People in Dasong: starting from the sign-in

Chapter 253

Chapter 253 The Thoughts Over Thousands of Years Have Been Changed

I learned that the students of the so-called Dasong Advanced Technical College can call themselves the emperor's disciples as soon as they enter the school.

For a while, those scholars cursed in private that the students of this academy had bad luck, and met Zhenbei Wang, a freak who was keen to build a school for craftsmen, which gave them a bright future.

Although these scholars still despise the low social status of craftsmen in their hearts, Xiao Qi gradually improved the status of craftsmen over the years.

They also know that these craftsmen will be the most respected industry under them scholars, and the difference with them is that they cannot directly enter the official career.

Gradually, some big families known as scholarly families began to think of ways to send their children who were not study materials, or children from collateral lines who were not valued by the family to study in this academy.

They didn't know if they didn't go, but after they went there, they realized that they didn't accept everyone. If they wanted to enter this college, they had to achieve certain attainments in various disciplines.

How could their children know those things, and they couldn't save face if they were asked to go to the primary and secondary schools that Xiao Qi had established to learn craftsmen.

That's how things ended up.

There are also some who feel that their family is a famous existence in the whole Song Dynasty, and feel that I send my children to study with you to give you face.

Some family members made a big fuss in the college after hearing that the college rejected their children as unqualified.

But these people ended up miserable. Not only were they beaten up by the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion who were stationed there to guard them, but Zhao Shen, who heard the news, demoted the officials of these families.

This time, both the officials and the common people in the Song Dynasty fully understood that this newly built academy was really amazing. Not only King Zhenbei attached great importance to it, but even the emperor of Song Dynasty attached great importance to it.

The quickest to make the switch are some businessmen.

In the Song Dynasty, commerce was very developed, so the merchants were relatively rich.

But no matter how rich they are, they are still looked down upon by scholars, even if they curry favor with those scholars, they spend money to invite scholars to their home for poetry meetings and friendships from time to time.

In the eyes of those Confucian scholars, they are still a group of vulgar fellows exuding the smell of copper.

Although some people spent a lot of money to hire a husband for their children, they were finally admitted to Jinshi, and they turned into a scholarly family.

But the vast majority of businessmen are not so lucky.

It's all right now. First, King Zhenbei established a junior school, which is simply a literacy class.

Then there is the intermediate school. After the establishment of the intermediate school, it has actually attracted the attention of those businessmen.

Since ancient times, merchants have a very keen sense of smell.

Intermediate schools began to teach some artisan knowledge. For those businessmen, learning this stuff was the basis for them to remain invincible in the mall.

Especially for businessmen who do business related to the production of items by craftsmen, after learning these knowledge and skills, they can become more proficient in their industry.

So there were those businessmen who did not have a big business before, but made accurate judgments about the benefits of attending these schools, and sent their children to those schools to study.

Although in those schools, the children of Changshengying soldiers and craftsmen went to school for free, and their children had to spend money to go to school, but the money was much less than private schools.

In recent years, because of the good students who graduated from the junior school and also studied in the intermediate school, they were all selected as the students of the newly established college.

Especially this time the new students start school, so that the first batch of students can have a good foundation.

Nearly 300 new students were directly selected from the intermediate school, and directly entered the new students to study, and the tuition fee was free!

This made those businessmen whose children were selected proudly.

Especially in several famous families, because their children were not selected to attend Dahao Academy.

As a result, not only was he beaten violently by the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion, but also after the news that he was punished by the emperor came out.

These businessmen were even more proud, walking on the road with their necks raised like geese, and when they met an acquaintance, they said that their son had been admitted to the new college with an exception.

And because of their children’s hard work, the college values ​​their children’s diligence, and all tuition and fees are free!

For ordinary people, there are very few who can afford to provide for their children to study until they become officials and change their family's destiny.

Most of them were spent a lot of money by their families, but in the end they failed to pass any exams and had to work as accountants for others. Compared with the input and output, it was a huge loss.

It is better to be a scholar who can be admitted to Juren, although he has not been admitted to Jinshi to become an official.

However, he once passed the Juren examination and was quite sought after by people. He was hired by a wealthy family as a private school teacher with a high salary, or was invited to be an aide to the person in charge of a large family abroad.

After all, those who have passed the imperial examination have taken the examination together with those who have passed the imperial examination and become officials. They have the so-called friendship of the same age. If they encounter trouble outside, they may be able to establish relationships with local officials, so that they will receive some care. .

After all, it is a very small number of people who rely on their studies to test their fame and finally become an official to change the fate of their families.

Most of them live frugally at home, and they have been studying for more than ten years. As a result, they didn’t even pass the exam, so they had to work as accountants and other jobs to support their families.

It looks like a decent job, but in fact, those pitiful monthly payments are not much more than farming.

Although it does not require hard work, it is also extremely unstable. If the owner makes a mistake and goes bankrupt, the accountant will lose his job. If he cannot find a new job as soon as possible, his life will be worse than farming for others.

In recent years, under Xiao Qi's intentional or unintentional operation, the status of craftsmen has been rapidly improved.

Not only can craftsmen reach the top level of the industry to be officials, but the income of these craftsmen is very stable on weekdays.

As long as the craftsmanship is good and the people are hard-working and willing to endure hardship, then there is no problem at all in supporting their own family.

If the craftsmanship is recognized as good, then it will be a big deal. As long as you are willing to endure hardships, it will not be too easy to run your own family into a wealthy household in a few years!

With these craftsmen as role models, more and more common people are now spending money to send their children to those primary and secondary schools.

As a result, the schools originally opened by Xiao Qi were simply not enough.

In addition, the merchants who were doing business everywhere spread the word, and the people throughout the Song Dynasty hoped that such a school could be found in their place.

Xiao Qi was not polite when he got the news, and directly ordered to start recruiting a large number of first teachers who teach people how to read.

Moreover, we select teachers from among the craftsmen who, although their skills are mediocre, are eloquent and can be taught in intermediate schools to teach craftsmen knowledge.

These elementary and intermediate schools run by Xiao Qi in the past were mainly popularized in his fiefs, and they were only built near the capital Lin'an for the children of soldiers and craftsmen.

The commotion this time is too great, such schools will be established in the whole Song Dynasty, and at least elementary and intermediate schools will be established in every county.

For a time, the entire Song Dynasty was shocked, and the people all cheered.

Those diehards of Confucianism were all confused. For them, only Confucians could open schools in this world. The newly established schools were simply a provocation to them.

Many Confucian scholars in the prefectural capital began to crusade against these new schools, and they all went to the county government, and some even went to the state capital to file a complaint, demanding that these schools that were being prepared be stopped from opening.

Those Confucian scholars in remote prefectures and counties don't know how powerful they are, but the officials in the prefectures and counties have long known how serious the consequences of those Confucian scholars who provoke King Zhenbei before were.

The officials of these prefectures and counties quickly used thunderous means to suppress these troublesome Confucian scholars.

With the strong suppression by the prefectures and counties in various places, those Confucian scholars also understood that there was nothing to do, and then the news that the imperial court and King Zhenbei attached great importance to these schools also spread among those scholars.

Gradually, no one dared to blatantly seek trouble from these schools.

However, these Confucian scholars came up with another method, that is, to build so many junior schools, there would be a shortage of first teachers to teach children literacy.

So these people began to join forces quietly, secretly forming an offensive and defensive alliance, and they were not allowed to be the first teachers to teach children literacy in those junior schools.

This news was quickly discovered by people sent to build schools in various places, and they were quickly reported to Xiao Qi.

When Xiao Qi saw this news, he really looked down on those rotten scholars. Are you scholars who have failed the exam for a long time, are you so stupid?

My livelihood was already a problem, but now I have the opportunity to be a teacher. This job is much more respected than being a bookkeeper. Not only is my job stable, I won't lose my job.

You don't want a well-established public teacher, and you still put on a show?

Xiao Qi directly ordered, don't get used to these idiots, just set up a blacklist, who dares to jump out and fight against our school.

Then put this person on the blacklist, and this person will no longer be allowed to enter all craftsman-related industries in Song Dynasty for life, and his children will not be allowed to enter these schools to study.

Don't you think that only what you learn is orthodox, and everything else is crooked?

Then you go to take your Yangguan Road, want to take my single-plank bridge?

One word "Get out!"

Who were the earliest teachers in the schools that Xiao Qi ran before?

Most of those people were selected from the first batch of literacy classes in Changsheng Camp. Although they have become a little bookish to be the first teachers for those children these years, they are still vigorous.

After receiving Xiao Qi's order, these people quickly found out the list of local Confucian scholars who took the lead in doing things.

Soon all prefectures and counties posted notices, writing down all the names of these people and what they had done.

And it was announced without any concealment that because of these people's hostility to the New School, the New School will exclude these people from all school-related industries for life, and his children and descendants will not be allowed to enter the New School.

Those who can take the initiative to do these things are the so-called famous families with some connections in the local area. When they heard the announcement of those schools, they were immediately furious, feeling that their family had been swept away.

A group of people were entangled one after another, and they wanted to teach those outsiders who came here to prepare for the school a lesson.

As a result, a group of guys who went to bluff were beaten to pieces by a few outsiders who were able to take action and not make any noise.

On the contrary, there was a county where the people were more aggressive. It seemed that they couldn't beat them and directly moved the guy. As a result, one person was severely injured here just because of the large number of people, and several outsiders over there had already drawn their weapons and killed them.

The consequence was that among the dozens of people they went to, a dozen or so were hacked to death on the spot, and the rest of them all scattered in fright.

Originally thought that the government would tie up those who committed murder and punish them, but the county government directly sent people to arrest all these troublemakers, and even the state government sent troops to arrest them when they heard the news.

After those government soldiers came, they didn't know why the few people who came to run the school were so fierce. It turned out that they were all soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion. Although they are teaching in these schools, they still have official positions in the Changsheng Battalion.

This time it became lively. The crime of these riots was to attack the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion. Not only did they die in vain, but those who ran home were also arrested and awaiting disposal.

The reason why Confucian scholars in these remote areas jumped out to make trouble is also because those Confucian officials suppressed the fact that hundreds of officials and thousands of scholars were piled up in Beijing.

They felt that this matter was too embarrassing. Anyway, the Confucian government had expelled the scholars who made the trouble. These people were no longer Confucian scholars, so they tried their best to suppress the news and not allow it to be spread.

That's why in these remote areas where there is no information, some rotten people come out and scamper around.

After the incident happened, there were some sporadic news, that is, the rumors that the troubled scholars were piled up into a Beijing temple spread to their local area.

This is because there was a scholar who provoked the new school, so it was intentionally spread to them.

As these rumors gradually increased, those rotten scholars realized that they were wrong this time. In the past, relying on their influence in the local area, the county magistrate had to take care of them.

Good thing now, not to mention the county magistrates, even the state officials are eager to kill all of them who are causing trouble immediately to prevent themselves from being implicated.

With some early birds being shot.

The construction of schools in various places in the Song Dynasty, after encountering some resistance, was suddenly and quickly established, and teachers for various teachings were quickly equipped.

These schools have to charge fees, because there are too many schools, and all of them are free of charge. Even Xiao Qi's wealth will not last long before he goes bankrupt.

Xiao Qi then formulated the tuition fees for these schools. Children of craftsmen and military families were charged half price, and children of military families with military exploits were free of charge.

All other students are charged normally, and of course these fees are still affordable by ordinary people.

After this turmoil in the establishment of schools in the entire Song Dynasty, it not only made ordinary people know that there is more than one way out of studying to be an official.

You can also learn craftsmen and many other skills through reading, which will become your own way to earn money to support your family in the future and improve your quality of life.

More importantly, not only ordinary people understand this point, but many scholars also understand this point.

After all, those corrupt Confucians who believe that only Confucianism is respected and other academics are heresy belong to the minority.

The vast majority of people still value normal people who support their families and live a comfortable life.

Perhaps Xiao Qi didn't even notice that the thoughts of people from all walks of life in the Song Dynasty had changed at this time.

They began to accept and admit that in addition to Confucianism, other academics were equally important.

(End of this chapter)