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Li Yin got up, washed, casually smoothed her hair, and went out to look for food.

The little brat is eating his father out of house and house. This actually also applies to girls. They are in the period of growing up, so how can they not eat?

Li Shimin and others were eating in the cafeteria when they saw Li Yin floating in like a wandering soul, with red marks on her face.

The people in the village are no longer surprised.

"Sister-in-law!" Li Shimin looked at Li Yin's sloppy appearance and wanted to blame her, just like he always gave his own boys a cold face.

Empress Changsun pinched him.

Erlang just loves to teach people a lesson. Look at how much pressure her Cheng Qian is under. He won’t listen no matter what she says, and now he wants to harm his sister!

"Sister! Are you hungry?" Empress Changsun stood up and pulled Li Yin, and brought her to the table while she was confused.

"Sister-in-law? Brother!" Li Yin woke up.

"Hey, why are you all here?"

"Eat first, and talk after you finish." Empress Changsun placed clean bowls and chopsticks in front of Li Yin. The food on their table had just been served and there was enough for them.

Li Yin took the chopsticks, thanked Empress Changsun, bowed to the people around her, and then started eating frantically.

Li Shimin took a look and ate his meal quickly.

Then Fang Xuanling, Wei Zheng and others followed closely behind. Only Empress Changsun continued to eat slowly. She had just eaten a lot of snacks and was not very hungry.

"..." Yan Shigu felt powerful without knowing why.

Then started eating quickly.

Everyone devoured the food quickly and finished their meal and closed the stall.

Then snacks and tea were served.

"Brother, I have some good news to tell you."

"But what about the glass?"

"It's not just glass." Li Yin shook her head: "Sister Xiaochun wrote to me yesterday, saying that she had met Qu Wentai and would be back soon!"

"Has the wool issue been resolved?" Li Shimin was also happy.

Now that the wool problem has been solved, people can have a good year this winter.

"Not only has the problem been solved, but we have also gained a lot!" Li Yin said, glancing at Yan Shigu.

The old man looked familiar, but she couldn't remember who he was.

Except for Li Jing, she had met all the people with status in the court, but she had no impression of this person.

"Sister, this is Yan Shigu, also known as Yan Shaojian." Li Shimin said.

Li Yin suddenly understood and bowed: "My daughter Li Yin greets Junior Supervisor Yan."

Yan Shigu said nothing, but bowed in return.

Li Yin knew it at a glance.

Well, this old man looks up to people of high status and prominent family background, but he looks down on her who comes from a humble family!

Suddenly crying.

Then she deliberately asked, "Has Yan Shaojian learned pinyin?"

"…I have never learned it." Yan Shigu thought to himself. He had never even looked at that thing.

"Ah... Pinyin is indeed a bit difficult."

Li Yin shook her head and sighed, "It's hard for Young Master Yan. It's really not easy to suddenly change the thinking of a man who is full of knowledge. He is not like a three-year-old child who is as blank as a piece of paper, nor is he like a country boy who has never learned the meaning of the classics."

"..."Everyone looked at Yan Shigu and then at Li Yin.

This insult is too dirty. How can Old Yan bear it?

"You, you..." Yan Shigu looked at Li Shimin and swallowed the curse in his throat.

"What kind of pinyin is this? In my opinion, it is nothing but a side path! I have studied for decades and now I am already in my forties. How can I let this crooked way shake my true nature and forget the teachings of my ancestors, which is a disgrace to the Yan family!"

Li Shimin was about to lose his temper when Li Yin stopped him.

The old man Yan Shigu is quite capable, but of course he also has a bit of a temper.

Isn't it just a debate?

Leave it there and call her over!

Li Yin drank tea, very calmly: "Since Pinyin is a crooked way, then according to Yan Shaojian's opinion, how can we quickly educate the people?"

Yan Shigu was sulking. Li Yin looked so arrogant that it looked like she was easy to bully.

"The best way to educate the people is to hold more imperial examinations, vigorously support academies in recruiting talents, and increase the number of admissions. With more students, more students can be taught. With more students admitted, it will be easier for poor students to succeed."

"What about the people?" Li Yin looked at Yan Shigu quietly.

"Master Li's idea is too unrealistic. If all the people go to school, who will farm? Who will fish? Who will build houses?" Yan Shigu asked in return.

At that time, people were not even allowed to change their nationality at will. For example, the children of a craftsman would probably have to become a craftsman in the future.

This move is to prevent everyone from becoming craftsmen, which would result in a shortage of craftsmen available in the country in the future.

"Yan Shaojian, I have heard of a phrase called 'a family of farmers and readers'. People do not have to farm all year round. There is always a slack season. Isn't it wonderful that people can read agricultural books and learn principles during the slack season? Besides, farming, fishing, and building houses are all ways to fill their stomachs. How can people just give them up so easily?"

Yan Shigu disagreed: "Master Li only sees the good side. If one out of ten people stop farming, the impact will be small, but if one hundred out of a thousand people give up farming, the impact will be huge."

In Li Yin's view, this is speculative sophistry.

"Has Young Supervisor Yan ever come into contact with the common people?"

"How do we calculate the number of people who can make up one out of ten for Yan Shaojian?"

"Does Yan Shaojian know what a meal is to the common people?"

"According to what Yan Shaojian said, I can guarantee that there is not even one person among the people who dares to abandon their food to study all day. According to the population ratio of the Tang Dynasty, there are only a few thousand more scholars. The grain cultivated by these thousand people can be grown by raising dozens of cows in Zhuangzi. What impact will it have on the entire country?"

"Master Li's claim of 10,000 people going out is totally groundless!"

"What is the basis for Yan Shaojian to select one out of ten people?"

Yan Shigu heard this and was confident: "Everything is inferior except reading. If there is a chance to study, how could those people not seize it?"

"You've never been hungry, have you?" Li Yin smiled. "Does Yan Shaojian know that people far away from the capital only eat one meal at noon?"

"Before Li became the owner of the manor, the tenants in the manor only had two meals a day, and they would fetch water to fill their stomachs at night when they were hungry."

"This is the case even for tenant farmers in the village, let alone remote areas. For ordinary people, the prerequisite for studying is to have enough food. If there is no job to make money, no one will choose to study."

"I don't agree with what Master Li said! Those poor students had to endure hunger and starvation to study for the imperial examinations. Isn't their life hard?"

"In Li's opinion, they never lacked food."

"Why don't you tell me, Mr. Li, how many civilians die of starvation every year? How many scholars die of starvation?"

The ancient people were extremely tolerant of scholars. A poor student who was starving would never starve to death as long as he put aside his dignity and begged for food, visited his fellow villagers, or asked for help from his elders and old friends.

It's just that their family is in decline, which doesn't mean that all their ancestors and old friends have died.

Even ordinary families were willing to give some food to scholars.

Yan Shigu opened his mouth. It seemed that he had never heard of a scholar starving to death...

"Scholars and laymen are different!"

He refused to accept the suggestion: "I once had a few conversations with Baiding. His thoughts and words were foolish, his behavior was despicable, and he was hopeless. He was even worse than those students from poor families. He, they asked me for money to guide them through the road, and even stole my brocade robe!"