"It has been about ten years since the father's father's digs into the mu. In the past ten years, due to the redistribution of certain means of production, the lower class people have been much better, resulting in the emergence of baby booms.

"In addition to the previous infants and toddlers, the total number of newborn babies to under thirteen is about 78 million.

"Because the country was unstable in the first half of the rule of the father, the unrest eliminated a lot of middle-aged and elderly people, the remaining adults, most of whom were under the age of forty.

"The number of elderly people over fifty years old is less than 5% of the total population, and the degree of aging in the entire society is very low.

"Under this situation, the adult population maintains sufficient fertility, and coupled with the relatively relaxed social environment at this moment, the population will continue to rise. After all, in an agricultural society, a population is a productivity, and there is no reason not to be born.

"About the whole, the number of babies may increase to more than 100 million in the next few years, and optimistically it may reach 120 million school-age population.

"If all these people are educated and the government organizes a meal, people will probably be happy to send school-age children to school."

After calculating the possible educated population, Lin Zhibai then began to calculate the consumption: "There are currently about 50 million school-age children suitable for schooling. If I hold compulsory education at this moment, I will take care of a meal every day.

"According to the standard of eating fullness, the quota for three cents per meal should be enough. Then the daily consumption of compulsory education for 50 million people is 150,000 taels of silver, and a year is 54.75 million taels.

"By the principle of sufficient book fees, you can save as much as possible. According to the configuration of thirty people in a class, each set of books and one teacher, you can use a sand table to practice calligraphy, and the textbooks can be recycled. At most, two million sets are enough for the first year to use.

"If you build a workshop to print, even if you add transportation costs and the subsequent increase in enrollment population, you will eventually want to manufacture and distribute all these books, and it will not exceed five million taels of silver every year, so you will calculate it at five million.

"Then there is the teacher's salary. If you want to teach so many students, you have to prepare a team of teachers of at least one million. Each person's salary is calculated by 2 taels per month, and it is also 24 million taels a year.

"The end is the school's venue, tables and chairs, which can be donated to gentry from all over the country, and everyone is happy to contribute to education.

"Even if a certain initial investment is needed to show the government's determination to promote compulsory education to the people of the world, after the donation of gentry from all over the country comes back, the money spent can be eliminated."

So, finally, if you want to promote the popularization of basic education, you need to invest about 84 million taels of silver every year, and it is not possible to do it well.

According to three years of compulsory education, it is probably not less expensive to literate all students of a generation of school age than to clear the north and south canals.

"After all, the social productivity in the feudal era was too low, which led to the social wealth being tight. It was a hindrance to popularize basic education. Even if I looked very rich, I could only make a beggar version."

Lin Zhibai sighed in his heart.

If you do basic education according to the standards of your previous life, even if you fill in all the money in your hands and the treasury income, it will not be enough. This is the limitation of productivity.

But in the end, he decided to implement this decision.

Reading can be wise.

If the whole nation is literate, even if they go back to farm, they should be better than what they are now. They will find summary in the production process to find more agricultural technologies to increase grain output bit by bit.

Those with talent for learning will also show up in this compulsory learning process. At that time, the government can invest more resources in them to cultivate them and encourage them to become more advanced talents.

If one or two of these people become the kind of scholars with pioneering thinking, they will produce results that are beneficial to the entire society.

Even if Lin Zhibai invested money that was not inferior to the diversion of the North and South Canals in basic education, he would eventually make all the money and profits back.

Even if we put this aside, Lin Zhibai's wave of popularization of basic education policies has immediately found jobs for many scholars in the world.

It also led to the emergence of printing and other jobs, and the wages paid can effectively stimulate consumption. In the end, the tax collection can be collected, and in general, there is no loss.

"Anyway, I don't have much money now. Even if I move the treasury silver into my treasury, it's just a pile of useless stones. It's better to take it out and consume it.

"Only the money in circulation is the real money and can exert its true power."

Lin Zhibai thought about it, and then took a rare time to go to court and announced his resolution.

At the beginning, the ministers and the Supreme Emperor Lin Ze expressed opposition, thinking that the implementation of this resolution would be a huge financial burden.

Although more people can read, more talents can be effectively selected for the country.

Their industry also needs more literate men to help manage it. After literacy in the whole country, they can ensure that they can easily find the right employees and make more money.

It's a good thing in any way.

But this is only from a broad perspective. On the small side, they not only have to ensure the normal operation of the court, but also have to ensure the income of His Majesty the Emperor's treasury.

In this case, it is better to invest more money in the construction of various water conservancy facilities and roads.

As for the court, the increase in transportation and water conservancy facilities can ensure that farmers can continue to grow in the progress of clearing wastelands and ensure a steady increase in treasury revenue.

For them personally, it is also beneficial to invest in the construction of water conservancy facilities and roads.

Many of the land and industries in their hometowns benefited from infrastructure and made a lot of more money. Although the salary of officials is not high and the Hongwei is strictly guarded by them, these additional benefits have made them full of energy.

From the perspective of the Supreme Emperor Lin Ze, he felt that it would be difficult for the people below to fool in the future, which would be unfavorable to the inheritance of the Lin family's country and country.

In this case, although everyone thought Lin Zhibai's decision was good, and the benefits were made in the present and the future, and the promotion of culture and education was very beneficial to the country and the country, everyone still did not support it.

Until Lin Zhibai said: "I pay for it."

In an instant, many ministers looked at each other and knelt down and shouted: "Your Majesty's wise!"
Chapter completed!