Chapter 257 on the idea of the academy
The prince was really bored in the East Palace, and coupled with the estrangement between him and the queen, he wanted to go outside the palace to relax.
Unexpectedly, the emperor actually agreed to his request.
"It's good to go out of town and relax!" With Li Ling looking at the crown prince, the emperor was very relieved of his son's safety.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, let the minions go out of the city with you!" Liu Jin said flatteringly.
Liu Jin's life was not easy, when the queen targeted the prince that day, he, a close attendant, did not speak out, but Li Ling, a foreign minister, solved the siege for the prince.
In the past few days, the prince has been ignoring him, and he has become more and more unfamiliar with Liu Jin.
"Forget it, I want to be alone and clean!" The crown prince rejected Liu Jin and went out of the city alone.
Li Lingzhen didn't expect the emperor to release the crown prince from the palace.
He hurriedly took out cold wine and barbecue to entertain the prince.
The prince came to relieve the bitterness in his heart, and he didn't care what kind of food Li Ling would use to entertain him.
But the prince soon discovered something that interested him: "You mean, your three crops are really that amazing?" Can the yield per mu of each crop reach more than 1,000 catties? ”。
Although he does not divide the grains, he also knows that the current crop yield is only a few hundred catties, and if the output can be doubled, the world is afraid that there will be no famine.
"The guards who went to the Franc machine to trade have inquired clearly, these three crops are indeed very high, but they are all coarse grains, but I am afraid that they cannot completely replace rice and flour!" Li Ling did not hide all the advantages and disadvantages of the three crops, and he believed that it would not be long before these words reached the ears of the emperor.
"It's so magical, I'm going to see it!" The prince said curiously.
He is also a resolute person, and he does what he says, and after lunch, he asked Li Ling to take him to the field to have a look.
"The prince should be careful, this land is too close to the mountains and forests, and there are often wild beasts infested, you must be more careful."
The prince is also a playful person, and he proposes an embarrassing thing to Li Ling, and the prince wants to go and see it alone.
The three crops are everywhere in the area where they are tended, so there is no problem.
Li Ling thought for a moment and then agreed to the prince's request.
The prince walked in the fields alone, there were indeed too many things happening during this time, he really wanted to be clean by himself!
A wild boar suddenly swooped down from the mountain, presumably alarmed by a tenant hunting in the mountain.
The wild boar rushed straight down, and in a blink of an eye it was in front of the prince.
When the prince suddenly looked up, he found the wild boar and was very frightened. He panicked and stepped into the sweet potato field.
At this time, the wild boar also spotted the prince, and after a moment of pause, it continued to swoop.
Under the urgency of the situation, the prince suddenly remembered what Li Ling had said, these crops were more valuable than human life.
He hurried back onto the road.
The wild boar was getting closer and closer to the prince, and the thirteen-year-old boy was frightened.
"Moo".
A cow crowed in the distance, and a little shepherd boy drove two old oxen over.
The wild boar was frightened, glanced at the two huge cattle behind the prince, and then turned and ran.
"This son, these crops are all treasures, Li Tanhua said, no one is allowed to damage these crops for any reason!"
The shepherd boy was younger than the prince, and after a quick conversation with the prince, he drove the oxen to chase the wild boar.
Obviously, he didn't want to let the boar go.
The shepherd boy played the flute behind the oxen, and the two oxen followed tighter.
The sound of the flute is melodious, and it is even louder between the mountains and fields, and from time to time there are shepherd boys leading cattle to come and meet.
The shepherd boys connect with each other with the sound of the flute and can help each other when there is something to do.
When the boar ran back into the forest, he found several shepherd boys waiting for him.
Each of the shepherd boys had a small bow in their hands, and they shot at the boars.
Wild animals are often infested in the mountains, and they often have to have self-defense weapons when they often herd cattle in the wild.
Arrows kept hitting the boar's body, and the boar rampaged through the crowd, but it was blocked by a scalper, and it could not escape the encirclement anyway.
One by one, the arrows hit the boar's body, and it finally took a fatal injury, spurting out a few mouthfuls of blood and falling to the ground without moving!
"Great, we have meat to eat today!". The friends began to cheer, this was an unexpected gain, such a big wild boar was enough for several families to eat for several days.
"Do you only have to herd cattle here all day and don't go to private school?" The prince also walked to the place of the incident, found the shepherd boy who had relieved him in the first place, and asked.
"Our families are poor and can't afford to pay for the bundles, and besides, we can earn some money to support our families by herding cattle here!" The little shepherd boy replied seriously after thinking about it.
The road to the imperial examination is very difficult, and some people may not necessarily get fame in the cold window for ten years, so they don't want to join in the fun.
"Brother Da Niu is right, how many scholars only have a master, the imperial examination is too far away for us cattle herders, we still feel at ease to kill this wild boar and eat meat!"
Although the shepherd boys did not know what was going on with the gorgeously dressed boy in the fields, the shepherd boy answered the prince's question honestly.
"If I give you a financial support, would you like to study in the academy?" The prince asked seriously.
If the children of poor families want to get ahead, there are generally only two ways, either to study and take the imperial examination, or to fight on the battlefield.
And these shepherd boys go to the fields all day long to graze all day long, but they are afraid that they can only be a shepherd boy in this life.
"Thank you to this son, I still have to use the commission from cattle herding to subsidize the family, and I can only live up to the kindness of the son!" Da Niu didn't think about it and rejected the prince's proposal.
The prince was naturally unwilling to fail, and after he returned, he discussed with Li Ling, planning to let him hire Xixi for the children of the tenants, and find a gentleman to teach here.
If they could go to school for free, would these people still be indifferent?
There are indeed dozens of school-age children in the farm, and it is enough to hire a teacher.
But Li Ling wanted to take things a step further, he wanted to build a complete academy in his manor.
The academy was not just for those who were bent on taking the imperial examination, but he also wanted to add agriculture, medicine, business, and even a military academy.
If this matter can be successful, it will inevitably seek major benefits for the children of the poor family outside the imperial examination.
"What a whimsical idea! Just do what you say, if you can seek some benefits for the students who graduated from this academy in the imperial court, it will definitely attract more students to enter the academy! ”。 The crown prince was also a clever man, and he quickly understood the key to this.
As long as there are enough interests to time. Why worry that there is no source of life.
It's just that the two of them are too whimsical, and when the prince reported the idea to the imperial court, it was opposed by almost all the ministers.
(To be continued.) )