Ningbo picked up the tea cup and took a sip, letting the tea fragrance savor it in his mouth. Tea is Qingwu tea, produced in Fuluo County, Lizhou. As the governor of Jiang took office in Huazhou, Qingwu tea became fashionable in Huiye Mansion. For a moment, everyone raised their cups to drink tea, as if they were addicted to the tea fragrance.

After thinking for a while, Ningbo cleared his throat and said, "Watching the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, climbing high and rafting, it means reunion. The government office is going to hold a banquet, and the governor of Jiang will invite you to enjoy the moon together. This year, the tax in Huazhou has increased sharply, and everyone here has made great contributions."

Everyone nodded and smiled reservedly.

"Everyone should dress up their own houses more beautifully and prepare the shops more fully. It is best to have cheaper prices, make the streets more lively and the people are more cheerful. Even if they want to be the best of governor Jiang," Ningbo's eyes flashed with a wise light and said, "After learning about your intentions, governor Jiang will definitely pay more respects to everyone."

Everyone laughed. It was the highest level of harmony and wealth that businessmen could establish good relations with the government. As Mr. Ning said, if the governor Jiang had an atmosphere of joy with the people, letting the people have a happy holiday, it would be a good thing for governor Jiang.

Wu Zixiong said happily: "After Ning Weng tweeted, his eyes lit up. It seems that the 200 taels of silver I prepared can be saved."

Ningbo left his family's in-laws, and his heart was full of contempt. During the snow disaster last year, he asked Zheng'er to remind him that he might as well pay more money and grain, but this old man was reluctant to let him go. He only gave away 100 stones of grain and 100 taels of silver. After receiving the reward from the emperor, his family was jealous and regretful. This time he wanted to give some blood to please the governor Jiang. After hearing what he said, he happily took the silver back. Such a person could not become a big climate.

On second thoughts, Wu Zixiong has never been known for his shrewdness. This guy's most proudest daughter, all of whom are beautiful. In addition to the three daughters who married grandson, one married the Liu family of the Changhan, the other married the Cui family of Hedong, and the other two concubines also married the descendants of the gentry. With five capable relatives to help, Wu Zixiong couldn't think it would be difficult for him to be heard.

The Lu family did not marry the Wu family, and the manager Lu Chengxiu secretly sneered: "The saved 200 taels of silver Mr. Wu can take a concubine again, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is just right."

No one looked down on Wu Zixiong very much, and watched the fun with a smile. Wu Zixiong was angry and embarrassed with a "haha". After all, he was his grandson's father-in-law, Ningbo rescued him and said, "The Wu family has a great career, and this little money is nothing to Zixiong. Since you are willing to spend money, I think of a way to win the favor of governor Jiang and make the people praise him."

Everyone in the class was short of money and asked what to do.

Mr. Ning slowly combed his beard and said, "Governor Jiang once served as the magistrate of Fuluo County, Lizhou, and left a lot of good things in Fuluo County. The green mist tea you drink in your hands is famous for his writing "Thinking about Tasting Qingwu". Huangyang Temple in Fuluo County has become the leader of Southeast Buddhism and the emperor pardoned Fengshan Buddhism. Although Huangyang Academy has been established for less than three years, the number of people who passed the imperial examination has reached seven or eight, which has become the third largest academy after Xuzhangyi Academy and Zechang Academy. The academy includes the inscription written by Mr. Fan, and the "Golden Sheep Inscription" written by Jiang. I heard that some students traveled thousands of miles to study, and many people made a special trip.

Look at the "Yellow Sheep Inscription" in the stele pavilion, and read the sentence "The mountains are not high, but the immortals are famous, the water is not deep, but the dragons are spiritual." There is also the famous Songchang Tower, where literati and scholars went to visit. They climbed this tower and drank wine in the wind and recited the sentence "Before worrying about the world, then be happy about the world." How can you not feel excited and feel moved? Now the reputation of Jiang in Shilin is catching up with his teacher Yan, and in time, he will become a master of the literary world."

Speaking of this, Ningbo paused and sighed: "I am old and weak, and it is difficult to travel far, otherwise I really want to go to Fuluo County to have a look."

He Wencai's eyes lit up, and he realized what Master Ning meant, and said with a smile: "You old man, let us raise money to build a college and add some scenery. It is best to ask the governor of Jiang to write a poem and make us famous." Everyone applauded.

Due to geographical relations, Huazhou is the main channel for trade in the Western Regions, and has created countless rich people over the past thousand years. These rich people generally do two things: one is to recruit experts and protect their families and businessmen; the other is to invest in education and hire famous teachers to cultivate their children and become talents. Since the Wei Dynasty, the number of people who passed the imperial examination in Huazhou has been at the forefront of the states. Take Ningbo family as an example. Ningbo is a scholar, and his son Ning Ze is the second-tier one. Ning Qingzheng passed the imperial examination; Huazheng's son Hua Wenqing was also a senior at the Tanhualang in high school, and there are many officials from Huazhou. However, most of the people who passed the imperial examination were rich. Ordinary people were unable to study without warm clothes and food or enough. In addition, the wars were constant, so they could not afford to leave a peaceful desk.

Academies are like fertile fields, scholars are like seeds. Only with scholars can there be a historical inheritance. This inheritance will not be cut off even if the dynasty changes. Zhangyi Academy and Zechang Academy both existed longer than the country's destiny of Dazheng. Ningbo was an old fox. Of course, he proposed to build academies not to do purely good deeds, but mainly to think about the future of the Ning family.

The country will be destroyed and aristocratic families will rise and fall. If the Ning family wants to have a long life, the people must think of the Ning family. Studying and retiring, doing business and making money is the foundation. At the same time, they will do more good deeds to give back to the countryside. The Ning family has done many good things in Huazhou to pave bridges and roads, pity the elderly and cherish poverty. Last year, the snow disaster was exhausted and disaster relief. In the people of Huazhou, the Ning family was a good family.

Wu Zixiong said with some pain: "It is not a small amount to build a college. Just buying mountains and fields requires thousands of taels of silver. You also need to build a college, hire teachers, and add books, desks and chairs. It costs at least tens of thousands of taels."

Most of the people here are smart people, and they all know the benefits of building a college. They have done good deeds to raise the seeds of scholars before, but they are smaller than those who are academy. How can they support one or two scholars help a group of people to gain a lot? Most of the people who can come to the academy are good seeds. Even if only 10% of these good seeds are successful, it is a good deal for a lot of money. These people embark on the career of officialdom, and they will naturally be grateful to the people who support them. In the future, they may be rewarded. To go further, if anyone writes books in the future and writes this history into books and passes them on to future generations, will the sponsors not be remembered by history books? Take a step back and say that those scholars who fail to pass the imperial examination will also spread their good deeds and are respected by the villagers.

In the entire Huazhou, there is no academy except for official schools. It is not easy to establish a college. In addition to requiring a lot of money, it also requires approval from the government. This is not a big problem for everyone here, and the main problem is

It is a shortage of people. First of all, there are a lack of good teachers. Although Huazhou has produced many scholars and Jinshi, there are not many people who stay in the local area. A few talented people have been invited to teach their children by the gentry at high prices. Huazhou is a place of war, and scholars from other places are unwilling to come here to take risks. The biggest problem is that there is no good teacher to teach. Secondly, there is a shortage of scholars. Huazhou is a place of war, with extremely unstable people and food and clothing still a problem. How can you have spare money to study?

At this time, Grandpa Ning threw out the idea of ​​preparing for the establishment of academy. It was indeed time when the conditions were ripe. Dehua and educating the people was the responsibility of the governor and political achievements. Therefore, when applying to the government office to establish a college, the governor Jiang would definitely welcome him actively. The government had an attitude that as long as he had money, he would actively cooperate with the construction of a manpower. As for the good teachers, Jiang Anyi, the flag of the scholar forest, issued an invitation. Major academies and even the Imperial College would send people to teach. Maybe the emperor would pay attention. After someone passed the imperial examination, the emperor issued an order to commend the academy for the country to cultivate talents and granted 500 acres of imperial fields. The mountain chief Su Ziming was awarded the sixth rank of the senior official Chaoyilang, and the lecturer Ling Xu was awarded the sixth rank of the senior official and the sixth rank of the senior official Chengyilang, and other teachers were awarded the award.

Although it is just a scattered official, it is an unattainable reward for most lecturers in teaching and educating academy. Shao Renfu, the new mountain chief of Zechang Academy, was once the chief clerk of the Imperial College under the seventh rank. After going to Zechang Academy, he was promoted to the first level and was promoted to the seventh rank. Feng Shanzhu took over as the mountain chief. The emperor only gave Feng Yilang, who was from the sixth rank. As for Zhao Xingfeng, he was grateful to Xuan Yilang, who was from the seventh rank. When the news of Su Ziming and Ling Xu's promotion reached Zechang Academy, many lecturers and deputy lecturers were moved, and they were good at learning and became officials. Who would not want to be an official and make money and glorify their ancestors? Why didn't he seize the opportunity at that time? With the precedent of Huangyang Academy, Ningbo believed that as long as the governor Jiang called, the lecturers would be afraid that they would not come.

As for the lack of scholars, there was no shortage of scholars. In the past, poor families in Huazhou had no surplus food and could not afford to study for their children. After Jiang came to Huazhou, the honey fruit business made melon farmers more than three or four taels, and the production of honey fruit allowed many women to support their families. After the trade entered the border market, businesses in all walks of life became prosperous, and it became easier to find trouble and the prices became higher. The prices were suppressed by the government. Most people's lives were much better than before. Many people should think about their children's reading and literacy. After the academy was started, if Jiang's governor was willing to give two classes in person, then scholars who were thousands of miles away would probably come, and they were afraid that the academy would not accept so many students.

Except for Wu Zixiong who was heartbroken by the money, others started to argue, "I am willing to pay 800 taels of silver to build a college", "I will be the leader of the master's family and give it to the academy 200 acres of fertile land", "Then I will invest in the construction of the main building of the academy."

He Wencai has a good relationship with Wu Zixiong, and he smiled and woke him up, "If Boss Wu is reluctant to give up money, I will give you your share. When erecting a stone and erecting a monument, you can write my name bigger."

Wu Zixiong woke up and last year, the disaster relief court allowed the erecting stones to erect a monument to show good deeds. The monument was erected at the gate of the north city. Every day, people came to burn incense and bow to thank the kind people on the monument for their good deeds. If you have a lot of food and clothing in your life, face becomes important, and who would have much face?
Chapter completed!