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That's a huge number.

However, no matter how huge it was, it could not stop the emperor's golden mouth, and according to the number of orphans in various places, compulsory education primary schools established under the school district system were established one after another.

There is no need for the specifications to be too high, a small courtyard, hire a tutor, hire an old woman who cooks, those orphans go to the nearest school to read some enlightenment textbooks, anyway, as long as their literacy problem is solved, what is the surname of the hundred family name thousand characters Wen disciple rules and the like, and it is not required that they can write eight strands of literature. Take care of their meal at noon, eat at home in the morning and evening, such a school can't spend a few dollars, two or three hundred taels of silver a year is enough, and now a private school teacher is basically about fifty taels of annual salary, and all schools together will definitely not exceed 200,000 taels of silver a year.

That's not a lot of money.

Yang Feng sold more than 200,000 taels of alarm clocks in the southern gentry last year, Xiao Qian copied a distribution truck and sent him several boxes of mechanical alarm clocks. Even in the Nanyang and other places of the Wa Kingdom, they were solemnly placed on the palaces of the monarchs, and of course, they also brought hundreds of thousands of taels of dividends to Yang Feng, which was just one, and there were still a bunch of good things that were making money for him from various countries.

So hundreds of thousands of taels a year, this is really not worth mentioning to the emperor.

But the gains are enormous.

If nothing else, the increase in the courage of those soldiers on the battlefield alone is worth it.

When he thinks of his death in battle, he can exchange his children for becoming the protégé of the Son of Heaven, who will be afraid of death among those who are soldiers?

As for those boys between the ages of twelve and sixteen, the total number was more than three thousand, and all of them were taken to Shanhaiguan, and then Yang Feng ordered to vacate Weiyuan City, and turned this original fortress into a school, and organized four teams according to the different literacy conditions, and each team was divided into a class of fifty people, and the officials took turns to act as teachers, and first solved the literacy problems of these students.

"That's it?"

Yang Feng looked at the less than thirty teenagers in front of him and said speechlessly.

The difference between 3,000 and 30 made him very uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, that's a lot."

Li Shoufu said.

"Most of these soldiers are military households, how can ordinary military families study!"

Then he added.

Military households are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, of course, no one reads, this is fortunate that many of the people who died in the war were recruits, so there is still a certain literacy rate, but there are very few people who can write articles, and it is not something that ordinary people can afford to be able to write articles that can be supplied, and those who can also afford it will not run to be soldiers, most of these teenagers are actually children of Liaodong, because many families are bankrupt in the war, so there are good people to be soldiers.

"If you have less, you should all get up, Master of Heaven and Earth, you should kneel, but remember, don't kneel to anyone in the future, there is gold under the man's knees, don't kneel casually, if you kneel for a long time, you will become soft bones."

Yang Feng said to his students.

The students thanked him with trepidation and hesitated for a moment before he cautiously found a seat after a second urging.

"The first lesson I'm going to teach you today is geography."

Yang Feng said.

"Aren't you leaving?"

Then he asked Li Yutian.

"Well, the minister also wants to hear the hadith."

Li Shoufu stood there and said with a smile.

"Then you just listen!"

Yang Feng said and put the globe he had been carrying on the table, then casually turned the 1644 version of the globe that he had carefully made, smiled and said to his students: "This is the earth under our feet. ”

"Your Majesty, is the earth a ball?"

Li Shoufu exclaimed.

"Yes, and the red-haired people have long confirmed that more than a hundred years ago, the merchants of the red-haired country set out from here, and then sailed westward without stopping, and three years later their ship sailed back to their hometown in the east."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Wouldn't the people who live below fall then?"

One student asked boldly.

"No, the earth will hold him like a magnet to iron."

"Then he doesn't live head-down?"

"Yes, for the earth, all of us are headed down, including us at this time, but up and down is only relative, for the earth we are down, but for us we are head up, and when all of us step on the ground, a person who puts his head on the ground is head down."

"What about the sky?"

Li Shoufu said tremblingly.

"It's all the sky."

Yang Feng said with a hug on the periphery of the globe.

"What about the sun, moon and stars?"

"We are the sun, moon and stars."

"Your Majesty means that the sun, moon and stars surround you?"

"No, only the moon surrounds us, and we actually circle the sun, and as for the stars, it's very complicated, and that score stars and planets, and that belongs to the realm of astronomy, and I'm going to talk about geography today, and I'll talk about astronomy in the next lesson. What I need to tell you in this lesson is where we are, what I need to tell you is what is on this earth, not outside the earth, look here, this red dot is Beijing, and Shanhaiguan is here, as for this one is actually the Yellow River, and here is the Yangtze River, Nanjing is this red dot......"

Yang Feng pointed to the globe and began his formal class.

What he wants is a group of talents who really open their eyes to the world, of course, they will not hide anything on this issue, and this is not something appalling, Matteo Ricci has been dead for decades, Kunyu Wanguo Tu has long been in the Ming Palace, and the scholar class has long known about Magellan's voyage around the world. At this time, the Ming Dynasty is not our Qing Dynasty, and there are people who open their eyes to see the world, not to mention that in ancient China, there was a saying that the earth was round, as for the sun, moon and stars, Xu Guangqi could use a telescope to observe the solar eclipse, could it be that he didn't look at the moon a few times? It is estimated that Chang'e or something, she has already been stripped naked, and the secret of the sun, moon and stars can still be kept with this thing? It is said that Kepler has been dead for more than ten years, and Copernicus has been dead for a century.

This is indeed a shock to these Mengtongs who don't know anything, but compared to the elites of this era, this is already common sense.

Facing the constantly rotating globe, the first batch of college students of the Ming Dynasty listened to the hadith eagerly, they knew that the earth was round, and most of it was covered by the sea, and the Ming Dynasty only occupied a small part of the land, and the red-haired people they heard of were actually Portuguese, just 20,000 miles away from a small country not as big as Shandong Province, in addition to the Portuguese, there were also the Dutch who occupied Taiwan, and the Spaniards who occupied Luzon, all of which came from the land of Taixi far west of the Western Regions. Rafting tens of thousands of miles just for money.

As for the Western Regions sandwiched in the middle, they are all occupied by Muslim countries, the strongest of which is called the Ottoman, occupying the entire land of heaven, the Ottoman Emperor has millions of soldiers, and the territory is also not lost to the Ming Dynasty, and even the Taixi countries are afraid of its military might.

In the north of the Ming Dynasty, the Beihai area has also been occupied by the Rakshasa people.

Narakshasa was originally a small country, the land is not as big as the east of Hebei, hundreds of years to expand the territory, the land occupied has been more than twice the Ming Dynasty.

And in the east of the East China Sea, separated by the vast sea of 20,000 miles, there is a continent called Yinzhou, which is the residence of the Yin people who crossed to the east in those years, the place stretches for 30,000 miles from north to south, and the east and west also stretch for thousands of miles, but the Yin people did not retain the Chinese civilization after crossing to the east, and it has continued to this day and is no different from life. The Spanish who occupied Luzon already occupied almost half of Yinzhou, the Portuguese also owned a large area of land comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty, and other English, Dutch, and French people were all expanding their territory in Yinzhou, and tens of millions of Yin people fell under their butcher's knives.

"Aren't the kingdoms of Taixi occupying the entire earth?"

Li Shoufu said with a frown.

"Yes, with their navigation technology, they have spread all over the earth, destroyed countless countries in the South Sea, the Western coast, Yinzhou and other places, established countless military bases, plundered the property of the whole world and transported it back to their hometown, and the Dutch plundered millions of taels of property in Taiwan every year."

Yang Feng said.

This number caused an immediate wave of amazement.

"Originally, we could actually be the same as them, when Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, the Taixi countries had not even found a sea route to the Western Ocean, because there were hundreds of miles of land in the Heavenly Side, and their fleet had to go south for thousands of miles to bypass the land of Heiyi, but at that time they didn't know that there was this road, and it can be said that the entire South and Western Oceans were dominated by my Ming Dynasty. But it is a pity that after the death of Zheng He, because of many internal struggles, we ourselves stopped the march to the West, and the final result was that the Taixi countries took advantage of the weakness to enter, so that countless countries were destroyed, Luzon, Manraka, Java and countless other Nanyang countries that were subject to the Ming Dynasty have now been destroyed or conquered by the Taixi people.

And after dealing with them, the Tessie people finally began to set their greedy eyes on me, Daming.

Taiwan has been occupied by the Dutch, ten years ago the imperial court even fought with them in the Jinxia area, although the final victory of the imperial court to expel it, but the Dutch warships have far exceeded the warships of our Ming naval division. And that time was just their armed merchant ship, if it was their real naval warship, the victory or defeat was probably unpredictable, as far as I know, their huge warship can already carry hundreds of cannons, and even the castle can be shattered in a single shot.

My Daming is now also suffering from internal and external troubles, surrounded by strong enemies! ”

Yang Feng said with a sad face.

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