"This is martial arts, so that the children of the courtiers who have not participated in the class, the shade of the door, and the grass can only be admitted after the bow and horse examination. One hundred, Xi Liutao, Sun Tzu, Wu Zi, Sima Fa, San Luo, Wei Zhenzi, and Li Weigong asked right. After crossing the Yanjin Bridge and more than a mile to the south, Fu Ji suddenly grabbed the reins of her horse and pointed to a temple on the right side of the road.

"That means that those who enter the martial arts school have to be the children of the officials, right?"

Hong Tao still doesn't understand a lot of the words Fu Ji said, but he is thick-skinned and asks if he doesn't understand, and he doesn't care what Fu Ji and Lian'er think in their hearts. Anyway, I'm a crazy person, so just go crazy, it's good, so as not to pretend to be uncomfortable.

"......" Fu Ji may not have met someone like Hong Tao, and she can't understand why this kind of vernacular concubine can't understand it, so she doesn't believe it.

"These people don't have to pay tuition, do they?" Love understands or not, anyway, Hong Tao is like this.

"Eat and live in the court...... This side is Taixue, which was originally built by Taizu for Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty, called Lixian House. The students are the children of officials below the eighth grade and the outstanding civilian students, with a total of 80 fasts, and 30 people are admitted to each fast. He teaches nine Confucian classics, including Zhou Yi, the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Filial Piety, and the Analects. In front of Biyong, students from all over the country are selected by the state and county to enter Biyong, and then they can enter Taixue after passing the examination. The students are divided into the upper house and the inner house, and the students of Biyong are called the outer house, and there are 3,800 people at most times. On the east side of Taixue is the Chaoji Temple......"

This time, Fu Ji learned wisely, and didn't give Hong Tao a chance to interject and ask questions, and finished talking about all the important places in the vicinity in one breath, regardless of whether Hong Tao understood it or not, he rode his horse and walked in the direction of Guozijian.

In fact, Hong Tao understood most of them, but some words were not clear. Someone will explain it, feel comfortable, and you can make do with it without explaining.

The two places called Wuxue Lane and Nanheng Street are the university towns of Kaifeng, which gathered almost all the institutions of higher learning in the Song Dynasty, and they were both civil and military. Wu has martial arts, Wen has Taixue, Guozijian, Biyong, Chaojiyuan and arithmetic.

What surprised Hong Tao the most was that Guozijian was actually the second best among these colleges, not only only had only 200 students, but also the smallest place, and a temple could not be occupied, and a backyard was vacated, which happened to be cheaper.

The most awesome thing is Taixue, its location is the mansion of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and it is not enough, and the preparatory class is run in a courtyard in the south. Biyong is the preparatory class of Taixue, with a peak of personnel and thousands of students.

Even if Fu Ji didn't give a detailed explanation, Hong Tao could still know why Guozijian was the highest institution of learning, but Taixue, which was established later. There is only one reason, the enrollment range is too narrow!

Guozijian only recruits students from the children of officials and students recommended by officials, while Taixue accepts both poor and lowly, which gives poor children from poor backgrounds but aspiring to progress a way up.

Count the number of children of officials or the children of ordinary people with your fingers, and you will know the difference in the number of students between Guozijian and Taixue.

Moreover, just in terms of learning, it really doesn't have much to do with the rich and the poor. Often the poorer the child, the harder he studies, because this is the only way out in his life, and he really can't do it without playing with his life.

The Asahi Institute and the Arithmetic Academy should not be regarded as a simple institution of higher learning, but more like on-the-job training for later generations, and both of them were recruited to serving officials.

The Chaoji Academy was responsible for training legal talents, and arithmetic used the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic, Zhou Ji Sutra, Island Sutra, Sun Tzu Sutra, Wucao Sutra, Xiahou Yang Sutra, Zhang Qiu Jian Sutra, Three Styles and Astronomical Calendar as teaching materials to train accounting and auditing talents for the imperial court.

"That's it, don't change it for the palace!" This trip was not in vain, and as soon as he entered the gate, Hong Tao felt that the decision just now was really wise.

There is nothing else in this courtyard, but the place is big, not only is it enough to play badminton, but it is not too small to play football. As for the dilapidated halls, they are just damaged doors and windows, and there is no problem with the main structure. Look at those big pillars, no one can hold them, and when you have spare money, you can clean it up, it's really no worse than the Kaifeng Mansion.

Speaking of the Kaifeng Mansion, Hong Tao didn't know whether to exaggerate the Song Dynasty or damage these scholars who cherished their feathers too much. The dignified government offices of the capital of the Great Song Kingdom were stunned and old, and even the patent leather on the gate was bursting.

Why is this so? Fu Ji gave the standard answer, not that the imperial court had no money to repair it, but that the officials did not want to repair it.

Isn't this water in my head, don't the officials of the Great Song Dynasty like to live in new houses? It's really not, along the way, I also passed by several mansions of court officials, all of them are tall and spacious, with bright bricks and tiles, but why don't they want to build the government yamen?

This has to start with the political system and governing philosophy of the Great Song Dynasty, but these two topics are too big to talk about, and I can write several papers.

To put it simply, the Great Song Dynasty did not encourage the government to be tall and mighty, and was unwilling to waste taxes on these political achievements and government face, which can be answered very accurately from the imperial palace of the Song Dynasty.

The imperial palaces of the two Song dynasties were the smallest, shortest, and most humble of all the feudal dynasties in China, whether it was the Northern Song Dynasty palace in Kaifeng City or the Southern Song Dynasty Palace in Lin'an City.

In general, the scholar class of the Song Dynasty had lofty aspirations to govern the country and secure the country, and any disputes were for the realization of their ideals, not just for the sake of power.

People with such ideals will not pay too much attention to whether the government yamen is tall and majestic, and it does not matter whether the office conditions are poor, as long as they can do things well according to their own ideals, they will be satisfied.

Of course, whether their ideals are right, whether they are in line with the actual situation, and what the result of persisting in them is another question, at least the starting point is good.

With such a concept of governing the country and ruling officials, it is logical that the government yamen will be in tatters. This is not only the case in Kaifeng City, nor is it just for the residents of the capital and the emperor to see, it is basically the same throughout the country.

Kaifeng Mansion is relatively good, and the yamen of various roads, states, and counties are even worse. There was already an unspoken rule in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, that is, officials did not cultivate the government.

Whoever dares to make the government office beautiful, and the local people's livelihood is not as glamorous as the government office, will immediately be attacked by the imperial historians, without exception.

This is also corroborated by Hong Tao, that is, his best friend who he never met, Su Shi.

This great poet is serving in Huangzhou at this time, and the situation is as bad as it gets. Not only are the wages low and the living conditions poor, but even the office is leaking.

He complained in a letter to his concubine: "On the day of his arrival, he saw the building of the envoy's house, which was full of cracks, but it was supported horizontally and diagonally with a small log, and every time he passed under it, he was so chilled that he did not dare to walk in peace. Every time there is a strong wind and rain, I dare not sleep in the main hall. ”

Originally, Hong Tao thought that this was the sentimental nature of the poet, literati, with the change of mood, the wording and sentences are inevitably extreme, otherwise what kind of literati is it. But now he knows that he has misunderstood Lao Su, he is not borrowing the scene to lyrical, but it is really miserable!

Can he fix the leaky yamen? The answer is yes.

The unspoken rule that officials do not repair the government only restricts officials from building a large number of buildings to cause trouble to the court and the people, but it does not mean that the houses are about to collapse and are not allowed to be repaired. As long as the situation is true, the repair should still be funded.

However, Fu Ji also said that the imperial court generally did not directly allocate money and grain to officials to repair the yamen, but adopted a workaround method to sell money and private financing.

Du Mu is the ID card of the monk, and in the Song Dynasty, if you want to become a monk, you need the approval of the imperial court, and you have to spend money.

The price of a degree is not cheap, Su Shi wants to ask the emperor for a hundred degrees to go to Huangzhou to sell and raise 20,000 yuan. Then, with the donation of 20,000 yuan from local wealthy households, it can almost repair several broken yamen in the state and county.

A simple calculation will result in a single degree, which can be sold for 200 yuan, which shows that it is not easy to become a monk in the Song Dynasty, which is considered high consumption.