In the sound of gongs and drums!

The gates of Jicheng Academy opened.

Xu Shu is also the principal.

It's not as good as the academy in Upper Valley County, but a few courtyards are opened.

The academy in Jicheng was newly built.

It covers an area of one hundred acres.

There was no such large open space in the city, so the academy was established in the northern suburbs outside the city.

Not only the children of Jicheng can come here to study, but also the children of other counties, as long as they are sent over, they can stay.

There are dormitories and canteens in the college, but students have to pay a little for food, and the price will be cheaper.

It is only provided for students, and it is forbidden for outsiders to eat it.

The food is cheap, not only because there is no price increase, but also because there is a subsidy, which is even lower than the original price.

This academy is for the children of ordinary people, not an aristocratic academy.

Even if food is provided at a normal price, it is difficult for ordinary people to afford it.

Even if Zhao Hui does not charge tuition, many ordinary people will not send their children to study at the college because of food problems.

Of course, the college in Jicheng, the students who come here, still have to pay the tuition.

Tuition fees are paid once a month, or once a year.

Although it is a lot of trouble.

But it is also for the sake of those who do not have extra money at home.

Even if Zhao Hui's tuition fee is so low that it only costs 100 yuan a month, it only costs 1,000 yuan a year.

But apart from those solid homes, not many people can come up with a thousand dollars at once.

Even if it is a hundred dollars a month, it still blocks a large part of the people.

The tuition fee at this price is the data obtained by Zhao Hui and Xu Shu from the income and consumption of people in various places after visiting many places.

The current Zhuang Ding in Youzhou, if he goes out to do things for others a day, his salary can be fifty yuan a day.

But this kind of thing is rare, after all, the current economy is too backward.

Most people are still mainly engaged in farming, and they do things for others about two or three times a month.

The woodcutter can sell the firewood he cuts for twenty to thirty dollars a day.

For a family of two or three, the daily expenses are almost ten to twenty yuan.

Such expenses can only ensure that they can be fed.

Every day, I am running for food and clothing.

The tuition fee of one hundred a month and one dollar a year will still block many people.

But with Zhao Hui's current conditions, he doesn't have that ability at all, so that everyone can be educated.

Education is a matter of a thousand years, and it cannot be achieved overnight.

Zhao Hui could only change slowly.

Change a little today, change a little tomorrow, and one day, everyone will be able to enter the academy.

There was a college in Shanggu County in front of it, and when Jicheng College was still under construction, there were already many people who asked.

On the first day of school, more than 1,000 students came.

Most of them only pay one month's tuition.

Although it is handed in for a year, it can be less than two hundred dollars.

In addition to many people who can't take out so much money at once, there are also some people who want to see the effect of the academy even though they can take it out at once.

See if your children can learn knowledge here and change their fate here.

The first batch was almost all the people of Jicheng.

The students who are enrolled are all children over the age of 10.

Whether it was the academy in Shanggu or the academy in Jicheng, Zhao Hui did not consider accepting those who had already reached adulthood.

The knowledge taught in the academy is very different from what they have learned before.

All the textbooks were newly compiled by Zhao Hui according to the knowledge in his memory.

It's all simple knowledge, but it's easy to learn.

It is mainly mathematics, and physics and chemistry are relatively less involved.

In addition, there are corresponding textbooks for language, history and geography.

The doctrines of the hundred schools of thought are also involved, but in addition to the Analects, the others only include a few simple and easy-to-understand articles.

The curriculum is similar to that of Upper Valley College.

Mainly for practicality, to be able to open up the minds of these children.

Learn Arabic numerals, learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

After a month, at least you will be able to help your family keep their accounts.

Because the original seal characters are difficult to write, even if it is a number, not many people among ordinary people will recognize it.

There is no habit of bookkeeping at all.

I can't write, and even if I need to, I can only do it by tying knots, so that I won't forget.

A big knot is a hundred dollars, and a small knot is ten dollars.

This approach is not only inefficient, but also prone to errors.

Zhao Hui did not deliberately promote Arabic numerals, but he did not deliberately hide them.

Guo Jia now counts the new household registration, and also uses Arabic numerals.

Statistical work is much easier than before, and it is not easy to make mistakes.

Jicheng College opened, and Zhao Hui was also present in person.

With Xu Shu's arrangement, even if there were more than 1,000 students on the first day, there were four or five thousand people including the parents who sent their children and the onlookers.

But everything was in order, there were no riots.

Then Zhao Hui took a look at the food in the canteen, whether it was hygiene, nutrition, or quantity, it met Zhao Hui's requirements.

Ensure that the students in the college are well fed.

In terms of nutrition, it must not be compared with the soldiers in the army.

There wasn't much meat in the meal, and a little shredded meat was added to the few ingredients.

Even so, the food in the academy is better than that of most ordinary people.

Of course, it is still much worse than the students of Upper Valley County College.

Shanggu County is already the county town with the best living conditions for the people of Youzhou.

"Lord, why don't you set up an academy to study specifically for the children of those wealthy families?"

After returning from Jicheng Academy, Guo Jia asked.

Guo Jia, who was a newcomer, stayed in Youzhou for a month, and he also traveled a lot because he wanted to count the population.

At the beginning, he only came because of Zhao Hui's words.

If it doesn't go your way, then leave.

But a month after coming to Youzhou, Guo Jia was convinced by Zhao Hui.

In this troubled world, in this princes from all walks of life competing for hegemony.

He was in Youzhou, and he saw a thriving picture.

Before Guo Jia came, he couldn't believe it. I came to Youzhou, not Jizhou.

No, even the current Jizhou is not as prosperous as Youzhou.

Jizhou is a big state, but in the past few years, it has been wearing down the foundation of Jizhou.

If it weren't for the thick enough foundation before, Jizhou would have been eroded by now.

Zhao Hui's Youzhou makes people see that it is constantly going up.

And Yuan Shao's current Jizhou, what he sees is going down.

The living standards of the people in Youzhou are improving, at least in this cold winter, there are no displaced people in Youzhou.

In Jizhou, the road is full of bones of people who have frozen to death.

Guo Jia didn't want to go further and further between Zhao Hui and the wealthy family.

In the past month, what he has seen is that Zhao Hui is completely standing on the position of ordinary people.

All policies are biased in favor of ordinary people.

Although Zhao Hui is very restrained, he is still harming the interests of the wealthy.

If Zhao Hui keeps being like this, those wealthy families will definitely not be willing to suffer from the continuous loss of their interests, and they will definitely resist.

This is very detrimental to Zhao Hui's great cause.

In the current situation, the power of the wealthy family is far greater than that of ordinary people.

Although the number of ordinary people is large, they are just a plate of loose sand.

Even if their hearts are towards Zhao Hui, the power they can exert is far lower than that of the wealthy families.