Ma Xiuying's reminder made Chang Meirong uneasy, and suddenly heard that Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly sent a decree to summon Ma Xiuying, and his heart even raised his throat, and he subconsciously grabbed Ma Xiuying's hand, and said in a panic: "Queen Mother?"

"Don't worry, the queen mother is fine. Ma Xiuying didn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang was anxious to see her, she hadn't done anything to anger Zhu Yuanzhang recently, so she went to the imperial study with Zhao Cheng with two words to appease Chang Meirong.

On the way, Xun Ying inquired: "Does Manager Zhao know what happened to the emperor and the queen?"

Zhao Cheng looked at his nose and his nose, and replied seriously: "The shadow girl forgives me, but the slave doesn't know." ”

He hated Ma Xiuying for supporting Liang Min to oppose him, although his attitude was respectful, he actually refused to reveal his tone at all.

Ma Xiuying glanced at Zhao Cheng lightly, the chief eunuch didn't seem to take her as the queen in his eyes. In the past, these eunuchs would compete without Xun Ying opening their mouths, knowing everything and saying everything, it would definitely not be like now, Xun Ying took the initiative to ask and hit a soft nail. Thinking of Zhao Cheng's courteous and careless attitude in the past and his current rigid and blunt attitude, she couldn't help frowning slightly.

Feng Yu quickly carried him to the imperial study and entered the house, and before Ma Xiuying could give a salute, Zhu Yuanzhang asked directly: "I heard that you let a few palace people out of the palace?"

"The concubine has told the emperor before, and in order to congratulate the prince's newlywed concubine, he is going to send a group of palace people. Ma Xiuying's eyebrows moved, the news spread so fast, not long after the Yang family's daughters were let go, Zhu Yuanzhang knew.

"But you didn't tell me that it was the Yang family's criminal maid!" Zhu Yuanzhang was dissatisfied, he only formulated the crime of Yang Xian and his family on his side, and turned his head to let Ma Xiuying release the person, wouldn't he ignore his verdict.

"Is it?" Ma Xiuying simply pretended to be stupid, "No one told the concubine that those palace people were the Yang family's criminal maids, and the concubine saw that they were behaving well in the palace and were not young, so they let them out." There were also two or three small palace concubines who couldn't pick their shoulders or lift their hands, and they would only eat idle meals if they stayed in the palace, so they simply sent them out together. In the future, we still have to set rules in the palace, we can't recruit palace people who are too young to do miscellaneous labor, and the concubines have to work, how can these palace people be more idle than the concubines......"

Zhu Yuanzhang choked, the harem was not allowed to participate in court politics, Ma Xiuying insisted that he didn't know that those palace people were the Yang family's criminal maids. Although he knew that Ma Xiuying was quibbling, he couldn't point it out.

Ma Xiuying looked aggrieved, "I don't know who told the emperor this, the concubine is in charge of the harem, can't you let a few palace people out? Even if they are the sinful maids of the Yang family, the emperor can give amnesty to the world, why can't you give them a chance to rebirth? It was Yang Xian who committed the crime, these women were just attached to Yang Xian, and they didn't do anything to damage the court and the country." ”

"Of course you are the queen. Zhu Yuanzhang was very embarrassed to be asked, thinking about it, he can forgive anyone who is a traitor, why bother with a few women. He changed the topic and said, "When I returned from my inspection of Taixue today, there are thousands of Taixue students in Guozijian. ”

In the second year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to the world that all counties and counties needed to set up schools. In accordance with the system of the previous dynasty, he set up the highest institution of learning and educational administration in the capital - Guozi Xue, whose predecessor was Ying Tianfu School.

The school building is located at the foot of Jiming Mountain, and later changed to a prison, so it is also called Guozijian. Specially recruit outstanding students from all over the country, set up sacrificial wine, business and supervisors, doctors, teaching assistants, Xuezheng, Xuelu, books and other officials, set up six halls for lectures, divided into scriptures, righteousness, governance and two fasting teaching, and strive to apply it to the world.

Ma Xiuying accepted it when she saw it, and complimented Zhu Yuanzhang's words: "The emperor has blessed the common people and recruited talents for the imperial court. The country is full of talents, and they will be the pillars of the country in the future. ”

"I hope that these students will be worthy of the official uniforms they wear in the future when they become localities. Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, in addition to screening talents for the country, he also meant to replace the old ministers in the future. After all, these prisoners are personally approved by him and supported by the imperial court, and they are considered his protégés. The protégé of the Son of Heaven naturally disdained to be involved with other parties, so as to consolidate his power.

Ma Xiuying was more concerned about the living conditions of these prisoners, and asked: "I heard that during the period when the students were studying, only they could receive a meager living allowance, so what did their families rely on to support them?"

The main sources of prisoners are divided into four types: first, the righteous prisoners selected from all over the country for further study; second, the children of Beijing officials above the third rank or the children of the emperor's favor to enter the prison; third, the children of the Tusi of various domains and foreign students; and the fourth is the most unpopular donation prisoners, nominal prisoners, which means that as long as they pay enough money, they can receive a "prison license", which is similar to the high-priced students in Ma Xiuying's previous life.

There is no way, Zhu Yuanzhang is short of silver, so he has to use this method to open up sources and reduce expenditure, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat, those rich people are willing to spend a lot of money to send their sons to school, which can not only promote the style of study, but also make the country full, why not do it.

Ma Xiuying asked about the living conditions of the first type of prisoner. In ancient times, there was no age limit for taking the Xiucai examination, some prodigies could be selected at the age of ten, and some people were gray-haired and still ploughing. Ordinary people in the examination are all adults and wives, they can study and have state allowances when they enter the national prison, and there is no problem in supporting themselves, but their wives and children and parents have no one to support and take care of them.

Zhu Yuanzhang was asked, he only cared about the study and life of the prisoners, how could he have time to worry about their family situation.

Ma Xiuying suggested: "Character and then know, know and then sincerity, sincerity and then heart, heart and then body cultivation, body cultivation and then family Qi, family Qi and then national governance, national governance and then world peace." The concubine thought that she wanted to let these students not worry about family trivialities in order to focus on their studies, so the concubine implored the emperor to allocate a special amount of money to take care of the students' families. ”

"Subsidizing the life of the students, the household department has complained a lot, if you still have to take care of their families, I am afraid that the treasury does not have so many silver taels. Zhu Yuanzhang showed a look of embarrassment on his face, Ma Xiuying's words made sense, but the country was poor, otherwise how could he allow the phenomenon of donating prisons.

Ma Xiuying rolled her eyes, "The prince received a lot of congratulatory gifts for his wedding, and the concubine can solve this dilemma by exchanging these congratulatory gifts for silver taels." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, "You don't even let go of your son's belongings, and besides, the prince's congratulatory gift is just a drop in the bucket." That's it, that's it, you go to my private treasury and get some silver taels. ”

"The emperor has all his might, and the prince should not refuse. Ma Xiuying made a decision for her son. She plans to use the money to take care of the families of the inmates, and to set up a scholarship system to encourage these students to pursue a rigorous curriculum.

Zhu Biao, who was reading, suddenly sneezed. It looks like the weather is getting cooler, and I need to add clothes.