Sun Xiangfu doesn't like to kowtow to others, and he is not used to others kowtowing to himself, so Village Chief He, who ran over to kowtow to him, was stuffed with a bowl of mutton noodle soup by him and sent it back.

Not only him, but the entire Hejia Village people are blessed, this mutton noodle soup, and a lot of green vegetables soaked in the soup, are the best food they have ever eaten in their lives.

Eating and chatting with the emperor is enough for the village chief and the villagers of Hejia Village to blow up for a lifetime, and it happened so suddenly today, without a little precaution, and without a little warning, when Li Shimin finished eating and planned to go to the next station, the villagers all went out and sent his party to the cement avenue, even if the convoy went out on the cement road, they were still looking at each other from afar.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that this matter should be written in the newspaper."

Fang Xuanling, who was also in Li Shimin's car, suggested.

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu sighed in his heart, the wise men of ancient times are really no worse than modern people! This is the importance of propaganda, and it would be better if a few reporters could be sent to Hejia Village to cover the situation and report on what the emperor did in Hejia Village in a spontaneous way.

Immediately, Sun Xiangfu was dumbfounded, because Ma Zhou had already thought of this, and he also mentioned it to Li Shimin, so Li Shimin shamelessly agreed, so the happy printing workshop took over a loss-making business, Sun Xiangfu could only sigh secretly on the side, Weinan Industrial Zone should be built quickly! After it is built, my brother will not have to suffer this kind of loss.

Li Shimin, who continued to hurry, had a strong conversation, and first mentioned to Xiao Yu and Fang Xuanling about the use of peasant children as officials, however, Sun Xiangfu refused, citing insufficient conditions.

The real children of the peasant sect have not yet graduated, and the existing adult peasant disciples, such as Sun Erli, who is now serving as the pastoral supervisor of the Department of Agriculture, can write a thousand words silently, not to mention being a political official who has to deal with a large number of documents every day.

"Your Majesty, there are several conditions that need to be met to enable the children of the peasant sect to be officials, first of all, the reform of the official system, the children of the peasant sect will only farm, let them manage other civil affairs, I am afraid that it will be a mess, so the first prerequisite is to set up a yamen in charge of agriculture, or an official position.

For example, Your Majesty, your literary attainments are profound, and it is not difficult to read "Qi Min's Techniques", but ordinary readers, if they want to read them all, they have to work hard, but if I interpret them in the vernacular, then not only readers, but also people who have not read books, can also listen and understand the truth.

What does this mean? The ways and means of recording and propagating culture and technology have fallen behind, and they are not simple and accurate enough.

Taking the Analects of Confucius as an analogy, often a sentence may have two or three meanings, and the sentences are different, and the meanings are also different, which is very inconsistent with the needs of our production and life, and should be eliminated. ”

"Elimination of the Analects?" Sun Xiangfu was speaking, Li Shimin and several ministers in the car nodded and listened, but in the end, they were all surprised.

"It's not about eliminating the Analects, it's about eliminating methods of knowledge transmission like the Analects, so why did the ancients like to record things in short words? In fact, the reason is very simple, it is not easy to make bamboo slips, pen and ink, even in the past few years, pen, ink, paper and inkstone are surprisingly expensive, not to mention the pre-Qin period.

However, until now, we are constantly solving this problem, and Happy Village has been able to produce very cheap paper, a new style of pen that is very ink-efficient to use, and in the future, no one will write with bamboo slips.

In addition, the Chinese pinyin, punctuation, etc., which were edited and compiled by Master Yu, are all things that can make knowledge more accurate when it is disseminated.

If we use the vernacular directly in the form of writing or disseminating knowledge, then all knowledge and information will be disseminated much more easily and accurately.

Say a very disrespectful word, Your Majesty, how many people in the whole world understand your holy decree? I'm afraid that there is not one among the hundreds of people, even an official like Weichen, he can only listen to a general idea, is this really good? ”

Sun Xiangfu's words came here, and in the carriage, only the sound of the wheels could be heard, and the question he said was very realistic, but it was a problem that no one had considered before.

Why were the Maisons able to monopolize literature during this period? Because the ancients made this thing too advanced and difficult to understand.

In later generations, a junior high school and high school student will already be able to master a huge amount of knowledge, but if you want them to fully read a few classical Chinese texts of the ancients, it will be difficult.

Chinese characters have multiple meanings, a huge number of homophones, Chinese, different tones, different meanings, is one of the most difficult written languages in the world to learn, this is the understanding of Chinese characters and Chinese by foreigners in later generations, if they are to learn ancient traditional Chinese characters, classical Chinese, it is estimated that their heads will explode.

What is the fundamental purpose of reading?

It's just reasonable.

So, why don't you make the book easier to understand!

It is impossible for the ancients to change their habits and cognition at once, Sun Xiangfu said these words, as long as it can cause Li Shimin and the two prime ministers in the court to reflect, even if it is to spread knowledge in the vernacular, if you want to popularize it, it is not what the imperial court can do now, the economy of the Tang Dynasty has not yet taken off, and the basic conditions are not available.

After being silent for a long time, Li Shimin took the lead in nodding and agreeing with what Sun Xiangfu said, as for whether to reform or not, how to reform, it still needs to take a long road.

The carriage continued to move forward, the chat continued, as an emperor, he could go to the countryside and visit the ordinary people in Pingtou on a windy and snowy day, Li Shimin was the first since ancient times, and he also planned to normalize this kind of thing, because Sun Xiangfu talked to him about the economic expectations of Datang in the next few years, starting from next year, Datang, at least he is royal, will not be short of money.

"Your Majesty, according to the minister's estimates, if the total tax revenue of Datang next year is converted into money, it will be at least 5 million to 8 million yuan, and you will drive a carriage to the countryside every day, even if you send it for a whole year, I am afraid that it will not be able to send a fraction, we need to make a plan." The imperial court could not hoard wealth in large quantities. ”

Sending a load of rice and noodles to each household in a village with a population of dozens of households will cost only a few tens of hundreds, even if some meat is added, it will not exceed 300 yuan, even if Li Shimin goes to three villages a day, a month, at most 30,000 yuan will be sent out, even if he does this kind of thing all year round, it is only a fraction of the total tax revenue roughly budgeted by Sun Xiangfu.

And the data that Sun Xiangfu said is the data in addition to Datang's usual expenses in the past, why can he make such a prediction? Very simply, he knows the major branches of Wangjianglou, the salted fish and bean paste workshop in Yangzhou, and the tax situation in Shanyang, and uses these large taxpayers to estimate a set of the most conservative figures based on the tax revenue of this year's disaster year.

As for the harm of the imperial court's massive hoarding of wealth, Li Shiminmin knew at the beginning of the founding of Li Tang that the national reserves of the Sui Dynasty were not abundant, and when Li Yuan's army invaded Chang'an, when he opened the treasury, he was taken aback by the contents of it, but what was the fate of such a rich Sui Dynasty?

Perish.

In ancient times, when credit money was not issued, there was a fixed amount of money, and the more money in the treasury, the less money the people had in their hands, and this was the beginning of the disaster.

If the people are poor, they will think about change, how to change? Rebellion has been.

Li Shimin figured out some things, but there were still some things that he hadn't figured out, he looked at Sun Xiangfu and asked, "How to use money, you also need to make plans?" ”

"Of course, didn't you say that the government affairs work should be done in front, how to spend money, but the most important aspect of the government affairs work, of course, must be planned."

Ma Zhou agreed very much with what Sun Xiangfu said, and continued, "Your Majesty, you have been lamenting that there is no manpower available, if the finances of the imperial court next year are really as Sun Dudu said, it seems that investment can be increased in education." ”

I heard that there is money available, in fact, Li Shimin's first thought is to expand the army, update the army equipment, etc., however, he also attaches great importance to education, at the beginning of the founding of Li Tang, he restored the national institutions such as Guozijian and Taixue, and continued to strengthen local teaching.

However, this hole may be a bit big, because although the population of Datang is only one or two million, there are hundreds or thousands of prefectures and counties, and just to establish county-level schools, it is necessary to establish thousands, and some sparsely populated counties may only have hundreds of thousands of people, who are of appropriate age, and want to read, and those who read books may only be a few, a dozen people, and want to do it in one step, not only to build a school, but also to teach the number of gentlemen, but also to thousands of people, which is not just as simple as spending a lot of money.

"Your Majesty, the minister suggests that the civic system be implemented as soon as possible, and Mr. Teaching will be classified as a first-class citizen."

In Li Shimin's carriage, there was no one who had a bad brain, Xiao Yu just thought about it for a while, and then made a suggestion.

Hearing this, Li Shimin looked at Sun Xiangfu, and he couldn't imagine that the citizenship system he came up with was a person who could be related to all aspects, and he was a literate person, who was originally a scholar and enjoyed some privileges, but according to the idea he put forward, after being classified as a second-class citizen, although the privileges were not reduced a lot, they were the same as ordinary people.

If they want to continue to maintain their privileges, they will definitely want to be first-class citizens, and to be first-class citizens, in addition to being officials, they can only teach, which will make many scholars who want social status choose this profession.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Xiao Xiang's suggestion is reasonable, not only to give them first-class citizenship, but also to give them a high salary, so that knowledge can be popularized in our Datang, when there are more literate people, we will have the conditions to do more things, so even if it is next year's taxes, half of them will be invested in education, it is worth it."

As the so-called century-old plan, education-oriented, Sun Xiangfu, a person from later generations, has seen the precedent, and he did not hesitate to speak up.

"So, what about the other half?"

After hearing Sun Xiangfu's positive suggestion, Li Shimin asked him again.

"Of course, it's people's livelihood and infrastructure!" Sun Xiangfu replied without thinking about it.

The meaning of the word people's livelihood is actually very general, it can be production technology, medical technology, clothing, food, housing and transportation, etc., almost including all of a country.

With a good people's livelihood, the growth rate and centripetal force of the entire country's wealth will be greatly improved, and at that time, the country's strength in all aspects will be raised to a new height.

As for infrastructure, it is a guarantee for the development of people's livelihood, and the prerequisite for becoming a developed country is complete infrastructure, of course, what is the standard of this completeness, in the heart of Sun Xiangfu and in the hearts of these ancients in the car, there are different standards, he does not dare to imagine that he can do the same as later generations, but at least, to keep up with the needs of people's livelihood development in this period.