Chapter 961: Bo sympathy
Qi Xiu saw that there was no grudge between his sons, so he put his heart down and concentrated on handling state affairs.
He was very interested in the stories that Mu Yangling told the children, and every once in a while he would take a letter from Xiaobao and read it. Xiaobao saw that he read the letter of the fourth aunt instead of the bear, and was happy to give it to him. He saw that in order to protect his privacy, he also found a box to separate the letters of the two.
Qi Xiuyuan found his son's careful thoughts. Although he was curious about what he and Xiaoxiong would write, considering that children have secrets, they didn't take a peek at it.
Qi Xiuyuan just missed the two children's plan to escape from the capital.
With Xiaoxiong as a comparison, Xiaobao does not want to stay in the capital for the rest of his life, so he asked Xiaoxiong if there is any way to let him leave the capital.
Little Bear can only ask his younger brothers for advice.
Qi Xiuyuan didn't know what tricks the arrogant children had planned for his son. At this time, he was summoning several doctors and student representatives from Guozijian.
The book is temporarily published and provided by the Royal Bookstore and the Wangfu Bookstore. He only needs to provide some paper and ink, and don’t ask him about labor costs. The labor costs in this era are negligible.
The originals that were printed were taken from the library of the imperial palace.
The library was located in the mansion of the Zuo Shilang of the former military department. After the defeat of the former dynasty, these officials who followed the former second prince also had their homes raided, and their houses were naturally confiscated.
The house is not big, with only three entrances, but it is more than enough for the books they publish. Think about it, a mansion with three entrances and a small garden is equivalent to a small modern park.
Qi Xiuyuan asked people to open up several of Xiangyang's rooms. Three courtyards were cleaned up, and the others were locked with locks. The walls of the rooms that were opened were simply painted. He wouldn't even pay for a new bookshelf. Let the guards and inner servants go to the prisoners' houses to carry the ready-made ones.
The house was raided, and the books and other valuables were returned to the national treasury and the inner treasury, but no one moved the bookshelf, so everyone found one.
The bookshelves of the officials are all the same height, even the grids are similar, but the wood is different and the colors are different. It is really unsightly when they are placed together, because the ancients, especially the scholars, have some cleanliness, and they are obsessed with reading. .
The guards tried to put similar colors in one courtyard. Anyway, there were three courtyards. Although the final arrangement was a bit nondescript, it was barely noticeable.
It's not that there were no guards or chamberlains who persuaded the emperor euphemistically, but Qi Xiuyuan blocked them with a single sentence, "The treasury is out of money, and my inner treasury is out of money."
In a word, no money!
Although the officials were restrained by the anger last time, there were still many people who continued to stare at his inner library secretly. Qi Xiuyuan’s move was to tell everyone in the world, especially the scholars, that he had no money, but as an emperor, he still did his best. Do your best for the welfare of the people, where can you find such a good emperor?
Of course, other places have saved money. There is no reason to spend more money on manpower. If you want to say what is the best thing to be an emperor, it is nothing more than having countless people at your disposal. There are those who need to spend money, and naturally there are also those who do not need to spend money. .
For example, the students in the Imperial College, and even the students in the academies inside and outside the capital, they study to sell to the emperor's family, and they must be very happy to be driven by the emperor.
Qi Xiuyuan was right, the representatives of the students standing in front of him were so happy that they almost fainted.
The ten student representatives came from powerful families, civil servant families, and more from ordinary farming-study families. The other two were poor students who were admitted to the Guozijian by their own abilities. Students are included.
Everyone saw the emperor for the first time, except for the sons of the noble family and the three-rank civil official family who had the honor to accompany their father to the palace for a banquet.
In the past, when they went to the banquet, they could only take a peek from a distance, and the whole person was blurred. How could it be like standing in the hall and being received by the emperor in person?
Only then did everyone realize that the emperor turned out to be so stalwart and handsome. Yes, the emperor was born as a general immediately, so he was naturally stalwart, and the emperor had just passed by. At this time, the man was the most attractive, naturally handsome and extraordinary, and the student representatives became red with excitement. After hearing that the emperor was going to set up a royal library near the Guozijian, people in the world who wanted to study could borrow and transcribe them.
Now they think that this library is only open to scholars, but in fact, it is open to all the people in the world.
After talking about the reason why he summoned them, Qi Xiuyuan began to cry poor. He told the student representatives that because Daqi was still under construction, he had to arrange refugees, to recuperate with low taxes and low taxes, and to build water conservancy facilities to guard against Xixia Dajin and others who were eyeing them. Neighboring countries have to spend money in all aspects, so the national treasury is out of money, and his inner treasury can run horses in it because of supporting the national treasury, but he also knows that education is a national plan, so he can't be neglected, he is not yet capable of doing it More, we can only build a library first, so that people in the world who are interested in reading can have a reading path.
You are the outstanding students in the Imperial College, and you are also an example for the scholars in the world, so I will ask you to help me manage this library well, so that everyone who wants to read books can read When it comes to the books you want to read, you must protect and manage the books in the library.
The student representatives did not expect the emperor to be so amiable, and they all knelt on the ground to express their willingness to be gracious to the emperor.
The emperor personally came down to help a few people up, and with a sigh he talked about the misunderstanding of him by the students and scholars of the Guozijian - the reduction of troops.
The emperor said that he did not like wars. He was a peace-loving emperor. He suffered from wars and turmoil since he was a child. They are soldiers in the army, and no one wants to fight, because for scholars, fighting only means the treasury is empty, while for them, fighting means losing their lives, losing their parents, wife, and children, and living in loneliness.
But why can't we cut down our troops now?
You can understand just by looking at the situation of the previous Great Zhou Dynasty.
The previous dynasty retreated again and again, so that half of the country was lost, and they could only be in the south of the Yangtze River. Now the relationship between the three countries has eased slightly, but their lost land has not been fully recovered. Xixia's slavery and hardships, he can't ignore them, and can't follow the old road of Dazhou, so the soldiers can't be cut, only when they regain their homeland, when Daqi is so strong that Dajin Xixia dare not attack, he can release the soldiers Return to their hometown and realize their dream of family reunion.
In short, how did Qi Xiuyuan say something emotional? He changed Qi Haoran's angry words into sad and sympathetic words, and combined with his image of tears in his eyes, so that the ten student representatives and the three doctors of the Imperial College could not wait to grab the ground, and immediately He is just fine.
Not only the ten student representatives, but also the three doctors who were approaching the destiny also expressed that they would refute the emperor's rumors among the scholars and prevent them from being influenced by the words of one party.