Gao Di finally counted the total number of orphans of appropriate age exceeding 20,000.

This is a huge number.

But no matter how huge it is, it cannot stop the emperor's words. According to the number of orphans in various places, compulsory education primary schools established under the school district system were established one after another.

There is no need to be too high in specifications. A small courtyard, a tutor, a cook, and an old woman who cooks. Those orphans go to the school to read some enlightenment materials. Anyway, they just need to solve their literacy problem. They teach them casually, and they don’t require them to write eight-legged essays. Then they can take care of their meal at noon and eat at home in the morning and evening. Such a school can’t cost a lot of money, and it’s enough to have two or three hundred taels of silver a year. Now a private school teacher basically only has an annual salary of about fifty taels, and all schools will definitely not exceed 200,000 taels of silver a year.

This is really not much money.

Last year, Yang Feng sold more than 200,000 taels of small alarm clocks among the southern gentry. Xiaoqian copied a truck that distributed goods and brought him several boxes of mechanical alarm clocks. Now, this round and cartoon-style small alarm clock has long become the favorite of southern gentry. Even in Nanyang, Japan and other places, it was solemnly placed in the palaces of the monarchs. Of course, it also brought Yang Feng a dividend of hundreds of thousands of taels. This is just a kind of thing, and there are still a lot of good things that are making money from various countries.

So hundreds of thousands of taels a year are really not worth mentioning to the emperor.

But the gains are huge.

Not to mention anything else, it is worth it to improve the courage of those soldiers on the battlefield.

When they think that their death in battle can bring their children to become disciples of the emperor, who will be afraid of death?

As for the boys between the ages of twelve and sixteen, the total number was more than 3,000. They were all taken to Shanhaiguan. Then Yang Feng ordered the vacancy of Weiyuan City and changed the original fortress into a school. Four teams A, B, C and D were organized according to the literacy situation. Each team was separated by 50 people and one class. The officials took turns to act as teachers to solve the literacy problem of these students. As for those who knew literacy and could even write simple articles, they were all organized into Team A, and His Majesty the Emperor personally was responsible for the education.

"That's just this guy?"

Yang Feng said speechlessly as he looked at the less than thirty young men in front of him.

The gap between three thousand and three hundred and thirty made him very uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty, that's a lot."

Shoufu Li said.

"Most of these soldiers are poor people, and the poor families have no money to support their children and study!"

He then added.

How many people can support their children to study these days? Even if they can afford them, most of them only know a few words. However, there are very few people who can write articles. It is not something that ordinary people can afford to be able to write articles. They can also afford them and will not go to join the army. Most of these teenagers are children from Liaodong. Because of the war, many families went bankrupt, so good families went to join the army.

"If you want to get less, just get up. You should kneel down. Heaven, Earth, Lord, Parents, Teachers, it is your duty to kneel down. But remember, other than that, don't kneel down in the future. Men have gold under their knees. Don't kneel down casually. If you kneel for a long time, you will become cord."

Yang Feng said to his students.

The students thanked with fear and then hesitated for a while, and then carefully found a seat to sit down after his second urging.

"The first lesson I will teach you today is geography."

Yang Feng said.

"Aren't you leaving?"

Then he asked Li Yutian.

"Well, I want to listen to the Hadith."

Shoufu Li stood there and said with a smile.

"Then you just listen!"

Yang Feng said as he put a globe he had been holding in his hand on the table, then casually turned the 1644 version of the globe he had carefully made, and smiled and said to his students: "This is the earth under our feet."

"Your Majesty, is the earth a ball?"

Shoushou Li exclaimed.

"Yes, and the Red Haired Man has already confirmed that more than a hundred years ago, the Red Haired Manchu merchants set out from here and then kept sailing westward. Three years later, their ships returned to their hometown in the East."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Then, won't the people who live below fall down?"

A student plucked up the courage to ask.

"No, the earth will suck him, just like a magnet sucking iron."

"Then he didn't live head-down?"

"Yes, for the earth, all of us are head-down, including at this time, but up and down are only relative. For the earth, we are head-up, but for us, we are head-up, and when everyone step on the ground, a person with head-down is head-down."

"Where is that sky?"

Shoujiao Li said tremblingly.

“It’s all the sky.”

Yang Feng hugged him outside the globe and said.

"Where are the sun, moon and stars?"

"We are the sun, moon, and stars."

"Your Majesty is saying that the sun, moon, stars surround you?"

"No, only the moon surrounds us, and we actually circumvent the sun. As for the stars, it is very complicated. The scoring stars and planets, and this belongs to the category of astronomy knowledge. What I want to talk about today is geography, as for the next class of astronomy. What I need to tell you in this class is where we are, and what I need to tell you are all things on this earth, not outside the earth. Look here, this red dot is Beijing, and Shanhaiguan is here. As for this path, it is actually the Yellow River, and this is the Yangtze River, and Nanjing is the red dot..."

Yang Feng pointed to the globe and started his formal class.

What he wanted was a group of talents who really looked at the world with their eyes open. Of course, they would not hide anything on this issue. And this was not a horrifying thing. Matteo Ricci had been dead for decades, and Kunyu's map of the Wanguo Mausoleum had been in the Ming Dynasty Palace. The scholar-official class had long known that Magellan was sailing around the world. At this time, the Ming Dynasty was not our Qing Dynasty. Some people looked at the world with their eyes open. What's more, there was a saying in ancient China that there was a saying that the sun, moon, stars, etc. Xu Guangqi could use a telescope to observe the solar eclipse. Could it be that he didn't look at the moon a few times? I guess Chang'e and others had been stripped away long ago. If there was this thing, the secret of the sun, moon, and stars could be kept? Kepler had been dead for more than ten years, and Copernicus had been dead for a century.

This is indeed shocking for these children who don’t know anything, but compared to the elites of this era, this is already common sense.

Facing the constantly rotating globe, the first batch of college students of the Ming Dynasty listened to the Hadith eagerly. They knew that the earth was round and most were covered by the ocean. The Ming Dynasty only occupied a very small part on land. The red-haired people they heard were actually Portuguese, but only a small country that was not as big as Shandong Province 20,000 miles away. In addition to the Portuguese, there were also Dutch who occupied Taiwan and Spaniards who occupied Luzon. These all came from the Thai land far west of the Western Regions, and boating tens of thousands of miles was just for money.

As for the Western Regions sandwiched in the middle, they were all occupied by Islamic countries. The strongest of them was the Ottoman, which occupied the entire land of heaven. The Ottoman Emperor had a million soldiers under his command, and his territory was not inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty. Even the countries of Taixi were afraid of their military power.

In the north of the Ming Dynasty, the Beihai area had also been occupied by the people of Rakshasa.

Na Rakshasa was originally a small country, and its territory was not as large as Hebei. It expanded thousands of miles in hundreds of years, and its territory occupied was twice as high as the Ming Dynasty.

To the east of the East China Sea, there is a continent called Yinzhou, which was lived by the Yin people who traveled eastward. It stretched 30,000 miles from north to south, and from east to west. However, the Yin people did not retain Chinese civilization after they traveled east, and it has continued to this day. The countries of Taixi are expanding their land. The Spanish occupying Luzon have occupied almost half of Yinzhou. The Portuguese also owned a large area of ​​land comparable to the Ming Dynasty. Other Englishmen, Dutch, and Frenchmen have expanded their territory in Yinzhou, and tens of millions of Yin people fell under their butcher knives.

"Are the countries of Taixi occupying the entire earth?"

Shoufu Li frowned and said.

"Yes, with their navigation technology, they have spread throughout the earth, destroyed countless countries in the South Ocean, the Western coast, Yinzhou and other places, established countless military strongholds, and plundered the entire world's property and transported it back to their hometowns. The Dutch plundered millions of taels of property in Taiwan every year."

Yang Feng said.

This number immediately aroused a lot of surprise.

"Originally, we could have been the same as them. When Zheng He went to the West, the countries of Taixi had not even found a maritime route to the West. Because there were hundreds of miles of land barriers in the Tianfang area, their fleet had to travel thousands of miles south to bypass the Black Wild Land. But at that time they didn't know that there was this road. It can be said that the entire South and West were dominated by the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, after Zheng He died, due to many internal infighting, we stopped our march towards the West. In the end, the countries of Taixi took advantage of the opportunity to invade countless foreign countries. Luzon, Manlaga, Java and other countless Nanyang foreign countries that surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, have now been destroyed or conquered by the Thais.

After dealing with them, the Thais finally began to point their greedy eyes at the Ming Dynasty.

Taiwan has been occupied by the Dutch. Ten years ago, the imperial court even fought with theirs in the Jinxia area. Although the court finally defeated and expelled it, the combat power of the Dutch warships was far beyond the warships of our Ming Navy. That time it was just their armed merchant ship. If it were their real naval warships, the outcome would be unpredictable. As far as I know, their giant warships could carry hundreds of cannons, and even the castle could be smashed in one round of shooting.

My Ming Dynasty is now also suffering from internal and external troubles, and powerful enemies are surrounded by them!"

Yang Feng said with a sad face.
Chapter completed!