The strongest Marquis in history

Wang Qi said: "Teacher, it's okay to say."

Cui Dongshan said with a little resentment: "Your Majesty, Lin Yuanchong has already retired, and someone will replace him. Please see, Your Majesty, whether someone will be arranged to replace the old man! The position of Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment should be handed over to younger People with energy are in charge."

Wang Qidao: "Teacher, the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were slaughtered by Zhao Qian, and then the remaining officials were coerced by Zhao Qian to leave. Although some officials remained, their official positions were too low."

"The courtiers are seriously insufficient now."

"You have to work harder, so why don't you just work for another year or two. As you have seen, the imperial examination is being promoted little by little. As long as the imperial examination is widely spread and there are enough personnel."

"Then I will not stop you from resigning."

Cui Dongshan said: "Forget it, I will obey the arrangement."

After a pause, Cui Dongshan said: "Actually, I have one more thing to do."

Wang Qi said: "What is it?"

Cui Dongshan said in a deep voice: "When it comes to widening the imperial examinations, generally speaking, more people need to be able to read and write. Only in this way can more people have the opportunity."

"The promotion of printing technology has made more books, printing books is easier, and reading is relatively easier. But there are not many local academies. When I was in Qi State, I was also doing this thing."

"However, it has never been pushed forward. After all, the financial, material and human resources involved are beyond our capabilities, and it is not easy to complete."

"So this matter, the veteran thinks that it is still necessary to take care of it and be responsible for it. The Guozijian needs to be re-established. In the previous state of Qi, the Ministry of Rites was established, and the Guozijian was also established, but the power of the Guozijian is not enough to arrange this matter. .”

"Now, I think that the status of Guozijian can be improved, and it is in charge of building the academy alongside the first department. There are too many illiterate people in the world, and more people must be literate."

Cui Dongshan said: "Only in this way can more people come out."

Wang Qi nodded and said: "The teacher's concern is indeed important. It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Education is a century-old event, and it is related to the long-term security of Qi. I will arrange this matter immediately."

Immediately, Wang Qi arranged for someone to notify the son of the state to sacrifice wine to Du Can.

Under Wang Qi's command, he has a certain influence, and his influence is relatively good among scholars.It's just that compared with Zhu Shanchang, Zhugefeng, Zhou Zishan and others, the sense of presence is not so strong.

After all, in terms of education, it didn't play much role in the war.

After entering, Du Can stood still and said, "My minister Du Can, I pay my respects to Your Majesty."

Wang Qi nodded and said: "Du Can, I invite you here today to promote the construction of academies in various places and to teach children to study. This matter must be promoted nationwide. Even every township under the county must There must be academies to ensure that children can read, start reading from a young age, a little bit of literacy, and everyone must be literate. Can you complete this matter?"

After hearing this, Du Can's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "I promise to complete the task."

This is a big deal.

If it can be completed and pushed forward, it will be a great event that opened up the world, and even his Guozijian sacrificial wine will be famous forever. After all, such a thing is beneficial to thousands of families.

After Du Can finished speaking, he said, "Your Majesty, I have another worry."

Wang Qi said: "Say!"

Du Can said in a deep voice: "First, it involves educating children in all localities and persuading them to study. These things are fine, after all, they can be arranged."

"It's just related to the local area. We need to build schools and find teachers to preach and teach. These are not simple things that can be done. It takes a lot of money to make proper arrangements."

"If you don't have enough money, you can't advance at all!"

"After all, the people in the local area have just been able to eat and clothe themselves warmly, so many people may not be willing to study. Moreover, the local area may not have the money to support the education of children."

Du Can said, "Financial issues are not trivial matters."

Cui Dongshan took the words and said: "This is the task of each state, county, and county. If it is not completed well, then it will be held accountable. If the task is suppressed, there will naturally be a way."

"It's all prevarication if you talk about money and so on. Don't give any loose conditions, because if it's loose now, it's easy to prevaricate, just implement it directly."

"The State of Qi has been established for many years, but the consensus has not been implemented. Although there is a Nanyang Academy, it is only this one, and many other places have not been run well at all."

"Now, it's a direct arrangement."

Cui Dongshan said: "Your Majesty, this is the old minister's suggestion. Don't procrastinate in the arrangement, just implement the order. Anyway, if you can't do it well, you can be dismissed. It's very simple."

Du Can heard it brilliantly.

As expected of Cui Dongshan.

Really domineering!

As expected of His Majesty's teacher, I really dare to say it, and if these words are really spread, there are probably countless people in the world who will scold Cui Dongshan behind his back.

Because it is not easy to suppress this order.

Wang Qi nodded and said: "Du Can, just follow what the teacher said, but for the specific arrangement, you carefully draw up the rules and come up, and then arrange this matter after the six ministers discuss it. It can't be an order without detailed rules for implementation. Furthermore, to advance is to advance one by one, from the state level, then to the county level, and then to the county level, step by step."

"Yes!"

Du Can nodded and responded.

Cui Dongshan showed a smile on his face, and said: "Du Jijiu, if you need any help, you can find the old man. Although this matter belongs to the Imperial College, everyone is responsible."

Du Can said gratefully, "Thank you, Cui Shangshu!"

The two took the initiative to say goodbye.

Wang Qi heaved a sigh of relief. After all, at the moment, the imperial examination and academy affairs are all arranged.However, neither of these two things can be accomplished easily, because literacy cannot be accomplished in a short period of time, and it will take generations to complete slowly.

Moreover, the matter of academy education must be adjusted and changed little by little according to the adjustment of national strength.

Wang Qi put away his thoughts and continued to deal with government affairs.

Now that the whole country is in a game of chess, there are too many things to deal with.When Wang Qi was handling government affairs, an eunuch entered and reported, "Your Majesty, Li Yannian is asking to see you."

Li Yannian is now working in the Ministry of Officials, as a member of the Ministry of Officials, Wailang, a sixth-rank official.As far as the Ministry of Officials is concerned, although the official position is not high, Uiro, a member of the Ministry of Officials, is also an official with real power and can experience himself.

Wang Qi ordered: "Pass!"

The eunuch went to deliver the order, not long after, Li Yannian hurried in, he stood still and said: "My subject, Li Yannian, pay my respects to Your Majesty."

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Wang Qi said: "What's the matter?"

Li Yannian reported: "Your Majesty, there is a letter from grandfather, please read it."

He took out the letter from his sleeve and held it in his hand.The eunuch took it and put it on the desk in front of Wang Qi.

After Wang Qi took it apart, he browsed quickly.After Wang Qi finished reading, the expression on his face gradually turned serious.Because of the content of the letter, on the one hand, it involves the death of Emperor Zhao Gan by Cao Xuan, who directly replaced him and established the State of Wei.On the other hand, there was a businessman from the Haixi Empire who sold rifles to Cao Xuan.

In Li Hongzhong's letter, he described the lethality of the rifle, saying that the rifle was extremely powerful.As for more, Li Hongzhong didn't know too much, he just gave a general description.

After Wang Qi finished reading, his expression became completely cold.

rifle!

The Hercynian Empire had such a cold weapon.

You know, Wang Qi is Hadmon, a businessman from the Hercynian Empire.At that time, Hardmond never revealed any rifles or any cold weapons, but now the Hercynian Empire has weapons.

What Wang Qi was thinking about was not Cao Xuan's cold weapon.Because in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even the current Great Qi State, as well as Cao Xuan's Wei State, there is no such industrial foundation at all.

In a short period of time, it is impossible to manufacture rifles, so even if Cao Xuan has rifles, they are not continuous, they are consumables, and once they are used up, they will be gone.

Perhaps now in Qi State, landmines, gunpowder, etc. can be manufactured, but the manufacture of rifles, such sophisticated devices, cannot be completed in a short while, and it takes enough time for industrialization to be manufactured.

But the Hercynian Empire exists.

If the Haixi Empire sends troops to attack, can the Qi State where he is located be able to resist?

Of course, Wang Qi is not afraid for the time being, because Qi has enough strategic depth and enough elites.Especially in the case of invasion by foreign enemies, Qi's homeland operations are sufficient to resist everything.

It's just that this kind of resistance is what Wang Qi doesn't want to see, because the casualties are bound to be huge.

Li Yannian saw that Wang Qi was silent, and said, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

Wang Qi said, "Let's have a look."

Li Yannian stepped forward and took the letter over to read it.

He thought for a while after reading it, and said, "Your Majesty, Zhao Qian's death is actually not a bad thing, because the Great Zhou was completely destroyed, and our country of Qi is justified. It's logical."

"At the moment, it's a good thing."

"As for the so-called rifle, the so-called ease of killing the enemy from a distance of two hundred paces is probably an exaggeration. I don't believe that there is such a weapon in this world."

Li Yannian said: "Especially the weapons of the Hercynian Empire, which is surprising and seems unlikely."

Wang Qidao: "There is nothing impossible in this regard. This weapon does exist, and its lethality is extremely powerful. Once on the marching road, such a force occupies a high ground, and with the firepower of rifles, it is enough to prevent the passage of local troops. If you want to break through, you have to accumulate human lives. This weapon is extremely terrifying, and even a grand master may not be able to block it."

brush!

After hearing this, Li Yannian's expression also changed slightly.

This is not good!

Li Yannian said: "According to what was written in the grandfather's letter, Cao Xuan also bought it for the time being. Because Cao Xuan did not make it himself, we will not be able to get the rifle in a short time. That is to say, we cannot imitate it."

Wang Qi shook his head and said, "Cao Xuan is also irreproducible today. Such a weapon requires sufficient industrial development, and it cannot be completed overnight."

Li Yannian said: "That's not bad."

Wang Qidao: "Li Yannian, are you still used to being in the Ministry of Officials?"

"Habits are also very fulfilling."

Li Yannian also had a smile on his face.

He was originally from a family of officials and eunuchs, so he was very familiar with the affairs of the officialdom.

Just like this, he directly became an official and became a sixth-rank official in the Ministry of Officials, so he could be competent.It is simply impossible for someone else to work directly in the official department without understanding the affairs of the officialdom.

Wang Qidao: "Keep in touch with your grandfather, and do a good job in advance. The Li family's hairpin family and generations of princes are all capable people. I believe that your future will not be bad."

Li Yannian said: "I will bear in mind your Majesty's instruction!"

He bowed again and got up to leave.

Wang Qiku sat in the hall, but his expression became more and more serious.In any case, with the emergence of hot weapons now, fighting on the battlefield will be different.

Martial arts masters are powerful, but martial arts masters are also afraid of bullets.If the Hercynian Empire still had cannons, the situation would be even more complicated. Even with rifles, there should be cannons.

The problem is that if a primitive farming empire wants to directly industrialize and develop guns, it will not be able to do so in a short period of time.

Even in Nanyang Academy, Wang Qi gave many industrial equipment manufacturing books, and also gave some forging books to the Ministry of Industry, the progress of these is not fast, it is still relatively slow.

This is the difficulty of industrialization.

If you want to make guns, you don’t have enough foundation for development. Unless you can get the basic equipment and imitate them by borrowing ideas, it will be difficult to develop, and you can only manufacture some of the most basic ones.

Wang Qi pondered in his heart, he knew that under the current situation, Qi State had to respond.At least, there must be certain weapons to resist.If there is no weapon that can resist it, the next step will be a duel between hot weapons and cold weapons, and the war will be very troublesome.

Wang Qi thought carefully, and it was the analyst's consideration of the current situation.

Do you want to attack Shu?

Do you want to attack Cao Xuan immediately?

Is this what he needs to think carefully about right now?

When Wang Qi was thinking, he originally wanted to inform Zhou Zishan to come to discuss the matter, but Zhou Zishan is currently in charge of the imperial examination and is extremely busy, so he cannot be distracted in a short time.

External attack is important, but internal governance is also important.After Qi was established, to some extent, internal governance was more important than external expansion.

This is fundamental.

After thinking about it for a while, Wang Qi ordered someone to notify Zhuge Feng to come.

Zhuge Feng, as Minister of the Ministry of War, was originally in charge of this aspect.Not long after, Zhuge Feng entered, bowed to Wang Qi, and said, "Your Majesty!"

Wang Qidao: "Brother, I'm here to discuss an important matter with you. Come on, take a look at this letter first, and pay attention to the content of the letter."

The eunuch at the side handed the letter to Zhuge Feng, and after he read it quickly, his complexion changed slightly.

Zhuge Feng said: "Your Majesty, is the news in the letter really true?"

Wang Qi said: "Of course it is true."

Zhuge Feng said: "If the news is true, then the Hercynian Empire is extremely terrifying. At least once a large-scale battle occurs, we will not be able to stop it. The Qi State has just been established, with Cao Xuan in the west and Shu State in the southwest. Especially the Xiongnu and Xianbei are still here. Now, the Wa country is also eyeing it. The current Qi country cannot withstand the storm."

Wang Qidao: "That's exactly the case, so I invited my brother to discuss it. Because this is a big matter, once the news comes out, it will at least have an impact on the Qi Nationality, so for the time being, it has not been announced."

Zhuge Feng thought deeply, and he said: "Your Majesty, in the current situation, I think that we should ignore Cao Xuan for the time being, after all, it is not easy to deal with Cao Xuan."

"Our goal is to destroy the Kingdom of Shu first, and then attack Cao Xuan's weapon."

"Cao Xuan got the so-called rifle weapon. In a short period of time, his strength has indeed increased greatly. But even if he strengthens, because the weapon is purchased, it is impossible to use it all the time, and it will be used less."