The two princes cannot support so many students in vain.
In addition to more than two thousand students, he also has a Li Jia Shan Tang, which has thousands of people.
Some people left and went to Royal Logistics before, and many people chose to work in snack workshops.
Because the Li Family Shantang only provides accommodation and food, no extra money will be given.
Even if some people had a broken leg or missing an arm, they could still do some simple jobs, so he arranged for these people to work in Li's snack shop.
However, the food and drink of these people are still under the control of the Shantang. Moreover, with the arrival of injured people in Xishan Province, there are now more than 1,500 people in the Shantang.
Eating and drinking for so many people consumes a lot of money every day.
Moreover, unlike Kaixueguan and Shantang, the orphanage deals with children and even babies. If someone loses their life due to poor care, it will ruin its reputation.
Therefore, if an orphanage is opened, the manpower must be fully arranged to avoid accidents as much as possible.
This is another expense.
It’s not easy to raise people.
At this moment, he was really empathizing with Sheng Hong. Sheng Hong raised Dasheng's imperial army, local garrisons and officials, which was awesome!
After listening to Li Qiao's analysis, Tao Zhu felt heavy-hearted, but Li Qiao was telling the truth, and he agreed with Li Qiao to lower the food and accommodation standards of the orphanage.
But the specific extent to which this will be reduced remains to be discussed.
The couple discussed it for several days, and in mid-November, when Jiang Mao and Li Xiaolan returned to Beijing, they finally settled on the final standards.
When eating here, we eat whole grains every meal, and only give fine grains during festivals.
Moreover, all children who enter the orphanage must not only be literate, but also work for the Li family. Either go to work in the village, or do some embroidery or housework. Anyway, you can't eat for free.
Of course, these orphans can regret it. If they cannot adapt to life in the orphanage, they are free to leave.
But once you leave, you can no longer enter the orphanage.
After the children in the orphanage reach the age of fifteen, they have to leave the orphanage and can no longer occupy the places in the orphanage, because the places in the orphanage are limited.
As for what these orphans can do after leaving the orphanage, it depends on their choice.
If they have good conduct while in the orphanage, Li Qiao can arrange for them to work in his own shop or village.
If he committed adultery while in the orphanage, then Li Qiao would refuse to provide such a person with a job.
In order to prevent being kidnapped by morality, Li Qiao formulated the overlord clause.
The number of beds in the orphanage is limited. Every child who enters the orphanage will be strictly examined to make sure that the child has no father, no mother, and no one to rely on. Only then can he enter the orphanage.
If someone is found to have intentionally abandoned a child, the orphanage will report it to the authorities.
Moreover, once the quota of the orphanage is full, the orphanage will no longer accept orphans. No matter how pitiful others are or how they scold him, he will harden his heart and ignore him.
After the news that Li Qiao was going to open an orphanage was announced, it caused quite a stir in Shengjing.
In fact, all dynasties have special policies for orphans. Some dynasties will set up special officials and reduce some taxes for families who adopt orphans.
The previous dynasty also established a Salesian Bureau to adopt homeless orphans.
After the establishment of Dasheng, the Sheng family father and son had not had time to spare manpower to deal with this matter. Now Li Qiao wants to build an orphanage, tsk.
Tsk tsk.
Tsk tsk tsk.
What a great opportunity to rally people's hearts, Sheng Hong actually handed over such an important channel to Li Qiao.
The Holy Spirit is really relieved and is not afraid at all that Li Qiao's prestige among the people is too high.
However, for the people at the bottom, Li Qiao's move opened a door for them and showed them a way to survive.
From now on, some displaced children will have a place to stay, which is a great and great blessing.
Before everyone could recover from the shock that Li Qiao was about to open an orphanage, Li Qiao, the seventh prince, the eldest prince, the fourth prince, and the sixth prince announced a big news at the same time.
They want to open free private schools in their chosen provinces. This kind of free private schools only allows children from poor families to enroll. The private schools do not charge any fees and do not have any requirements for students' grades. Everything depends on individual efforts and understanding.
However, if the results are particularly outstanding, the five of them will provide funds for these students to take the imperial examination route - the sixth prince learned that the seventh prince, the eldest prince, and the fourth prince were going to open a free private school, and actively joined.
As soon as this news came out, it caused a lot of discussion.
Free private schools only for poor families?
Um... This shouldn't cost much money. All you need to do is provide a venue and a wife, and you don't have to worry about food or accommodation.
Moreover, students had to go to private school to study seriously every day for a month before they were provided with a small amount of straw paper and cheap pen and ink.
In fact, it doesn’t cost much money at all.
However, this move provides children from poor families with an opportunity to enter private schools and gives them a chance to change their destiny.
Whether you can catch it or not depends entirely on the individual.
This opportunity is better than none.
In the past, private schools were a sacred place that was out of reach for children from poor families.
Nowadays, the threshold for studying has been greatly lowered. Children from poor families have a chance to advance as long as they work hard.
fine.
However, Li Qiao actually announced the news together with several princes. Tsk tsk, it is not unfair to say that Li Qiao is half a prince.
However, the princes are all moving together, why don’t we see the second prince?
The second prince did not participate this time.
Because the second prince had already begun to show off, he had long made it clear that he did not want to be the emperor, but his father had to come up with a problem and force him to compete for the imperial edict of appreciation.
He couldn't refuse even if he wanted to.
In order to show that he really had no intention of competing for the throne, even the fourth and seventh princes wanted to get him a free private school this time, and even Sheng Hong specifically asked him, but he waved his hand and refused.
He doesn't do this.
He is not interested in government affairs and does not have a strong sense of responsibility for the people. He will not engage in welfare for the poor.
He used practical actions to show that he wanted to withdraw from the battle for the throne!
The second prince repeatedly refused, and Sheng Hong really couldn't force the second prince to do it, so the second prince fell behind on the free private school and did not act with the other princes.
After the news of opening free private schools was announced, the next step was to take action.
Since we choose to open free private schools in a province, we cannot just open one private school, but at least open free private schools in every county in the province.
This is also the joint agreement between Li Qiao and several princes.
At the very least, we must ensure that every county has a free private school.
If you want to open a private school, you must at least buy a big house.
People who don't know the truth think that it doesn't cost much money, but in fact, after careful calculation, it is a huge expenditure.
Although houses in the county are not expensive, they cannot support the large number of large houses required.
In Yuanhe Province, the entire Hexi Prefecture did not need this benefit, so Li Qiao wrote letters to the prefects of other prefectures in Yuanhe Province, asking these prefects to buy houses for him and hire wives.
In Weiqing County, he handed over the matter to Li Gu.
Li Gu had planned to go back to Pingcheng for a long time, but as a result, things in Weiqing County kept piling up, and he could never find a chance to go home.
Therefore, Li Qiao stated in the letter this time that the management of the Weiqing County Wharf can be left to Zhao Mancang and Li Dong. Li Dong is not young anymore and it is time to take charge of the business on his own.
At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, a heavy snowfall lasted for two days, almost causing another snow disaster, and the temperature suddenly dropped sharply.
Sheng Hong simply gave all the officials an early leave, and Li Qiao didn't have to go to the palace every day. He only had to go once every three days.
So for the first time since becoming an official, Li Qiao took annual leave early.
However, the weather was extremely cold and people did not go to the streets unless necessary. Although Li's shop was open, Li Dashan, Li Ershan, Li Xiaoshan, Li Shu and others no longer went to the shop every day. Like Li Qiao, they only went there when they had free time.
Li Xiaoshan and Brother Liu are about to get married, and the whole family is staying at home to work on this matter.
After Li Xiaolan returned to Beijing, she lived in the Jiang family's house. Everyone in the Jiang family was either in their hometown or went to Jiangshu Province with Governor Jiang. She did not need to serve her parents-in-law, nor did she have any sisters-in-law. In addition, Jiang Mao also had a holiday. , she only felt that her life was as beautiful as if she were soaking in a honey pot.
Her parents, including a bunch of relatives, think she is stupid, but is she stupid?
She's not stupid at all.
Following Jiang Mao to the countryside, facing the scorching heat and freezing cold, the days seemed miserable, but compared with the days before she was seven years old, what was this?
She still remembered the situation at home when she was young. Because she was young, she did not need to work in the fields, but all the housework at home fell on her, such as cooking, washing, feeding chickens and pigs, cleaning the yard, etc., all day long. No time to spare.
Now she just needs to walk around with Jiang Mao.
They stayed in large carriages or inns.
Jiang Mao didn't wrong her at all when it came to food. Even if it was dry food, it had to be paired with roasted chicken and braised pork.
If she happened to be eating at a farmer's house that day, Jiang Mao would definitely pay the farmer to kill chickens and ducks, so that she would be satisfied with her meal.
In addition to eating and drinking, her relationship with Jiang Mao also heated up a lot.
Jiang Mao was in charge of the job of supervising grain, and she grew up in the countryside. Although she didn't do much farm work, she could still be on the same channel as Jiang Mao, and there would be no awkwardness.
Jiang Mao didn't look down on her. When she encountered something she didn't understand, Jiang Mao would patiently explain it to her.
Moreover, she can read and hyphenate. In addition to crops, she can also speak a few lines of poetry with Jiang Mao.
When you are on the road, you can read a book on the carriage because they are all flat concrete roads.
Jiang Mao will read a book with her.
Well, it was the kind of reading where she was nestled in Jiang Mao's arms and Jiang Mao's broad shoulders completely covered her.
At night, Jiang Mao would hold her to sleep and would not share the bed with her.
This was the case before Governor Jiang was promoted.
The same was true after Governor Jiang was promoted.
Jiang Mao treated her consistently, never being perfunctory once.
Before Jibei province separated from her mother, her mother prayed that if Jiang Mao's tenderness towards her was all fake, then she hoped Jiang Mao could pretend all his life.
She thought so too.
