"The old minister obeys!" Li Shan said.

This is the first time in history that this is the first time in history that Confucianism has been eliminated. If you can do it well, it will definitely go down in history in the future. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Later generations of history books will record that Li Shanchang is a great educator who carried out natural science education and the first person in the history of China for thousands of years." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for cultivating!" Hearing the big cake that Zhu Yuanzhang painted for him, Li Shanchang's excited voice trembled.

And Li Shanchang judged through his own wisdom that this big cake is really possible one day. Because we have all seen the contribution of natural sciences to the development of society.

As long as they are not stupid, people can see that natural science will definitely become the mainstream in the future.

Confucianism's study of human feelings will be eliminated.

Seeing that Li Shanchang actually got such a good errand, the ministers were envious.

In ancient times, the greatest pursuit of a scholar in his life was to go down in history. Even the enjoyment of the Taimiao made them unable to extricate themselves, let alone go down in history in other ways?

In order to go down in history, they even paid whatever it takes.

"While we can't say for sure how big the Himalayas are in the middle of the two ranges, we can guess that it must be difficult to climb and inaccessible to people." Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said,

"The basis for the judgment is some geographical chronicles, sporadic records about the Wusi-Tibet frontier."

"Since we can't get through the overland connection, then this matter will be put aside for the time being."

"Eat the rice one bite at a time."

"It is better to carry out the compulsory education of natural science in the Ming Dynasty first, replacing the Four Books and Five Classics. Then vigorously develop the Dongfeng Iron Dragon and wait for the heavens to transport oil from the sea. ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" Qunchen said.

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As the minister in charge of the compulsory education of natural sciences, Lee Sun-chang immediately took action after receiving the order. A group of ministers were convened to discuss the specific implementation plan.

In order to go down in history, this time he is very active in doing things, and he has the intention of doing a good job with his life.

The first is to convey the holy decree that the provincial schools, state schools, and county schools will vigorously publish the first volumes of mathematics, physics, and chemistry. As the first batch of enlightenment teaching materials, it was distributed to institutions at all levels.

Its version, unified with the Ming version of the textbook, Ming Dynasty Education Press.

Secondly, government-run schools do not charge any fees for the first nine years of schooling.

Third, it is necessary to severely crack down on educational malpractice and cut it down as soon as it is caught.

Universal education in the natural sciences sounds simple, but it is difficult to implement.

The main difficulty lies in the silver.

Imagine, the Ming Dynasty suddenly wants to revise the books, how big is the whole country? All the textbooks in the fifteen provinces must be new, how many textbooks need to be printed?

Can the materials used in papermaking keep up?

Logging, cutting bamboo and paper requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and printing requires a lot of manpower and material resources...... Although the previous Ming Dynasty also printed books, it was not at all on such a huge scale as this time.

In the past, it was enough to print hundreds of thousands of copies of the Four Books and Five Classics, but now tens of millions of sets of books are printed.

Where did such a large sum of money come from?

It's not the treasury yet!

Secondly, because the people of the Ming Dynasty lived a prosperous life, they were all working at full speed to have children. As a result, the number of school-age children studying has increased significantly.

The current Ming Dynasty has hundreds of millions of children.

After four or five years, they are all of school age.

At that time, the expenditure on education will probably be an astronomical amount.

"Li Xiang, this matter is not easy to do!" A scholar from the Hallym Academy said, "The main difficulty is that there is not enough silver. With such a huge amount of expenditure, if all of it were to be taken out of the state treasury, the state treasury would probably not be able to take it out. ”

"Lu Chang, the president of the Golden Bank, is notoriously stingy, and wants to take money from him, as if he was cutting meat from him."

"yes." Another minister said, "Although the Ming Dynasty is now developing rapidly, and the treasury can be called full of silver, the amount of silver spent on the implementation of nine-year compulsory education is too large. ”

"According to the minister's estimate, it will cost at least 40,000 taels of silver."

"No matter how rapid the development of the imperial court is, it can't withstand such a toss."

"The old man knows what the rank said." After listening to everyone's complaints, Li Shanchang said in a deep voice, "The superior didn't let me go to Lu Chang to get the silver when he was at the court meeting, and he probably knew that this expenditure was too big. I don't want to come out of the treasury, and I am afraid of affecting the momentum of Daming's economic take-off, so I will figure it out by myself. ”

"Your Majesty wants to let Li Xiang carry out compulsory education in natural sciences without giving money?" The Hanlin Academy scholars said, "Doesn't this mean that you want the horses to run and not give them grass?" ”

"Who's to say it isn't?" The rest of the Huaixi ministers complained one after another.

"It seems that I can only figure it out by myself." Li Shanchang sighed, "The implementation of compulsory education in natural sciences this time is related to the national economy and people's livelihood, so we must overcome all difficulties, not be afraid of hardships, and complete this arduous task entrusted by His Majesty no matter what." ”

"Yes!" Everyone agreed.

This is an excellent opportunity for Li Shan to leave a name for himself in history, so he has to do a good job with his life. Lao Zhu also seemed to see him on this, so he didn't allocate money to him.

As for whether it can be completed, it depends on Lao Li's ability.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang believes that he can do a good job.

Because things that are vital to people's interests can bring out the best in people.

"Li Xiang, having said that, how can we overcome all difficulties?" One minister raised his own question, "Without money, nothing can be done." No matter how hard we try, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. ”

"Yes, even if we take out all our belongings, it won't be enough for half of the money we need to spend." Another minister said.

If this matter is successful, Li Shanchang will go down in history, and they will also have the opportunity to go down in history. Therefore, these people worked very hard, and even thought about taking out their own money.

"Superior, this is something that allows us to do tens of thousands of taels of silver with our empty hands!" The last minister lamented, "How can we accomplish it without any reliance?" ”

"We're not empty-handed." Li Shanchang said, "The holy decree is our greatest reliance. ”

"Although the upper position did not specify how much silver the old man would get from Lu Chang, I believe that he would not be able to shirk letting him take a few million taels to support education." Li Shan said.

"A few million taels is not enough!" The minister next to him immediately said.

"For the rest of the big heads, we'll have to find another way to come up with a strange trick." Li Shan said. Li Shanchang is worthy of being the first minister of the Ming Dynasty, under the persecution of vital interests,

He was so excited by his infinite potential that he finally came up with a brilliant solution.