Huang Chengyan arched his hands and said: "The Huang family has withered talents, but there are also a few talented young children. I hope Mrs. Liu can make it easy to reserve one or two places for the Huang family in Chang'an Academy."
If you want to revitalize the Huang family, the most lacking thing is talents. With the current situation of the Huang family, there are really few talents who can be found. Huang Chengyan is quite self-aware, so he did not replace the Huang family. The children asked for a half-office position, but instead set their sights on the longer-term future.
The first graduate of Xiangyang Academy will soon be entrusted with an important task. Although this matter has not been officially announced, Cai Yong has disclosed the news to them in advance in order to allow the students of the Academy to study more seriously. Huang Yueying was full of joy. She also imagined that she could become the first female officer of the big man. When she was excited, she accidentally said something. Huang Chengyan knew about this.
The academy was founded by Liu Xin. The students of the academy are successful in their studies. Liu Xin will definitely give them an arrangement. This is normal. However, Huang Chengyan discovered from this seemingly normal incident that Liu Xin had a good attitude towards the academy. The trust of students far exceeds that of Confucian students who passed the imperial examination. Huang Chengyan keenly felt that this is a rare opportunity to revive the Huang family.
Liu Xin refused very simply: "Liu can't promise you about this matter."
The grown-ups of the Huang family and the half-year-old children have little hope. The hope is pinned on those children. Seeing Liu Xin's refusal, Huang Chengyan became anxious, gritted his teeth, and said: "Huang is willing to let Yueying drop out of school. The quota is given to other children in the clan, and I beg the adults for permission."
Although Huang Yueying is only a girl, she is one of the best students of the same age. Most boys are not as good as her. Cai Yong, the director of the college, has praised her in front of Liu Xin many times, Huang Chengyan I have always been proud of having such an excellent daughter,
Now, Huang Chengyan would rather let Huang Yueying drop out, but also to get a place for the other children of the Huang family. Liu Xin was very surprised and couldn't help asking: "Mr. I really want to let Yueying drop out."
The teaching of Xiangyang Academy is indeed different from other places. You can learn a lot of new knowledge there. Some of the content is unheard of even for a famous person like Huang Chengyan. Huang Yueying has studied at the Academy for five years. His knowledge has improved rapidly. Huang Chengyan is already somewhat self-conscious. Sigh, the content of learning in the next five years will be even more important. If Huang Chengyan is really willing to let her daughter give up her studies, Liu Xin naturally does not believe it.
In fact, Huang Chengyan has also been hesitant about this issue. Huang Yueying is getting older. It is not suitable to stay with a bunch of teenagers all day. Moreover, her daughter always marries. Even if she marries into Liu's family in the future, she may be against Huang. The family will still help a little bit, but after all, she can no longer represent the Huang family. If you want to restore the Huang family to its former glory, you still have to rely on the Huang family’s own children.
No matter how much Huang Chengyan likes the life of Xianyun Yehe, but now that he has been elected as the head of the Huang family, he must take his own responsibilities. Huang Chengyan hesitated a bit, and finally nodded and said, "Huang has figured it out. As long as the adults can solve one or two places for the children of the Huang family, Huang will let Yueying drop out of school and will never regret it."
Huang Chengyan actually has another level of thought. Huang Yueying and Liu Yu’s relationship has been fixed, but it has not been made public. Whether Liu Xin will be proclaimed emperor is for the time being, but the identity of Liu Jiahan’s family clan is obvious. Huang Yueying continues to make public appearances in the academy. , I don’t know if Liu Xin and his wife have any thoughts in their hearts. Suo takes this opportunity to let Huang Yueying drop out.
Liu Xin was very moved by Huang Chengyan’s sacrifice of her daughter’s studies for the benefit of the Huang family, but she didn’t know that Huang Chengyan still had these many thoughts in her mind. However, Liu Xin still shook her head and said, "Even if you let Yueying drop out, Liu It is impossible for a certain to arrange for the children of the Huang family to enter the academy, because starting this year, the academy will no longer enroll young children. In the future, all the students of the academy will be admitted from schools located in various places."
The news has not yet been officially made public, so Huang Chengyan does not know, and the school buildings in the schools in the counties are already under construction and will be put into use in the fall.
Due to financial reasons, Liu Xin’s original plan to pilot this kind of primary school in the three metropolises of Xiangyang, Chang’an, and Luoyang, and then gradually promote it, but the opening of the Silk Road in the Western Regions gave Liu Xin’s income has far exceeded expectations. The commercial tax collected in one year is three times the previous amount. This does not include the profits from the large-scale sales of silk and white porcelain. Sufficient funds have given Liu Xin the ability to The construction of elementary schools has been expanded to the county level in an all-round way,
For the selection of future talents, Liu Xin has planned a path of his own. It is obviously not advisable to rely on the children of the gentry. However, at this stage, except for the children of the gentry, there are very few people who study, even if Liu Xin wants to select a large number of the poor. Impossible, only by letting schools spread all over the country and giving children the opportunity to study and master certain knowledge, can Liu Xin's selection of talents be wider.
Huang Chengyan is a clever man. He quickly understood Liu Xin's intentions. He couldn't help but asked, "Then what are the conditions for the children of the Huang family to enter the school."
Liu Xin smiled and said: "These junior schools are still under construction. They are limited in scale and cannot accommodate all school-age children. In addition, noble families like the Huang family and the Cai family have their own private schools, so the government-run schools These schools should take care of some poor families as much as possible."
Huang Chengyan didn't give up, and continued to ask: "So, the children of the Huang family can also enter these elementary schools. I don't know how to get the quota."
Liu Xin nodded and said: "How to allocate the quota has not yet been finalized, but according to the situation of each county, each gentry family will not allocate more than two places each year."
It stands to reason that the two places are not too small, but this is only for the elementary school, not the advanced schools such as Xiangyang Academy and Chang'an Academy. After graduation, the students of the elementary school must pass the exam before they can enter the advanced school. After graduating from the advanced school, students may be entrusted with important tasks. This is actually the division of the former Xiangyang Academy in two. The education of the first five years was transferred to the elementary school and the scale of the elementary school was expanded.
You know, according to Liu Xin, elementary schools are not one family or two, but thousands of schools are opened at the same time. In these thousands of schools, the number of students graduating each year is a huge number, while the number of students enrolled in advanced schools is very high. It is limited, so even if the Huang family chooses two children to enter the elementary school every year, at the end of the day, there is likely to be no harvest.
Huang Chengyan suddenly felt that it was too difficult for him to be the Patriarch, so he could not help but sighed and said: "My lord, Caomin really wants to make the children of the Huang family be able to learn something, but with this quota, alas, there is no other way. ."
Liu Xin smiled and said: "It's not that there is no room for accommodation. My husband also knows that so many elementary schools are held at once. Other things are okay. It's just that there is a huge gap in teachers. If the Huang family can select a few like the husband, he will learn it. If the scholars go to teach in the school, they can naturally allocate a few more places to the Huang family."
Huang Chengyan lowered his head to ponder for a moment, and finally made up his mind, and said: "As long as we can get a few more places for the Huang family, the Caomin is willing to go to the school to teach."
Liu Xin laughed and said, "Then it's settled, sir, don't worry, I will let the county magistrate of Miannan come to hire him personally at that time."
There are many scribes in the gentry family. These people are willing to come out as officials, but few are willing to serve as school teachers. However, through a dialogue with Huang Chengyan, Liu Xin has already thought of a way, which is to further restrict the entry of the gentry’s children. The number of students in the academy forced these literati to teach in the academy, so as to solve the problem of the shortage of teachers in the academy.
Liu Xin is not worried that these gentry literati will not be able to adapt to the teaching work after they arrive at the school, because with Ma Yun’s efforts, the textbooks used in the elementary school have been printed. The main task of these teachers is to teach the children to read and read. The content they teach must also strictly follow the arrangement of the textbook,
The courses in the elementary school are also very simple. There are only four courses: Mathematics and Physics, Natural Science and Basic Martial Arts. The basics of Martial Arts have their own soldiers who have been retired from the army serve as instructors. These selected teachers and professors are not problematic. The more difficult one is mathematics and science. And nature, you know, for people in this era, elementary school mathematics can be regarded as a very advanced theory, and some phenomena discussed in the nature class completely subvert most worldviews.
Sure enough, after listening to Liu Xin's explanation of what needs to be taught in the elementary school, Huang Chengyan hesitated and said: "Some content is not as easy to understand as Yueying, for fear of delaying the children's studies."
You must know that you must pass an exam to enter the junior school before you have the chance to enter the advanced school, and the content of the exam is these four courses.
In fact, Ma Yun has considered these issues a long time ago. She has issued an order through Liu Xin. Before the start of school in the fall, the counties must organize special training to conduct special training on mathematics and natural knowledge for the selected teachers. Those who are in charge of training are the students who have not yet graduated from Xiangyang Academy. For the students of these academies, this is a very good practical activity, and Liu Xin has planned to hold various practical activities regularly.
After telling Huang Chengyan about the situation, Liu Xin smiled again and said, "However, there is no need for your husband to go to the county for further training. Just let your Xiao Yueying teach you at home."
Speaking of her daughter, Huang Chengyan suddenly stood up and asked, "Dare to ask Master Liu, can Yueying's studies continue."