Chapter 761 Has Your Majesty thought about running a school?
"So, Gao Ming's performance on the battlefield satisfied Xuan Ba?"
Li Shimin slowly picked up a glass of warm wine and drank it in one gulp.
"Your Majesty is not satisfied?"
Li Xuan asked.
"this……"
Li Shimin was stunned. He couldn't say that as an emperor who was about to conquer the world, he also hoped that the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty would be a military general with unparalleled valor in battle!
Looking at Li Shimin's expression, Li Xuan guessed what Li Shimin was thinking.
"Your Majesty, the battle between bombs and muskets is unparalleled. Just a bomb planted in front of the city can directly destroy the 200,000 elite Tibetan troops and directly kill 100,000 troops.
Each of our armies only has more than 10,000 elite soldiers, but they can capture the city and territory in Tuyuhun. They are invincible and conquerable. The entire city and soldiers of Tuyuhun are like paper.
Your Majesty thinks that after the advent of bombs and muskets, is strategy or personal bravery more important on the battlefield now?"
"Furthermore, despite your many years of reign, Your Majesty has personally gone to the battlefield and led troops to fight in battles?"
"Gao Ming is the prince of the Tang Dynasty. He only needs to know people and use them well. And this time he goes to the battlefield. He just needs to experience for himself how the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty conquered those barbarian countries and how cruel it will be on the battlefield.
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As for the rest, Your Majesty, please don’t ask for too much!”
Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
"Come, Your Majesty, have a drink!"
Seeing this, Li Xuan picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
After regaining consciousness, Li Shimin also picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one gulp.
Um?
Suddenly, Li Shimin looked at Li Xuan's eyes that started to move around, and his whole body tightened subconsciously, knowing that Li Xuan wanted to drive him away again!
"Xuanba, I was outside just now, and I thought I saw you bringing back more than fifty scholars? Are you short of scholars in your village?"
Hearing this, Li Xuan swallowed the words that were about to hit his throat again.
"Your Majesty, would you believe me if I said that I just want to find husbands for the older girls in the village?"
Li Shimin: "..."
"Your Majesty, I am indeed looking for husbands for the daughters of those farmers!"
Li Xuan said.
Seeing that Li Xuan was so serious, Li Shimin also believed it and nodded slightly.
"Your Majesty is short of scholars?" Li Xuan asked thoughtfully.
"well!"
What was rare for Li Xuan was that Li Shimin frowned.
"Xuanba doesn't know that with the conquest of the four kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Tuyuhun, those aristocratic families took away a lot of scholars. Now, the officials in the various states and counties of the Tang Dynasty have begun to be in short supply.
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The officials complain to me every day, and in two years we will have no officials available in the Tang Dynasty!"
"snort!"
Hearing this, Li Xuan snorted, "Your Majesty, there are so many aristocratic families in the world, and there are so many children from the aristocratic families, why are there no officials available? It must be that those aristocratic families have some evil intentions and want to use this to blackmail the imperial court!"
"So, I will start the spring examination this year!"
Li Shimin said bitterly.
"Has Your Majesty ever thought of setting up a school?"
Li Xuan asked.
"School?"
Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and then he understood what Li Xuan meant: "Xuanba, now Chang'an alone has the Imperial College, the Imperial College, the Hongwen Hall, and the Chongwen Hall in the East Palace. In addition, each state has a state school, and a county has a county school!
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"If you put it this way, there are nearly 2,000 states and counties in the Tang Dynasty. If a county school provides His Majesty with ten students every year, it can provide more than 20,000 students in a year!"
Li Xuan said slowly, "And in the entire Tang Dynasty, I wonder if there are 20,000 officials?"
In the Tang Dynasty, various official departments were very streamlined, so there were very few officials in the entire Tang Dynasty.
The reason why the treatment of these officials in the Tang Dynasty was so much higher than that of other dynasties was because the number of officials in the entire Tang Dynasty was as much as half less than that of officials in other dynasties.
In addition, Li Shimin was also very stingy. He created his own public money system, which was to conduct a thorough investigation of the wealthy merchants in the entire Tang Dynasty every three years, and then levy a special property tax on wealthy merchant families with a certain amount of property.
Rich businessmen paid taxes to support officials.
Li Xuan heard all this from Li Chengqian, Wang Xuance and others, so he also knew that Li Shimin, who seemed to be very generous to his ministers and nobles, actually had such a side behind his back!
Not only are there few officials, but they are also reluctant to give money!
Li Shimin was startled, then sighed softly again, "Xuanba doesn't know something, that's what he said, but how many students can the prefecture school and the county school recruit, and how many children from poor families can be among them?
Even the fact that there are five children from poor families in a county school is already quite extraordinary. Most of the rest are children from wealthy businessmen and aristocratic families!
Now, as the Tang Dynasty is conquering those foreign countries, these aristocratic families and wealthy businessmen are also starting to make moves..."
"I see!"
Li Xuan understood.
After thinking about it slowly, he looked at Li Shimin and said, "With those aristocratic families establishing kings and founding countries in places like Goguryeo and Tuyuhun, Your Majesty must have made a lot of money!"
"Make a fortune?"
Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but be startled and looked at Li Xuan with some confusion.
"Your Majesty must have sold it for at least 30 to 40 million yuan!" Li Xuan said directly.
"No no……"
Only then did Li Shimin react and shook his head repeatedly.
"A large part of it was exchanged for pig iron, iron ore, and fertile land!"
"In this case, you should have more than 20 million yuan!"
Li Xuan said.
"There is!"
Li Shimin nodded slowly.
"In this case, Your Majesty can consider building a school in each major city!" Li Xuan said.
"Build another school?"
Li Shimin was a little confused.
"Exactly!"
Li Xuan nodded slowly, "These newly built schools in the state cities were built with His Majesty's own money. The students enrolled in them are all from poor families, and these children from poor families also need to take exams if they want to enter.
Those who have deficient moral character, are stupid, greedy for money, or have different intentions will not be admitted! After these students have completed their studies, they can enter the imperial court and become officials of the Tang Dynasty!"
Hearing this, Li Shimin's eyes lit up.
"Xuanba's intention is that I will build a state school with my own money, and first enroll students with good qualifications from each state into my state school, so that after they have achieved success in their studies, these children from poor families can come out and become officials directly?"
"Exactly!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly: "In the past, many well-qualified children from poor families, after their enlightenment, most of them were accepted by a number of aristocratic families!
Now, as things stand, the children from humble families taught by Your Majesty’s State Academy will be the most loyal to Your Majesty without the involvement of aristocratic families!”
"Of course, Your Majesty wants those well-qualified children from poor families to take the initiative to come to the state school run by Your Majesty. Then Your Majesty's school also needs to have a number of great scholars or good teachers in charge!"
"Then how much money do I need to spend just to establish these state schools?"