Everyone was extremely relieved. It seemed that the most worrying situation did not exist. That was good.
"Please continue." Emperor Jing said.
Yang Fengfan said: "In addition to the prosperity of industry and commerce, Pingwan County's greatest achievement is education."
"In two years, 32 new schools were added throughout Pingwan County."
Thirty-two? Everyone was shocked.
"How is it possible? Was all this built with tax money?" someone exclaimed.
The addition of more than 30 schools in two years is simply too astonishing!
"Half of it was built with money from the county, and the other half was built with money from merchants."
"Merchants still care about education?" Li Yansong pulled his beard off without noticing.
"Of course! Many people here bring their children with them. They are usually too busy at work to raise them, and it is easy to be distracted while working. When the county government learned about this situation, it began to lead merchants to build schools for those children."
"Some of these schools were prepared for working people... In fact, many jobs require people who can read and write, but such people are often extremely scarce, so universities were built to teach literacy, and also to learn the teachings of sages."
"Nowadays, many ambitious people are willing to spend some money to study and learn calligraphy in the university after their rest time, so as to increase their income in the future."
The ministers were in an uproar and engaged in discussion.
"Incredible! Incredible!" Li Yansong murmured.
They had never heard of such an achievement...The ideal that scholars had been dreaming of was actually realized so easily by businessmen?
Yang Fengfan was already feeling extremely proud, but when he suddenly noticed Fang Zhengyi winking at him, he suddenly remembered something.
Yes, the county has also arranged a school project specifically for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Your Majesty.
Now is the time to add the icing on the cake!
Yang Fengfan clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty! In order to cope with future changes, the county has just invested in building a school of the largest scale, which can accommodate 3,000 people! It has everything from a canteen, dormitory, and library. Children aged five to fifteen can study in the school. The most important thing is that the tuition is extremely low, so that every student of the right age can have books to read."
"When this school was first built, it was well received by the people in the city. Everyone was grateful for the court's kindness. Everyone said that your majesty loved the people like his own children and cared deeply about the people, so he specially gave this school an excellent name..."
The ministers were all delighted, and Emperor Jing was even more delighted: "What's the name?"
"Encouragement School!"
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