Chapter 703: Zhu Yuanzhang, the Strongest in His Life
As the first vassal king of the Ming Dynasty who had been in office for just over a year and had commanded two great victories... Zhu Di's mind became active. Logically speaking, what he hated the most was this bunch of rotten scholars. He wished he could hang the scholars on the flagpole one by one, and even refused to do so.
Give them the power to choose their flagpole.
Hang them one by one, there is nothing else to say.
But then again, just killing people may not be that satisfying. It would also be nice if you could get them to do things for you and to be so determined that they don't even care about their lives.
Zhu Di's mind became active, "Huang Zicheng, you said you want to run a school, and I also want to run a school. But running a school is easier said than done. Do you have any regulations?"
"Yes!" Huang Zicheng hurriedly got up from the ground, with excitement on his face, "Your Highness, as long as you make up your mind, this school can be built... Not to mention whether it can beat Jimin School and Fudan School, the worst is
The three tripods divide the world into three parts!"
Zhu Di rolled his eyes. He didn't like studying very much, but he gathered a group of top scholars under his command, and his cards were filled instantly. Besides, his little friend, he wanted to be a teacher, and even went to Jimin Academy to study for
The only thing is to be a good teacher.
If you build the Peiping University Hall and make it look like a top children's school, and then invite Zhang Shuning to come over and be the headmaster...all the problems will be solved!
I was confused too, why did I have to let him work in the palace?
The layout is smaller!
Zhu Laosi felt like he was going crazy. After thinking about it for a while, he asked Huang Zicheng, "What are you going to do? Tell me and let me listen carefully!"
Huang Zicheng said: "Your Highness, this school must first have a site. I have taken a fancy to a piece of land to the west of the palace. It was originally Taicang of the Yuan Dynasty. Your Highness was worried about water leakage, so he moved it outside. Can this vacant land be set aside to build a school?
A school building?”
Zhu Di nodded without hesitation, "Okay, let's do it!"
Even today, Peiping is still sparsely populated, with plenty of open space, and the land price is very cheap.
In that area, Zhu Di often saw him when he went out to hunt in the city.
A conservative estimate is that it is more than three times that of Ying Tianfu School.
To build the Peking University Hall, first of all, "big" is definitely big enough. As for the other four words, we will talk about it separately.
"Your Highness, King Yan, the common people have done the math. Since it is the foundation of Taicang, the foundation is relatively solid. The cost of building a house is bricks and tiles and wood. It happens that the Great Wall is being built, and there is no shortage of brick and tile fields in Peiping. We only need to follow Yue Guogong
Let’s discuss it and ensure that we can get enough materials and the price is not expensive!”
Zhu Di blinked his eyes and nodded: "You are not stupid if you can think of this. I can call on the people of Peiping to work together and build the school no matter what!"
They made preliminary calculations, and they should be able to win it with at most one million strings.
The schools and buildings have been sorted out, and here are the teachers and students.
Will this work?
"To be honest, it's a bit difficult... But in recent years, His Majesty has sent many officials to Peking, and there are also some who are determined to serve the country, such as... ordinary people, it is not difficult to set up a grass-roots team."
"As for the students, Your Highness King Yan, how many troops are there in Beiping now?"
Zhu Di pondered for a moment and then said: "Since the liberation of Peiping, Zhu Wenzheng and Li Wenzhong have been stationed there. In order to build the Great Wall, Duke Yue still has tens of thousands of people under his command. Plus my three guards and horses, the number is more than 100,000.
Enough!"
"How many children do the army lieutenants have?"
Zhu Di said: "More than half of the people here are married. I am also thinking of ways to help them settle down and start a family. Nowadays, women are encouraged to go north and marry military officers. Except for Liangzhou, they come to Peiping.
There are so many people. According to preliminary estimates, there should be 18,000 school-age children!"
When Huang Zicheng heard this, he was overjoyed. The army could contribute so many children, plus the civilian households in Peiping, which was enough to run the school.
But then again, it is still a grassroots team. Even if it can barely operate, it will be the size of an ordinary university, and it is still far from the world's largest university.
"Huang Zicheng, let me tell you clearly. If I want to do it, then it is the best. If I can't do it, I would rather not do it! If I ask you to run this school, can you get the first class?"
Huang Zicheng gritted his teeth. This was asking him to issue a military order!
"Okay! I can do it! But there is one thing, I want His Highness to pay for it!"
Zhu Di thought for a moment and asked, "How much do you want?"
Huang Zicheng thought for a while and said, "Your Highness, how much money can the Imperial Academy allocate? Put it aside. Your Highness will give me one million yuan every year! And you are not allowed to ask where the money goes!"
When Huang Zicheng opened his mouth and refused to ask questions, Hua Wei stopped, "You want so much? More than Jimin Academy! What if you are greedy for ink? Who will guarantee you?"
Huang Zicheng smiled bitterly, "I won't put a penny in my pocket. In addition to supporting students, I also want to hire famous teachers from various places. If you want to run the best school, you can't do it without famous teachers! These famous teachers may not be greedy for money, but to give
They deserve the best living treatment. Your Highness will give me money, I will eat rice bran, kneel down and ask for help, and I will get people too!"
Zhu Di looked at Huang Zicheng seriously. From the look on this guy's face, it might not be fake.
Among scholars, there are some people who are extraordinarily persistent and will not regret anything they have determined. Even if they fight to wipe out all nine tribes, they will not regret it at all.
If Huang Zicheng was such a person, maybe he could really be entrusted with big things!
Zhu Di thought about it again and again, and said slowly: "Huang Zicheng, I can give you the money you want, and I can double it to you! But you can't stay out of it, just let me ask for the money, and we have to find a solution together!"
Huang Zicheng subconsciously said: "What method? Common people, common people really don't know any way to make money!"
Zhu Di smiled slightly, turned around and searched for a long time, took a sweater, and carefully placed it in front of Huang Zicheng.
"Did you see it? This is the sweater Zhang Xiangqin hand-knitted."
Huang Zicheng was greatly surprised and couldn't help but look at this slightly rough sweater with the mentality of admiring a sacred object.
"Your Highness plans to make money by knitting sweaters?"
Zhu Di laughed loudly, "It's different now. After several years of development, we have been able to spin finer wool, and we can also weave something called woolen fabric, which is very suitable for making military jackets and uniforms."
Zhu Di said: "Huang Zicheng, a group of old devout women were recently dispatched from Jiangxi. They are all evil-doing women. I plan to use them to weave, and the money they earn will be given to your school."
Huang Zicheng was stunned for a moment, "Of course this is a good thing. Thank you, Your Highness..."
"Don't be busy!" Zhu Di said with a smile: "These old devout women were sent here, and I don't have any wages to pay them."
Huang Zicheng immediately said: "They have no conscience and don't deserve their wages!"
"Then I don't have anything good to eat for them."
"As long as the cake is hard, it's not worth wasting money and food."
After hearing this, Zhu Di smiled and said: "Then should we arrange a rest for them? Also, what should we do if they are exhausted?"
Huang Zicheng pondered for a moment, but soon he gritted his teeth and said: "Old pious women, they are here to atone for their sins, so there is no need to give them a rest. As for those who are exhausted, a roll of straw mat is enough!"
Zhu Di finally showed a smile on his face, "Huang Zicheng, you said that no one in my position can manage the textile factory now. Can you think of a way to separate some people from the school?"
Huang Zicheng thought for a moment and actually smiled and said: "Your Highness, Prime Minister Zhang advocated the unity of knowledge and action at Jimin Academy. Now at Peking University, he must also unite knowledge and action. Managing a textile factory is naturally not a problem!"
Zhu Di put his hands on his hands and laughed. He actually stood up and couldn't help but give Huang Zicheng a thumbs up!
Now I am absolutely sure that you are the kind of top-notch scholar who can do whatever it takes to achieve his goals!
Just because of your virtue, I voted for the Peking University Hall project!
Zhu Di is a guy who has a strong desire to be strong throughout his life, and to do his best if he wants to do it.
It can be seen from the voyage to the West, the conquest of Mongolia, and the construction of the Yongle Grand Ceremony. If he decided, it would be a big deal and he would not say anything.
Peiping has always been regarded as a civilized desert, and some people even say that Hu Feng is rampant, making it seem like a foreign land.
If a top university in the world could be established in Peking, who would dare to talk nonsense? Who could look down on himself, the King of Yan?
The more Zhu Di thought about it, the more he felt that running a school would be beneficial, and Italy would do wonders!
He acted decisively and encircled the land as Huang Zicheng said. After they finished their work, the area enclosed was larger than expected, more than five times that of Yingtianfuxue!
In addition, Zhu Di also set aside half of the land in the military camp outside the city for the martial arts department of the university hall.
Since it is called a university hall, it is definitely the largest in the world.
While Zhu Di was busy enclosing the land, the news spread like wildfire.
When I heard that His Highness King Yan was going to build a huge university hall in Peiping, Peiping was shocked.
It turns out that this ridiculous little prince can be reliable sometimes.
Those people who had their houses occupied took the initiative to move out without asking for any compensation.
People from Peiping took the initiative to come over and help with the work.
There are more people coming to work for free every day than the hired craftsmen!
On the other side, when the army learned about Zhu Di's plan, Li Wenzhong directly set aside a military camp and personally led his men into battle to build a martial arts academy.
When Hu Dahai found out, he was even more shocked.
When Prime Minister Zhang arranged for farming in the north, he provided convenience for the teaching of military children. Later, he allocated the Changlu Salt Farm to the big guys.
The foundation has been laid. Now the King of Yan wants to build Peking University. It is the right time for his ambition and ambition!
"Brothers, this is for our descendants! Don't say anything, just do your best!"
On Hu Dahai's order, all kinds of wood, bricks and tiles were sent to Zhu Di without paying a penny.
It was just Hu Dahai. After Guan Duo, who was far away in Tieling, found out, he actually sent a thousand pieces of fine pine wood and donated a thousand taels of gold.
Zhu Di's enthusiasm was completely aroused. This guy is so interesting, Zhu Di can't stretch his crotch!
In addition to inspecting the construction site every day, Zhu Di also gave full play to his skills and wrote letters to his father!
That's right, unlike Zhang Shuning who hopes to live an ordinary life, Zhu Di has a father but doesn't need one. What's the difference between that and not having a father?
He immediately wrote an emotional letter to Zhu Yuanzhang.
Peiping is a vast land with few people, no roosters crow for thousands of miles, and bones are exposed in the wild. The living people have no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies... They are still willing to overcome all difficulties and do their best to build a school, promote education, and restore the prosperity of China. My heart can be judged by the sun. Wouldn't it be better for my emperor not to tolerate it?
Zhu Di also wrote that Zhang Shuning, who was still in his prime, donated 100,000 books and helped run schools. As the master of the world, how could he be inferior to his children?
Another thing is that Jimin School and Fudan School were both established at the suggestion of Prime Minister Zhang. Now they are both famous schools in the world. My father is the Son of Heaven and the father of all peoples. Even though he has been in power for ten years, he has not built a university hall. In the future, Speaking of which, wouldn’t it make people laugh?
Although the child is not talented, he is willing to do his best to build the best school in the world for the Zhu family.
When it comes to the father's face, the child can only do a little bit. As for success or failure, it all depends on the father's thoughts!
After receiving this letter from Zhu Di, Lao Zhu's eyes immediately widened!
Suddenly he slammed the table and shouted directly: "Zhu Biao, go call your mother, let's discuss quickly and see how much money we can offer!"