After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

"The old minister obeys the order!" Li Shan said long.

"This is the first time in history that the nine-year compulsory education in natural sciences has been implemented after the elimination of Confucianism. If you can do it well, you will surely be famous in history." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "The history books of later generations will record this way. A great educator of natural science education, No.1 in China's thousands of years of history."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for cultivating it!" Li Shanchang's excited voice trembled when he heard the big cake Zhu Yuanzhang drew for him.

Moreover, Li Shanchang judged through his own wisdom that one day this big pie may really be realized.Because everyone has seen the contribution of natural science to social development.

As long as you are not stupid, people can see that natural science will definitely become the mainstream in the future.

The Confucian theory of human feelings will definitely be eliminated.

Seeing that Li Shanchang got such a good job, all the officials were envious.

The greatest pursuit of scholars in ancient times was to be famous in history.They couldn't extricate themselves even from sharing the Taimiao, let alone going down in history in other ways?
In order to go down in history, they even pay all the price.

"Although we are not sure whether the Himalayas stretching across the two places are big or not, we can guess that it must be difficult to climb and inaccessible." Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while,

"The basis for the judgment is some sporadic records about the border of Uzbekistan in geographical records."

"Since we can't get through the land connection, let's let this matter go for now."

"The rice should be eaten one bite at a time."

"It's better to carry out the compulsory education of natural science in Ming Dynasty first, and replace the Four Books and Five Classics. Then vigorously develop Dongfeng Tielong and wait for Tianfang to deliver oil from the sea."

"Your Majesty!" said the ministers.

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Li Shanchang, as the main minister in charge of carrying out compulsory education in natural sciences, immediately launched actions after receiving the order.A group of working ministers was convened to discuss specific implementation plans.

In order to be famous in history, he is very active this time, and has a plan to do everything he can.

The first is to convey the imperial decree, so that the prefectural schools, state schools, and county schools of each province will vigorously publish the first volumes of mathematics, physics, and chemistry.As the first batch of enlightenment teaching materials, it was distributed to institutions of higher learning at all levels.

For its version, the Mingjiao version of the textbook is used uniformly, and the Ming Dynasty Education Publishing House.

Secondly, government-run schools do not charge any fees for the first nine years of schooling.

Third, severely crack down on educational fraud and kill it immediately.

Popularizing natural science education sounds simple, but it is difficult to implement.

The main difficulty lies in silver.

Imagine that the Ming Dynasty suddenly wanted to revise books, how big is the whole country?All the textbooks in the fifteen provinces need to be new. How many textbooks need to be printed?

Can the materials used in papermaking keep up?

Logging, cutting bamboo and making paper requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and printing requires a lot of manpower and material resources... Although the previous Ming Dynasty also printed books, it was not on such a huge scale as this time.

In the past, printing hundreds of thousands of copies of the Four Books and Five Classics was enough, but now tens of millions of sets of books have to be printed.

Where did such a large sum of money come from?
It's not from the treasury yet!

Secondly, because the people of the Ming Dynasty had a better life, they were all giving birth to children at full capacity.As a result, the number of school-age children who read books has increased significantly.

The current Ming Dynasty has hundreds of millions of children.

Four or five years later they will all be of school age.

At that time, the expenditure on education may be an astronomical sum.

"Li Xiang, this is not easy to do!" said a scholar of the Imperial Academy, "The main difficulty is that there is not enough money. If such a huge expenditure is all paid out of the treasury, the treasury may not be able to get it out."

"The president of Gold Bank, Lu Chang, is notoriously stingy, and trying to take money from him is like cutting flesh from him."

"That's right." Another minister said, "Although the Ming Dynasty is developing rapidly and the treasury's money can be said to be substantial, the amount of money spent on implementing nine-year compulsory education is really too large."

"According to my estimate, it will cost at least forty million taels of silver."

"Even if the imperial court develops rapidly, it cannot withstand such a toss."

"The old man knows what you said." Li Shanchang said in a deep voice after listening to everyone's complaints, "The superior didn't ask me to go to Lu Chang to get the money when he was in the court meeting, and he probably knew that the expense was too big. I don’t want to withdraw from the treasury, and I’m afraid that it will affect the momentum of Ming’s economic take-off, so let me find a way.”

"Your Majesty wants Li Xiang to carry out compulsory education in natural sciences without giving money?" said the academicians of the Imperial Academy, "Isn't this just wanting the horses to run without giving them grass?"

"Who says it's not?" The other Huaixi ministers complained one after another.

"It seems that we can only find a way by ourselves." Li Shanchang sighed, "The implementation of compulsory education in natural science this time is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, so we must overcome all difficulties and not be afraid of hardships. No matter what, we must carry out this arduous task assigned by His Majesty. It's done."

"Yes!" Everyone clapped their hands in agreement.

This time is an excellent opportunity for Li Shan to make his name in history, so he will do his best to do it well.Lao Zhu also seemed to have seen this point, so he didn't transfer money to him.

As for whether it can be completed, it depends on Lao Li's ability.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang believed that he could do well.

Because matters related to vital interests can stimulate people's greatest potential.

"Li Xiang, even though that's the case, how can we get rid of all difficulties?" The minister raised his own question, "Without money, nothing can be done. No matter how hard we try, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice."

"That's right, even if we take out all our belongings, it's still not enough to spend a small amount of money." Another minister said.

If this matter is successful, Li Shanchang will be famous in history, and they also have the opportunity to be famous in history.Therefore, these people worked very hard, and even thought about taking out their own money.

"The superior is asking us to do tens of millions of taels of silver with empty hands!" The last minister sighed, "Without any support, how can we accomplish it?"

"We are not empty-handed." Li Shanchang said, "The imperial decree is our greatest reliance."

"Although the superior didn't specify how much money the old man was asked to get from Lu Chang, I believe he couldn't shirk it if he was asked to take a few million taels to support education." Li Shan said long.

"A few million taels is not enough!" The minister next to him said immediately.

"For the rest of the big heads, we have to find another way and come up with a strange move." Li Shan said long.Li Shanchang is worthy of being the number one civil servant of the Ming Dynasty. Under the persecution of personal interests,

Inspired by his infinite potential, he turned his head and finally came up with a brilliant solution.