Chapter 159 The school's student resources are in crisis! Daming has run out of money!
When Donglin's thugs resigned from the cabinet, they were in a complicated mood. Zhou Yanru didn't care about it and only gave a general concept and let them think of their own solutions.
What is the solution? The only thing that can be used is Donglin's old routine of holding literary conferences, publishing anthologies, and building momentum in Shilin.
The current problem is that most of Donglin’s big bosses are in Nanjing, and there is no one in Beijing who can take matters into their own hands.
If there is a lack of a manager, a very difficult problem will arise. How much money does it cost to do these things? Where does the money come from? Ruan Laogou printed thousands of newspapers at one time in the capital. The cost of a newspaper was more than ten cents.
That is to say, the cost of printing alone is nearly a hundred taels of silver. I heard that Ruan Laogou prints every five days, so it may cost hundreds of taels of silver in a month.
The printed album is not just a big deal, but to collect the contents inside, you have to hold a literary conference. The literary conference cannot be held in just any place, at least it must be held in a famous brothel in the capital, right? You can't invite a famous one.
The top card? Don’t you make the pomp look decent? I’m afraid you won’t be able to get this deal without a few thousand taels of silver?
A few thousand taels of silver is not a small amount, it is a huge amount of money for anyone to pay! The Donglin Party has no fixed funds, no one can come up with this money, and to be honest, ordinary officials are not rich, so let them spend a few dollars at once
Even a thousand taels of silver is no easy task.
Everyone discussed it and decided that the matter had to be done, so let's all contribute to the funding. Each person would contribute a dozen or so taels to the head office? Collect some of the money, and then get some luck from the big guys in the capital to take care of the matter first.
To put it all together, we have to write a letter to the south for the main funds and let the real rich people handle it. We can't fight and spend money at the same time, right?
A few days later, Zhou Yanru received a post at home. The post stated that he was here to fight the autumn wind and asked for sponsorship fees.
"Go and send a hundred taels of silver to Wenhui, and tell them that I won't be attending due to busy state affairs!" Zhou Yanru gave instructions to his staff about the share of capital contribution and asked them to hurry up and implement it.
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"Dong Weng, are you a little short of a hundred taels of silver? The student is afraid that those organizing the meeting will look down upon you."
"It's quite a lot! Let's stay less involved in the cultural meeting. Who knows what will happen in the end! Just give me a hundred taels of silver to show your appreciation. Now I can't see where the wind is blowing.
Now." Zhou Yanru can now basically confirm that the emperor's support for Ruan Dacheng is quite strong and he is deeply involved in the business of Xinmin Times.
The purpose of doing this is self-evident. The emperor wants to use Ruan Dacheng's knife to attack Donglin and the world's gentry, the cake of your nobles. The article "Nine Questions about the Weirdness of the Ming Dynasty" published in Xinming Times clearly states that "the world's most powerful people"
All the wealth flowed into the pockets of the evil gentry. It seemed that the emperor had a big plan this time, and his strategy was quite sophisticated. In this case, Zhou Yanru felt that it was better not to stand in the spotlight.
Zhu Youjian is not very concerned about the uproar caused by Xinmin Times now. The bullet has just been fired, so let Fei Fei talk about it for a while. The current situation is just a little movement among the public officials in the capital, and it has not yet formed a real big problem.
Let’s discuss it and let this matter ferment for a while!
The battlefield of the pen has begun, and the gun side cannot relax. The main force of the new army is now concentrated in the Miyun area, and there is only one brigade of left-behind troops at the Xishan Camp. There is no need for Zhu Youjian to go to the Xishan Camp.
Look at the barrel of the gun. Go to the General Hall in Xiyuan to check out the situation. I haven’t put my main focus on this recently. It’s just that I’m too busy.
After arriving at the General Hall in Xiyuan and giving a strategic thinking class to the elite students, Zhu Youjian was still unsatisfied. He felt that he had to teach new students a lesson. In recent months, the treatment of newly admitted students has not been as good as before.
In the past, students could see their principal every now and then, but now students can't. It's not easy to meet him occasionally.
You still have to increase your exposure among the students in the general school, otherwise your job as principal will be in vain? But you can't make the mistake of a certain bald principal in later generations, where a director of political education poached a large number of good students and teachers.
He went to give lectures to the students with great interest. He even thought about holding a discussion meeting with these students after the class, to have a closer relationship with them as teachers and students, and to care about the students' living conditions.
But as soon as he entered the freshman classroom, Zhu Youjian's mood was affected. Why were there only more than thirty people? Where were the rest?
"Fang Zhenghua, where are the other students?" These people in the general school really don't take themselves as the emperor seriously, so they only have so many students come to attend classes. Where are the other students who were messed up by them?
?
"Principal, there are only so many students entering the hall this month, and my subordinates have gathered them all here." Fang Zhenghua heard the emperor's bad tone and quickly replied. He didn't know what the emperor was thinking, and it was stipulated that all students in the general hall should be
Everyone calls him principal.
Is there only this many? It took just one month to recruit so many people! Just a few months ago, there were hundreds of people entering the church in January. It has only been a few months, but why can’t we even get a hundred people?
All together? Zhu Youjian was quite shocked when he heard Fang Zhenghua’s report.
After suppressing his shock and reluctantly finishing the class, Zhu Youjian quickly summoned Fang Zhenghua and other school management to find out the cause of this matter as soon as possible.
"Founder, when did the sharp reduction in the number of students in the school start? Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing earlier?"
"Principal, the sharp drop happened last month. Last month, the new batch of students barely managed to gather a hundred people. I thought it was because of the busy farming work, which delayed everyone's enrollment. But I never thought that the situation would be even worse this month. I, humble officials,
I am preparing to write a memorial to His Majesty."
Starting last month? This should not be due to the adverse effects of the war. The situation in Ming Dynasty has not been bad in recent months.
"Tell me about the sharp decline in students. What is the cause?"
"The principal, junior staff and others feel that there may not be many students who meet the qualifications for admission to the general school. In fact, in recent times, there have been not many people applying, but they are basically unqualified. Many people answer the simplest question
"I can't even score forty points on the entrance examination papers. Some of the written examination scores are enough, but there is basically no riding or martial arts skills, and many people can't get on a war horse."
Ah? The situation is so bad! After listening to the explanations by Fang Zhenghua and others, Zhu Youjian realized that the situation might be more serious than he thought. It was not that no one came to the school, but that the source of private students who met the standards was exhausted. To be honest, now
Nowadays, the admission threshold of the school can be said to be set based on the lowest admission standards. Those who are proficient in writing and have a little basic knowledge of riding and martial arts can be recruited. But even with such standards, one hundred people cannot be selected in a month.
No. student.
What does this mean? It means that the entire Ming Dynasty has only accumulated so little capital in hundreds of years, and almost all of what can be dug out has been dug out. In just over a year, all the wealth of the Ming Dynasty was emptied.