"I'll go see the civil servants and ask them to help me find a solution," Zhao Kuo said.
A group of civil servants on the other side are still working hard.
"Each township needs at least one road to connect the milk factories in various places. Only in this way can milk products be transported to Handan quickly. As a result, the road from Hetao to Handan is a bit narrow, and it needs to be widened at least twice as much. The roads connecting Shangjinyang and Shangdang to Hetao and Handan are barely adequate. In addition, I think that in order to reduce delays on the road, express lanes for dairy products should be set up on the highway and tolls for dairy products should be cancelled."
Li Si is responsible for the development of cattle hair, wool, milk and goat milk in Hetao, as well as transportation issues. Zhao State's roads are already the best in the world, but Li Si found through calculations that a mere trunk line is far from meeting Zhao State's needs.
"In addition to dairy products, tolls should also be abolished for fruits, and fast lanes should be established so that dates from Taiyuan, persimmons from Hebei, pears from Handan, and mulberries from Jixi can be delivered to all parts of Zhao and even other countries. Increase the income of fruit farmers, Let everyone eat fresher fruits. This is the result of my calculation based on statistical data. As long as the fruits can be safely transported to neighboring counties, it will be enough to increase the income of fruit farmers by 50% to double."
Han Fei took out a piece of paper. I don't know when it started. Everyone likes to talk with data.
"That's okay. I will respond to your Majesty." Xunzi nodded, "Is there anything else?"
"The issue of education." Lu Zhonglian took out a stack of paper from under the table and handed it to Xunzi. "Each township builds a junior school. From June to August and October to December every year, all school-age children in the township go to the school to receive basic education."
"In addition, each county builds an intermediate college, and those who pass the examination can enter the intermediate college to study. Finally, each county builds a senior college, which is the same level as Handan College but smaller in scale. Basic education only teaches literacy and arithmetic. Intermediate The academy allows everyone to accept more profound things. The advanced academy, like Handan Academy, teaches various schools of thought."
"Have you ever calculated how much it will cost? Many families may not even be able to afford pens, ink, paper and inkstones," Han Fei said.
"Are we only going to teach them until they are twelve years old?" Gongsun Long said with a frown. This was far from what he had thought before.
"If you can't afford pens, inks, paper and inkstones, you will use tree branches to make pens and the earth to make paper. As long as you want to learn, you can always find a way. No matter how poor they are, can they still be poorer than I was? When I was young, I used to herd cattle for the nobles of Chu State every day. I heard that the gentleman invited by the nobles in the school was teaching their children how to read, so I hid behind the window and eavesdropped. They were writing on the bamboo slips, and I was writing on the ground. Can't I still read?"
Huang Shigong said in a deep voice, "We must take care of everyone as much as possible, but we must also admit that we cannot take care of everyone. Starting from the age of six, learn five words every day for six months every year. Six years is almost Six thousand words, after six years, will be enough to read most books. In addition, we will also teach them arithmetic. After they learn it, it will definitely not be a problem to support themselves as a bookkeeper. And we will build a library in every county If they want, they can study by themselves in the future."
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"Yes, we can't pave all the roads for them. What we have to do is to guide them to the path of studying. But how to go and where they can go depends on themselves. The vast majority of people in the middle will be Eliminated, but their elimination is not meaningless, there will continue to be people who will inherit their will in the future." Xunzi said.
"People are born unequal. They have no right to complain, because complaining is useless. They are lucky. At least they still have this chance, although it is very slim. The real despair is that there is no hope at all. Even if you work hard, there is nothing ahead of you. It’s still pitch black. Just like the rats in the toilet, no matter how hard they try, they can’t surpass the rats in the granary,” Li Si said.
"Any more questions?" Xunzi looked at Lu Zhonglian.
"These are not problems." Lu Zhonglian shook his head. "The main problem is teachers. The venue can be easily solved, teaching materials can also be solved, and funds are not a problem, but where do so many teachers come from?"
In this era, literate scholars were a rarity. To put it bluntly, few of these families were short of money. Who would want to go to a remote country to teach a few snot-nosed children?
"When recruiting scholars across the country, you don't need to be very knowledgeable, as long as you know literacy and arithmetic." Huang Shigong said.
"Even so, we can't recruit so many people." Lu Zhonglian shook his head.
"After teaching for a certain number of years, you will be rewarded with a title." Huang Shigong said.
"A reward for a title? You can't open this door." Han Fei said with a frown.
"It's just a reward for a low-level title. The nobles will look down on it, but the middle and lower classes will cherish this opportunity." Huang Shigong said. With the title as a reward, recruiting enough teachers will not be a problem.
"Just follow Huang Shigong's method." Xunzi nodded.
"Have you finished everything?" Zhao Kuo opened the door and walked in with a smile.
"Your Majesty, the plan will be completed in a few days. All that's left is to develop step by step." Xunzi said without raising his head as he wrote furiously.
Immigration, farmland reclamation, water conservancy construction, horse administration, cattle and sheep disease prevention and control, roads, medical and health care, education, milk and goat milk, cow hair and wool product development, etc., all matters must be handled by them.
The key is that Zhao Kuo does nothing every day, only looking for trouble. When he has nothing to do, he takes Ben and Gai Nie to wander outside, and if he finds any problems, he leaves them to deal with.
Is it difficult to find faults and solve them? What's more, the person who is finding fault is one of the top few in the world. The people in Zhao Guo are already capable enough, but they can't keep up with Zhao Kuo's speed in finding problems.
"We will set off back to Dai County in three days. Anyone who has not finished processing by then can stay here and continue processing." Zhao Kuo said with a smile.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Even if I try my best, I will finish it within three days." Gongsun Long took a sip of tea to refresh his mind and continued to write and draw on the paper.
In front of him was a map of routes to various places, on which he needed to find the most suitable location for building a city. Because of this work, he had not slept for several days, and his hair was falling out in large quantities.
Others also have a lot of information piled up in front of them. Some of them are not here, but have gone out for field inspections.
Xunzi reported to Zhao Kuo what everyone had just discussed.
"Thank you for your hard work. Just do as you say." Zhao Kuo said this without any apology on his face.
"Does your Majesty have anything else to do?"
"It's really something. I want to ask you if there is any way to catch the Sirius God?"
