Chapter 1126: Conversation (Part 2)
"The territory of the Tang Dynasty will be larger than any other era before." Li Ze stood up and walked back and forth in the house for a few steps, saying: "It is not only at our feet, but the footsteps of the Tang people will extend further away in the future. Although we do not need to occupy so many lands that we cannot actually control, we must spread our civilization and our thoughts to any part of this world, so we need a lot of people, many healthy people."
"Our children should not only let them give birth safely, but also let them grow up strongly! Without a strong body, nothing can be done. The body is the basis of everything."
Chapter Echo applauded and said, "I have a deep feeling of what Your Majesty said. I have been practicing this throughout my life. Therefore, my disciples should be able to write a piece of flowers, be able to go down the field to do various farm work skillfully, and then get on the horse and draw their swords to become the bravest warrior. This is exactly what the meaning of barbarism is to be."
Li Ze sat down with a smile: "That's what it means, but in the past, you just did this thing in a small range, but this time, you want to extend this idea and put it all over the world to do it."
"This requires a lot of silver." Zhang Hui pondered.
"Indeed, it requires a lot of money. With the country's financial resources still very limited, and with many places requiring a lot of money, the Cultural, Education and Health Commission may still need to think of many ways to make up for the shortcomings in funds." Li Ze smiled and said, "But I think this is not difficult for you, Mr. Zhang."
"My old face can be transformed into many fates, but this is not a long-term solution. I have to come up with an open source method. Let me discuss with the students. Since Your Majesty has already assigned the topic, I have to do this article well, so as not to laugh at me that Gongsun Changming's old man always laughed at me for not being able to do anything except a sharp mouth. This time, I want to let him see it. Will I succeed or not?" Zhang Hui said with a tight face.
Li Ze laughed. These two people were so old, but when they got angry, they were much more serious than three-year-olds.
"It is far from enough to have a strong body." Li Ze said: "Civilize its thoughts, but this is the top priority in our current work. How many people understand the concepts of the country, nation, collective, and more than 40 million people in the Tang Dynasty now? I'm afraid there are very few! Even our Yixing members really understand the meaning and the connection between them?"
Zhang Hui shook his head: "As far as I know, I'm afraid more than 90% of people don't have this concept."
"This is the problem." Li Ze spread his hands: "A truly powerful country, a country that can be inherited and continued, these are essential. If you want to do this, you must do one thing well, education."
"So over the years, Your Majesty has withstood a lot of criticism, tried his best to promote education, and set up countless public school halls to force children of appropriate age to study?" Zhang replied.
"Yes." Li Ze said: "The worldview and values of adults have basically been formed. There is nothing particularly important, and it is difficult to change their thoughts. But the children are different. They are a piece of white paper. How to paint on a piece of white paper is our business. We have been educating them since childhood, so that they can understand the righteousness of the country and the nation, the connection between the collective and the individual, and the rise and fall of the country. Every man has a responsibility, and what it means to sacrifice his family for everyone, understand right and wrong, black and white, and know righteousness and selfish interests. When they grow up slowly, our Tang Dynasty will truly have our national soul and the soul of the country. To be honest, I am not optimistic about this generation of Tang people. I have included hope in ten years later. At that time, the first batch of children we raised can already take on great responsibilities."
"I think I already understand what Your Majesty means!" Zhang replied.
Li Ze smiled and nodded: "Mr. Zhang is educating everyone. I don't need to say anything more, but I still have to say a few words. What kind of person the child will eventually grow depends on what our education looks like. Therefore, in this area, we must not let it go. We need to instill our thoughts and intentions into our next generation through the school since childhood."
"You can't let yourself go in education?" Zhang Hui frowned slightly.
"Yes, Mr. Zhang, I think we need to unify the textbooks!" Li Ze said: "Especially the most basic textbooks such as village, township, and county education, we must have a unified textbook reviewed by the Culture, Education and Health Commission. This textbook must comply with our national principles. In provincial and national-level universities, in addition to the blooming of flowers, we must also hurry up and not relax in the most fundamental things."
Pointing to his head, Li Ze continued, "Mr. Zhang, if you relax here, trouble may occur."
Are there unified textbooks across the country?
Of course there were some in the past.
The Enlightenment Boy's Thousand Character Text, Hundred Family Surnames, Rules of Disciples, Three Character Classics, and more advanced textbooks are the Four Books and Five Classics. Because in the past, these things were the stepping stones for scholars. But it is obvious that the national unified textbooks mentioned by Li Ze are obviously fundamentally different from these things.
Thinking of Li Ze's ambitions, he has always emphasized the concepts of the country, nation and collective, and the chapter suddenly felt a heavy weight on his shoulders. These textbooks are afraid that they are difficult to write.
"After I go back, I will organize people to discuss this matter immediately, get started as soon as possible, and write unified and applicable textbooks, and submit them to your Majesty for final review." Zhang replied.
"Okay, this matter is done like this." Li Ze said satisfiedly: "I can't say there will definitely be many resistances in this, but with the ability of Mr. Zhang, these resistances can definitely be resolved invisibly."
Listening to Li Ze's words, Zhang Hui was a little amused. His Majesty said that as long as the results are achieved, he doesn't want to take responsibility, and he has to solve any trouble himself.
Rewriting textbooks that apply to the world is easy to say, but it is difficult to do. Although you seem to be the leader of scholars in the world, there are countless scholars with their own theories. Once such an opportunity arises, who doesn’t want to stuff his own set in? At that time, it will inevitably be a fight between gods. The cruelty of academic disputes is sometimes even better than other struggles.
"Mr. Zhang, although I don't have much confidence in the current generation, this does not mean that we have to give up on this generation." Li Ze said: "We should think of more ways to fight for it. Every time we fight for one more, we will have more strength. It would be difficult to ask these people to study again. After all, most people still have to work around for life, but we can take more other means."
"Your Majesty also asks you for advice!" Zhang Hui smiled.
"Promotion!" Li Ze smiled and said, "In ways that the people like to hear, they can spread the world. Whether it is storytelling, opera, rural slang, or elegant sound, as long as they can spread our thoughts, we can use them. Whether they really understand the meaning of it, but after going over and over again, I think I can always be familiar with it, right? After reading it for too much, it will naturally slowly come to my mind. Do you think?"
"Promotion?" Zhang Hui rubbed his temples: "This man is not very good at it."
"It doesn't matter if you are not good at it. You can appoint people who are good at this kind of thing to preside over this matter. They have some solutions!" Li Ze smiled and said, "Your subordinates have a lot of talented men. You can let them write books, plays, songs, and then organize people to perform in various places. Speaking of which, the cultural life of our Tang people is too scarce. Doing these can not only achieve our goals, but also allow the people to entertain more. Why not do it?"
Zhang Hui sighed, "Actors, these are all inferior professions. Why did Your Majesty connect them with the promotion of the country's major policies? It's too unsovereign.
But after the emperor said so, he had to consider the feasibility of this matter.
Originally, he didn't think his task was too heavy, he just took the steps and moved forward step by step according to the previous pace. But today he talked with the emperor and found that this was not the case at all.
Strengthen its body!
Civilize your mind!
None of these two things is easy to accomplish, and it is not something that can be easily accomplished in a short time.
This is not like fighting, where the winner can be decided in a short time.
It’s not like building an economy. At most, the quality of a policy can be roughly distinguished in one or two years.
The timeline of these two things is probably only possible to see the real results based on ten years as a boundary.
Moreover, this is not just a matter of time, but also requires a lot of investment. It is unrealistic to just expect the imperial court to allocate funds. There is a shortage of money everywhere, and not every official is considered as the emperor. Those who control money are more willing to invest money in projects that can achieve immediate results and immediately see results. This is their political achievement after all. And this is probably not so easy for them to agree to such long-term and large-scale projects.
When he thought of himself raising money, Zhang Hui's mind buzzed, and his son's lawsuit was everywhere. After he went back, he was afraid that he would be unable to sleep again.
Chapter completed!