Chapter 381 Three years of compulsory education?

"I said I had no intention of becoming an official."

Hu Yanmingchuan looked increasingly unhappy:

"you……"

"Don't refuse in a hurry yet."

Yun Shu calmly interrupted him:
"The mathematics, physics and chemistry imperial examinations are different from ordinary imperial examinations in that they only test knowledge of mathematics, physics or chemistry.

After passing the exam, there will be no government affairs for you to deal with, because there will be a special science and engineering department for you to join.

After entering the Department of Science and Engineering, there are enough study materials for mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Unless the court assigns you a specific research project, you can choose to continue studying quietly or set up a research project team on your own."

"Research project?"

Huyan Mingchuan didn't quite understand:

"what?"

"Don't you want to know what use all this math you've learned is?"

Yun Shu casually opened a box of math books and said in a leisurely tone:
"You don't think that learning mathematics is just to solve those complicated math problems, but it actually has no meaning, right?"

Huyan Mingchuan: "..."

……

It was not difficult for Yun Shu to fool a fanatical mathematics enthusiast with an ancient background who didn't understand many things.

Successfully recruited a talented employee for himself.

Yun Shu felt that he had already exceeded his KPI before the New Year, so he finally settled down in the remaining two days and stopped messing around.

Of course, it is not easy to count how many lamps a family needs to install and how much money they have to pay.

She left it to her subordinates to handle it properly.

On New Year's Eve, the envoys from other countries behaved more honestly than each other at the banquet, probably because they had learned the lesson from Roland.

After finishing his meal, he did not stay for long and immediately resigned to Emperor Xuanwu and left the capital.

Yun Shu spent a peaceful Spring Festival.
After the seven-day rest, matters that had been arranged before the year, such as the construction of a new imperial examination hall, the installation of electric lights, and the opening of the spring examination, all went on smoothly.

Even the steamship officially set sail in August of that year, and in October, it brought back another batch of huge wealth dug out from Japan that made Minister Yan almost burst into laughter.

Seeing that everything is on the right track,
The seven foreign countries that had been conquered before, plus Beixiang, gradually merged into Tiansheng.
When reviewing memorials every day, I see fewer and fewer things that can be called important.

Yun Shu finally couldn't hold back her desire to cause trouble -

"The tax is distributed according to the land, the fire consumption is returned to the public, and the officials and gentry pay taxes together?"

Emperor Xuanwu raised his head in surprise:

"It's easy to say that the tax and fire consumption will be returned to the public. After all, the court is not short of money now.

However, the issue of officials and gentry paying taxes together had already been discussed a few years ago in order to solve the problem of land annexation and allow the people to reclaim wasteland.

This matter can be said to have damaged the interests of officials and gentry and even scholars all over the world.

Once implemented, it will inevitably encounter great resistance.

In order to solve this problem, you even proposed a new business tax."

"But how can the Tiansheng of three or four years ago be compared with the Tiansheng of today?"

Yun Shu had obviously thought about this question a long time ago, and said without hesitation:

"On this issue, the new commercial tax at that time was actually just a second-best solution. Now that I have a new weapon to deter, those officials and gentry will only lose some interests, and they are not forced to have no way to survive. If they really want to make a big fuss, I don't think they dare to do it.

They are nothing more than some small tricks behind the scenes. I don't mind fighting with them!
As for readers...

This is also simple. I plan to set up another three-year compulsory education!"

“Three years of compulsory education?”

I heard a new word again.
Emperor Xuanwu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows:

"What does this mean?"

"All children of school age, regardless of gender, can go to school for free and study for three years. The requirements are not high. They just need to learn to read and write, and simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and understand some basic principles.

If you want to enroll in Tiansheng College in the future, you must first complete these three years of compulsory education."

Emperor Xuanwu frowned slightly, as if he still didn't understand what this had to do with the scholars' opposition to the unified tax collection for officials and gentry.
Yun Shu continued with a smile:
“These waived fees were all paid from taxes paid by officials and gentry.

Besides, didn’t the emperor worry before that if this part of the welfare was cut, ordinary people would worry that their children were not good at studying?
The scholars that my whole family supported could not pass the examination to get a good enough honor to enter the government.

If you are only a scholar, you cannot be exempted from taxes and you cannot get any benefits.

Will they simply give up supporting scholars, resulting in a decrease in the number of scholars from ordinary families?

With these three years of compulsory education, we can get a glimpse of whether they are good at studying or not.”

"It's a good idea."

Emperor Xuanwu nodded slightly:

"But have you ever thought about it? If all school-age children can go to school for free and study for three years...

Where can I find so many teachers?

The enlightenment of children also depends on their qualifications. If a teacher teaches more than a hundred children at the same time, there are too many children and he will not be able to take care of each of them.

How easy is it to teach them all to read and write? "

“Learning to read isn’t that difficult!”

Yun Shu calmly took out another piece of paper covered with strange symbols:

“It is certainly not easy to force those illiterate children to memorize all those complicated characters and pronunciations.

But if you use pinyin as an aid, it won’t be difficult.”

Emperor Xuanwu was puzzled: "Pinyin?"

"Speaking of which, it was those overseas countries that gave me the inspiration!
I saw that their characters were very simple to write, so I tried to make some changes to make them match our characters."

Yunshu spoke nonsense without changing his expression, not giving Emperor Xuanwu a chance to think more.
He immediately began to explain pinyin to Emperor Xuanwu in detail.

As expected, Emperor Xuanwu's attention was immediately attracted by the pinyin itself and he was shocked by it——

"It's really not difficult to learn this thing. As you said, it only takes half a day at most, and you can easily learn by relying on this so-called pinyin!"

Yun Shu: “???”

How could the learning ability of an ordinary child be compared with that of the emperor who has received the most elite education in the world and is known as the king of exams?

Yun Shu was silent for a moment, and said very tactfully:

"After all, the three-year compulsory education is not something that I can accomplish tomorrow just because I propose it today.

It just so happened that Tiansheng College had just recruited a new batch of students last fall, and they haven't learned all the words yet.

I think we can try it out with them first."