Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 749 The school's permanent free system

Under the care of Zhu Youjian, while the second issue of Huangming Weekly was published, the reprinting of the first issue was also going on intensely and orderly.

The caravan of the Four Seas Trading Company assumed the responsibility of the post.

Every [-] copies of the first issue of the newspaper were printed, and they would go on the road with the caravan, either going south or northwest, especially the number going south.

Every time the caravan arrived at a post station in a county, it would leave a certain amount of newspapers, and the local government would send people to pick them up, and then arrange sales and publicity.

The price of [-] cents per copy is actually just the printing cost of the newspaper. This cost mainly includes paper and ink, and does not include the salary of the book office staff and workshop workers.

That is to say, the current newspapers are actually losing money, but this loss is basically negligible compared with the social benefits it produces.

However, Zhu Youjian is still confident that the newspaper will be able to turn losses into profits in the future.

In the case that the number of relevant personnel in the newspaper office does not change much, as the number of audience continues to increase, the circulation of the newspaper will increase, and the cost will decrease a lot. In addition, the number of merchants who want to publish advertisements will continue to increase, and the advertising revenue will also increase. become an effective profit model.

The printing quantity of the first issue of the newspaper was changed again and again, and finally it was fixed at [-] copies, of which [-] were for the capital and [-] were for other provinces. Zhu Youjian did not expect such a result , it can be said that the results are very gratifying.

In February of the 15th year of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the expansion project of the printing workshop was finally completed. The number of issued Huangming Weekly reached [-] copies, and [-] copies were sold in the Gyeonggi area alone. The information reported in the comprehensive factory guard Finally, Zhu Youjian decided that for a long period of time in the future, the number of issues of Huang Ming Weekly will be fixed at this share.

Because compared with the provinces of Ming Dynasty, the economic development momentum of the Gyeonggi region is extremely rapid, and the literacy rate is also the highest in Ming Dynasty.

In recent years, the capital alone has opened more than [-] government-run schools, large and small. In addition to the number of students enrolled in the schools for children of craftsmen, the enrollment rate of children over six years old in the capital has changed significantly compared with the past.

All children with suitable conditions are forced to go to school to receive education under the order of the government. All the children's school expenses are borne by the government. These expenses include pens, ink, paper and inkstones, textbooks, breakfast and lunch.

The amount of money added up is not a large amount. After a period of trial operation, Zhu Youjian got a rough figure: the annual cost of each school child is about ten taels of silver, and the total cost of more than [-] schools There are more than [-] students, and a total of more than [-] taels of silver is needed every year.

Including the construction of school buildings, the salaries of teachers and support staff, and the addition and renewal of school desks and chairs, a total of 30 taels of silver was invested in the infrastructure construction of these more than 15 schools. about two.

The funds were shared between internal funds and Taicang, and neither Zhu Youjian nor the Ministry of Household Affairs paid much attention to this small amount of money.

The establishment of a government-run school did not arouse too much opposition in the court.

Because of the sage's famous saying "There is no discrimination in education", although many interest groups are reluctant to see that the descendants of those grassroots families can also read and write, and they are likely to compete with them for official positions and the right to speak in the future, if they publicly oppose this If he did not do it, it would be clear that he violated the words of the sage, so no matter what he thought in his heart, Zhu Youjian's imperial decree was still carried out.

In line with the principle of "No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor, and no matter how hard you are, you can't suffer children", the school's breakfast and lunch standards are all equipped according to the standards set by Zhu Youjian.

Each child has a boiled egg for each of the two meals, steamed buns, pickles, and porridge for breakfast, two vegetarian dishes and one meat for lunch, and eggs are another.

All meals are provided openly, and the children can eat as much as they can, and no one is allowed to dislike the children for eating too much.

The guards of the casual clothing factory will spy in a dark corner, and if they find any cruelty and disgust, they will immediately take the perpetrator away for a conversation. If they commit the crime again, they will be sent to Huangzhuang for farming go.

Zhu Youjian hopes that children will grow up in a sunny environment, and he does not want them to be exposed to the dark side of the world prematurely. He absolutely cannot tolerate the occurrence of bullying against children.

In this age when food and clothing have just been lived, children who are growing up are very edible, and some people with dark minds will be annoyed when they see children who can eat, although what they eat is not from their family. , but this kind of person just doesn't like to see such a scene.

Although the factory guards who obeyed Zhu Youjian's will disapproved of the emperor's careful thinking, they still dutifully devoted themselves to the duty of secret visits.

To the surprise of the factory guards, there really were such people among the hired helpers.

The factory guards successively captured five or six offenders in various schools. These people frequently scolded the children who had a lot of appetite, and some even beat them. After the factory guards talked to them separately, the offenders just stopped. After a period of time, he reverted to his old ways and repeated his previous bad behavior.

The factory guards who felt that they had been despised couldn't bear this tone. These bad-natured personnel who were captured again were sent to battle by the factory guards in turn, and "kindly greeted" them with torture tools. Solution to Huangzhuang.

These people will be reformed through labor in Huangzhuang for three years. They will do the dirtiest and most tiring work on weekdays. They will eat brown rice mixed with sand and sleep in woodsheds. He was greeted with a whip by the little eunuchs in charge of Huangzhuang.

Both the factory guards and the eunuchs were servants of the emperor, and this relationship gave them a natural sense of intimacy, so when the factory guards released them, they specifically asked them to entertain these vicious people in a "good manner".

Feeling that in later generations, many children in the mountains had to go back and forth dozens of miles a day to study, and the process of studying was extremely difficult, so Zhu Youjian decided that the more than 30 schools were built in the form of studying nearby, and each school All the children enrolled are school-age children within a five-mile radius, which not only saves the time for commuting to and from school, but also ensures the personal safety of the children.

Just going to school and eating for free is not enough.

Zhu Youjian has decreed that the tailors of Huangzhuang Clothing Factory have begun to tailor each child. When everything is ready, the children will get a set of spring clothes and winter clothes, a pair of single boots and cotton boots, and footwear every year. (Socks) Two pairs.

These expenses are all paid from within, and when the conditions are ripe and middle and low-level schools all over the Ming Dynasty are opened, these expenses will be borne by the imperial court.

The division of labor between domestic funds and Taicang will be clearer in the future.

The wealth of the royal family will be more invested in public welfare undertakings, while the money of the imperial court is the main body of social investment.

The above regulations will be added to the ancestral teachings, and any emperor's courtiers who violate this will be regarded as unfilial.

In the land of China where filial piety is used to rule the country, unfilial piety is the biggest crime, which means that you will lose everything, including your throne and official position.

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