"Besides, agreeing to my request will benefit you so much, don't you want to hear it?"
Lin Fan changed the subject and spoke again.
"What's the benefit?
Our ancestral heritage is gone!”
One person said coldly.
"Masters, with all due respect, even if you are still the master, after a hundred years, will this huge sect be handed over to your descendants, or will it be selected from within the sect?"
Lin Fan asked in a deep voice.
For these people, this question is simply a proposition. They must want to pass on the sect to their sons, but who of them dares to say so?
According to the sect's rules, the position of head is passed on to the most outstanding disciples, and some of them have no heirs at home.
"Each of our sects have rules, and naturally they must be passed on to outstanding disciples!"
One person said in a deep voice.
"Haha! Since the position of the leader is not hereditary, it means that the sect's property is not yours. You can only enjoy it while you are alive. When you die, it doesn't necessarily belong to someone else!"
"Not counting the hatred between the various sects, didn't Song Zang massacre half of the martial arts community before?
There is no guarantee that this kind of thing will happen to you one day!"
"Even if there are no ruthless people like Song Zang in the world, think about it, can you guarantee that your children will be talents?
What if there is a prodigal son?"
"A hundred years from now, will your disciples be raising your prodigal children?
Obviously it is impossible, therefore, no matter how well the sect develops, it does not mean that you will be good!"
"In that case, why not make changes?
If you hand over the sect and transform this prince into an academy, it will become the property of the imperial court!"
"Since it is the property of the imperial court, it means that there will no longer be the problem of sects attacking each other, and you leaders have been promoted to deans!"
"The dean is equivalent to a fifth-rank official in the imperial court, but his salary is several times that of those fifth-rank officials. He gets ten thousand taels of silver every year!"
"Think about it again, you have been the leader for so long, yes! The sect has hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in its collection, but is that yours?"
"I can also guarantee that in ten years, everyone will be assigned a mansion in the capital. Not only that, your heirs will receive preferential treatment!"
"As long as they don't commit crimes or do anything idle, I guarantee that they will all have a good job!"
Lin Fan said with a smile, turning on the big deception mode.
Sure enough, as soon as he said these words, the heads of the martial arts sects present were all stunned. They felt that the conditions Lin Fan offered them were too tempting.
Chiliu!
After hearing this, a head of the sect drooled. He quickly wiped it away and asked: "Your Highness, is everything you said true?
I have a house share and ten thousand taels of silver every year?”
"Haha! This condition is specially given to you by this prince. Those who left before did not have such favorable conditions!"
Lin Fan said with a smile.
When those people heard this, their self-esteem was satisfied, and they all smiled and said: "Your Highness, if this is the case, then we agree!"
"Haha! We also agreed. This is ten thousand taels of silver and a mansion. Your Highness, the Crown Prince, is true to his word. If you say it, you will not break your promise!"
"Your Highness, how do we convince those disciples? They won't agree to this!"
Some people have put forward different opinions.
Lin Fan said in a deep voice: "Once the academy is established, it will need a lot of teachers. From the existing disciples of your sect, select a hundred outstanding ones to become teachers!"
"Once you become a teacher, you will receive a salary of twenty taels of silver every month. Others can participate in the selection once a year. Those who pass can also become teachers!"
"If you don't want to stay in the academy as a teacher, you can also choose to serve in the imperial court. The Jinyiwei, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of War are all short of people!"
"Moreover, this prince is going to set up a new department, which is in need of martial arts masters!"
"Haha! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has thought so carefully. He has thought of all this for us!"
"With such good conditions, our disciples will definitely agree. In the future, our sect will not encounter crises for hundreds of years and thousands of years!"
"Your Highness, how much money can you give us?"
Someone started asking about the silver.
"It's like this. After you change it into an academy, you can no longer recruit apprentices. You can only recruit students, and the students are selected by the Ministry of Education and sent to your academies!"
"As for you sects, you are all the leaders among the sects, so the tuition fees will be very high. By then, just the tuition fees will be enough for you to make a lot of money!"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
"Your Highness, if you calculate this way, how many students can we recruit every year?"
one person asked.
"Yes, how many students can we recruit?
You know, when we accepted disciples in the past, we couldn’t recruit more than a hundred people a year!”
Another person said.
"Our Ming Dynasty has a population of over 100 million, and there are tens of millions of school-age children. These people will all enter the academy in the future. How many people can you accept?"
Lin Fan asked rhetorically.
Gudu!
These people all swallowed a big mouthful of saliva and said in shock: "Tens of millions of people! This! How is this possible! We can't even accommodate so many students!"
"Who said everything was given to you?
These students will be divided into three types. The first type is those with poor academic performance. There is no need for such students to continue training. They can choose to find a job or join the army!"
"The second type is those with slightly better academic performance. They will be assigned to colleges adapted from previous sects. The tuition fees there are lower, and most of them can accept them."
"The third type of people are people with particularly good academic performance. Their talents are much better than others, but their number is only thirty or forty thousand at most. They will be sent to you by then! The tuition fee is set at three thousand yuan.
One year, as for those who cannot afford it, I will make my own arrangements, and the court will help them pay for their tuition, or other methods!"
"There is also a situation where those who have fairly good academic performance but whose families are extremely wealthy can enroll in school at a high price, such as five thousand Ming coins or ten thousand Ming coins per year!"
"Just do the math. If I give you a thousand students every year, how much will you earn?"
Lin Fan said in a deep voice.
"His! Three thousand Ming coins per person, that's three thousand taels of silver. One thousand students, that's an income of three million taels of silver!"
"So much money! Your Highness, is everything you said true?
Don’t lie to us!”
"Your Highness, are you really giving all of this money to us?"