Chapter 265: Accommodating Three Thousand People
Mr. Ding was excited and said that he would take out 100,000 strings of cash to run the school this year and start with building a good provincial school.
Zhao Yulin shook his head and said, it’s far from enough.
This year, all four departments will select locations to set up schools, and we will also start planning for Caotang University. We will spend one million strings of cash to develop education and build an excellent university.
This time, it was Ding Gong's turn to open his mouth in surprise.
Zhao Yulin said that we have silver, and no one should mention transporting taxes to Lin'an in the future. We should use our own money to handle our own affairs.
The gentlemen agreed immediately and nodded continuously.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said: "New learning is not just about the new schools, but also about the new content taught by the teachers. The school system should also be changed, and there should no longer be restrictions such as outer dormitories, inner dormitories, and upper dormitories."
He proposed that in the future, all students recommended by various states should enter our Caotang University to study for three years and pass the assessment to graduate. In this way, there will only be a freshman, sophomore and junior year system, which is simple and good.
These things will keep the old man busy...
Zhao Yulin knew a lot about the universities of later generations. He spoke eloquently and the people present had forgotten to drink tea and stared at him as if he were an immortal.
He felt thirsty and habitually went to get the teacup. The dazed maid beside him suddenly woke up, ran up to refill his water, and almost knocked over the teacup in her panic, causing everyone to laugh.
Zhao Yulin didn't plan to teach them too much. It would be good enough if they could digest what they had in front of them. He stood up and said goodbye, and went out to talk to Zhang Guoan.
When Guoan saw him coming, he immediately stepped forward to catch him and asked the young master what was the urgent matter.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said, "If there's nothing wrong, can't I come to see my brothers?"
Guoan immediately smiled awkwardly and said that the young master was making fun of him again.
He asked Guoan, is Chengdu stable now?
The National Security Bureau said that the situation is relatively calm. Last year, taxes on the people were reduced by 10%. People now have hope for their lives, which is a lot better.
But Dongmei told him not to take it lightly, as there were spies from Lin'an and the Northern Barbarians causing trouble inside and outside the city, and if things went wrong, there would be chaos.
There are currently 8,000 garrisons living in the city. Although most of them are new recruits trained in Cuiping Mountain, their leaders are almost all veterans from the battlefield and are definitely capable of fighting.
Zhao Yulin nodded, thinking that it was right to choose Dongmei as the chief of Chengdu Shunfeng Office. He said that they were still calling them Beiman, Beiman, had they forgotten? They should be called Mengjun, Mongolian people. They are all smart people.
Zhang Guoan laughed and said that Feihu had personally gone to select guards for Ma Ling's wife, and he guaranteed that all of them were loyal men who were not afraid of death.
He nodded slightly, told the urge to hurry up, and got up to go back.
In the Dali Kingdom in the south, the young emperor was summoning important officials to the court to discuss matters.
The young emperor was very dissatisfied with Duan Xiaolin's gains from his mission to Sichuan and Shu. Zhao Yulin only gave him 10,000 new troops, which meant that he could only equip 10,000 new troops. , because the equipment he had obtained before was almost completely lost in the battle with the Kingdom of Yue.
The young emperor had been emperor for several years, but the Dali Kingdom was still the original Dali Kingdom.
Every emperor has the ambition to expand the territory. However, in recent years, the Dali Kingdom has made no achievements except for recovering some of its lost territory in the conquest of Tubo.
The young emperor blamed his Prince of Zhennan for not being diligent enough and not getting the equipment for 20,000 men to achieve his basic goal of strengthening the army. He asked Duan Xiaolin to go to Chengdu again to ask Zhao Yulin for armaments.
Duan Xiaolin immediately argued, saying that our bribery of Huo Fenghuang's brother Bao Wenli directly led to Bao Wenli's beheading, but Zhao Yulin regarded Bao Wenli as a brother.
Gentlemen, think about it, how angry would the Fire Phoenix be?
However, Zhao Yulin still gave us equipment for 10,000 people, on the grounds that the Mongol Empire was gathering troops in Guanzhong, and the Shenwei Army needed to arm new recruits and also lacked weapons.
The Chai family, who was in charge of intelligence, also knew about it. They said sinisterly that the Mongolian Khan had mobilized the Western Expedition Army to deal with the Shenwei Army last year, and the possibility of a war this year was very high. The Mongol Empire even sent envoys to call for an alliance to attack the Shenwei Army together.
The Gao family already knew about this and said that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Once the Shenwei Army is defeated, we can get their Chengdu Prefecture Road, which is not impossible.
As the court debate continued in this way, some people even exclaimed that it was a great idea.
Duan Xiaolin said loudly that now with the Shenwei Army in the north, the Mongolian army could not defeat them. Once the Shenwei Army is gone, will our Dali Kingdom still have a place in this world?
The Gao family said bitterly that his Japanese Shenwei Army had become so powerful that they also lost the position of our Dali Kingdom. Didn't Zhao Qier always shout that China was one family and wanted to reproduce the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties?
Duan Xiaolin said that he would rather let the Shenwei Army unify Dali than be a vassal of Mongolia and live like a slave worse than pigs and dogs.
The court was already in chaos, the little emperor was annoyed and yelled: What are you arguing about?
Is this still a court discussion?
The little emperor roared and dismissed the court.
In Chengdu, Zhao Yulin returned home. Ma Ling was still busy with official business in the government office. He went to the study to look through recent documents and intelligence.
Just as he sat down and had a cup of tea, his fourth mother, Zhao Qiu Shuyun, came in.
Zhao Yulin quickly stood up to greet her, and said that if Si Niang had anything to say, she could just come and see her, there was no need to run away.
Si Niang sat down and said that her brother was busy, so she wanted to come over and sit with him.
Seeing that Fourth Lady seemed hesitant to speak, Zhao Yulin took the initiative to change the subject and let her speak whatever she wanted to say.
His fourth wife told him with some emotion that she felt that Chengdu was not as safe as Jiading and Xuzhou. When she first came out, Master Lu asked her to bring guards with her, but she was not used to it and thought it was suspicious of ostentation. Now that she has been to several counties, she is worried about going out without guards.
Zhao Yulin asked her to explain in more detail.
Si Niang told him that there were still bandits in counties and prefectures all over the country, and that the bandits in Chengdu were very cunning. They could not be seen during the day, but would appear after dark.
The Huayang Cooperative of the Union was robbed by bandits. Although the bandits hurriedly discarded the stolen items under the search of constables and garrisons, the cooperative still suffered a considerable loss.
Si Niang told him that there were several robberies like the one in Huayang, and the bandits were more rampant the further remote the place was.
Zhao Yulin nodded and personally refilled the water cup for his mother.
Si Niang continued to say that she believed that the main reason why the people here were forced to become bandits was that they were too poor.
Among the salt sold by the cooperative, many people in Chengdu consume lake salt, and the amount is large. The sales of tribute salt from Ziliujing are not as good as those in Jiading and Xuzhou. Of course, the consumption of tribute salt in the city is also large, but the rich are concentrated in the city.
Zhao Yulin gave his fourth mother a thumbs up and praised her for her accurate analysis.
Si Niang said vaguely that the shopkeepers in Wenjiang, Dayi, and Qiongzhou were worried that if we took the land back to the government, it would cause riots. The big landlords were all on that side, and they would definitely be reluctant to hand over their land.
Third brother, please be careful.
Zhao Yulin smiled and said it was okay, the news was very important, and Si Niang would go and tell General Cao about it.
He reminded Si Niang that he was about to leave Chengdu for Hanzhong, and that she must be careful in the future and that the first priority was to protect herself and to seek help from the general if she had any problems.
Not long after Si Niang left, Ma Ling'er came home.
After dinner, the couple picked up Zhao Guangyuan and took a walk in the yard. Ma Linger listened to him explain this and arrange that, and repeatedly reminded him to be careful and not to leave the city alone.
The woman felt warm in her heart and asked him if he was leaving.
Zhao Yulin said yes, there had been several military reports from Chang'an, and the Mongolian army's momentum to move south was getting stronger and stronger, so he still wanted to go over and guard it to feel at ease.
He told Ma Ling'er about Si Niang's worries and told her not to be careless. As the old saying goes, taking someone's money is like killing their parents. We have made many enemies over the years, so it is inevitable that some people will hold a grudge against us.
The woman happily leaned on his shoulder and teased the little light source. She called the maid to take the child away, then she put her arms around his neck and asked for a kiss. She looked at him with burning eyes and whispered, "Go take a bath..."
In Chengdu, at Baihuatan, southwest of Caotang, Mr. Ding settled Kuang Sisi and Zhao Feiyan, mother and daughter, in an exquisite courtyard and gave it a name that matched the royal family: Danfeng Garden.
When Zhao Feiyan returned from her official duties, her mother caught her and questioned her. "Yanzi, did you see Yulin today?"
"Well , what do you want to do, mother?"
"Hey, what else can I ask you, mother? I just want to ask when he will get married."
Zhao Feiyan's face immediately turned red, and she said shyly, "How did she know?" My brother said there was no rush. If a woman gets married too early, she will get pregnant and it will be bad for her health.
Her mother said with a smile, "Yulin even told our Yan Zi all these things, and she is not ashamed, silly girl."
Zhao Feiyan blushed and said that in Neixiang, Jinghu, her brother publicly acknowledged her as his lady and asked her to guard the city.
Her mother smiled and said what a silly girl, how could a couple just recognize the status, they had to ride in a big sedan chair, sleep together to have children and become a family.
Zhao Feiyan blushed with shame and said that Brother Yulin had slept with her and even covered her with a quilt and watched over her.
Kuang Sisi was pleasantly surprised and asked anxiously: "Really? How many times has it happened?"
Then she said regretfully, why didn’t she get pregnant?
Will Yulin disown her and abandon her good girl?
Zhao Feiyan looked at her mother's eyes full of doubts and told her mother not to worry, saying that she knew what was going on. Brother Yulin loved her very much. Not only did he make her the academic envoy, he also wanted to reform the school and spend one million strings of cash to build Caotang University, which would one day be the largest school in the Song Dynasty.
Kuang Sisi said in a boring way that a university was nothing. She didn't know that Chengdu was so big before she came. Now that she has seen Xuzhou and Jiading and arrived in Chengdu, she has already marveled at the prosperity of the Shu city.
She believed that Zhao Yulin was a very wise man and would one day ascend the throne to become the emperor, and Yan Zi would become the queen.
Zhao Feiyan exclaimed and told her mother not to think like that. Brother Yulin hated it most when people mentioned the royal family and the court. He said that there would be a republic in the future and there would be no emperor.
Kuang Sisi smiled and said, "You are such a silly girl. Which man in the world doesn't want to be an emperor? Holding power and dominating everything, with beautiful women all around, unlike your father who was controlled by his mother and finally lost his freedom in life."
Zhao Feiyan had been busy all day, and after listening to her mother's irrelevant nagging, she felt sleepy and was too lazy to talk to her mother.
