"We just walked the straight road to the wharf, and now we are walking the official road around the island." Xu Zixian said to Wu Shizhong and Zhang Mingliang: "The official road around the island is round, basically connecting all the areas now. The road to the next construction is to the reclamation area and there are also passages between hundreds of households. In another two months, it will be almost completed. The total mileage will exceed 600 miles. If the total cost is added to the labor cost, it will probably exceed 100,000 yuan."

"It's already very cost-effective." Wu Shizhong praised: "The Great Wei also rebuilt roads in the past. Taizu once said that building roads is the most important thing. If you want to be rich, you must first get through. There is no road, no information and transportation, and goods cannot enter or leave, and it is also difficult for people to enter and exit. This is the ancestral teaching, but now the court is powerless."

Xu Zixian smiled and said, "I am also a descendant of Taizu, and I can be regarded as following the ancestral teachings."

Wu Shizhong laughed and felt happy when he heard this.

When we arrived at the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, more than a hundred officials came out to welcome him. It was a rare big battle in the Nan'an Marquis Mansion where everyone had something to do.

Chen Duzhong rushed over to greet him after hearing the news. After meeting, Chen Duzhong smiled and said, "As Mr. Wu arrives at the Dongfan, I am afraid that my nephew will arrive soon."

Chen Zhengzhi was obsessed with learning painting and had a close relationship with Wu Shizhong, which is also well-known.

Wu Shizhong shook his head and smiled, "Crown Prince Changwen is responsible, and I am afraid that he should not act arbitrarily and willfully."

Chen Duzhong was quite cold towards Xu Zixian and others. This is understandable. Uncle Jiu was originally a powerful defensive envoy. He made up his mind to make decisions in all kinds of things in the East. He still had thousands of troops under his command, which was also a temporary and available force for the Changwen Hou Mansion. Many of the military officers bribed them with money. The orders from the imperial court and Fujian Road could not be listened to, but the will of the Changwen Hou Mansion would definitely be implemented.

However, the Nan'an Marquis Mansion came strongly, and even the original buildings were demolished. Most of the wing troops were changed to guards, and most of the military officers were dismissed. Chen Duzhong had become an isolated man at this point, with only some servants and a small number of personal troops remaining. Of course, some officials were also retained by the civil servants.

Nowadays, Chen Duzhong has no responsibility except for having banquets with some big businessmen and drinking and listening to the show every day.

Without responsibility means no power. The power map of Chen Duzhong in Changwenhou’s mansion was originally a relatively alienated link, just a reserve.

With the Nan'an Marquis Mansion, this reserve can be cancelled. The Nan'an Marquis Mansion's mastery of the Dongfan, including the dismantling of the military force of the wing army, was of course the result of the unanimous agreement of the Changwen Marquis Mansion.

This made Chen Duzhong feel even worse. Now he felt like a victim who was harmed by both sides, and his family was stabbing him in the back.

Reasonably, cooperation is justified, and Chen Duzhong has been cooperating. From the perspective of emotions and actual power, Chen Duzhong's indifference is also reasonable.

If we hadn't welcomed the great scholar today, Chen Duzhong would not have appeared in another courtyard.

Everyone stood beside the road in front of the gate of the villa to greet each other. There were endless cars, horses and pedestrians along the way, and the guards scattered, forming a loose guard circle.

The villa is built on several small hills, and behind and on the left are large bamboo forests and elm trees and willow trees. In late spring, the wind blows the willow forests and blows through the bamboo shoots. The hills form green mountains like mountains, which are as undulating as sea water. There are also some peach trees and cherry trees blooming. There are a large pear tree in the southwest with white flowers and no settlements around. However, there are large military camps not far southwest, and not far west is the blue sea. In terms of scenery, it is simply wonderful and extraordinary.

Li Yi pointed to the intersection of a large bamboo forest and Yulin Liulin in the northeast and said to Wu Shizhong: "Mr. Wu, there are hundreds of acres of forest land there, hills, stream tributaries, and a small waterfall. The scenery is excellent. We plan to build a university hall in this area, with hundreds of houses, and there are cliffs and libraries, including lecture halls, dormitories, canteens, libraries, etc. If students are talented people recognized by Mr. Wu, they are qualified to enter the school."

"Talking is what I want, and this arrangement is very good." Wu Shizhong's face showed an unconcealed look of excitement. Before that, he was an official in the capital, but later returned home in disgrace. When the news was tense, no one dared to enter, let alone gathering people to teach.

In the late Tang Dynasty and early Wei Dynasty, most of the ways of becoming famous were not to be an official, but to give lectures.

Even if you are an official, it is a key position in Qing Dynasty. You are not very busy and can entertain yourself by poetry and wine. In addition, you can teach and accept apprentices.

Accepting disciples to show off one's own knowledge. The famous schools of Chengxueguanxue and other schools are famous scholars who teach their disciples and recruit disciples to teach them, carry forward their knowledge with talented people, or promote them to their teachers. Few disciples of famous scholars become famous scholars again. This is because their knowledge is as good as the sea. If it is not for talent and lifelong study, it will be difficult to become a teacher in the way of knowledge, let alone be promoted by famous scholars.

However, most famous scholars can form a powerful school, and not all of them are officials. However, under the convergence, they can defend the knowledge of the masters and promote the whole country. In addition, teachers, friends and disciples who are officials can gain a foothold, be strong, promote, and open the door to teach disciples.

Even famous scholars have a little utilitarianism. Even if they are not utilitarian, they can promote their knowledge and promote it to be understood by the world and implemented. This is also popular among famous scholars.

In today's Great Wei Dynasty, Xu Xia and Shang are members of the Confucian clan and have a wide range of disciples. However, Xu Xia and Shang schools are exactly two schools and Wu Shizhong. Wu Shizhong has to teach, and there are really many obstacles.

In addition to Xu Xia Shang, there are several famous scholars who teach in various places. There is Bailu Academy on Jinghu South Road, which is a famous lecture place in the world. There are also several famous academies in Jiangling. In addition, if the university of the Dongfan Wu Shizhong was built, it will attract many scholars and students to enroll, and the improvement of the image and status of Dongfan Island can be more useful than 100,000 soldiers.

Xu Zixian smiled and said, "If the university is completed, you will also ask Wu Xian to name it."

"I'll call Zhizhi Academy." Wu Shizhong smiled and said, "Your Majesty must forgive me for being outspoken."

"Sir, too humble." Xu Zixian said: "But under the university, we also need to set up elementary and middle school departments. The elementary school departments use learning the Analects of Confucius and Thousands of Poetry as the foundation for literacy, set up history courses, math foundations, and geography courses. The course is three years, at least six years old, and at most twelve years old, and can be admitted to school at the age of 12. The middle school departments are young people with basic writing skills, and can be admitted to school at the age of 12 to 15. In addition to the content of the primary school, classics, literature, military studies, mathematics, engineering, business, and law can be taught. In this case, if you are interested in the study,

It can deepen the classics and poetry, which is not without any benefit. If you don’t intend to take the scientific exam, you can learn useful knowledge. If you study military personnel, you can learn math and business for my military officers in Nan'an Marquis Mansion. You can make a living in a shop under my Nan'an Marquis Mansion. You can also be an official and a law. You can also be a calculating official. After graduation, you can be independent. No matter what your career is, you are a dignified man. This is a general plan. Mr. Xiu is in charge of the school room. In addition to teaching apprentices, the school affairs are of course entrusted by the teacher to preside over the school.”

In fact, there are quite a lot of "miscellaneous studies" in middle school courses. If Xu Zixian openly said that miscellaneous studies are also knowledge, I am afraid that Wu Shizhong would first wash his ears with sea water and then leave immediately, so as not to become a public enemy of Shilin with Xu Zixian.

However, using these lessons to train employees, craftsmen, business managers, including military officers and sailors, they only read and politely to them, and should not blindly be blind, and at the same time they cultivate qualified personnel, rather than pure Confucian scholars. Relatively speaking, this school system is not as pure as Wu Shizhong thought before, such as learning all Confucian classics, but considering the actual situation of the Dongfan, Xu Zixian's considerations and measures were not excessive.

Kong He then said, "We have counted that there are more than 5,100 boys and girls aged six to twelve on the island, and more than 2,100 boys aged twelve to fifteen. We do not accept women in the middle school because we are older, so we must have great defense for men and women and not live together day and night. According to Junhou's idea, girls who are willing to enroll in school can also be accepted, and women can also read and be polite. Even if they don't come out to make a living, read some filial piety, and read some words, and know the principles of the world. It is not a bad thing. In the elementary school, we plan to provide two meals a day, eat and lunch at school, waive tuition and provide meals, so that we can attract parents of boys and girls to enroll, and the enrollment rate will be much higher."

Wu Shizhong nodded repeatedly, obviously agreeing with this idea.

Children over six years old can actually do a lot of things in the countryside, regardless of gender.

It is very common to help with odd jobs in the farmland, to pick pigs, grass, raising chickens and geese during the slack farming period, weeding and sowing seeds, to do odd jobs and cooking and delivering meals during the busy farming period.

There are many girls from farm families who are not as tall as the stove and are already veterans in cooking.

If there is only a school and no meals are provided, there will probably be many visionary families who send their children to school. They will be blind in just two or three years. With the awe and pursuit of knowledge of the people of the Great Wei Dynasty, the enrollment rate will not be very low.

However, if you want to include all school children of appropriate age in the school and provide two meals to the school children, more than 90% of families will register for their children without hesitation.

Two meals seem to be a small amount, and you have to save hundreds of kilograms of grain a year. Which family can’t calculate? If some families have two or three children of appropriate age, they may have to save a thousand kilograms of grain a year. Can the miscellaneous work done by children be worth so much?

"For the 12th to 15th, we not only provide two meals, but also pay 300 to 500 cents a month." Li Yi explained to Wu Shizhong: "A child of such a young man can be half an adult in farm work. If he doesn't pay money and saves food, he may not be able to ask everyone to send his children to school. In addition, we don't lose money to give money. After learning a certain foundation, we will ask him to go to a business shop for an internship, or to train as a clerk in the Hou Mansion, do chores, or to work as a technician in various shipyards and factories..."
Chapter completed!