A gathering of wealthy gentlemen, a few happy and a few sad.

Regardless of gain or loss, by near noon, all the gentry dispersed, after all, the king of Yan who "slammed the door" did not plan to set up a banquet and keep dinner.

There are still many procedures to be implemented for the purchase of field rolls, and the gentry from all over the country have to stay in Gusu City for some time.

They are all rich people, even if King Yan does not entertain, there is no problem in terms of food and accommodation, after leaving the Temple of Literature, they began to call friends, towards the city's famous buildings and big stores.

As a paradise on earth, Gusu City is not only beautiful in scenery and prosperous in culture, but also a good choice for eating, drinking and playing.

In the following days, they had to drink, feast and have fun, enjoy the wind and snow, and can be regarded as contributing to the economy of Pingjiang.

Zhao Mengqi also wanted to take advantage of the fact that a few little ladies were not around, to conduct an in-depth investigation of the customs and industries of Gusu City, and to send the deepest humanistic care to the hard-working girls in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion.

It's a pity that Wu Qian, who has no eyesight, didn't give him this opportunity and dragged him to Fuxue.

After having lunch in the Fuxue canteen, Wu Qian and Professor Fuxue accompanied Zhao Mengqi to visit the first school in the south of the Yangtze River.

The temple and the school are integrated, the East Confucian Temple, the West Mansion School, the whole covers an area of 200 acres, and the area of the House School is larger than the Confucian Temple, about 60,000 square meters, and the main campus of Soochow University in later generations is about the same.

Like the Confucian Temple, the Confucian Temple is also the north-south layout of the five courtyards, the Confucian Temple is centered on the Dacheng Hall, and the Fuxue is centered on the Minglun Hall, each forming a central axis, the left and right buildings are symmetrical, and the front and rear buildings are in order.

The main entrance is on the south side, and there is a huge semi-circular pond in front of the gate, which is called Panshui, so it is common to call admission "Iripan" at this time.

Then from here to the north, it can be divided into five courtyards in turn, the ceremonial gate, the instrument gate, the Minglun Hall, the Jingyi Pavilion, the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, the pavilions and pavilions before and after the left and right are scattered and orderly, the lecture hall, the school house, the examination room, the fasting room and the room, the pond, the rockery, the stream, the flowers and trees are varied.

The layout of the whole school is rigorous, there are not only magnificent palaces and temples, but also beautiful garden buildings, which also reflects the style of re-learning in the Great Song Dynasty.

Putting aside the "martial arts" that have been criticized by later generations, the Great Song Dynasty has always done a very good job in "cultural governance", with a high degree of economic and cultural development.

Social life, technology, system, art and other fields are at the highest level of the times, agriculture, handicrafts, and commerce are far ahead of the world, and culture is even more brilliant and magnificent, with unique wind gods, and extraordinary achievements in literature, history, philosophy, art, medicine, mathematics, geography and other disciplines.

These achievements provided good conditions for the development of education, complemented each other, and relied on each other, so that the material civilization and spiritual civilization of the Song Dynasty reached the highest peak in the feudal period, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is unprecedented.

In the Song Dynasty, education was developed, and there were a large number of various types of government and private schools, which were prosperous and prosperous, and in all respects, government schools accounted for the largest proportion. Chinese Net

Not only do government schools not charge tuition, but they also provide students with room and board, and pay subsidies, so that at the peak of their education, "200,000 people were supported" in the country.

Different from the previous dynasties, in the Song Dynasty, there was basically no restriction on the admission qualifications of students, and in principle, regardless of the scholars, including the children of merchants and craftsmen, as long as their virtue and intelligence met the requirements, they could enter the school at the age of 15, and those who had reached the age of 8 could attend primary school, and even the orphaned and poor children in nursing homes could also go to the primary school if they could be taught.

Pingjiang Mansion is rich in the world, and although the number of students in this school is not as good as Taixue, there are nearly 2,000 students.

The school is too big, it took more than half an hour, and it was only a rough visit, Zhao Mengqi is no longer a sick man, his body is very good, and he doesn't feel tired wearing forty or fifty pounds of armor, but Wu Qian is old after all, and he can't bear it.

Zhao Mengqi supported Wu Qian, "Gong Wu, let's go to the pavilion in front to rest for a while."

Wu Qian didn't refuse, just sighed, "It seems that he is really old, he didn't feel hard when he walked around Taihu Lake last year, but now he is tired and panting in just a few steps......

"Ha, what do you mean by this, are you blaming me for pressing too many affairs on you and exhausting you?" Zhao Mengqi laughed and laughed, and sat down on the stone bench with Wu Qian.

Wu Qian knew that King Yan was sometimes very unorthodox, and he also gave a few words of advice and teaching at the beginning, but later he got used to it and became casual.

"Your Highness, if you want to say this, it's actually true, these days you run to Taihu Lake to play, no matter what you do, aren't all the ministers working?"

Zhao Mengqi didn't feel guilty, but took it for granted, "Those who can work harder, I'm just an ignorant schoolboy, where can I handle government affairs, so I have to take care of it more by you."

"Habitual." Wu Qian blew his beard and glared, "If Your Highness is ignorant, wouldn't those gentry lose very unjustly!?"

Zhao Mengqi shrugged, "Haha, that's because they're too greedy, besides, I'll just say something, aren't you all doing it?"

"Yes, open your mouth at the top, and break your leg at the bottom, Lao Chen is the life of this errand."

Wu Qian's mouth seemed to be complaining, but his eyes were full of relief, this time Yan Wang's strategy really impressed him, and he strategized, not only solved the food crisis, but also hit Haoqiang, promoted the meridian boundary, and laid the foundation for the governance of Taihu Lake.

"Hey, then you have to take care of your body, there will only be more and more errands in the future." Zhao Mengqi also sat down on the side, and then beckoned the accompanying academic officials, "Professor Zeng, Shu Siku, Assistant Teacher Liu, you all sit too, don't be too restrained."

"Your Highness, I don't dare to resign, the officials are rude."

Several scholars saw that the old and the young got along very friendly and casual, and they felt like a monarch and a minister, and their mood became relaxed with this atmosphere.

Zhao Mengqi looked at a few scholars and said casually, "You invited me to come, but what difficulties did you encounter? Let's talk about it."

The professor is the highest official of the government, the treasurer is commonly known as the money and food officer, who manages the logistics and finances, and the teaching assistant is mainly responsible for teaching.

The three of them made eye contact, and then Shu Siku spoke, "Your Highness, this is the case, this flood has caused the school field to be cut off, and the government has also decided to exempt rent, which is also deserved, but this income is missing, and the annual expenses of the imperial examination have increased significantly, and the school funds are inevitably stretched, and Wu Gong said that the government treasury cannot allocate money and food for the time being, so he has to ask His Highness for help."

The treasury has no money? Can't you?

Zhao Mengqihu looked at Wu Qian suspiciously, only to see him squinting and pretending to sleep, as if he hadn't heard anything.

Immediately, with a flash of inspiration, Zhao Mengqi reacted and said with a smile, "What you care about is actually the reform of Guantian, right?"

The three scholars sneered, "Your Highness is wise!"

In the beginning, the government government allocated funds directly to the local government, and sometimes the schools themselves would raise a portion of the funds by printing books and selling them, and occasionally the private sector would donate money to support the students.

However, as the school grows in size and the number of students increases, the amount of funding required becomes larger, and it is difficult to maintain these unstable incomes, often making ends meet.

Immediately in the first year of Qianxing, an official of the Guozijian asked the imperial court to give Yanzhou Prefecture ten hectares of school land as a study grain, and since then the school field system has been opened.

Before the Song Dynasty, the measures to solve the education expenses in the previous dynasties were temporary and expedient, and no relatively stable guarantee mechanism was established, and the emergence of the school field system provided a good material foundation for the popularization of culture and the prosperity of education.

Of course, the school land was not cultivated by the teachers and students themselves, but rented to tenants for land rent.

At the beginning, it was allocated from the local official fields, and usually the prefecture was mostly ten hectares, the general state capital was mostly five hectares, and the county school was mostly two hectares.

This income is relatively stable, but one hectare of land is 100 acres, and the land rent received is not much, and it is gradually unable to support it.

For the magistrates of the Song Dynasty, education was the greatest political achievement, so the local government began to do its best to collect money from the monks, often awarding the property of the extinct or unclear property to the school, in addition to confiscated temple land, converting other forms of public land, donations from wealthy households, or using the surplus of the local treasury to buy land, and sometimes the school would also raise its own funds to buy land.

As a result, there are more and more study fields, and it has become the largest one in the public field, and there are more than 31,000 acres under the name of Pingjiang Mansion alone, and the annual rent is 50,000 yuan.

For example, a professor who has a formal rank of scholar is given by the imperial court, and generally does not study

It is paid from the school funds.

There are two main types of government and school expenses, one is the food expenses and allowances for students, which account for the vast majority, and the allowances include lamp oil money, charcoal money, pen and ink textbook money, etc., to ensure the living needs of students.

The second is miscellaneous expenses, including daily maintenance costs, wages for ungraded academic officials and handymen, purchase of books, and various administrative expenses.

Xuetian is the main source of these funds, it can be said that there is no field to stand, without Xuetian, the school will not be able to exist, so the school officials are naturally very concerned.

The school property of the official school still belongs to the imperial court in essence, and the school field is also a part of the official field, which is naturally also in Zhao Mengqi's restructuring plan.

After the restructuring, the school lost the management and control of the school field, and whether it could guarantee stable income became a problem.

In the eyes of the scholars, it is best to maintain the status quo, but Zhao Mengqi obviously disagrees, but if it is not handled well and the students of the world cannot be satisfied, then the vast majority of scholars will become opponents of his governance.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Zhao Mengqi said slowly, "In Lone's opinion, the Xuetian system is good, but now there are many shortcomings and hidden dangers.

"Lone believes that the most basic principle to prevent tax evasion is that all fields in the world must pay taxes, even the official fields of the Huangzhuang should be the same, and only by eliminating the existence of privileged fields can we avoid female gangsters from taking advantage of loopholes, of course, this must strengthen grassroots management and put all fields under the control of the government, that is, to increase the number of officials, which will undoubtedly increase administrative costs."

When Professor Zeng heard this, he was very surprised, and couldn't help but question, "Your Highness, as the biggest malpractice of our dynasty, the three redundancies are well known, and countless virtuous ministers and capable officials are trying to eliminate them, why does Your Highness want to do the opposite and aggravate the disadvantages of redundant officials!?"