Life must go on, and the living cannot continue to grieve for the dead.

The end of the year is coming,

In previous years, during the Chinese New Year, the people were unable to continue, and they were worried about what to eat. The officials trembled, for fear that if the benefits were less, they would provoke Zhu Wen's wolf-like subordinates to have no good fruits to eat next year.

This year is different, the people have stored grain, and every household has its own Yongye field. Officials no longer need to walk on thin ice, this year is the happiest and most lively New Year.

Luoyang City is brightly lit, and the night market is still crowded when it is ugly.

More and more loans were issued by Kaiyuan Cabinet Workshop, and Cabinet Workshop finally began to make a profit. This interest alone has reached hundreds of thousands of yuan a month.

Kaiyuan Cabinet has also introduced a series of preferential loan policies, and for the people who have loans for agriculture, water conservancy, scientific and technological inventions, etc., the cabinet has a three-year interest-free loan.

Of course, Li Ji will not make a loss-making transaction, and the three-year interest-free loan is for the economic recovery of Datang. The people can take out interest-free loans, and the money needs to be discounted by the household, and the cabinet shop will still make a steady profit.

Many cloth, tea, and porcelain shop owners also made a lot of money.

When the country has money, it can stimulate the economy, and Li Ji has continuously introduced a series of measures to benefit the people. This is also a very good policy in modern times.

For example, persuade the class to teach agriculture. All peasant households that grow cotton, oil, hemp, and mulberry are exempted from taxation, and this has greatly increased the enthusiasm of the people.

With a light tax, the people of Luoyang City will no longer be bankrupt because they can't pay taxes, and the situation of their wives being separated will not recur.

Instead, many people who could not survive flocked to the city. Luoyang City has been further expanded and gradually become a world-class metropolis.

But then there were more and more government affairs, and Li Ji found that the consequences of too rapid economic development were also very serious.

First of all, there is the problem of talent, which cannot be avoided, and it cannot be solved in a short period of time or two.

After years of war, the literati and writers who stood on the prosperous Tang Dynasty were rare. Illiterate, accounting for the majority.

Li Ji has not done statistics, but he dares to say that there may not be one literate person in a hundred people.

Education reform is imperative!

But education is the most money-burning thing, and the country can only greatly promote education if it has considerable economic strength. But without education, the country cannot develop, and no matter how poor it is, it cannot be poor in education, and it is true that there is nothing wrong with this.

Zhu Youneng is more depressed, and Li Ji is about to marry a wife. Du Fangying seems to be far away from herself recently, and she asked her to go to the night market several times, but she missed the appointment on the grounds that she was busy.

Zhu Youneng felt that he was about to fall out of love, and he had nowhere to talk, so he had to come to the palace with a cheeky face to ask Li Ji for help.

Fortunately, as the end of the year approaches, it's almost time to be busy. In addition to waiting for the canonization ceremony of the eighth day of the first month, Li Ji was relatively leisurely, so he met him.

When meeting the loser, Li Ji abandoned the left and right, leaving only promising and blessed, so that both sides were much more comfortable.

Zhu Youneng cried with a sad face: "Brother Li save me."

Li Ji couldn't help laughing: "You lawless guy, who dares to provoke you in the entire capital, I can't save you." If you are a traitor and do something against the law, I can't save you, so let Dali Temple clean you up. ”

"I haven't said anything yet, you can't save me?" Zhu Youneng asked with a wink.

"What's the matter?" Li Ji had no choice but to ask.

"Yes, Miss Du. Since the last time I told her that Zhang Fakui, the bastard's youngest son, liked her, she didn't pay much attention to me. Zhu Youneng was a little depressed, in terms of dealing with feelings, he was no different from an ordinary lovelorn young man.

"This, Brother Zhu, why didn't Miss Du ignore you?" Li Ji asked, in dealing with this kind of thing, Li Ji is not much better than him.

"She, she's just busy, I'll send Wangcai to go to the girl who came to Fengju to meet with Miss Du. The maid said that Miss Du has been very busy these days and can't get out. That ......" Zhu Youneng was a little embarrassed, after all, this is a matter of two people.

He and Du Fangying were in contact through their servants, for example, the two of them made an appointment to go to the night market together tonight. It was Wangcai and Du Fangying's maid who met in Laifengju, and the two parties agreed on a time.

Although Datang is open, this lonely man and widow can't always go to the county lord's mansion to find Du Fangying every time.

"She didn't say why she was busy?" Li Ji asked.

"Well, I haven't heard of it." Zhu Youneng scratched his head.

Li Ji was angry: "You didn't fucking ask people why they were busy, so you think people don't care about you?" It just so happens that there is nothing to do today, so I will accompany you out to find her to ask for clarification. ”

Zhu Youneng was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay, well, with Brother Li, a wise star, I won't worry."

Out of the palace, Li Ji brought Fuquan and Xiao Nuoyan, the general of Jin Wuwei. He found more and more that this Xiao Promise was a good hand at being a guard, first of all, his kung fu was stronger than Zhang Mao's others, and he was careful.

If you are promising, you will stay in the palace, and you can't always take promising, so that Fuquan, the second shortage, can stay at home.

Fu Quanlang can't do it, he can finally follow him out of the palace: "Youwei, I'm leaving."

"Well, you get out." There is no way to be angry.

"Get out of here." Fuquan likes this kind of curse with jealousy, swaggering his arms, arrogantly following behind Li Ji, and not forgetting to turn around and make a face to Youwei when he walked away, Youwei was doubly angry.

The mansion of the lord of Pingyang County can be regarded as luxurious in the capital. When Li Ji and Zhu Youneng came, they heard the laughter of the children inside.

Zhu Youneng was a little embarrassed, he wanted to knock on the door but didn't want to knock on this door. The angry Li Ji dragged him aside, and he knocked on the door of the county lord's mansion with a loud bang.

"Brother Li, be quiet." Zhu Youneng was not happy, it was very much like knocking on a widow's door.

After all, there is only one county lord, and it is a little inappropriate for these two big men to knock on someone's door.

"What are you doing, you don't dare to knock you, then only I came." As he spoke, the door opened.

It was not the servant who opened the door, it was Du Fangying. She saw Li Ji stunned slightly, and then saw Zhu Youneng behind Li Ji, her face turned red.

Zhu Youneng, an idiot, looked left and right without taste, but he didn't dare to look at Du Fangying. Seeing his stupid appearance, Du Fangying couldn't help but laugh again.

This was a clever girl, and she guessed that it must have been the snub of him these days, and he went to the emperor in a hurry.

"Oh, Miss Du, Brother Zhu and I are passing by here. I'm a little thirsty, can I come in and ask for a cup of tea? Without waiting for Du Fangying to speak, Li Ji spoke.

"Oh, Your Majesty, please come inside, I, I'm looking for you." Du Fangying hurriedly opened the door.

Then Li Ji and Zhu Youneng were stunned, the yard was full of children, and then there was a teacher holding a book and shaking his head and reading there.

"This is ......," Li Ji looked at the children.

Du Fangying smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, I'm bored when I'm idle at home." In the past, when I was wandering outside, I saw many wandering children like me, and they all had no parents. I, I wanted to gather them in the house, and I invited a gentleman to teach them to read and write. ”

As soon as he heard that it was this, Zhu Youneng was immediately happy, and he rushed to the front: "So, you, you have been busy with this for the past few days?"

Du Fangying glanced at him: "Otherwise, Master Zhu is only busy making money, and I don't have the time to tell you."

Zhu Youneng immediately got embarrassed again: "That, that's a good thing." Kaifang, yes, Kaixuetang, Brother Li, should we sponsor it? ”

Li Ji was a little angry, my damn money is all with you, and you still ask me?

Unexpectedly, Du Fangying shook her head: "No need, the court can't use up the money I gave me." It won't cost you so much to keep for these children, but Your Majesty, I want to tell you one thing. ”

Li Ji already felt that he owed them the Du family, but when he heard Du Fangying's request, he couldn't ask for it: "Miss Du, you say, I promise to do it for you."

"That's the case," Du Fangying paused: "At present, most of the displaced people resettled in Beicheng are illiterate, can Your Majesty set up a school in Beicheng in the name of the imperial court." Let the children of those displaced people also be able to read and reason, and maybe they can also make a contribution to Datang in the future. ”

Li Ji glared at Zhu Youneng: "Listen, listen, everyone can have this awareness." Can we not support it? After speaking, he turned his head and said to Du Fangying: "Miss Du and I want to go together, and I have discussed this matter with the ministers in the court in the past few days. Miss Du, don't worry, I will definitely open a school in the north city, not only in the north city, but also in the east city, the west city and the south city, I will open a school. In the future, as long as it is my Datang land, there will be a free school in each county, so that children can afford to go to school. ”

Du Fangying was taken aback, and then Yingying bowed: "It turns out that Your Majesty has already had this intention, but I got an axe in this class." Your Majesty is kind and generous, no wonder the people praise you. ”

Li Ji was overjoyed and hurriedly helped her up: "What are the people boasting about?"

Du Fangying smiled slightly: "They all say that Your Majesty is a good emperor, since Your Majesty has been in power, the people have been able to eat and clothe, and they all say that Your Majesty is the true dragon in the sky."

As an emperor, Li Ji heard a lot of sycophants. What Yao Shunyu soup is an emperor through the ages, he is annoyed to hear it. Only Du Fangying's words made him overjoyed, this is the evaluation of the people of Luoyang City.

Li Ji didn't expect the people to praise himself so much, he was a little fluttering: "That Brother Zhu, I suddenly remembered that there are still government affairs in the palace to be busy, so I won't accompany you." You stay here to discuss with Miss Du, don't you also support the opening of the school. When the imperial court's schools in the capital are opened, it is indispensable to ask Brother Zhu, a rich man, to sponsor it. The life of these people is still very hard, and all schoolchildren are admitted to school free of charge. It is funded by the imperial court, but after all, the imperial court has limited ability, so you rich people have to be counted on to sponsor it. ”

Zhu Youneng suddenly understood one thing, Li Ji agreed to accompany him out of the palace so happily, was he premeditated.

Did he already know that Du Fangying had opened a school, so he deliberately attracted himself so that he could agree to contribute in front of Miss Du?

Looking at Li Ji's smiling expression, the more Zhu Youneng thought about it, the more he felt that he had been fooled. What's worse is that this pit was dug out by himself and then jumped down, not only jumping, but also head-down.

Du Fangying was looking at herself in a daze, and just now she also let out her words, saying that she wanted to sponsor a sponsorship.

It was difficult to ride a tiger, and Zhu Youneng had to reluctantly squeeze out a smile: "Sponsorship, sponsorship." What do we make so much money for, is so that the next generation of children can read more books and be literate and reasonable. Brother Li rest assured, as long as the court opens the school, brother, I will contribute as much as I want, and how much money I have! ”

Li Ji clenched his fists: "So there is Brother Lao Zhu, I'll go first." Fuquan, go, go back to the palace. ”

Zhu You can feel that his heart is dripping blood...... My money, my little money......

PS: Thank you for the reward from the helmsman Arash, plus more owe it in advance, these two days have been busy.