The Li family now has many ways to make money, and the speed of making money is very fast. But the Li family is still too weak now, and it is easy to make money and difficult to defend the family.

If Li Xiao doesn't work harder, then all this may end up just making wedding clothes for others.

It is precisely because of this that Li Xiao gave Xue Rengui the secret recipe for purification and decolorization of frosted sugar, and later pulled Cheng Xue and Liu Liu to make a medicine and wine workshop together, and after taking out the printing process, he also shared this valuable technology with the imperial court free of charge. Not only that, but now he is still holding the thighs of the emperor and the Wu family, so that he was scolded by them for being a traitor and villain, and even had to run to North Korea to be an official.

stayed in the countryside of Lanxi for two days, accompanied Wanniang well, and even went to Lanxi Academy to give a lecture for a day. The academy is now very popular, and there are many students, and the scale is getting bigger, and there are more than 30 teachers, with nearly 2,000 students.

This is the largest academy in the entire Lantian County, far exceeding the scale of the county school, which is only a few dozen students.

Li Xiao donated some books to the academy, and also set up a scholarship to reward those students who excelled in reading.

As the founder of the academy, Li Xiao still serves as the honorary head of the academy, but he no longer specifically manages the affairs of the academy, but completely handed over the academy to the mountain chief Yang Dayan. Old Master Yang is very dedicated, although he is now in charge of the affairs of the academy, he still insists on attending classes in person.

No matter the ups and downs outside, as long as Li Xiao can get the money, he will maintain the internal operation of this academy, so that the teachers can teach with peace of mind and the students can study quietly.

"There are a lot of good seedlings in the academy." Yang sighed with big eyes.

"Since they are good seedlings, then we will fully sponsor them to study, and the college can waive all their study fees and even give them scholarships. In the future, if they can be nominated for the imperial examination, it will also be worth it. ”

Li Xiao is much more tough now, when the academy was first opened, he didn't think that the students would be able to participate in the imperial examination in the future, but just wanted to teach the children in the township, so that they would have the opportunity to know a few more words and not be blind.

And now, he's even more ambitious.

He hopes that the children of the academy can go further, participate in the imperial examination in the future, be named on the gold list, and even become officials and herdsmen.

"I have only one request for the academy, I hope that the old master can keep in mind our original intention of running this academy. The academy is not just for the children who come in to take the imperial examination, that is one way, but not only this way. We should teach students according to their aptitude. Some children are suitable for the imperial examination, and they will participate in the imperial examination in the future. Some children may not have this talent, so we should cultivate their abilities in other aspects, such as some professional skills, maybe they can learn arithmetic, become a bookkeeper in the future, or they can learn clerical work, become a clerk in the future, or maybe they can learn painting, become a painter in the future, etc., or even become a professional craftsman, in fact, it is also good. ”

"I won't forget this, you said before that our academy doesn't teach nerds."

"That's right."

Yang Dayan smiled and said, "I will stick to this road, a hundred students, it may be suitable for a hundred roads, I will not take them only to take the single-plank bridge of the imperial examination." Saburo, there is another thing, now that there are more and more students in our academy, and there are many female students, I think the mixed class is not very good, and it is necessary to divide the class, especially the higher the class, the older the students are. ”

The old master proposed that he wanted to set up a special women's college, which was nothing.

After all, in this era, fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls have begun to get married and have children, if they study for a few more years, they are still in mixed classes in their teens, and it is indeed easy to have some problems.

In case of long-term love, early love and the like will be troublesome, especially if you secretly taste the forbidden fruit in private in case you are pregnant with a child, it is a big trouble.

"Isn't our college divided into a primary school and a secondary school, and the primary school can teach together regardless of gender. But in the middle school, it is necessary to separate the classes of men and women, and it is better to build a separate women's college on the side of the current college, and the content of the classes can be the same, but it must be separated from the male students, just in case. Teachers can also invite talented women, such as some old female officials who came out of the palace, it is good, for girls, in addition to teaching general courses, you can also appropriately add some etiquette and female celebrity courses. ”

"That's good, just do as you say." The old master was very supportive of Li Xiao's proposal.

Allowing women to study in the academy is already a lot ahead of the times, and Li Xiao didn't think about being too far ahead.

Half a step ahead of the times is a genius, and one step ahead is a madman.

After only two days in Lanxi, Li Xiao returned to Chang'an.

Wanniang still stayed in Lanxi, and her sister Zhen'er also stayed.

As soon as he returned to Chang'an, the Wu clan sent someone to summon him.

Chang'an, Taiji Palace, Lizheng Palace.

The Wu family has been enshrined as Concubine Chen, although she has not yet been canonized as the queen, but the emperor has already let her live in the Lizheng Palace.

The Lizheng Hall used to be the residence of Empress Changsun, and Empress Wang also lived here before, and moved here, which is one step closer to the position of the queen.

"Ruiqing, the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale you gave to Hong'er before is very good, Hong'er likes to listen to it very much. He used to be unable to sleep at night, but now every day before going to bed, I tell him a story, and he falls asleep, and he sleeps well at night. ”

Wu Shi hugged Li Hong in his arms and looked at Li Xiao with a smile, "Who is that Hans Christian Andersen, the story is well written, although it is simple and straightforward, it is indeed suitable for children." ”

"Oh, that Hans Christian Andersen seems to be a Tessie man, this book was purchased by the minister from a merchant in the Western Regions, if His Royal Highness the Acting King likes to listen to it, the minister will look for this kind of story next time, if he can collect it, he will definitely give it to His Highness."

Today's Li Xiao is very serious, and in the face of the Wu family, who has already taken the position of Concubine Chen, Li Xiao really doesn't dare to have any other thoughts.

This woman is one step closer to becoming the person in history. And in this step, there is a lot of credit for him.

Wu stroked the back of the king and watched her fall asleep in his arms, "It's a pity that you are going to Baekje." ”

Li Xiao smiled.

"You don't have to think about anything else, Your Majesty asked you to go to Baekje, in fact, he is also protecting you, you have offended too many people recently, it's okay to go out, and when the wind calms down, Your Majesty will transfer you back again." And with the qualifications of the assassin place, your career will be smoother and smoother in the future. ”

"Thank you, mother."

"After you leave, I will take care of your wife and sister for you, don't worry. I am a person who is grateful for your kindness to our mother and son, and I will not forget it. Wu said again.

"Thank you, mother." There are some things that don't need to be said, as long as everyone can understand them. Anyway, Li Xiao will be a member of the Wu clan in the future, which is also something that everyone knows.

Wu said that he would take care of his family for him, and Li Xiao believed it.

Still, he took out the gifts he had prepared, a few bottles of perfume and soap.

"This smell is very good, I like it very much, thank you for the gift." Wu picked out a perfume he liked, opened it and smelled it, and said with a smile.

"It's good if Niangniang likes it, and when I leave Beijing, I hope Niangniang can choose some people to help manage the perfume and soap workshop." As a reward, Li Xiao took out the shares of Sancheng Workshop and gave them to the Wu family.

Wu smiled and didn't say anything, neither refused, nor too little, she actually didn't care much about how much this workshop could be worth, but was satisfied with Li Xiao's statement of complete refuge.

"You can leave without worry, if you have anything outside, you can write to me directly." Wu Promise.