I am Da Song

Chapter 215 Investing in Education
The news that the emperor intends to strengthen the 24th Division of the Sixth Bureau was not deliberately publicized and quickly spread throughout Tokyo.

At the same time, there was news that the palace was about to select a group of female officials.

When today's emperor disbanded the palace, there was only the queen in the inner palace, and after the female officials were strengthened, they were undoubtedly the group of people who were most likely to get in touch with the emperor.

Emperor Renzong, who was famous in the dynasty, had a biological mother who started as a court lady, then became a female official, climbed onto the dragon bed, and gave birth to Emperor Renzong.

Because of this background, Emperor Renzong encouraged women in the palace to study, and even set up positions such as Siji and Bijiao to educate women in books and etiquette.

Emperor Renzong even left a famous saying: "I believe that books must be read not only by men, but also by women. Reading can tell you about the rise and fall of ancient times, and you can learn from it."

This led to a maid at the lowest level in the palace who was also literate, and the upper class was even versatile.

What is commendable is that the Song Dynasty paid great attention to the education of women's virtues. Under the influence of women's virtues education, most of the palace women did not like to make publicity, were virtuous, virtuous, submissive and courteous, and kept a respectful distance from government affairs. Women are in stark contrast.

This made the female officials of the Song Dynasty gain a very good reputation both inside and outside the court and the opposition.

The folks are still willing to send their daughters to the palace as female officials.

Especially two types of people, this kind of desire is the strongest.

One is the high-ranking officials in the capital, rich merchants and wealthy families, their families have great fortunes and many children, and they are willing to choose a daughter to enter the palace and fight for their future.

Some of them are ordinary poor people. They couldn't find a better way out for their children, so they sent their daughters to the palace. At least they would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of their lives.The low-level common people's families just can't educate their daughters to be educated and sensible, but the beauties selected from hundreds of millions of people also have beauties.

After the news spread, the dignitaries in the capital chose their children from among their own descendants, but at the same time they did not forget their relatives in their hometown. They also brought beautiful women from remote tribesmen and down-and-out relatives to the capital, intending to send them to participate in the selection of female officials.

If he can be successfully selected, he will have a support in the palace.

Because the country is peaceful and Zhao Huan's prestige is extremely high, the selection of female officials this time is quite large, and women everywhere have heard about it.

Women are officials, and women's knowledge has become a hot topic in one fell swoop, and it has even recently become an influential topic in the Song Dynasty.

Taking advantage of this east wind, in late March, Zhao Huan received two famous Song Qi women in the palace.

The two of them have a piece of literature and a martial arts, and they are both eternal heroes who will be known to everyone in the future.

For a woman to have such a reputation as them, her achievements can be said to be far superior to most men in the entire era.

In order to avoid suspicion, Zhao Huan specially met the two women in Wende Hall to avoid any rumors.

Liu Chan, the Empress Dowager of Shu, kept the wife of a minister, Liu Yan, in the palace because of the Empress Dowager, but the minister suspected that his wife had an affair with Liu Chan.As a result, Liu Chan was furious and personally executed the veteran of the two dynasties, General Cheqi.

It is worth mentioning that Liu Chan executed a total of two ministers, and the other minister Li Miao was because he slandered his father, Zhuge Liang, as a powerful minister.

Han Shizhong's loyalty was no less than that of Zhuge Liang, and Zhao Huan didn't want to spread any rumors and hurt the heart of the humerus minister.

In the Hall of Wende, Liang Hongyu wore a lake-blue long dress, which made the sharpness between her brows and eyes less sharp, making her a little more elegant and quiet, but her upright sitting posture still showed the pride in the bones of this strange woman.

Han Shizhong spent more than ten years together in the first half of his life before he finally reached the rank of officer. He met Liang Hongyu at the banquet and fell in love at first sight. It can be said that this was the most meaningful event in the first half of his life.

But it was also because of this that he, a middle-aged general, could have such a young, beautiful, proud and fierce concubine, who helped him quickly reset his mentality in Nanjing, and worked hard with loyalty, instead of sinking down like an old man.

Because of this, Liang Hongyu was conferred the title of Mrs. Anguo, with a royal order.

After being seated, Zhao Huan asked Liang Hongyu, "How is Minister Han's health recently? His letters to me have only talked about business affairs, only submitted battle reports, and never talked about his own health. He is my fellow minister with Yue Xianggong." The left and right humerus are the pillars of the Song Dynasty, so we must take care of our health for the country."

Liang Hongyu bowed her head slightly, and replied humbly: "My concubine is on behalf of my husband, thanking the officials for his concern. My husband came home and promised that everything was fine, and said several times that he would recover Taiyuan for the court and serve the country with all his loyalty."

Zhao Huan nodded, and said: "Emissary Han served the country in a bloody battle on the front line, and I can't let him worry about his parents, wife and children in the rear. I gave Envoy Han [-] guan to supplement his family."

"The concubine will worship again on my behalf, and thank the official family for the reward."

After exchanging pleasantries, Zhao Huan officially turned to today's topic, and said to Liang Hongyu: "Because the matter is so important and it is inconvenient to exchange letters, I have to call Qing to the capital to discuss it face to face."

Zhao Huan picked up a letter and asked the female official to deliver it to Liang Hongyu, saying: "This is the cultural and educational budget that has been audited by the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister this year. You can take a look."

After a round of intense struggles in the court rounds, the distribution of state finances was finally completed.

It is mainly divided into three parts. The first part is undoubtedly the expenditure for the army. The national defense construction of 8000 million yuan was firmly insisted on by Zhang Shuye.

The second part is to support the royal family, 3000 million guan.The imperial court is also very generous, directly setting the system, from now on [-]% of the country's regular tax will be handed over to Zuo Kuzang, and according to the tradition of the Song Dynasty, it will give priority to ensuring that the internal treasury is full.That is to say, the fiscal taxation first pays all the money to the internal treasury, and then the rest goes to the state Taicang.This also shows the strength of the imperial power in the Great Song Dynasty.

But in contrast, all taxes previously owned by the emperor will be assigned to the court in the future.There are two main categories in this part. One is naturally the mountains, rivers, salt and iron. In the past, as long as the gold mines, silver mines, and forests in the Song Dynasty were owned by the emperor.The emperor was in a good mood, and gave the benefits of mountains and rivers, salt and iron to the common people, so that the common people could enter the mountains to log and hunt.From now on, all the people in the world will support the emperor with the national tax, and the emperor will also deliver all these to the world, no longer exclusive.So as to benefit the people and promote the development of industry and commerce.

The other part is naturally all kinds of customs duties, municipal shipping bureaus, and commercial taxes. Many of these taxes are not entered into the country's Taicang, and are collected exclusively for the emperor.In the future, it will no longer be owned by the emperor, and the court will reorganize business taxes.

The third part is the domestic expenditure, which is the largest part, as high as 3000 million guan.

The 3000 million and [-] million guan are divided into various parts, such as infrastructure construction, river defense, medical and health care, urban construction, and school education that Zhao Huan attaches great importance to.

Under Zhao Huan's strong intervention, Da Song took out 4000 million crowns of wealth to invest in education for the first time.

(End of this chapter)