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There are not many people coming and going at Bianliang West Railway Station.
After all, Guanzhong was over-developed during the Tang Dynasty and experienced the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and its economy and population declined significantly.
Although the Song Dynasty has been working hard to improve this situation in recent years, Chang'an's progress is still far behind the construction progress of other major cities.
However, the reason why Zhao Jun first built the railway system from Chengdu to Chang'an and from Chang'an to Bianliang was to promote the development of Guanzhong.
Therefore, once the Guanzhong region is well governed and the population density increases, the economy will naturally prosper rapidly.
At the beginning of the morning, the convoy arrived at the West Station accompanied by guards.
The guard Zhao Zhen brought with him on this trip was not large. There was a battalion of 500 personal guards, and 2,000 surrounding guards.
Including Empress Cao, two princesses and some serving palace maids and eunuchs, there were about 2,600 people.
That’s exactly the number of people that can fit into a train with twenty-four carriages.
Zhao Jun and his wife also went.
But the children were not brought with them.
In fact, Zhao Zhen only brought two younger princesses, who were only four or five years old.
The rest of the children are studying in Bianliang. The eldest, Zhao Fang, is 16 years old this year and has just been promoted to the first year of high school in Bianliang No. 1 High School. The second child, Zhao Xin, is 14 years old and was promoted to the third year of junior high school last September.
Zhao Zhen now has three sons and five daughters. Compared with his father, Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Zhao Heng, he has a house full of children.
Zhao Jun had only one son and one daughter. His son, Zhao Tan, was born in August of the second year of the Qingli period. He was four years younger than Zhao Fang, who was born in July of the fourth year of the Jingyou period, and one year younger than Zhao Xin, who was born in the first year of the Qingli period. He was also in the second grade of junior high school in Bianliang.
Apart from the son, the daughters are basically all of school age. Whether it is Zhao Jun's daughter Zhao Qingyun, or Zhao Zhen's daughter Zhao Qinghan, they are either in elementary school or junior high school.
Therefore, at this age when everyone is studying, it is naturally impossible to do anything special. Going out for inspection with children who are in junior high and high school is the only way for the time being.
It was school time and there were many students in school uniforms near the train station.
Zhao Zhen got off the carriage. Due to his special situation, the people around him were separated. However, although he was far away, he could see from afar many students heading towards a junior high school in Bianliang outside the west city gate, like streams converging into a river.
Nowadays, except for Bianliang First Center, which was the first school in the inner city established by the Political System Institute when Zhao Jun came, all other schools are outside the city.
There is still no high school or junior high school in the outer city.
no way.
Basic education in the Song Dynasty developed relatively late.
Starting from the first school built in the third year of Jingyou, the second school was not established until seven years later in the third year of Qingli.
Today, there are three high schools, twelve junior high schools, and more than fifty primary schools in Bianliang. These schools were established due to the rapid development of education in recent years.
However, after the Qingli Year, housing prices in the inner and outer cities of Bianliang rose too rapidly.
To build a junior high school, you need at least ten acres of land. To build a better junior high school or high school, you need at least hundreds of acres of land.
For example, Zhao Jun went to Changsha with his parents to study. His parents worked in Changsha. He had excellent grades in elementary school and went to the best junior high school in Changsha. His alma mater covers an area of 115 acres, which shows how much space is needed to run a school.
Fortunately, the Ministry of Education also took this into consideration, and several important schools were built outside the city gates, closer to the city.
Students in the inner city also have No. 1 High School and its affiliated No. 1 Middle School to support them. Students do not take exams specifically for any particular school, but rather a unified joint exam. If they pass, they go to the school closest to their home.
In addition, the majority of the population of Bianliang lived outside the city, not in the city itself, so the distance to school was basically within two or three kilometers.
As for the lack of schools, the question of whether they can cover the entire population of more than five million in Bianliang is also a simple one.
It is not easy to go to school and study in this era. The threshold is very high. Only the top students can go there, so I can cope with it.
The court's subsequent focus was to continue developing basic education, bringing universal education to the grassroots, building more primary schools, and giving priority to literacy work.
Once there are enough primary schools, we will improve junior high school education, and finally vigorously develop high schools and universities.
The same is true in my country in later generations. Many people born in the 1960s and 1970s basically only have primary school education. The reason is that there were few junior high schools, high schools, and universities at that time, and the threshold was very high.
It was not until the 1980s that the number of junior high schools and high schools increased, and it was not until the 1990s, that is, after the millennium, that universities began to expand their enrollment.
“Seeing these children, I am relieved.”
Zhao Zhen got off the carriage, then helped Empress Cao down and sighed with a smile.
Empress Cao also glanced at the students in the distance, but she did not show much joy. She just shook her head and said, "It's Fang'er and Xin'er."
"well."
Zhao Zhen sighed.
At this time, Zhao Jun also came over and said, "Let's go, Your Majesty."
In public, you still have to use official titles.
"Um."
Zhao Zhen nodded and walked towards the station.
Zhao Jun followed beside him. Empress Cao stood side by side with Zhao Zhen, and Zhao Jun was on Zhao Zhen's right. He was on Zhao Zhen's left, slightly behind him by half a body length.
As the two of them walked and chatted, he asked, "Your Majesty, I saw you sighing just now. What happened?"
"When I saw those students, I thought of Fang'er and Xin'er."
Zhao Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "Compared to your Tan'er who got in with real talent and knowledge, my two useless ones are really..."
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