Zhu Youzhang looked at Liu Chengfeng and couldn't help but become interested. The number of treasury in the past two years has indeed increased, but as Liu Chengfeng said, the expenses are also quite large.
In previous years, two or three million taels of silver a year were considered the limit. As for other things, for example, the salaries of officials were mostly replaced by real items such as rice, noodles, and silk. However, the expenses in the past two years were different. The annual expenses of the court were as high as six or seven million. To put it bluntly, after the money was obtained, the people in the court and the people were suddenly energetic and felt that everything was in trouble. The river embankments that had been delaying and dared not repair were reported to the court for repair. After the disaster, they became much more generous. There were also the military pay, weapons replacement, and the roads that they had owed in the past. Not to mention that Zhu Youzhang also issued various means of repairing schools and other names.
Liu Chengfeng said seriously: "To put it bluntly, the higher the income of the court, the greater the responsibility. After the income has increased, you can let go. In other words, the functions of the court have gradually become richer from simply raising troops, disaster relief to organizing the repair of water conservancy, such as building a road, enriching the military, building a larger scale of water conservancy, and even building schools everywhere. Your Majesty, so the income of the national treasury is better than the better. Your Majesty is wise, I know that Your Majesty has always wanted to do some good deeds and is famous throughout the ages. I will take the school as an example..."
Liu Chengfeng was very accurate in his mind about Zhu Youzhang. What did the emperor need most? Or what did Zhu Youzhang need most? Zhu Youzhang was an emperor who advocated etiquette and law. What he most yearned for was the rule of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. He had a great favor for scholars, and such people attached the most importance to education.
Liu Chengfeng said slowly: "Your Majesty often says that when a person reads, he can distinguish between power, distinguish right from wrong, study things, and learn knowledge, and be righteous. I have an idea. Why not set up official schools in various prefectures and counties in the world to teach people to read and write, so that people can understand right from wrong? If everyone in the world can read and write, isn't this overshadow the achievements of any emperor in the past? I have thought about this. The court can take out a special money to order each county to establish official schools. In this way, some idle scholars can make a living, and a county government can hire a doctor to teach students in the county. Ordinary children of the people can enter school as long as they are eight years old and pay a certain amount of tuition every year. The cost of this official school can be paid part of the cost. The county government can take out some, and then those children pay a part of it.
, I guess it is enough. These enrolled students can be called school children for the time being. After studying in the county government school for three or five years, the school children can take the exam. If they have good grades, they can be admitted to the prefecture school. The court sets up a school in each prefecture to serve as a prefecture school. This prefecture school only recruits relatively excellent school children to go to school. After entering the prefecture school, the children will be students. After studying for three or five years, if they read well, they can continue to take the exam and enter the provincial school. In this way, not only can smart students show their talents, but they can also get more talents from the court. The most important thing is that even ordinary children, even if they may not be able to study hard, their talents will not be as good as others. At least they can learn to read and write in the county school. This is an unprecedented merit. If Your Majesty is willing to implement it, I am afraid that Tang Zong and Song Zu will be ashamed by this deed."
After Liu Chengfeng said something, Zhu Youtang's face suddenly turned red. Now that he has reached his level, to be honest, he saw that he has not had enough time, and he realized that he still has a lot of things to do. Now Liu Chengfeng has pointed out a smooth road to him.
Liu Chengfeng's regulations are unprecedented. There are indeed some official schools in all dynasties, but most of them are Taixue, Imperial College, etc., either they are aristocrats or they are the best students in the world to enter. However, this opinion put forward by Liu Chengfeng is to give people all the world the opportunity to enter the school, and to place the official schools all the way to the county, so that everyone can understand literature and literature, and to allow a considerable number of outstanding students to go to the prefectures, provincial schools, or even the Imperial College. If this method is implemented, I am afraid that everyone in the world will praise it.
This is a great cause of great contribution. If Liu Chengfeng had proposed this opinion a few years ago, it would only be a whimsical joke for Zhu Youting. Because at that time, the imperial court could not even afford the Imperial College, and even the military pay of soldiers could not be paid in full, and even the salaries of officials had to be replaced by cloth and rice. This idea was just a castle in the air. To put it bluntly, it was simply a joke.
But it is indeed different now. Now the imperial court has a rich treasury. If Jubao Building and Jubao Trading Company are added, the annual income has increased by at least ten times. Just last year, the annual income exceeded 35 million taels, of which more than 20 million were from Jubao Building. Moreover, with the prosperity of commerce, even the palace firmly believed that this number would increase. Then the idea proposed by Liu Chengfeng is indeed very attractive.
"But if it is implemented seriously, how much silver is required every year?" Zhu Youzhi was moved and asked this question.
Liu Chengfeng said bluntly: "Your Majesty, if it is implemented, there will be 1,300 counties and more than 200 prefectures in the Ming Dynasty. If this is the case, each county needs to build an official school, at least 300 taels of silver. The court allocated 500 taels to allow the local county government to find some vacant houses and temples and repair them well. Just this alone will cost 1 million tons of silver. In addition, there are also recruiting teachers, doctors, printing textbooks, providing pens and ink expenses, as well as the investment in the public schools and provincial schools, which will cost at least 3 million taels of silver."
Three million taels... Zhu Youzing couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If it were a few years ago, someone had proposed this amount, he would have to be scared to death. After so many years ascending the throne, he had worked hard to manage the court. When the court had the best income and expenditure, he would have only paid 270,000 taels of silver a year. Because of the 270,000 taels of silver, the snow-flake-like memorial was handed over, full of praise. The reason was that the court had surplused such a large sum of silver for the first time.
However, now, Zhu Youzhang felt that this amount did not exceed his expectations. Three million taels of silver was the initial investment. If it were in the future, the imperial court would invest up to one million taels of silver a year.
He was silent for a moment and said, "I have to discuss this with the cabinet. Yes, why did you just talk about the open source matters and start an official school again?"
Liu Chengfeng said: "Your Majesty, the reason why I mentioned the establishment of an official school is actually to tell Your Majesty that although the national treasury has increased, the expenses of the court will become increasingly greater. Now, millions of silver are required to build and maintain the road in a year. If the official school is opened again in the future, it will be a cost of 10,000 taels of silver. Sooner or later, the court will only fall into the dilemma of not being able to expose the blame. Therefore, I think the court should prepare for the future, so I have also formulated a charter. Your Majesty should know the Fireworks Alley, right?"
After hearing this, Zhu Youzhang felt it was quite reasonable. He nodded and said, "I know something about Fireworks Hutong. Every year, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the Fireworks Hutong enter the palace. What's wrong?"
Liu Chengfeng said: "I plan to follow the example of Fireworks Hutong and promote the experience of Fireworks Hutong to the entire capital and even the whole world. The accumulation of small amounts is too small. The annual income of the court is probably going to be more than doubled. Your Majesty, this is a pioneering achievement that has been achieved for thousands of years. The more the annual income of the court, the more things it can do, which is also a good thing for the people."
Liu Chengfeng took advantage of Zhu Youting's heart-wrenching opportunity and quickly took out a charter and handed it to Zhu Youting, saying, "This is a charter that I have drafted by Wei, please check it out first. If you think it is feasible, you can leave the rest to the Jinyiwei to do."
Seeing Zhu Youzhang being moved, Liu Chengfeng was also quite excited. If the emperor nodded in this matter, the power of the Jinyiwei would increase drastically. A Jinyiwei who can monitor bureaucrats and assume certain tax collection responsibilities and legally maintain public order is equivalent to holding all the responsibilities of the public security, procuratorial and judicial departments in his later years. The Jinyiwei is equivalent to becoming the third largest center of power outside the cabinet and the army. With this power, Liu Chengfeng will also become the most important role in the world.
This idea was thought of by Liu Chengfeng, and he was not afraid that the regulations would be taken advantage of after they were implemented. Because of the promotion of the experience of Fireworks Hutong, there was no yamen that could take over except the Jinyiwei, except that the Jinyiwei had such omnipresent methods.
Of course, Dongchang is a huge competitor, and maybe this fat meat will be snatched away by Dongchang. However, Dongchang cannot do this for the time being, so the regulations proposed by Liu Chengfeng can only fall on the Jinyiwei in the end, which is why he is fearless.
Zhu Youzhang carefully read the charter. The charter was tens of thousands of words, but he made the matter clear. However, Zhu Youzhang still didn't understand it very well. He raised his head and said, "Isn't this a disguised tax on shops? I'm afraid there will be a lot of criticism from the court."
Liu Chengfeng said seriously: "I have investigated that almost every shop will always take out some of the silver every month. This silver is not for the court, but for some stolen officials and the scoundrels on the streets. This money will only be cheaper for those corrupt and abused people. The rules of the court are to put it bluntly to transfer the money from these sluts to the court. The money is given to them, but for them to be rich and rich, but for the court, the court can use it more or less on the right path... Chapter 1 sent to.rq
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