The time entered October of the fifth year of Tai'an.

At the court meeting that day, Zhang Lingyang promulgated an important decree: in addition to the royal academy in the capital, the branches of the royal academy were set up in Luoyang, Chengdu, Wuhan, and Jiangning, and at least one primary and secondary school was established in each province to learn Western science and technology.

When the ministers heard this, what else did they do?

The original Royal Academy, they were already turning one eye open and one eye closed. If this continues, I am afraid that Confucianism will decline.

So the ministers went to the court one after another.

"Your Majesty, Xiyi is doing some strange and obscene skills, if you continue like this, I am afraid that it will be disadvantageous to your family and country!" Chen Yiming, the secretary of the ministry, came out and objected.

Zhu Kaishan, the head of the household, also stood up, "Your Majesty, Weichen supports Chen Shangshu's opinion, Xiyi's strange and obscene skills not only mislead people's children, but more importantly, it takes too much money to build these schools. Treasury...... The treasury can't come up with so much for the time being. ”

In fact, Zhang Lingyang knows how much money the treasury has. Since the increase in tax revenues, the treasury has become richer. But I spend more money every year.

On the whole, the treasury is indeed a little stretched, but to say that he can't even get the money to build the school, Zhang Lingyang doesn't believe it at all.

Speaking of which, these ministers of the DPRK and China have always believed that Western science and technology are all strange and obscene techniques, and they are not worth talking about at all.

In the eyes of these ministers, apart from the classics of the Four Books and the Five Classics, which book is not crooked?

If Zhang Lingyang's announcement today was to build a school for students to study the Four Books and the Five Classics, I am afraid that these ministers would have been singing praises of virtue with joy.

"It seems that the conservative thinking of these ministers cannot be changed!" In his heart, Zhang Lingyang was full of disappointment with the ministers of the DPRK and China: conservative in thought and unwilling to forge ahead, with such a minister here, Da Zhou wants to make great progress, which is tantamount to a fool's dream.

But for a while, Zhang Lingyang couldn't find a suitable replacement. If these ministers are dismissed, those who come up behind them will only be afraid to have the same understanding as them. Don't change people who don't reuse it more and more, that's bad.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lingyang did not reprimand these ministers, but said directly: "Since the treasury is not enough money, then use the money from the treasury, no matter what, when the spring begins next year, I want to see the opening of primary and secondary schools in various places!" ”

After thinking about it, Zhang Lingyang instructed Xiao Fuzi again: "Xiao Fuzi, go and draw up another will, when the spring begins next year, the students in primary and secondary schools around the country must be full." If the scholar is not willing to go to school, he will recruit Xiucai to enroll, and if Xiucai is not willing, he will recruit children, and if he is not willing, then he will recruit peasant children to enroll. I still don't believe it, there are so many people in the world, and a few schools are still not recruiting people.

In addition, I will notify Han Xiao, the commander of Jinyiwei, and order Jinyiwei to strictly supervise the construction and enrollment of primary and secondary schools in various places. If someone dares to fool me, there is no need to return the courtesy, and they will be directly sent to the Jinyi Guard's prison! ”

"Slaves obey!"

The above words were said by Zhang Lingyang because he was angry, but it is better to say that Zhang Lingyang deliberately said them to these ministers.

If these ministers pass on some news that should not be passed on to the below, and as a result, primary and secondary schools in various places will not be able to recruit people next year, or they will recruit some crooked melons and cracked dates, then Zhang Lingyang will cry.

By the end of this year, the first batch of students enrolled in the Great Zhou Royal Academy will graduate.

Except for half of the first batch of students of the Royal Academy, who will enter the factory as technicians, Zhang Lingyang plans to disperse them to primary and secondary schools in various places to serve as teachers.

This time next year, Zhang Lingyang plans to open primary and secondary schools in all provinces across the country, because there will be tens of thousands of students graduating from the Royal Academy next year.

If this continues, within five years, all counties across the country will be able to build enough primary and secondary schools.

In fact, among the students who graduated from the Great Zhou Royal Academy, there is actually no one who can really be called a top scientific and technological talent.

In fact, if you think about this carefully, you can understand that no matter how young these students are, after all, they have read sage books since they were children, and they have cultivated top scientific and technological talents in just three years, and they can understand it with their butts, which is simply impossible.

Because of this, Zhang Lingyang had no intention of leaving a student to engage in scientific research.

In addition to the Royal Academy, Zhang Lingyang also planned to build a Royal Academy of Medicine and a Royal Agricultural College on the outskirts of the new capital, Luoyang.

It's just because there are all kinds of medical books now, and they have to be classified into categories before they can be officially enrolled.

As for the agricultural college, it is actually similar to the medical school, or even inferior to the medical school. After all, for thousands of years, there have been many medical books circulating in the world, but there are very few books on agriculture.

Now, several teams of scholars from the Royal Academy have traveled to various parts of the Great Zhou to investigate the local geography, climate, and hydrological conditions, in preparation for the preparation of agricultural books in the future.

Zhang Lingyang, who came from later generations, deeply understood the truth that no army is not strong, no business is not rich, no work is not prosperous, and no agriculture is unstable, and even, among these industries, agriculture occupies the most important position.

If you can't even eat enough, if the world is not in chaos, even if you burn high incense, who has the money to do other things?

So Zhang Lingyang set a small goal for himself, that is, after ten years, there will be no hunger in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

If the wind and rain are good, it will not be difficult to achieve this situation within ten years, after all, from now on, people everywhere have their own land.

But the difficulty is difficult, maybe if one day, there is a large-scale natural disaster in the country, resulting in a reduction in grain production, then what can be done?

Don't worry, in order to prevent this from happening, Zhang Lingyang plans to set up reserve grain depots in various places. These grain depots were all made of cement in order to prevent unforeseen needs.

In addition, starting this year, Zhang Lingyang already plans to start importing rice and other rations from several vassal countries in Southeast Asia.

Once there is enough food in the country, the people will naturally not go hungry.

In order to achieve this goal as soon as possible, Zhang Lingyang sometimes even thought of simply sending a group of farmers to Southeast Asia to farm land.

After all, when it comes to farming, there is no country in the world where people can compare with the people.

Besides, the small countries in Southeast Asia now are actually completely dependent on the sky for food, grabbing a handful of seeds and sprinkling them in the ground, even if they are done, they will not weed or plough the land during the period, and they will wait for a bumper grain harvest.

However, the land there is fertile enough and the rain is abundant, so the grain production is much more than the intensively cultivated farmland of the Great Zhou.

Sometimes Zhang Lingyang thought that such fertile land in the hands of those lazy people was really tyrannical, so he had an idea in his heart......