After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

"Don't worry, the truth will naturally promote you in the future. From now on, you will be my confidant. You are still the principal. When the opportunity comes, the truth will let you be promoted to the servant."

"Thank you, Mr. Yang!" The principal smiled.

……

The next day, Fengtian Temple.

"Your Majesty, according to the preliminary estimates of the ministers and the officials and old craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, the establishment of the Jixia Academy will cost more than ten million taels of silver!" Shan Anren, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, stepped forward and said, " It will take more than half a year to recruit millions of civilian husbands from all over the country."

"This is a huge project, and it will consume Ming's huge national power and people's power." Li Shanchang sighed after hearing the words, "Especially the star observatory, which needs to be built so high that it is extremely difficult and expensive to build. "

"This is the rendering of the Jixia Academy after its completion, please take a look at it," Shan Anren said.

An eunuch went down, took the drawing from Shan Anren, and handed it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

The drawing was very large, so Zhu Yuanzhang ordered two guards to open it and watch it with the officials.

I saw that Jixia Academy, covering an area of ​​ten thousand mu, is located on the top of Zhongshan Mountain.Mighty and majestic, magnificent.It is divided into nine colleges, namely Taoist Academy, Yinyang Academy, Mohist Academy, and Zongheng Academy.

Agricultural College, Military Academy, Medical College...

Among them, the military academy has a military art hall, which is used to practice military art at ordinary times.

Huge battlefield sand table, used for sand table drills.

Practice martial arts in the martial arts arena, and there are eighteen kinds of weapons in the arena.

The Mohist Academy has a special place for Mohist disciples to practice mechanism skills.

The College of Agriculture has fields for researching new varieties of crops and fish ponds for cultivating fry.

The School of Medicine has specially opened up a piece of land in the back mountain for medical students to grow exotic flowers and herbs and panacea.

There are alchemy furnaces and alchemy rooms in the Taoist temple.

Yin Yang College has a compass, an artifact of the sky, the latitude and the earth.

The largest stone used in the construction of Jixia Academy weighed [-] jin.

The observatory is even more between the white clouds, and there is a huge sundial on it to determine the time.In the middle of the armillary sphere is a sphere surrounded by four dragon pillars.Standing on the observatory, you can watch the stars more conveniently, and you can overlook the great rivers and mountains of Yingtianfu.

The ministers were all amazed when they saw it: "This Jixia Academy, like the Great Wall, will become another miracle in China. Thousands of years later, there must be many people of later generations to pay their respects and write poems to commemorate it."

"We are very satisfied with this rendering." Zhu Yuanzhang ordered someone to put away the drawings, and said, "This kind of feat that will benefit future generations is worth it no matter how much it costs."

"There are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the national treasury, and the construction of the Jixia Academy only needs ten million taels, and Daming can afford it." Zhu Yuanzhang has been poor all his life, and has never been so rich.

So he spends money lavishly, without feeling distressed at all.

"Thinking that the imperial court couldn't even allocate a few million taels of silver for disaster relief, but now it can spend [-] million taels to build the Jixia Academy... It's really changing, and it feels like a world away." Jin Xingshangshu Lu Chang also sighed.

"As for the waste of people's power you said, it doesn't exist at all. Not only does this move not harm the people, but it is beneficial to the people." Zhu Yuanzhang continued, "We heard that the people of Ming Dynasty have been rebellious and lazy recently..."...

"There are quite a few idlers in Yingtian Mansion, they lead dogs and birds all day long, haunting the Lane of Fireworks and Willows."

"My Majesty." Liu Bowen stepped forward and said, "In the past, the common people had a difficult life and heavy taxes. They had to work day and night in order to have enough to eat, so there were not many idle people in the whole country."

"But now that the common people are rich and taxes have been reduced, there will definitely be more idlers."

"People in the world have never lived a rich life like they are now."

"Especially Yingtian Mansion, which is the center of Ming's foreign trade. People can earn a lot of money as long as they work a little harder. Some people can even earn money that they couldn't earn in their entire lives just relying on rent."

"When they have nothing to do, they start to enjoy life. As a result, there are bird markets and dog markets in Yingtianfu. Restaurants, music workshops, brothels and other industries are unprecedentedly developed."

"Especially in the brothel industry. There are ten brothels in Yingtianfu. On the banks of the Qinhuai River, flower boats are spread all over the river. Most of the women in them are foreign women. Everyone wants to find something new."

"They will also select the top ten oirans every month, and the majority of them are foreign women. Those foreign women not only learned our language, but also recited poems and poems. As we all know, the famous poems born by talented scholars in Fireworks and Willow Lane are just like the Liu Sanbian."

"Although the other provinces are not as rich as Yingtianfu, they are still very different from before."

"It happened that the idlers from Yingtian Mansion were recruited to build the Jixia Academy, and the idlers from other provinces transferred stone and wood to do things for them." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "As long as you give them money, it's not considered harming the people. .”

"Back then, King Zhou of the Shang Dynasty built the Lutai, and Emperor Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall to waste money and waste the people. They didn't give money to the people, but beat them with whips to force them to work, so we can't be compared with them."

"Your Majesty!" said the ministers.

"I report to the emperor, I suggest that the emperor develop a hobby in life and tell the world about it." At this time, Yang Xian stepped forward and said.

"Why do we want to cultivate a hobby?" Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised.

"The so-called acting from top to bottom..." Yang Xiandao, "If the emperor has a hobby in a certain area, the subjects of the whole country will follow suit. After having this hobby, they can correct the unhealthy trend of people all over the world who like to seek flowers and ask willows."

"For example, Tang Zhuangzong liked to sing opera, so the people all over the country liked to sing opera. Tang Xizong liked cuju, and cuju was popular all over the country. With singing and cuju getting in the way, they naturally lost interest in seeking flowers and asking Liu."

"We were born farmers, so we don't have any special hobbies?" Zhu Yuanzhang was dumbfounded.

You don't have any hobbies yet?Hearing this, Yang Xian secretly said in his heart, you like other people's wives just like Cao Cao, and many concubines are married twice, so now everyone in Ming Dynasty likes this tune.

"Does living frugally count?" Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, "Does reading every day and night count?"

"It doesn't count." Yang Xian said, "Only entertainment hobbies other than life and study count."

"In addition to these good qualities, we can't think of any special hobbies we have at the moment, and we will discuss this matter later." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Observe the order!" Yang Xian said, "However, I still suggest that the emperor can develop hobbies in cuju. Cuju can strengthen the body and greatly improve the physical fitness of the whole people."

"Your Majesty, building statues of the Three Emperors all over the country will also require a lot of money." At this time, Liu Bowen stood out of the train and said, "It also requires money to restore law and order in various provinces, so now is not the time to talk about hobbies."