"Yes, it's a little different." Xia Hongsheng said: "In fact, in the final analysis, teachers are professional and technical personnel, just like craftsmen. The so-called professional and technical personnel refer to those who have a specific professional technology and engage in professional work with their professional skills, and thus obtain corresponding benefits. A blacksmith can make iron, but ordinary people cannot, and ordinary people can't do the work of a carpenter. That's expertise. In the same way, teaching and educating people is not something that everyone can do, and it is also a professional skill. Mr. Chair relies on the skills of teaching and educating people to obtain the needs of survival, so Mr. Chair is also a professional and technical person. Since you are a professional and technical person, you have to learn and train before you can engage in related professional occupations. ”

"What does this have to do with eating imperial food?" Li Shimin asked: "Do you mean that let the imperial court support Mr. Chair, and give the position of virtual knight to those who have meritorious service, just like the imperial court supports those craftsmen in the military aircraft workshop?" How can Mr. Chair be confused with a craftsman? If I do this, I am afraid that it is not only Confucianism that will be offended, but all the people of all the schools should be offended to death. ”

"It's more than that." Xia Hongsheng said: "Weichen's so-called eating of imperial grain is not just like those craftsmen in the military aircraft workshop, who are paid monthly salaries, coordinated by the imperial court, and given rewards and virtual knights for meritorious service. Rather, it is to recruit the chair from recruitment, to training, to confirmation of qualifications, to employment, and even to the salary and rank after employment, and then to retirement and support after old age...... The whole process is all included in the management and arrangement of the imperial court! ”

Li Shimin looked at Xia Hongsheng in surprise: "The whole process ...... From recruitment, to old age...... Isn't this like a courtier?! The courtiers are all under the jurisdiction of the imperial court from recommendation, to hiring, to release, to matching, and then to the support after the Zhishi. What does the virtuous son-in-law mean to include all the chair gentlemen in the courtiers, so that they can also become court officials? ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded: "Yes, that's it." What are students all over the world studying for? To put it bluntly, it is to be able to be an official, to be an official, to be able to get ahead, and to be admired. If Mr. Chair also becomes an official of the imperial court, how can there be fewer people who are willing to be Mr. Chair? ”

Li Shimin frowned and said: "After the popularization of education, all those who have reached the age limit must be enrolled in school, and the number of students has surged. Mr. Chair will not be enough for anything. With such a large number of people, how can all of them become courtiers? Where is there so many places in the imperial court for promotion and placement? ”

"The son-in-law didn't say that he would just let Mr. Chair be an official." Xia Hongsheng explained: "What the son-in-law said is an opportunity, a way. In fact, we already have this method in Datang! ”

"It's already there?" Li Shimin's brows furrowed a little more.

Seeing that Li Shimin was still frowning, Xia Hongsheng said again: "Let's put it this way, father-in-law, now in our Datang, if a person wants to enter the office, what are the ways?" ”

"Naturally, it's the imperial examination." Li Shimin replied: "Students study and take scientific examinations, and enter the imperial examinations. ”

"What else?" Xia Hongsheng continued to ask.

Li Shimin's brows twisted, his face became a little unsightly, and after waiting for a long time, he had no choice but to squeeze out two words: "Door shade." ”

The shade of the door is a way that Li Shimin hates very much, but it is a way to flourish in the Tang Dynasty. It is also through this method that the gate lords of the scholar clan control the way of selecting officials in the imperial court, and then control the imperial court and the channels for entering the office.

"What else?" Xia Hongsheng asked again.

"Push."

Xia Hongsheng continued to laugh: "There is." ”

"Meritorious service, like a virtuous son-in-law." Li Shimin replied lightly.

Xia Hongsheng smiled and said, "Actually, there is a very important way. ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, then his brows suddenly stretched, he patted his thigh, and said, "Flowing out and flowing!" ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded: "Exactly." The official set of 30 grades in the imperial court, and all of them are outside the nine grades, including the officials who serve in the imperial court or local ministries, the people who do things, and the small officials such as specialized technical talents, all belong to the positions of the outsiders. Although these people who worked for the imperial court were not assigned to official positions, after serving for a certain number of years, they could go to the official department to participate in the selection of officials, and after passing the examination, they could be awarded deacons or loose officials, and entered the stream and became official courtiers of the imperial court. ”

"The meaning of the virtuous son-in-law is to make Mr. Chair into the stream and make it one of the ways to become an official, so that more people will be willing to take the initiative to become Mr. Chair in order to flow into the stream!" When Li Shimin thought of the four words "outflow and inflow", he suddenly understood Xia Hongsheng's method. I can't help but be excited.

"And that's not all." Xia Hongsheng continued: "Most of the world's pictures are nothing more than the word wealth. It is noble to become an official and become an official because of his contribution to the country and to be a lord. The integration of the chairs into the stream has given them the opportunity and way to become officials. If we are to give them a generous salary, make them comfortable, and make them have better living conditions. The combination of the two will naturally attract countless people to join the profession of Mr. Chair. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Li Shimin to ask, Xia Hongsheng continued: "Naturally, there will be no gold in the sky, and there is no good thing in the world that comes in vain. There are not only opportunities and ways to become officials, but also enough to make a comfortable and prosperous life. Such a superior treatment naturally has higher and stricter requirements. ”

"How do I ask for it?" Li Shimin asked.

"Ten years of trees, 100 years of people. Education is a hundred-year plan, and the chair is the person who directly teaches, the person who directly implements education, and the person who directly faces the students, so there must be strict requirements. Not only is the knowledge enough to teach others, but also the character can be a role model, a role model, to guide students. In a word, it's just eight words - learn to be a teacher, and behave in the world! ”

"Learn to be a teacher and behave in the world!" Li Shimin pondered for a moment, and felt the same way: "Yes! Yes, extremely! This is true for those who are teachers. However, these eight words are easy to say, but how difficult it is to really do them! ”

Therefore, the son-in-law asked for all the chairs to be appointed by the imperial court, and the imperial court created one, or even a number of colleges dedicated to the training of chair gentlemen. The students taught in this academy are for nothing else, but for Mr. Chair, and the purpose of all the knowledge and content taught in it is to train a Mr. Chair who agrees with the requirement of 'learning as a teacher and acting as a model for the world'. Xia Hongsheng finally said the plan that had been brewing in his heart for a long time: "Only those who have graduated from such a specialized school are eligible to become professors appointed by the imperial court to be assigned to the foreign countries, and can enjoy superior treatment." Whoever wants to be a professor must first receive a rigorous training education in such a school, and after the school considers him qualified and passed the examination, he will be granted a teaching chair by the imperial court. With this chair qualification, the imperial court will assign it to schools in various places, and become a first-class imperial court chair that is assigned to the foreign country and enjoys preferential treatment. ”