Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 200 His Royal Highness Liao Wang is a good prince

His Highness's new school is not in Liaoyang City.

Instead, outside the city of Liaoyang, near the palace, an open space was chosen to build a complex of buildings.

Wang Laowu came here with people from the same village and made a field trip.

Although it is a field trip, it is just a circle around the outside.

It has to be said that the new school built by King Liao is very novel just from the outside wall.

Can it not be attractive?

These are all concrete walls, but these honest farmers naturally cannot know these concrete walls.

They saw more wooden walls and earthen walls. Even stone walls were only seen on the walls of Liaoyang City. The cement and stone were obviously different.

In addition to the novel style of the outer wall, the gate is also very poetic and picturesque.

There is a potted plant at the door, as well as various rockery lakes and so on.

They are all reduced versions, like a small landscape placed at the gate of the school.

In ancient China, of course, there were garden designs.

The garden design of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was the pinnacle of the times.

However, for ordinary people, it is impossible to come into contact with so-called garden design in this lifetime.

And those rich and powerful people are even less likely to move the garden things directly to the school gate to display them like Zhu Qi.

It's not that Zhu Qi deliberately showed off, but according to his own experience in later generations, there must be some decorations at the school gate.

No matter whether it is the gate or this kind of garden design, it must have some characteristics, so as to be able to gain a reputation in the future!
There is nothing, just an ordinary gate, who dares to say that it is a famous school?
Wang Laowu and the others don't understand these things, so they think this school is very powerful.

So I went to the school and asked about the tuition fee, but I didn't expect that it really only cost one tael of silver a year.

Then there is the work-study program. There is a special inquiry desk at the door, and the people at the inquiry desk are also very enthusiastic.

He didn't sneer at Wang Laowu and the others just because of their civilian attire.

Instead, he took out the documents and gave them detailed guidance.

Wang Laowu and the others didn't know the words on these documents, but they could still understand what they said.

Simple calculations, after this year, if you work-study, you can not only pay the tuition, but also earn a little.

However, Wang Laowu still had some doubts in his heart, and asked cautiously:
"Officials, will this child be made to work every day when he enters the school? No time to study?"

When Wang Laowu asked this question, the farmers who followed him also looked panic-stricken.

Pulling Wang Laowu, how can you ask the officials such a thing?

Helping His Royal Highness King Liao work, even if you don't have time to study, that's what you should do.

They were chattering, and Wang Laowu also remembered that he seemed to have said something wrong.

Maybe this school is the place where His Royal Highness King Liao recruits workers from outside.

It's just a nice way of saying it, maybe, if I ask myself this way, wouldn't that just expose it?

But compared to the panic of those ordinary people, the staff here are very kind, explaining with a smile:
"I don't have an official status. I used to be a student of the Imperial College. It's just that I'm working behind the scenes of His Royal Highness King Liao. You don't have to be too polite to me."

When everyone heard it, good guy, although he has no official status, he used to be a student of the Imperial College.

Aren't those who come out of the Guozijian all going to be high officials in the future?

Those common people panicked even more, but the staff member in front of him continued to explain patiently.

Naturally, it is impossible for this new-style school to allow students to work part-time and study all the time. Wouldn’t that be a child labor factory?

In fact, it takes time to work, that is, during the meal time, and half an hour after the meal time, washing dishes and other things.

The rest of the time is for normal classes and rest time.

A full day is calculated, and there are only about three hours of work.

Once I heard that I only need to work for three hours a day, I can even make up for the tuition fee for a year.

Not only that, but also a little living expenses left over, the common people including Wang Laowu were stunned all of a sudden.

They don't necessarily earn much more than a student after working so hard for a year.

Are you sure this is not His Royal Highness Liao Wang doing charity?

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The news that His Royal Highness King Liao was doing charity and caring for the people like a child finally got out.

Those ordinary people, after returning to their own villages, immediately shared the things about the school with people from other villages.

Although there were many propaganda teams before, they went everywhere to promote the new school.

But after all, I just listened to others, and this time someone actually went to the new school to see it.

When everyone heard about the tuition fees of this new school and the work-study program, they also looked confused.

This will not only make no money, but will lose money.

Naturally, these ordinary people would not calculate their accounts carefully. In fact, His Royal Highness King Liao did not lose money at all, and might even make some money.

Of course, I don't earn a lot, the main thing is to maintain the operation of the academy.

All of a sudden, His Highness Liao Wang's voice of praise was really endless.

And those ordinary people are also very interested in sending their children to the new school.

Many people went to the school one after another to ask questions.

As for this matter, His Royal Highness Liao Wang did not know about it at first.

But soon someone reported this matter to Liao King Zhu Qi, and Zhu Qichu was of course happy when he heard about it.

At least those ordinary people are interested in new-style schools, as long as they are willing to send their children to school, they will definitely be willing to teach, and there will never be too many talents.

However, Zhu Qi also had a dazed expression about having another generous name for himself. To be honest, he was really not doing charity.

But no one would believe him if he said it out, so Zhu Qi simply didn't say much.

The school's enrollment work is also going on steadily. The original plan was to enroll 300 students, but now there are already thousands of children who just came to take the exam.

Most of them are children from poor families. As for those children from rich families, they seem to be still watching.

After all, it was rumored that the new school was a place for recruiting servants of Prince Liao's mansion.

Although the children of these rich families really wanted to be sent to Liao Wang's mansion to serve His Highness Liao Wang, after all, they could be regarded as climbing the dragon and attaching the phoenix.

But King Liao is just a prince after all, and he has no chance to be emperor in the future. Even if he is sent to Prince Liao's mansion, he will be a servant at most, but he has no official status!

In the Ming Dynasty, the concept of being an official had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. If a scholar is not an official, what is the use of reading this book?
But in the past, being an official was for the sake of the world, for the Confucian ideal of Datong.

But now being an official is purely for personal gain. The so-called one-year-clear magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes.

This is not an alarmist thing, at least Zhu Qi knows so many officials who have been corrupted, and the amount of corruption is more than [-] snowflakes a year.

For those who want to be an official and then seek their own interests.

On the contrary, Zhu Qi didn't really want them to come to his school to study, not to mention whether they could learn or not, even if they did, I'm afraid they wouldn't have any integrity in the future.

The most important thing to be a human being must be integrity!
Knowing that the common people were so enthusiastic, Zhu Qi was naturally very happy.

But at the same time, I am also very troubled, that is, my school seems to be small, with only 300 places.

There are simply not enough enthusiastic people, and there is nothing to do. After all, resources are limited now, and time is so tight.

It is not easy to build a school with 300 places in such a short period of time.

If it continues to expand blindly, the quality of the building will not be guaranteed. If one day the wall collapses and hits the students, it will be a terrible thing.

Building safety is definitely the number one priority.

However, the expansion of the school has already been included in the agenda, and considering the follow-up funding issues, Zhu Qi certainly cannot undertake it by himself, after all, it is all about cultivating talents for the country.

No matter what, I have to ask my father Zhu Yuanzhang for some!

But think about it, asking for money from my father is probably not an easy task.

It would be easier to ask the eldest brother for money, Zhu Qi thought about it, and hurriedly wrote a letter to send it to Zhu Biao.

On the other side, Zhu Qi has already started to arrange the work and design of the school expansion.

However, if these farmers continue to be hired, it will obviously delay their work.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of labor recently. Because of the war, a lot of border people have escaped from North Korea.

In Liaoyang, they have no land and cannot work, which itself is a factor of social instability.

And call them up to act as a labor force.

On the one hand, it can allow them to support themselves by themselves, and on the other hand, it can also solve the problem of their own labor force.

It can be said that it is the best of both worlds, and Zhu Qi immediately arranged it.

So, in the eyes of other people, His Royal Highness King Liao didn't care about the battle situation or the affairs of the court.

On the contrary, they run around among the people all day long, helping the children of ordinary people to reduce or exempt tuition fees, and taking care of the border people who have suffered from the war.

You said that for this kind of house building, His Royal Highness King Liao can obviously recruit civilian husbands, and you can build it without spending money at all.

But they still have to spend money to invite those ordinary people to work. Isn't this just giving the ordinary people a way to survive?

All of a sudden, the common people felt that His Royal Highness Liao Wang did this for the sake of people's livelihood.

Not to mention those officials, the officials in Liaodong immediately spread the news that His Royal Highness the King of Liao loved the people like a son.

Many people even wrote to Ying Tianfu to ask for credit for His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

Not to mention Ying Tianfu's officialdom, everyone was very curious when they heard about His Royal Highness Liao Wang.

I don't know what happened in Liaodong. Could it be that His Royal Highness the Liao King came up with some kind of conspiracy to make Beiyuan and Gaoli suffer again?

Everyone originally thought this way, but after seeing the specific news, everyone burst into tears.

Zhu Yuanzhang wiped his tears secretly in the middle of the night, while reading the letter over and over again, the next morning.

Immediately publicized the deeds of His Royal Highness King Liao in front of all the ministers.

Then let those ministers must learn from Liao King Zhu Qi.

Not to mention those ministers who opposed the vassal king's defense of the border, all of them bowed their heads at this time.

And Zhu Yuanzhang even said that you said that my son is not suitable for guarding the border. Now you can see how much my son loves the people like a son.

Of course, there have always been debates about the feudal king's defense of the border. Naturally, it is impossible to shelve it just because Zhu Qi has done a great thing.

But this is indeed a political capital of Zhu Qi, that is, he has accumulated prestige and popular support among the people.

What the common people like to hear most is this kind of sympathy for the people, so why don't you try your best to promote it to you.

What's more, the target is the heroic young Liao King Zhu Qi.

Among the folks, there are no less than ten novels with Zhu Qi as the male protagonist alone, and they are all best-selling novels.

Zhu Qi's side naturally looked confused, not knowing what happened, but on the side of the prince Zhu Biao, the civil servants and generals under Zhu Biao's command felt the pressure and threat one by one.

Although His Royal Highness has always trusted his younger brothers very much, the same is true for King Liao.

Even Lan Yu, who is a princeling, told Zhu Biao more than once that he must be careful that Zhu Qi's power continued to expand, but Zhu Biao just waved his hands casually, telling Lan Yu not to think too much.

But those civil servants and military generals really have to think about it, look at the current reputation of His Royal Highness King Liao.

And the legendary things that have been done, how terrifying it is.

Even the prince Zhu Biao didn't have so many military exploits, and in terms of popular opinion, His Royal Highness King Liao now can be said to be on the same level as the prince Zhu Biao.

What if His Majesty has other thoughts and makes His Royal Highness the Prince of Liao?

Although this possibility is unlikely, it still exists after all.

All of a sudden, many people felt that the status of the prince was about to be shaken.

You know, this was almost impossible to happen during the Hongwu period, but His Royal Highness King Liao did it abruptly.

It's no wonder that General Lan Yu felt that His Royal Highness King Liao was a terrible threat.

And recently, I heard that His Highness Liao Wang seems to have written a letter to the prince to ask for funding, what kind of school to build, who knows if this is a school or an arsenal?

Many people have started conspiracy theories.

If it weren't for His Highness Liao Wang taking care of the people in Liaodong and spreading a good reputation, these princelings would now have to write letters to impeach His Highness Liao Wang one by one.

Although they have all entered the conspiracy mode one by one, for Zhu Biao, his younger brother still trusts him free of charge.

As for the groundless speculations of his subordinates, he just suppressed them, and then approved all the funds requested by the third brother with a swipe of the pen.

But any request from my third brother, I will definitely agree to it!
Zhu Biao thought so in his heart.

(End of this chapter)