The two princes couldn't raise so many students for nothing.

And in addition to his more than 2,000 students, he also has a Li Jia Shan Tang, which is also thousands of people.

Some people left to go to Royal Logistics, and many people chose to work in snack workshops.

Because the Lai Ka Shan Tang only provides accommodation and food, and will not give extra silver.

Even if some people have a broken leg or a missing arm, they can still do some simple work, so he arranged for these people to work in the Li family's snack shop.

However, the eating and drinking of these people is still under the control of Shantang, and with the arrival of the Xishan Provincial Injury, there are now more than 1,500 people in Shantang.

The food and drink of so many people is a large amount of consumption every day.

Moreover, unlike the school hall and the benevolent hall, the orphanage faces children and even infants, and if they are not taken care of and die, it will bring their reputation to the poor.

Therefore, if an orphanage is opened, the manpower must be arranged sufficiently to minimize accidents.

This is another expense.

It's not easy to raise people.

At this time, he can really empathize with Sheng Hong, Sheng Hong raises Dasheng's forbidden army, local garrisons and officials, awesome!

After listening to Li Qiao's analysis, although he was in a heavy mood, Li Qiao was telling the truth, and he agreed with Li Qiao to lower the standard of food and accommodation in the orphanage.

But the exact extent of this will have to be discussed.

The husband and wife discussed for a few days, and in mid-November, when Jiang Mao and Li Xiaolan returned to Beijing, the two of them finally finalized the final standards.

In eating this piece, every meal is coarse grain, and only during the festival will fine grain be given.

Moreover, all the children who enter the orphanage must not only be literate, but also work for the Li family. Either go to work in the Zhuangzi, or do some embroidery work and housework, anyway, you can't eat for nothing.

Of course, these orphans can regret it, and if they can't adapt to life in the orphanage, they have the freedom to leave.

But once you leave, you can't enter the orphanage again.

When the children in the orphanage reach the age of fifteen, they have to leave the orphanage and can no longer occupy the place in the orphanage, because the number of places in the orphanage is limited.

As for what these orphans can do after they leave the orphanage, it depends on the choice of these people.

If they are of good character during the orphanage, then Li Qiao can arrange for them to work in their own shops and villages.

If he cheated and cheated during the orphanage, then Li Qiao refused to provide such a person with a job.

In order to prevent being kidnapped by morality, Li Qiao formulated an overlord clause.

The number of beds in the orphanage is limited, and every child who enters the orphanage will be strictly vetted to make sure that the child has no father, no mother, and no one to rely on, and then he can enter the orphanage.

If someone is found to have deliberately abandoned a child, the orphanage will report it to the authorities.

Moreover, once the quota of the orphanage is full, the orphanage will no longer accept orphans, no matter how pitiful and scolding others will be, he will harden his heart and not ask.

After the news that Li Qiao was going to open an orphanage was announced, it set off a lot of waves in Shengjing.

In fact, all dynasties have special policies for orphans, and some dynasties will set up special officials, and will also reduce some taxes for the families who adopt orphans.

The Salesian Bureau was also established in the previous dynasty to take in homeless orphans.

After the establishment of Dasheng, the Sheng family father and son have not had time to free up manpower to do this, and now Li Qiao wants to build an orphanage.

Gee.

Tsk tsk.

What a good opportunity to gather the hearts of the people, Sheng Hong actually handed over such an important channel to Li Qiao.

The saint is really relieved, and he is not afraid that Li Qiao's prestige among the people is too high.

However, for the people at the bottom, Li Qiao's move opened the door for them to live and showed them a way to live.

From now on, some of the displaced children will have a place to stay, which is a great merit.

Before everyone could recover from the shock that Li Qiao was going to open an orphanage, Li Qiao and the Seventh Prince, the Great Prince, the Fourth Prince, and the Sixth Prince announced a big news at the same time.

They are to open a free private school in their respective provinces, which only allows children from poor families to enroll, and the private school does not charge any fees, and there are no requirements for students' grades, all depending on personal efforts and understanding.

However, if the grades are particularly excellent, the five of them will fund for these students to take the road of the imperial examination - the sixth prince learned that the seventh prince, the eldest prince, and the fourth prince were going to open a free private school, and actively joined.

As soon as this news came out, it attracted a lot of discussions.

A free private school for the poor?

Forehead...... This shouldn't cost much silver, you just need to provide the venue and the master, and you don't have to worry about food and accommodation.

In addition, I had to go to the private school every day for a month to study seriously before I was provided with a small amount of straw paper and cheap pen and ink.

In fact, it didn't cost much money at all.

However, this move provides a chance for children from poor families to step into private schools and give them a chance to change their fate.

Whether you can catch it or not depends on the individual.

It's better than nothing.

In the past, private schools were a sacred place for children from poor families that would be out of reach for a lifetime.

Now the threshold for studying has been greatly lowered, and children from poor families have a chance to rise as long as they work hard.

Pretty good.

However, Li Qiao actually announced the news with several princes, tsk, saying that Li Qiao is half a prince, it is really not wronged.

However, several princes have acted together, why don't you see the second prince?

This time, the second prince did not participate.

Because the second prince had already begun to mess up, he had already made it clear that he didn't want to be the emperor, and as a result, his father had to come up with a question to force him to compete for the Divine Decree.

He couldn't refuse.

In order to show that he really had no intention of competing for the throne, this time in the free private school, even if the four princes and the seven princes had to pull him up, even if Sheng Hong specifically asked him, he waved his hand and refused.

He doesn't do that.

He is not interested in government affairs, and he does not have a strong sense of responsibility for the people, so he will not engage in this kind of welfare for the poor people.

He showed with practical actions that he wanted to withdraw from the struggle for the throne!

The second prince refused again and again, and Sheng Hong really couldn't force the second prince to do it, so the second prince fell behind in the matter of free private school, and did not act with several princes.

After the announcement of the opening of a free private school, the next step was to take action.

Since you choose to open a free private school in a province, you can't just open a private school, at least you must open a free private school in every county in your province.

This is also the common agreement of Li Qiao and several princes.

At the very least, it is necessary to ensure that every county has a free private school.

If you want to open a private school, you must at least buy a big house.

People who don't know the truth think that they can't spend much money, but in fact, if you calculate carefully, it's a lot of money.

Although the house in the county town is not expensive, it cannot afford to build a large mansion that is needed.

On the side of Yuanhe Province, the entire Hexi Province did not need this benefit, so Li Qiao wrote letters to the prefects of other provinces in Yuanhe Province, asking these prefects to buy houses for him and hire masters.

On the side of Weiqing County, he handed over the matter to Li Gu.

Li Gu had long planned to go back to Pingcheng, but as a result, things in Weiqing County were accumulating more and more, and he couldn't find a chance to go home.

Therefore, Li Qian wrote in the letter this time that the affairs of the wharf in Weiqing County could be handed over to Zhao Mancang and Li Dong and his wife to manage, and Li Dong was not too young, so it was time to take charge alone.

At the beginning of the month, a heavy snowfall lasted for two days, almost causing a snow disaster, and the temperature suddenly cooled.

Sheng Hong simply gave all the officials an early holiday, and Li Qiao didn't have to enter the palace every day, just go once every three days.

So since he became an official, Li Qiao took annual leave so early for the first time.

But the weather is very cold, people don't have to go to the street, although the Li family shop is not closed, but Li Dashan, Li Ershan, Li Xiaoshan, Li Shu and others don't go to the shop every day, they are like Li Qiao, they have to go when they are empty.

Li Xiaoshan and Brother Liu are about to get married, and the family stays at home to work on this matter.

After Li Xiaolan returned to Beijing, she lived in the Jiang family's house, and everyone in the Jiang family was either in their hometown, or went to Jiangshu Province with Governor Jiang, she didn't need to serve her in-laws, and she didn't have concubines, plus Jiang Mao also had a holiday, she only felt that the days were as beautiful as soaking in a honey pot.

Her parents, including a bunch of relatives, think she's stupid, but is she stupid?

She's not stupid at all.

followed Jiang Mao to the countryside and entered the village, facing the scorching heat and braving the severe cold, the days seemed bitter, but compared to the days before she was seven years old, what was this?

She still remembers the situation of her family when she was a child, because she was young, she did not need to work in the fields, but all the housework in the family fell on her, cooking, laundry, feeding chickens and pigs, cleaning the yard, etc., and she was not idle all day long.

Now she just needs to walk around with Jiang Mao.

Stayed in a big carriage or inn.

In terms of eating, Jiang Mao didn't wronged her at all, even if it was to gnaw dry food, it had to be accompanied by roast chicken and braised pork.

If she happened to be eating at the farmer's house that day, Jiang Mao would definitely pay the money for the farmer to slaughter the chickens and ducks, and make sure that she was satisfied.

In addition to eating and drinking, her relationship with Jiang Mao has also warmed up a lot.

Jiang Mao is in charge of the work of supervising grain, and she grew up in the countryside, although she doesn't have much time to do farm work, she can also be on the channel with Jiang Mao, and she will not make an embarrassment of talking about chickens and ducks.

Jiang Mao did not despise her, and when she met something she didn't understand, Jiang Mao would explain to her patiently.

And she can read and hyphenate, in addition to crops, she can also talk a few lines of poetry with Jiang Mao.

When I was on the road, it was a flat cement road, so I could read a book in a horse-drawn carriage.

Jiang Mao would read with her.

cough, it's the kind of reading she snuggles up in Jiang Mao's arms, and Jiang Mao's broad shoulders completely cover her.

When it comes to night, Jiang Mao will also hold her to sleep and will not share the bed with her.

This was the case before Governor Jiang was promoted.

The same was true after Governor Jiang was promoted.

Jiang Mao treated her consistently, never perfunctory once.

Before parting from her mother in Jibei Province, her mother prayed that if Jiang Mao's tenderness towards her was all pretended, then she hoped that Jiang Mao could pretend to be a lifetime.

That's what she thought, too.