Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 308
Chu Suiliang looked at the letter sent by Li Tai, and pressed the letter firmly on the table after reading it.

Chu Suiliang walked back and forth in the room with a little bit of reluctance, apparently unable to make up his mind.

At this time, Liu Renjing came from outside, and after being reported by a servant, he entered Chu Suiliang's study.

"Renjing, why are you here this time!" Chu Suiliang looked at Liu Renjing and asked.

Liu Renjing looked at Chu Suiliang, hesitated for a while, but still said:
"Dengshan, the reason why we came here this time is that we have already owed the school's unemployed teacher a month's salary.

So I came to ask you if the monthly salary can come down this year.

If it doesn't work, why don't you sell a few acres of the land reclaimed by the school first, and save the emergency first! "

"Every cent of the farmland reclaimed by the school is exchanged by the students and us with sweat and blood, how can it be easily sold!"

Chu Suiliang looked serious, and said to Liu Renjing, "Renjing, you don't need to worry about money and food.

By the end of this month, I will naturally exchange all the monthly salary I owe!

Please help me to appease these teachers first. "

"Okay! Dengshan, if you are really short of money, I still have some on hand!" Liu Renjing said firmly.

"I appreciate the kindness in your hand, but I have already figured out a way, so you don't need to worry!" Chu Suiliang said.

"That's good!" Liu Renjing couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief when he heard Chu Suiliang's words, "Then I'll leave it to you."

Chu Suiliang watched Liu Renjing leave, and sighed helplessly.

To be honest, he really didn't understand that the agricultural school he established was supported by the imperial court and assisted by aristocratic families, and even his own Chu family could be regarded as the local snake in Yuhang.

But even so, when the scale of the agricultural college reaches 500 people, it will be a bit overwhelming.

At the beginning, I established the school in Yuhang City, but soon as the distance from the farmland to the school was too far, I had to move the school to the suburbs and let the students of the agricultural school do the reclamation.

This is only the first step in spending money, and the second step is that students' tuition fees are a drop in the bucket compared to their education costs.

Li Tai trains the students of the agricultural school to build his own foundation, so he even wishes that they are just ordinary good family members.

As for the difference in training costs, it’s enough to pay for it yourself. Even if it’s for charity in a short period of time, it’s actually laying a good foundation for yourself, so even if you spend a little more money, Li Tai will be happy .

But even Chu Suiliang thought it was natural to spend money at the beginning, but the learning of farming in the agricultural college itself eliminated the children of the aristocratic family. After all, you can't expect the talents cultivated by the aristocratic family education, and you can only go to farm in the end!
Therefore, Chu Suiliang's aristocratic family advantages directly formed a dislocation in front of almost professional agricultural schools.

But the tuition fees that ordinary people from good families can bear is only one year at most. If you think about it, there are no ordinary people who are willing to send their children here to study.

The reason is also very simple. For the common people, especially those from good families, there were taxes even during the Zhenguan period.

It is very likely that the money he earns throughout the year may not be enough for his children to complete their education in agricultural colleges in a safe and secure manner.

Speaking of taxes, this has become another cost of the agricultural college, because the land reclaimed by the agricultural college is easy to talk about in the first three years, but from the fourth year onwards, it is necessary to pay land taxes.

And the Marquis of Chang'an Agricultural Academy didn't mention the land tax, that's because Li Tai subsidized the land tax directly with the fees he earned.

To a certain extent, the land tax of agricultural colleges can be regarded as a very simple application of apportionment into mu.

The most important thing is that the school is not a production unit in essence, but because of the particularity of the agricultural school, it occupies a large amount of cultivated land.

This made Li Tai take the initiative to discuss with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and it would be fine to collect land taxes for such schools.

So not only the Gaoling Academy collects land tax, but even the Youzhou Agricultural Academy also collects taxes.

It's just that this tax is as low as possible for Li Tai's sake, but because the land area is relatively large, in fact this fee is not a lot, and it is the largest part of the education cost.

And Li Tai is going to seize the heir in the future, so naturally he won't leave such a loophole for himself.

Therefore, adhering to the principle that one must uphold oneself and be righteous, it is absolutely necessary to pay taxes.

And Li Tai's insistence on paying taxes is not all for the purpose of experimenting with the policy of distributing the income to the mother, or not to leave any excuses for himself.

Another very important point is that I need to come up with a template when collecting land taxes from temples and Taoist temples in the future.

Collect temple land taxes according to the standards of your own school, or use other economic means to suppress the development of temples.

To be honest, Li Tai didn't plan to wipe out the Buddhists, but there must be suppression.

After all, belief in this kind of thing, even in the 21st century, there will be no extinction of religions. Even with the advent of the new era, the incense in temples will become more and more prosperous, and even the monks in the temples will be full of oil.

This shows that religion is really alive, and it is not something that can be solved by oneself at all.

I just intend to make this Buddha submit to the law, restrict its fields, collect its taxes, and make the Buddha become ordinary!

Of course, it would be best for the Buddhists to feel that they were being unfair, and then they would directly level the Buddhist temples!

I can absolutely guarantee that since you want to go to the Western Paradise, I will help you to see the Buddha.

After all, isn't Buddhism saying that there are three martial arts and one sect to destroy Buddhism, and I don't really mind that the title will be Tang Wuzong in the future.

Of course, this is just Li Tai's effort to present himself as a good prince who pays taxes in order to have a smooth future.

Similarly, this has formed a moat invisibly.

Others want to take the path of an agricultural school, don’t have to say, as long as you reclaim the land, you can enjoy the tax exemption policy for the first three years, but after three years, you have to pay the land tax that should be paid .

Of course, if you don’t pay the land tax, you can pay the rent, as long as you like to choose one and pay it.

It can be said that in the past few years, Chu Suiliang has had a very hard time maintaining this agricultural school.

When the fourth year came, the land tax directly became the last weight to crush the agricultural college, making Chu Suiliang a little breathless.

When Chu Suiliang was in power at the Jiangnan Agricultural Institute, the noble son of this aristocratic family underwent a baptism from body to heart.

Money that I originally regarded as dung, but when I really want to do something, I can always feel that I am short of everything. It is not easy to ask for money, but it is like running water to spend it.

However, the way of sages has nothing to do in the face of the embarrassment of lack of money.

Even if the calligraphy and paintings written by the calligraphy that he thinks is unique in the world, he wants to sell them in exchange for some money to continue to maintain the agricultural school.

At the beginning, the big and small aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River donated a lot of money and food to the agricultural colleges in the name of buying their own calligraphy and paintings.

This is also the reason why agricultural colleges can be opened in the early stage.

But now, he took the initiative to deliver the letters, and the big and small families in the south of the Yangtze River also took the initiative to avoid seeing them. This made Chu Suiliang understand that no matter how good his handwriting is, it is also hated by people who come to ask for money. Ghosts.

After all, no matter how rich the Jiangnan family is, they can't afford such an investment. The most important thing is that the investment return cycle is too long, and not all the people who come out are from their own family, which makes the Jiangnan family choose to shrink back. .

And this formed a vicious circle, forcing Chu Suiliang to use the resources of the Chu family to top it off first.

But even so, only Chu Suiliang knows how long he can last.

Looking at the agricultural colleges, the pen, ink, paper and inkstones that were originally provided for free have gradually increased to [-]%, and there is even a trend of developing towards market prices, so you know the current difficulties of the agricultural colleges.

However, no matter what kind of interception it is, as long as the agricultural colleges do not have their own stable profit channels, one day the agricultural colleges will still be empty.

At this time, Chu Suiliang wanted to struggle, but he was afraid that he would no longer have the ability to struggle.

At this time, Li Tai wanted to use the scissors to cut the wool... Ahem, it should be because he wanted to make a rational layout of the industry, so he came to find Chu Suiliang to develop together.

Chu Suiliang also understood that although he didn't know what Li Tai would do, but he accepted Li Tai's kindness, so could his Jiangnan Agricultural University check and balance Li Tai?

Chu Suiliang didn't know.

The only thing Chu Suiliang knew was that if he wanted to support the Jiangnan Agricultural Institute, he had no choice but to go to King Wei.

No way, other people can give themselves money once and twice, but can they continue to support the Jiangnan Agricultural Institute that can hardly provide him with any help? !
Impossible, only the king of Wei has the ability and is willing to pay the money!

Chu Suiliang resolutely set off for Luoyang with some determination.

Fortunately, Chu Suiliang is only the head of the agricultural school, not a local official.

As long as Chu Suiliang is able to take the students from Jiangnan Agricultural University to Luoyang in the name of leading a team to Luoyang University for exchange, and with canal transportation, the journey is still very fast.

After Li Tai sent someone to deliver the letter to Chu Suiliang, he didn't care about it anymore.

Because although the Jiangnan area is a place that I am very optimistic about, especially the area south of the Yangtze River, although it is still a remote frontier after the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, at least it is not almost swampy and miasma-filled as it was in the Han Dynasty.

In other words, if we open up to the south, I believe that a lot of land can be reclaimed.

But again, the timing is wrong.

Because the average temperature of Datang will rise in the next few hundred years, under such circumstances, I must focus on developing the northern land.

If someone in the south is willing to help, then I will help out along the way. If no one is willing to take the initiative to develop the land in the south, then I will not take the initiative to develop it.

After all, Datang's resources are limited, because the time period of Datang is the era of global average temperature rise. Under such circumstances, for at least a few hundred years, the resources obtained by developing northward are equal to those obtained by developing southward. The benefits are greater.

After all, the area south of Yuhang is basically dominated by hills, and it would take too much manpower and material resources to develop it.

Another thing Li Tai is doing now is to ask Li Shimin for someone.

Because I lack the kind of top-notch mathematics talents and graphics survey talents, I hope Li Shimin can dispatch Ph.D. in mathematics and chess masters with superb chess skills to come over.

Among them, the main task of the Doctor of Computing is to be Wang Zhenru's deputy and assist him in dealing with calculation matters.

As for Li Taila, who is waiting for the edict to come over, the main reason is to hold the world's number one Go conference in Luoyang next year, so as to find players who are good at playing chess in the world.

Of course, for Li Tai, he wanted to find someone who is good at layout from so many chess players, who can use the world, mountains and rivers as a chessboard, and directly feel that he is looking for someone who is most suitable for certain structural layouts in Luoyang.

There is no way, in the era without computers, all I can rely on is talents in this area, and use the intuition of the human brain to replace the accuracy of computers.

There must be errors here, but as far as this era is concerned, this is the best way Li Tai can think of.

But Li Shimin didn't expect that Li Tai wanted to hold the world's number one Go tournament after only a few months in Luoyang.

Li Shimin looked at Li Tai's request for a Ph.D. in mathematics and the required chess order, and felt that Li Tai's plan was very interesting, so he called the best three in the chess order to Li Tai to help, after all, it was necessary to formulate detailed plans Unified Go rules.

To be honest, before the appearance of AlphaGo, Go was the top intellectual sport.

Even the posture of holding chess pieces is full of wisdom, and formal chess players will be respected wherever they go.

Because what people respect is his wisdom beating at his fingertips!
But after the appearance of Alpha Dog, he directly uncovered the underpants of Go, and smashed Go from heaven to dust.

What rules and formulas, what is the ninth grade of Go, what is the hand of God, in the face of AlphaGo's invincible computing power, there is no realm anymore, only calculation is left.

But now, the news that Li Tai made the World's No. [-] Go Tournament is spreading along the canal to Youzhou and Yuhang. At the same time, Chang'an and Shu, which are relatively far away, I believe that the news will definitely reach in half a year.

At that time, whether it is for fame, profit, or even purely for the pursuit of chess opponents, I think there will definitely be many folk or aristocratic Go masters who will come here to compete.

As for Li Tai, he really didn't believe that the top chess players who fought out from so many people, especially the one who was the best at layout, would have poor graphic survey and even spatial survey abilities.

At the same time, such a conference can also bring a large number of tourists to Luoyang, thereby promoting the development of the local economy.

But think about it, in order to ensure the vitality of this Go game, and to facilitate the precipitation of these players, and play the most exciting game, it should be held every three years in the future.

The most important thing is that Datang is so big, it is impossible for chess players to spend their main energy on the road.

Three years is enough time for the players to change, so that they can select the best chess hosts every year and use them as tools for themselves.

"Sure enough, Go is a better sport!" Li Tai couldn't help sighing.

At this time, Zu Changming finally came back from Zhaozhou, saw Li Tai and said, "Wei Wang, craftsman Li Chun has arrived!"

"Oh? Please!" Li Tai said decisively to Zu Changming.

(End of this chapter)