I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

Li Shimin announced that Yin Xuan is the best son-in-law in the world.

In court the next day.

After the ceremony, Kong Yingda stood up.

Seeing this scene, the people from several aristocratic families trembled for a moment—Kong Yingda usually doesn't show the mountains or dew in the water, but when he comes out, he is sure to bring out some big news.

Kong Yingda spoke calmly and briefly described the situation of the public school.

He is also objective, telling the advantages and disadvantages of these public schools in Chang'an after their establishment.

There are not many disadvantages - it just needs to spend more money, and every town needs to add some manpower to ensure safety.

It is indeed a considerable expense, but compared with the advantages, it is nothing.

Even... If you count the impact of public schools.The law and order in the village has improved, and the incidents of grabbing water have decreased a lot, and after the establishment of adult night schools, there have been fewer private gambling houses in the village.

If the funds are taken out alone, this matter can also be resolved.

But now there is a public school attached - it is equivalent to the same sum of money, and two things have been done well, even with Kong Yingda's current status, it is enough to be counted as one of his achievements.

The people in the Ministry of Rites are very sour.

Some people looked at Wang Gui with somewhat unfriendly eyes.

The credit for this incident should have belonged to their Ministry of Rites, but now... it all falls to Kong Yingda and the Ministry of Industry. They should be the ones who enjoy this kind of feat.

After Kong Yingda finished talking about these things, he paused, bowed again, and said: "I think... the first step of public school has achieved initial results."

"Now, the second step should be enabled."

This is what Li Shimin summoned Kong Yingda to the imperial city last night, and told him that there are some things that are not good for Li Shimin to say on stage, and someone has to be his mouth.

Second step?
There is a second step to the public school matter?
The division of elementary school, middle school, high school, and university was slowly spit out from Kong Yingda's mouth, and some vocational school matters were also mixed in during the period.

He speaks extremely proficiently. He didn't sleep the whole night last night. He has been studying this system carefully and earnestly. There is nothing wrong with him except that he has to study for a long time.

The more the people from the aristocratic family listened, the more ugly their faces became.

They just said... Apart from killing Bo Cui's family recently, they haven't done much to them.

It turned out to be preparing for this thing.

Cheap paper, book promotion, and large public schools, although these things may damage the foundation of their aristocratic families, but at most they will hurt the muscles and bones.

Considering that the opponent is Yin Xuan and the famous Lord Zhengyang, although the loss is a bit bigger, it is still acceptable.

After all, the most important thing in the entire Tang Dynasty is the imperial examination.

The things that Yin Xuan and the imperial court made before are just pulling the children of the poor family and the families of the family on the same track, but relying on hundreds of years of accumulation... the gap between the families of the family and the children of the poor family is still a natural moat .

These so-called middle schools and universities are different, Kong Yingda's tone is calm, as if he is talking about... something that should be taken for granted.

But the nature is completely different.

The previous public schools and papers, to put it bluntly, were still for the imperial examination, and they all revolved around the matter of "imperial examination".

But if what Kong Yingda said is implemented, the importance of the imperial examination will not be so high.

Of course, if you want to enter the court, you still have to take the imperial examination.

But reading is not all for the imperial examination.

These things were brought up because Zhengyang Gong wanted to snatch the right to speak in the matter of "reading".

People from aristocratic families only hate their teeth itching. They have already climbed up this mountain called knowledge, clinging to the top of the mountain, worrying about fear every day, wondering what kind of means that Zhengyang Guild will use to bring an unknown number of people Come and climb the mountain.

Well now.

Their worries and fears were all in vain.

Mr. Zhengyang clapped his hands, and with his usual helpless and innocent expression, he had a showdown and stopped pretending. I never planned to climb your own mountain from the beginning. I built a new one next to it, which is better than yours. taller and bigger than yours.

Didn't expect?

More than unexpected.

"I think it's inappropriate." Tang Jian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was the first to stand up.

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, he really didn't expect that he would be the first person to stand up and object: "What's wrong?"

The Tang family in Taiyuan belonged to the Guanlong noble family. Although Tang Jian was the Minister of the Household Department, he did start with military exploits.

Is there any objection to his position?
"There is no money." Tang Jian replied simply and concisely, "When the various ministries set up their budgets at the beginning of this year, they were all put together for the Ministry of Industry to get."

"I really can't afford any more money."

What he said was not false. When the ministries were asking for budgets at the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Industry almost scared Tang Jian's pants off when he opened his mouth.

The amount of copper coins required is more than five times the sum of the other five departments, including the budget of the Ministry of War to go to Goguryeo.

In the past few years, at the end of the year, the budget set at the beginning of the year will be exceeded - the excess will be paid by the Ministry of Industry, but after all, it is for things like roads and trains.

And now, only half a year has passed, and it is said that more than half of the funds from the Ministry of Industry have been used, and it seems that the rest will not last until the end of the year.

There are still some copper coins in the national treasury, but... part of it has to prevent the Ministry of Industry from overspending its budget again, and it has to make preparations for next year.

After Ling Ling finally figured it out, there are still hundreds of thousands of guns in the treasury.

But... these hundreds of thousands of guns cannot be moved.

In case of any natural disasters, such as earthquakes and floods, the more than 100 million guan is used for disaster relief.

Li Shimin choked on this sentence, he waved his hand: "I don't want to deal with this matter this year, and I will deal with it after the spring next year."

Tang Jian bowed and retreated.

He just cried and cried, the account department has been too difficult these years, more and more money has been received, but more and more money has been withdrawn.

The Ministry of Accounts, which is in charge of the accounts, is the one with the lowest status among them. Needless to say, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of War, the status of the Ministry of Punishment is similar to that of the Ministry of Accounting.

In the past, there was a Ministry of Industry at the bottom, but now the Ministry of Industry is the most detached. Tang Jian dared to refuse any other department's request for money, but he dared not refuse the Ministry of Industry.

Tang Jian just retracted his front foot.

Wang Gui stood up and said, "Your Majesty, I think it's inappropriate."

His face was serious, and he no longer had the calm look of the past.

Li Shimin didn't speak, just looked at him so directly.

Wang Gui took a deep breath and said in a solemn tone, "What Tang Shangshu said is true, Your Majesty must be careful of the illusion of castles in the air."