The Regent's Burden in the Ming Dynasty Chapter 170

The feasible way to break the scholar-official class’s monopoly on knowledge is to popularize education.

But Lao Zhu has been doing this, but with little success.

In this era, studying is a very expensive thing and it is not affordable for ordinary people.

In the second year of Hongwu, when the country was just beginning to settle down, Frederick Zhu summoned relevant officials and proposed that "the establishment of schools is the top priority of the country."

Subsequently, the entire Ming Dynasty's state machinery quickly started to move, investing a large amount of manpower, material resources and financial resources to build schools.