Guo Hao and his group met a student in Ruzhou, which left a deep impression on the few and also reminded Guo Hao.

When I arrived in Ruzhou City, the next morning, Guo Hao dressed up and planned to see the situation of the county school. Education has been a major event from ancient times to the present, and it is worth Guo Hao to take a look at it personally.

"The heaven and earth are mysterious and yellow, the universe is vast and vast. The sun and the moon are full, and the city is surrounded by a row of dragons..."

The Three Character Classic and the Hundred Family Names have not appeared yet, so the primary school uses the Thousand Character Classic.

The Thousand Characters Script is a rhyme composed of one thousand Chinese characters compiled by Zhou Xingsi, the Minister of the Liang Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

The whole text is a four-character sentence, with neat parallelism, clear structure, and brilliant writing. Moreover, there is no repetition of Chinese characters, which is very suitable for literacy.

Guo Hao stood outside the county school, looking at the students inside, both men and women, and all shaking their heads and reading, which was still different from the schools in later generations.

Guo Hao is not surprised by this. After all, the habits developed over thousands of years cannot be changed in decades.

For the enlightenment of primary school, you only need to learn words and arithmetics. As for other knowledge, you can only learn it in college.

Guo Hao came early, and it was morning reading time, and students arrived one after another. At this time, a little guy walked under the window and looked inside secretly.

Guo Hao was standing in front of the bamboo forest outside the window at this time, and the little guy didn't notice him. Guo Hao saw that the little guy looked familiar and recognized him carefully. Isn't this the boy from the suburbs yesterday?

The little boy is only five or six years old this year and is not yet at the age of enrollment. However, judging from his performance yesterday, this child is very talented.

"Students, open the book on the twelfth page. Today we will continue to learn the Thousand Character Text."

The teacher had already started teaching in class. The little guy stood under the window and listened attentively. Guo Hao couldn't help but smile, but a trace of helplessness flashed in his eyes.

At this time, the county school was different from the traditional county school. The traditional county school was admitted to the county school after the child examination.

In order to take the first-level examination, it is called "entering school", "entering school" or "entering pan", scholars are called "school students", "students", commonly known as "school students".

Nowadays, county schools are public primary schools, and any children of appropriate age can come to study. This is a good thing.

However, county schools need government support, and students' tuition fees are at most, and the salary and early investments are required to be paid by the county, so many places are just doing it.

Just like the county school in front of me, it is no different from an ordinary private school. There are only 20 or 30 students in total, and there are all of them of different ages.

Chen Xuan and Zhao Pu followed Guo Hao, and Guo Hao whispered: "The county school has only such a few students. If this is spread, the people will not be able to laugh at the court."

Although Guo Hao's voice was light, the two of them still heard Guo Hao's dissatisfaction. Chen Xuan glanced at Zhao Pu and bowed to explain.

"In fact, the situation of county schools is not uncommon for the officials. The situation in each province is similar. Although the imperial court carried out county schools, the effect was not good.

Although the tuition fee for county schools is not expensive, it is a expense after all. An 8-year-old child can already do things for his family, and many families are reluctant to let his children go to school.

As for those who have good conditions and look down on the conditions of county schools, most of the children in them are ordinary families, so they are unwilling to join them.

In this way, most of them will go to private schools, and many even hire teachers alone, rather than choose county schools.”

After Chen Xuan finished speaking, Guo Hao nodded. This situation not only occurs now, but is not new even in future generations. Those private schools are examples.

However, Guo Hao’s purpose of running a county school is to cultivate talents. The people’s concepts will not change, so it is difficult for them to take the initiative to pay attention.

It is not realistic to popularize compulsory education now. The court does not have the strength yet. It is good for people in many areas to eat enough. How can the family have spare money to support their children's studies?

But Guo Hao was still unwilling to give up and felt that he had to do something, so he said to Chen Xuan: "Education is the foundation of a country. Even if the people do not pay attention to it, we must pay attention to it.

The failure of county schools is also related to the court's policies, and there is no need to ban those private schools.

However, there must be rules in everything, and no one can be a teacher. I must evaluate those teacher and grant qualifications before I can teach after passing the qualifications.

Moreover, no matter whether it is public or private, qualified schools can enter the university. The university is exempted from tuition fees, and scholarships will be given to excellent grades, and students are encouraged to study in depth."

Later generations were compulsory education, and there was no tuition fee in the early stage. However, the Song Dynasty did not have the strength and could only focus on high-level talents. After all, there were fewer college students than kindergarten students.

After hearing what Guo Hao said, Chen Xuan thought this method could be implemented. In fact, the practice of exempting tuition fees has existed since ancient times, but the scope is different.

"Your Majesty's actions will bring blessings to the world, and I admire you."

Guo Hao waved his hand and continued, "This matter will be left to Chen Aiqing to handle, and it must be communicated to various provinces.

I give them such great power. If you can't do this well, then don't be the secretary of their high-ranking official!"

"Abide by the order!"

Under the new political system, the provinces have launched new development models. In addition to the inherent taxes, the court encouraged the provinces to develop on their own.

The so-called self-development is nothing more than various developments, such as coal in Shanxi and rice in the south. All provinces should transform resources into economy and make good contributions to people's livelihoods.

Everything Guo Hao did before was considered a beginning, business, education, health, technology, environment, and industry all needed to start to develop.

Among them, education, health, etc. are new projects and are relatively important. Public clinics in various places have appeared, but they are not yet on a large scale.

Before leaving the county school, the child was still there. Guo Hao said again: "The county school recruits children of appropriate age, and it doesn't have to be eight years old. If the child is talented, he can also enter the school early after passing the test."

Chen Xuan was stunned when he heard this, and then understood Guo Hao's meaning and said, "I will go and write a document back to the cabinet for promulgation and implementation."

Guo Hao had already left before Chen Xuan finished speaking. Sometimes it was like this. He clearly gave officials rights, but they were still cautious and lacked courage.

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After leaving the county school, Guo Hao began to observe the shops on the street, many of which were hung with the Shi family logo, which represented the imperial merchants.

It is not easy to have so many shops in a small county town like this. This is the result of Guo Hao's emphasis on the economy and has successfully driven the development of the local economy.

But Guo Hao did this for the sake of the overall situation. The reason why these shops can be opened is also the result of the support of the court.

Merchants value profit, but do not make money. The royal merchants have 90% of the profits from the court. If Guo Hao wants less, the shops can be managed, which can be considered as taking it from the people and using it for the people.

Moreover, the current Shi family and Chen family are not all their own shops. They have started a new model, named Guo Hao as Franchise.

With the logo of the Imperial Merchants, the people trusted it more, and the unified price was guaranteed, and the quality was guaranteed. They only had to pay a small share of the money, and the threshold for joining the society was only a reputation.

Guo Hao did this to further promote the development of business. This is a kind of supervision. If you want to keep the sign, you must operate with integrity.

However, under such a good situation, a group of people in the market were still out of place. Looking at the grain store in front of him, Guo Hao frowned.

This is the shop of the Beggars' Sect.

After so many years of development, the Beggars' Sect has unique resources. Not to mention anything else, no one can compare with transportation alone.

The Beggars' Gang has the largest transportation network in the country, the largest horse gang in the country, and the largest fleet in the country, which has monopolized the transportation industry.

Taking advantage of this, their shops are cheaper because they can temporarily ignore the transportation costs, which other shops cannot do.

He sold nine out of ten cents per pound of rice on the market, and blatantly wrote it, all rice is the same.

The people were not stupid either. They knew that the rice from those shops was also transported by the Beggars' Sect. Chen Lin and Shi Yiran also knew, but they did not mention it.

The imperial merchants belong to the court, so is the Beggars’ Sect not the court?

Guo Hao acquiesced to the development of the Beggars' Sect, so didn't he mean to restrain them?

Guo Hao certainly had this idea. What the emperor was best at was not war or development, but trade-offs.

Someone did other things, but he just set the direction. He didn't need to worry about the specifics, he only cared about the result.

In this process, he has to weigh the pros and cons to avoid being the dominant one.
Chapter completed!