After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

Therefore, we recruited a construction team to build dozens of public toilets in Xining City.

Each toilet is equipped with two workers responsible for collecting night soil in the city every night and pushing it into the compost pool outside the city.

Of course, these pools need to be guarded by special people. Some lonely elderly people from nearby villages who have no children and no income were arranged here by Zhong Ning.

You are only responsible for guarding the venue, and you will receive a certain amount of money every month, so supporting yourself is not a problem.

At the same time, in order to improve the educational level of the entire Xining City, Zhong Ning established a literacy class in the city in the name of the court.

All ordinary people who want to learn to read and write can sign up for the literacy training courses. In order not to delay everyone's classes, the literacy classes will start between 6 and 8 pm.

During this era, there would be a curfew around 10 o'clock in the evening, and people could no longer walk around the streets freely at that time.

Around five in the afternoon, many people will start to get off work and pack up their stalls, and after having dinner it will be around six o'clock.

If you live close to the literacy class, you can catch the first class; if you live far away, you can catch the second class.

If the number of applicants is too large, it will be divided into two, three, or even four phases.

Each session lasts for one month and only teaches basic literacy.

I don't ask how capable you are to take the imperial examination, I just hope you can read a letter, recognize a word, and do accounts. At least no matter what you do in the future, you will not be easily deceived.

During this period, Zhong Ning specially disguised herself as a man and, together with Murong Yun, dressed up as an ordinary teenager and sneaked into the literacy class to observe the situation.

It turned out that those students who were interning at the court were teaching part-time to help the city residents achieve literacy, but the teaching results were not very optimistic.

At least in Zhong Ning's opinion, they are still too restricted within the scope of the model.

Or perhaps, they used the same method that their teachers in the school used to teach them to educate the people in the city.

For example, they started by teaching the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic", but the people in the city were not ordinary children after all. They only needed to recognize the words and did not need to learn these scriptures of sages.

So, after listening to the lectures given by those students with Murong Yun, Zhong Ning expressed dissatisfaction, but Murong Yun felt that this seemed not bad.

After class, Zhong Ning took Murong Yun and stopped a man in his forties who often came to attend the class and asked him about his learning results in the past few times.

The uncle scratched his head and said that he had memorized a few lines of "Three Character Classic" and felt that he had gained a lot.

"What about learning to read?" Zhong Ning asked, "Can you write your own name now?"

The uncle shook his head and said that the young master had not taught to that level yet.

"What about other characters? What characters can you write?"

The uncle gestured with his hands and said, "I'm now slowly practicing the chapters that Xiaoxian taught me to recite. Once I've memorized them all, I'll be able to recognize the characters!"

The uncle blushed and said this quickly before leaving in a hurry.

Zhong Ning was silent. If it was just for learning the "Three Character Classic", this was not her original intention of opening a literacy class.

To this end, Zhong Ning sent someone to invite the latest instructor assigned by the court, a failed scholar named Wang Xingzhi who had registered with the Ministry of Personnel and waited for three years before getting a position.

Wang Xingzhi cherished this opportunity to be assigned to Xining City as a teacher, so he had a deep understanding of what Zhong Ning taught him.

Then he held a small meeting with all the students who participated in the literacy class, emphasizing the differences between teaching in enlightenment classes and teaching for ordinary people.

However, these students were quite arrogant. When they heard that Wang Xingzhi actually questioned their teaching level, they immediately went crazy.

"Your Excellency, those fools know nothing to begin with. They should be thankful for the opportunity to study the books of the sages!" A student suddenly spoke up.

Another student continued, "We all started out this way, didn't we?"

Wang Xingzhi didn't want to argue with them and said directly, "Your Highness means that the people only need to be able to read and understand account books or write letters. They don't need to learn any sage books. The purpose of the literacy class is to eliminate illiteracy and open up the mind, not to prepare for the imperial examination."

"If they learn according to your method, then when will they truly get started? Many people don't have the patience to study these boring books of sages. They learn to read only to make life easier!"

The students were silent, but they didn't know where to start. "Then may I ask, Your Excellency, how should we adjust our teaching methods for them?"

"Tomorrow, I will teach a class and you will understand what I mean!" Zhong Ning said this and left immediately.

All the students couldn't help but look at each other in confusion!

Although Wang Xingzhi also learned the Four Books and Five Classics in this way, he was not a very rigid and law-abiding person by nature.

Zhong Ning emphasized that literacy education for ordinary people should focus on classroom atmosphere and start from the situations they may encounter.

For example, the neighborhood and relative relationships he encounters, they definitely know how to address and write them, so he can start with these basics.

In the next class, you can start with vocabulary from all aspects of life, let them learn these words from social practice, and achieve the purpose of applying what they have learned.

Also, when teaching, don’t speak in Zhihu style right away. No one will understand you, so just use vernacular.

Your audience is ordinary people, so adjust the pace of the class according to their needs.

In addition, you can prepare some red flowers as rewards to motivate everyone.

It is beneficial for ordinary people to know how to read and write. The first education a child receives is family education. If parents can read and write, they will understand some basic principles.

Only in this way can we cultivate the next generation more attentively.

Zhong Ning explained these words to him separately. Wang Xingzhi understood them carefully and made a lesson plan according to Zhong Ning's instructions.

Until the next day.

The literacy class was crowded with people, a rare sight. Everyone had heard that the county teacher would be giving the class in person today, so they didn't care much about anything else.

A group of people gathered directly outside the door and windows, and even the back of the classroom was filled with dense crowds of people.

Wang Xingzhi was a little confused when he saw this. With so many people chattering, his small voice probably couldn't be heard from the back.

But it didn't matter. He quickly ordered the yamen runners to borrow a small iron trumpet. This thing was used by Princess Zhaohua before, and later the nearby county yamen and army all had one.

You know what, with this thing, it becomes much easier to preach.