"The learning I want to build is a combination of the foundling house and the professional school. Let the school-age children in the territory have a place to learn, from literacy to swordsmanship, horsemanship, and even strategy."

"In the end, what I hope is to build a comprehensive school from early childhood to adulthood, so that they can be used by me in Stanlow."

"What does the lord mean by that he wants the 'school-age children' in the realm to receive an aristocratic education, after all, he wants them to receive this education from childhood to adulthood?" O'Brie finally understood the meaning of Bird's words, but he could only repeat it in the words he could understand so far.

"That's pretty much it," Bird replied with a nod.

Bird just said so much, in fact, he really forgot that there was such a thing as aristocratic education.

The reason why the academies in the Horsens Empire only admit young men who are eleven or twelve years old is that these people will study and train themselves through various ways before, and for the nobles, they do not lack education.

Therefore, for them, aristocratic family education may be more helpful to them, presumably staying directly in a professional school such as a military academy.

Hence the idea that Aubrey asked if Bird wanted to extend aristocratic education to the school he was going to establish.

However, as soon as Bird nodded in response, Aubrey quickly shook his head and said, "No."

"This kind of thing is not something that you can decide with a pat on your head, my lord, it is against the rules of the nobles."

"Knowledge is a great treasure, and everyone can get what they want from it if they spend time, but Lord Lord, you must know that not everyone is willing to share this knowledge with others, so that others can also taste the sweetness!"

"Now it is clear that such a thing is not allowed in the current Horsens Empire"

"Otherwise, you are provoking the entire rational order between the nobles and the commoners."

"There is only a price to pay," the hall was accompanied by Aubrey's voice, and it was not only Mick who shook his head, but almost everyone shook their heads, disapproving of Bird's 'whimsical' idea.

When Bird heard Aubrey's statement, he was also a little stunned.

He hadn't expected it to be so serious.

"Knowledge is monopolistic wealth?" Bird asked tentatively.

"Exactly"

After getting a clear reply from Aubrey and a nod from Sid and the others, Bird suddenly figured out what the problem was.

Bird had never had any obvious or deliberate knowledge of such a thing, it was just like the air around him, it was an extremely common thing, so it was not worth paying much attention to.

But now that Aubrey said this, Bird suddenly 'woke up'.

As far as the entire territory of the Horsens Empire is concerned, knowledge is a monopoly. It also represents an unbridgeable divide and boundary between the aristocracy and the commoners.

Although you may be rewarded overnight and become a nobleman, or you may become rich overnight, you will never be able to have a lot of knowledge in a short period of time.

In addition to being a symbol and a chasm, it also serves to keep the chasm so that outsiders can never cross it, and to make it bigger and bigger over time.

This is another function of knowledge.

Because knowledge can be written and passed on, as generations of nobles inherit and verify, they will slowly accumulate a lot of experience, and these experiences can undoubtedly allow their descendants to avoid the mistakes made by their predecessors, so that they can grow better and faster.

However, it is difficult for civilians without knowledge to get such help and learning.

So when you compare the two, the gap arises, and it may gradually widen.

"What if we set up an academy, something like a military academy, to train people to be self-sufficient?"

"It's also a little unrealistic, it's not time yet, I hope the lord doesn't pay attention to this anymore" Aubrey shook his head, not wanting to say anything more.

It seems that even he himself does not believe the statement made by Bird at all.

"Then there's not much to teach in Stanlow at the moment, like who teaches basic and simple literacy?" Bird suddenly remembered the problem he had been ignoring.

"It was taught by the Salvation Society before, and now it's the Cult of Arthur that has taken over."

"But at present, there is not only the Cult of Arthur God in the city that teaches basic literacy and arithmetic, as far as I know, some other small churches are also using this gimmick to teach people to read, but I heard that it is paid."

Aubrey told everything he knew in order to better and more quickly dispel the idea of establishing schools and raising so-called 'school-age children'.

However, he didn't expect his words to be so hurriedly explained, but it attracted Bird's attention.

"Charged?" Bird asked, stunned.

"Of course, they paid people to come, such as the accounting guys of Naibao Trading House, they paid to teach them, of course they have to charge some fees."

"These small churches don't want to be like the Cult of Arthur, which has so much strength that they can call on believers to teach these people for free."

"That's funny," Bird laughed playfully.

What Bird didn't expect was that what he had always wanted to do was now in Stanlow City, and it seemed to be a bit of a formality.

Bird's sudden smile was unintentional to himself.

But for the others present, it was a heartbeat.

Could it be that Lord Bird thinks these churches in the city are doing things they shouldn't have done? Lord Lords have decided to get rid of these churches, or is Lord Bird planning to rely on these churches to fulfill his college 'dream'?

Many thoughts came to everyone's minds, but in the end, they were like big waves washing sand, and there was nothing left.

For Bird didn't say anything more, but simply announced that the regular meeting was over.

Then let Captain Mick stay.

This abrupt ending made everyone present feel a little groaning in their hearts.

Because to a greater or lesser extent, or because of the relationship between reality, or because of the relationship within the space, they have all had contact with various small churches in the city, and some of them still maintain relationships. (To be continued.) )