Shao Xi agreed to be Liu Xingzhai's protégé actually has another idea, now that he is involved in the internal power struggle of the royal family, no one knows that one day there will be a mistake, if you want to save your life at that time, you can't have only one or two means.

As the two most prestigious scholars in the Jingyuan Empire, if Bai Dinggong and Liu Xingzhai become their mentors, it can be said that they have an absolute advantage in public opinion.

These two old gentlemen's students are all over the world, if one day they need to protect themselves, I am afraid that no one in the world will be able to withstand the pressure of public opinion.

Public opinion building may not be prevalent in this era, but Shao Xi deeply understands how much pressure public opinion can bring to people in the modern world, and it is not uncommon for people to jump off buildings at every turn.

Mastering the guidance of public opinion is equivalent to mastering the right to speak in society, and if you want to help the royal family manage the world as a courtier of the Jingyuan Empire, you can't do without public opinion propaganda.

Similarly, if the royal family wants to attack itself, as long as public opinion is in its own hands, it can in turn exert pressure on the royal family to turn it into a rat against itself.

Shao Xi has no ambitions, but the means of self-preservation are necessary, in addition to his own ability, it is also essential to cultivate his own forces inside and outside the court, and to master the position of public opinion.

The two old and young sat in the study and talked for a while before Bai Dinggong turned around and took a wooden box from the bookshelf and pushed it in front of Shao Xi.

"In the past six months since you left, the income of the paper mill and the printing room has been increasing day by day, and the paper and printed books are in short supply.

"After the expansion, we found that this income has increased several times in half a month, because I don't know what your future plans are, so I didn't dare to continue the expansion, all the income in the past six months is here, including the income of the bookstore that Jinqing they helped you manage, and you can collect it.

"It's up to you to decide where you plan to spend this money, as for me and Mr. Liu, you don't have to think about it, the paper and printing of the books used in the "Governing the World" co-authored by the two of us are ready-made, and it didn't cost us a tael of silver, so this can be regarded as the remuneration of the two of us in the past six months!" Hearing Bai Dinggong's words, Shao Xi was very moved in his heart, these two old gentlemen are more than 100 years old together, and they are still working day and night to help him run the operation of the paper mill and printing room.

Now that he has earned so much money, the two elders don't take a penny, and only count the paper and printing costs of "Governing the World" as their own wages, which makes Shao Xi very unhappy.

As the protégé of the second elder, it is within his own responsibility to fund the publication and publication of the works for the second elder, but now these two old men have become people who work for themselves, which is unreasonable.

So Shao Xi got up and bowed deeply to the two old men, and said seriously: "Although the two are the mentors of the students, they have worked hard for the students' affairs for so long, if they just forget it, how will the students face the world when they go out in the future?"

"Although the initial money of these properties was contributed by students, the two gentlemen put in the most hard work. I don't think it's as good as this, this property will be counted as a share of the two elders, and the two teachers will each have a share, and no matter how much they earn in the future, the two elders can get a share of it.

"In addition, since the two teachers plan to jointly recruit students and protégés to teach abroad, the current scale of this Egret Academy does not seem to be enough, it is better for students to spend a sum of money to expand the Egret Academy.

"In the future, the two gentlemen will be the head of the mountain, jointly manage this college, recruit a large number of literati from all over the world, and implement the theory of governing the world of the two gentlemen, and all the expenses in the college will be borne by the students. When the two old gentlemen heard Shao Xi say this, they were immediately happy, this student of theirs could really think of their hearts in everything.

Both of them are old, and they have really worked hard enough in the past six months, and now Shao Xi said that the two of them will each occupy one percent of the industry, and no matter when this percentage is, no matter how big the industry is, they will share it proportionally.

In this way, the income in the future will definitely rise, and the two old gentlemen will be relieved of their worries about life and can concentrate on their studies.

And the expansion of this Egret Academy is also in line with the wishes of the two, in the future, the Egret Academy plus Shao Xi's Yuyan Hall, it can be said that the entire Jingyuan Empire's education circle is completely monopolized by them.

The two old men glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh, they couldn't imagine that people would be able to realize their lifelong long-cherished wishes in their old age, and it would be in vain.

Seeing that the two gentlemen had no opinion, Shao Xi counted the silver tickets in the wooden box, divided the two of them into two parts, and handed them over to Bai Dinggong and Liu Xingzhai respectively, and promised that all the income in the future would be divided in this way.

Bai Dinggong and Liu Xingzhai looked at the thousands of taels of silver tickets in their hands respectively, and couldn't help but sigh that Shao Xi did have a mind beyond ordinary people.

It not only helps the world's readers solve the problem of not being able to read, but also earns a lot of wealth for themselves, which is the real benefit of others and self-interest.

And the money earned in the future can be used again for this education, so that a virtuous circle is formed, the more people in the world read, the more they earn, and the more they earn, the more they can help more people afford to read.

At this time, the second elder really felt Shao Xi's extraordinaryness, and he alone turned his lifelong wish into reality.

Now in the hearts of the two of them, Shao Xi is like a treasure in their palms, if someone wants to hurt Shao Xi in the future, the two of them will protect each other with their lives even if they do their best.

This is exactly what Shao Xi wants, if the two protégés are all over the world, and the heavyweights who control social public opinion form a binding relationship with themselves to some extent, then they will become a powerful help for themselves when they need it in the future.

Shao Xi knows very well that no amount of money can buy a life, and only by converting this money into social and interpersonal resources can it truly play its due role.

Use money to open the way to networking, and then you can make more money through networking, and more importantly, networking can not only be used to make money, but also can do a lot of things for yourself.

Now that he is in the court, or in the power struggle of the royal family, he is getting deeper and deeper, if everything can be carried out according to his plan and wishes, it is better to say, if one day there is really an accident, maybe the connections he established before will become the straw that saved his life.

Therefore, wealth is enough for oneself, and the extra wealth must be used to help others, and to establish a wide range of connections for oneself, no one knows which person will become a vital existence in their own life one day.

Shao Xi has never been stingy with money, whether it is interacting with people or doing business in partnership, it is to let the other party get enough benefits.

He doesn't expect to get as much as he pays, even a return of only one percent at the most critical moment is enough to help him tide over the crisis, which is Shao Xi's attitude towards wealth all along.

After the three of them each put away the silver tickets, Bai Dinggong said to Shao Xi quite proudly: "You just returned to Daliang City, you shouldn't know yet, right?" This time, Jinqing was fortunate to enter the first class, and now he has served in Guozijian and has been a Guozi assistant teacher from Liupin.

"That Hu Yushan entered the second grade, because of his good results in the re-examination, and now he is also a four-door doctor of Zhengqipin, speaking of which they have changed from classmates to colleagues.

"It's a pity that Han Shaoguang and Zheng Yuanxiu, the two children, only entered the top three, and they have been sent out to be magistrates because of poor re-examinations.

"It's just that these four children who were inseparable in the past now have to belong to two places, and it may be even more difficult to see each other in the future, but fortunately, they all have their own places to go, and it is not in vain that they have studied hard all these years, which is also gratifying." Shao Xi heard it, okay!

Is this really where we don't meet in life? Unexpectedly, his two classmates and friends actually ran to Zhang Chong's territory to be officials.

It seems that when I go to Qingshan County before the end of the year, I can go to Wanxian County again, and it is also a joy of life for a group of old people to meet each other.

Now that Bai Jinqing and Hu Yushan are both officials in Guozijian, they have also taken care of Bai Dinggong's heart, and the place where they work is also a place where a large number of talents can be recruited.

The two of them will definitely be able to recruit a large number of protégés and students in the future, and establish their own official team in the court, so that they can echo with themselves inside and outside in the future, take care of each other, and become a force to be reckoned with in the Jingyuan court.

Thinking of this, Shao Xi couldn't help but ask Bai Dinggong: "I don't know when I can meet Jingqing and Yushan, the students haven't seen them when they come back this time, and they are really missing for more than half a year."

"Now that they are also officials in the court, I am afraid that there will not be too many days to get together in the future, and I just came back, and the saint has not arranged other things for me, and I want to get together with them." Bai Dinggong shook his head helplessly.

"It's different now, it's hard for this kid to see him now, now it's not a free body to enter the court as an official, when he returns to the academy, I'll let him go to the house to find you, you have been apart for so long, and it is true that you should get together, but there is really no way at the moment." Shao Xi also felt helpless when he heard this, having an official body is equivalent to selling himself to the emperor's family, and he can only get together with Bai Jinqing and Hu Yushan when he is free.

When he returned to Kyoto this time, he still had a lot of things to deal with, so Shao Xi didn't stay long, and after greeting the two old gentlemen, Bai Dinggong and Liu Xingzhai, he left the Egret Academy and went directly to Dali Temple.

It's been half a year, and I don't know what progress is being made in Dali Temple?