rights in technology? Patent rights are used to protect the ownership of technology, and the benefits generated by technology are brought by the ownership of technology. However, rights are not just the ownership of technology, but also the right to use, the right to learn and spread, the right to be named... and so on. We distinguish these rights from benefits."

"Among them, the right to study and spread belongs to the imperial court."

“The benefits of learning belong to all students.”

Hearing Huang Ba say this, Huo Hai smiled.

The top scholar in the imperial examination, I’m not kidding you.

Huo Hai already suspected that even if Huang Ba had not taken the imperial examination, he would have been a famous official in history.

A bit awesome.

The method he proposed is very simple.

Industry technology and industry rules are bound together.

But it does not mean that industry rules are unified.

Industry rules can be broken down.

After the split, only enough will be left to support the existence of this class structure, while some of the things needed by the court will be extracted. These rules cannot be made by the technology owners, but should be made by the court.

In this way, the imperial court forcefully inserted itself into industry rules and technical frameworks, and played a major role.

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Happy New Year brothers!!!
(End of this chapter)