Chapter 152 Fukue’s letter

At this time, the only people who could still stay in the Xuande court were either the stupid young people who had recently passed the imperial examination or the old fried dough sticks.

After receiving a punch from the emperor, the stupid young people have become more honest.

But the old fritters are working secretly.

"His Majesty."

When Yu Qian and Jian Yi were both away on business, Xia Yuanji was the chief civil servant in the court.

He went out to pay homage and said, "Build a new academy so that children all over the world can study. This is a great merit of establishing virtue! For thousands of years, only the emperor is holy!"

"Hey~~~"

Li Yunze sighed, and said "but" to this habitual flattery.

Xia Yuanji, who was used to the emperor's straightforward character, boasted and went straight to the throne, but said, "But the emperor's Ming Dynasty is so great, and there are so many scholars and people! Now, just by setting it up in the county, there are more than a thousand. It is said that your majesty also wants to

Build more.”

"So many academies require a large number of teachers. Their salary supply may not be obvious individually, but once the number increases, it will be a huge financial burden."

"More." Xia Yuanji looked slightly excited, "His Majesty is the Holy Emperor. Not only does he waive children's tuition fees, but he also proactively supplies pens, inks, paper, inkstones, books, and other learning materials. This is a great merit. I thank you with tears in my eyes!"

Li Yunze, expressionless, sat on the dragon chair and wanted to yawn.

He already knew where the civil servants wanted to start.

"But Your Majesty." Sure enough, Xia Yuanji immediately changed the topic after he agreed. "The Emperor has so many children in the world. The expenses for such a large number of children will be a really huge sum of money, and it will continue to increase year by year."

payment!"

"Your Majesty, the imperial court does not have that much money."

Children are also an important labor force these days. Even if they cannot work in the fields, they still have to feed pigs and raise chickens, cut grass, herd sheep, and do housework at home.

Now is not the time to make schooling compulsory. If you want people to take the initiative to go to school, there must be visible benefits.

The benefits given by Li Yunze, in addition to no tuition fees, are that all school supplies are free.

If it were those so-called teachers who make a fortune from education, he, Li Yunze, could really be regarded as a saint!

This is of course moral governance and good governance. No one can find fault in this aspect, and no one dares to find fault in this aspect.

But the problem is, these all cost money.

Take the simplest and most basic pen, ink, paper and inkstone as an example. Even with the lowest configuration, a set costs several taels of silver.

What's even more important are the study books.

Books these days are extremely expensive, and some unique copies are even priceless.

Even if printing was used, considering the number of school-age children in the Ming Dynasty at this time, it would undoubtedly be an astronomical expense.

Civil servants know this, so they must also be aware of this.

Your Majesty, what you are doing is a good thing, but among all the emperors throughout the ages, have none of them ever thought of doing such a good thing?

It's not that they can't think of it, it's that they can't do it.

Education is always a bottomless pit of crazy investment.

Li Yunze's face was a little rosy, "I am much richer than William I, and I am not like William III who was stepped on by Napoleon. Why can they grit their teeth and persevere, but I can't?"

While talking about names and things that the ministers could not understand or have heard of, Li Yunze's eyes were extremely firm.

"I knew you would make an issue out of this, so I didn't let you get involved from the beginning. The inner government was directly responsible."

He leaned over and looked at the ministers, "I don't want the Ministry of Rites to get the money because I don't want to give the Ministry of Rites a chance to intervene. Because I know that once you get involved, countless things will inevitably happen."

Li Yunze is very aware of the virtues of civil servants.

If the imperial court really takes over, all means from top to bottom will be used.

He would be lucky if only half of the wealth he worked so hard to acquire for education could fall into the hands of children.

Moreover, this kind of thing is very difficult to check, which is time-consuming, laborious and troublesome.

Therefore, from the beginning, Li Yunze took the matter into the inner palace and directly cut off the opportunity for civil servants to reach out.

"I have to spend my own money to provide education for the children of the Ming Dynasty. Can't I do that?"

This is a question, who dares to say it’s not possible?

Xia Yuanji had no choice but to bite the bullet and said, "Your Majesty, I am just worried about the loss of the property in the palace."

"No need for you to worry."

Li Yunze's face turned cold, "There's no need for you to intervene. Whoever dares to reach out, I will chop off the hands first and then the head!"

It was said that it was impossible not to intervene, and the Ministry of Rites had already jumped on the bandwagon.

The only difference is that Li Yunze can control it now, but they don't dare.

"If you are really serious about it." Li Yunze smiled slightly, "My dear friends, you can donate your books at home for teaching, and you can use charity money to purchase education national bonds. How about that?"

The civil servants were all stunned, how could they be so shameless?

They don’t allow me to get involved without giving any benefits, and they even have to contribute my own money and efforts? This is so bullying!

Many civil servants saluted in unison, "I should serve His Majesty and contribute to the holy virtues."

As for the result, until the Queen Hu Shanxiang gave birth to the prince, few ministers really contributed.

The books must have been donated, but there were only three or five copies for each family, and they were all enlightenment books such as the Thousand-Character Classic, the Three-Character Classic, and Hundred Family Surnames. None of them were really valuable.

As for buying education treasury bonds, it is possible. After all, treasury bonds will be stolen.

However, Li Yunze used the imperial taxes as a guarantee to sell government bonds, but he was unanimously opposed by everyone.

While they were buying national debt, they were opposed to using royal taxes to guarantee national debt.

Right, right, right and right.

Li Yunze simply disgusted them. He had already planned this before doing this. How could he be influenced by civil servants?

For the children of the Ming Dynasty who were as blank as a piece of paper, Li Yunze had no intention of letting them learn the extremely complicated traditional Chinese characters with so many gestures that it was despairing.

When he first came up, he used pinyin letters plus simplified Chinese characters!

As for books and so on, I returned to the modern world and directly purchased a printing factory in Siam. Then I purchased paper from a paper mill in Borneo and printed the standard textbooks after I modified some of the information.

The terrible productivity of the modern industrial era is unimaginable by people in the Ming world.

Heidelberg's printing press rumbled into action, and its production efficiency was so high that it would make those Ming people who relied on copying and movable type printing vomit blood.

As for pens, inks, paper and inkstones, they are all discarded.

In the modern world, small commodity malls directly order ballpoint pens and a large number of refills, plus tons and tons of paper.

No matter where he is, Li Yunze is never afraid of the petty actions of civil servants, because he has an entire industrial world as his backer.

As long as there is enough gold, the masses can have as many commodities as they want.

As for abolishing pen, ink, paper and inkstone, replacing traditional Chinese characters with simplified Chinese characters, and replacing traditional enlightenment with new textbooks, it will inevitably cause a large-scale backlash among scholars.

Because it changes the traditions they know.

Scholars tend to be conservative, because being conservative will bring them foreseeable benefits.

And large-scale changes will touch them and make them instinctively oppose it.

Visible to the naked eye, another trend is about to begin.

But again, could Li Yunze, who has a trump card, be afraid of them?

Just come.

He is a literary person, he has both military power and the production capacity of the industrial world.

Those who play martial arts are nothing more than the tricks of the Tartars, no one can do it.

In the face of the Tartars' butcher's knife, the scholars did not even dare to object to the gentry receiving the grain together. Is it possible that he, Li Yunze, did not do as well as the Tartars?

Li Yunze, who was not afraid of anything, was busy naming his eldest son.

As early as the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, the old man had arranged a seniority list for each of his twenty-six sons.

The line of succession of King Zhu Di of Yan is as follows: "Gao Zhan Qi Jianyou, Hou Zai Yi Chang You, Ci He Yi Bo Zhong, Jian Jing Di Xianyou."

There is no longer a queue for the latter, probably because Zhu Yuanzhang himself does not believe that after twenty generations, his old Zhu family will still be the emperor.

In fact, by the time of the tenth generation of emperors, that is, by the time of Youzi generation, the Ming Dynasty had already died.

According to this backup table, Hu Shanxiang's eldest son is Qi.

In the words of Queen Mother Zhang, "It sounds so nice to call me Qizhen."

Hearing this, Li Yunze shivered subconsciously.

"no!"

He refused without hesitation, "Absolutely not."
To be continued...