Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 960 - 960 961 Moving Out of Prince Yis Mansion

?Chapter 960: Chapter 961 Moving Out of Prince Yi’s Mansion Chapter 960: Chapter 961 Moving Out of Prince Yi’s Mansion “And when they go to the town to work, sometimes those heartless people see they can’t read and trick them into pressing their fingerprints on documents, causing them to work for nothing, not getting a single copper coin,”
“They actually want to learn to read too, but their families are so poor they simply can’t afford schooling, so they continue to be completely illiterate.”

Emperor of Xiyun sighed, “Jingjing, I have pondered over this issue as well, but it’s difficult to implement. Although the national treasury is currently full, all the silver is being used for things even more important and urgent than this, such as preparing for natural disasters, war, manufacturing weapons—there are so many things, I couldn’t even finish telling you right now. We truly don’t have spare Silver Coin to run a school that doesn’t charge fees.”

An Jing immediately fell silent. She also knew that matters had to be prioritized, and here they relied on the whims of nature for sustenance; if a natural disaster struck one day, a large sum would need to be allocated for relief efforts. The funds in the national treasury really couldn’t be mishandled.

You should know, running a school not only requires building the schoolhouses but also hiring teachers to educate students. If it’s free of charge, a couple of cases may be manageable, but once several schools are established, it would indeed be a significant burden on the national treasury.