System, help me become the empress

Chapter 93 Money Printing Machine

After sending Liu Jiye away with great difficulty, Xu Youxi changed into casual clothes and left the palace to inspect the training situation of the Shenji Battalion.After more than four months of hard work, more than 700 matchlock guns have been produced, nearly 200 improved sidecars, and more than new copper guns have been added.

Although it has been said since ancient times that the land of Shu is easy to defend and difficult to attack, in fact, in the Tang and Song dynasties in history, the land of Shu was attacked, and each time it took only about two months. A situation that can't be attacked for a long time.

What's more, Jingzhou and Hanzhong were not included in the territories assigned to the King of Shu. Xu Youxi was almost certain that the King of Shu would not dare to fight a tough battle with the imperial court easily.

The reason is simple, he can't beat it either.

Both Jingzhou and Hanzhong were guarded by imperial soldiers. He couldn't eat the two major vital gates of Shu. If he wanted to fight, he would have to give away his head directly.

After returning to the palace, Xu Youxi immediately called Meng Zhiqian, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, to discuss.

In the end, after deliberation, the two decided to immediately send two elite troops, plus hundreds of soldiers armed with firearms, to Jingzhou and Hanzhong respectively to strengthen the city defense.

As soon as Meng Zhiqian left the imperial study, Rong Yingran followed.

"Your Majesty, I'm here to report the progress of the 'Public School'."

Rong Yingran's skin has become thicker and thicker recently.

"..."

Bah, you are clearly here to ask for money!

Rong Yingran took advantage of the opportunity to present the memorial in his hand, Zhou Yuxue stepped forward to take it, and after a simple inspection, handed it to Xu Youxi.

Xu Youxi opened it and found that most of the contents recorded in it were place names and people's names: "What does this mean?"

"These are the rosters of free schools and private schools in different places compiled by the minister. Attached to the name of the academy is the roster of well-known local teachers."

Xu Youxi understood almost instantly what Rong Yingran wanted to express: "Are you going to choose a batch of these academies to change to public schools?"

"Your Majesty is wise." Rong Yingran immediately admitted, "As far as I know, although there are some places where the government has funded free schools to provide learning opportunities for children from poor families. But in recent decades, free schools have recruited more students. Most of them are children from wealthy families, and the entry threshold is getting higher and higher. In name, it says that tuition fees are free, but they still charge students for apprenticeship ceremony, writing and ink fees, etc. in private, and many children from poor families cannot afford to study in righteous schools."

"Of course there are some private schools that recruit the children of ordinary people, but the disadvantages of this kind of private schools are also obvious. There are no special textbooks and no educational plans. What students can learn depends entirely on the level of the teachers who teach them."

"I intend to unite with local officials to convert these problematic 'free schools' and 'private schools' into public schools."

Rong Yingran explained the next development of the 'public school'.

Xu Youxi's eyes fell on the memorial, and he thought for a while: "There are too many people staring at the office and school here in the capital, so no one dares to make small moves. But once you push the 'public school' model to the local implementation, then It is very prone to corruption.”

"Then formulate the 'Severe Torture Law' to regulate the behavior of local officials." Rong Yingran continued.

"Can it work? This dynasty has always used severe torture to deal with corrupt officials. Do you think how many people in the court are not corrupt?" Xu Youxi was noncommittal.

"..." Should I pretend not to hear?
Rong Yingran thought silently.

"I remember that Liu Jiye gave a performance a few days ago, and planned to spread "Ganbao" to various places in Dagan. When you start a public school, leave a place in or near the public school for Liu Jiye and others to run "Ganbao." Xu Youxi side While thinking about it, he said, "Let the Ganbao and local officials jointly supervise the establishment of public schools."

"Yes."

"Add the proportion of local children who enter the 'public school' to the evaluation standard of officials' official performance. Officials who fail to meet the standards for three consecutive years resign voluntarily; promotion standards."

"What's more, we can properly cooperate with the local Shikun to fund the public school. How to fund it can be considered, such as setting up scholarships. The top few students who have achieved excellent results in the public school assessment can get this money to subsidize their families Joint examinations can be held between localities, and those who achieve good results in the examinations can receive court scholarships and so on."

Rong Yingran quickly memorized Xu Youxi's suggestion.

"I understand. But if the matter of 'public school' is to be linked to the promotion of officials, I'm afraid you have to discuss it with the Secretary of the Ministry of Officials first."

"You mean Yu Tan?" Xu Youxi pondered for a while, "Now that the Beijing inspection has not yet ended, Shangshu Yu may not be able to come out. However, I remember that there is a man named Su Huaihe in the official department, who is very capable. I ordered him to represent the official The Ministry will assist you with your work and study."

Rong Yingran hesitated and reminded: "Your Majesty...Su Huaihe is still working with Liu Jiye on the "Ganbao", so I'm afraid it will be difficult to get out."

"Su Huaihe also participated in Gan Bao?" Xu Youxi really didn't notice, "What about the two ministers of the Ministry of Officials?"

"Your Majesty, the servants on the left and right of the Ministry of Officials are recognized by the whole court as difficult to communicate with." Rong Yingran had a helpless face.

"Then I can only work hard on Yu Shangshu. I will ask the Supervisor of Rites to draw up an order to inform him about this later."

"I thank you, Your Majesty."

"If you have nothing else to do, just leave."

"Your Majesty, the funds..."

"I know."

After Rong Yingran left, Xu Youxi ordered the Supervisor of Rites to draft an order.

After the memorials were all approved, Xu Youxi emptied the imperial study room, and started to visit the system mall.

【Cash making machine: It can be customized according to the needs, and can print a large number of banknotes.Price: 9.9w prestige value/unit]

Xu Youxi plans to start issuing banknotes in the next year, which is also an inevitable trend of social progress.But the biggest problem is that the founding emperor of Daqian did the same thing, even prohibiting private gold and silver transactions, and only allowed the extreme behavior of paper money.

But the effect of the banknotes was very bad. First of all, the quality of the banknotes issued by the imperial court was very poor.Moreover, the imperial court did not limit the number of banknotes printed at all, which led to a serious depreciation of the banknotes in the later period. At that time, the people did not even recognize the banknotes.

Until a few years later, paper money was finally abolished by the successor emperor, and silver and copper plates became the common currency again.

Xu Youxi clicked on the [Money Making Machine], and found that in order to use this prop, a large amount of basic materials such as cotton and linen must be put into the machine, and the pattern and position of the watermark must be set in advance.

The next step is to design the pattern on the surface of the banknote, and finally use the gravure printing method to print the front and back of the banknote separately.

The second is to dry, print the banknote batch number one by one, and make anti-counterfeiting marks.

Finally, crop and check the quality.

All these processes are automatically completed by machines, and Xu Youxi only needs to arrange suitable people to take care of them.

This is indeed a good thing!
Xu Youxi was tired from sitting, so he got up and walked around the palace. The 【Money Making Machine】needs a large area to be placed, and the ordinary palaces in the palace basically cannot fit it.

Zhou Huixue and the other eunuchs followed Xu Youxi closely.

But if this machine is placed directly in the yard, it will inevitably be exposed to wind and rain.

Just when Xu Youxi was about to give up and build a banknote printing factory directly, she discovered the semi-finished two-story palace built by Emperor Chongjiu in an unknown year.

"Zhou Yuxue, what does this room do?"

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