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As for how to compile the textbooks, Lin Fan can completely copy the textbooks from the school founded in the Dalong Kingdom from the system.

As for teachers, Chinese is all pediatrics for those talented people, and mathematics is also the mathematics of primary school, so it is not difficult for those talented people.

As for chemistry, this is more difficult, so Lin Fan plans to open the main areas of major cities now, and the teachers in the school will be trained from Sihai Academy.

Now, Sihai Academy has twenty-three students, which means that students from twenty-three cities can teach them to learn chemistry.

Of course, Lin Fan didn't plan to add chemistry to the subjects of the academy now. He planned to promote it in three years. By then, all the students of Sihai Academy will graduate.

"This! Lord Wenwu Hou, isn't it too much to enjoy the same salary as the ninth-rank official? You know, my talented man from the Tang Dynasty worked hard to get fame and honor just to become an official or to eat a bite of imperial grain?"

An official said.

"Actually, Lord Wuhou is right. It is okay to pay the ninth-rank officials of talented people. After all, both men and women in the academy can enter school. If there are more students, the tuition fees will be charged!"

"Yes! If there are many students, the annual income of a school will be as high as 1,000 taels of silver. It is not impossible to give the teacher a salary of 100 taels of silver."

The officials said.

Lin Fan said in a deep voice: "The academy is free, and there are two teachers in each academy at the beginning. Moreover, you must not only learn Chinese, but also learn mathematics!"

“What is mathematics?”

An official asked.

"Mathematics is arithmetic."

Lin Fan said in a deep voice.

"Haha! Lord Wuhou, what you said is interesting. Do you still need to learn how to calculate?

Can ordinary people still simply calculate the numbers?"

"Yes! Do you still need to learn arithmetic?

Only some lunatics will work hard to study arithmetic. I remember someone calls arithmetic divination!”

"Yes! There are people like this who divine astrology, and they say they can divine the alternation of the sun and the moon, and they also say they can divine good and bad luck!"

"Mr. Wuhou, I didn't expect you to think that arithmetic needs to be learned, haha!"

The officials all laughed.

Lin Fan said in a deep voice: "No wonder, the amount of taxes collected in my Tang Dynasty is so different every year. You guys are afraid you can't even read the account books."

"This... Lord Wuhou, who can't read the account book, anyone who knows how to read it!"

An official said.

“You sure you can watch it?

So, why can’t you see if someone makes fake accounts?”

Lin Fan asked back.

"This... Lord Wuhou, since we are making fake accounts, we naturally cannot see it. Unless we stand in their shops every day and see how their daily business is, we can know that they have made fake accounts!"

"Yes, you can't see this. Lord Wuhou, don't make things difficult for us!"

The officials said.

Lin Fan sneered and said, "Are you sure you can't see this fake account?

What if I say fake accounts are easy to see?”

"You don't know the most basic mathematics, so you can't see it. For example, a store and a month's income are basically the same."

“But, a month suddenly becomes very rare, won’t you check carefully if there is any problem?

Also, people who make fake accounts have a habit, that is, numbers will be used the same."

"In other words, as long as the monthly income figures are not much different, it is likely to be a fake account. Also, if the quantity of each item sold every day is similar, there will be a big problem!"

"For example, if a thing like alcohol is sold for 100 kilograms a day, it will be 100 kilograms a day. I think a fool knows that this may be a fake account!"

"Mathematics is what you learn, and I will ask you another question, what is a hundred times the amount of one hundred?"

Lin Fan asked.

"One hundred times more?

this……"

"It's ten thousand!"

The officials hesitated for a long time, and an official answered.

Lin Fan said in a deep voice: "One hundred times one hundred, that is ten thousand. As long as this school is opened, I guarantee that children aged seven or eight can answer such questions in an instant."

"Mathematics includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc. As long as you learn these, and cultivate these children into talents and recruit them into the court, the false accounts made by those merchants will naturally be unable to hide them!"

hiss!

After Lin Fan said that, all the officials present were shocked. Unexpectedly, the deeper mathematics had such wonderful uses. They did not dare to mention the theory of uselessness of mathematics.

However, if the academy is free, wouldn’t the teacher’s salary be paid to the court?

"Mr. Wuhou, we all agree with what you said. However, if this academy does not charge tuition fees, will all the salaries be paid by my Tang Dynasty court?"

An official asked.

Lin Fan pondered for a moment and said, "The main reason why the academy is free is that there are too many people in my Tang Dynasty who cannot afford this tuition fee!"

"However, after you said this, I reminded me that it is better to do this. Children from major cities need to pay tuition fees to go to school!"

"When people in remote areas learn for free, we are responsible for providing them with paper."

Lin Fan said.

"This! Lord Wuhou, you don't know how expensive paper is!"

The officials hurriedly advised.

"The lowest-quality rice paper also costs ten cents per piece. A student has to use at least two pieces a day, which is twenty cents!"

"No! This cannot be consumed!"

The officials hurriedly said.

Lin Fan smiled and said, "I have a way to use straw to make paper, and straw is the stem of wheat. This is for the people to burn fire!"

"As long as our court allows the children to study for free, and then let the people contribute the straw, I believe they will agree."

Forehead……

The officials were stunned and looked at Lin Fan and asked, "Mr. Wuhou, can straw be used as paper?"

"This is natural. Before the paper was made, people could only write bamboo slips and sheepskin. At that time, there were even fewer literati and poets because they could not afford bamboo slips and sheepskin!"

"Later, rice paper appeared, and then there were suddenly more scholars and poets, because paper was much cheaper than bamboo slips and sheepskin!"

"Now, I have invented straw paper. Not to mention ten cents per piece, it can be made hundreds of pieces per piece. I believe that more and more people are willing to learn words."

Lin Fan said with a smile.

"This! Lord Wuhou, if it is really as you said, then the prospects for this straw paper are great. We can make a fortune by selling it for a penny!"

Officials said one after another.
Chapter completed!