There are only one thousand two hundred private schools, and the construction cost is at least 1,000 taels per silver. Here is a full 1.2 million taels. This is just building the private schools, and this step is the easiest.

The hardest thing lies in the personnel.

How many literate talents in the entire Qin Empire can support such a huge number of private schools?

This is something that even if you have money, you can't buy it.

Even if there are so many scholars who are willing to teach in private schools, one private school has two men and two thousand four hundred people. The salary of these people, the annual maintenance costs of the private schools, the pen, ink, paper and ink for children to study...

Li Chen asked Xu Changqing to roughly estimate that the husband's expenses are at least ten taels of silver a year, and the children's expenses are at least three taels of silver a year.

After all the expenses are totaled, the court must invest at least 10 million taels of silver every year to support compulsory education.

What was the national tax revenue in the Qin Empire in the last year?

Three million taels of silver, and grain taxes are calculated as silver, the entire annual income of the entire Qin Empire will not exceed 20 million taels of silver.

Of these 20 million taels, 70% of them are food, which needs to support all the expenditures of the entire country, and are short of money every year.

With the addition of 10 million taels of cash bank expenditure, the Qin court will be dragged down instantly.

So judging from the current situation, this matter is impossible.

The loopholes in the money house some time ago, the two million taels alone almost made Li Chenhuo burn his eyebrows. If Zhao Xuanji hadn't taken out the money to settle it, the court would have gone bankrupt.

Even Li Chen had no way to make money out of thin air, nor could he let the people in the world do not have money to do things for themselves for free.

The embarrassment of the cook without rice made Li Chen realize his whimsical imagination. He was completely cheated by the time-travel novels and TV series in his previous life. The protagonists often were all about what Qianqiu Daye thought of, but when it came to reality, Li Chen realized how ridiculous the protagonists of those cool stories were.

The girl in front of her kept looking at Li Chen with her shiny eyes, which made Li Chen even more embarrassed.

After traveling through time, this was the first time that Li Chen was so embarrassed that he didn't know how to get back to someone else's words... He was the only one who scared others so much that he couldn't speak.

With a dry cough, Li Chen said honestly and sincerely: "This... may take a long time to do it, because the court does not have that much money."

The girl blinked and asked curiously: "Does it cost money to study?"

“I want it.”

Li Chen smiled and said, "You need money in private schools, and you also need money to find a teacher. Let you come to study and buy pens, ink, paper and inkstones. All of these cost money."

The girl tilted her head and thought for a while, feeling a little disappointed.

Li Chen said in a gentle voice: "But the court is already trying to solve this problem, you can give us some more time."

The girl's eyes lit up and said, "That's great. I want to study too, but my mother said that girls don't need to read so many books. Actually, I know that it's because the family has no money. When my father and mother quarreled last time, I heard my mother blame her father for spending money and saying that she wanted to save some money and save it for me as a dowry, but I still want to study more than a dowry."

As soon as these words were spoken, the adults around them burst into laughter.
Chapter completed!