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Chen Fei has solved an important issue, that is, what is the future of this Qiushi Academy to teach. In the future, the Qiushi Academy will teach four years of basic courses, including Chinese mathematics, and some Confucian classics. Most children from rural backgrounds will also arrange for them to learn advanced agricultural farming techniques so that they can return to the countryside to continue to farm land and produce more and better food. Chen Fei will only choose a relatively small part to let them study Confucian classics carefully, and then strive to take the imperial examination or do academic studies. Because if a large group of people take the imperial examination and do academic studies, then what should they do if no one cultivates food? Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that most people can cultivate food so that the country and nation can maintain stability.

The so-called popularization of education does not mean that every student has a profound knowledge, but that they have a certain culture and popularize ordinary knowledge. As for advanced culture, this is definitely not the mainstream no matter what era it is. So Chen Fei just allows them to learn basic common characters, and there are many basic calculations and natural phenomena. These courses are not difficult, and it won’t take long, four years is enough. As for the most deceptive English, this does not need to be learned at all, which makes everyone much easier.

"Chen Fei, you teach the people how to farm the fields, but many people probably can't survive this! Because they have been studying for six years and have to learn a lot, and they have to bear a lot of expenses in these six years. They have to bear a lot of expenses, which are all borne by themselves. What kind of pen, ink, paper and inkstone are the most. Although I stay in the palace for many years, I have also heard that paper and books are very expensive, and a pen is also very expensive. A pen is almost a month's living expenses for a family. And the most is even more unlimited, which depends on the skills and reputation of the pen maker. Such a high cost is probably not many people can afford. So it is probably difficult for them to persist in studying for six years!

"It's the cost of education!" Chen Fei still sighed, obviously a little helpless.

Of course, Chen Fei wanted to educate the people in ancient times, not because ancient officials didn't want it, but that there was no such economic condition in ancient times. First of all, although papermaking had invented papermaking, the price of rice paper remained high. After all, it took a year to make a piece of rice paper. No matter how it was, it could not be reduced. As for paper, books written using paper would naturally be expensive. As for ink brushes and other ink brushes, they were all expensive. Most farmers usually support their families, and most of them just enough to live, so there is no extra money to support a scholar who does not work for production.

Even if he only studied for six years, it was impossible for the people to bear it. So Chen Fei came to find a way. After all, he was the county magistrate of a county. In later generations, the county magistrate of a county also had the responsibility to reduce the cost of education. Let more children come to school to study, which is one of the responsibilities of officials in later generations. Therefore, Chen Fei has always been the standard for officials in later generations to demand himself. The problem of reducing the cost of education is inevitable. If the cost of education cannot be reduced, then once the people cannot bear the pressure of these costs, it will naturally cause a wave of dropping out of school. At that time, could Chen Fei still force them to stay?

Chen Fei could not subsidize those students by himself. After all, Chen Fei had subsidized the tuition fee and also subsidized them a bowl of chicken soup every day to supplement their nutrition. Chen Fei has done enough. If Chen Fei still had to bear the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Chen Fei would definitely not be able to bear this.

"Since I can't afford it, I'm just trying to find a way to reduce the cost of education for the people." Chen Fei thought.

Chen Fei immediately said to Princess Wanchun: "After the dividends of the second batch of chicken farms are paid in a few months, you might as well buy some sugarcane bagasse, and then we want to build a papermaking workshop. Also, I also want to build a printing workshop, so that I think we can produce a lot of cheap books."

"Is this useful for making paper workshops? and a book printing workshop?" asked Princess Wanchun.

Chen Fei immediately replied: "After observing this period, the popular thing in our Tang Dynasty is to use ordinary bamboo paper and hard yellow paper. Both of these papers are very inferior. However, high-quality white paper is only exclusive to high-quality officials and nobles. And I have a new paper, which may not be as good as rice paper, but is countless times better than bamboo paper and hard yellow paper. The most important thing is that their cost is very low, even less than one-fifth of the hard yellow paper. So do you think this can be used? With these papers, we will have a lot of cheap books."

"As for the printing workshop, I also have a corresponding method. In the past, I used woodblock printing, but I had a method called movable type printing that can reduce the printing cost by most. Do you think books will be cheaper in this way? So as long as we produce cheap books, everything can solve a large part of the education costs of the people. As long as the education costs are reduced, the people will be happy to send their children to study."

In order to make the people's study, Chen Fei had to continue to open a golden finger, which is the more advanced papermaking technology in later generations. These papermaking technologies are cheaper, and sugarcane bagasse is used to make paper. Sugarcane was also planted in the Tang Dynasty, and many people used it to squeeze sugar. Of course, these sugars are not only expensive, but also of bad quality. The sugars in this era are all brown sugar, not the kind of white sugar as white as snow. The cost of sugarcane bagasse is almost zero, because people in this era would not realize that sugarcane bagasse can make paper. Even if Chen Fei was willing to help them deal with these sugarcane bagasse, those sugar-pressing workshops might even send them to Chen Fei for free. After all, this kind of sugarcane bagasse is usually burned. If someone is willing to help them deal with it, then they will save trouble! As for the movable type printing technology, this was something invented by the Song Dynasty, which can be used to print books on a large scale.

With these two technologies, the price of books has plummeted, and it is probably less than one-tenth of that in the past. You should know that the price of a book in the Tang Dynasty was dozens of cents of money, which is almost equivalent to the income of more than ten acres of land a year. So this is the price of books.

Chen Fei first needs to reduce the cost from books so that he can popularize education. (My novel "The Tang Dynasty Politician" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there is also a 100% lottery gift for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the "+" sign in the upper right to "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!) (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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