Chapter 6708 Fatal Order

Chapter 6708 Fatal Order

Of course, Liao Li’s original words were not like this. After all, Liao Li was a man of high status and would not speak in such a vulgar way. His original words were to improve economic and civilized construction and strengthen the education of foreign populations, but after translation, it became simply and crudely about making money and assimilation.

Liao Li did not refute this, because as the governor of Jingzhou, Liao Li knew very well the current situation of the bureaucrats in southern Jing. If those unfortunate kids did not think of a way out, they would fall from county-level bureaucrats to county-level bureaucrats. Liao Li did not want to describe how exciting this was in the officialdom.

So when the Jingnan bureaucrats were trying their best to recruit people from the mountains, Liao Li watched quietly and did not give any instructions. To be honest, he was just ready to watch the four counties of Jingnan being merged into one, the organization being shortened, and this group of people being demoted or something like that.

After all, even if Liao Li was beaten to death, he never thought that this group of Jingnan bureaucrats who looked like trash could get a population of nearly 100,000 from the mountains. Although these 100,000 newcomers did not look like decent people, they looked like either Liao people or barbarians, but you could tell whether they were locals. There was no doubt that once they arrived in Jingnan, they became locals.

Therefore, when the locals had gathered enough people to meet the minimum requirement of not reducing the number of troops, Liao Li stood up and said that as the governor of Jingzhou, I still have to protect the bureaucrats under my command and cannot allow the ministers in Chang'an to bully me. After all, I am the governor of Jingzhou and have the obligation to protect the people under my jurisdiction.

Bullshit. Liao Li, who had been having fun before and wished that this group of people would all fall, could be so kind. It was entirely because under the current environment, this group of people from Jingnan could actually crawl into the woods, cross the ravines, and dig out a population of over 100,000 from somewhere unknown. Especially after these people were confirmed by the people sent by Liao Li, they were really the products of the barbarization of the Han people.

Apart from anything else, these people also worship their ancestors, and they can even count their ancestors one by one. Some of them are even descendants of the survivors brought to Lingnan by Zhao Tuo at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Although they have been living in the mountains without contact with humans for three or four hundred years, their bloodline is pure enough. Even if they have become barbaric, as long as they are properly educated, they can all be our own people.

So when Liao Li saw that the four counties in southern Jing were about to self-destruct, he personally intervened. Before, there were only 20,000 people in Jingnan, and they were reduced in number. In Liao Li's opinion, they deserved it, and he even hoped that those guys would die quickly. But now these guys have increased the population, so as the boss of Jingzhou, it's time for him to take action. Prosperity and peace under his rule are very important.

We can't just watch tens of thousands of guys coming out of the mountains fighting for nothing. Go to the factory, all of you. Shi Xie's operation in Jiaozhou proved that as long as all the young people are stuffed into the large state-owned workshops, the sons and daughters of these young people can also be stuffed into the schools of the state-owned workshops.

In this way, the only people left in the village were elderly people whose breathing ability had declined, and everything became very harmonious. Anyway, with this trick, Shi Xie turned the large-scale clan fights in Jiaozhou into a nonsense story. What the hell was the fight? It was time to get to work!

Seeing that armed conflicts in southern Jing had become a new high-incidence area for armed conflicts in the Han Dynasty, Liao Li immediately sent people to the nearby Jiaozhou to study and investigate. After learning a wave of advanced experience from Shi Xie, Liao Li decisively decided to grow sugarcane and develop large sugarcane plantations, because this did not require much technical content and could absorb a large population. All that was left was to sort out the official procedures and channels, and most people in southern Jing would be able to get a sum of money. The stability of the region could be solved with money and morality.

The law is bullshit. If you use the law against the targets of stability maintenance, you can only blow up the place.

Liao Li is a moral person and he has figured out the way to make money. As for the official procedures and channels, who does he look down on? Although Liao Li stays in Jingzhou all year round, he can really make some connections in Chang'an. What's more, when he is dedicated to the public and everyone can get a share of the profits, only a fool would stop it. After all, he, Liao Li, is a man of character. If the channels have been cleared up and anyone dares to stop him, he will really take action. He is not afraid of being ruthless!

"It's okay. Anyway, I have approved it. Governor Liao has already started preparations. Jingnan should be stable soon." Chen Xi put the official document submitted by Liao Li aside and said with a smile. Chen Xi was willing to give some help to such a bureaucrat who did his job well. Moreover, Chen Xi had heard a lot about Jingnan's fun in the past two years. After all, becoming the new center of armed conflicts in the Han Dynasty is not a good reputation. Ah, you said Liangzhou, is the armed conflict in Liangzhou still news?
Including the Qiang Rebellion, local armed conflicts in Liangzhou have been going on for hundreds of years. Moreover, they are continuous, large-scale, and show no sign of stopping. Under such circumstances, the cessation of armed conflicts in Liangzhou would be news, but the continuation of armed conflicts is just the norm.

"How much sugar can these 150 plantations produce?" Jia Xu frowned and asked, "A few tens of thousands of tons, maybe?"

It's not that Jia Xu cares about this, but sugar is really a precious strategic resource these days. In addition, many foods also need it as an additive. It is very important whether it is for enhancing flavor or increasing shelf life. However, after the sugar produced by the Han Dynasty was supplied to Yanzhou, there was not much left.

In addition, the smuggling of sugar and salt was extremely famous in the Han Dynasty, so famous that Chen Xi was forced to manage this business. There was no other way. The salt of the Han Dynasty was of good quality and cheap, and as for sugar, only the Han Dynasty could currently produce rock sugar. The other two empires, not to mention Rome, had no sugarcane plantations. South America finally planted a wave, and then it was bombed. Kushan was better, as it had sugarcane plantations, but it had never been able to do a good job of decolorization, and the color and taste of the sugar were obviously different from those of the Han Dynasty.

Before the Han Dynasty came out with rock sugar, this slightly astringent feeling and color were definitely the flagship product of Kushan exports. This stuff was among the things Rome imported from India, and it was even sold at a very high price. But since the Han Dynasty came out with rock sugar, the sugar market in India has collapsed.

After the Brahmins and Kshatriyas ate the Han Dynasty's rock sugar, they began to doubt their own sugar. Damn, is that sugar what we produce?

So the sugar eaten by the bosses of the world's three major empires was produced by the Han Dynasty. So the question is, how much sugar can the Han Dynasty produce in a year?

Less than 30,000 tons, what a joke. After supplying a wave of agricultural grain to Yanzhou, the rest is not enough even for the top leaders of the Han Dynasty. Even Rome and Kushan are still crying for food. Chen Xi is convinced.

Therefore, the 2,000 kilograms of sugar that Chen Xi transported to the Tibetan area at that time was really a huge reward, because in terms of the output of sugar alone, the Han Dynasty really did not have enough, but there was no good way. Whether it was a sugarcane plantation or a sugar industry, manpower was needed, especially the technology used by the Han Dynasty now, which required a large number of manpower to maintain operation.

But there are too many places that need manpower. The sugar industry can be said to be a very important industry, but compared with the current situation of the Han Dynasty, let's put it on the back burner for now. After two years, when the national strategy is advanced and the Kushans are defeated, the sugar industry should have considerable development.

At the very least, after getting rid of those Brahmins and Kshatriyas of Kushan who ate imported sugar, the Han Dynasty would consume less. As for the others, this is all we can do for now.

"The actual scale has not been determined yet, and the situation in Jingnan is only suitable for growing sugarcane. It may not be suitable for the sugar industry." Chen Xi sighed and said, "But it doesn't matter. Let Governor Liao take care of it first. At most, the cost will increase by a few cents."

"Do you care about those few cents?" Li You looked at Chen Xi with a strange expression.

"I do care, because these few cents are not written by me, but the labor cost." Chen Xi sighed and said. Of course, he didn't care about the money he wrote, but this kind of labor output that could not be compressed was different from the money he occasionally wrote by hand. There was an essential difference between the two.

"Forget it, Kong Ming, how is the new learning going? It's been five years." Chen Xi didn't want to dwell on this aspect, so he turned to Zhuge Liang and asked. In fact, the biggest indicator Chen Xi was carrying in the 25-year plan was not the ranches, workshops, and agricultural output. These indicators seemed incredible to others, but in Chen Xi's view, even if they could not be completed, most of the things could be completed. Even if they were assigned to his subordinates, as long as they were kept an eye on and developed step by step, they could be done.

What really gave Chen Xi a headache was education. In those days, the Han Dynasty was really full of illiteracy. To put it bluntly, if you wrote the word "death" in front of most people, they would not be able to recognize it.

Therefore, universal education is very important. Chen Xi has been working hard on education since the Taishan years and has been continuously poaching talents from major families. But even now, the number of people who have received higher education that Chen Xi has been able to obtain is still very scarce.

The problem is that in the industrial age, illiterate people are not considered as labor force and can only be regarded as replaceable tools. If we want to develop industry, or if we want to quickly replace the current workshop-style gameplay, the easiest way is to engage in education.

Only people who have received an education and have a certain amount of knowledge are suitable for the industrial game, because illiterate people cannot learn new technologies, cannot keep up with technological innovation, and cannot promote technological innovation. This is very fatal, so Chen Xi must make popularizing education the most important thing in the second five-year plan.

Even for this reason, Chen Xi gave up the right to interpret the classics and laws to a certain extent in the second five-year plan, that is, the definition and interpretation of social morality, and focused on conquering the "art", that is, continuing the overall definition of social morality of the major families and only pursuing the foundation of industrial development.

This operation was not too good, but it also reduced the resistance of the major families to a great extent. Coupled with the current environmental restrictions, the major families were also willing to teach the people of the Han Dynasty. At the beginning of the sixth year of Yuanfeng, Chen Xi and the major families basically finalized the details of the five-year plan on education - Chen Xi did not change the right to interpret the scriptures, Chen Xi only needed skilled workers.

Relying on the big stick and red dates, as well as the current situation, what the Han Dynasty royal family wanted to do for hundreds of years has been accomplished in Chen Xi's hands. Independently cultivating talents needed by the country, rather than having aristocratic families cultivate and recommend talents needed by the country, is an improvement in any case.

Why is the idea of ​​passing on the tradition of farming and studying from generation to generation so terrifying? To put it bluntly, it means that on one hand, one person holds the right to education and has the power to define and interpret universal morality, while on the other hand, one person holds the country's granary.

It doesn’t matter whether you have money or not. If you grasp these two, money will come naturally.

Therefore, the most important thing in the second five-year plan is actually the allocation of educational rights. Now that Yuanfeng has been around for ten years, according to the plan at that time, it is time for the first batch of personnel to be trained.

"Here, this is it. Mr. Kong gave it to me before he ran away." Zhuge Liang flipped through the official document written by Kong Rong and handed it to Chen Xi.

Kong Rong's position, because it was always occupied by people who were educated in the dark, was taken over by Chen Xi and the major aristocratic families. He was promoted from the rank of Taichang, a Nine Ministers, to the rank of 600 stones, the same level as Er Xiong, who was guarding the grain industry in Yanzhou. However, Kong Rong's job was still being done.

After all, when it comes to things like education, if someone has to take the lead, compared to the evil creatures like Yuan Yang and the locally famous guys like Chen Xun, Chen Xi thinks it is better to follow the old rules and let the descendants of Confucius take over. At least this choice is one that everyone can accept.

The major families had almost the same idea, so in the sixth year of Yuanfeng, this matter fell on Kong Rong's head. Kong Rong has been constantly blackmailing people since he took over this job, and finally ran away because there were too many blackmailers.

"Kong Changshi may not be good at other things, but he is very good at education." Chen Xi took a look at the official document submitted by Kong Rong. Chen Xi knew very well that the data had been adjusted because many people had been directed away by Kong Rong or the major families, and the rest were left for Chen Xi.

But even so, Chen Xi could accept this number. Moreover, no matter how outrageous or treacherous Kong Rong was, he would not mess around with the official document that Chen Xi had to read. What's more, after reading the document that Kong Rong handed in when he ran away, Chen Xi would definitely look at the data that he asked Mi Zhu to count. After comparing the two, many things would become clear.

"After all, he is the descendant of a saint." Li You said very dissatisfiedly.

It's not that he is dissatisfied with the education, but Li You is very unhappy about Kong Rong's escape. After Kong Rong escaped, the Han Dynasty really can't find a suitable candidate. Although there are many people who want to do this, they can be arranged from Weiyang Palace to outside Chang'an City, but according to Li You's observations in recent years, the person who is really suitable for this job is Kong Rong.

But this time Li You had no way to deal with Kong Rong. Kong Rong had done a great job in the university and had done his best. After all, this was the work of his ancestor Confucius. Even if Kong Rong wanted to do something wrong, he had to think twice, not to mention that Kong Rong still had some dignity.

In addition, Kong Rong was not a very good official and was not very good at handling government affairs, but his fame and background were there, so it would be wrong not to give him an official position.

Getting him into university would not only fulfill his fame and background, but also correspond to the achievements of their ancestors. With the two combined, Kong Rong would naturally do his best. He was not really a waste, he was just not suitable for the game in officialdom. In addition, when it comes to education, everyone from the principal to the teachers do their best, and as long as the students are not bad, they can learn something.

Therefore, under Kong Rong's vigorous efforts in recent years, university education has really produced some talents, at least there is no problem in filling the gaps in state-owned workshops in various places, which fully meets Chen Xi's needs.

As for running away, the reason is very simple. This winter, the largest wave of mature technical workers will be trained through professional education that started in the sixth year of Yuanfeng. It sounds good, right? Even the threshold of Kong Rong's house has been broken.

Just like Wang Lie, why does Wang Lie's spiritual talent require you to wait a long time after using it? Because if you don't wait a long time, a group of powerful people will come to find you. Even if you say you will wait a long time, there will still be some favors that come out of the ground that you can't wipe out.

This is also why, even though the prince claims that one has to lie down for half a year after using his spiritual talent once, there are still a bunch of young men in the Han Dynasty who have been identified by the prince's spiritual talent. To put it bluntly, there are some people whose favors Wang Lie really cannot get rid of.

The old Chen family always grabbed Wang Lie's hand, saying that they were not as virtuous as their ancestors. Could Wang Lie let the old Chen family say that their ancestor Chen Shi had helped them, their brothers, and their teachers? Of course not. Wang Lie had to actively interrupt the latter part of the conversation and then help the old Chen family - Chen Tai has the potential to become a general or a prime minister, so he should be trained well, blah blah blah...

This kind of favor is difficult to get for ordinary families, but for super wealthy families, what have I been doing here for hundreds of years? Can't I accumulate favors that you can't avoid?

You can't look down on us, the super wealthy family.

So to this day, Wang Lie has shown it to a large group of people.

Although Yang Hu and Yang Huiyu do not have a super wealthy background, they have an awesome grandfather. Li Ru passed by with the two kids, and Wang Lie began to wonder if there was something wrong with this guy. Why not take a look at him and keep him away.

So everyone actually knows what Wang Lie’s situation is, but it is impossible for a family that has not reached a certain level to harm Wang Lie, so Wang Lie does not need to run away.

But Kong Rong was different. The technical college that Kong Rong established was something that was agreed upon by Chen Xi and the major wealthy families. It was agreed upon when it was established that everyone would own it, but Chen Xi would take 70%. Therefore, when it was time to sell it at the end of this year, the threshold of Kong Rong's family had to bear an unbearable burden.

As I said, those who could come to Kong Rong were those whom Kong Rong could not refuse, and their reasons were very sufficient. Even if it was a family like the Xun family who said they didn't need it, they would definitely want the biggest share when it came to distributing human resources. After all, they were not fools.

Moreover, you want the biggest share, I want the biggest share, and everyone wants the biggest share. What's the point? Kong Rong himself is not suitable to deal with such things, so he decisively embezzled the biggest share himself and then ran away. I heard that he is being hunted by Yuan Yang recently.

I got up late, emmm