The court was short of silver, and the seemingly rich and rich business department was also exhausted. The court still owed a lot of silver to the big merchants in Chang'an City. They could not afford to provide the money to provide relief. These students who caused trouble gave Liu Yu such an opportunity to make money, allowing Liu Yu to use this matter to extend his hands to these Chang'an family families who are usually pampered.

Although these aristocratic families are nominally Confucian scholars, they have a political background behind them, so their Confucian identity is not pure, and Liu Yu does not need to consider the consequences for offending them. In a blink of an eye, Liu Yu extended his hand to the family behind these people. Anyway, Liu Yu was worried about not having money to provide disaster relief, so he would not knock on the slaughter.

When the officials returned to the palace from the palace, they wanted to discuss with each other whether they could take measures to deal with Liu Yu's "despicable behavior", but after some small officials who had no position paid the money, other big families had to raise the money quickly. Whenever a student at the gate of the palace was "redemption", the other students would not sit still. After all, they stayed in the palace all day long, hungry and thirsty, and the weather was cold. Once this spirit passed, it didn't matter who became the emperor in their eyes. A warm kang was more tempting than a political stance.

Because the court "opened a lot" this time, the families of various families did not want to lose money, so many families were short of money in raising money. They thought that the court would turn a blind eye and just let the court quarrel, and the court would stop paying aside. Who knew that Han Sheng, who was in charge of this matter, was very difficult to talk about. Not only did these families take the money, but they also had to use the marked paper to verify it. There was a basis for them to deny it. If there was a place that was not matched, the missing part would have to be made up twice.

Han Sheng also made it clear that if you don’t make up for it, it’s not about redeeming people, but about redeeming your head.

All the families of these aristocratic families know that Liu Yu is the head of a group of clumsy people, and he is the leader of the thief in the chaos of the country now. If he can't get along with him, he can't get along with himself. This mute person is fortunate that they have to eat even if they don't eat.

So in the end, they resented Liu Yu, who was greedy for money, but the people who came up with ideas to let the students of the Imperial Academy sit quietly at the gate of the palace to protest against the people who put pressure on the court. In the end, the court did not waver or arouse the response from the people. Instead, Liu Yu cheated the money.

In the afternoon, he collected the money he had redeemed by each family. Han Sheng asked someone to make a clear calculation and reported it to Liu Yu. Liu Yu had a treacherous smile on his face and said, "Yes, more than one hundred people can raise 100,000 taels of silver. These officials are quite rich."

Han Sheng was still very pleased that Liu Yu had not made things difficult for the students and smiled and said, "When the late emperor was alive, he treated officials with courtesy. These families had dozens of hectares of land alone, not counting their salary and rice."

Liu Yu nodded. Nowadays, one hectares have 100 acres. When he was named the vanguard general, he brought hundreds of acres of land from the court. In the future, he made contributions and annexed some land, and it would not be difficult to get thousands of acres of land. This is not a gray income. The ** under this system alone has already made people squeezed to become officials. Therefore, if you want to do business and make a fortune these days, it is better to be an official directly. Power and wealth are accompanied by.

"It's only about 100,000 taels, it's still not enough!"

Liu Yu sighed and pinched his finger thoughtfully. Han Sheng, who was beside him, looked a little embarrassed. He guessed that Liu Yu was trying to attack others again.

Sure enough, Liu Yu closed the list of redemption and said to Han Sheng: "Have you discussed with the Ministry of Rites before the expansion of Tai Academy's enrollment? What are the results?"

Han Sheng smiled and said, "What else can you do? How many people will you recruit? It's actually just a matter of one sentence."

Liu Yu smiled and said, "Actually, I think so too. Now I am worried about not having money to provide disaster relief all day long. I think about how to save money and save money. This idea is wrong. Brother Han, let's open the source this time. I immediately asked someone to post a list article in the city, saying that Tai Academy not only accepts admission to the official school, but also accepts some poor children. As long as they are good at studying, they can come to Tai Academy to study. If other people who are not good at studying and want to come in and join in the fun, then pay some tuition fees appropriately. We can't support them in vain, right?"

In these days, Tai Academy was the leader of the official school, and it has always been a expense in the court, and there is no reason why students pay tuition fees.

Han Sheng hesitated and said, "How much is appropriate to hand over?"

"The more you have, the better, it depends on the sincerity of the students." Liu Yu smiled deceitfully and continued, "Then we set up another college at Tai Academy and mobilized all the best teachers in the country, so as to recruit the best students and let them come out. Without taking the exam, we can go to the middle and lower classes to become minor officials and promote them bit by bit."

Han Sheng said anxiously: "No, no, no, the imperial examination is the foundation of prosperity and stability. If you have to go to the official position without taking the exam, wouldn't the scholars in the world feel cold?"

"If you don't take the exam, you'll have to take a lot of exams, from admission to various selections, and then graduation. If they don't get well, they have to start over or just persuade them to retire. Selecting talents is the purpose of this university." Liu Yu said jokingly, "In fact, those ordinary poor children can also come to take the college entrance examination, but they have to pass the Tai Academy first. Students from Tai Academy can take the college entrance examination before graduation and become officials, or directly participate in the imperial examination. This is equivalent to having an extra way for the scholars in the world to become officials. How can the scholars in the world feel disheartened?"

Han Sheng thought about it and it seemed that that was the case. But after thinking about it, he felt that it was not, because he knew that Liu Yu wanted to make money with this, so how could he get the scholars in the world to be cheaper?

Liu Yu was actually very ill-hearted. It was just to say that Tai Academy's expansion was to try to cheat the money of those rich children from merchants or landlords, and they had to spend a lot of money to send their children to Tai Academy to study. Originally, after graduating from Tai Academy, he could already do a job, but now he has a college. That is to say, if these children do not study hard and cannot enter university, it would be a waste of time to graduate from Tai Academy just like graduating from college. In fact, the real selection must be to have real talents and knowledge, but in fact it is still to benefit the scholars in the world.

Although Han Sheng felt that it was not appropriate to make money by running schools, the court could not afford to provide money for disaster relief now, and there was no other way, so he had to take one step at a time as Liu Yu said. As for the details, he naturally had to discuss it carefully with the Ministry of Rites before he could decide, and the preparation of the matter should be done as soon as possible. After all, spring is about to begin, and disaster relief is like putting out fires, and it is impossible to delay.

That night, the Ministry of Rites held an emergency meeting to discuss the expansion of Tai Academy and the establishment of the university. Liu Yu also went to the Ministry of Rites to listen. The people from the Ministry of Rites basically had no objection. This was the court's proposition, and there was no loss or gain for them.

Liu Yu was about to return to the palace when he met Sui Yi at the door of the Ministry of Rites. Sui Yi came to Liu Yu to send Liu Yu the records of yesterday's undisputed party interrogation. Liu Yu took it and looked at him, but there was no progress. When Sui Yi looked at the Ministry of Rites in the deer-headed and rat-headed eyes.

"What's wrong?" Liu Yu asked.

Sui Yi smiled and said, "I heard that Tai Academy is going to recruit people. Brother Liu, do you think... can I be a student? I just want to get a reputation for graduating from Tai Academy."
Chapter completed!