"Cut. is worthy of being the founding monarch of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan realized the importance of craftsmen to himself so early, this is really a bit unexpected, it seems that the so-called hierarchical division of agriculture and commerce in ancient times is not so strict? These ruling classes will still forget all hierarchies when they really need to, which is a shadow of the capitalists' idea of the primacy of interests. After reading the information provided by Qiu Niang, Li Wenyuan joked to Qiu Niang with a smile.

"Among the rulers who can rush out of the mountains of corpses and blood in the troubled times, which one of them is given for nothing? They are all human spirits among human spirits, and those small conspiracy tricks may be able to confuse them for a while. However, it is not a long-term solution, and they will quickly find the problems they are facing, either by themselves or by the analysis of the think tanks around them, and very quickly find the best way to alleviate the difficulties they face. No, Li Yuan collected a large number of craftsmen from all over the country, and after gathering all of them in Chang'an City, he immediately began to select a site on the outskirts of Chang'an City to build a new school. Tang Wang, you heard it right, it's the school. Li Yuan: This is to emulate our educational behavior in the Western Regions. Li Yuan is ready to recruit people from the private sector who are willing to learn the crafts of these craftsmen, and give them a certain living allowance, hoping that in this way, the collected craftsmen can teach more craftsmen and apprentices. In this way, in another year or two, these apprentices will be able to learn the craft and follow their teacher to build all kinds of sophisticated weapons for Li Yuan and his army. However, it is also fortunate that we have collected a large number of craftsmen from the Central Plains region in advance, otherwise Li Yuan would have found more than these more than 800 craftsmen this time. After listening to Li Wenyuan's words, Qiu Niang frowned and said.

"It's a good thing that Li Yuan cultivates craftsmen by himself, and when the time comes, when we attack Guanzhong. The number of craftsmen Li Yuan has cultivated is equivalent to how many craftsmen he has given to us. Why don't we do this kind of thing? Since it is the time for Li Yuan to employ people, can we make some articles among these craftsman apprentices? Li Wenyuan lowered his head and thought for a while, and then raised his head and said to Qiu Niang in front of him.

"Your Royal Highness King Tang, do you mean to ask us night owls to find some people who can work for us among those apprentice craftsmen, so that when these people enter Li Yuan's army to build weapons for them, they will pass back the corresponding news to us, right?" After listening to Li Wenyuan's words, Qiu Niang said with some feelings.

"It's about the same, but what I want you night stalkers to do is not to recruit those Artisan apprentices to join our ranks, what I want you to do is to add Night Stalkers to those Artisan apprentices. In this way, even the most trivial information can be collected. After all, you night owls are professionally trained spies, and those craftsmen are only a few second-hand knives, and not only may they not be able to collect any useful information, but they may even expose themselves. When the time comes, I will inevitably have another verbal fight with Li Yuan, I don't have the leisure and energy. Anyway, it's up to you night owls to do it yourself. Li Wenyuan shook his head, and then told Qiu Niang his thoughts.

After hearing Li Wenyuan's words, Qiu Niang nodded, saying that she would focus on arranging this aspect of the work next, and then she would retire to Li Wenyuan and prepare the relevant materials of these people. Although Li Yuan's ability and experience in counter-espionage are not as experienced and clever as those of Qiu Niang and Li Wenyuan from later generations. However, thanks to the household registration management in the Sui period, Li Yuan's forces, who took over the various materials left by the Sui Dynasty, also had a very tight control over the people in the territory, so if Qiu Niang wanted to send her night owls to Li Yuan's territory, she still needed to prepare some information related to the disguise of identity for these night owls. What's more, the final destination of this trip is near Li Yuan's capital Chang'an, these disguised identity materials naturally need to be more cautious and perfect, after all, at the foot of the imperial city, it is not a joke, and if you are not careful, it will be detected, and the gains will outweigh the losses at that time.

There is no need to elaborate on how Qiu Niang prepared the relevant identity disguise information, and how to select the shrewd and capable night owl to go to Li Yuan's Chang'an. Looking back at Li Yuan's side, in fact, for Li Yuan, there are still some difficulties in setting up a school in China. After all, Yang Guang was too radical in reforming this aspect of education, so he was abandoned by the Shandong scholars who were challenged by their interests and turned to support others. But fortunately, the main purpose of Li Yuan's new school this time was to train craftsmen. Since ancient times, the division of agriculture and commerce has made these nobles' views on craftsmen very deep-rooted. In their eyes, craftsmen belong to the lower ninth rate industry, and the conflict of interest with themselves is almost zero, and Li Yuan's current rule really lacks craftsmen who can build sophisticated weapons. Therefore, Li Yuan's idea of building a new school to encourage craftsmen was also strongly supported by these Guanlong nobles. As a result, the first school in Li Yuan was officially settled in an open space outside Chang'an City.

After Li Yuan provided all kinds of benefits and promises, some people who had no land to cultivate rushed to Chang'an City. In fact, what attracted these people the most was the policy that a family with one craftsman could exempt two relatives from military service, and now in troubled times, all those who serve as soldiers and wars are living a life of death with no tomorrow today. Therefore, as soon as I heard that I could not only make money after becoming a craftsman, but also exempt my two relatives from military service, they naturally came to sign up for school training at this time. A large number of idle people flocked to Chang'an City, which brought great burdens and hidden dangers to the security of Chang'an City. However, in order to restrain these people who came to sign up for the school as much as possible, the investigation of these people by the government under Li Yuan's order was basically just a formality, and no one went into deep questioning. So among the first batch of nearly 2,000 students, Qiu Niang successfully installed nearly 400 night owls. The identities of these night owls were all in the territory of Liang Shidu in the north, in order to avoid the war between Liang Shidu and Li Wenyuan, they fled south and came to Li Yuan's territory. Because I don't have the skills to eat, I came to sign up for school training, and I want to learn a craftsman's trade, so that I can eat a full meal in the future.