Chapter 248 Recommending Yourself
Running a school is a very cumbersome matter, involving a series of mechanism issues from selecting people to do the job, to providing money, and supervision.
Selecting people to manage the school, recruiting teachers, enrolling students, and promoting the school were the responsibilities of court officials such as Zhao Zhuoxi.
As soon as Jiang Jiu's plan to set up a free school came out, Zhao Zhuoxi asked the court officials to recommend candidates. However, just the matter of recommending candidates caused such a commotion.
The teachers recommended were not serious ones. They were all children of aristocratic families, and some were even playboys.
However, Zhao Zhuoxi did not give the list to Jiang Jiu, because Zhao Zhuoxi was taking the opportunity to seize power from the aristocratic families.
On the contrary, Jiang Jiu handled this matter very well.
Because he needed to withdraw money from her business, Jiang Jiu specifically asked his own shopkeeper to supervise the situation.
Merchants have been unpopular since ancient times and their class status is not high. Jiang Jiu's move just happened to kill the habit of local officials who looked down on merchants.
The money that the big shopkeepers in various places have to spend every year is certain, but they have to personally check whether the money is used to run schools.
The money spent by shopkeepers in big cities includes not only local free schools but also money from counties, counties, and towns.
The administrative divisions of Daning were the capital, provinces, counties, and villages.
There are about seventy or eighty counties under a province, and each county has five or six villages.
It is not complicated, but cumbersome, because Jiang Jiu's free school is to benefit all children, so the governors of each province have to assign special people to handle this matter.
This person also needs to have a good relationship with Jiang Jiu's shop.
Moreover, the list of teachers and students in the school has to be passed up the chain of command to the emperor and the princess, so it is not that simple.
It took Jiang Jiu two months from the time he decided to start this matter to selecting people and formulating rules.
The New Year is coming soon, and the prefects will come to the Ministry of Personnel to report and summarize at the end of the year.
Zhao Zhuoxi had just ascended the throne this year, and he wanted to meet these prefects in person.
The time for some prefects to take office has come, and Zhao Zhuoxi will make transfers based on their performance. Based on the investigation over the past year, those he thinks are good will be transferred to the capital.
Some who have no political achievements will continue to stay.
Both the old and new prefects had to report to Jiang Jiu, who would personally tell them the threshold for admitting students and the knowledge they needed to be taught.
First of all, students start at the age of seven. As long as the child is seven years old, whether it is a boy or a girl, they must go to school. If they do not go to school, the government will punish the child’s parents with twenty lashes of the board plus a fine of five taels of silver per student.
Secondly, the content of students' learning is just the learning of the enlightenment period. They must have a certain amount of vocabulary and at least be able to write a narrative. It is important to teach counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and other basic arithmetic. Archery and martial arts can be taught selectively. Some children are not good at learning and like to wield swords and swords, and they can continue to cultivate them.
The basic learning lasts for four years, after which the children can take the examination for Tongsheng.
Whether or not one can pass the examination to become a Tongsheng is a turning point.
Children who can pass the examination to become a Tongsheng can continue to study in school and their treatment will be the same as before.
If a child fails to pass the examination to become a tongsheng, he will no longer be able to attend school for free and can return home to do whatever he wants.
If they can't even pass the exam to become a Tongsheng, it means these children and their parents have no idea about their children's studies. Someone has to cultivate the land at home.
Someone has to do the hard work.
Therefore, the free schools only accepted students who were considered as Tongsheng.
The children who passed the examination to become a tongsheng would go to the local school to attend classes, and all expenses would be covered by Jiang Jiu's Liujiasan Shop until they passed the examination to become a xiucai.
After passing the examination, you can enjoy subsidies from the imperial court.
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Therefore, Jiang Jiu focused on the period when students of appropriate age enrolled in school.
Jiang Jiu's original words were to enable all children to learn to read and write, to eliminate illiteracy, to popularize basic education, and to improve the quality of the people of Daning.
However, the more basic something is, the harder it is to grasp.
Especially in some families, they do not realize the importance of literacy.
Therefore, Jiang Jiu established a system of beating and fining.
The pressure is on the teachers of these free schools.
Jiang Jiu also formulated a reward system. As long as the teachers of these free schools had a child who passed the imperial examination and became a tongsheng, they would receive a reward of ten taels of silver. The more children passed the examination, the greater the reward.
Of course, this is not just for basic teachers. The teachers who manage free schools also receive extra rewards, which are a share of the profits based on the proportion of the students they enroll.
If this academy enrolls 100 students, the teacher will give them an annual reward in addition to the monthly salary, paying 1% of the students' fees. For 100 students, he will pay 20 taels of silver each year, which means 2,000 taels for 100 students, and 1% is 20 taels.
The more students, the better; the more children are admitted, the better.
After Jiang Jiu finished explaining the matter in detail to the prefects, she gave them the list of students that she had asked the Ministry of Personnel to compile, and asked them to use as many of those who had passed the exam as possible.
There were also local scholars and scholars who did not pass the imperial examination.
This arrangement solved the employment problems of a large number of poor students.
The system has been established and the details have been arranged. The rest is up to the local governors to arrange.
However, while these arrangements were still in progress, the triennial scientific expedition began.
After the Chinese New Year, performers from all over the country began to come to Beijing. For a while, the capital was very bustling.
It was another day when Jiang Jiu made a fortune, because Jiang Jiu built four inns in the capital, one in the east, west, south and north of the city.
Jiang Yao bought houses and land in various places, rented out shops and collected rent.
However, some locations are a bit remote, and it is not profitable to open a shop yourself, and it is also not possible to rent it out to others. After Jiang Jiu looked at several cities, he decisively modified those shops that could not be rented out and turned them into inns.
Inns in Beijing are divided into high-end and mid-range. The high-end ones are in the inner city, and the low-end ones are in the outer city.
These students came from other places. Some of them could rely on their friends, some relied on their relatives, and some who had nothing could only choose to stay in inns.
Jiangjiu's inn is more humane, with many partitions and small rooms. Some rooms can accommodate three or four people, some can only accommodate two people, and some can accommodate one person.
The price of a single room is not expensive, which is perfect for those poor students who love to study.
Jiang Jiu made money and gained fame. When these people heard that Princess Ronghua's free school needed to recruit teachers, some of them became interested.
In the past few days, the threshold of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion has been almost flattened.
As a result, Yao Shirong, the Duke of Zhen, had to hide away in the palace.
"My dear, you don't know that the posts I receive every day are more than the books your father and I have. People I know and I don't know want to see me, but I don't know anything about the free schools you mentioned."
Jiang Jiu nodded: "In fact, we can meet them and select some with good character to stay. If they pass the imperial examination, they can help the court. If they fail, they can return to their hometown to be teachers in the school and help me. Children also need teachers."