"This is a solution, but the king, the imperial court will definitely include the land of Baiyue into the territory in the future, if they are too enslaved now, the minister is worried that it will be detrimental to the future rule."

Yin said with some concern.

Yang Hao couldn't help but groan when he heard this, Yin's worries were not unreasonable, although the land of Baiyue was still in the barbaric stage, but one day this would inevitably be his own territory, and he didn't want to face one resistance after another after conquering there.

After thinking about it carefully, Yang Hao said: "In this way, if we give those Yue people a promise, as long as they can obey the order within five years of digging the canal, it is better than violating my laws of Daqi, we can let these people get the status of Qi people after five years, and all rights are the same as the people of my Qi country, how about this?" ”

Yin thought for a while and said, "The king is high! ”

Yang Hao smiled: "In this case, I will write out the detailed plan in the next few days, and discuss it with the ministers during the court meeting, this is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, if it can be completed, it will also be of great benefit to the rule of my Great Qi, and the specific money spent will be calculated by Aiqing." ”

Yin said in a deep voice: "The king can rest assured, the minister will live up to his trust." ”

The Baiyue people, who were thousands of miles away, didn't know that without their knowledge, their fate was decided by a simple discussion between the two people.

This has to be said to be the sorrow of the weak, whose fate is completely out of their own hands.

In the future, in the face of heavy labor, people may buy thousands of people and help the exploiters, showing the appearance of gratitude.

Yang Hao knew that he was an outright exploiter, he was, and still is.

It's just that compared with other exploiters, Yang Hao has a natural advantage.

In this era when the people's wisdom has not been developed, their own exploitation seems so noble, after all, when they are exploiting, they can still give these poor people a mouthful of food.

But no matter how he whitewashed his behavior, he knew very well in his heart that as long as he sat in this position, this was something he had to do.

Not to mention the current era of extreme scarcity of materials, even in the era of highly developed science and technology in his previous life, the utopian model of society is only a utopian dream.

The communist harmony is Yang Hao's beautiful expectation for his country.

But at the same time, he is also a realistic person, and he understands that the rice has to be eaten one bite at a time, and it is easy to pull the eggs if the steps are too big.

For example, the north-south Grand Canal, which is about to be dug up, is expected to take nearly 20 years, and this construction period is only a conservative estimate, and perhaps the actual excavation will take much longer than this time.

In another time and space, although Yang Guang spent seven or eight years excavating, the canal dug by this buddy was expanded on the basis of several dynasties.

With the population size and technical level of the Sui Dynasty taking seven or eight years, it is conceivable that the canal project is not an easy task.

Yang Hao dared to do this because he was confident that his country's organizational ability and mobilization ability were far stronger than those of the Sui Dynasty, even if the population was insufficient, but in terms of tools, it had far surpassed the original Sui Dynasty.

After so many years of development, gunpowder has been improved several times, and its power has reached the limit of Qi technology.

With the assistance of gunpowder and other other tools, the canal was built in more than 20 years, and Yang Hao did not think it was a fantasy.

As long as it does not affect the people's livelihood, Daqi will not make the people miserable because of the tyrannical expropriation like Emperor Yang of Sui, and there is no family to hinder him.

After several comparisons, Yang Hao's exit is definitely much better than Yang Guang's.

As soon as the canal was opened, there were four trade passages between the north and south of the Qi country.

One is the sea route, the second is the railway and official road, and the third is the North-South Grand Canal.

On the day when all three passages are completed, Qi's control over the country will reach a level beyond the reach of all feudal dynasties.

can't help but be so, another big killer that can enhance his ability to rule is still in the pipeline.

As long as all these are realized, the dream of ruling 9.6 million ordinary kilometers will become a reality.

These things, as long as you get them out before you die.

will build an impregnable empire for their heirs.

As long as there is no civil strife, Yang Hao even feels that his Great Qi has hope of breaking the cycle of reincarnation of the feudal dynasty for hundreds of years.

He doesn't want Daqi to be able to do everything in one system, to inherit it for seven or eight hundred years, and to work all his life in vain.

A few days later, Yang Hao brought the complete canal construction plan to the court meeting to discuss it with hundreds of officials.

As the saying goes, one person counts short, and two people count long. The three of them are easy to discuss.

Although the officials did not have Yang Hao's foresight, they were able to put forward some practical methods, and they could also find some problems that Yang Hao was not aware of.

The court meeting discussed for three days around this huge project, and initially listed the problems that could be thought of at present, and came up with practical solutions.

The project was finalized, and Yang Hao's plan was to start construction at the same time from the north and south ends at the beginning of next year.

The northernmost point is where Beijing was located, and the southernmost point is the edge of the Yangtze River.

Although the specific construction plan has been preliminarily finalized, there are still many times that have not been resolved.

For example, the officials in charge of the construction, the recruitment of Vietnamese personnel, etc., these must be resolved before the construction next year.

The various departments, which had been idle for a long time, immediately began to get busy.

The promotion of Daqi is based on political performance, and this project with a long time span is undoubtedly an excellent way for them to gain political capital for themselves.

Officials, big and small, all sharpened their heads and wanted to get involved.

There is competition, talent will be motivated, Yang Hao is very satisfied with the official's proactive attitude.

In May of the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu reported the number of applicants for this year's imperial examination.

Yang Hao was only a little surprised when he saw it, the number of applicants for the imperial examination this year was obviously much higher than in previous years.

Last year, the number of people taking the imperial examination was 1,700, but this year it has suddenly exceeded 3,000.

Compared to the empire with a population of nearly five or six million, 3,000 people did not seem to be much, but these 3,000 people were only qualified to participate in the imperial examination, and the fact that they were able to register successfully showed that these candidates had passed a series of local selection examinations.

This is all based on a large number of students, so it is not difficult to imagine that the literacy rate of Qi is increasing rapidly.

Yang Hao was quite pleased with this, and he was able to do this in more than ten years, thanks to the three-year compulsory education and the popularization of paper implemented by the imperial court.

In particular, paper and printing have made the cost of knowledge dissemination extremely low.

The reduction of illiteracy is definitely a thing worth celebrating for Yang Hao, who pursues science and technology to rejuvenate the country.