Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 89: Why didn’t you ride a horse?
However, if we really want to provide free education, or even free food and accommodation, from childhood, as Li Wei said, the cost will be too much. The Ming Dynasty needs more than one or two talents. The national treasury cannot afford to train so many scholars. !

His current Guozixue, including the Guozijian and local official schools after the Ming Dynasty, is actually strictly an educational management institution. They recruit successful scholars directly through examinations, focusing on management and teaching. The assistant, equivalent to the Ministry of Education in later generations, was mainly responsible for teaching materials and organizing examinations.

These places will not recruit children and teach them from scratch. If they want to study, they mainly rely on their own families to provide for them.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang also provided many benefits to these scholars, such as scholarships, various privileges, tax exemptions and exemptions from military service, etc., but these are only for outstanding students, they need to take exams, and they are very difficult!

Most of the scholars who received these preferential treatment only felt that these were obtained by their own efforts, rather than a gift from the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang could not afford to be left behind even if he paid for it.

After thinking for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Then you go and build it, we are not stopping you."

Anyway, he is not prepared to pay for it. Xiao Jiujiu understands Li Wei's point at a glance. If you want us to build a college for you, you also have to pay a salary. What are you thinking?

Li Wei's face changed slightly, and he said unwillingly: "Your Majesty, I am also cultivating talents for the Ming Dynasty. Are you proud of me?"

Li Wei rubbed his fingers. This gesture must have been obvious.

"Ah!"

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, we haven't robbed you yet, but you still want to fool us?
In fact, what Li Wei said is right or wrong. This is indeed cultivating talents for the Ming Dynasty, but just like the scholars trained by the family are more loyal to the family, the people trained by Li Wei will definitely be closer to Li Wei in the future. Calculated in this way, If he pays, he is being cheated.

Minghuang Chamber of Commerce is making so much money now, this bitch will definitely get a lot of money at the end of the year. He won't pay for him. As for himself, shouldn't he get more money?

Seeing that he was not fooled, Li Wei thought for a while and tried again: "How about I allocate money and food from the Chamber of Commerce? Your Majesty, these people will be the pillars of the Ming Dynasty in the future. I have trained talents for the Ming Dynasty for free. It’s not easy. If you ask me to spend my own money to build a college again, then I won’t do it!”

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it with a cold face. If the Chamber of Commerce paid for it, gave it a royal title, and sent a good eldest son to serve as a dean, well, that would be fine too!
"Okay, then let's pay for it from the Chamber of Commerce, but this college is also ours. Just like the Chamber of Commerce, whoever we want can be the dean."

Li Wei curled his lips after hearing this. He is really a tough guy and won't suffer any losses.

"Okay, okay, but I have the final say in this aspect of teaching. Your Majesty, you also know that what I want to teach is different from what you are teaching now."

"can!"

Zhu Yuanzhang readily agreed, and turned to Zhu Biao and said, "Biao'er, when this college is established, you will serve as the dean concurrently. From now on, this will be the place to cultivate talents for our old Zhu family."

Then he glanced at Li Wei: "You can be the deputy."

Li Wei: "..."

He originally thought that the college would let him be the dean like the Chamber of Commerce, and Zhu Yuanzhang would send someone to supervise it, but he didn't expect that the old man would directly send a good boy to pressure him.

"My son obeys the order."

Zhu Biao is very happy to be the dean. After all, he is teaching and educating people, and he likes it.

Seeing that the father and son made the decision without asking for his opinion, Li Wei had no choice but to agree. What could he do? He was just a little servant.

After leaving the palace, Li Wei hurried to the Ordnance Bureau. There was still a lot of work waiting for him. These messy things in the court delayed his work for several days. It was really annoying!
The generator and voltage regulator had been built. When Li Wei left, he "borrowed" his multimeter from Zhu Yuanzhang and went to debug it.

The wires he uses now are still red copper. In fact, as long as they are thicker, brass can also be used to make wires. Just like some unscrupulous manufacturers in later generations, the copper bars originally used for the rated current of [-] amps were secretly replaced by others in order to reduce costs. Made of brass, there will be no problems if the current does not reach [-]A during normal use. However, in fact, once it reaches [-]A, it will easily heat up or even catch fire, which poses a great safety hazard.

Li Wei is just making do with it now. When conditions permit, he will build an electrolytic copper workshop to make copper. Anyway, he will have electricity.

After debugging the generator, Li Wei went to look at the coke oven and steel-making furnace. The coke oven had been built and he was just waiting to try it. The steel-making furnace had been built earlier and most of them had been completed. Without a motor, the molten iron had to be manually stirred into the converter.

The disadvantages of manual mixing are relatively large. First, it is more laborious and it is so hot.

Second, the stirring speed is unstable and uneven. It is difficult to control the carbon content of the steel produced, and the quality will be very worrying.

Let's try it first, make a few furnaces and select the appropriate steel to make magnets. With magnets, you can have a good generator and motor, and the stirring work can be driven by the motor.

After a busy afternoon, Li Wei rushed home in the evening. He was very dissatisfied with the current progress of the project. It was all his fault that those traitorous officials in the court were always causing trouble for him. What a delay!
"Hey, my head hurts!"

After entering the courtyard, Li Wei put his hand on his forehead and sighed.

At this time, Xiaoqing walked out of the room next to him. Seeing him like this, she thought he was sick: "Master, what's wrong with you?"

When Li Wei heard the voice, he immediately moved his hands from his head to his buttocks almost as a conditioned reflex:

"Ouch, my butt hurts..."

Xiaoqing: "..."

In the morning of the next day, Li Wei and the human alarm clock came to the Meridian Gate together. They saw that many civil servants and generals had already arrived, waiting to open the door.

Li Wei was surprised to find that in the past, all the civil servants who rode horses and sat in sedans came here on their legs today, and none of them sat in sedans!Only on the general's side were there many people on horseback.Lao Zhu is a housekeeper who has to take care of everything. He also has clear regulations on riding in sedan chairs. Whether it is among the people or ministers, only the elderly, weak, sick and disabled can ride in sedan chairs. Others advocate riding horses. Riding on donkeys without horses, of course. If you're poor and your legs are tight, that's fine too.

Li Wei is not poor, but he is on his legs because he cannot ride a horse. As a poor man in the new century who cannot even drive a car, how could he possibly be able to ride a horse?

Of course, there are some older officials in the court who are qualified to sit in a sedan chair, but today they would rather be carried on their legs, unable to walk and crawl, than sit in a sedan chair again!

These civil and military ministers were in groups, chatting quietly while waiting for the door to open and clock in.

Li Wei glanced around, pulled over a familiar official and asked, "Sir, why didn't you ride a horse today?"

"Humph!"

The official glared at him, shook his hand away, turned around and walked a few steps away, and continued to glare from a distance!

Li Wei curled his lips and looked around again. He saw Zhao Ben and Zhang Zongyi from the Ministry of War huddled together talking about something. It was not a good thing to take a sneak peek.

Li Wei walked over and said, "Master Zhao, Master Zhang, what are you talking about?"

Zhao Ben and Zhang Zongyi were talking about how to punish him, a traitor, but when they saw him coming over, they immediately fell silent.

Now they are the only two normal ministers among the civil servants. The others are either acting or vacant, and Ge Si is indifferent, let alone Xue Xiang. They can only take the lead in dealing with Li Wei.

"What we talk about is none of your business. Is there anything wrong, Mr. Li? Just do what you want!"

Zhang Zongyi frowned and said displeasedly.

He meant to tell Li Wei to get away, but Li Wei was thick-skinned: "Why didn't you two adults come here on horseback today? Aren't you tired of walking here like this?"

Hearing this, Zhao Ben and Zhang Zongyi both turned pale. You bastards still have the nerve to ask this!
"Hmph! Traitor!"

Zhang Zongyi threw up his sleeves and left. Zhao Ben also glared at him, then left, changed places, and the two continued chatting.

Li Wei made a sound and was about to continue looking for the next target. Han Yike beside him couldn't stand it any longer. He pulled him and said, "Master Li, it's getting late. It's time to go to work soon. Don't wait." Stop running around!"

"It's okay, it's still early."

Li Wei said something casually and then moved on to the next target.

Seeing that he was cold-faced twice and still looking for scolding, Han Yike decisively distanced himself from him and stopped following him.

"Hey, isn't this... Lord Shangshu? You are so old and you haven't retired yet?"

When Li Wei came to Ya Si, he was limited by his own cultural level and could not call Ya Si by his last name.He remembered this old man. It was this old man who took the lead in playing him the first time he entered the court. That was his first time, and he would never forget it!

Gesi's face changed slightly, and he forced out a smile: "It's coming, it's coming!"

"Why didn't Lord Shangshu sit in the sedan chair today? At your age, His Majesty won't blame you if you sit in the sedan chair."

Gesi's face twitched and he thought to himself, I'm afraid that the origin of your involvement in my sedan is unknown.

"Those are all rented. Recently, my family's expenses have been tight, so I haven't rented anymore." As he said that, Gesi changed the subject and said, "Oh, by the way, I have something to do here, Master Li will stay."

After saying that, Luo Si slipped away quickly. Li Wei looked at his nimble appearance and gave a generous thumbs up.

Then Li Wei asked others again.

"Why didn't this gentleman ride a horse today?"

"Why didn't this gentleman take the sedan chair today?"

"Why is this master still being supported by others? How much do these two servants cost per month?"

……

Wherever Li Wei went, the crowd immediately dispersed, accompanied by faint shouts and curses. Li Wei didn't care. He walked around and looked there, just like a drop of detergent dropped on the pot. In the water, squeeze out a piece of grease (art comes from life).

After turning around, Li Wei suddenly spotted a sneaky figure and immediately shouted:
"Sun Jian, why are you hiding, come out!"

Sun Jian trembled all over and bravely emerged from behind Zhao Jun, Xue Xiang and others.

"I've seen Master Li!"

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(End of this chapter)