Time passed slowly, and when the people learned that the imperial court was going to set up a school for children to study for free, they were excited!

"The king is worthy of being a saint, read for free!"

"I heard that it will be set up in the county town for the time being, but no, I have to sell the land, go to the county town to settle down, buy a little land, and accompany my son to study!"

"No, is it necessary to sell the property?"

"It's not necessary yet? In case my son is famous for his studies, becomes an official, or becomes a teacher in the future, what is this loss, and I didn't also say that I sold my family's land and bought it next to the county town! ”

"Makes sense, I'll go too!"

Wei Li didn't know that because of the temporary establishment of a school in the county town, the land next to the county town doubled, and two acres of land were sold in exchange for one acre of land next to the county town, but for these, the people didn't care at all, thinking that as long as they could let their children study, this loss was nothing.

After receiving the edict of the imperial court, the county guards at all levels immediately recruited coolies and built schools, and Meng Ge was also busy going to the Han Kingdom to recruit scribes who were proficient in Wei Wen, and offered a high salary of one hundred taels a year to attract scribes to join the Wei State, and at the same time increase the influence of Wei Wen.

The people are happy, the scribes are also happy, Wei Li is uncomfortable, although he has been praised by the people again, but there are also a lot of losses!

The entire Wei State has 27 counties in three states, counting the state capital, it is necessary to build 30 schools, and a school to build, which costs 50 taels of silver, can accommodate 100 children to study, 100 children, it is impossible for each person to write a bamboo slip a day, an average of one bamboo slip per person for three days, one bamboo slip for three days, 360 days a year, that is, 120 bamboo slips, and 12,000 bamboo slips for 100 people.

According to the market price, a school will cost 120,000 copper coins just to buy bamboo slips a year, plus brushes, about 150,000 yuan, and 30 schools, which is 4.5 million copper coins, which is 45,000 taels of silver.

A school needs three teachers, one hundred taels a year, a school pays three hundred taels a year, and thirty is nine thousand taels.

Thirty academies cost a total of 54,000 taels of silver to the imperial court every year!

Fifty-four thousand, very little, but if it is popularized throughout the country, the cost is not ordinarily large, you know, a school can only accommodate a hundred children, and hundreds of thousands of children in the entire Wei country, if this is popularized, how much will it cost, so Wei Li said take your time, you can't rush, and the treasury will be empty in a hurry.

Time passed slowly, the Wei State has been peaceful, busy with construction and education, the army is also under the training of Gu Wu and Bailihong, gradually formed, and the number of new troops has also increased from 150,000 to 180,000, the cavalry is only 80,000, and the rest are all crossbowmen.

With the addition of 90,000 old troops, that is 270,000 troops, 270,000 troops plus 80,000 war horses, the daily consumption of 5,000 stones, ten days is 50,000 stones, a month is 150,000 stones, plus palace maids, thousands of cow guards, eunuchs, 50,000 prisoners of hard work, the mountains and mountains of silver and copper mines, a month to consume about 170,000 stones!

The monthly consumption of the Wei State is relative to the annual consumption of an ordinary earl country!

In the sixteenth year of Zhengyun, August 1st!

In half a year, the new army expanded to 200,000, most of which had been training day and night for more than a year, Wei Li ordered, so Gu Wu led 80,000 Xuanwei cavalry, Bailihong 120,000 crossbowmen to Wanshanling, and the 10,000 Changge soldiers who were originally stationed in the camp also returned to Wang Han's Dashanling military camp.

At the same time, stop recruiting!

In eight months, all state capitals and county towns have also established schools, and schools have been opened, as for the expansion of Tianjing City, it is still continuing, and even half of the project has not been completed.

In these months, Wei Ya also spent 800,000 stone of grain, and now the state treasury has 113.2 million stones, 30,000 taels of gold, 60 million taels of silver, and 116 million copper coins.

There are five copper mines, three iron mines, three silver mines, and two gold mines in the system space.

On this day, Wei Li took Si Zhong and Zhao Hua and other 100,000 Niu Wei to travel for two days and came to the Dashanling Silver and Copper Mine.

"The last general, Wang Han, meet the king!" Wang Han knelt on one knee with a respectful expression and shouted!

"We meet the king!" Wang Han's commanders and generals all knelt down on one knee and shouted.

Wei Li was wearing civilian clothes, wearing a hairpin crown on his head, and wearing a black hat on his feet, riding on a high-headed war horse, seeing Wang Han and the others saluting, a faint smile appeared on his face, and he raised his hand softly in a gentle tone and said softly: "Flat!" ”

"Thank you, the king!" All the generals thanked each other and stood up to greet them!

Wei Li jumped off his horse and walked towards the silver and copper mine in Dashanling, and said with his hands behind his hands as he walked: "These days, no one has broken into the silver and copper mine, right?" ”

Wang Han followed behind Wei Li, listened to Wei Li's question, and immediately replied respectfully: "No, the people know that this is a forbidden place in the army, and they have never stepped into it, but the matter of silver and copper mines has been introduced, and paper can't hold the fire!" ”

There are a large number of horse-drawn carts carrying ore out here every day, and it is impossible to hide it at all.

Wei Ya nodded, not unexpectedly, continued to walk inward, walked for a while, Wei Ya came to the silver mining area, where it was in full swing, tens of thousands of people shirtless, wearing obscene pants, holding tools to beat the bottom, some people specialized in beating ore, some people specialized in carrying, each performing its own duties, in an orderly manner.

"Hurry up, hurry up, what are you doing!"

"Where to shut up, talk less, do more!"

These people are not easy to work, while busy working, while suffering from the scolding of the officers and soldiers, now here are either the exterminated monarchs and nobles, or prisoners of war, and the recruited people have already let them go home, because they are not needed.

"Who's the mine official's order!" Si Zhong suddenly screamed, and the voice was very loud.

Many prisoners of war heard the voice, subconsciously looked up, when they saw Wei Li, they all showed a look of awe, and those princes and nobles couldn't help but show a look of panic, at this time, a thin middle-aged man in a black official uniform bent over and hurriedly ran, with a flattering look on his face and ran to Wei Li, knelt down on one knee and arched his hand and said: "Xiaguan and mine official Ling He Cheng, meet the king!" ”

"He Cheng?" Wei Li raised an eyebrow.

When He Cheng heard this, he hurriedly said loudly: "Brother Xiaguan is He Qiu!" ”

Wei Ya opened his mouth, stopped talking, and said, "Is there enough silver and copper production here?" Will it be depleted? ”

"The king laughed, how can there be a mine that will not be exhausted, but with the current situation, it will be depleted for at least five years!" After He Cheng finished laughing, he was still flattering.

Wei Li nodded with satisfaction, he was testing him when he asked him just now, wanting to see if He Qiu had any nepotism and find a waste to be a mine official.