Du Zhongxiao and Ouyang Xiu were sitting idle in the yamen. Su Song came in from outside and said happily: "I have tried it these days, I have corrected it a few times, and I can use a horse to pull the sickle in the machine. Today, I will cut wheat without any disadvantages, and it will be placed in a very neat way. When the person is selected, I can set off."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Since that's the case, then hurry up and improve the machine. When choosing people, you must teach them carefully. Not only can you know how to use them, but you also require them to be able to repair them. Each team has its own responsibilities, and you will be rewarded and punished after you come back."

Su Song said that, and sat down aside, and the officials came to tea.

After saying a few gossips, Ouyang Xiu mentioned what he had just said: "There are so many wonderful ideas and dare to do things when encountering them. In recent years, I have made many achievements. However, I am too careless to agree with the teaching and educating teachers under my rule!"

After saying that, he told Su Song about what he had just encountered and said, "Although there is not much money and food, all the children are taught, but it seems that the man is not good at behaving. Wouldn't he teach the children of the Iron Supervisor? Here, the children are enlightened and entered various schools, and have learned to do things in the Iron Supervisor. If you didn't teach since childhood, how can you do good things when you entered the Iron Supervisor? Zhijian, do you think it's and isn't it?"

Su Song said that. After thinking about it, he said: "Longtu, the Iron Supervisory Commission has regulations on school teachers. When they teach, they must wear neatly and be neatly. Everything teaches every day has a charter. Besides teaching, it seems that it is not easy to manage too much."

Ouyang Xiu said: "Teaching by words and deeds, but teaching by example is still more important than sayings! I think I have been in a poor and miserable manner since I was a child. If I had no mother teaches me at all times, how can this day be there? People in the world are busy all day long for food and clothing, and have no time to manage children. Establishing schools in the Iron Supervisory School to widely teach the people under the rule is a great virtue! Since it is a moral policy, we should not be neglected to avoid misleading people's children! Those who teach must have both virtue and talent, and virtue comes first! If this is not the case, how can we teach pillars of the country!"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Longtu, the school in the Iron Supervisory School only teaches for three years, only teaches and infertile people. Children are their own children. They want to be raised by each family to take care of what talents they want to be raised. The real selection of people is a matter for the future, otherwise why do you have to have books to read? Being able to write and calculate is just something the court has spared to do for the people, just like a person who has eyes to see and feet to walk. As for how to be a human being, that is the future. Parents raise their babies and teach them to read and write, that's all. Finally one day, schools are spread all over the world. Those who cannot read or write are like blind and deaf people, and they are disabled. This is the meaning of setting up schools. Moral education is not listed here."

Ouyang Xiu was stunned for a long time, but his thoughts could not turn around.

Popular education and compulsory education are just places to teach knowledge simply. Because it is convenient, popularizing other knowledge when going to school is another matter. For example, teaching legal knowledge is for the purpose of popularizing law, military knowledge, and national defense knowledge, which are all accompanied by. This simple literacy education is just like preventing diseases and epidemics, and is only for the health of the people, and has nothing to do with teaching and educating people.

Du Zhongxiao explained for a while before Ouyang Xiu understood the meaning, he asked: "What should I do if I want to educate people and become talented?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "There are naturally various schools. You want to go to the Iron Supervisory Commission to do things, and there are schools that teach things. You want to learn classics and history, and there are counties and prefectures. You can study and take the exam according to your own temperament. You can even have schools that teach farming, teach examples of military and war, and learn everything in the world."

Ouyang Xiu said: "Yunjudgment, what are the benefits of doing this?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "There is no benefit, it is enough to be without harm. Schools that teach this kind of knowledge are extremely simple, and they are nothing more than to avoid being disabled in knowledge. Being able to write and calculate, knowing that there are countless knowledge in the world is enough. If you can educate people from now on, then should the court hire people from now on? Learning is good or bad, and it will have something to do with teachers. Even if the teachers are biased, the grades will be very different. Over time, there will inevitably be some good schools and some poor schools. People are poor and rich, and the rich will naturally find ways to occupy the school, and the poor will inevitably be squeezed out. These schools are the money paid by the court. There is only the principle of the rich in the world to help the poor, and there is no reason to take advantage of the poor!"

Ouyang Xiu said: "Otherwise, this is the Iron Prison. As far as I have seen these days, although there are classes in the Iron Prison, there is not much difference. Even the officials in charge of the affairs do not receive more money and food than those who do things. How can we talk about the wealth and poverty?"

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "Longtu, you can also have rich and poor if you take the same money. If not, why can the world be equal to the land in the early Tang Dynasty be unable to support it in just a hundred years? The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer and the poor are irreversible."

Su Song said: "Now the iron supervisor is always slightly more money and grain used by the family. If you are more frugal, you can always save some money, unlike a farmer who farms. If you accumulate several generations, as long as you can work in the iron supervisor, you will never be poor."

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Zirong, I have been thinking about this matter these days. I have been thinking about it for a long time, but this is not the reason. Why do you think about it? Because doing things in the Iron Prison, especially those related to machines, requires outstanding talents. How to attract talents here? Of course, it is to make them feel that doing things in the Iron Prison is beneficial and life is better than outside. But it is not enough to pay more money and food? No. That is a bottomless pit. The so-called more, how much is more? A wealth of thousands of dollars is not necessarily a lot, but more people are more than those who do other things."

Ouyang Xiu was stunned: "What does the Yunjue mean to say this? How should we do it if we don't pay more money and food?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "Let me say this, as seen from the Dragon Picture, can there be some small farmers who farm and make wealth? If you say hardworking, who are not hardworking; if you say frugality, who are not frugal. However, if you are promoted to the common people, not to mention wealth and honor, even if you have enough food and clothing, it is difficult to protect several generations. The same is true for the workers of the Iron Supervision Bureau. It is because these people cannot save money."

"If farmers farm and the court collects taxes, it is nothing more than that. Even if the flood and drought are impermanent, most farmers have savings, and they can survive the disasters. However, there are common annexation and abundance of everyone, but it is difficult to see a good life."

"Is the taxes of the court heavy? If they reduce the tax, they can live a good life, obviously not. Let's put it this way, whether it is the equal distribution of land or the iron supervisor, everyone's money and grain are the same, as long as everyone is like this, they will definitely have no savings. There is no savings in their hands, and they will not be able to support them when there is an accident. Every family has similar land and collects similar grains. Unless you don't buy things, the price of grain will be low, and the things you buy must be very expensive. How much difference is it? It just happens to survive. The same is true for workers. If the money they get is similar,

No matter how rich it is, it is still worthless. Where does the money go? For example, the price of meat and vegetables increased a few days ago, and there was money going. In the future, if the houses in the Iron Supervisor were not enough to live in, the price would be high when you go out to buy a house. If the price of goods outside cannot rise and those who do business have a lot of interest, the rent of the store will definitely rise, the price has to rise, and the money goes there. Have a store to do business by yourself? Don’t be funny. You make ten tons of money in business a month, and you can rent it out to collect one hundred tons. Which store can do business?"

"In a word, as long as you can only make money by relying on your own strength and talent, you can only live a good life and a bad life at most, and you will not have any savings. Only by making money with money, making money with land, or even places that the court cannot control, can you make money with power. A horse without night grass is not fat, and a person without external wealth is not rich. 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 power, there will always be a way to take away your money and food at once. If you want the people under your rule to live a good life, it is only a matter of giving money and food, and there must be a way to prevent these money and food from depreciating."
Chapter completed!