Simply too much.
" What do you know huh? What do you know?" He roared after he was done thinking things through as he turned to look at the villagers and shouted quite angrily. " Do any of you have a son? You don't. You all have given birth to money-losing mers and don't know how hard it is for us to raise a son, the academy is a place where a tael or two is burned in seconds, what do you think that I have a lot of money? No matter how much money I have it will still be burned up in seconds, do you have any idea how much a brush costs and a fine paper costs? The brush itself costs more than two hundred coins and the fine paper can go up to five hundred copper coins depending on what kind of paper you want, it's not me who is being a miser but I am thinking of the future, in cases, Yu Cheng passes the junior scholarly exams then our village will have a junior scholar."