Chapter 704 Said pro
Knowledge is wealth. In fact, the ancients also knew it, especially those high-ranking and famous gentry, so they wished to monopolize academics. Technology is also wealth, so those powerful nobles also monopolize technology.
In the workshops of each family, the people who master the key core technologies are often the lowest-status slaves, and they have to be domestic slaves. They are slaves from generation to generation, and the technology will never be passed on.
Datang has no technical patents, and they don't believe in such things. They only believe that technology is in their hands. Even if it is a technology that is not new in the world, they will never spread it easily, let alone free or share it.
Even papermaking, printing, ink making, pen making, etc. are not too unusual, but they are still strictly guarding the technology they have mastered, deliberately controlling production and maintaining prices.
If you want to learn technology and knowledge, the price you have to pay is absolutely expensive. You can either be their slave or their part, sign a contract of sale, and depend on them for generations.
Want to start your own business?
It’s not that Ma Zhou doesn’t understand, he’s just taken it for granted, he’s never seriously thought about the right and wrong of this kind of rule, or he never thought of challenging this unspoken rule, he was appreciated by the emperor and became a prime minister, and he only had a tradition in his mind Confucian thinking, assisting the king, governing with benevolence and virtue, and caring for the people.
Qin Lang is different, Qin Lang's brain is actually too advanced, more than a thousand years ahead.
He sometimes wants to reform and train the emperor, but he doesn't just focus on the upper class. He clearly understands that the economic foundation determines the superstructure, and the people's livelihood is actually the key to the long-term stability of a dynasty, not to destroy it. How many countries have been conquered and how many territories have been conquered.
If there is a conflict between opening up the territory and the people living and working in peace and contentment, the higher the martial arts of the emperor's court, the worse the people will be, and Yang Guang's great cause will appear, which will coincide with the rebellion of the people.
Merit is what the emperor and aristocratic officials pursue. Ordinary people care more about food and clothing three times a day and supporting their families.
"I don't feel pity for the world, but I have also been at the bottom of the world, and I know what everyone really wants. I, Qin Sanlang, can also carry a gun on the battlefield and search for a prince from thousands of miles away, but I am also willing to lead everyone to earn money." A little money, it's not a conflict. I thought he was right, so I did it."
"Bailu Technical School is just an experiment of mine, a practice of my ideas. This is the beginning, but it will not be the end. I will take out 10% of the annual profits of the Qin family's industry and invest in the cause of this technical school. , One thousand students will be recruited and trained here this year, and the second batch will be recruited next year."
"There are only a few professional technical classes for the time being, but more technical classes will be launched in the future. I will also hire more expert teachers with high salaries from all walks of life to teach skills."
Ma Zhou was deeply shocked by it.
But I still asked, "Your technical academy not only teaches business skills? You also teach reading and writing?"
"Yes, although this will be a professional technical school, it will also offer basic courses, such as reading, literacy, painting, arithmetic, sports, music, etc., but these are only the most basic ones. For example, I will not teach any courses such as literature and classics. , they will not be required to study the Nine Classics and Thirteen Chapters, they will not be required to be able to write poems and Fu, and they will not be required to understand Yin and Yang in the Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes.”
"I will select some articles from the classics of ancient sages and sages, such as the poems of the Book of Songs, the Analects of Confucius, etc., to teach everyone to read and write. I will not ask them to be able to read and write. That’s fine, at most I’ll teach you the format of official letters and so on.”
The requirements are as simple as that, just be able to read and write, and you don’t need to be familiar with classics and history, and you don’t need to know poetry, let alone rhyme. In the same way, courses such as music and painting are only optional.
The requirements for basic courses are not high. He hopes that the technicians he trains are not illiterate, because illiteracy will affect technical professions.
"Sanlang, since you have opened a school to teach, why don't you teach classics and history?"
"Classics and history can't be eaten. They will be taught, but they will not be taught in the traditional way. You scholars can only study a few classics for more than ten years, but those technical students can't. They want to learn technology. To make money to support my family, I am willing to spend extra time and money to increase the basic cultural courses. I also hope that these technical students can be better and stronger. I don’t expect that there will be many Confucian scholars or imperial examinations among these technical students in the future. Scholars."
Whether it is Confucian classics or history books, Qin Lang will excerpt them. Basically, he intends to adopt the curriculum teaching mode of later elementary schools. He can read and comprehend words, compose sentences, and add some reading comprehension. The ultimate goal is to be able to read and understand in the future Letters, being able to write reports, and others are not among his goals.
Therefore, this Bailu Academy will not directly use the Nine Classics as textbooks. Qin Lang intends to design and compile a set of textbooks for the Bailu Institute of Technology. In fact, it is equivalent to the elementary school textbooks of later generations.
"Sanlang wants to compile a set of books himself? I happen to be free and would like to participate together." Ma Zhou volunteered.
"It will be very boring. This job is actually very simple. The set of books I plan to compile for Bailu Academy is very simple. The requirements are easy to understand. It is divided into Chinese, mathematics, history, geography, law, music, art and physical education. , a total of eight subjects. It is divided into five semesters, and each semester is divided into two installments, so a complete set of books actually has eight subjects, each with ten volumes."
"Sounds interesting, I would like to participate."
Qin Lang had nothing to do with this Mr. Ma, "Then I'll draw up an outline first."
"Sanlang, who will be the head of the technical school in your technical school?"
"I will personally serve as the honorary mountain leader, and then I will invite a senior manager of the Qin family to take up the post of mountain leader."
"Then how about I also get the title of honorary deputy mountain chief?"
"You? You may be appointed to a new position in a few days, and you will resume your job again. How can you have time?"
"This Bailuyuan is not far from Chang'an. I can come and have a look when I am resting."
Although Ma Zhou had never thought about these things before, he now admires Qin Lang's ideas. He is a prime minister who came from a poor family, so he knows how remarkable Qin Lang's actions are.
He wanted to do his best.
"Okay, I'll invite you to be the honorary deputy mountain chief." Qin Lang smiled, "By the way, you will soon be in your thirties this year, don't you plan to solve your personal marriage issue next? The dignified prime minister of the empire, but still It's an anecdote to be unmarried. I heard that five surnames and seven families all came to propose marriage on their own initiative, don't you think you don't like any of them?"
Speaking of this, Ma Zhou felt helpless.
In his early years, Ma Zhou actually married a wife. When he was in his hometown, he also married a peasant girl. After his wife got married, he gave birth to a son, named Ma Zai.
It happened that Lian Yeyu met Lian Yeyu, his wife fell ill and eventually died of illness. Ma Zhou, in grief, entrusted his son to his relatives, and then began to study abroad, hoping to find a place to use it.
Finally he arrived in Chang'an, met the nobleman Qin Lang, and finally met the famous lord Li Shimin, and finally made his way to the top. It took only five years to go from a commoner to a prime minister, which can be called a legend.
Although Ma Zhou was born in poverty, but at the age of twenty-nine, he became the prince of the court. Naturally, he attracted the attention of countless famous families, and they all wanted to win over this man with no foundation.
In the city of Chang'an, dozens of well-known families in the county have extended olive branches, and even seven families with five surnames have come to propose marriage.
"Don't mention it, the five surnames and seven families did come to me to propose marriage. It wasn't a widow whose husband died, or a shrew with a divorced husband, or an old girl in her 30s or 40s who hadn't married yet, and there were also those who had Disabled by illness, or a concubine born to a concubine, you say that I, Ma Zhou, is also a concubine, so I can't ask for anything, right?"
Qin Lang smiled.
"Those people still think too highly of themselves after all, and look down on us!"
Back then, Qin Qiong married a 30-year-old unmarried girl from the Cui family in Boling, and Cheng Yaojin married the widow of the Cui family in Qinghe. As for Zhang Liang, he married a broken shoe from the Li family in Zhaojun.
The samurai is the founding father of the Tang Dynasty, the hero of Taiyuan Yuanmou, the title should be the Duke of the State, and the official is the Minister, but the emperor personally proposed marriage, and even a widow from five surnames and seven families refused to marry. He used to be a businessman, so he had to find Hong An old girl in her forties from Nong Yang's family.
"The five surnames and the seven families look down on people so much, so we don't need to pay attention to them, but you are almost thirty, brother Bin Wang, and you have to continue after all, otherwise this family will always be deserted. Or I will give you Be a matchmaker and find a suitable one for you?"
Ma Zhou's son, Ma Zai, is almost ten years old. It is also because he has never settled down in Chang'an, so Ma Zhou hasn't brought his son from his hometown until now.
"How can it be so easy, the real famous family will not really marry Liangyuan to me."
Ma Zhou revealed in his words that he also wanted to marry a famous daughter, and it would be best if he was married, and all conditions must be good.
I have to say that scholars are still a bit particular, but Cheng Yaojin and Zhang Liang are not so particular. It doesn't matter whether they are widows or broken shoes, as long as they are women with five surnames.
But Ma Zhou is a scholar and a prime minister, so he has some character. Widows, broken shoes, disabled concubines, etc., in his opinion, are not marriages, but insults.
"I think of a suitable candidate, Du Chuke, the governor of Puzhou, the third brother of Cai Guocheng, his wife Jingzhao Wei, who has a son and a daughter. His son Du Wen is now working as a thousand cow in the East Palace. There is a daughter who is 28 years old. It is said that I have received a good education since I was a child, and I know books and rituals, I can also compose poems and songs, and I love reading and playing chess, what do you think?"
Cai Guocheng Gong refers to the deceased prime minister Du Ruhui. There are three Du Ruhui brothers. The third Du Chuke has lived in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain since the end of the Sui Dynasty and refused to be an official. It was not until the death of his uncle Yushi Doctor, Prime Minister Du Yan and elder brother Du Ruhui that Li Shimin specially summoned him to come out and worshiped Zuo Wei first. General Zhonglang, and then worshiped the governor of Puzhou.
After Du Chuke took office, he showed extremely high governance skills and was praised by Li Shimin several times.
In terms of family background, Du Chuke is the Jingzhao Du family, which is one of the six famous families in Guanlong. In the Zhenguan Dynasty, there were two prime ministers, uncle and nephew Du Yan and Du Ruhui. Du Chuke is also the governor of Puzhou now, and his wife is Jingzhao Wei's daughter from the six famous families in Zhongguanlong. Her daughter is young and well-educated.
"Why hasn't such a famous daughter-in-law married yet?" Ma Zhou was a little moved, but strange.
"Well, it seems that Mrs. Du was betrothed to Wei Siyan, the eldest son of Wei Bo Kuang, the former Shu Guogong, Wei Siyan, but Wei Siyan was lost in the chaos of the Sui Dynasty."
"By the way, Wei Siyan has a younger sister, Wei Nizi, who was married to Wang Xuanying, the son of Wang Shichong. Later, in the fourth year of Wude, she entered the present palace together with her cousin Wei Gui, and is now Zhaorong."
Wei Gui was married to Li Min, the son of Li Zixiong, the great general of the Sui Dynasty in his early years. Later, because of his involvement in Yang Xuangan's rebellion case, both father and son were killed. In the mansion of Li Shimin, who was conferred the title of General of the Tang Dynasty Tiance.
In the first year of Zhenguan, Wei Gui was officially conferred the title of noble concubine, the head of the four concubines.
Jingzhao Wei’s family has a very prosperous family background. Wei Bokuang is the grandson of Grand Tutor Wei Xiaokuan and the son of General Wei Zong. Dynasty, the Webster family reached its peak. Therefore, even though Wei Bokuang had died before the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Li family was still married to the Wei family, and Li Shimin even took the two little widows of the Wei family into the palace.
And Li Yuan, Jian Jian, Yuan Ji and his son also accepted the Wei family daughter.
"Then why didn't you remarry?"
Qin Lang smiled, "He is only twenty-eight, and the big family has many etiquettes. Although she did not marry into the Wei family, Mrs. Du also guarded Wei Siyan's funeral for several years. Isn't she also discussing this matter now? I just thought Get up, how about it, if you want, I will go to Du's house for you immediately."
Ma Zhou is excited, and Du Shi is indeed a good match in all aspects.
But he felt a little inferior, "I'm going to be thirty now, and I should remarry, I'm afraid the Du family will look down on me."
"Hey, look at what you said, you are the prime minister."
"I'm now without an official."
"Who said, don't I still have the third rank of Dr. Jin Ziguanglu? Besides, it's a matter of time before I get up and come back to pay respects. Hurry up, don't be like a bitch, if it wasn't for me, I was engaged I'm dead, I want to go to the door to propose, such a famous lady, isn't she much better than a crooked melon from a family with five surnames?"
Ma Zhou was a little embarrassed by what he said.
"Then, is Lao Saburo going to ask for my brother?"
"That's the right thing to say, a big man, don't be embarrassed, I will take care of it for you."
Jingzhao Du's family is certainly a famous family, but Du Yan and Du Ruhui's two prime ministers were born one after another, which also hit the Du family for a while. Now there is only one Du Chuke as the governor. If there is a prime minister's son-in-law, I believe the Du family will be very happy of.
No matter how you look at it, Ma Zhou is young and handsome, a good husband and wife.
(end of this chapter)