Chapter 402: Public Morality
In the early morning in the General Army's Mansion, Li Zhi stretched his waist and was about to get up, but he heard Cui He say: "Husband, I'm pregnant again!" ā
Li Zhi was stunned, raised his eyebrows, pinched Cui He's face and said: "Our Cui He is really powerful, the cubs are like laying eggs, Bo Ji will go down and Po Ji will go down again." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
Cui He put the index fingers of both hands together, and said with some hesitation: "It's not happy, I only gave birth to two in six years." When this one is finished, only three will be born in seven years. ā
Li Zhi smiled: "Isn't it good to be born three in seven years? ā
Cui He tilted his head and said, "Some people can give birth to five in seven years!" As he spoke, Cui He pursed his mouth and said, "It's because you always go out to fight, otherwise our family must have five cubs." Because you're always running outside, we've got two cubs missing! ā
Cui He was about to cry as he spoke. Li Zhi hurriedly went up to appease, pinched Cui He's face and said, "Cui He doesn't cry, Cui He is already very powerful when he is born three times in seven years." When Cui He is reborn for seven years and three again, we will have six cubs, and a large family will be lively. ā
Cui He blinked his eyes, sniffed, and forgot about crying. Seeing that Li Zhi loved her so much, she happily buried her face in Li Zhi's arms.
Suddenly, Cui He got up and said, "Next time you fight, I'll go with you, right?" ā
Li Zhi smiled: "You can't bring women to war." ā
Cui He pursed his lips and said, "Can't you bring it?" ā
Li Zhi nodded and said, "You can't bring it!" ā
Cui He lowered his head helplessly, still snuggling in Li Zhi's arms.
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On 24 August, Li Zhi came to the newly built school in Fanjiazhuang to give lessons to the "middle school students" studying there.
Since the ninth year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi has built a school in Fanjiazhuang to carry out universal compulsory education. Li Zhi let school-age children attend classes during the day, and veterans of the Tiger Benshi Division attend classes at night, and no tuition is charged.
For children who attend classes during the day, Li Zhi also provides a free lunch. The people of Fanjiazhuang send their children to school to read and write. As for the veterans, the scholars of this era have a special social status, and the veterans have a light training task, and they are all happy to go to the school at night to read and write.
Now, five years later, the school has grown in size. The veterans and school-age children in Fanjiazhuang have received three years of literacy and numeracy training, and they can be regarded as literate and hyphenation, and can cope with daily reading and calculation.
As a result, Fanjiazhuang has become the city with the highest literacy rate in the Ming Dynasty. Elsewhere, scholars have a high status, but the poor have no money to pay for school. Because of the reading of Fanjiazhuang, it has also become a topic of conversation among the people near Tianjin. The people in the vicinity said that as long as they followed Xingguobo, they could make their children and grandchildren become scholars.
Today, these children and veterans have graduated from "primary school" and have become the backbone of Fanjiazhuang. Whether it is a notice issued by the government or a document issued by the army, these literate people need to read the words and read them to other illiterate people, so that Li Zhi's spirit can be conveyed to the grassroots level.
However, Li Zhi has further plans for the school. Li Zhi wanted to open a "middle school" on top of the "primary school" to train administrative talents for his own career.
With the expansion of Lee Sik's career, more and more administrative talents are needed. Some simple jobs, such as tax accounting, can be done with simple arithmetic knowledge and calculations from the Yellow Tax Book and the Fish Scale Atlas, which can be recruited from primary school graduates in Fanjiazhuang. But some complex tasks, such as word processing, cannot be done by literate elementary school students.
Those large paragraphs of classical Chinese are incomprehensible to elementary school students.
What's more, primary school students only learned literacy and arithmetic, and did not carry out ideological and moral education, which could not meet Li Zhi's demand for talents. In Li Zhi's mind, his administrative team should be a team with both culture and morality. Their own administrators must keep the bottom line in front of all kinds of temptations and do good things for the people.
If the personnel under him have no moral character, they will be fine at the beginning, but after a long time, all kinds of favoritism and fraud will appear. Once such a situation occurs, it will distort Li Zhi's career and make Li Zhi's various plans come into being. Without moral education, it is very difficult to rely on supervision alone.
Therefore, moral education becomes a very important thing.
Li Zhi should lay a good foundation at the stage of education and cultivate qualified talents for his career. So Li Zhi built a middle school to cultivate the knowledge, literacy and most important moral character of children and veterans on the basis of primary school.
The qualifications for secondary school students are not available to everyone. Only six adults with better academic performance in primary school are eligible to become secondary school students. Middle school students are offered the same benefits as primary school students, but the most important difference is that as long as they can study for three years and graduate from secondary school, they will definitely get a job in the property of Fanjiazhuang or in Li Zhi's administrative team.
In these years, there was a shortage of soldiers outside, and Fanjiazhuang was a peaceful blessed land like a paradise. Among the people of Fanjiazhuang, the people who "have jobs" live the most decent. When the people heard that they could be "assigned jobs" after graduating from middle school, they sent their children to Li Zhi's middle school one by one.
Especially those people who are engaged in small traders in Fanjiazhuang are most envious of the "working" industrial workers in Fanjiazhuang on weekdays. Almost none of these vendors gave up the opportunity as long as their children were eligible to attend secondary school.
August 24 is the opening day of secondary schools. Li Zhi went to one of the classes and gave a lecture to a group of fourteen- and five-year-olds.
Li Zhi stood in class and talked eloquently:
"You are high school students, and after graduation, you will be the backbone of Benber's command. You will work in various government offices, tax offices, and factories. What you do will directly determine the atmosphere of a place and the success or failure of a factory. ā
"Some of you, after a few years of grassroots training, will be promoted to leadership roles."
When the young people heard the prospect described by Li Zhi, their eyes lit up and they looked at Li Zhi very longingly.
"Do you know what I value most when I work under my Li Zhi?"
Li Zhi looked at the ignorant teenagers and said loudly: "What I value most is virtue. ā
"When I speak of virtue, I am a public virtue, not a private virtue."
"In my eyes, the so-called filial piety of those Confucian scholars is not morality. If others are good to you, you will repay others, and if your parents raise you, you will provide for your parents, which is just a basic means of cooperating with others, and it is not moral. If there is only private morality and no public morality, all kinds of despicable things will be done. ā