The imperial court lacked silver, and the originally seemingly rich and oily commerce and trade department was also squeezed out, and the imperial court still owed a lot of silver to the big merchants of Chang'an City. couldn't take out the silver for disaster relief, and these troublesome students just gave Liu Yu such an opportunity to collect money, so that Liu Yu could take advantage of this matter to extend his hand to these Chang'an gate valve families who are usually pampered.

Although these children of the family are also Confucian scholars in name, after all, they have a political background behind them, so their Confucian identity is not pure, and Liu Yu does not need to think about the consequences for offending them. In a blink of an eye, Liu Yu stretched out his hand to the family behind these people, anyway, Liu Yu was worried that he had no money for disaster relief, and this bamboo pole was not knocked on white.

When the officials returned to the palace from the palace, they originally wanted to discuss with each other to see if they could come up with measures to deal with Liu Yu's "despicable act", but after some small officials and officials who had no position handed over the silver, other big families had to hurry to raise money. But whenever there are students at the gate of the palace who are "redeemed", the other students will not be able to sit still, after all, they occasionally stay in the palace all day, hungry and thirsty, and the weather is cold.

Because the imperial court "opened his mouth widely" this time, and the families of the gate lords did not want to break the bank, many families lacked catties and taels in raising silver, and thought that the imperial court would turn a blind eye and pass it, as long as the imperial court knocked on the bamboo pole, the imperial court would stop working. Who knew that Han Sheng, who was in charge of this matter, was very difficult to speak, not only asked these families to bring the silver, but also brought the marked paper to verify, and there was a basis for them not to deny it, but wherever there was a wrong number. The missing part should be filled twice.

Han Sheng also made it clear. If you don't make it up. It is not to redeem people, but to redeem heads.

These family lords all know that Liu Yu is the head of a group of muddy people, and he is the leader of the thieves in the current troubled country, and if he can't get along with him, he can't get along with himself. This dumb man owes them to eat if they don't eat.

So much so that at the end of the day, what they resented was not Liu Yu, who was greedy for money, but the person who came up with the idea to let Taixue students sit-in at the gate of the palace to protest and put pressure on the imperial court. The court did not waver, nor did it provoke the response of the people, but was cheated by Liu Yu.

and in the afternoon he shall collect the money that has been ransomed by every house. Han Sheng asked people to count and report to Liu Yu, Liu Yu had a treacherous smile on his face, and said: "Yes, more than a hundred people can raise 100,000 taels of silver, these officials are quite rich." ”

Han Sheng was still very pleased that Liu Yu was not embarrassed by those students, and said with a smile: "When the emperor was alive, he treated the eunuchs politely, and these families had dozens of hectares of land for each family alone, not counting the Lu and Yumi. ”

Liu Yu nodded. In those years, one hectare was a hundred acres. Just when he was named the forward general. He received a few hundred acres of land from the imperial court, and it was not difficult to ask for thousands of acres of land if he made a meritorious contribution or something in the future, annexed some land or something. This is not gray income, the corruption under this system alone has already made people want to become officials, so if you want to do business and make a fortune these days, it is better to be an official directly, and power and wealth are accompanied.

"It's only about 100,000 taels, it's still not enough!"

Liu Yu sighed, pinching his fingers thoughtfully, Han Sheng's face on the side was slightly embarrassed, he guessed that Liu Yu was beating other people's ideas again.

Sure enough, Liu Yu closed the list of ransoms and said to Han Sheng, "Didn't you discuss the expansion of Tai Academy with the people of the Ministry of Rites before?" What are the results? ”

Han Sheng smiled and said, "What else can you do, how many people you want to recruit, it's actually a matter of one sentence." ”

Liu Yu smiled and said: "Actually, I think so too, we are now worried that we have no money to help the disaster all day long, thinking about how to save money and how to reduce expenditure, this idea is originally wrong, Brother Han, this time we will open a good source." immediately asked someone to go to the city to post a post, saying that he thought that Tai College not only accepted the children of official families, but also accepted some children from poor families, as long as they studied well, they could come to Tai College to study. If other people who are not very good at learning also want to come in and have a good time, then pay some tuition appropriately, we can't raise them for nothing, right? ”

In these years, Tai College was the first of the official schools, and it had always been the expense of the imperial court, and there was no reason for students to pay tuition.

Han Sheng hesitated, "How much is appropriate?" ”

"The more the merrier, it depends on the sincerity of the students." Liu Yu smiled treacherously on his face and continued, "Then we will set up another big school on top of Tai College, and mobilize all the best teachers in the country, so as to recruit the best students and let them come out, without exams, they can go to the middle and lower classes to become a small official, and promote them little by little." ”

Han Sheng hurriedly said: "Don't, don't, the imperial examination is the foundation of rejuvenating the country and securing the country, if you have to advance without passing the exam, then wouldn't the world's scholars be cold?" ”

"Not taking exams is just talking, in fact, there are still many tests, from admission, to various selections, to graduation, if they don't do well in any exam, they have to do it again, or they will be directly discouraged. Talent selection is the purpose of this university. Liu Yu said eloquently, "In fact, those children of ordinary poor families can also come to the graduate school, but they must first pass the level of the Tai Academy, and the students of the Tai College can not only take the graduate school and become officials, but also directly participate in the imperial examination, which is equivalent to one more way for the world's scholars to become officials, how can the world's scholars be cold?" ”

Han Sheng thought about it, it seemed like that's the case. But after thinking about it, he felt that it was not, because he knew that Liu Yue wanted to use this to make money was his original intention, how could he cheapen the world's scholars?

Liu Yu actually has a very bad heart. It is said that the expansion of Tai College is nothing more than trying to find a way to pit the money of those businessmen or rich children from landlords, so that they can spend a lot of money to send their children to Taixue to study. Originally, after graduating from Taixue, he could already find an errand, but now he has opened a graduate school above. That is to say, if these children don't study well and can't enter the university, just graduating from Tai College is the same as squatting at home to graduate from college, and it is in vain. In fact, those who are really selected must have real talents and learning, and in fact, they are still working for the benefit of the world's scholars.

Although Han Sheng felt that it was inappropriate to use the school to collect money, now that the imperial court could not come up with the silver for disaster relief, there was no other way, so he had to follow what Liu Yu said step by step. As for the details, it is natural that it will have to be carefully discussed with the Ministry of Rites before it can be decided, and the preparation of the matter must be as soon as possible, after all, it is about to start spring, and disaster relief is like fighting a fire, and it cannot be delayed.

That night, the Ministry of Rites held an emergency meeting to discuss the expansion of the Tai Academy and the establishment of the graduate school, Liu Yu also went to the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites to listen to it, and the people in the Ministry of Rites basically had no opinions, this was the proposition of the imperial court, and there was no loss or gain for them.

Liu Yu was about to return to the palace, when he saw Sui Yi at the door of the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and Sui Yi came to Liu Yu to send Liu Yu the interrogation record of yesterday's chaotic party. Liu Yu took it and looked at it, but there was no progress, and then he looked at Sui Yi in the roe head rat eyes and looked at the yamen of the Ministry of Rites.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yu asked.

Sui Yi said with a smile on his face: "I heard that Tai Academy is going to recruit people, Brother Liu, you say...... Can I be a student? I just want to make a name for graduating from Tai Academy. ”

Liu Yu smiled helplessly, although Sui Yi is now in a high position, the mayor of Chang'an City. But he has a heart problem, that is, he is not highly educated, and he is most afraid of others mentioning that now that there is such a good thing as the expansion of Tai Academy, he wants to mix a diploma, even if the diploma is bought, he is happy. (To be continued......)