"1 million? Why are there so many?"

Zhao Ji was stunned because Cai Jing's answer was completely beyond his expectations.

In fact, he didn't care that Wu Haogu made money through Yuntai Academy, it was just money! He didn't take it out of the treasury or Zhao Ji's private treasury, nor did he shave it from the heads of the Shangdou civilians, nor did he blackmail the wealthy businessmen. They were all given voluntarily, so how embarrassed could Wu Haogu not be taken?

But he didn't expect that Wu Haogu's Yuntai Academy actually lost money, and it seemed that he had lost a lot...

"Your Majesty," Cai Jing smiled, "The schools, academies and the courses taught in the Yuntai Academy are different from ordinary academies. The Yuntai Academy is both civil and military, and has both cultural and military affairs, and it focuses on practice. The teachers used are also the first-class talents in all aspects, and there are many and the salary is very high. The worst one is equivalent to the Beijing officials.

In addition, there are many colleges under the Yuntai Academy, including the School of Engineering, Construction, Naval School, Knight School, and Medical School, and many so-called research subjects, which are very expensive. So I said that the cost of a million yuan is just a low estimate."

Cai Jing did underestimate the money-burning speed of higher education and scientific research. Excluding the Metallurgy College being planned, the total budget of the entire Yuntai Department school in the five years of construction of Jingguo has exceeded 180 yuan. It’s really like spending money!

If Wu Haogu did not sell the education of Yuntai Academy as a commodity, how many books would he lose in a year? Even the richest man in the Song Dynasty could not lose in this way.

"Cai Qing," Zhao Ji frowned, "Do you think Wu Haogu's money is worth it?"

"It's worth it, of course it's worth it." Cai Jing said, "After next year's Spring Examination Competition, seven or eight out of ten of the right-listed Jinshi will probably come from his disciples. These more than one hundred Jinshi alone can be worth a million yuan in the annual deficit. These Jinshis from Yuntai Academy are incomparable to those who study the Five Classics. Twenty years later, in the officialdom and in the army, it is probably his students who are taking the lead. By then, the only person who is against Your Majesty in Chongzheng Hall must be Wu Haogu."

Cai Jing's words were extremely heartbroken. He did not mention the role of Yuntai Academy in technological progress at all, and he did not understand this, but he knew very well the advantages of the academic disciples in terms of talent. At least most of them were familiar with the law, proficient in military strategies, skilled in martial arts, and able to understand various accounts. Whether it was to hear cases, manage finance, catch thieves, and lead troops to fight, they were all good at competing with traditional officials of the Song Dynasty.

In addition, if there are more than 100 Jinshi in each subject from one person's school, it means that an extremely huge and closely united clique was born.

Wu Haogu was the financial backer of the Yuntai Academy, or the scholar of the Confucian empirical school, and the unquestionable leader of these Yuntai students.

What happened to Wuzi’s origin? If all the officials in the court were his, the prime minister could not do it? At that time, I’m afraid Zhao Ji would beg Wu Hao to be the prime minister since ancient times... If he didn’t become the prime minister, maybe those Yuntai students would put a yellow robe on him!

However, Zhao Ji's brows didn't frowned for too long and gradually loosened.

Of course, it is not allowed to have the situation where the Wu family's children are full of court, but now there is no sign of the horoscope!

Cai Jing himself said that it will take twenty years later...and it depends on whether the official family agrees with the students of Yuntai Academy to be knowledgeable. So what if you have great skills? Isn’t it okay to give you a little Jinshi on the right list?

"How much did the Biyong Academy cost?" Zhao Ji changed his tone and suddenly asked about the Biyong Academy.

Cai Jing replied, "Now there are more than 800 students in the Biyong Academy, and there are more than 1,000 students in the Imperial College under the academy. There are about 2,000 people in total, and it costs 150,000 yuan. It is almost 75 yuan for each student."

"Why is that much worse?" Zhao Ji asked, "Is it because the Ministry of Revenue has no money to allocate it to the Biyong Academy?"

"No, it's not that there is no money." Cai Jing quickly explained, "Although the Biyong Academy is an official school like the Yuntai Academy, it is directly under the Imperial College. Therefore, the salaries of many officials who teach in the Biyong Academy and the Imperial College are not included in the expenses of the Biyong Academy and the Imperial College. Moreover, the Biyong Academy does not have a junior college, so the money spent is much less.

In addition, the school buildings, horse farms, horses used by the Biyong Academy, and the generals who teach students to perform martial arts are not counted as money."

"Where are Gezhi University Academy and Gezhi Primary School?" Zhao Ji then asked, "How much is it to spend?"

Zhao Ji has a purpose, of course he knows whose territory is JD.com, who opened the Gezhi Academy, and he also knows that the academies of Gezhi are also from the empirical Confucianism, just like the Yuntai Academy.

"Your Majesty, I don't know." Cai Jing replied truthfully.

Zhao Ji smiled and said, "I don't know what this Gezhi Da Academy is? The Political Affairs Hall can consider it. If it is OK, it will also give the status of the academy... The academy can be opened several more so that more students can go in to study, and the country can also have more useful talents in the future."

"I received the order."

Cai Jing received the order and his expression was very calm. He didn't expect Zhao Ji to issue an edict to seal the Yuntai Academy in just a few words.

"Your Majesty," Cai Jing said again, "I think the academy should not be held for too many."

"It's not appropriate to do more?" Zhao Ji was stunned, "Why?"

"Because the school costs too much, the Biyong Academy has reduced its savings in various ways, and it is more than 150,000 yuan a year. The court's annual income is only tens of millions, so it really cannot afford too many school..."

"Hi," Zhao Ji waved his hand, "Yuntai Academy and Gezhida Academy did not take the imperial court's money, so why don't you do it?"

"Your Majesty, if you don't take the money from the court, you have to take the money from the students." Cai Jing said, "Take Yuntai Academy as an example, when a wealthy businessman enters the school, he must donate at most tens of thousands of yuan, and then he must bear hundreds of yuan of capital for sacrificial funds every year."

"So what?" Zhao Ji said in confusion, "There are many wealthy merchants in our Song Dynasty who have a family of millions of dollars... They often spend tens of thousands of dollars to raise a courtesan lady. Now, what's wrong with spending 10,000 or 20,000 to teach their children? Even if they fail the Jinshi exam, it's good to really do something."

Cai Jing said: "Only eight out of ten people can enter the palace are either rich or noble, but there are no children from poor families!

Moreover, compared with studying the Five Classics hard, the skills of professors in the Academy are not only practical, but also easy to impart and master. The Confucian classics are profound and bitter and difficult to understand. Even if they spend their whole life, they will never be fully mastered.

The academic knowledge in the academy is simple and easy to learn. Six years of elementary school, three to four years of college, and two years of junior college. As long as you are willing to spend money, don’t be too stupid. If you work harder, you can achieve great knowledge in eleven or two years of experience and become an official.”

The Confucian classics need to be learned, which is unfounded. Moreover, Confucianism does not establish a god or a sect with strict organization, so it has no absolute authority. Many issues, such as "the one of heaven and man" or "the two of heaven and man", "the nature is good" or "the nature is evil", "the knowledge is difficult and easy", or "the unity of knowledge is unity", have not been thoroughly studied for two thousand years.

In contrast, Wu Haogu imitated the academy education launched by later generations, but only cultivated people who do things (including research). The eleven or two years of education cultivated not great achievements in knowledge, but people who can do things.

So Cai Jing changed his concept to some extent. However, the expensive education in the academy did give wealthy children a path to "quickly become talented". The poor Confucian scholars, the so-called landlord intellectuals, were too poor (of course they were rich compared to tenants, but they were paupers compared to big merchants), because they could not afford the tuition fees, they lost the opportunity to receive "expensive education".

"If the school is held in great success," Cai Jing suddenly stood up from the throne and bowed, "Your Majesty, then the four people in the world in the future will probably become merchants, workers, scholars and farmers... Scholars are in decline, and farming is the last business. Can the Song Dynasty be stable in such a great Song Dynasty?"

Zhao Ji's originally unfolded brows frowned again.

The social hierarchy of the Song Dynasty was not strict, and the so-called scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were just a matter of saying. As a businessman with a last-industry business, he could still study and become an official. However, noble families were not ashamed of doing business.

In the social hierarchy of the Song Dynasty, the one who was truly in the ascending channel was the class of "poor scholars". The so-called "poor scholars" did not refer to poor people, but were slightly cold in the family, so they did not follow the "Clan Chronicles", nor were they the nobles who founded the Song Dynasty, but usually they were ordinary landlords. The scholars were not scholars among "scholars and farmers, industry and commerce". Traditional scholars refer to bureaucrats or gentry. Before becoming officials, Wu Haogu was a businessman who was born as a standard "scholar", because the Baibo Wu family he was born into was listed in the "Clan Chronicles", so he was a gentry. The poor scholars refer to ordinary landlord intellectuals, and at most the children of low-level officials, Cai Jing's father, Su Shi and Su Zhe, were standard poor scholars.

This kind of poor scholars, because of their large number and wide distribution, often formed the Yi Sect, had long become the cornerstone of the stability of the Song Dynasty. The imperial examination system was actually serving them. The court used a ladder to enter the Confucian classics for the rest of their lives, and went to the exam again and again to seek officials. In this way, there would be no extra experience to rebel... Zhao Ji certainly understood this kind of imperial technique.

Zhao Ji frowned and said, "It's still Cai Qing's concern. The academy is indeed not suitable for large-scale establishments, but there are only four schools in the north and south Yuntai, Biyong and Gezhi. Just limit the five schools, and open a new Qingcheng Academy in Kaifeng Prefecture!"
Chapter completed!