In the city of Chang'an, undercurrents are surging.
The Datang Weekly is updated on time, announcing the latest construction tasks and labor requirements for the Evernight City of the Tang Dynasty. It states that the King of Qin’s Palace has ordered the recruitment of surrounding people to work, and the monthly payment remains unchanged from last year. In addition, It was on it that the list of people and families who donated to the Tang National Martyrs Cemetery was announced.
Merchants from the world's most powerful families donated a total of 7.587 million guan. His Royal Highness the King of Qin and the Tang royal family, including the princes and princesses, donated a total of 2.413 million guan, for a total of 10 million guan, to build the Tang National Martyrs Cemetery.
The National Martyrs Cemetery is located at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain, south of Chang'an City, about 10 miles away from Chang'an City, and will be accompanied by the construction of a monument to the heroes of the Tang Dynasty and related roads.
The Monument to the Heroes of the Tang Dynasty was funded and constructed by His Majesty Li Shimin, Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
The inner treasury is Li Shimin's inner treasury. The private treasury of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty had many names. It was first called the Baibao Treasury. Later, Lao Li thought it was vulgar and renamed it the Daying Treasury. However, after he came to power, Zhenguan was very poor in the first few years. There was nothing inside, and Lao Li once laughed at himself that some of them were called Daying, but no one called them that, at least others called them Neiku or Neizang.
Later, after Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, he called it back to Dayingku or Baibao Dayingku.
However, there are also titles such as internal storage and internal storage.
As for the term "internal funds", there is no such term in the Tang Dynasty. However, in the Han and other periods, the treasury referred to the national treasury.
The people in Chang'an City are enthusiastically discussing the newly built Datang Evernight City, as well as the Datang National Martyrs Cemetery, the Datang Heroes Monument and other brand-new buildings. Almost all the people are applauding, because this is a project done by His Highness King Qin. This means that His Highness the King of Qin does not need them to perform corvee service, including the Datang National Martyrs Cemetery, which does not require them to perform corvee service.
Even if everyone is willing to take the initiative to do this corvee, His Highness does not need to do it. They all have to pay for it.
In addition to this matter, the article on the second page of "Datang Weekly" is also closely related to all people.
The article "Argument on the New Farming Livestock Mule" popularized a brand new livestock to the people, the horse and mule. It lists the advantages of the horse and mule. It has better endurance and strength, eats less, and is docile. It only requires a male donkey and a female horse to mate.
If the matter about the Tang National Martyrs Cemetery is closely related to the spirit of the people, after all, everyone has to join the army as a soldier, the article about livestock is closely related to the lives of all people.
Naturally, the common people were discussing enthusiastically, but the aristocratic families had some headaches. What they were discussing was different from what the common people were discussing. After all, there was a gap in information between the two parties, and they were now The troubled His Highness came up with the construction of Datang Royal Welfare School.
His Highness has notified so many businessmen, and... he also directly asked these businessmen to donate money to build schools... This suddenly made all the wealthy families unable to hold back. The King of Qin proposed this matter last year, and it was approved by the court. It is impossible for this kind of matter not to pass, and no one can object openly.
Whoever objects to this kind of thing is not out of his mind? Do you dare to refuse His Majesty’s training of talents? What's your idea?
But although everyone does not object, they don't mind it in their hearts, because the premise of not objecting is that this matter does not require funding from the state treasury. In fact, even the state treasury cannot afford it.
As we all know, nothing is a small number when it is piled up. Similarly, when any big thing is spread out, it is not that big.
Education is still like this.
If the national treasury supports so many primary schools, middle schools, universities, etc. at once, then the treasury cannot support it, so they are not afraid of doing this inside. If it is one person, it is impossible to have the financial resources.
But if this thing is dispersed among merchants all over the world... then it really won't be a big deal!
Especially there is His Highness Prince Qin who makes as much money as Pixiu... They really can't say, they don't know how much money His Highness Prince Qin has, but they always feel that His Highness Prince Qin alone can build these schools.
What's more, His Highness King Qin now has so many people supporting him?
If this school is to be built, there must be no problem. But here comes the problem. After the school is built, His Highness will even teach the children of common people to read. Then... How can the status of their aristocratic family be guaranteed?
Although the imperial examination system has not yet been reformed.
But all wealthy families are not fools. That is because there are not so many scholars in the world. In more than ten years, when His Highness has taught a group of scholars who may be at least one million, will you see if the imperial examination will be changed?
It's just a matter of time.
How do they maintain their advantage? Can we monopolize knowledge as before?
It’s just that no matter how everyone thinks about it, they feel... there is no solution.
Many people originally wanted to wait for this court meeting to test His Highness King Qin, but who knew that the court meeting was cancelled, which was unprecedented.
It's not that court meetings have never been canceled before, it was often due to special reasons. For example, Li Shimin was sick, and it was relatively serious, or he encountered some special events.
But this was the first time that His Highness the King of Qin had canceled a court meeting so capriciously. No wonder Duke Zheng and Wei Zhengqi cursed on the spot.
A group of military generals were scolded by Duke Zheng and left in despair. Then Zheng Guogong went to see His Majesty. Although I don't know what the outcome will be, for now, it is probably impossible to go to court.
It's just that the reason why His Highness canceled the court meeting was because he saw through the behavior of these people?
At this moment, these aristocratic families simply took action. Since they were not going to court, they went directly to visit His Highness King Qin. Of course, they couldn't visit directly. They had to invite some people to visit, so the royal family was the best choice. .
What they didn't expect was that all the people they found rejected them.
This... everyone was dumbfounded. Of course they didn't look for Li Shimin's prince. Including Li Shimin's princesses, they only looked for three people outside the palace. Everyone knew about the relationship between the princesses in the palace and His Highness King Qin. Naturally, they didn't. Will go and ask for trouble.
But to their surprise, none of them succeeded.
Even Li Yuanchang rejected their proposal.
The refusal was straightforward, and he was blocked with just one sentence. This kind of thing was discussed in the court by King Qin a long time ago. Based on His Highness King Qin’s past experience, there is nothing he can’t do that he wants to do, so I I won't ask for trouble.
This step failed, and the collective failure made these wealthy families suddenly alert, as if things were going to be different at some point.
