yes, there's nothing like seeing is believing.

Emperor Hongzhi got up, looked at Zhang Sheng and Ma Wensheng and said, "Go, accompany me, take a walk." ”

Emperor Hongzhi walked out of the county office, and the guards surrounded him in three layers and three layers outside.

Not far out of the county office, sure enough, the sound of reading came from afar.

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes lit up, he looked back and glanced at Liang Min.

Liang Min followed behind Ouyang Zhi step by step.

And Ouyang Zhi is simply like Fang Jifan's tail.

I haven't seen my teacher for so long, and I met today, although the way we met was a little strange, there were many people, and it was not good to complain, but Ouyang Zhi's eyes, which were like ancient wells, were rippling.

Fang Jifan followed in the footsteps of Emperor Hongzhi.

He looked down at his feet, stepping on the shadow of Emperor Hongzhi, this shadow moved a step forward, and he followed a step, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Your Majesty is really a dragon and a tiger, and sure enough, it is worthy of Emperor Taizu Gao, and even walking is so windy.

In front of me is a huge academy.

The reason why it is described as huge is because a academy covers an area of dozens of acres, although it is not magnificent, the scale is very large.

Outside the academy, there is a stele with school rules on it.

After that, there is a plaque, which reads "Rongcheng Mengxue".

Liang Min introduced: "This is the county's merchants to build, covering an area of 67 acres, the cost is amazing, there are 132 teachers, and there are 3,000 readers. This is the largest academy in the county, and in the south of the city, there is another academy, which is smaller, and in addition, there are three ...... on the outskirts of the city."

"Shang Jia is also interested in education?" Emperor Hongzhi looked surprised.

Zhang Sheng and Ma Wensheng looked at each other.

The layout inside is very compact, one by one the study houses are lined up, there is not much landscape, the study houses are waiting for grades, and children of different grades are reading in different places.

Some of the teachers wearing scarves and rushan are teaching the children to read in the study, and some are ...... Still preparing for class, or taking a break.

Hearing that the Holy Driver had arrived, the dean of the academy hurriedly came out with a group of idle faculty members, a full thirty or forty people, and bowed down in fear.

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but look at Liang Min: "The Liang Qing family hasn't answered my question yet." ”

"Your Majesty...... The merchants were interested in indoctrination because...... Children are required to pay tuition fees when they enter school. ”

"Oh." Emperor Hongji's jaw.

Liang Min said again: "This school, in a year, the tuition fee collected is as high as 20,000 taels, in addition, the county will also issue some subsidies, about 20,000 taels a year." In this way, a year's income will be 50,000 taels, and after splitting the expenses, this academy alone will have a net profit of 20,000 taels of silver if it makes a profit in a year. ”

Emperor Hongzhi looked surprised and read a book...... Do you still make money?

Fang Jifan couldn't help but glance at Liang Min, this scumbag, can you speak, who taught you?

Fang Jifan said with a smile: "Your Majesty, I think that money is secondary, and the most important thing is to teach and educate people. ”

Emperor Hongzhi bowed: "Not bad." ”

Zhang Sheng looked at it with interest: "Not necessarily." ”

"What?" Emperor Hongzhi and Fang Jifan, two people who had departed from low-level interests, couldn't help but look at Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng said with great interest: "Your Majesty, the so-called bustle of the world is all for profit. Reading, how can there be no reason to settle accounts. When Lao Chen was young, because his family had a lot of surplus wealth, his father built a clan school, which also needed to be spent, because the recruits were the children of the clan, so the cost was in the dark. ”

Zhang Sheng then said: "But Your Majesty, think about it, if the school can't maintain the expenses, then those teaching gentlemen, aren't they also bitter haha?" Most of these people are unsatisfactory scholars, although they have fame, it is difficult to make a difference, they do not produce, their families are poor, and their lives are not easy. The minister remembered that the old gentleman who was enlightened by the minister had a very bad life, even if someone gave him two eggs, he was so precious that he was reluctant to eat them. ”

"If such a large-scale academy can make a profit, the ministers will see these faculty members, all of them have no faces, and if they want to come, life will pass." Zhang Sheng said, stepped forward, and asked a kneeling instructor: "Dare to ask the surname Gao." ”

The instructor was startled and hurriedly said, "The surname is Zhang." ”

"Mr. Zhang." Zhang Sheng smiled: "You and I are still our own family." I don't know if Mr. is here, what is the treatment? ”

Teacher Zhang was a little hesitant: "The student is a member of the enlarged students, he has been teaching for half a year, and his salary is forty-five taels a year, although it is not much, but the school includes food and accommodation, and the days go by." ”

Forty-five taels, which is a little less than some skilled craftsmen.

It is rare to be able to eat and live.

And there is no burden, the pressure is light, and it is enough to live a decent life.

Zhang Sheng stroked his beard, happy, his eyes lit up, and said: "Your Majesty, this is really a good thing for mutual benefit." If it is really profitable, the businessmen are eager to build more academies, recruit more children to study, scholars, can also seek a job, since the head of the Ministry of Rites, now there are more and more famous scholars, there are not a few families in the middle, life is not a few, not only can accommodate scholars, but also can be widely educated, and even ...... It can also be profitable...... Not right......"

He looked at Liang Min: "How did you come here with so many children who are studying?" ”

Liang Min hurriedly said: "If you go back to Zhang Butang, most of the parents of these children are craftsmen, and some ...... Since the new policy in Rongcheng County, many of them have earned some silver, and in a year, there are many people who earn dozens of taels of silver, and many people are ......"

Zhang Sheng nodded, sure enough, although the tuition fee of five or six taels a year is a lot, it is ...... If the family's life improves, it is not much.

"Of course, that's not the most important thing." Liang Min said: "Here in Baoding Mansion, everyone attaches great importance to education, in the past, scholars, just for fame, the so-called most useless readers, this is because, if the reader can not be named on the gold list, he can neither pick this shoulder, nor can he mention it, if the family is in trouble, life will be even more difficult." ”

Emperor Hongzhi kept nodding his head, he knew a little about these things.

"But now, the people know the benefits of reading, the so-called learning and excellence, but even if the learning is poor, if you can read and write, in this Baoding Mansion, you can always find a good way out in the future, for example, to be this teacher, and for example, to be a bookkeeper in the workshop, even if the business hires the shopkeeper, it is also necessary for people to be able to read and write, and there are many senior craftsmen, if they don't know the big characters, they can't do it at all, these jobs, although far less than the title of the gold list, can be compared to ordinary coolies, not only the income is rich, but also a lot of decent."

"In Rongcheng County, many parents are willing to send their children to study, and the school has been expanded again and again, but it is still insufficient."

Emperor Hongzhi suddenly realized.

One county, seven or eight thousand scholars, it turned out that this is how they came.

Emperor Hongzhi listened to it and laughed: "This is education, even if you don't need the government to worry about it, everyone is willing to learn, the so-called reading is clear, reading is reasonable, if all the states and counties in the world follow Rongcheng, why worry about this education?" ”

Zhang Sheng and Ma Wensheng also showed a smile from a little dislike at this time, Zhang Sheng nodded again and again: "Reading and knowing etiquette, you can learn, you have to be able to use it, and you can use it so that more people can learn it...... Lao Chen...... There is nothing more to say. ”

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

He said suddenly: "In the past, I have been thinking, how to rule the world, I have persuaded farmers, I have ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety, I have also promoted education, and even ...... Promote frugality. I have always wondered why the great sages of the ancients used countless strengths, but I could not move a single step, but on the contrary, I went further and further away from that goal. ”

"Today...... I understand that the so-called great rule is to seek the prosperity of the people, and when they are well fed and warmly clothed, they will naturally ask for something, and there is no need to deliberately educate, everything can be done naturally. ”

Fang Jifan's heart was also touched, and said: "Your Majesty, it is this truth, the people are extremely smart, what the government has to do is just to let them be able to support their families by their own skills, and other things will come naturally." ”

Emperor Hongzhi heard that in the school, the children read: "Zi said: "A gentleman has no food to eat, no place to live, sensitive to things and cautious in words, there is a way and righteousness, it can be said that he is studious and ......"

Emperor Hongzhi seemed to think of the time when he was studying when he was young, and his eyebrows danced: "There is merit in education, there is merit in education, Rongcheng County, there is great merit in education, and he should be a model." ”

Liang Min was ashamed: "Your Majesty, the ministers are ashamed, the eleven counties of Baoding Prefecture, Rongcheng County of Weichen, the enrollment rate is the fourth from the bottom, ranking in the middle and lower, not only far inferior to Dingxing County, but even other counties, there are also inferior, ministers...... It is forbidden to educate the four characters of meritorious service. ”

Emperor Hongzhi was stunned for a moment, and he looked at Ouyang Zhi inquiringly: "Baoding Mansion ......"

Ouyang Zhi was silent for a moment: "Your Majesty, there were 90,000 students enrolled in Baoding Mansion until last month. ”

Emperor Hongzhi exhaled with a solemn face: "This is the luck of the country, and it is the luck of me." ”

His face was flushed with excitement, and after a few days of visiting, he suddenly found that there was a golden avenue in front of him.

In front of him, there are Fang Jifan, Ouyang Zhi, this Liang Min, and even many others, young and capable, but they can't name them.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Fang Jifan, there is great merit, Ouyang Qing's family, hard work is high, and the rest of the officials of Baoding Mansion are also meritorious, and the new city can have such a small success, I am very relieved!" ”

He took a deep breath: "Xiao Companion, where is it?" ”

Xiao Jing came out sourly, bowed his head and said, "The slave is here." ”

Emperor Hongzhi closed his eyes: "Make an order, Baoding Mansion, listed as a model, Ouyang Zhi, promoted to governor ......"

"Governor ......" Zhang Sheng was stunned: "Your Majesty, this is the land of Gyeonggi, how did you come to the governor?" ”

Emperor Hongzhi said loudly: "I said yes, there is!" ”