After hearing what Zhao Feng said, the ministers all took a breath, with a hint of astonishment in their eyes.
They subconsciously looked at the people from the four major families represented by Feng Shen, and the people from the four major families were ecstatic in their hearts.
The reason why the four major families are so powerful is because they win over the people, and those students take the imperial examinations to get promoted.
But it's still a bit difficult to win over people like this. After all, no matter how dense the net is, it can't catch the tidal wave of students from all over the world.
But if Zhao Feng's method is followed, it will be easier for them to win over those literati in the future.
When these literati went to teach in academies, it was a time of corruption. It was the best time for them to win them over. As long as they could win them over to their hands, wouldn't they still become their own people when they enter the court in the future?
This made people from the four major families couldn't help but look at Zhao Feng secretly, thinking that if Zhao Feng talked about it so lightly, would Zhou Zhen really agree?
They also knew that Zhou Zhen had always felt that the power of the four major families was too great, so he tried his best to select people who had nothing to do with the four major families during the imperial examinations in previous years. However, there were very few such people. In the end, Or you can only choose those related to the four major families.
If Zhao Feng does this, no matter how Zhou Zhen chooses from now on, everyone will be related to their four major families!
They secretly watched Zhou Zhen's reaction, but found that Zhou Zhen's face was expressionless at this time, and he was just listening quietly.
Zhao Feng noticed the reactions of these officials and couldn't help but laugh softly in his heart.
When these four major families first heard about this policy, they might think that this policy was very beneficial to them, but when it was actually implemented, they would find that it was completely counterproductive.
And in order to be able to do this, the next step is the most important thing.
"In addition, since all those literati went to private schools to study, and very few even went to academies, their cultural levels varied. In order to allow them to teach in academies, I decided to first set up some specialized training A college for these men of letters.”
"You can only teach after attending this college and graduating from this college. Only after teaching for two or three years can you be qualified to take the imperial examination."
"What do you gentlemen think of this matter?"
When the members of the four major families heard this, they couldn't help but breathe quickly.
If this college had not been opened, they might have to go to the colleges to find these literati one by one if they wanted to win over them. But if this college was opened, they would only need to put their own people into the college and they could directly win over those literati. people.
Is Zhao Feng really not from the four major families? Why do these policies sound like they are all for the benefit of the four major families?
The ministers all nodded vigorously, with happy smiles on their faces.
If this is the case, then the four major families will completely control the entire Zhou Dynasty. From the bottom to the top, there will be people from their four major families everywhere!
Zhou Zhen saw the reactions of these ministers. If Zhao Feng had not told him about this matter in detail before, he would have felt that Zhao Feng was helping people from these four major families.
But Zhao Feng had already told him carefully before. On the surface, this matter seemed to be for the good of the four major families, but in reality, it would completely cut off the four major families' escape routes!
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhen smiled slightly.
"I think this is a good idea, so let's do it this way. As for the location of this college, I think it's better to be near the capital!"
People from the four major families took a breath. If this college was still near the capital, it would be easier for them to win over the students inside!
So the people from these four major families nodded in agreement.
Feng Shen was still thinking about what happened before, and instinctively felt that something was wrong. As long as he thought about it with his mind, he could imagine how much benefit it would have to the four major families, but why did Zhou Zhen agree?
"But the cost..."
Zhao Feng cupped his hand.
"Everyone, this academy is mainly to cultivate literati for the world, and these people will be the successors of us officials in the future."
"Let me see, why don't you let the ministers start collecting donations? I will personally donate five thousand taels of silver to support the construction of this college and its subsequent development!"
Hearing this, the officials couldn't help but nodded.
If you think about it carefully, you will know that donating money now will definitely leave a good reputation in the hearts of those students. It will become easier to win over them in the future. After all, these students eat and use their own food. How is that possible? Will he not listen to himself?
So all the officials expressed their intention to donate, and some even donated ten thousand taels of silver.
The people from the four major families were even more powerful. The amount of donations from each family was not less than 10,000 taels of silver.
Feng Shen planned to stop this, but other officials of the Feng family had already spoken out, so he sighed softly.
A very satisfied smile appeared on Zhou Zhen's face.
"My dear friends, you are worthy of being a minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I am very pleased to see you enthusiastically donating!"
Now there were no other problems. The New Deal was promulgated directly, and the officials happily dispersed and left.
Zhao Feng came to the imperial study with a bunch of memorials. As soon as he entered the imperial study, Zhou Zhen couldn't help but turned around and punched Zhao Feng on the shoulder.
Zhao Feng looked at Zhou Zhen in surprise, and Zhou Zhen laughed.
"Okay! Okay!"
"I really didn't expect that I could actually see you treating those people from the four major families like fools today!"
"I don't know what the expressions were on the faces of the four major families when they invested in building this academy and found out that it was completely different from what they thought!"
Zhou Zhen said this and couldn't help laughing again.
Zhao Feng put the memorials on the desk and then said softly.
"But this means that I have completely broken up with the four major families. I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to get them to cooperate again."
Zhou Zhen waved his hand and said nonchalantly.
"Don't worry, this policy of yours is just a plan to draw out the firepower. If it can be implemented, the four major families will not have the final say in the court in the future."
"Even if they don't cooperate then, what will happen?"
Zhao Feng smiled slightly and nodded slowly.
Now that the New Deal has been promulgated, in order to make people all over the world understand and support this New Deal, it is time to use newspapers.
The reason why Zhao Feng laid out the news about the newspaper so early was because he wanted to do it for Chen Rou, but more importantly, he wanted to control the murderous power of public opinion in his own hands!
