First Minister of Ming Dynasty

First Minister Section 506

In fact, the difficulty of communication is not how exquisite your words are, but how to make people believe that you are for his own good. After all, it is more powerful to wield a sickle when you become a family.

Hu Yan and the others had also learned a lesson. They invited the students from the village to communicate with the elders at home, and then invited the senior teachers, including some veterans, to explain them carefully and patiently persuade them.

Gradually, they gained the trust of the people. Everywhere they went, many folks came over to prepare venues, arrange tables and chairs, and even prepare tea and snacks for them.

The feeling of being trusted and valued gives students a sense of accomplishment.

It can completely offset fatigue, and everyone worked extra hard.

Moreover, Hu Yan also discovered a problem. In fact, the most fundamental problem why ordinary people are deceived by those nuns and Taoists is that ordinary people know too little about things, lack of knowledge, and know nothing about the outside world except for the things around them.Just a few words can fool them.

Especially after encountering some strange things, you can only ask God for divination, and then fall into the quagmire.

After much deliberation, Hu Yan decided that in addition to lecturing, he would also set up literacy classes in the countryside to help the common people literate... Then he bought some newspapers, and every time he went to give lectures in various villages, he would read the newspapers to everyone and tell them that outside situation so that they are not ignorant.

After this trick was taken out, the effect was immediate.

Including many veterans, they also used their experience in literacy in the army to make small blackboards to encourage literacy. Whoever recognizes more and recognizes faster will be given some small rewards.

And those who learn the best can join their team, go to other villages, and teach the folks... This immediately ignited the enthusiasm of the people.

People compete to set off a wave of literacy, children teach their parents, younger brothers teach their elders, and even wives teach their husbands... Anyway, no matter what your status is, as long as you can read, you can be respected and be a teacher.

The most direct result of this incident is that the supply of literacy cards in Huaxia Bookstore is in short supply.

The original pattern of one hundred and eight generals is no longer enough.

I had to rush to work temporarily, and got a set of cards to clean up the trash and bad habits... Once it was launched, it was well received.

In a short period of time, the number of employees employed by Huaxia Bookstore has increased by five times.

As Zhang Shuning, who holds [-]% of the shares, he seems to have made a fortune and become a rich man out of the box.

However, his life has not changed much. He still reads hard, takes notes, and sums up his experience.

Xu felt that they were about to separate, Xia Zhifeng prepared a thick stack of notes for Zhang Shuning, all of which she wrote recently.

"There are many problem-solving ideas and methods that I have summarized here. You can refer to them, and if you want to teach new students, you can also use them."

Xia Zhifeng bent her crescent-like eyes, and suddenly wrote two words on the table with her fingers.

Seeing Zhang Shuning's eyes, his expression changed immediately, and his brows were frowned.

Before he could speak, Xia Zhifeng laughed, "As expected, I guessed correctly, the two best schools in the Ming Dynasty, how could you let go of the other one?"

Zhang Shuning was stunned. Needless to say, the genius of the little friend, let her guess, and there was nothing she could do.

"I heard that there are two different styles from Jimin Academy. They adopt closed management, which is similar to a military camp. I usually live in the school. At least I can go out during holidays. And there is martial arts over there. I You have to learn martial arts hard, at least keep fit, I want to be able to hit ten!"

Xia Zhifeng smiled, and she suddenly realized that her husband seems to be from Shandong, and Zhang Shuning should also be from Shandong. Sure enough, she has the potential to practice martial arts.

"Well, I wish you both civil and military skills, and success in your studies!"

Zhang Shuning readily agreed, but then said again: "I remembered, today seems to be the day for her to be murdered, buying and selling people, and committing crimes several times. The crime is heinous, no one can stop it."

Xia Zhifeng was stunned. It was really shocking that a relative and elder died just like that, and it was because of the felony of betrayal.

However, Xia Zhifeng quickly regained her composure, "She has to blame herself, and no one can control her. Right now I am studying in school, and after a while, I will come to Beijing, so let's just pretend it doesn't exist!"

Xia Zhifeng thought for a while, and then said: "Have you captured so many prisoners, have you killed them all?"

Zhang Shuning shook his head, "Of course not. In fact, only more than [-]% were killed. The rest of the crimes are not that serious, and the public anger is not too serious. They will be sent to Peiping."

"Sent to Peiping?" Xia Zhifeng became interested, "You, have you ever been to Peiping? I heard that it is very cold there, and the wind and sand are still strong. It must be very hard, right?"

Now Zhang Shuning was a little dazed.

He has never been to Peking, but he is very familiar with the people in Peking!

Whether it's Yan Wang Zhu Di, or his uncle Jiang Ke in Changlu Saltworks, including Lan Yu, Zhu Wenzheng, Li Wenzhong, even Li Jinglong, Hua Wei...he is very familiar with them.

Xia Zhifeng noticed that Zhang Shuning was in a daze, and guessed something, "Do you have friends in Peking?"

Zhang Shuning nodded slightly, "He is indeed a very good friend, I plan to give him some gifts."

He did what he said, and immediately assigned tasks to Huaxia Bookstore. No matter how heavy the task of publishing flashcards and books here is, spare me energy to print [-] books as soon as possible.

Zhang Shuning didn't tell everyone the purpose, but in fact it was sent to Beiping and handed over to Zhu Di.

It's interesting to say, after knowing each other for so many years, this is the first time that Zhang Shuning gave Zhu Di something seriously.

A total of [-] books, Zhu Laosi, are you happy?Is it surprising?

Zhu Di couldn't laugh or cry when he received this generous gift from Zhang Shuning.

Don't you know that I don't like reading books?

Still using this to torture me?

Li Jinglong became interested, he yelled at Zhu Di anxiously: "King Yan, not long ago, a man named Huang Zicheng came to Beiping, and he is trying to run a school, do you think we can build the best school in the world? "

Zhu Di was startled, "The best? Where do you want to put Jimin School and Fudan School?"

"Of course I put it behind me!" Li Jinglong yelled: "If we want to do it, we can go to the best and largest school in the world. What do you call the Peking School?"

Zhu Di laughed, "According to you, it might as well be called Peking University! At least it sounds grand!"

Unexpectedly, Huang Zicheng actually went to the palace the next day because of Zhu Di's joke.

"Your Highness, as long as you agree to run the school, Caomin is willing to go through fire and water for His Highness, and he will do whatever he wants!"

Chapter 7 and Three

As the first vassal king of Ming Dynasty who has been in office for a little over a year and has commanded two great victories... Zhu Di's mind became active.It stands to reason that what he hates the most is this bunch of rotten scholars. He can't wait to hang scholars on the flagpole one by one, and doesn't even give them the right to choose the flagpole.

Hang them one by one, there is nothing else to say.

But then again, just killing people may not be very enjoyable. If you can let them do things for you, it's still pretty good if you don't want to die.

Zhu Di's mind became active, "Huang Zicheng, you said you want to run a school, and I also want to run a school, but running a school is easier said than done. Do you have any regulations?"

"Yes!" Huang Zicheng hurriedly got up from the ground, his face full of excitement, "Your Highness, as long as you make up your mind, this school can be established...not to mention whether it can beat Jimin School and Fudan School, the worst is Triple-legged, three-point world!"

Zhu Di rolled his eyes. He didn't like reading very much, but he gathered a group of top scholars under his command, and the cards were filled instantly.Besides, his little friend, he wanted to be a teacher wholeheartedly, and even went to Jimin School to study in order to be a good teacher.

If I build up the Peking University Hall and have the appearance of a top school, and then invite Zhang Shuning to come over to be the head of the mountain... all problems will be solved!

I am also confused, why must I let him work in the palace?

The layout is small!

Fourth Zhu was going crazy, so he thought about it for a while and asked Huang Zicheng, "What are you going to do, tell me, let me listen carefully!"

Huang Zicheng said: "His Royal Highness, there must be a place to run a school. I have taken a fancy to a piece of land on the west side of the palace. It was originally the Taicang of the Yuan Court. His Highness moved it outside because of fear of flooding. Can this vacant land be allocated for construction? A school building?"

Zhu Di nodded without hesitation, "Okay, that's it!"

Even today, Beiping is still sparsely populated, there are plenty of open spaces, and the land prices are very cheap.

Zhu Di often saw that piece of land when he went out to hunt in the city.

It is conservatively estimated that it is more than three times that of Ying Tianfu School.

To build the Peking University Hall, first of all, "big" is definitely big enough. As for the other four words, let's talk about it separately.

"His Royal Highness, the grassroots have done the calculations. Because it is the foundation of Taicang, the foundation is relatively solid. The cost of building the house is bricks, tiles and wood. It happens that the Great Wall is being built, and there is no shortage of bricks and tiles in Beiping. We just need to follow Yue Guogong Let’s discuss to ensure that we can get enough materials, and the price is not expensive!”

Zhu Di blinked his eyes, nodded and said: "You are not stupid if you can think of this. This king can call on the people of Beiping to work together. No matter what, we must build the school!"

They did the preliminary calculations, and they should be able to win with a maximum of 100 million guan.

The school buildings are all settled, and the following are the teachers and students.

Can this work?

"To be honest, it's a bit difficult... But His Majesty has dispatched many officials to Beiping these years, and some of them are willing to serve the country, such as... grassroots. It's not too difficult to set up a grassroots team."

"As for the students, His Highness King Yan, how many troops are there in Beiping now?"

Zhu Di pondered for a while, and then said: "Since the recovery of Beiping, Zhu Wenzheng and Li Wenzhong have been stationed all the time. In order to build the Great Wall, Duke Yue still has tens of thousands of people under his command. In addition to the king's three guards, there are more than [-] troops. Enough!"

"How many children are there in the army?"

Zhu Di said: "More than half of the people here are married. I am also trying to find a way to help them settle down and start a business. Right now, all places are encouraging women to go north and marry soldiers in the army. Except for Liangzhou, those who come to Peiping There are a lot of people. According to preliminary estimates, there should be 8000 school-age children!"

When Huang Zicheng heard this, he was overjoyed. The army can contribute so many children, plus the civilian households in Beiping, the number of people needed to run a school is enough.

But then again, it is still a grass-roots team, even if it can barely operate, it is still the scale of an ordinary school, and it is still far from the best university in the world.

"Huang Zicheng, let me make it clear to you. If I want to do it, that's the best thing. If I can't do it, I'd rather not do it! I let you run this school, can you get the first place?"

Huang Zicheng gritted his teeth, this is a military order for himself!

"Okay! I can do it! But there is one thing, I want His Highness to pay me!"

Zhu Di thought for a while, then asked, "How much?"

Huang Zicheng thought for a while, "His Royal Highness, how much money can be allocated by the Imperial Academy, put it aside, His Highness will give me 100 million guan every year! And you are not allowed to ask where the money is going!"

Hearing that Huang Zicheng opened his mouth like a lion, he was not allowed to ask questions. Hua Wei quit, "You want so much? More than Jimin Academy! What if you get greedy for ink? Who will guarantee you?"

Huang Zicheng smiled wryly, "I won't put a penny in my pocket. I want the money. In addition to supporting the students, I want to hire famous teachers from all over the world. If you want to run the best school, you can't do without famous teachers! These famous teachers may not be greedy for money, but for them They deserve the best living treatment. Your Highness gives me money, I eat bran and swallow vegetables, kneel down to beg, and I get people here too!"

Zhu Di looked at Huang Zicheng seriously. Judging from this guy's expression, it might not be a fake.

Among the scholars, there are also some people who are particularly persistent. They will never regret what they are sure about, and they will fight to wipe out the nine clans without any regrets.

If Huang Zicheng is such a person, maybe he can really entrust big things to him!

Zhu Di thought over and over again, and slowly said: "Huang Zicheng, I can give you the money you want, and I can double it! But you can't stay out of it, just let me ask for money, we have to find a way together!"

Huang Zicheng subconsciously said: "What method? Caomin, Caomin really doesn't know how to make money!"

Zhu Di smiled slightly, turned his head to search for a long time, brought a sweater, and placed it carefully in front of Huang Zicheng.

"See, this is the sweater Zhang Xiang knit by himself."

Huang Zicheng was greatly surprised, and couldn't help looking at this slightly rough sweater with the mentality of admiring a sacred object.

"Your Highness is planning to knit sweaters to make money?"

Zhu Di laughed loudly, "It's different now. After several years of development, we have been able to spin finer wool, and we can also weave something called woolen wool, which is very suitable for making war jackets and military uniforms."

Zhu Di said: "Huang Zicheng, recently a group of old godly women were dispatched from Jiangxi. They are all three aunts and six women who have committed many crimes. I plan to use them to weave, and all the money I earn will be given to your school."

Huang Zicheng was stunned for a moment, "This is of course a good thing, thank you Your Highness..."

"Don't worry!" Zhu Di laughed and said, "These old wives were sent here, and I don't have any wages for them."

Huang Zicheng immediately said: "They are devoid of conscience and don't deserve to be paid!"

"Then I don't have anything delicious to give them."

"As long as the pancakes are hard, it's not worth wasting money and food."

After hearing this, Zhu Di smiled again: "Then should we arrange rest for them? Also, what should we do if we are exhausted?"

This time Huang Zicheng pondered, but soon he gritted his teeth and said: "Old godly women, this is a redemption, there is no need to give them a rest. As for being exhausted, a roll of straw mats is enough!"

Zhu Di finally showed a smile on his face, "Huang Zicheng, you said that no one in this king can manage the textile factory now, can you think of a way to separate some people from the school?"

Huang Zicheng thought about it for a while, and smiled: "Your Highness, Zhang Xiang advocated the unity of knowledge and action in Jimin Academy, and now in Peking University, we must also combine knowledge and action. Managing a textile factory is naturally a no-brainer!"

Zhu Di clapped his palms and laughed, and stood up. He couldn't help giving Huang Zicheng a thumbs up!

Now this king is absolutely sure that you are the kind of top-notch literati who can do whatever it takes to achieve your goals!

Just for your virtue, this king voted for the project of Peking University Hall!

Zhu Di is a guy who wants to be strong all his life, and he will do his best if he wants to do it.

It can be seen from the voyages to the West, the conquest of Mongolia, and the Xiuyongle Grand Ceremony, if he decides, it will be a big deal, and he didn't say anything.

Beiping has always been regarded as a desert of civilization, and some people even say that Hu Feng is rampant, like a foreign land.

If a top university in the world could be established in Beiping, who would dare to talk nonsense?Who can look down on himself, the King of Yan?

The more Zhu Di thought about it, the more he felt that running a school would be beneficial, and a miracle would come out of Italy!

He acted resolutely, enclosing the land according to what Huang Zicheng said, and when they finished their busy work, the encircled area was larger than expected, more than five times that of Ying Tianfu's school!

In addition, Zhu Di also set aside half of the land in the military camp outside the city for use by the martial arts department of the university hall.

Since it is called a university hall, its scale is definitely the largest in the world.

While Zhu Di was busy enclosing land, news spread like wildfire.