If Xia Yuanji hadn't suddenly mentioned Sumu and black pepper, Yang Shaofeng wouldn't have thought of these two things that were used as spices on weekdays, nor would have thought that the civil and military ministers would have formed a group to oppose voyage to the West, which would have been related to these two things.

Things are quite complicated.

Zhu Chongba drove away the capital of Jinling after the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and found that a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry were taken away by Borjijin Tohwamur. The entire Ming Dynasty lacked gold, silver and copper coins. Basically, except for people, they lacked whatever they were valuable.

Zhu Chongba is not stupid. This mud leg from a beggar to an emperor has his own cunning side. It takes literati to govern the world, stabilize the world, and fiddling with these people depends on salary!

Then Zhu Chongba then slapped his head and decided to give civil and military officials and nobles a certain amount of food as salary, plus a portion of the treasure money as supplement.

In the 29th year of Hongwu, Zhu Chongba stipulated the salary level of officials: first-rank, monthly salary of 87 shi... ninth-rank, five stones and five dou; ninth-rank, five stones and five stones.

Theoretically, if the solution to the grain Jiabao money was implemented according to Zhu Chongba's solution, even if the county magistrate receives seven stones of rice every month, unless the county magistrate has collected several concubines and hired many servants, it will be sufficient.

But this situation did not last long.

Zhu Chongba established his capital in Jinling, and Zhu Yunwen had no plans to move the capital. Jinling was next to the town of fish and rice, and there was always no shortage of food, so it was no problem to pay salaries to civil and military officials.

After killing his nephew and taking office, Zhu Laosi planned to move the capital back to Shuntian Mansion early.

In Zhu Laosi's opinion, there are many benefits to moving the capital back to Shuntian Prefecture.

First, you can take people to smash the Alutai place at any time; second, Shuntian Mansion is the basic foundation that you have managed for many years, and is more reliable than Jinling - what if someone wants to summon Zhu Yunwen?

However, after Zhu Laosi secretly made up his mind to move the capital, he discovered another big problem.

If the capital could be successfully moved to Shuntian Prefecture, a large number of people would follow him, but the north could not produce so much food, so he could only rely on the canal transport from the Grand Canal to transport grain from the south to Beijing - long-distance transportation was quite depleted. Such precious grain was too short to provide food for the capital population, so how could there be surplus to pay salaries to officials?

At that time, Yang Shaofeng had not participated in the imperial examination, nor did he make trouble in the border city. At that time, Baochao was in a situation of constant depreciation, so Zhu Laosi naturally could not use this thing to pay his salary.

Then Zhu Laosi came up with a new way of playing.

"Spring and summer break the bill, autumn and winter break the mountain and pepper."

Zhu Laosi gave spices such as suma and pepper to officials as salary!

The things like Sumu pepper were very valuable in the early days, but after Zheng He went to the West and collected a large number of dogs in the Southeast and the West for the Ming Dynasty, the things were no longer valuable.

The most important thing is that these things cannot be eaten or worthless. What do officials do when they are in their hands? Put some when cooking? Do you know how many years it will take to use them all!

Therefore, the later civil and military ministers unanimously opposed the opening of the West. Will it have something to do with this? It was disgusting to use spices as salary. If you open the West again, you can get a bunch of spices to serve as salary?

Yang Shaofeng smiled in his heart, but on the surface he stared at Zhu Laosi with a serious face, intending to see how Zhu Laosi dealt with it.

Zhu Laosi snorted, "Accurate!"

For Zhu Laosi, since the treasure banknotes are already valuable, then giving officials the treasure banknotes and asking them to buy food with the treasure banknotes is not more worry-free than giving food directly?

More importantly, Zhu Laosi, is not stupid, so can’t see the benefits? Officials have accounts in the bank. Are they greedy? Just compare the property with the income and expenditure in the bank account and you can see it clearly. Isn’t it still a pleasure?

After receiving Zhu Laosi's promise, Xia Yuanji thanked Zhu Laosi with satisfaction, then looked at Yang Shaofeng and said, "What else has the throne master not said? Why not say it together?"

Yang Shaofeng shook his head and said, "What else? Is there so much? Not much."

Zhu Laosi said with a smile: "He just said that he would build a large number of schools so that all people in the world can afford to read books. He also said that he would spread the mansion to the world so that everyone in the world could see the mansion to understand the movements of the court."

Yang Shaofeng looked at Zhu Laosi in a daze - the technique of selling his grandson is so skillful? Should I learn from Lao Zhang and let you take a dirt plane too?

Looking at Xia Yuanji, who looked like a black face, Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "Why is Xiabutang looking at me like this?"

Xia Yuanji sneered: "The 1st Yuan Gong is trying hard to practice the teachings of saints, and I am ashamed of myself.

However, can the Zhuangyuan Gong tell me how much it costs to study a school? The school does not charge tuition and book fees, and also needs to subsidize meals. How much does it cost? Ten million yuan a year is enough?

There is also Mingfadi newspaper, no money is needed for carvings? No cost is required for printing? No labor is required for labor? Ten million chunks a year is enough?”

Yang Shaofeng said: "Let's not talk about the school affairs first, let's talk about the news about the news."

Natsuharaji sneered: "I'd like to listen carefully!"

Yang Shaofeng thoughtfully said: "There will be more and more scholars in the future. Will Xia Butang agree with this?"

After being asked by Yang Shaofeng, despite his intention to deny it, Xia Yuanji nodded and said, "I agree."

Yang Shaofeng nodded and said, "That's right. Since ancient times, it has been common for all government orders to be incompatible and the power of the clan is greater than the law of the king. It is because there are very few scholars, and the people do not know the law and do not know the government orders of the court. They can only allow those gentry who can read and read to misinterpret the government orders. Does Xiabutang agree with it?"

Seeing that Xia Yuanji still nodded in recognition, Yang Shaofeng continued, "With more scholars, you can understand the newspaper, so you will naturally not be deceived, right?"

Xia Yuanji nodded and said, "Yes, it is precisely because of this that the saints need to educate and enlighten the people - but what does this matter have to do with the official newspaper?"

Yang Shaofeng poured a cup of tea and handed it to Xia Yuanji, and said, "Although the diary is widely distributed throughout the world, it is sent to government officials everywhere, but the people do not know what the diary is saying.

If the newspaper is published every ten days or every month, will the people who read and read have an extra channel to understand the trends of the court? As for the cost issues that Xiabutang is worried about, what is the problem?"

Pointing to the auction hall downstairs, Yang Shaofeng continued: "For example, in this auction, all the royal family members and civil and military ministers are involved. Do those rich and gentry know about the auction? Do they know that the houses in Shuntian Mansion are going to be auctioned?"

Natsuhara Yoshi said: "No. Even if you report this matter to the residence, even if the wealthy merchants and gentry know it, what can you do?"

Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "If this example is not enough, what about perfume? If the perfume matter is reported to the diary, so that everyone in the world knows about perfume, how much sales can it bring to the perfume? Should the perfume workshop report a penny fee to the diary?"

Hearing this, Zhu Laosi couldn't help but say with a dark face: "Nonsense! What's the cost of moistening the pen or not? The government report is the government affairs, how can we publish this perfume?"

Yang Shaofeng first bowed to Zhu Laosi, and then said, "The newspaper is for use by local governments, and the newspaper for Mingfa is not the original newspaper. My grandson thought it would be more appropriate to call it a newspaper.

Since this newspaper is published in the world and is for all people to read, the contents on it are naturally not limited to the contents of the newspaper. Even some fun and interesting things can be published, such as perfume advertising, so it is also possible."

Xia Yuanji suddenly said: "The Zhuang Yuan Gong made this idea? Relying on these wealthy merchants who want to advertise to solve the expenditure problem of newspapers? Advertisement? It is appropriate to advertise it in a wide range."

Yang Shaofeng smiled and said, "That's right. There is no possibility of losing money in newspapers. Whenever the wealthy merchants from all over the country see a slight benefit, they will pounce on them like sharks smelling blood, rushing to deliver money to the newspapers. At that time, Xiabutang will have a headache, not how much they will lose, but how to reject the merchants waving treasure money."

Xia Yuanji snorted coldly and said, "What about the school?"

Yang Shaofeng said: "In the school, things are destined to be a loss - whether it is the salary of the teacher or the meal subsidy for the school, the treasury expenditure will be required in the end, and there is no need to make any profit.

But from another perspective, with more scholars, the demand for pen, ink, paper and inkstone will increase, the number of pedestrians engaged in the pen, ink, paper and inkstone will increase, and the national treasury will receive more commercial taxes, and in fact, it will not lose much.

Besides, once the school affairs are done, can all the people in the world not be grateful for the kindness of Your Majesty? And as the Xiabutang, who promotes this matter, will it also be remembered forever?"

But Xia Yuanji spat and said, "You have planned dozens of sociology in the new capital, and there are almost every residential area. Is this the idea?"

Yang Shaofeng nodded and said, "There is part of this plan. The more scholars, the greater the sales of newspapers, pens, inks, papers and inkstones, and the more taxes the treasury can receive.

Of course, this is a theoretical matter.

But from a long-term perspective, even if the treasury subsidy is needed, I still think that building schools widely to enlighten the people is a major event that benefits the present and the future.”

Xia Yuanji said: "I also know that this is a great thing that is good for the present and for the future. But the top scholar, this great thing requires money!

To be honest, the treasury is not empty now, but there are too many places that require money, so it is impossible to put all the money in the treasury into the school, right?"

Yang Shaofeng shook his head and said, "Shuntian Mansion is just a trial. Let's do it slowly. The officials don't expect to fully expand them all at once.
Chapter completed!