Chapter 496

"Eat, eat."

Subsequently, Jia Hui, who consumed a lot of physical strength.

Had lunch at home.

Just eating.

Qin Keqing and these warblers and swallows.

Chattering, laughing, and returning.

Li Wan and others.

And Yuanniang, Xiang Yizhen, Concubine Wen, Concubine Qin, the four beauties all came to be guests together.

Jia Hui smiled and said: "Just in time, it's noon, let's have a simple meal together."

His was a customized super large round table for thirty-two people.

Count the number of people.

Jia Hui and his dozen concubines, a total of thirteen people.

Li Wan and the four, Yuanniang and the four.

Twenty-one.

There were still eleven seats.

Therefore, it was more than enough.

"......"

"Thank you, Wushuang Bo."

Yuanniang and the other women thanked Jia Hui one after another.

Subsequently, Qin Keqing and the women sat around Jia Hui in a circle.

Liu Saozi kept sending food over there.

The manpower was sufficient, so there was no panic, no need to wait.

After taking their seats.

Jia Hui noticed that Li Wan and Concubine Wen were both radiant and looked extremely happy.

Yuanniang looked sad.

Seeing this, Jia Hui immediately knew what was going on.

Knew that someone had failed the selection.

Sure enough.

Before the dining table, Li Wan and Concubine Wen excitedly said to Jia Hui one after another: "Marquis, our sons have passed the entrance exam... Thank you, Marquis, for this precious opportunity for my son!"

Then Qin Keqing, who was sitting on Jia Hui's right hand.

She leaned over.

Whispered a word in Jia Hui's ear.

In fact, the content was very simple.

That is, the entrance gifts from both sides were very generous.

Jia Hui's school.

It is free for the Wushuang Bo Prefecture's own people.

Including Qin Zhong, the brother-in-law.

Other outsiders have to pay.

And the tuition is very high.

It belongs to a proper noble school, and commoners cannot afford to read it at all.

The current school is divided into two major systems.

One is official school, and the other is private school.

"Book of Rites" says: "Xiang has Xiang, Zhou has Xu, Dang has Xiao, Lu has Shu."

Xiang, Xu, Xiao, and Shu are the names of local schools of all levels in ancient times.

Official schools are free.

Specifically, the imperial court allocates a certain amount of land to the school or the school purchases a certain amount of land by itself, as the fixed assets of the school and rents it to nearby farmers for cultivation, and the income obtained can be used as the expenses of the official school.

However, official schools will also accept some self-funded students.

Formal students are directly selected and enrolled by the imperial court, belonging to public-funded students, and the government also issues salaries; special students are selected and sent to the Imperial Academy by the local government, belonging to self-funded students, although they do not need to pay tuition, but food and accommodation expenses need to be taken care of by themselves.

Therefore, some poor children in the Imperial Academy need to work as small workers while studying.

And the situation of private schools is.

The cost of a student reading in an ordinary private school is generally 80 to 120 catties of wheat per year.

This quantity is enough for the output of half a mu of land at that time.

Currently, an average middle-class self-cultivating farmer's family in Daqian can have about 5 mu of land.

Calculated this way, a student's schooling cost accounts for about one-tenth of the family's annual income.

It is a price that can still be borne.

However, this is an ordinary private school.

There are ordinary ones, naturally there are extraordinary ones.

Jia Hui's kind belongs to 3 taels of silver a month!

Over a year.

It takes 36 taels of silver!

It is more than three times the annual income of an ordinary family!

Even if you save money, you may not be able to pay the tuition of Jia Hui's Wushuang School for a year in ten years.

This does not include accommodation fees.

And other miscellaneous expenses such as labor costs, cafeteria, etc.

It takes tens of taels of silver a year.

However, Jia Hui's school is expensive for a reason.

After all, there is currently one scholar and five elementary students teaching.

And this is because the time is too short.

So it is impossible to recruit sufficient manpower.

More elite teaching in the future is inevitable.

Not to mention that there is a top great Confucian like Cai Yong!

So a student costs tens of taels of silver a year.

It really can't be said to be expensive.

Of course, it's not cheap either.

This standard absolutely belongs to the top private schools in Daqian.

For this money.

Li Wan and Concubine Wen have no pressure.

And feel that this is not enough.

So they want to give Jia Hui an extra sum of money as an entrance gift.

However, after Jia Hui finished listening.

Immediately refused: "¨｀ Our school will charge uniformly and standardize in the future, and will not give anyone preferential treatment, nor will there be any differential treatment."

It is not that Jia Hui is high-minded.

He has received no less black money and bribes.

He received 100,000 taels, 100,000 taels!

He believes that a school should still ensure basic fairness and justice.

The teaching environment is very important.