In the sixteenth year of the Han Dynasty, more and more families opened academies, basically, regardless of the size or not, each county basically has academies opened, some of them are opened by the families themselves, and some of them are led by the wealthy families in the county, please send out some reclusive celebrities, and establish academies in the name of celebrities.

"Although there are many academies at present, they are only in their infancy, and it is difficult to say what the results will be for the time being." Looking at You Heng, who came to discuss with him, Chen Mo smiled and said, "But there is one point, Zhengping should prepare early. ”

"Please make it clear to the king." You Heng bowed.

"Although there are many of these academies, but the imperial court takes scholars from Taixue, these academies are not qualified, and there is no problem now, because these academies have not yet been promoted, but after three or five years, I am afraid that this problem will be highlighted." Chen Mo smiled.

"The lord is going to accept these academy disciples?" You Heng wondered.

"Yes, you should prepare for this earlier, and after three or five years, there will be more and more people who come to seek the quota of Taixue, and it will be too late to prepare then, so now you need to sort out the structure of Taixue first." Chen Mo nodded, this is an inevitable question.

You Heng frowned and said, "In this way, isn't it unfair to the disciples of the Third Academy?" ”

The disciples of the three schools, now mainly the children of military meritorious soldiers, some poor families, and Shu clans, generally after ten years of hard study, and then go to Taixue for two years, they can basically be arranged to enter the office, but if these county academies are counted, let alone two years, there may not be a chance to wait for ten years.

"So we have to lay it out in advance." Chen Mo nodded and smiled: "The only thing I can think of right now is to set some thresholds for them." ”

"The king said...... Assess? You Heng asked, between the three schools, the promotion is through the assessment, but the children of the family are not bad in this regard.

"Selecting the best and recording has always been the criterion of Taixue, the three disciples received in recent years, somewhat good and bad, plus some difficulties and pressure, it is also a good thing for them, even if it is difficult to learn, you can also learn other things, this world wants more than officials, like Ma Jun, Liu Yi such a master, good at the layout of the commander, good at arithmetic people, the world needs more, can not be the only standard." Chen Mo smiled.

Shinong Industry and Commerce ...... Sometimes Chen Mo feels that if his status is really measured by this standard, the world will become deformed, because other industries also need talents, in addition to craftsmen, medical craftsmen who specialize in medical skills, and talents who study shipbuilding and navigation, this aspect is almost blank.

Is there a lot of people in Tai Academy? Many, many, the whole world is only more than a thousand counties, and the total number of officials needed will never exceed 100,000, but every year there are thousands of disciples in the Tai Academy, and this number is still rising year by year, and the world will be unified in the future, the number will probably be more, if they are all invested in officialdom, Chen Mo feels that it is a waste of talents, and it is actually useless for the development of the world.

Over the years, the more Chen Mo has learned, the more he feels that the so-called righteous path of Confucianism is not so right, it is just something to consolidate imperial power, and it is useful to want peace in the world before the population is saturated, but if you want to make the world bigger and stronger...... Confucianism can't do it, it can't increase the income of grain, and it can't keep the people warm and fed, and the biggest benefit is stability.

Among the hundreds of sons, Confucianism can become the ultimate winner is not that Confucianism is superior to other doctrines, but because it is more conducive to stability, which is considered a golden mean.

Chen Mo wants to take advantage of this troubled era to change this pattern, he thinks that agriculture is the most important, after all, if people can't eat, what else can they talk about? The second is the scholar, the national society needs order, and the maintainer of this order is the scholar, and then the industry and commerce, but there is still something wrong, he feels that there are still some problems in this way to stratify the world, if according to the ideal, the scholar is responsible for managing the world, the farmer is responsible for food, the worker is responsible for clothing, housing and transportation, and the merchant is responsible for circulation, so as to form an efficient and harmonious political system in a proportion.

But the reality is that this kind of government cannot exist, this human heart is not something that you can pinch as much as you want, it is like water, it may be able to guide, but it cannot really grasp the shape and size of the controller in your hand, and the tools of guidance, one is morality, the other is law, and the two are in no particular order.

You Heng shook his head when he heard this: "The lord can understand what the lord is worried about, but it is impossible to do it. ”

Today's You Heng is no longer the high-spirited person who dared to beat the drum and scold Cao Cao naked, the years will wear away the edges and corners of people, especially when people have a clear goal in their hearts and learn to bow to reality in many things, he will think about things more, he knows that Chen Mo's idea is very good, but it is impossible to do it, people's hearts are very complicated, to put it bluntly, it is self-interested, unless everyone in the world becomes a saint, it is impossible.

"With the direction, get as close as possible, as for whether it can be done, you and I have done my best, no regrets." Chen Mo smiled.

"I understand." You Heng nodded, got up and took his leave.

Chen Mo looked at the back of You Heng leaving, perhaps, this person's future achievements will be to overshadow Cai Yong, Zheng Xuan, these late Confucian figures, but it may also be stinking for 10,000 years, who knows, people live in the world, just do things with a clear conscience, as for how future generations comment, it doesn't matter what they do.

The sixteenth year of the Han Dynasty is a very quiet year for the whole world, so calm that there is nothing worth writing about, but many things have begun to brew in this calm, such as the academy Daxing, reading from this year, it is really no longer the privilege of a specific class, ordinary people can also choose to read as long as they want, of course, they can also not read, after all, the grain production of this year is not big enough to allow an ordinary peasant family to support a child to study, and it is enough to know how to read and write without some family background.

In addition, Yu Sheng and Liu Yi's capture of Sanhan did not set off any waves, firstly, the imperial court deliberately suppressed the news, and secondly, even if you know, a place like Sanhan, for today's Han Dynasty, can no longer be said to be remote and barren, and it is not even as good as the Xiongnu and Xianbei.

The imperial court only set up a county here, called Han County, and sent people to educate and govern, and the county towns added up to no more than twenty, and most of them were still that kind of small earth cities.

But for Chen Mo, it is of great significance, according to the battle report sent by Yu Sheng, the battle of Sanhan, before and after only a month, the Sanhan naval army in front of the Han warship, almost did not even have the ability to resist was defeated, the city was easily destroyed by ballistas, the Han soldiers attacked the city, did not go through the city gate, directly blasted open the city wall and rushed in, although barren, but the wealth obtained by the nobles of the Sanhan tribal alliance surprised Chen Mo, the wealth obtained by these Sanhan royal families and nobles can fully support 100,000 sailors for five years!

This is a very terrifying number, you must know that even if Dahan is a county in Zhongyuan Prefecture, except for large counties such as Nanyang and Runan, there are very few counties that can support so many troops without affecting people's livelihood.

Although Han County's own annual tax revenue may not be able to support a 10,000-strong elite, the royal family's materials have made Chen Mo taste the sweetness, perhaps plundering at sea is a faster way to get rich.

Chen Mo appointed Liu Yi as the Taishou of Hanjun, and Yu Sheng served as the general of Henghai Zhonglang, while expanding the naval division, while using Hanjun as the foundation, to explore whether there are still island countries like Sanhan around, which are used to train sailors, and also use it to subsidize the military and reduce the burden of some imperial courts.

In addition to the naval army, the development of the Central Plains also made Chen Mo more comfortable, as the territory gradually stabilized, after Guangling and Jiujiang hoarded heavy troops, the Central Plains in the Anyi environment, the development is easier than other places, the terrain here is flat, the soil is fertile, especially in the Jianghuai area, not to mention that it can be harvested twice a year, but even if it is harvested alone, the grain yield is higher than other places.

By the time of the seventeenth year of the Han Dynasty, food was no longer a problem that plagued the people, and the people began to have a large number of small workshops for burning pottery and spinning, before the economic recession due to the war, there was a situation of bartering, but now it is gradually returning, and the five-baht money began to circulate normally, and in this year, Chen Mo officially announced the restart of the Silk Road, and began to encourage traders to do business in the Western Regions, and the Western Regions Protectorate began to really enter the Western Regions, Dunhuang, Zhangye, Jiuquan and other places were taken back successively, and the countries of the Western Regions began to re-claim their vassals to the imperial court.

However, there is an old saying that good fortune and misfortune depend on it, and misfortune and blessing lurk in waiting, although good things have happened in the first seventeen years, but at the beginning of the eighteenth year of the jaw, bad news has come one after another.

In February, Li Ru died of illness in the prison, at the age of eighty-three, Li Ru's death made Chen Mo's heart ache, this strategist who had followed him since Chang'an to give advice to himself, and finally died in prison! This made Chen Mo very uncomfortable, and personally took Li Ru out of prison and posthumously named Marquis of Ping, and his eldest son Li Yu inherited his title.

And Li Ru's death seemed to be a signal, Xu Rong died of illness on the way to the chariot division at the age of seventy-eight, and followed by Hua Xiong, who also died of illness in Jiaohe City at the age of sixty-five after breaking through the front of the chariot division.

In the past year, the three civil and military officers that Chen Mo relied on the most have passed away one after another, and for Chen Mo, the blow is not small, especially the death of Xu Rong and Hua Xiong, which made the originally quiet Western Regions restless again.

Chen Mo took Xu Rong's son Xu Kai and Hua Xiong's son Hua Rong to replace his father's official title and continue to guard the Western Regions......