For Zhu Zilong's plan to make Zhujiazhuang, most of the tens of thousands of people under his name, and even all of them in the future, be literate.

As a traditional scholar and landlord of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Jingzheng instinctively had an opposition in his bones. However, now Zhujiazhuang is not up to him, and making money depends on Zhu Zilong's face.

Thinking about it again, there are more literate people, and it is easy to grow a business, which seems to be beneficial, so he struggled.

If you think about it carefully, who will turn to something else before the vast majority of scholars have no hope of fame? These people who have read a belly of four books and five classics are definitely not in line with the current management of these businesses.

If it's just to cultivate literacy, it seems that there is nothing impossible, just Zhu Zilong said to let women be gentlemen.

If it's just done internally, outsiders don't seem to be able to make irresponsible remarks, as if a marquis did this, and if you say irresponsible things, it is likely to be dead.

After clearing doubts in his mind, Zhang Jingzheng nodded in agreement.

"Running a school is a good thing, what are you going to do? How do you set the time? Zhang Jingzheng asked.

"I'm going to build a big school, and I'm going to put it in Zhujiazhuang. It's called "New Oriental College"! All children in or around Zhuangzi, under the age of 16 and over the age of six, both male and female, must be sent to the school to be literate. Zhu Zilong was thick-skinned, opened his mouth to answer plagiarism, and used the name of the New Oriental College in the modern 21st century.

It's just that as soon as Zhu Zilong's words came out, Zhang Jingzheng shook his head and explained:

"The nephew of the four seas did this, it seems that this matter is too urgent. It is a question, not to mention that a woman is not talented is a virtue, and the co-educational move is not advisable. It is easy to cause disputes and trouble. In addition, the children of Zhuang Min are six or seven years old, and they have long been working in the fields with their parents. This is especially true during the busy farming season, they all go to literacy, who is the delay in farm work? ”

Hearing Zhang Jingzheng's words, Zhu Zilong pondered.

Indeed, he found himself taking something too seriously. The Ming Dynasty is different from the modern side of the 21st century, and in the later generations, 6-year-old children are required to play happily and go to school every day. But in the Ming Dynasty, when they had to get married and have children at the age of twelve or thirteen, children at the age of five or six could no longer be regarded as children, but half adults. Even if this statement feels very in Zhu Zilong's heart, it is true!

They have to work in the fields with their parents or do other things, and they don't have much time to go to school wholeheartedly.

You let them all come to their "New Oriental College" to learn literacy, who will help with the work in the field?

Almost every servant in Zhujiazhuang rented and planted in Zhu Zilong's name, only twenty or thirty acres of land, but this TM is twenty or thirty acres.

You can recall that if you helped your family work in the fields when you were a child, did you feel that your waist was broken after you were tired of an acre of land?

In this era, there was no mechanized equipment to help, and twenty or thirty acres of land, relying on the two parents, was indeed exhausting, no wonder children of a few years old had to come up to help.

Zhu Zilong touched his chin, thinking that it seemed unrealistic to run a formal 21st century-style school. In that case, let's settle for the next best thing and run a part-time literacy class first.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zilong's mind turned, and he had a new idea, and he opened his mouth and said, "What Uncle Zhang said is reasonable, you might as well be so." In the future, the school-age children in the village help their parents work every morning and go to the school in the afternoon to learn how to read. Well, classes are also held in the evening, and it is all up to me to come or not. In order to encourage parents to send their children to school, those who send their children to the school to learn literacy will have their land rent reduced to 1/2%, and the literacy child's three meals a day will also be included. ”

"Half of the ground rent? Will it be too little? Also 3 meals? Zhang Jingzheng was surprised, and her mouth opened wide.

In this era, black-hearted landlords collected as much as eighty percent of the rent, and ordinary landlords and officials also collected about fifty percent. Zhu Zilong is only going to receive one and a half percent, this is the case. Khan, when he spreads the word, everyone will say that he is a fool.

That's not how good people deserve to lose their money!

Zhu Zilong obviously understood Zhang Jingzheng's thoughts, and said with a smile at the corner of his mouth: "Uncle Zhang, how much grain does an acre of other people's land produce, and how much grain does an acre of land in my Zhujiazhuang produce?" Even if I don't open a literacy school, I want to reduce it to 20% or 30%. Give some discounts now, and have a few more literate helpers in the future, and I will still earn it! ”

The so-called authorities are fascinated, as soon as Zhu Zilong's words came out, Zhang Jingzheng came back to his senses.

I thought, yes, it is said that in the field of Zhujiazhuang, it will be planted with auspicious and high-yield grain in the future. That is, the yield per mu is only 1,000 catties or more.

In the land of other places in the Ming Dynasty, even if it is a first-class fertile land, it can only be four and a half catties of grain per mu, and the gap is too big. On average, the fields in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty are calculated, and the yield per mu is at most three or four hundred catties!

Other landlords collect 50% of the rent, but they only get less than 200 catties of grain per mu. However, Zhu Zilong's Zhujiazhuang, because the yield per mu is 1000-2000 catties, only 1/2 percent of the rent is calculated, but the rent per mu is still as high as more than 400-500 catties of grain.

It seems that one and a half percent is much less than the more than fifty percent of the rent of other landlords, but the rent of grain collected at home is still more than that of other families.

This is the difference, it is completely incomparable to other people in the world!

Xiangrui is auspicious, which can be done by ordinary people. Now the seeds of Xiangrui are limited, and the emperor personally ordered to try to plant near Zhujiazhuang and Shandong. This is a huge advantage, Shandong will not lack food in the future, and even become the new land of fish and rice in the Ming Dynasty NO1!

It's just that other landlords' families are set at fifty percent of the rent, and Zhu Zilong's rent is set at twenty percent and one and a half percent, will it cause public outrage?

Zhang Jingzheng thought of this, and suddenly laughed at himself again.

What are you afraid of, Zhu Zilong is now rightly favored, and he is the Hou Ye again, and he has soldiers in his hands. Public outrage or something, don't care about it at all!

As long as Zhu Zilong himself is willing, he is rent-free, and no one else can say anything, this is a case.

"Generally, the domestic servant's family rents 20 percent and a half, and those who send their children to the school to learn to read, or come to learn by themselves, will be reduced to 20 percent of the rent, and if the whole family comes to read, it will be reduced to 1 and a half percent. In the future, I will have to build more workshops, and without literate workers, everything will be slow. I don't have to worry about running out of food at all! Zhu Zilong waved his hand and said very firmly.

After listening to this, Zhang Jingzheng smiled bitterly and didn't say anything more. But I have so much admiration for Zhu Zilong in my heart!

That night, Zhu Zilong's new notice officially appeared, on the various propaganda walls of Zhujiazhuang.

As soon as the literate people explained this, the onlookers blew up at once, and knelt on the ground on the spot, saying that they would set up a longevity card at home, kowtow every day, and thank Hou Ye for his great kindness.

Twenty percent or one and a half percent of the rent, and also sell at a low price or give away part of the auspicious seeds, this is the rebirth of parents!

For a time, many people's faces were full of tears. They all said that they must send their sons and daughters to "New Oriental College" to learn literacy!

When everyone heard that the next day, Zhu Zilong, the dragon marquis of the four seas, would also give seeds and pray to the heavens on the spot. The people of Zhujiazhuang, who had finished kowtowing, hurriedly went home to prepare.

In ancient times, worshipping the heavens and praying for blessings was a major event in the eyes of the people. It is also a must-do in the eyes of officials, so as to put on a coat of "acting on behalf of heaven" for themselves, so as to better control the people.

And for Zhu Zilong, this is also the best opportunity and necessary procedure for him to build momentum and show off! (To be continued.) )