"1 million? How can there be so much? ”

Zhao Ji was stunned, because Cai Jing's answer was completely unexpected.

In fact, he doesn't care that Wu Haogu makes money through the Yuntai Academy, isn't it money! It is not taken from the treasury or Zhao Ji's private treasury, and it is not scraped from the heads of the small people in Shengdou, nor is it extorted from rich businessmen. It's all given voluntarily, can you still let Wu Haogu not accept it? How embarrassing are you?

But he didn't expect that Wu Haogu's Yuntai Academy Palace actually lost money, and it seemed that it had lost a lot......

"Your Majesty," Cai Jing said with a smile, "The courses taught in the schools and academies of the first department of the Yuntai Academy are different from those of ordinary academies. The first series of PTZ is Yunwen Yunwu, which is inclusive of hundreds of schools of thought, and pays attention to practice. The teachers used are also first-class talents in all aspects, and there are many of them, and the salaries are also very high, and the worst ones are also the same as Jingguan.

In addition, there are many junior colleges under the Yuntai Academy, among which there are many so-called research subjects such as the Engineering College, the Construction College, the Ship Master College, the Knight College, and the Medical School, all of which are very expensive. Therefore, the minister's millions of dollars are just estimated at a low level. ”

Cai Jing did underestimate the rate at which higher education and scientific research could burn money. Excluding the metallurgical institute that is being built, the total budget of the entire Yuntai school under construction in the five years of Yasukuni has already exceeded 180 yuan. It's like running water!

If Wu Haogu didn't sell the education of Yuntai Academy as a commodity, how much would he lose in a year? Even if he is the richest man in the Great Song Dynasty, he can't lose like this.

"Cai Qing," Zhao Ji frowned, "You said that Wu Haogu's money is worth it?" ”

"It's worth it, of course it's worth it." Cai Jingdao, "After next year's Spring Festival, I'm afraid that seven or eight out of ten Jinshi on the right list will come from his disciples." Just these more than 100 jinshi can be worth millions of deficits every year. These Jinshi from the Yuntai School Palace are incomparable to the Jinshi who have studied the Five Classics hard. Twenty years later, in the officialdom and in the army, I am afraid that his students are taking the lead. At that time, the person who is alone with His Majesty in the Chongzheng Hall will be a martial artist. ”

Cai Jing's words were extremely heart-wrenching. He didn't mention the role of the Yuntai Academy in technological progress at all—he didn't understand this either, but he knew very well the advantages that the disciples of the Academy Palace had in terms of talent. At least most of them knew the law, were proficient in military strategy, skilled in martial arts, and able to read all kinds of account books. Whether it is adjudicating cases, managing finances, catching thieves and thieves, and leading troops to fight, they are all good hands compared to the traditional officials of the Song Dynasty.

In addition, if there are more than 100 jinshi in each subject under one person, it means that a huge and cohesive party has been created.

Wu Haogu is the financier of the Yuntai School Palace, or the scholar of the Confucian positivist school, and is the undoubted leader of these Yuntai protégés.

What happened to the military background? If the officials of the Manchu Dynasty were all his people, the prime minister couldn't do it? When the time comes, I am afraid that Zhao Ji will beg Wu Haogu to be the prime minister...... If he doesn't want to be the prime minister, maybe those Yuntai students will get a yellow robe and put it on him!

However, Zhao Ji's brows didn't twist for too long, and gradually loosened.

Of course, the situation of the martial family's children in the court is not allowed, but now there is nothing to be said about it!

Cai Jing himself said that it would take twenty years...... And it depends on whether the official agrees or disagrees with it - the students of the Yuntai Academy Palace are good at learning, but what about their great skills? Isn't it okay for this official family to give you a little bit of the right list of jinshi?

"How much did the Biyong Academy Cost?" Zhao Ji changed his words, and suddenly asked about the Biyong School Palace.

Cai Jing replied, "Now there are more than 800 students in the Biyong School Palace, and there are more than 1,000 people in the Guozijian Primary School under the School Palace. There were about 2,000 people in total, and it cost 150,000 yuan, which was about 75 yuan for each student. ”

"Why is it so bad?" Zhao Ji asked, "Could it be that the household department has no money to allocate to the Biyong Academy?" ”

"No, it's not that there is no money." Cai Jing hurriedly explained, "Although the Biyong School Palace is an official school like the Yuntai School Palace, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Guozijian after all. Therefore, the salaries of many officials who taught at the Biyong Academy and the Guozijian Primary School were not included in the expenses of the Biyong Palace and the Guozijian Primary School. Moreover, there is no junior college in the Biyong Academy, so the cost is much less.

In addition, the school buildings, horse farms, horses used, and generals who taught students to perform martial arts were not counted as money. ”

"What about Gezhi College and Gezhi Primary School?" Zhao Ji then asked, "How much are they going to spend?" ”

Zhao Ji has ears and eyes, of course he knows whose territory Jingdong Shang City is, who opened the Gezhi Academy, and he also knows that the academy of the Gezhi Department is the same as the Yuntai Department, which belongs to the positivist school of Confucianism.

"Your Majesty, the minister doesn't know." Cai Jing replied truthfully.

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "I don't know how this Gezhi Academy is?" The political hall can be considered, and if it is okay, it can also be given the status of a school palace...... The school palace can open a few more, so that more students can go to study, and the country can also have more useful talents in the future. ”

"Commandment."

Cai Jingkou said that he was in charge, and his expression was also very calm. He didn't expect to be able to say anything in a few words, and Zhao Ji issued an edict to seal the Yuntai Academy.

"Your Majesty," Cai Jing said again, "I think that the Xue Palace should not do more. ”

"Shouldn't you do more?" Zhao Ji was stunned, "Why?" ”

"Because the school palace spends too much, the Biyong school palace has been reduced in various ways, and it is more than 150,000 yuan a year. And the annual income of the imperial court is only tens of millions, so I really can't afford too many school palaces......"

"Hey," Zhao Ji waved his hand, "Yuntai Academy and Gezhi Academy didn't take the money of the imperial court, so they didn't do it the same way?" ”

"Your Majesty, if you don't take the money from the court, you will have to take the money from the students." Cai Jingdao, "Taking Yuntai School Palace as an example, the children of wealthy businessmen have to donate tens of thousands of yuan at most, and then they have to bear hundreds of yuan every year. ”

"So what?" Zhao Ji was puzzled, "Most of our big Song Dynasty are wealthy businessmen with millions of family assets...... They often spend a lot of money to raise an Oiran girl, so what's wrong with spending 10,000 or 20,000 to teach children now? Even if you don't pass the Jinshi exam, it's good to be able to really do something. ”

Cai Jingdao: "It's just that those who can enter the palace are either rich or expensive nine times out of ten, but there is no one in a hundred miles for the children of the poor family!"

Moreover, compared with the painstaking study of the Pentateuch, the skills of the professors of the school palace are not only practical, but also easy to teach and master. The Confucian scriptures are broad and profound, bitter and difficult to understand, even if you spend your whole life, you can't be completely proficient.

The learning of the school palace is simple and easy to learn, six years of primary school, three to four years of the school palace, and two years of junior college. As long as you are willing to spend money, don't be too stupid, and work a little harder, you can become a great scholar in eleven or twelve years, and come out to do things and become an official. ”

If you want to get into the scriptures of Confucianism, you have to do learning, which is boundless and bottomless. Moreover, Confucianism did not establish gods, nor was it a well-organized sect, so it did not have absolute authority. Many issues, such as "Heaven and Man One" or "Heaven and Man Two", "Sex is Inherently Good" or "Sex is Inherently Evil", "Knowing Difficulty and Doing Easy" or "Knowing and Acting in One" These have not been thoroughly studied for 2,000 years.

In contrast, Wu Haogu imitated the academy education launched by higher education in later generations, but it was just to cultivate people who do things (including research), and the eleventh or twelfth year of education cultivated not academic achievements, but people who could do things.

So Cai Jing has secretly changed the concept to some extent. But the expensive education of the school palace does give the rich and noble children a path to "rapid success". The poor Confucian scholars, the so-called landlord-class intellectuals, were too poor (they were of course richer than the tenants, but they were poor compared to the big merchants), and because they could not afford the tuition fees, they lost the opportunity to receive "expensive education".

"If the school palace is a big one," Cai Jing suddenly got up from the pestle and bowed, "Your Majesty, then the four people of the world in the future will probably become merchants, workers, and farmers...... Scholars are sinking, agriculture is the last industry, can such a big Song Dynasty still be stable? ”

Zhao Ji's originally unfolded brows twisted again.

The social hierarchy of the Great Song Dynasty was not strict, and the so-called Shinong industry and commerce were just a thing. As a businessman at the end of his career, he can also study and become an official. And the noble noble family is not ashamed of doing business.

In the social hierarchy of the Song Dynasty, what was really in the upward channel was the class of "poor scholars". The so-called "cold door" does not refer to the poor dick, but the door is slightly cold, and it is not on the "Clan Chronicles", nor is it the nobles of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, usually referring to ordinary landlords. And the scholar is not a scholar in the "Shinong Industry and Commerce", the traditional scholar refers to a bureaucrat or a scholar, Wu Haogu, a businessman, was a standard "scholar" before becoming an official, because the Baibo martial artist he was born in was listed in the "Clan Chronicles", so he was a scholar. The Hanmen scholars refer to the ordinary landlord class intellectuals, at most the children of low-level officials, Cai Jing's father, as well as Su Shi and Su Zhe, who are standard Hanmen scholars.

And this kind of Hanmen scholars, because of their large number and wide dispersion, often form Yimen, have long become the cornerstone of the stability of the Great Song Dynasty. And the imperial examination system is actually for them, the imperial court uses a ladder to heaven in exchange for the elite of the poor scholars to burrow into the Confucian scriptures and righteousness all their lives, and once again and again to take the examination to seek to become officials. In this way, there is no need to experience tossing and rebelling...... This kind of imperial technique, of course Zhao Ji understood.

Zhao Ji frowned and said, "It's still Cai Qing's thoughtfulness. It is indeed not suitable for the school palace to be large, but there are only four schools in the north and south, Yuntai, Biyong, and Gezhi, which are still a little less. Just take five as the limit, and open a new Qingcheng School Palace in Kaifeng Mansion! ”

Qingcheng School Palace is to open a new school palace near Qingcheng Palace in the south of Kaifeng Prefecture, which Zhao Ji has long thought about. In his vision, in addition to the six basic disciplines, this Qingcheng Academy should also focus on cultivating students' literary and artistic talents such as calligraphy, painting, music and rhythm, and there should also be a medical school and an astronomical academy. That is, the educational functions of the calligraphy, painting, medicine, astronomy and other bureaus of the Hanlin Academy were all transferred to the Qingcheng Academy.