During this year in Yangzhou, Yuan Shu fully demonstrated to everyone what it means to be wealthy and willful.

The money in Yangzhou's treasury was flowing out in units of tens of millions every month, and Yangzhou was living in ruins by throwing money at it. Even these aristocratic families had to accept it.

It's useless for merchants to have money, because they can't keep it. The princes have money, but they are definitely not as rich as Yuan Shu, and they will not be as squandering as Yuan Shu. In their opinion, this is far less practical than raising an army.

For example, the original Yuan Shu relied on the savings of the Yuan family to easily recruit an army of hundreds of thousands, and he was not short of money and food for nearly ten years.

And now Yuan Shu spends 70% of his money in a year. Without the income from the paper and salt and wine, Yuan Shu would have become a pauper long ago.

But fortunately, with the large sum of money sponsored by Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu can at least spend another year or two.

So if someone as rich and powerful as Yuan Shu doesn't spend his money on goods in the "right" place, the aristocratic families are really at their wits' end.

Yangzhou is now completely on the right track. In fact, it is self-sufficient and growing without Yuan Shu spending money at all. Yuan Shu just kept pouring in money and food in order to speed up the development of Yangzhou.

When Yuan Shu's net worth was mentioned, all the family heads present sighed deeply.

The Four Generations and Three Dukes have such a profound foundation!

Now in Yangzhou, the only aspect that aristocratic families can control is the officials. In this way, 30% of the children from poor families come to grab food. If Yuan Shu had not designated a fiefdom for them, these aristocratic families would not dare to resist even if they openly do so.

Definitely all kinds of small actions.

"Yuan Jiujiu has a lot of money, and with the help of Duke Kang Cheng, I'm afraid he can really run the Jinling Academy. I heard that as long as he can pass the exam, there will be no tuition fees and room and board will be included. The only requirement is that he will be an official in Yangzhou after being successful in his studies.

Year. It will be difficult for those poor scholars to refuse such an offer, and we and other aristocratic families also need to make preparations in advance!"

Gu Ming looked at Lu Kang inexplicably: "Brother Ji Ning, your grandson seems to be ready to enter Jinling College!"

Mentioning his talented grandson who is destined to be extraordinary, Lu Kang said with a smile: "Yes! My great grandson has already become a disciple of Duke Kang Cheng! Naturally, he will also join Jinling College."

Gu Mingyi pointedly said: "With Lingsun's intelligence, I think he will be able to lead the way among the students and attract countless scholars to follow him!"

When the heads of the other aristocratic families heard this, their eyes lit up: "That's right! This Jinling Academy is not only for those children from poor families, it is also a stage for the children of the aristocratic families like us to dominate the world."

"That's right, that's right. Most of the children from aristocratic families like us have read poetry and books since childhood and have been influenced by their elders. How can we not be able to defeat those students from poor families? Maybe we can attract more students from poor families to join us and strengthen the family!"

The heads of these aristocratic families have finally figured it out. In the past, the aristocratic family was the dominant family and could not get enough of the cake, so they continued to exclude the children from poorer families and clung to their own status.

But now Yuan Shu has used the momentum to crush everyone, introduced poor families, and tightened the promotion assessment, and the Yangzhou aristocratic families have been cut in half, and there is an extra fiefdom overseas. These aristocratic families suddenly found that they can't eat the Yangzhou cake.

We urgently need more children from poor families to supplement and strengthen ourselves. This Jinling College may be the best opportunity.

Seeing the excitement of the heads of these aristocratic families, Lu Kang and Gu Ming secretly smiled at each other. The two of them singing and harmonizing were actually quietly revealing the message that Yuan Shu wanted to tell the aristocratic families through them.

When Yuan Shu asked Guo Jia how to get rid of the shackles of the noble family, Guo Jia raised two questions: "Why suppress the noble family? What is the noble family?"

Yuan Shu thought for a moment and immediately understood what Guo Jia meant. The aristocratic family represents a class, the management class, which is indispensable. What Yuan Shu should do is not to suppress the aristocratic family, but to enrich the aristocratic family while limiting its rights.

, promote their healthy competition and mutual supervision, and support poor families along the way.

Ask where the canal can be so clear? It has a source of living water. If there were no poor families to continuously provide talents and constantly create new interest groups, this aristocratic family would become like a stagnant water.

What Yuan Shu wants to do is to nourish the poor families, and then force the families to keep moving forward. Survival of the fittest, when this kind of competition forms a virtuous circle, these families will naturally be pushed forward, because failure to advance means death.

Yuan Shu wanted to tell them that the method of standing still and suppressing others no longer works. If you don't make progress, countless people will surpass you. Especially once Yuan Shu lets go of paper and establishes the imperial examination, then this kind of competition will be like this

A wild horse running wild cannot be stopped.

On the other hand, Yuan Shu also wants to teach these aristocratic families how to grow and tell them how big the world is.

In the past, each of these aristocratic families foolishly stared at the three-thirds of an acre of their own land, thinking about plundering wealth from the people every day. This method of growing was too low-level, and in Yuan Shu's opinion, it was simply stupid.

Everyone who raises pigs knows that pigs need to be fattened before killing them. These people don't have any oil on their bodies, so what's the use of killing them? It's better to raise them for a while, fatten them up and then kill them.

The aristocratic family was helping the emperor to raise pigs. No matter how well the pigs were raised, they were not their own, so they scraped the oil from these pigs. In the past, it may not have been that no one wanted to fatten up and then kill them, but their abilities were limited.

After fattening the pig and losing weight, the pig will probably be snatched away by other strong people, and he will starve to death. As time goes by, no one will do such stupid things.

But now Yuan Shu is here. He came here with a group of fierce bodyguards and snatched away all the pigs. After that, he spent a lot of money to fatten the pigs and threw them to them.

Let them understand that pigs need to be fattened before they are killed.

And with this guy surrounded by a group of bodyguards, the wealthy families couldn't rob the pigs. Then Yuan Shu told them, you raise pigs for me. The fatter you raise the pigs, the more meat I will share with you. If you secretly kill pigs and

I'll beat you to death if you scratch the oil.

With such a ruthless person on top, and this kind of thing is indeed beneficial to both parties, after killing a group of crooked people, these people understood that they had to raise pigs first before they could share the pork.

Some people think that although raising pigs is good, Yuan Shu has taken away too many benefits. Although the benefits for me are much more than before, the proportion has become smaller in comparison. I used to get 40%, but now I only have 40% left.

I was very dissatisfied when I dropped 20%.

So Yuan Shu now pulled out a group of pigs and told them that these pigs completely belong to you. You are no longer working for others to help others raise pigs, but raising pigs for yourself.

The wage earners who used to earn a dead salary suddenly turned into entrepreneurs. In the past, they basically got a small amount of money no matter how much they worked, but now the money they make is their own. Naturally, the attitude of these aristocratic families has changed.

Maybe in more than ten years, Yuan Shu will tell them that raising pigs is too slow and there are a lot of pigs out there. You follow me and grab them together, and I will give more pigs to whoever grabs more!

How can raising pigs be snatched away so quickly? This group of aristocratic families will definitely rush around like hungry wolves.

The world is so big, and the territory of the Han Dynasty is less than one-twentieth of it. How can it not accommodate these aristocratic families?
Chapter completed!