Chu Mo was convincing, and after finishing speaking, he took the opportunity to throw this question to Liu Shutong and the others: "Do the three adults think that is the royal face important, or is it the people of Chu State who are important?"

The three of them were suddenly embarrassed, looking at each other one by one, and didn't know how to answer for a while.

If it is normal, then they naturally want to answer the importance of the people of Chu State, after all, the people are the foundation of the country. But now, they are using the name of the crown prince to do business and damage the royal face to impeach Chu Mo.

But if they agree, the people of Chu are greater than the royal face, then their impeachment today will naturally be untenable, this is a typical lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot.

Liu Shutong's faces were ugly, and he lowered his head and whispered for a long time, and Liu Shutong stood up again and replied: "What the prince said, Weichen and others dare not agree. In Weichen's heart, the people of Chu are important, but the face of the royal family of Chu is equally important. You can't just throw it away!"

"Neither can be thrown away?" Chu Mo sneered and asked, "Then I want to ask the three adults, in today's situation, is there a way to raise the disaster relief food without damaging the royal face?"

Liu Shu and the others looked stunned, and thought for a while, but they couldn't think of a way to do both.

Chu Mo smiled contemptuously at him and said, "Can't you think of it?" You can't think of it, but you think of it." This way to raise food for disaster relief and save the royal face is to raise this disaster relief fund of more than 3 million taels. ”

"You courtiers, if you can share your Majesty's worries and raise disaster relief food early, why do you have to lick your face and go to the street to do the business to raise disaster relief money? This should be what you courtiers do, you are incompetent and useless, and you can't bear to watch the people of Qingling and Qingling continue to starve to death, so you go to business to raise money. ”

Chu Mo pointed at Liu Shu and the three of them, and angrily accused: "Now that Gu has wiped your butts clean for you, and the disaster relief food has also been raised, you people who are idle and have nothing to do, but instead they beat a rake and ran to your father to complain about Lonely?"

Liu Shu was shocked, and hurriedly explained: "His Royal Highness the Prince, we are all bachelors of Wenyuan Pavilion, and I want to come and only write literature, and this raising funds for disaster relief has always been the business of the household department!"

"The affairs of the people are the affairs of Your Majesty, and your inability as courtiers to share your worries for Your Majesty is your incompetence. I really don't know, what's the use of the imperial court taking out so much money to support you people?" Chu Mo snorted coldly and sneered.

As soon as these words came out, Liu Shu and the others suddenly blushed.

Among the three of them, in terms of status and age, Liu Shutong is the youngest. The other two are literary giants of the Chu State, and in their eyes, they disdain to quarrel with Chu Mo, a fool.

So from just now to now, it has always been Liu Shutong as the spokesman of the representative, constantly arguing with Chu Mo. But they didn't expect that they had obviously come to impeach Chu Mo, but now they were humiliated by Chu Mo's head and face.

The old man's face suddenly couldn't hang up, but he couldn't argue with it.

Because Chu Mo's words do have a certain amount of truth, they can't share the worries of Emperor Chu, and they still have such a high salary from the imperial court, isn't it the so-called corpse vegetarian meal?

Therefore, one of the literary giants, Zhou Xinghong and Zhou scholars, hurriedly said to Emperor Chu: "Your Majesty, I waited for the old minister to do his best to the Chu State and His Majesty, and then died, I never thought that in the mouth of the prince, he would become an incompetent and mediocre person, which is really too cold for the old minister's heart." ”

Liu Shutong next to him also responded: "Yes, Your Majesty, we are all literati, and we are the great scholars of Wenyuan Pavilion." What is in charge, that is, the little thing that the students of the world, today I came to ask to see Your Majesty, in addition to the prince's business, the ministers have another thing, I want to be like Your Majesty. ”

"What else is going on?" Emperor Chu asked with a frown, sitting upright.

Liu Shutong hesitated for a moment before he looked at Zhou Xinghong next to him and said, "This matter is very important. And let Zhou Lao talk about it!"

The white-haired Zhou Xinghong nodded slightly, and then stepped forward and said to Emperor Chu: "Your Majesty, we have united many bachelor's students from Wenyuan Pavilion and discussed it together for a long time. In the end, a set of 'new learning policies' was formulated to improve the problems of the people of our Chu State such as reading and enrollment, so that the people of my Chu State can read books as much as possible, everyone can read, and everyone can read. In this way, the national strength of my Chu State is bound to increase greatly!"

Emperor Chu listened to his words, and nodded silently in agreement: "Reading can be reasonable, the four books and five classics, education and learning, can make people understand etiquette, righteousness and shame." Yes, Zhou Qing, your idea of a 'new learning strategy' is very good, but I don't know if there are concrete and feasible steps?"

"Back to Your Majesty, we already have specific steps, the improvement of the 'new school policy' is divided into three steps, this step is to establish a new school, the second step is to recruit good people to serve as the new school of gentlemen, and the third step is to be ordered by the imperial court, requiring the whole country to be of appropriate age, as well as people who want to study, can enter the school to study. ”

Saying that, this week Xinghong hurriedly took out a fold from his sleeve, raised his hands respectfully on his forehead, and said: "Your Majesty, the specific details, all the details are clearly written in this fold, please look at it." ”

Emperor Chu pointed to Hong Sifeng next to him, Hong Sifeng hurriedly walked over, took the fold handed over by Zhou Xinghong, and then walked to Emperor Chu's side and handed it to Emperor Chu's hand.

Just when Emperor Chu was seriously looking at the content on the fold, Chu Mo sneered in his heart, what is this so-called new learning policy, isn't it compulsory education?

I just want to engage in compulsory education, where is it so easy?

With the current national strength of the Chu State, even if there are ten more Zhou Xinghong, he will definitely not be able to do this so-called 'new learning strategy'.

Sure enough, after Emperor Chu finished reading the recital, the joy on his face receded, and he changed to a sad face, looked at Zhou Xinghong and said, "Zhou Qing, your 'new learning strategy' actually costs five million taels?" But now that the treasury is tight, where can you come up with so many silver taels?"

"Your Majesty, this 'new learning strategy' is related to the future of the Chu State. You can skip the meal, but you must not read the book!" Zhou Xinghong said solemnly.

Chu Mo frowned, and immediately noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What does Master Zhou mean by this?"

Zhou Xinghong glanced at Chu Mo and snorted coldly: "There are droughts and floods every year, and the imperial court spends a lot of money every year to provide disaster relief, so it is better to use the disaster relief money to run a 'new learning policy', which is a supreme achievement that benefits all the people and all generations!"

"Do your mother's new school policy. When Chu Mo heard this, he didn't think about it, but he scolded directly.