It's just that if you really want to provide free education and even free accommodation from an early age like Li Wei said, the cost is too much, and the talents that Daming needs are not one or two, and the treasury can't afford to train so many readers!

His current Guozixue, including the Guozijian and local government schools after the Ming Dynasty, is actually strictly speaking just an educational management institution, which directly recruits scholars who have learned through examinations, mainly with management as the mainstay, supplemented by teaching, which is equivalent to the Ministry of Education in later generations, mainly responsible for teaching materials and organizing examinations.

These places don't recruit some children to teach from scratch, and if they want to study, they still have to rely on their own families to provide for them.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang also provided a lot of benefits to these scholars, such as scholarships, various privileges, and tax exemptions, etc., but these are for outstanding students, which need to be examined, and it is difficult!

Most of the scholars who get these preferential treatment will only feel that they have earned them by their own efforts, not the emperor's gifts, and Zhu Yuanzhang can't afford to pay for it.

After thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Then you go to Jianbei, we didn't stop you." ”

Anyway, he is not going to give this money, Li Wei's little Jiujiu he can see it at a glance, if you want us to build an academy for you, you have to give you a fortune, what do you want?

Li Wei's face changed slightly, and he said unwillingly: "Your Majesty, I am also cultivating talents for the Ming Dynasty, do you mean it?" ”

Li Wei rubbed his fingers, this gesture must have been obvious.

"Huh!"

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, we haven't robbed yet, you still want to fool us?

In fact, what Li Wei said is not right, this is indeed cultivating talents for Daming, but just like the scholars cultivated by the family are more loyal to the family, the people cultivated by Li Wei will definitely be closer to Li Wei in the future, so if he is asked to pay, he will be cheating him.

The Minghuang Chamber of Commerce is so profitable now, at the end of the year, this dog thing will definitely be able to share a lot, so he won't pay this money for him, as for himself to share more, isn't that what it should be?

Seeing that he was not fooled, Li Wei thought about it and fought again: "Why don't I transfer money and food from the Chamber of Commerce?" Your Majesty, these people will be the pillars of the Ming Dynasty in the future, it is not easy for me to cultivate talents for the Ming Dynasty for free, if you let me build the academy at my own expense, then I won't do it! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it with a cold face, if it is the Chamber of Commerce that pays for it, crowns it with a royal name, and then sends a good son to lead a dean, well, this is okay!

"Okay, then let's pay from the Chamber of Commerce, but this academy is also ours, like the Chamber of Commerce, we can let whoever we want to be in this dean."

Li Wei pursed his lips after hearing this, he is really an iron rooster, and he doesn't eat at all.

"Okay, okay, but I have the final say in this aspect of teaching, and you know, Your Majesty, what I want to teach is different from what you have now."

"Yes!"

Zhu Yuanzhang readily agreed, turned his head and said to Zhu Biao: "Biao'er, when this academy is established, you will serve as a dean, and in the future, this will be the place to cultivate talents for our old Zhu family." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Li Wei again: "You can be a deputy." ”

Li Wei: "......"

He originally thought that the academy would let him be the dean like the Chamber of Commerce, and Zhu Yuanzhang would send someone to supervise it, but he didn't expect this old man to directly send a good man over to press on him.

"The retainers obey."

Zhu Biao is very happy to be this dean, after all, he is teaching and educating people, and he likes it.

Seeing that the father and son didn't ask his opinion and it was finalized, Li Wei could only reluctantly agree, what could he do, he was just a little waiter.

After leaving the palace, Li Wei hurried to the Ordnance Bureau again, there is still a lot of work waiting for him, these in the court delayed his efforts for several days, it was really annoying!

The generator and voltage regulator have been built, and when Li Wei left, he "borrowed" his multimeter from Zhu Yuanzhang and went to debug it.

Now the wire he uses is still red copper, in fact, as long as the thick point, brass can also be used to make wires, just like some black-hearted manufacturers in later generations, the copper bar with the rated current of 100 amperes, in order to reduce the cost of secretly changing to brass, relying on the current when people usually use it can not reach 100 ampere, there will be no problem, and in fact, once it reaches 100 ampere, it is easy to heat up or even catch fire, and the safety hazard is great.

Li Wei is also making up for use now, and when there are conditions in the future, he will build an electrolytic copper workshop to make copper, and there will be electricity anyway.

After debugging the generator, Li Wei went to see the coke oven and steelmaking furnace again, the coke oven has been built, just waiting to try, the steelmaking furnace was built earlier, most of them have been completed, but there is no motor, and the molten iron has to be manually stirred when it enters the converter.

The disadvantages of manual stirring are relatively big, one is that people are more hard, so hot.

Second, the stirring speed is unstable and uneven, and it is difficult to grasp the carbon content of the steel, and the quality will be very worrisome.

Try it first, make a few furnaces to choose the right steel to make magnets, with magnets there are good generators and motors, and the stirring work can be driven by motors.

After a busy afternoon, Li Wei rushed home in the evening, and the current progress of the project made him very dissatisfied, blaming those traitors in the court, always making trouble for him, really delaying things!

"Hey, I have a headache!"

After entering the hospital, Li Wei sighed with his hand on his forehead.

At this time, Xiaoqing came out of the next room, and when she saw him like this, she thought he was sick: "Master, what's wrong with you?" ”

When Li Wei heard the voice, he immediately transferred his hand from his head to his buttocks, almost reflexively:

"Ouch, my ass hurts......"

Xiaoqing: "......"

The next morning, Li Wei and the human alarm clock came to the noon gate together, only to see that there were already many civil ministers and military generals here, waiting to open the door.

Li Wei was surprised to find that those ministers who rode horses and sat in sedan chairs in the past actually came over with their legs today, and there was no one who sat in a sedan chair! There are only a lot of horseback riders on the general's side.

Lao Zhu is a housekeeper, he has to take care of everything, and there are clear regulations on sedan chairs, whether it is the people or the ministers of the court, they must be old, weak, sick and disabled to sit in a sedan chair, others advocate horseback riding, no horse riding a donkey, of course, you are poor and you have legs, that is okay.

Li Wei is not poor, he is legged because he can't ride a horse, as a dead poor house in the new century, he can't even drive a car, how can he ride a horse?

Of course, some older officials in the DPRK and China are qualified to sit in a sedan chair, but today they would rather hold their legs and let people hold them, and they can't walk and crawl, and they resolutely refuse to sit in a sedan chair anymore!

These civil and military ministers were in groups of threes and twos, waiting to open the door and check in, chatting in whispers.

Li Wei glanced around, pulled over a familiar official and asked, "My lord, why didn't you ride a horse today?" ”

"Humph!"

The official glared at him angrily, shook off his hand vigorously, turned and walked a few steps away, and continued to glare away from him!

Li Wei pursed his lips, looked around again, and saw that Zhao Ben and Zhang Zongyi of the military department were huddled together and talking about something, and it was not a good thing to look at it secretly.

Li Weiwei walked over and said, "Lord Zhao, Lord Zhang, what are you talking about?" ”

Zhao Ben and Zhang Zongyi were originally chatting about how to deal with him, a traitor, but when they saw him coming over, they immediately kept silent.

Now among the Wenchen, there are only two of them who are relatively normal Shangshu, and the others are either acting or vacant, and Si Si doesn't care about anything, not to mention Xue Xiang, only the two of them can take the lead in dealing with Li Wei.

"It's none of your business what we're talking about, is there something wrong with Master Li? If it's okay, please take care of yourself! ”

Zhang Zongyi frowned and said unhappily.

He meant to let Li Wei get away, but Li Wei was thick-skinned: "Why didn't the two adults come on horseback today?" Isn't it tiring to walk around like this? ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ben and Zhang Zongyi both turned dark, you dog thief still have the face to ask this!

"Humph! Treacherous! ”

Zhang Zongyi threw his sleeves and left, Zhao Ben also glared at him, followed and left, changed places, and the two continued to chat.

Li Wei cut off, and was about to continue looking for the next target, but Han Yike next to him couldn't stand it anymore, so he pulled him and said, "Master Li, it's not too early, it's time to go on a shift in a while, don't run around anymore!" ”

"It's okay, it's still early."

Li Wei casually said a perfunctory word, and then moved on to the next goal.

Han Yike saw that he had been cold-faced twice in a row and looked like he was looking for a scolding, so he decisively distanced himself from him and stopped following.

"Yo, that's not ...... Shangshu-sama? Are you so old that you haven't retired yet? ”

Li Wei came to the front of the Stranger, but due to his own cultural level, he was unable to call the surname of the Stranger. He remembered this old man, the first time he entered the court, it was this old man who took the lead in playing him, it was his first time, he can't forget it!

Grace's face changed slightly, and he forced out a smile: "It's coming, it's coming!" ”

"Why didn't Lord Shangshu sit in a sedan chair today? At your age, Your Majesty won't blame you for sitting in a sedan chair. ”

He twitched his cheeks, and said in his heart, I am afraid that you will join my sedan chair from unknown sources.

"It's all rented, and recently the family's expenses have been tight, so I haven't rented anymore." Saying that, he changed the topic and said, "Oh yes, I still have something to do here, Master Li stays." ”

After saying that, he slipped away with his legs and feet, Li Wei looked at his quick appearance and generously praised him.

Then Li Wei asked others again.

"Why didn't this lord ride a horse today?"

"Why didn't this adult sit in a sedan chair today?"

"Why is this adult still being held? How much are these two servants a month? ”

……

Wherever Li Wei went, the crowd there immediately dispersed, accompanied by a faint sound of scolding, Li Wei didn't care, walking here, looking there, like a drop of dish soap dripping into the brush pot water, squeezing out a piece of greasy (art comes from life).

After turning around, Li Wei suddenly found a sneaky figure, and immediately shouted:

"Sun Jian, what are you hiding, come out for me!"

Sun Jian trembled, and stubbornly emerged from behind Zhao Jun, Xue Xiang and the others.

"I've seen Master Li!"