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Zhu Youzhu glanced at Liu Chengfeng, and couldn't help but be interested. The number of the national treasury has indeed increased dramatically in the past two years www.biquge.info but as Liu Chengfeng said, the expenses are not small.

In previous years, two or three million taels of silver a year was considered the limit, and others, such as officials' salaries, were mostly replaced by physical objects such as rice, flour, and silk. However, the expenses of the two years were different, and the expenses of the imperial court were as high as six or seven million a year. To put it bluntly, as soon as the money arrived, the people from the government and the opposition were suddenly in good spirits, and they all felt that they were in ruins, and those river embankments that had been delayed and did not dare to repair were reported to the imperial court to repair them.

Liu Chengfeng said: "To put it bluntly, in fact, the higher the income of the imperial court, the greater the responsibility, and what you can't do before, after the income skyrockets, you can let go and do it." That is to say, the functions of the imperial court have gradually become richer from simply raising troops, providing disaster relief to organizing and repairing water conservancy, such as building gallop roads, enriching armaments, building larger-scale water conservancy, and even building schools everywhere. Your Majesty, therefore the income of the treasury is as much as possible. Your Majesty Shengming, Wechen knows that His Majesty has always wanted to do a little good deed, and his name will be remembered through the ages, so Wechen will take the school as an example......"

Liu Chengfeng has a very accurate grasp of Zhu Youzhang's thoughts, what does the emperor need most? Or what does Zhu Youzhu need most? Zhu Youzhu is an emperor who advocates etiquette, he yearns for the rule of the three emperors and five emperors the most, and he has a great impression of scholars, this kind of person attaches the most importance to education.

Liu Chengfeng said slowly: "Your Majesty often says that after reading a book, you can distinguish between right and wrong, and you can learn from things, and you can be righteous with knowledge." Weichen has an idea, why not set up official schools in all prefectures and counties in the world to teach people to read and write, so that people can understand right and wrong? If everyone in the world could read and write, wouldn't this overshadow the achievements of any previous emperor? Weichen once pondered about this matter, the imperial court can come up with a special piece of silver, and order the counties to set up official schools, so that some idle talents have a livelihood, and the county government can hire a doctor to teach the students in the county, and the children of ordinary people, as long as they are at least eight years old, can enter school, and pay a certain amount of tuition every year. As for the use of this official learning, the court can take out a part, the county government can take out some, plus those children pay a part, so it must be enough. These students can be called schoolchildren for the time being, after the schoolchildren study in the county government official school, if they learn well, they can take exams, if they have good grades, they can be promoted to the government school, the imperial court set up a school in each school, for the school of the government, this school only recruits more excellent school children, so that they can go on to study, enter the school of the government, the child is a student, after three or five years of study, if the book is good, you can continue to take the exam, enter the provincial school, so that not only can the smart students show their talents, It can also allow the imperial court to get more talents, and the most important thing is that even if it is an ordinary child, even if he may not work hard to read, his intelligence is not as good as others, at least he can learn to read and write in the county school, which is an unprecedented merit, if His Majesty is willing to implement it, based on this one deed alone, I am afraid that Tang Zong and Song Ancestors will be embarrassed. ”

Liu Chengfeng's words, Zhu Youjiao, who listened to it, suddenly turned rosy, and now it has reached his point, to tell the truth, when he sees himself, he doesn't have much, and he feels that he still has a lot of things to do, but now Liu Chengfeng is tantamount to pointing out a broad road to him.

Liu Chengfeng's charter can be said to be unprecedented, and the past dynasties will indeed set up some official schools more or less, but most of the official schools are Taixue, Guozijian and the like, either they are nobles studying, or they are accommodating the world's top students. However, Liu Chengfeng's opinion is to let everyone in the world have the opportunity to study, and the official school will be run all the way to the county, so that everyone can understand the literature and ink, and a considerable number of outstanding students can study in the government school, provincial school and even Taixue.

This is a great cause, Liu Chengfeng's opinion, if it came out a few years ago, it would only be a whimsical joke for Zhu Youzhang. Because at that time, the imperial court could not even afford to raise Taixue, even the military salaries of soldiers could not be paid in full, and even the salaries of officials had to be replaced with cloth and rice.

But now it is indeed different, now the imperial treasury is abundant, all kinds of annual inputs, if you add Jubaolou and Jubao Commercial Bank, its annual income has increased by at least ten times, just last year alone, a year's income has exceeded 35 million taels, of which more than 20 million are from Jubaolou, and with the prosperity of commerce and trade, even the palace is convinced that this number will increase, so Liu Chengfeng is now proposing this idea, which is indeed very attractive.

"It's just that if it is really implemented, how much will it cost each year?" Zhu Youzhu was moved and raised this question.

Liu Chengfeng said bluntly: "Your Majesty, if it is implemented, there are 1,300 county seats in the Ming Dynasty, and more than 200 state capitals. In addition, there are also expenses for hiring teachers, doctors, and printing textbooks, providing pen and ink, and the investment in government and provincial education, which must be at least more than three million taels of silver. ”

Three million taels ...... Zhu Youzhu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if it was a few years ago, someone proposed this amount, he would have to be scared to death, he had been on the throne for so many years, he worked hard, and when the imperial court had the best revenues and expenditures, he only had a balance of 270,000 taels of silver a year, just because of these 270,000 taels of silver, the snowflake-like recital of the court was handed over, full of praise, for no other reason, because the unprecedented imperial court had such a large amount of silver.

But now, Zhu Youzhu feels that this amount is not beyond his expectations. Three million taels of silver, this is the initial investment, if in the future, the imperial court will invest a maximum of one million taels of silver a year.

He was silent for a moment and said, "I have to discuss this matter with the cabinet." Yes, you just said that the matter of open source, why did you turn to the establishment of official schools. ”

Liu Chengfeng said: "Your Majesty, the reason why Wechen mentioned this matter of establishing an official school is actually to tell Your Majesty that although the income of the treasury is more, the expenses of the imperial court will be getting bigger and bigger, and now it will take millions of silver to build and maintain the Chi Road a year, and if the official school is opened again in the future, it will be the expenditure of ten thousand taels of silver, sooner or later, the imperial court will only fall into the dilemma of not being able to open the pot, so Wechen thinks that the imperial court should take precautions, so Wechen has also drawn up a charter, Your Majesty should know about the fireworks alley, right?" ”

Zhu Youzhu listened to it, and also felt quite reasonable, nodded his head and said: "I know a little bit about the fireworks alley, and there are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver entering the palace every year on the side of the fireworks alley, what's wrong?" ”

Liu Chengfeng said: "Weichen plans to follow the example of the Fireworks Hutong and promote the experience of the Fireworks Hutong to the entire Jingshi, and even the entire world, adding up to a lot, and I am afraid that the income of this court will more than double." Your Majesty, this is a meritorious achievement, and the more income the court has, the more things it can do, and it is also a good thing for the people. ”

Liu Chengfeng took advantage of Zhu Youzhang's heartbeat, hurriedly took out a charter, handed it to Zhu Youzhang, and said: "This is the charter drawn up by Weichen, please look at it first, if you think it is feasible, leave the rest to Jinyiwei to do." ”

Seeing that Zhu Youzhu was moved, Liu Chengfeng was also quite excited in his heart, if the emperor nodded in this matter, then the rights of Jinyiwei will increase dramatically, a Jinyiwei who can monitor bureaucrats and assume certain tax collection responsibilities and can legally maintain law and order Jinyiwei, which is equivalent to holding all the responsibilities of the public procuratorate and law in later generations firmly in his hands, Jinyiwei is equivalent to becoming the third largest power center outside the cabinet and the army, Liu Chengfeng will become the most important role in the world with this power.

This idea was thought up by Liu Chengfeng, and at the same time, he was not afraid that after the implementation of this charter, it would be taken advantage of. Because of the promotion of the experience of fireworks alleys, there is really no yamen that can take it down except for Jinyiwei, except that Jinyiwei has this pervasive means.

Of course, Dongchang is a great competitor, maybe this fat will be snatched away by Dongchang, but Dongchang can't do this for the time being, so the charter proposed by Liu Chengfeng can only fall on Jinyiwei's head in the end, which is why he has no fear.

Zhu Youzhu carefully read the charter, this charter is full of 10,000 words, but it makes things clear, but Zhu Youzhu still has something he doesn't understand, he raised his head and said, "Isn't this a disguised tax on shops?" I'm afraid that the voice of criticism from the court is not small. ”

Liu Chengfeng said: "Wechen has investigated, almost every shop, will always take out a part of the silver every month, these silver is not for the imperial court, but to some corrupt officials and officials and the street splashing peace money, these money will only be cheaper in the end for those who are corrupt and pervert the law, Weichen's charter is to put it bluntly is to transfer this money from the hands of these small people to the hands of the imperial court, the money is given to them, just for them to get drunk with money, but to the imperial court, the court can more or less always use it on the right way." ”

(To be continued)