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Feng Dao had actually found a Taoist priest, but deep down he didn't want Li Chengzhong to be "indulged" in alchemy. He thought Li Chengzhong wanted to ask for immortality: "Captain, the Taoist priest is in Liucheng, but I still want to persuade the governor to use Taoist alchemy."
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Li Chengzhong smiled and said: "But, I've said it repeatedly, I'm not asking for immortality. Taoist priests will prepare a kind of medicine that can burn and explode... don't you understand explosion? It's just a 'bang' sound, what?
They are all broken... Okay, you have noticed just now that the efficiency of mining iron stone is very low. If you use this medicine, once it is ignited, the entire iron stone will be broken into pieces, and the mining speed will be increased.
Many times!"
Feng Dao said doubtfully: "I know that kind of gunpowder, isn't it the stuff in firecrackers? It crackles, just for fun."
Li Chengzhong shook his head: "It needs improvement. After improvement, it will be different. But after this inspection, you will send the Taoist priests here and I will have a good talk with them."
Feng Dao was helpless and nodded: "Okay, after the governor returns, I will call the Taoist priest to see him. However, the governor must not indulge..."
"But, you are getting more and more verbose, I know..."
The inspection in Dongshan made Li Chengzhong excited. He saw the future of Yingzhou and the future of industrialization. Of course, it was a bit ahead of his time to mention large-scale industrialization at this time, but this scene still made him unforgettable for a long time.
Li Chengzhong left Dongshan and marched towards Yanjun.
The road from Liucheng to the east and directly to Yan County has begun to take shape this spring. This is an agreement reached by the governor's office of Yingzhou and the governor's office of Pingzhou - an official road built jointly by Yingzhou's money and Pingzhou's people.
The official road can accommodate two carriages running side by side. If it is an army, ten people can march side by side in one direction. The entire road is rolled by stone rollers, which is very compacted and feels very smooth when walking on it. Before the official road was built,
, it takes two days to walk from Liucheng to Yanjun. After the completion, you can make a round trip in three days. If you ride a fast horse, you can arrive there in the same day.
When we walked to the second half of the road, we saw a construction team still doing the second leveling. Hundreds of people were re-laying gravel on some low-lying roads under the command of more than a dozen foremen.
Li Chengzhong ordered someone to summon the foreman for questioning. The foreman had never seen such a high-ranking official as Li Chengzhong. He mumbled and didn't know how to answer. After being comforted by Li Chengzhong again and again, he managed to calm down. He said honestly: "Go back to the governor.
In other words, a certain subordinate is in charge of more than 300 people and is smoothing the road. The daily progress is about a hundred steps. It is expected that in two months, the road to Yan County will be completely smoothed..."
"How come there are more than three hundred people?" Li Chengzhong was a little surprised.
"Commander, it's not just that. When this road was being built, more than two thousand people came to Pingzhou. The old man was doing the last work, and the others were building the official road from Yan County to Huaiyuan Military City. Over there
There are a lot of people, and it was Chief Liu who led him to do it, and he has been doing it for a month."
Feng Dao said at the side: "The three hundred miles from Yuguan to Yanjun today is not easy. Our treasury has already spent 50,000 guan on this. The governor wants to build Yanjun as well."
Huaiyuan, the road from Yanjun to Jinxian. It is estimated that another hundred thousand guan will be spent, which will put a lot of pressure on the treasury."
Li Chengzhong thought for a while and said: "Not only that, the next step is to build official roads from Huaiyuan to Fuyu, Huaiyuan to Liaocheng, Liaocheng to Jian'an, Liaocheng to Xijing and so on."
Feng Dao was surprised: "If this is the case, I'm afraid it's too much waste."
Li Chengzhong said: "We must build it at all costs! Brother Ke Dao also knows the meaning of official roads. Why did various ethnic groups in the Northeast rebel in one after another in the past? It has a lot to do with the inconvenience of transportation! For our Yingzhou, the road extension
A place that can truly be governed. Regardless of the significance of doing business, with officialdom, our army can reach the place we need to reach as quickly as possible. Especially the distance from Yan County to Huaiyuan and Huaiyuan to Fuyu
The passage should be dealt with as the first urgent matter. In terms of the current progress, it is still not enough. I need to continue to invest manpower and at the same time start the official road from Huaiyuan to Fuyu."
With various news coming from the observation and interrogation room set up by Yingzhou in Fuyu, the power struggle within the Khitan has become more and more serious. As the governor of Yingzhou, Li Chengzhong has the responsibility and obligation to interfere in the internal affairs of the Khitan. This urgency
The feeling became stronger and stronger that he needed such a road that could allow the Yingzhou Army, which relied more and more on logistics, to quickly reach the designated battlefield.
However, the power of the Changshi Mansion is limited after all. The current main road construction force relies on Pingzhou to complete it. It is indeed difficult to achieve the goals set by Li Chengzhong. In this regard, Li Chengzhong's solution is to outsource.
"Outsource the road construction task? But... who is willing to do it? What does the governor mean by outsourcing?" Feng Dao asked doubtfully.
"The so-called outsourcing, there are two models. We can convene businessmen from Yingzhou, Pingzhou, Jizhou, and Youzhou, hold a meeting in Liucheng, subcontract each road section, and the businessmen will organize manpower to build official roads. Well,
You can even summon businessmen from the Bohai Sea. The wealthy families there are very wealthy... The two modes of outsourcing are: one, the Changshi Mansion provides money. For example, the section from Huaiyuan Military City to Fuyu City is decided by the Changshi Mansion.
A road construction fee can be 50,000 guan, or even 100,000 guan, and it will be undertaken by the merchants. After it is completed, we will check it and it meets the standards, and then we will pay the money. Secondly, the Changshi Mansion will not give the money.
After the period of use, after the road construction is completed, merchants can collect fees from passing merchants. For each person or vehicle passing by, a certain fee will be charged for fifteen consecutive years. After fifteen years, the official road will be returned to the Changshi Mansion."
"Charge?" Feng Dao obviously didn't understand this method very well: "Can this also charge a fee?"
"Yes, this is called a toll. If you want to arrive faster, you must take the official road. Since you have to take the official road, you have to pay. Otherwise, I'm sorry, please don't walk on this official road!"
Feng Dao was still silently thinking about this very creative method, but Li Chengzhong had already ordered: "Now let the Changshi Mansion issue a notice to all states. On the ninth day of next month, a business meeting will be held in Liucheng. Yingzhou will have an excellent opportunity to make money.
, let them all come and consult for details!”
When a civil servant brought the notice drafted by Feng Dao back to Liucheng, everyone had already arrived in Yan County. The county magistrate Wan Shiming led the officials in the city out of the city to greet him. Wan Shiming was the former chief elder of the Khitan Division, but this elder
But he does not have the barbaric and rough style of the Hu people. On the contrary, he is deeply influenced by Han culture, and every move he makes deliberately imitates the sour Confucian flavor that even Li Chengzhong cannot explain.
Yanjun is a fur base in Yingzhou's production plan, but Li Chengzhong's purpose in coming to Yanjun was not to inspect the production of armor and clothing materials. His purpose was to see the academy that appeared here.
The disastrous defeat of Lu Long's army last year, in addition to losing a large amount of territory, also led to an abnormal flow of people. Many large southern families under Lu Long's control left the country and came to Yingzhou, taking refuge in places such as Liucheng and Yanjun.
This is in sharp contrast to the flow of people the year before last. These wealthy families have profound knowledge and a high level of education. They are highly valued by Quan Blind. In order to show his elegance and also because of his own preferences, Quan Blind fully interacts with these wealthy families.
, and actively encouraged them to establish academies in Yan County. As a result, three relatively large academies were built in Yan County: Baipo Academy, Yashan Academy and Yanjun Academy.
Li Chengzhong was in Bohai when he heard about this incident. He immediately praised Quan Blind's behavior and proposed the way of running the academy. The way of running the academy proposed by Li Chengzhong included two points: inclusiveness and matching of high and low.
The so-called eclectic means that the teaching content includes the best of hundreds of schools of thought, not only Confucianism. It also includes martial arts, which is listed as a course that pays equal attention to Confucianism. In this era, later generations have not yet praised Confucianism to the highest level. At the same time, Confucianism also
There is no academic hegemony that excludes other things, so such changes did not cause any backlash. Shudao includes many contents, such as law, mathematics, agriculture, industry, and even simple business knowledge.
The so-called high-low collocation means that the three academies are divided into two levels. Baipo Academy and Yashan Academy are junior academies, and Yanjun Academy is senior academies. The study period of junior academies is three years. After graduation, there are exams, and only those who pass the exam can be promoted.
Enter the senior college and continue to study for three years. After passing the senior college examination, you will be allowed to graduate. Graduates will pass the civil service examination temporarily implemented by Yingzhou. Those who pass the exam will be recruited into the government as officials.
Students who attend junior colleges will be provided with food and accommodation by the government, and those who pass the exam every three months can continue to study. Of course, those who want to enter junior colleges also need an interview, and only those who pass the exam can enter. Those who attend senior colleges, except for food
In addition to the dormitory exemption, you can receive a monthly subsidy of 200 ren, and those who pass the exam in March can continue to study. For this reason, the Yan County government needs to invest 5,000 gu each year to maintain it, which is a big expense, but
For Li Chengzhong, such expenditure is necessary. He also plans to implement such an academy system in Liucheng, Jixian, Liaocheng and Jian'an at the same time, and all expenses will be deducted from the government treasury.
The two junior academies each enroll two to three hundred people, and the senior academy also has dozens of students. Li Chengzhong conducted a detailed inspection of the three academies and put forward some corresponding suggestions for improvement. In fact, this academy system is similar to that of the Tang Dynasty.
The official education system implemented - Guozijian, but the difference is that Li Chengzhong set up this official education system in the county, which included room and board, a way out, and distribution, which meant starting from the basics and making education civilians.
In the official education plan of the Changshi Mansion, students who graduated from senior academies in each county can serve as officials at four levels from the ninth to the eighth grade. Officials from the seventh grade and above must come from the highest academic institution in Yingzhou that will be established——
Yingzhou Academy, the academic duration is one year.
According to the new Yingzhou academic system, students must go through three years of study in junior colleges and senior colleges. After passing the examination, they can be granted civil servant treatment. Those who do not have the opportunity to enter the academy can also take the civil service examination held by each county to obtain this
If you want to be promoted further, you must register for the entrance examination of Yingzhou Academy. Only those who pass the exam can enter Yingzhou Academy and study in Yingzhou Academy for one year. With this,
The resume of studying in Yingzhou Academy will help you get the next step up.
Li Chengzhong's plan is to establish two junior academies and one senior academy in each of the five counties of Liucheng, Yanjun, Jinxian, Liaocheng and Jian'an by the end of Tianfuyuan. Liucheng will also build a Yingzhou academy and three
Combined with the graded college system, a certain scale of popular education was formed. Through such education and additional civil service examinations, a new imperial examination system in Yingzhou was established.
"Feng Changshi and I have discussed the establishment of the Department of Culture and Education under Changshi's Mansion. You should prepare and transfer back to Liucheng to work in the Department of Culture and Education, with an official rank of up to seventh rank." Li Chengzhong said to Wan Blind.