The Song Dynasty can still turn without Zhao Pu, and it may not turn badly.

On the first day of August, Zhao Kuangyin came to Zhao Pu's house, and first took a look, Zhao Pu's house was extremely gorgeous, even more gorgeous than the palace. This was acquiesced by Zhao Kuangyin, so he glanced at it, quickly helped Zhao Pu's wife up, and said, "Sister-in-law, why do you need a big gift." ”

Straight to the back, Zhao Pu got up from the bed to salute, Zhao Kuangyin said: "Zeping, can you be cured?" ”

"Your Majesty, the northbound journey has made the old minister suffer some hardship, and His Majesty is worried."

"Zeping, this line of thought is not good, alas, the matter is over, don't mention it again."

It is equivalent to admitting his mistake to Zhao Pu in disguise, Zhao Pu did not mention it, and said: "Your Majesty, the old minister recently listened to the words of His Majesty, lying on the bed and reading some books, tasting the history of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, when the Tang Dynasty was not stable, once to the Turks called the ministers, this is a lesson from my dynasty, if you want the country to be strong, you must first and Khitan, Xu Hua Han and Tang, a few years later, after governance, the country is rich and strong, not to mention Taiyuan, Youyun Sixteen Prefectures can also be recovered. This is the policy of the state. If you have a bad relationship with the Khitans at this time, the north and south will be attacked by the enemy, and the country will be in danger. ”

He talked about the Tang Dynasty, but whether the Tang Dynasty handed over Youzhou to the Turks, it took a few years to dominate the world, and it took a few more years to use troops to the desert. Moreover, there is a Sui Dynasty in front, and the internal and external environment of Emperor Wen of Sui is far worse than that of the Song Dynasty, and if you say that your military talent may not be as good as Zhao Kuangyin, but is it first south and then north, or first north and then south? But the biggest advantage of Zhao Pu's approach of being rich is stability, from the bottom of his heart, whether it is 5,000 to 100,000, or 2,000 to 20,000. It's not the war that Zhao Kuangyin wants, there are too many variables. Zhao Kuangyin was very displeased.

"The Khitan may not be willing to negotiate peace with us."

"That's not necessarily, the original Liao Lord is dead. When a new lord succeeds to the throne, the strategy may change. ”

"Let's take a look at it again. Zeping, what do you think of the Southern Han Dynasty? ”

"Nanhan Keva," Zhao Pu got up, this is right, what is Taiyuan, and quickly took out a map from the study, Zhao Kuangyin was speechless, grandma. You're sick too. How did he get sick, Zhao Kuangyin said. But he couldn't say it clearly, and waved his hand and said: "You don't have to say it, I know it in my heart, do you say you can cut it?" ”

"Your Majesty, this year's war has passed, and the old minister thinks that Ruofa is best in the coming year."

"Okay, next year, today you accompany me to the academy to have a look."

Zhao Pu couldn't refuse. Who let himself be happy to run just now, so he said: "Your Majesty, the old minister has a sentence to say, the academy is becoming more and more important. Lao Chen made a statistic once before, and there were a total of 100 or so students in the imperial court, and the number was not much. But more than 30 students have become county heads, or prison leaders. This is not a long time, and there will be more and more in the future. Officials will also be promoted. No matter what the academy does, the personal imprint is too deep, and the old minister is very worried. ”

"I already have a good plan," Zhao Kuangyin was impatient this time, thinking to himself, it doesn't matter how you fight with your second brother, why drag little Song Jiu down? Zhao Pu said that this didn't work, because Song Jiu had also talked about it. He's taking the initiative to erase that stigma. But there will be, because teaching physical arithmetic is mainly him, not without him. If you want to let go, you can't let it go for more than ten or twenty years. Zhao Kuangyin is very strange, you and your husband have only studied for a while, can't you teach it for decades. Song Jiu explained, because he was also improving in the process of teaching, and he could even widen the gap. How to teach it in a few years. Therefore, the best way is to teach for a few years first, cultivate a group of students who are really knowledgeable, and then open some small and medium-sized academies in various places, such as Guangguitan, Hongyi, Hangzhou, Eqing, and then Jiangning Mansion, Daimyofu, Jingzhao Mansion, about a dozen, and the whole country will be radiated. Song Jiu did not explain that they were still in the hands of the enemy, and for more than ten years, these areas could not be recovered. So whoever serves as the head of this mountain, after a few years, the brand will be removed. Just like glass, it's not uncommon to have more. Moreover, it is not enough to have only one academy, after the unification of the country and the stabilization, with the Song Dynasty emphasizing internal governance, the population will increase very quickly, just like the Jianghuai region, some people have no worries about food and clothing, and a family begins to raise four or five children. Twenty years later, they were all adults. But the academy releases up to 300 students a year. The whole country is not enough. Zhao Kuangyin thought so.

Maybe Chengfu Song Jiu is not as good as Zhao Pu, and there are many naïve ideas, but the biggest advantage is that he thought he was selfish before, but in fact, he was really wrong. This kid is also selfish, but there is one most precious place, and that is contentment. I used to think that he was nonsense, but I was wrong, this kid is actually wrong, and he knows how to advance and retreat very well.

This is the person Zhao Kuangyin needs.

But he didn't dare to say it in front of Zhao Pu, as long as he said it, he, the big housekeeper, might be jealous and bring Song Jiu back to death.

"Then the old minister will be relieved." Zhao Pu was interested and didn't ask. In his eyes, although he was a little dissatisfied with Song Jiu, this character was too small and insignificant, and there was no need to waste energy to deal with him.

Zhao Kuangyin took Zhao Pu's hand and came out, and there were other ministers in the living room.

The royal car went to Hezhou, but on the way, Zhao Pu was thinking about how to bring down Fu Yanqing.

Suddenly raised his head and asked, "Your Majesty, it's not right." ”

"I want to see the river."

Zhao Pu understood, didn't make a sound, and it was up to everyone to watch it together. On the flybridge, there are three flybridges in total, and the scenery is very elegant. There is also a rockery at the head of the bridge, which is known as the road, and the side is the cylinder car, and it has been improved one after another, the design is more reasonable and lightweight, and the rotation is faster. There is also a tower, a small temple, and a small square, which is not too big, but it can also be a sight. Then there is the wide avenue. On both sides are neat and beautiful houses, painted with snow-white lime, and with spacious glazed windows. It's not too luxurious, but it's beautiful when it's neat. Zhao Kuangyin simply got down from the jade bridle, looked around, and then said with a smile: "This kid also has the ability, if there are thousands of families in the big river, life and death are like this." ”

In addition to the shops on the street, many families are mostly elderly and children at home, and adults go to Hezhou to do work together. Zhao Kuangyin thought of that year, so he broke into a house and asked an old woman: "Sister-in-law, how many times does your family eat meat in a month?" ”

"Your Majesty, you can eat more than a dozen times."

"That's a lot." Zhao Kuangyin was blinded, and he could understand it after eating meat a few times. I can't understand it after eating meat a dozen times, and I built a new house. There must have been a period of tension at hand, and he was not from an aristocratic background. I've also been a civilian, you know.

"Sometimes I bought it myself, and some of it was distributed with leftovers from the store." The old woman shuddered. I thought to myself, doesn't the emperor like me to eat meat?

When it comes to Shundian, Zhao Kuangyin still remembers it vividly, was silent, and then looked around, what is the furniture is still very simple, but even if a new house is built. It's not too shabby. Zhao Kuangyin thought of the bridge again, from the river island to the middle of the river, a series of bridges, bridges and small bridges, this bridge may not all flow into the country, and some of it flows into the pockets of the people of the two rivers. So when I came out and looked at Hebei, there were also many new houses, and there were hardly any thatched sheds in sight.

It's hard to imagine how much has changed.

So he walked lightly to Song Jiu's house. Song Jiu was waiting for him in the academy, and Pan Li'er was at home, and when it was almost time to give birth, he couldn't go out. Otherwise, you have to follow the academy. Pan Li'er wanted to give a gift, but Zhao Kuangyin helped her and said: "You don't need to be polite anymore, I just heard that your family has moved to a new home." Come and take a look, don't hurt the baby in your belly. ”

"Your Majesty."

Zhao Kuangyin entered the Song family. This time, with a regular concierge, it was like an official's house. A row of buildings in the middle of the house has also been demolished, and from the big locust tree, the entire house has also moved a little. The area is similar. Zhao Kuangyin has never doubted this, Song Jiu said that if he does not increase the area, he will not increase the area, although the people will not object. There is also a living room, a small cross-courtyard, less neat than before, but more elegant. Including the decoration in the house, Zhao Kuangyin sipped tea and carefully looked at the decorations and utensils in the house.

This one is very important.

Look at the subtleties.

There are no students in the house, and it will be a regular official residence in the future, which is very gorgeously furnished, and the important point is that it is not tacky, not like some people's golden walls, Zhao Kuangyin said slowly: "Now it has become better, there is a little bit of luxury." ”

"Your Majesty's ......"

"Pan Niangzi, don't worry, I look very satisfied." Zhao Kuangyin said. If it is true that the Song Jiu family is shabby, he will suspect that he earns so much money in a year, and all of it is spent on the country and the people, is there such a good person? will even think about Wang Mang.

Song Jiu would not be Wang Mang, and he would not do so. What he looked at was how to extravagant, in the past, he occasionally asked the eunuch to calculate how much money Song Jiu earned and spent in a year, and after the last day, he simply didn't count, who could figure it out. I only know that he has made so much money in a year, but the money has not been enough to spend. As long as a stroke is omitted in the middle, it is enough to make the Song Jiu family become a dragon palace.

But he didn't like it very much, what was the difference between that and Zhao Pu, and Song Jiu and Zhao Pu were completely different in nature, since they were the second extravagant Zhao Pu, then obediently be a teacher for the rest of his life. Look, it's not evil.

He asked again: "Mrs. Pan, how long will it take for you to give birth?" ”

"The doctor said that in this month, the concubine was so scared that she didn't even dare to walk."

"Work hard, if you give birth to a baby boy, I will give him a founding viscount."

"Your Majesty." Pan Li'er is overjoyed, there are many people in the yamen who seem to be miraculous all day long, and they have not yet given any officials. But she was in trouble, what if it was her daughter.

Zhao Pu and some ministers moved their mouths and did not speak. Don't mention anything else, let's just say that in the academy, Song Jiuming subsidized more than 80,000 yuan in the dark, which is what they know, and there may be a little more if they don't know the way. But Song Jiu never said anything about this matter, and even many middle and low-level officials didn't know about Lu Dao, only that Lu Dao Hezhou donated a sum of money, and then the imperial court took out the money to build the academy. In fact, the imperial court only paid 50,000 yuan. Either supported a lot of unpaid manpower. With this article alone, it is enough to give a viscount.

Zhao Kuangyin stood up.

He looked up at the south again, everyone said that Song Jiu married Pan Mei's daughter a little high, but in fact, maybe Pan Mei was old, and the Pan family would be stained with Song Jiu's light. This Pan Mei, good luck.

Only then did I walk to the academy.

Of the more than 400 students, only about 20 students came out when they graduated, some of them were asked by their parents to leave, and more than a dozen were requisitioned by the imperial court. The others were not released, and all of them entered the academy. Don't talk about private individuals, even all the ministries and departments of the imperial court are eager to see through it.

At the same time, more than 30 secondary 1 students were enrolled, and it seems that the number of people who took the test reached more than 1,000, and only these 30 or so people were recruited. Then there is the beginner, which is equally strict, sixteen classes from the second to the fifth grade, which can accommodate 800 people, but only 400 people are actually recruited, not because the number is not enough, but because the results are insufficient. Either that's the first grade or it's over.

Song Jiu used that good household to deceive 140,000 yuan of silk, plus the donations of the Pan family brothers, and other donations, a total of 230,000 yuan, rushed into the Hezhou deed shares in the second half of this year, and used dividends to support the academy. This is what Zhao Kuangyin heard, and there are others, but they are not what he cares about.

A total of more than 900 people stood neatly on the playground. Zhao Kuangyin said a few words, so the mountain shouted long live.

Don't look at this small move, it is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, and if you go out of Lu in the future, it is equivalent to a very good resume.

The students returned to the classroom excitedly, and some students were so old that it was the first time they saw Zhao Kuangyin. I don't know if they can sleep at night because they are so excited. Zhao Kuangyin looked at Mr. Zhu again, in addition to Liang Zhouhan and Zhu Ang, Song Bai and Zhang Quhua were used as deputy mountain chiefs, and after Song Jiu, there were also Zhang Yan and seven deputy mountain chiefs to eliminate Song Jiu's brand. At the same time, there were more than 30 Confucian scholars, including Zhu San. However, Zhu San has the least seniority in it.

The rest of the gentlemen are even more varied, there are old farmers, craftsmen, doctors, and a luthier, two painters, as well as guest stewards, some old officials, and other kinds of people, etc., the most popular is the generals, and most of them are cameos, even including Shi Shouxin, Gao Huaide, Zhang Lingduo, Wang Xianqi, Feng Jiye. There is no gentleman mountain chief, he will come if he is happy, and he will not force him to come if he is not happy. If they can't be set up, who can control them?

In this regard, there were some small arguments, and Song Jiu simply retorted a few words, the academy cultivates scribes, national auxiliary talents, such as old farmers, who don't even know how to assist the chief officials in managing agriculture. Another example is the various managers, even the business operation mode, whether the profit and loss do not understand, how to reasonably levy business taxes.

Zhao Kuangyin heard that the intention of the academy is to cultivate practical talents, and the country needs these practical talents, of course, it also needs Confucian scholars, and Confucianism can be used to consolidate state power and maintain social stability. Each has its own needs, so why oppose them. So non-committal.

said: "A few mountain chiefs, take me around." ”

You have to visit, first look at the test laboratory, Zhao Kuangyin regards it as very important, and it is done well, one is the test area for ordinary students, and the other is the special test area, that is, the test that needs to be kept secret. Song Jiu's laboratory was mostly moved to this test area. Its funding was also independent, paid jointly by the state and Song Jiu, and had nothing to do with the academy. I also looked at the cafeteria, the library, and the husband's dormitory, and the student dormitory, all of which were very neat, with bright windows, four beds, two tables, four chairs, and wardrobes and other facilities.

Zhao Kuangyin compared it with Taixue again, and then felt bitter in his heart. It's too shabby to learn too much.

At this time, Lu Yuqing suddenly said: "Your Majesty, it takes a lot of money to train a student. (To be continued......)