Li Shimin's words stunned Li Ke for a moment, but he paused and shook his head and said: "It's still difficult. First of all, it seems that the current expenditure is not a lot, but in fact it is not a small number. It is a huge impact on the imperial government's finances. Huge expense.”
"Education in particular is actually a very slow way to achieve results."
"And we also need to take into account the people's own thoughts. Many people don't have a long-term vision, and they don't have high expectations. They just want to be safe, have peace and smoothness throughout their lives, and live a good life. That’s it.”
"Such people may not be willing to let their children study, especially if they study to high school, they must be at least fifteen or sixteen years old. This age is almost equivalent to a strong labor force in many ordinary people's families."
"For the people who are under great pressure in the fields, they may not be willing to send their children to school. Most of them think it is not good if their children are illiterate. When the children become literate, they can understand what is written in the article and can calculate accounts. It’s probably enough.”
"They may not be willing to learn more advanced knowledge."
Li Ke shook his head and said.
"Then you don't do anything? The current method of sponsoring schools and allowing these people to send their children to study voluntarily cannot last long." Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.
"Datang currently does not have this condition." Li Ke was a little helpless.
"This is not a question of whether you have it or not. If you don't care and we don't care, do you know what will happen in the future?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.
"What happened?" Li Ke was a little curious, but he wanted to hear his father's thoughts.
"What will happen? I'll tell you what will happen. Although their rights may be weakened by the powerful families, the status of these businessmen will grow with the commercial development of the Tang Dynasty. The economy you mentioned will gradually begin to prosper. Their influence The power will become more and more prominent.”
"After all, it is true that money can communicate with gods from a certain perspective. When the time comes, they will become another group of powerful families. At most, they will just change their names."
"If the school is sponsored by them, and even the students are sponsored by them, they can secretly exert their influence."
"With so many students, there must be outstanding ones among them, and when excellent craftsmen like Lu Daqiang and other academicians appear, they can use higher benefits to attract these talents into their arms. among."
"They have money in their hands, and these students have knowledge. When the two are combined, they will have more money. For example, advanced machines such as your loom and spinning machine will definitely appear in the future, allowing them to earn Withdraw more money.”
"But they are not you, and they have no responsibility to this country. Businessmen are always mercenary, and this has been the case since ancient times."
“They will do anything they can to make a profit, and once they have made enough profit, what do they do if they want to maintain their position?”
"They may not overthrow the imperial court, because overthrowing the imperial court would not do them any good. If they act within the rules you set, as long as they abide by the so-called laws, they will actually live a better life than overthrowing the imperial court."
"Because overthrowing the imperial court may not be successful. Even if they just start, they may not be the ones who succeed in the end. It may be someone else."
"Businessmen may not do this kind of high-risk, low-reward thing, so they will think of a more secure way."
"According to my thinking, all I can think of is controlling knowledge."
"It's just another way. Since the popularization of knowledge cannot be controlled, then control those who possess advanced knowledge!"
"They can join forces with aristocratic families and use their current advantages to raise the threshold for acquiring advanced knowledge in the future."
"But they probably won't completely cut off the channels for ordinary people to learn advanced knowledge. After all, you will gain wisdom from every experience. They have suffered a loss here, and they have suffered a loss here. They must improve."
"If we can't cut off the channels for ordinary people, then we should improve them. For example, we can use various methods to increase the threshold and cost of learning advanced knowledge. What should we do if we meet ordinary people who really want to learn this knowledge? It's very simple. Funding Him!"
"Nowadays, the poor scholars before the imperial examination have a lot of financial support from wealthy businessmen and the like. This is the reason."
"If the amount is too large, then you can pay for it. Lend them a sum of money and you will pay it back to me within a few years, or work for me. I will lend you the money and you will pay some interest. Is it normal?"
"For ordinary people, unless they are geniuses, even if they learn advanced knowledge and work, how much money can they earn every month after deducting the cost of living? How much can they pay back every month? Maybe in the next few years or more than ten years. There needs to be work for these people.”
"And naturally they can easily control these students with advanced knowledge through this."
"As for those students who are ordinary, maybe just meet the literacy standards, it is not important to them at all, because by that time, I guess these people will no longer be able to affect the foundation of society."
Li Shimin directly stated all the possibilities he had guessed in a calm tone.
Li Ke: "..."
Li Ke didn't know what to say. He could probably guess how his father guessed it. It was very simple. Li Shimin might not know the development of society, but he did understand the peeing habits of a wealthy family.
Knowing what kind of person they are, knowing what choices they will make under what circumstances, and then analyzing it based on the existing situation, you can roughly guess what they can achieve.
"Do you think what I said makes sense?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke and asked.
"Yes, Dad is awesome." Li Ke shouted 66666 several times.
"Speak carefully." Li Shimin's head was full of black lines, "I guess since so many systems have been formulated, you definitely don't want the final situation to develop like what I said."
"I really don't want to, so dad, do you have any good ideas?" Li Ke said with a smile.
"Are you trying to test me?" Li Shimin looked at Li Ke angrily and said.
"Don't dare." Li Ke shook his head quickly.
"This is not simple. Didn't you put all the answers there? If the country is governed by law, wouldn't it be better to directly enact laws? Your idea is to wait for the Tang Dynasty's fiscal revenue to increase, and then pass the law to force the people to give up their children. Send him to school to study? Is it illegal not to study?" Li Shimin asked tentatively.
Li Ke could only praise his father, otherwise what else could he say.
Before Li Ke could speak, Li Shimin asked and answered himself: "Indeed, this is the best way. It is difficult to change the law. It is not easy for so many officials to reach an agreement. This means changing any article." The law is not easy. Not to mention the influence of the royal family in it."
"Then it will be much simpler to formulate provisions in the form of laws and enforce them in accordance with the law."
