Du Zhongxiao and Ouyang Xian were sitting idly in the yamen, and Su Song came in from outside, and said happily: "I have tried it in the past few days, and I have changed it a few times, and it is indeed feasible to pull the sickle with a horse." Today's wheat harvesting, there is no disadvantage of missing cutting, and it is placed very neatly. When you have chosen your staff, you can go. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Since this is the case, then hurry up and change the machine." If you choose someone, you must teach them carefully, not only to be able to use them, but also to require them to practice. Divided into groups, each with its own responsibilities, rewards and punishments after returning. ”

Su Song said yes. He sat down on one side, and the servant brought tea.

After a few words of gossip, Ouyang Xiu brought up what happened just now, and said: "Yun Ju has many whimsical ideas, dares to act in case of trouble, and has made many achievements in the past few years. However, the management of teachers who teach and educate people under his rule is too loose and I dare not agree! ”

After speaking, he told Su Song what he had just encountered, and said, "Although there is not much money and food, and the people who teach are children, it seems that the person has no behavior, so he will not teach the children of the Iron Prison?" Here, your children are enlightened, enter various schools, and learn to work in iron prisons. If you hadn't been taught since childhood, how would you do good things when you entered the iron prison? Governor, do you say yes or no? ”

Su Song said yes. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Long Tu, in fact, the iron supervisor has regulations for school teachers. When they teach, they must be neatly dressed and neatly dressed. Whatever is taught every day, everything has a charter. In addition to teaching, it seems that it is not easy to manage too much. ”

Ouyang Xiu said: "Words and deeds teach, and teaching by example is more important than words!" I think I have been miserable since I was a child, if I don't have a mother to teach me all the time, where would I have this day! People in the world spend their days running around for food and clothing, and they have no time to control children. The iron supervisor has established a school, and the people under the rule of Guangjiao are a great virtue policy! If it is a virtuous government, it should not be negligent, so as not to mislead people's children! Those who teach must have both virtue and ability, and virtue is the first! Otherwise, how to teach the pillars! ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Long Tu, the school of the iron prison only teaches for three years, only teaches, and does not educate people. Children are their own children, and each family is in charge of what they want to bring. The real selection of people is a matter for the future, otherwise why let everyone have books to read? Being able to write and calculate is just something that the court has the spare strength to do for the people, just like people who have eyes to see and feet to walk. As for how to be a person, that's a matter for later. Parents raise their babies, schools teach them to read and write, and that's it. Finally, one day, schools are all over the world, and those who can't read or write are like blind and deaf, and they are disabled, which is the meaning of a wide range of schools. Moral education is not among them. ”

Ouyang Xiu was stunned for a while, and his thoughts couldn't turn this way.

Universal education, compulsory education, is just a place to simply teach knowledge. Because of convenience, it is another thing to popularize other knowledge when you go to school. For example, teaching legal knowledge is for the purpose of popularizing the law, and teaching military knowledge is for the purpose of popularizing national defense knowledge, all of which are incidental. This kind of simple literacy education is just like disease prevention and epidemic prevention, it is only for the health of the people, and it has nothing to do with teaching and educating people.

Du Zhongxiao explained for a while, and Ouyang Xiucai roughly understood the meaning and asked, "Then what should you do if you want to educate people to become talents?" ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Naturally, there are all kinds of schools. If you want to go to the iron prison to do things, there is a school to teach and do things. If you want to learn the classics and history, you have to study the county and the state. According to their own temperament, they should learn and take the test. Even in the future, there can be a school to teach farming, and there is a way to teach the army to fight, and everything is learned. ”

Ouyang Xiu said: "Yun Juan, what are the benefits of doing this?" ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's not good, it's enough to be able to have no harm." The content of the school that teaches this kind of knowledge is extremely simple, and it is nothing more than that people do not become intellectually disabled. It is enough to be able to write and calculate, and to know that there is countless knowledge in the world. can educate people from this time, so should the court employ people from this time? Whether you learn well or badly, you have a relationship with the teacher. Even if the teacher is biased, the results will be very different. After a long time, there will inevitably be schools that are good and schools that are bad. There are rich and poor people, and the rich will naturally try to occupy good schools, and the poor will inevitably be squeezed out. These schools are paid by the imperial court, and there is only a reason for the rich to help the poor in the world, how can there be a reason to take advantage of the poor! ”

Ouyang Xiu said: "Otherwise, this is the Iron Prison." As far as I've seen these days, although there are classes in the Iron Prison, there is not much difference. Even if he is a servant in charge of affairs, he does not receive more money and food than a person who does things, so how can we talk about rich and poor? ”

Du Zhongxiao said with a smile: "Long Tu, with the same money, there are also rich and poor." If not, how could the world be in the early Tang Dynasty and not be able to support it in just a hundred years? The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, irretrievable. ”

Su Song said: "Now the money and food issued by the iron supervisor are always slightly more than the family's use. If you are frugal, you can always save some money, unlike a farmer who farms the land. Accumulate for several generations, as long as you can work in the iron prison, you will not be poor. ”

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Zirong, I've been thinking about this matter these days, and I've been thinking about it for a long time, but it's not the truth." Why bother with all this? Because the work in the iron prison, especially related to machines, requires outstanding talents. How do you attract talent here? Of course, it makes them feel that it is beneficial to work in the iron prison, and that they are better off than outside. But isn't it enough to give more money and food? No. It's a bottomless pit. How much is more? Wanguan's family wealth is not necessarily more, more than people who do other things. ”

Ouyang Xiu was stunned: "What does Yun Ju mean by saying this?" What should we do if we don't give out more money and food? ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "Let's put it this way, as seen by the dragon map, can there be small farmers who farm and make wealth? If you say that you are industrious, who is not industrious; If you say thrift, who is not thrifty. However, the small people of Shengdou, not to mention the wealth and wealth, even the abundance of food and clothing is difficult to ensure for several generations. The same is true of the workers of the Iron Prison. Because of these people, they will not be able to save any money. ”

"The peasants farmed the land, and the court collected taxes, and if it was their own land, it was nothing more than that. Even though the flood and drought are impermanent, the average peasant has savings, and the famine can be overcome without it. However, there are often mergers in the world, but it is rare to see the days when everyone is abundant. ”

"Is it because the taxes of the imperial court are heavy? With a tax cut, they will be able to live a good life, which is obviously not. Let's put it this way, whether it is an equal division of land or a worker who is like an iron supervisor, everyone has about the same amount of money and food, as long as everyone is like this, there will be no savings. If you don't have savings in your hands, you won't be able to support them if you have an accident. Every family has about the same amount of land and receives about the same amount of grain, and unless you don't buy something, the price of food will be low, and the things you buy will be very expensive. How much worse? Just to live. The same is true for workers, if they get about the same amount of money, no matter how rich they are, they will have no money left on average. Where does the money go? Like the other day, the price of meat and vegetables has risen, and the money has gone. In the future, if you have children, the house of the iron supervisor will not be enough to live in, so if you go outside to buy a house, the price will be high, and you will go there. If the price of goods from outside cannot rise, and those who do business have a lot of interest, then the rent of the shop will definitely rise, and the price will have to rise, and the money will go there. Have your own shop to do business? Don't be funny, you can make 10 yuan in business in January, and you can get 100 yuan when you rent it out, which one with a store will do business? ”

In a word, as long as you can only rely on your own strength and talent to make money, at most you will only live well and badly, and you will not have any savings. Only by using money to make money, using land to make money, and even in places that the court can't control, and using power to make money, can you become rich and rich. Horses have no night grass and no fat, people have no foreign wealth and no wealth, although the words are rough, the reason is good. If the people generally have money in their hands, whether it is the court or the powerful people, there is always a way to take your money away at once. If you want to make the people under your rule live well, it is one thing to distribute money and grain, and there must be a way to keep the money and grain from depreciating. ”

That's what the school is all about. Teaching and educating people is something else, and those schools are just to make people not disabled and have the ability to make money. If they can't earn it themselves, the yamen can't manage it. Just leave the way, and that's enough. ”