Chapter 574: Studying for the Rise of the Han Dynasty (Seeking votes and subscriptions)

Half a month passed, and it was August 28th. This day was the day that Luo Chong stipulated for students from all over the country to report. The main purpose was to register their student records, divide classes, identify classrooms, and collect books. The second was to check how many people did not come for some reason, and then send a clerk to check. If they deliberately did not come, they would be punished.

A month has been given. Even if it was a minor operation, they should have recovered. If they dared not to come at this time, it would be really sorry.

Early in the morning, Luo Chong came to the fifth floor of the official building in Hanyang City. Standing in front of the window, he looked down at the teaching buildings on both sides, and the increasing number of children and parents under the flag stand in the middle. The reporting time was set at around ten o'clock in the morning. Because there was no watch, everyone could only look at the sun, but even the children living in Ruyang County could calmly pack their things at this time, have breakfast, and take the "school ship" arranged by the county to arrive at the school in Hanyang City.

It's quite interesting to take the boat to school every day.

More and more children come to gather under the flagpole. They wear the new robes made by their families this month, linen shoes on their feet, and a bun on their heads. Girls are different. They have all kinds of hairstyles, but most of them are braided or tied. There are very few with their hair loose. Girls with two buns on their heads like bull horns are the most common, which reminds Luo Chong of Mo Xiaobei in "Wulin Wai Zhuan" in his previous life.

They carry their own small schoolbags in their hands, and some carry cloth backpacks and cross-body bags on their backs. There are even children from rich second-generation families who come with leather backpacks and leather boots on their feet. A dozen children and teenagers gathered together, which is very eye-catching in the crowd. Luo Chong knows whose children they are without having to guess. Except for Shu Da, no one in Ruyang City is richer than him.

Of course, others also have money, such as Youfu's child. Although he has no official position, every time he goes out and comes back alive, it is considered a merit, and Luo Chong must reward him. In the past, when there was no currency, cloth and leather were always rewarded, so this guy also has money, but he is not at home, and the women at home know how to live, so they don't dress the child in a flashy way. At most, the cloth used for clothes is thicker, and he wears a pair of relatively small boots, but those are also made of linen, and the small schoolbag he carries is also made of linen, that's all.

However, among these children, there are also more high-profile ones, who gradually become the focus of attention among the crowd, such as Qubing, who is now nine years old.

After the Han tribe implemented a clear system of nobility, those without nobility could no longer wear any hairstyle they wanted. After all, they were restricted by Han etiquette and could not mess around. So ordinary civilians could only wrap their hair with a square scarf. Moreover, the color could not be random, and it could only be black. Moreover, black cloth was cheaper because dyes were cheap, and chestnut shells would do. The Han tribe had plenty of this stuff.

But Qubing was different. He actually wore a golden cloud-patterned copper buckle on his head. This was given to him by Luo Chong because he learned to read quickly. Some adults in the Han tribe also had it. Those who killed wolves when guarding the tribe had a wolf head badge per person. However, the Han tribe's system gradually improved, and they no longer issued this thing. If they made contributions, they would also follow the merit system, and no longer issue this kind of medal-like hair accessories.

In this way, Qubing became an outlier, because the thing he wore on his head was the only one in the entire Han tribe. This was a manifestation of honor. Just think about it, how many people would envy him.

Qubing's family was not very rich, but they were not bad. The average living standard of the Han tribe at that time was still quite high. After all, there were so many resources, and the entire Han tribe had a population of less than 100,000, so it was naturally relatively wealthy. Moreover, Qubing's family was one of the first to settle in Hanyang City. After several years of stable development, the family still saved a lot of property.

In addition, Luo Chong also learned that the best-selling things in the market now, in addition to cloth and utensils, there is another thing that is very popular, that is, puppies.

The custom of raising dogs has spread in the Han tribe. It is a good thing to guard the house. Dogs are loyal companions of humans. This is true. Some people even go out to work in the fields and take their own dogs with them. After all, these years are still primitive, and there are still many wild animals. Although there are patrols often hunting outside, there are occasionally some wild animals that roam outside the city of the Han tribe. At this time, there is a loyal dog by your side. First, it can bark for warning, and second, the dog can also help when the owner is attacked, right?

So many people want to keep dogs, but the source of dogs is scarce. There are two main sources of dogs. One is the dozen or so gray wolf cubs raised by Luo Chong at the beginning, and the other is the sheepdogs brought back from the grassland by You Fu. Now the hybrids of the two have also appeared.

As a veteran of the Han tribe, Qubing had been allocated dogs, and more than one. Dogs give birth quickly and in large numbers, so his family can make a lot of money every year just by selling puppies, because the immigrants from the newly established counties and prefectures around him all lack dogs.

Time was getting faster and faster. As more people arrived, teachers began to organize students to line up and then register their school information in front of the tables arranged in a row. There was a special form that could be filled out directly, including name, place of origin, and year of enrollment. It was all printed using woodblocks this month.

Students lined up to register their names one by one, and they also had to have their family's household registration. That was the household registration book of the Han tribe, a bamboo slip made of two-finger-wide bamboo boards. Each slip registered the household registration information of one person, and then the whole family was connected in order.

After completing the school registration, these forms would be handed to the students, and then they would line up behind the table and wait for the teacher to divide the classes and take them back to the classroom before they would be collected again.

The class division system is implemented according to what Luo Chong said before. It is divided by age, with the older ones together and the younger ones together. This is to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, because many older children are about to become adults and they don’t have much time to waste in school. It is better to learn to recognize words first and then teach them some means of making a living.

The compulsory education of the Han tribe is no different from the modern nine-year compulsory education in terms of purpose. Even in modern times, what elites can be taught after graduating from junior high school is at most literacy. Luo Chong is the same. Within two or three generations, he can make the Han tribe free of illiteracy and make the whole people literate. This is his highest ideal and goal. Although this is almost impossible and difficult to achieve,

not everyone is willing to rebel. With wisdom, the people can better understand the law and are less likely to be instigated by people with ulterior motives. Instead, it is more conducive to the progress of the country and the overall improvement of the quality of the people, so that primitive people can get rid of the labels of ignorance and barbarism and become truly civilized people with quality and morality. In the long run, the benefits of this policy are far greater than the disadvantages.

Just like the big characters painted on the walls of the teaching buildings on both sides:

Education makes the country prosperous and secure, and study for the rise of the Han Dynasty.

This is not only Luo Chong's expectation for the future, but also the national policy and long-term development strategy of the Han Empire. It's just that the return on investment in education is relatively slow, but Luo Chong has to do it. Without inheritance, no matter how big Luo Chong develops the Han tribe, it will only be a castle in the air and floating duckweed in the water, and it will fall apart sooner or later.

In the open space beside the flagpole, Niu Wei and others also looked up at the words written on the wall. After listening to the translation, they also fell into deep thought. They studied for the rise of the Han Dynasty. Then who were the overseas students of the Xin tribe studying for? How would their Xin tribe rise? Was the path they were taking right or wrong?

Looking at the children in the square, in less than two years, the Han tribe would have tens of thousands of people who could hold a pen and write. These people could all become officials. How much more territory and population would the Han tribe have, how many counties and jurisdictions would it have? What is restricting the development of the Han tribe now is the population and management talents. But in a few years, will this phenomenon still exist?

The growth rate of the Han tribe is really terrible.

(End of this chapter)