Xun Yu's suggestion Guo Peng would adopt it before, so Xun Yu felt that Guo Peng would also adopt it this time.

Xun Yu did not agree with Guo Peng's large number of appointments to people from poor backgrounds who only knew a few words as grassroots village chiefs and township heads.

He adhered to the unanimous concept of the scholars of the Han Dynasty, believing that even if a person from a poor and humble background could read and write, he would not have virtue and could not be reused.

Although he did not think about it in depth, and did not consider the deeper issue of class attributes, Xun Yu also disagreed.

But this time, Guo Peng glanced at Xun Yu a few times, and opened his mouth to say a famous quote in "Lao Tzu".

"The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency when there is more loss, but the way of man is not, the loss is not enough to give more than enough, the family has enough property, and if you read poetry and books, you will not sin? During the time of Emperor Guangwu, Ouyang She, a great Confucian who was a protégé all over the world, embezzled tens of millions of money and was executed, didn't Ouyang She read enough books? ”

Xun Yu didn't know how to answer Guo Peng's question for a while.

Guo Peng stroked Xun Yu's back, shook his head, and sighed: "Wen Ruo, I have studied in Luoyang for eight years, and I have seen no fewer children of the scholar clan than you, and I have seen fewer people who have a lot of wealth but are still greedy and insufficient?"

The kind of people you are talking about do exist, but they are not universal, greedy, and they don't change because they are rich and they read poetry and books, and they are honest and they don't change because they are born poor.

What is important is not who to use, but the detailed formulation of policies, the strict implementation of laws, and the joint supervision from top to bottom, so that those in power can be cautious and dare not overstep. ”

Xun Yu didn't expect what Guo Peng said that he couldn't refute, he couldn't think of arguments to refute, he couldn't think of words to refute, and he felt that what Guo Peng said was very reasonable.

"What Ming Gong said, Yu didn't think deeply, Yu was inconsiderate, please Ming Gong punished."

Xun Yu decisively admitted his mistake to Guo Peng.

Guo Peng shook his head and shook Xun Yu's hand.

"It's not Wen Ruo's fault, it's that the world is getting worse and the people's hearts are not ancient, and there are not many sincere gentlemen like Wen Ruo in the world, or even very few."

"Ming Gong praised falsely, Yu really didn't dare to be."

Xun Yu felt a little hot on his face.

That night, Guo Peng called Cheng Li to his study and gave him a face-to-face lecture.

"Night school?"

"Yes, night school."

Guo Peng nodded: "Although the conditions are relatively simple, I have decided to implement the policy of night schools in the villages that we can directly control. ”

Cheng Li looked at the draft night school policy written by Guo Peng and was very surprised.

"This ......"

"This, I had an idea before the crusade against Dong Zhuo, and now I am more and more aware of the necessity of night school, just this time, it is not enough to rely on myself at all.

I am not enough alone, and I have sent patrol envoys to conduct unscheduled and unannounced inspections and covert visits to determine the route, which can be deterred, but they cannot solve the problem at the root, and the effectiveness is still insufficient.

If we want to solve the fundamental problem, we must start from the roots, and the root is in the township, in the village, and on the land, and those village chiefs and township chiefs are appointed to dominate each village and township, and almost hold the power of life and death of peasant households.

I ordered that they need to implement it, and whether they implement it well or not, I can't control it alone, they secretly discount, secretly violate, use loopholes in the policy to exploit loopholes to harm Li Shu, so that they don't have enough to eat, I can't find out in time.

In the end, Li Shu suffered, I was blamed, Li Shu and I both lost, and it was these people who benefited, Li Shu couldn't eat enough, so he wanted to rise up and rebel, wasn't this how the Yellow Turban Thieves developed and grew?

I Tuntian, in order not to let the Yellow Turban Thief continue to sit big, but now it has only been a long time, there has been such a problem, and people have died, if it continues like this, in the Tuntian Village, sooner or later there will be a Yellow Turban Thief again, is my original intention still meaningful?

When the time comes, I will fight the world in front, and Li Shu in the rear will rise up, and I will not care about each other, can I still achieve my goals and realize my pursuit? No, I have to stabilize the rear and turn it into my most reliable base camp, so night school is a must! ”

Cheng Li frowned and thought hard, feeling that what Guo Peng said made sense, but what is the direct connection between opening night schools and rectifying the Tuntian policy?

"Lord, is there a connection between the night school and the policy of Tuntian?"

Cheng Li couldn't figure it out.

"Absolutely."

Guo Peng nodded decisively: "If you want to prevent these rural emperors from doing whatever they want to harm Li Shu, the best way is not for me to personally supervise, but for Li Shu to supervise spontaneously, I want to change the content of the Tuntian policy, and I want to teach Li Shu how to counteract the village and township chiefs who violate the law."

But if the commoners Li Shu are illiterate, don't understand reason, only know how to farm and eat and rebel, this policy will not be implemented, it is meaningless, they are illiterate, I have no way, I must make them literate and reasonable. ”

Cheng Li was very surprised.

"The lord wants the commoner Li Shu to supervise the countermeasures against the village chief? Lord...... Have you read Mohist books? ”

As soon as Cheng Li said this, Guo Peng remembered that some of the Mohists' ideas about grassroots rural organizations coincided with his own ideas.

"Sort of, I don't think this is necessarily not a solution, it's just that the Mohist doctrine emphasizes autonomy too much, and I don't agree with it that way, I think it is necessary to let the two sides contain each other.

Don't let the head of the countryside be the emperor of the soil, nor let the countryside be like an independent kingdom, ignoring the government policy, no matter which side is too strong, it will not be conducive to the country in the end. ”

Guo Peng's two hands turned around, and Cheng Li's head couldn't react.

But it doesn't matter, what Guo Peng wants to do and what he wants to achieve, Cheng Li understands.

Mutual containment, checks and balances, balances.

Thinking about it like this, Cheng Li immediately understood.

However, this is the art of the emperor, I didn't expect my lord to want to use the art of the emperor now?

It's really a talent suitable for being called a king and an emperor.

Cheng Li sighed considerably.

As a result, among the newly formulated policies, in addition to the patrols of the envoys to set the route from time to time, there was also a policy of opening night schools.

It is stipulated that the head of each village should spend about an hour after the sun sets and the farming stops to teach the villagers to read and write.

In those days, there was no entertainment, no electricity, and when the sun went down, people went home to sleep, and they slept much longer than modern people.

Of course, they really don't have anything else to do, and they can make use of the lot of free time in the evening.

Even if they can only recognize one word a day, they should be taught to read and write, and the number of words that villagers can read should be included in the evaluation of their political performance, which has become a very important link.

The same is true for farmers, the more words they know, the more grain they turn in for their own consumption.

Guo Peng also considered the whole process.

Considering the constraints of the actual situation, Guo Peng chose to use stone slabs and stone pens to mobilize the army to quarry, take large stones, polish one side of it relatively flat with stonemasons, and then transport it to the villages and hand it over to the village chief for use.

The slate is erected on the open ground in the village, a large shed is built, the village chief writes on the stone slab with stones, writes one word every day, and after the sunset rests, a fire is lit, and a group of people sit together on the open ground around a fire.

The village chief teaches, the villagers read, and then they use small stones to write on the ground, erase and write again after writing, and can be used sustainably.

In order to reduce consumption and save money to a greater extent, Guo Peng also creatively put forward the idea of cooking rice while using the fire to read and write.

Several families are gathered together, using a fire to cook the rice of several families, this side of the rice is cooked, and the village chief of that side teaches literacy, and can light and cook rice, without wasting wood.

After the meal was cooked, everyone ate together, continued to read and write, and then went home to sleep.