Of course, Weijia is still too far away, after all, the Academy of Sciences now doesn't even have professors, and there are not even a single student.

But you might as well think about it first, in Zhu Youzhen's imagination, the Royal Academy of Sciences will be like a university four hundred years later, with a complete range of categories, and it will cultivate talents of the country, not just an official who only knows how to read eight shares and be an official!

"Business can be added to cultivate people who understand business, management, and accounting." Zhu Youzhen continued.

"Business?" Xu Guangqi said in surprise.

Scholars, workers, peasants and merchants, theoretically speaking, the status of businessmen is the lowest, of course, the current Ming Dynasty, behind the businessmen are mostly gentry, are noble, has been different from other dynasties, basically all the big businessmen, behind are the gentry and nobles, the status is not low at all.

But Zhu Youzhen is the emperor after all, and he has received a formal Confucian education, and the gentleman does not talk about profit, let alone the emperor! How could Zhu Youzhen think of opening a business department at the Academy of Sciences and cultivating lowly businessmen? This surprised Xu Guangqi.

Zhu Youzhen smiled dumbly: "Since the Academy of Sciences studies encyclopedias, why can't business be among them?" ”

Xu Guangqi smiled bitterly: "What Your Majesty said is that the ministers are afraid that it will be spread out and it will hinder the view......"

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "Are you afraid that people will say that I am good?" What, which of those official gentry families did not have a shop, and which of the official gentry families in Jiangnan did not have their own business? It is those who have been in the Ming and Qing dynasties since the Ming Dynasty, which family does not have a family property of tens of thousands of taels of silver?

I want to open a business department, cultivate talents who know how to do business, or use them in royal properties, such as banknotes, mines, royal estates, and even salt and iron yamen, so that I will not be deceived by others, and the silver in the inner treasury will not be corrupted and stolen! ”

"Alas......" Xu Guangqi smiled bitterly, not knowing what to say.

If these words are heard by other ministers in the court, I am afraid that many people will write to persuade the emperor not to compete with the people.

"I am a dignified man, with a population of 100 million trillions and a territory of 100,000 miles, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family, the tax yamen, the mining workshop, the number is not thousands, but do you know how much Xu Shangshu has the annual income of the inner treasury?" Zhu Youzhen asked.

Xu Guangqi shook his head: "The household department knows that the annual income of the ministers is known, and the inner treasury directly belongs to the royal family, which is His Majesty's private treasury, and the ministers are not allowed to hear about it." ”

Zhu Youzhen said: "I just asked people to check not long ago, and the income of the treasury in the seven years of the Apocalypse is only less than one million taels of silver!" During the Wanli period, the annual income of the inner treasury would be more than two million taels, so even if the household treasury also had no money at that time, Wanli could still support three major wars at the same time and win the battle.

Xu Shangshu, if the Ming Dynasty launches two major wars at the same time, they are the kind of soldiers who have more than 10,000 or even more than 100,000 soldiers, can they hold it? ”

Xu Guangqi shook his head: "I'm afraid I can't support ......"

Just to deal with the Jiannu in Liaodong, he has to talk about millions of taels of silver every year, if he starts another battlefield, the income of the treasury will not be able to support it at all, even if he adds the emperor's inner treasury, Xu Guangqi still knows.

"At that time, we could only levy more taxes on the people, but now the taxes are not low, and the provinces have been affected by disasters one after another, and the tax increase will inevitably force the people to take risks, and then I am afraid that the world will be in chaos." Zhu Youzhen said leisurely.

"Therefore, I want to open more business courses, cultivate business talents who belong to me, know how to run accounts, and then send them to various banknote mines, and I will no longer allow the money belonging to me to be corrupted and stolen!" Zhu Youzhen said solemnly.

Moreover, these talents can not be sent to the prefecture and county to replace the original officials, so that they can also control the local finances, of course, there is no need to say these words for the time being.

"Isn't the Academy of Sciences open an engineering department, to study the science of hundreds of crafts, if there are new research results, it can also be used to open workshops to produce new products for the benefit of the people. At that time, we will establish a royal trading house, which will be used exclusively for business, and the income of the trading house will be taken from the people for the people. I heard that the benefits of sea trade are very great, but now it is divided by the gentry and pirates in the southeast, and the city and ship division opened by the imperial court hand over very little silver, and when the time is ripe, I will reopen the city and ship division, and open the market in Tianjin, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas, form a royal fleet, and earn foreign country silver, so under the open source, the treasury income will continue to flow, and the Ming Dynasty will no longer have to worry about lack of financial resources. And to do all this, you have to have talents, and there are talents that belong to me! Zhu Youzhen said secretly.

After seeing the prosperity after four hundred years, Zhu Youzhen's horizons have broadened too much, and he wants to move everything to Daming after four hundred years. The Praetorian New Army means that Zhu Youzhen's present is the basis for him to eliminate external humiliation and internal troubles, while the Royal Academy of Sciences carries Zhu Youzhen's future ideals and is the guarantee of Daming Weijia from all over the world.

Of course, these have to be done step by step, and the road must be taken step by step, and there is no hurry.

Of course, Xu Guangqi did not understand Zhu Youzhen's lofty ideals, but what Zhu Youzhen said was also reasonable. The banknotes and mines are directly under the jurisdiction of the royal family, and the income is all in the inner treasury, and these places are always under the jurisdiction of the emperor's internal supervision, and the internal supervisors are often extremely greedy......

I didn't expect the emperor to be ready to attack the property that belonged to the royal family, but thinking about it, this is still beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and the income of the inner treasury is more, and it is also good for the people of the world.

"It's just that the royal industry probably doesn't need too many talents, and those who have graduated from business can also work in private workshops and shops, which can be regarded as a way out for the children of poor families." Xu Guangqi suggested.

Zhu Youzhen said: "That's right! The students of the Academy of Sciences try to recruit from poor families, who can be between the ages of eight and fifteen. The Academy of Sciences can be divided into primary, intermediate, and senior colleges, the junior college teaches the basics of literacy and arithmetic, and those who have a certain foundation and pass the examination can enter the secondary college and begin to learn special technology. ”

"In this case, the training cycle is a bit long." Xu Guangqi said. According to his own vision, the students were recruited from those who could not pass the merit examination, so that the training would be easier.

"Don't be afraid to grow up, all the money is allocated by the inner treasury, the students are recruited from the children of poor families, once you enter the Academy of Sciences, the tuition and living expenses are all free, strengthen the education of loyalty, I want to cultivate talents who are truly loyal to me!" Zhu Youzhen said categorically.

Xu Guangqi said with a smile: "The children of rich families, the scholars in the world are also loyal to Your Majesty. ”

"Maybe." Zhu Youzhen said lightly.

Loyal to my fart! Those scholars have studied hard for ten or decades to gain fame, and after becoming officials, they will only take everything for granted, as the result of their hard work, where will they care about the king? Verbally, the loyal monarch shouted loudly, if the Daming Society collapses, one by one will be eager to surrender to the new dynasty!

The most unrighteous people are scholars, I have long seen through your true colors!