Soon, the map was brought in. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 It was a thick scroll of more than a dozen scrolls, and they were carried into the study by four powerful men.

Wang Tong walked to the porcelain bucket containing the map, and bent down to caress the scrolls indicating the location of the area, and he sighed softly, both pity and satisfaction.

Today, there are not many people who know geography and geography, and even fewer who can have an atlas.

For such auspicious collections of maps that only exist among the world's families, Wang Tong assured that even the marching maps in the imperial court did not have these detailed ones in his own hands.

This is all the result of hundreds of years of time used by the family through various observations, exchanges, and summarizations. If Wang Tong hadn't been born in the Taiyuan Wang family, I am afraid that he would not have had the opportunity to trace these maps.

Knowledge monopoly is the most fundamental aspect of gatekeeper politics. And what comes with the monopoly of knowledge is the political monopoly and the prosperity of the gatekeepers. Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the implementation of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system has ensured the prosperity of the gate valve in the form of a national system. There is no poor family in the upper grade, and there is no scholar in the lower grade, which is what it says.

Although after the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the emperor raised the imperial examination in order to break the monopoly of gate valve politics, but as far as the current situation is concerned, the imperial examination system is not enough to shake the foundation of the gate valve in the short term.

The foundation of the family is still too strong, and according to Wang Tong's optimistic estimate, it will take at least a hundred years to completely replace the gate valve with the imperial examination, and there must be no turmoil in the middle.

If the emperor above is too anxious, just like today, I am afraid that there will be various backlashes from the family.

It's like the current Great Sui.

The world is so chaotic, a good prosperous era has become a chaotic era in just a dozen years, although there are mistakes in the emperor's governance, but the backlash of the family is also a hard push.

Don't talk about it, just say that the three expeditions to Goryeo, if it weren't for the Yin and Yang of the family, and instigated Yang Xuangan to rebel, I am afraid that the soldiers of the Great Sui would not have been defeated so badly.

"The family gatekeeper, this is the abyss of the world's elite, and it is also the source of cholera in the world. Their power is too strong, strong enough to prosper a dynasty and enough to overthrow a dynasty. Wang Tong vaguely recognized this, but he knew the harm, but he didn't have a good solution to this problem.

Maybe how to cure this problem, he had a vague eyebrow, but he didn't think about it further after all.

"People are different." This is the education that Wang Tong has received since he was a child. It seems unrealistic for him to want to break through such shackles on his own.

"Alas...... Forget it! Don't think so much, first persuade this baby not to be confused by his ambition. Wang Tong glanced at Li Qin and muttered to himself.

Li Qin helped him solve the troubles of Ba Fenghan, and showed him the fragments of the oracle bone inscriptions of the three generations, and he was very grateful. That's why he was willing to talk to Li Qin for so long, and persuaded Li Qin vigorously. Even if Li Qin was so stubborn, he didn't think about giving up, and he was still extremely patient.

"Yuanhua is in the Huainan River Table, why don't we just look at the map of this area?" Wang Tong's fingertips swiped over the map scroll, and finally selected a hanging scroll, he pulled out the hanging scroll, and asked Li Qin with a smile.

"Hmmm! OK! Li Qin nodded heavily.

"Good!" Wang Tong picked up the five-foot-long hanging scroll with one hand, walked to the screen and hung it, and gently pulled the tie of the hanging scroll. The scroll hung down, and the graphic text on it was displayed in front of everyone one by one as the scroll unfolded.

Everyone looked carefully, but saw that on the scroll of this square inch, the map of the mountains and rivers in the southeast of the Great Sui was outlined with silky slender lines, and the county towns of the Jianghuai generation were recorded in words the size of rope heads.

That's a pretty detailed map. Li Qin looked at it carefully, and in his heart, he only felt that the map he brought from the afterlife might not be as good as the current one. After all, the maps of later generations are based on the geography of later generations.

As for the present more than 1,400 years ago, it is still a question whether the topography and geography are as they were in later generations.

Especially in the Huainan generation, some of the rivers and lakes that exist now have long disappeared in later generations, and some of the lands that exist in later generations are still sleeping in the ocean - such as Shanghai, where there is no land yet.

"It is never advisable to fight according to the maps of the Hereafter." Li Qin understood this from the beginning.

He began to draw maps from the time he was built in Tu Jianzhen, and for this purpose he urgently trained a group of surveyors to carry out such work. But his roots are still too shallow. In order to ensure the safety of the mappers, he did not let them go deep into areas where there was too much fighting. So much so that there are still many blanks on the marching map drawn by Li Qin himself, which is not as detailed as Wang Tong at this time.

"Really...... If only this map were mine. Looking at this map, Li Qin's eyes suddenly burst into a hungry and thirsty gaze like a hungry wolf. He stared at it fiercely, and he couldn't help but take the map down. This is not just for the one in front of you, but for all of the two porcelain buckets.

Such an undisguised desire made Wang Tong slightly stuck, he shook his head lightly, didn't say anything, just waved his sleeves and pointed to the map: "The Huainan River is all here, if Yuan Hua has any high opinions, he can try it here." ”

"I don't dare to be a ...... It's just a little trick that doesn't go into the flow. Li Qin smiled faintly. He walked to the front of the wall chart, and spoke softly in the south of the Yangtze River, east of Danyang.

"Danyang, Biling, Wujun, Yuhang, Huiji, Xuancheng, Sui'an, Xin'an...... That's my goal for the near future. In fact, I have completely controlled Danyang, Yuhang, and Wujun, and the infiltration of Biling, Huiji, Xuancheng, Sui'an, Xin'an, and other places is also underway. It is estimated that in another six months to a row, I will be in full control of this place. Li Qin said with a smile.

"What?" Li Qin's words were nothing less than a shocking shock to everyone.

"How is this possible? I don't know......" Wang Tong seemed very serious about this.

As the son of the Taiyuan Wang family, many of the people in his family are officials in various places, and he doesn't care much about the general trend of the world, but he is never closed, where there is a rise of power and changes in the situation, he can always know in the first time.

However, he really didn't know anything about what Li Qin said.

"Yuanhua, don't talk nonsense!" Kong Yingda saw the surprise on Wang Tong's face, and understood that Wang Tong really didn't know the news, so he immediately turned his head to look at Li Qin, and his voice gradually became stern.

"It's not a lie." In the disbelieving gaze of several people, Li Qin waved his hand: "But according to my layout, the Great Sui officialdom doesn't know that my actions are just-because I didn't instigate the officials of the Great Sui." The government offices of Danyang, Yuhang, and Wujun were supposed to be, and they are still doing now. They sat in the city, thinking that they were at peace, but how could they have imagined that everything had changed? Li Qin smiled, looking very confident.

"Huh? You say this......" Li Qin's words were sincere, and his confident attitude surprised Wang Tong, Kong Yingda, and Ouyang Xiyi.

"Yuan Hua said so, didn't Yuan Hua want to control the market towns and villages around the county seat first?" Kong Yingda was the first to be surprised.

No one is stupid, it's just that they don't think about it for a while. Since Li Qin showed such a certain posture and ruled out the normal situation that they knew, the two of them didn't think of a point that was not a normal situation.

If you don't control the state capital, then how do you control the place?

Control of the villages, market towns - these are the points that the government deliberately ignores, and they are the places left to the control of the family gatekeepers. These places are scattered, and the population and materials at each point are not very large, but the number is huge, and the population resources that can be obtained by the sum of all are far more than those from the state and county capitals.

If Li Qin can really control the boundaries beyond the county seats, then he can indeed achieve control over these states and counties without alarming the government.

It's just that if you want to control the vast area of the countryside, you need the support of a large number of officials, and Li Qin has so many scholars under him?

This is the biggest doubt in their hearts, and it is also the crux of their inability to think of this solution in the first place.

Anyone with a slight level of proficiency can see how much direct control of the township would be beneficial to the entire state power, but why was it not possible to do so from any dynasty other than the Qin dynasty - because they did not have so many officials to use.

This problem existed even in the Qin Dynasty, but the Qin Dynasty solved the problem by converting a large number of colonels who came out of the army into officials.

However, this kind of solution also caused most of the local officials to be born in the Qin region, and they did not know the local people's feelings, and they were too rigid in handling specific affairs, and the government decrees were conveyed too harshly, leaving no room for trouble.

This kind of trouble directly led to the outbreak of the uprising that followed--where to go and where to serve in the military in the number of days, the plans of the upper strata were very stuck, and the officials in the middle knew that it was difficult to achieve, but they did not dare to fight for the people, which made the lower strata of the common people directly bear the dead rules and even the upper strata.

When this kind of rule really reaches the point of making people die, those who are unwilling to die can only rise up and resist.

The once-prominent Great Qin collapsed in the midst of such a wave of anger, under the impetus of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms.

After seeing this, the Han Dynasty, which re-established its rule on the ruins of Great Qin, did not have so many officials under its command on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also saw the shortcomings of the government directly facing the people, so it handed over the affairs of leading the people to the hands of the local gentry.

Although the imperial power is not written down as a written law, it is also a rule that has been relied on by all dynasties for nearly a thousand years.

And now, Li Qin wants to change the means of dominating the world and directly start from the bottom, undoubtedly wanting to challenge such rules. But will this work?

"Yuanhua, you have taken an unprecedented path! Is this possible? In such a village, under the control of one episode, the number of officials required is massive. Not to mention, do you have so many readers for you to drive. Even if you had, you would be able to support so many officials, and the amount of money and food you would need would be staggering. It takes at least ten farmers to raise a scholar. Wang Tong saw this very thoroughly.

In this era, it is not so easy to read, and it is not something you can read if you want to. Scholars not only need enough money to buy pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, but also need to be repaired to hire teachers. All kinds of consumption are simply unbearable for people who do not have a certain amount of savings. The so-called ten farmers can support one scholar, which is still very little.

"Do you really need that much money to study? I don't think it'......"

When Li Qin heard this, he chuckled and shook his head:

"One gentleman can now take three students, which is too inefficient. It seems to me that such a thing as teaching reading can be done in such a way as to bring together hundreds or thousands of children and divide them into different classes according to their progress.

There is a gentleman in a class with dozens of people, and gentlemen in different classes can teach different courses. Everyone teaches each other. On average, a gentleman can teach hundreds of students a year.

If I do this for a few years, I think there will always be enough readers for me. ”

"What? How can it still be like this? Hearing Li Qin say this, Wang Tong and Kong Yingda's eyes couldn't help but widen.

In fact, there is nothing new in what Li Qin said, he is just transferring the educational methods that were common in later generations to the present. However, copying like this has pointed out an unprecedented way for Wang Tong and Kong Yingda.

The two looked at each other, and at first they felt a little unbelievable, but they could think about it carefully. There is nothing unusual about such a method, wasn't this exactly what Confucius did in the past?

And the current Wang Tong seems to be teaching his students in the same way. One-to-many, there is not much novelty to speak of. The only thing new is Li Qin's practice of not taking one person as a teacher, but this is acceptable to think about.

"This is a big private school." Wang Tong sighed.

"It's not a private school, it's a government school. Moreover, I am ready to expose students to various imperial examination projects at the beginning. Students in different grades have exams every year, and those with high grades can naturally move on to the next grade to study. And those with poor grades can only repeat grades. I don't care how many times those students repeat a grade, but I only give them a maximum of nine years of study. In the case of a seven-year-old boy entering school, nine years later he will be sixteen and should begin to take on a family business. Li Qin said his arrangement.

"Well, that's pretty good, too. Just students and gentlemen...... There's a lot of people in need here. Wang Tong thought about it and asked another question.

"That's why I came to Dongping to visit Tong Lao. Tong Lao is good at teaching, and I want to ask Tong Lao to go south to plan this matter for me. I want to keep all school-age children in school and continue it as a system. I hope that in the future, everyone in the world will be a seed of reading, and no one will be illiterate or ignorant. Li Qin knelt down on his knees as he spoke, and gave Wang Tong a big gift: "This is my grand wish, and I also ask Mr. Tong, Ouyang Lao, and Mr. Chongyuan to help me." ”