The Great Chu Emperor and the Great Chu people finished this dinner.

The taste of the heart is different.

The emperor was very happy.

But the ministers' hearts are sour, and the food is in their mouths, and it is not a taste.

By the time we finished our dinner, it was already nightfall.

Night.

Danyang County has actually changed again.

During the day, Danyang City was a big furnace, almost as if it was burning, and there were clanging bells everywhere.

After nightfall, Danyang City quickly quieted down, and only a very small number of blacksmith shops were still in a hurry.

However, instead of returning home, the blacksmiths came to the depths of the alleys, in the courtyards of some large peasant houses, where groups of one or two hundred people gathered.

The emperor and all the ministers were surprised, and followed to investigate the situation.

They went into the alley.

found that this Danyang county town, every household, does not close the door at night.

Inside and outside the house, expensive iron tools can be seen everywhere.

No one bothered to clean it up.

I'm not afraid of being stolen.

In the ancient Yaoshun era, the so-called rule of the sage, "the road is not left behind, and the night is not closed", it is nothing more than this!

In the depths of the alley, in the middle of a large earthen courtyard, I saw a scholar standing in front of a huge wooden board with a textbook in his hand, writing and drawing.

"These are 1, 2, and 10, the numbers used for accounting. Today, we teach the new addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. A kitchen knife costs 200 Wen, and three kitchen knives are how many copper coins? ”

The scholar preached.

The rough blacksmiths circled around, their eyes widened, and they followed the readers, clumsily reciting the numbers on the boards one by one.

This should be a very simple school.

The emperor and his ministers stood behind the crowd of blacksmiths in disbelief.

It seems that no matter the elderly, women and children, it seems that anyone can come here to learn.

No one let them out.

"It's... What kind of school is it? ”

Too often, Lu Zi was stunned.

"This is Danyang Night School, there are dozens of night schools in Danyang City, which teach arithmetic, literacy, and how to strike iron.

This gentleman is the silver from the county magistrate, please come and teach us ordinary people, no teaching fees. If you don't learn in vain, you won't learn, and if you don't learn for three days, you'll fall behind.

A lot of things that you don't understand about ironsmithing have to be learned here and learn skills. You are outsiders, and it is good to learn more! ”

An old blacksmith next to him turned his head and glanced at them.

The emperor and his ministers were in disbelief.

A citizen of Danyang County is actually studying in night school.

On the list of achievements in Danyang County, only a bunch of private schools are newly opened.

They thought they were just teaching a group of young Mengtong.

But I didn't expect that the people of the whole city would learn it. Tens of thousands, all of them attending night school.

I don't have time to study during the day, so I just study at night at night.

"The gentleman here still teaches you how to strike iron? A gentleman who reads, a craftsman who has been working for iron all his life than you, can also make iron? ”

Lu Zi was surprised.

"Of course Mr. can't strike iron, but the county magistrate will be the master! He wrote a lot of books, and let the gentlemen read them.

The county magistrate knows everything, and he invented this new type of soil blast furnace and steel frying.

He also wrote a book, "Materials and Principles of Steel", which said that if you add different things to it, you will become different steel. Let's Danyang blacksmiths learn and invent better steel. When new steel comes out, he has a lot of awards. ”

The old blacksmith was very proud.

The ministers looked at each other.

The little dusk is too tough!

Xiao Duhou is using the power of one person to raise the iron-making technique of Danyang County to a higher level!

Just like his invention of the Duhou paper, he brought the Great Chu Dynasty from the era of bamboo slips to the age of paper.

"You county magistrates, aren't you afraid that others will learn? There are blacksmiths in all the counties of Great Chu... If they learn from outsiders, won't you be able to make money? ”

Xiang Yanran asked.

"Haha, the blacksmith came to our Danyang to learn iron smelting, welcome to Danyang County!

In the past six months, there have been at least dozens of iron-striking grandmasters in Da Chu, all of whom want to steal and take them away... It's just that after a month of coming, they don't want to leave.

They said that there is no better place in the world than Danyang County to strike iron. Even when they go back to their hometowns, there are no small blast furnaces or iron mines, and the local officials don't care about them.

What's the strength of a few people striking iron, tens of thousands of blacksmiths striking iron together is interesting.

This Danyang County is the treasure land where blacksmiths made a fortune. When the outer subway craftsman comes, he can directly join the household registration of the county.

Needless to say, the county magistrate is as kind to our blacksmith as a mountain, and he will regenerate his parents! All the officials and servants up and down the county government are polite to our blacksmiths and treat us as superior people.

This is in other counties, who will take a look at our craftsmen? They are not stupid, they don't stay in this kind of treasure land, go to other places. ”

The old blacksmith laughed.

...

The emperor and his ministers watched for half an hour, listened to a lecture, and then left the night school.

The Emperor walked slowly, silent, as if pondering something.

This Danyang County is well governed!

With a finger of his golden hand, Xiao Duhou turned Danyang County into a treasure

Can this method be replicated in other counties? Let Da Chu, pop up dozens, hundreds of Danyang counties? The exponential increase of national power?

Estimated, it's hard!

This is Ma'anshan in Danyang County, a huge iron mine, and the ore costs almost nothing, as long as it is done manually. This huge benefit alone is not comparable to other counties.

Danyang County has taken such an advantage, found the right direction, and made great efforts to develop steel, and the people of the whole city worked together to strike iron. In just half a year, it has become a steel town.

Other counties. Like, I can't do it!

Emperor Xiang Yanran felt a little regretful in his heart.

However, even if it cannot be reproduced. The value of this important iron and steel town in Danyang is also extremely high for Dachu.

The Taiwei Mansion has to supervise the manufacture of a large number of weapons every year.

Let the Danyang blacksmith build it, and the blades of the Great Chu soldiers will become sharper. Armor will be stronger and unbreakable.

There is no war on weekdays, and Danyang County builds farm tools and household iron tools, which is also of great benefit to farmers.

This is a great benefit for the Great Chu Dynasty.

The ministers were also silent.

In my heart, I felt more uncomfortable and more aggrieved. In the list of political achievements reported by Danyang County, even the school is true, only underreported, not overreported.

Kong Hanyou was very painful in his heart and fell into a tangle.

He has selfish motives.

He hoped that one day, Confucianism would be able to dominate the doctrines of all schools.

But as the prime minister of the Great Chu Dynasty, he also has a public heart and dreams.

He also looked forward to that, as the prime minister, he would govern the Great Chu Dynasty and give him five or ten years of hard work to create a majestic and prosperous era.

He hoped that he would leave his name in the annals of history and become the most famous prime minister of the Great Chu Dynasty.

Xiao Duhou governed Danyang County, and his outstanding political achievements blinded the eyes of a group of ministers of the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries, which can be called a model in the county order of Dachu.

Did you make a false statement of political performance?

No.

Is there something wrong?

There's nothing wrong with that.

The only thing that is wrong is that Xiao Duhou is not a Confucian faction, nor is it a gate lord faction. Not their own people, but .... Political opponents.

Political opponents are obstacles in the way of Confucianism taking power.

Even if the little dusk marquis does the right thing, he must be knocked to the ground!

Otherwise, the rise of Confucianism will sooner or later be destroyed in the hands of Xiao Duhou.

If you can't convict Xiao Duhou, this time Weifu will return to Jinling City for a private visit. When the ranking of the national county and county performance examination comes out, the emperor will definitely promote the little dusk marquis.

It's time to decide!

Kong Hanyou took a deep breath and nodded slightly at an official next to him.

The official understood, and there was a grim glint in his eyes.