Time flies, and half a year has passed in a blink of an eye.

Last year's autumn harvest was quite satisfactory, the local grain output of Cangguo was twice as much as before, and the rest of the places also obtained a bumper harvest, and Cangguo's grain reserves were more than double that of before.

The land of prosperity that was won last time has also been managed by major departments, and the negative impact has basically been eliminated.

The most gratifying thing is that after the war, the economy of Cangguo has recovered very well, in the past six months, there have been more caravans dealing with Cangguo, and they are more prosperous than before, weaving mills, printing houses, paper mills, these three factories of Cangguo's economic pillars, can be said to be making money every day, and it is also the key to opening the door to diplomacy.

In addition, Cangguo also has a factory that is not open to the public, that is, the steel plant.

Steel, known as the mother of modern industry on the earth, steel production is an important indicator of a country's economic strength, especially in the twentieth century, the industry of various countries is directly according to the steel output constant.

In Cangguo, blast furnace ironmaking requires cement and coal, and the technology of Cangguo is not very mature at present, so it can only retreat to the second best thing and use the steel filling method.

Moreover, in the steel filling method is the most advanced cold calcination method, that is, the iron is not heated directly forging, after such forging iron, not only the surface is black and bright, but also particularly hard, the first to discover this forging process in history is the Tibetan people in China, due to trade to the Northern Song Dynasty, at that time, this cold forging method was used to create a large number of high-quality armor equipment army.

Cangguo steelmaking technology, on this basis, combines the advantages and disadvantages of various steelmaking methods, adds several processes, and the efficiency is amazingly high, and it can be said that the sharpest sword is currently the best in terms of quality, and the quality is not so good.

Of the four factories, the steel mill was very polluting, so it was built in the countryside, and a steady stream of weapons of war were made every day, and then entered the treasury of the military department.

Among them, of course, there is the credit of the steel plant, but the most important thing is the support of the imperial court.

The most obvious thing is that Sheng Guo's indemnity of 20 million taels of silver was directly divided into two parts, 10 million taels to the Ministry of War and 10 million taels to the Ministry of Education.

With the money in hand, the military department directly invested 3 million taels of it in the steel mill, and ordered a large number of weapons, enough to equip an army of 300,000 people.

Yang Mu sat in the Zichen Hall and flipped through the latest issue of the newspaper.

Recently, the performance of the Ministry of Education in the DPRK and China has been the most remarkable, holding two literacy conferences in succession, and dozens of schools have been established in the newly conquered territory, which has directly led to the soaring literacy rate of Cangguo, and the number of literate people has approached 2 million.

This is a very scary statistic!

You must know that the population of the Jin Kingdom is nearly 100 million, and the literate population is only one million, and the literacy rate is one percent, while the current population of the Cang Kingdom is more than seven million, which is equivalent to the literacy rate directly reaching 14 percent, which is 14 times that of the Jin Kingdom!

Throw out a few streets!

This is not a miracle, but a real pile of money and resources.

Throughout the ages, no country has linked reading and literacy to making money and status, no country has placed education on an equal footing with the military, and no country has had a steady stream of money in its accounts to support the development of such a system.

The remarkable results of the literacy campaign in Cangguo are expected.

Nowadays, all the people of Cangguo are convinced of one thing, that is, Chinese culture.

In the Cangguo homeland, everyone believes that the ancestors originated in this land countless years ago, forming the first country, the name is Huaxia, everyone is its descendants, but due to the age is too long, the historical materials have been lost, until now His Majesty the Emperor of Cangguo has returned to the destiny of heaven and obtained the dream of the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of China......

If at the beginning, some people in the Shengguo land occupied by Cangguo still had a little psychological resistance, but after this concept was instilled, it was almost a brainwashing effect, and the last bit of psychological resistance disappeared.

After all, we all have the same ancestry, wasn't it the same country many years ago? It's just that different countries were slowly formed later, and taking a step back, everyone is still the people of the Dali Dynasty after all.

It is true that this kind of thinking was just a kind of self-comfort at first, but in the end, after being brainwashed by the school and the "Dacang Times", it has been completely accepted.

"Hmm...... There's been a lot going on in this time. Yang Mu stretched and couldn't help but complain.

The most obvious thing is that in the past, he could still take a comfortable bath every once in a while, but now he doesn't even have time to go to Yuling Palace, and the thirty-eight nobles in the harem have not been pampered for several months, and Miaoxi's abrasive little goblin is even more afraid to touch it.

This made Yang Mu, who had already cultivated Changchun Gong, often feel upset, feeling listless, and needed a big battle to recover.

After thinking about it, Yang Mu felt that major local government affairs took up a lot of his time.

Cangguo now has hundreds of cities, but they are still at the county level, and each place hands an excerpt, that is, more than 100 ways, plus the twelve departments of the imperial court, large and small affairs, and the folds to be dealt with after the court meeting are piled up as high as a hill, not to mention resting after the review, and even the next day has to be busy for this.

It would be meaningless to be an emperor if it was just for the purpose of reviewing the excerpts.

It's time for reform......

At the court meeting on the second day, Yang Mu expressed this meaning.

Immediately, the courtiers had different opinions and discussed the matter enthusiastically, and various methods were available.

In everyone's opinion, this move is nothing more than to reduce the trouble of His Majesty the Emperor's approval.

As a result, it was proposed to create a new department dedicated to the review of the memorabilia.

It was suggested that the Jin state should be emulated and that power should be delegated to each county.

Even Kong Shangxian, who has always had the most ideas, did not have good suggestions.

"All Aiqing's proposals have a certain amount of truth, but they are too conservative, now there are only a hundred cities in Cangguo, and it can still work, but if there is a future territory to open up, what will happen? Therefore, I have a way in mind to classify the local government. ”

Grading?

As soon as these words came out, some people immediately realized something.

"Your Majesty wants to emulate the State of Chu?" Kong Shangxian asked.

Yang Mu nodded and said: "There are big and small countries, and the territory of Chu is vast, so it is an extremely effective method to divide all parts into more than a dozen plates and manage them in layers. I thought that it was possible to set up county towns throughout the country and administer the county towns under its rule. ”