Although the territory of Yongzhou is not very large, there are a lot of official affairs, and there are a lot of things waiting for Guo Qi to deal with every day, and Guo Qi is tired enough in the first few days; In order not to exhaust himself to death, Guo Qi threw a large amount of government affairs to the staff led by Song Yiming, and let them make their own decisions on some small matters, and only when they encountered major matters, they needed Guo Qi to make decisions; After the decentralization, Guo Qi was much more relaxed and had a lot of time to do other things.

After dealing with a day's government affairs, Guo Qi came to the private school located behind the palace, but due to the lack of a teacher, Guo Qi could only select some people from his own personal guards to manage first; In order to facilitate management, all children are divided into two parts according to their age, one part is over 10 years old and the other part is under 10 years old.

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"Lord, according to your orders, all the literate gentlemen in Yongcheng are here, and Brother Song asked me to bring them over." Li Wu came over with a few literati and said.

Guo Qi waved to a few people and said: "A few gentlemen, this king is polite, and these children will have a few gentlemen in the future." ”

Several literati hurriedly returned the salute and said: "It is our honor to serve the prince. ”

"If you have any requests from a few gentlemen, you can put them forward, although Yongzhou is poor and weak, but this king will definitely find a way to meet you."

The leader said, "Lord Wang, we have no other requirements, but we just need the Lord to prepare the Thousand Character Text and the Four Books and Six Classics (Note 1) for these children. ”

"Dare to ask Mr. Surname?" Guo Qi asked Shizi.

"Caomin's surname is Xue, and his name is Wen."

""Thousand Words", this king has ordered people to prepare; These four books and six classics don't need to be taught by the king! Guo Qi said to Xue Wen.

Xue Wen asked Guo Qi: "Lord, these four books and six classics are sage training, if you don't teach the four books and six classics, how can you run a private school, if so, the prince should ask another master!" ”

"Yes, yes, yes...... The prince should ask for another master! Several others said.

"Don't be so excited, a few gentlemen, can you listen to this king's explanation first?" Guo Qi said with a smile.

"Humph! The grass people want to see what the prince can say. Xue Wen shook his sleeves and said.

"A few gentlemen, look at it, these are not dozens of children, but nearly three thousand children, how can you teach them all the four books and six classics; Moreover, these children have different qualifications, and they have limited time in the private school, and they cannot study hard for more than ten years like the gentlemen, and these children will have to leave the school to fend for themselves after the age of seventeen;

In addition to literacy, the king will also arrange for other people to teach other knowledge, and they also need to work in the fields when they are busy with the farm, and if there is a war, the children of school age will also need to follow the army into battle......"

"Lord Wang, what you said is indeed reasonable; However, the grass people thought that in addition to the thousand-character text, they also needed to teach these children 'loyalty, righteousness, reason, wisdom, and faith', and if the prince did not agree, we would leave immediately. Xue Wendao.

"Okay, this king promised sir." Guo Qi said with a smile: "This king worships Mr. Xue Wen today to sacrifice wine for Yongzhou Academy, and in the future, these children will be handed over to Mr. ”

"Don't worry, don't worry, humble and do your best." Xue Wen said.

Guo Qi didn't realize that in fact, Xue Wen had just fought an ambush with himself, and that 'loyalty, righteousness, reason, wisdom, and faith' were the core of Confucianism, and if you wanted to teach the Five Constants, you had to read the Confucian classics of the Four Books and Six Classics; a few years later, a group of talented students came out of here, some of them were engaged in politics, some in the army, some in craftsmen, and some in business, and became Guo Qi's most favorable supporters and the most loyal subordinates; Even if Guo Qi asked them to die, they would not hesitate to carry it out.

After a few gentlemen were arranged, Li Wu came back and replied: "Lord, several gentlemen have already been arranged, if the lord has nothing to do, he will go back first." ”

"This king really has something to discuss with you." Guo Qi said with a smile.

"Although the lord commands, as long as it can be done by a humble position, he will not hesitate to go to the soup."

"This king wants to recruit you into the army, how about being a personal guard for this king?"

Li Wu scratched his head and said, "Lord, I have to go back and discuss this humble position with my father and Brother Song." ”

"Yes, this king will give you one day today, and tomorrow I will reply to this king." Guo Qi patted Li Wu's shoulder and said, "Go get busy!" ”

"No! Retired from his position. ”

After Guo Qi left the school, he returned to the palace to change into civilian clothes, and left the palace under the protection of several plainclothes guards; Today's Yongzhou City is a big construction site, many people come to the city every day to work to earn merit points, Yongzhou City can be said to be changing day by day, only a short month, the warehouse city in Yongzhou City has been built, this is not a small project, only 3,000 stone grain cellars have been built 270, can store more than 80000 stones; In addition to the granary warehouse, there are arsenals, salt warehouses, cloth warehouses, etc., and there are also perfect flood prevention and arson measures built in the city.

In addition to Cangcheng, there is also a craftsman workshop in Yongcheng, now there are craftsmen, hundreds of apprentices, can build ordnance, farm tools, etc., now all the farm tools in Yongzhou are all built in the craftsman's workshop, in order to improve the enthusiasm of the craftsman, Guo Qi has improved the status of the craftsman, and at the same time, the merit value earned by the craftsman is more than the ordinary people who sell hard work to earn more than fifty percent; So now many people in Yongzhou are willing to send their children to the craftsman as apprentices.

After a month of repair, the inner city wall of Yongzhou City has been repaired, the entire inner city wall is three zhang five high, one zhang five wide, and it is no longer the original pure rammed city wall, but the inside is rammed earth, wrapped with bricks on the outside, when the city wall is fully completed, it is as solid as a rock; The same is true of the outer city wall of Yongcheng, but the outer city wall is higher than the inner city wall, the outer city wall is as high as five zhang, two zhang wide, and the outer city wall is equipped with an arrow tower made of city bricks every three zhang, and a moat of one zhang and five widths and one zhang deep is being excavated outside the city, and the defense is very strong.

The height of the city wall of Yongzhou has exceeded all the city walls in Daqi, and now the city wall in Daqi, the highest like the capital city of Daqi, Luodu, is only four zhang, and the other state cities or border cities are about three zhang to three zhang five.

The city wall of Yongzhou was personally grasped by Guo Qi, and it was absolutely the best from labor to materials, and its purpose was to build a safe nest for himself.

Dusk is approaching, and the originally lively construction site is beginning to call it a day; In order to prevent unrest, Yongcheng implemented a curfew system, and when the sun set, the city gates would be closed, and if they did not leave before the city gates were closed, they had to stay in the city.

"Village chief, I have invited the prince's immortal card, let's go back quickly!" Xu Zhuzi said excitedly to the village chief.

"Everyone is together, then let's go back." The village chief said loudly.

"Village chief, I heard that this function will change titles in the future, is it true or fake?"

"Of course that's true, what the prince said, when did he deceive us."

"Then how do you change your hair?"

"I don't know about this yet, the palace hasn't posted a notice yet! But that's only for a day or two; Why don't you kid get a knighthood too! ”

"Who wouldn't! Our family has been mud legs for generations, even if I can mix with the lowest title, it will be a glorious ancestor. ”

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Hearing the conversation between these men, Guo Qi was very pleased, it was a good thing to be self-motivated, and Guo Qi also realized that the Dao title system must be determined as soon as possible.