A convoy of vehicles speeds past on a newly repaired asphalt lane.

Emperor Hu Zhen was followed by civil affairs officials such as Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, and Zhang Suan.

Although there are groups of big coffees, according to Hu Zhen's usual style, only a few small and medium-sized buses are arranged, and outsiders think that it is just a convoy with a group of old men going for business inspections from the appearance of this team.

The front three and last three medium-sized commercial vans were covered with black curtains, and the guards loaded with live ammunition were watching everything on the side of the road through the cracks in the curtains with vigilant eyes.

In the middle of the convoy, the curtains of a medium-sized commercial bus were ajar, and there were guards sitting by the window, and Hu Zhen and others were clustered in the middle.

Hu Zhen looked out the window and was silent, but he scolded fiercely in his heart:

What a bullshit emperor! O great man! O saints! It's just a special worker who brings people the shackles of unfreedom! I think back then, how comfortable it was for Lao Tzu to drive his own car on the highway, and now Nima is riding in this old-fashioned classic car......

But the other people in the car were inexplicably excited, and most of them were on patrol with the emperor in this kind of business car for the first time.

"This big palanquin...... Car, don't ......" Old man Zhang Zhidong still habitually said wrong, but he immediately corrected it with quick thinking...... This business car and passenger car are really good, faster than a horse galloping, but more comfortable than a sedan chair! ”

"How? Do you want to write a poem? Li Hongzhang, who was sitting next to him, knew that the new emperor Hu Zhen didn't mind the courtiers chatting next to him, so he said jokingly.

"The wheels are running too fast, and the old man's brain can't keep up!"

"This is also true, the speed of this vehicle and the train is too fast, it can achieve thousands of miles in day and night, and the flying machines flying in the sky are even more incredible, almost instantaneous, if the old man thinks that the empire is not big, but is getting smaller and smaller! Years ago, I never dreamed of such a day! ”

"Yes, as the Prime Minister said, this is an unprecedented change in China for 3,000 years!" There were several old men sitting in the same car, and when they heard this exclamation, they also echoed it.

Hu Zhen listened to the words of the old courtiers, shook his head and said, "This speed is not fast enough!" ”

"Huh?" The old men looked suspicious in their eyes at His Majesty's dissatisfaction.

"Now the speed of the car I sit in with everyone is only forty or fifty kilometers per hour, which is very slow, and the average speed of trains in the country is not more than thirty-eight kilometers per hour, which is as slow as a snail crawling, which is far from enough!" Hu Zhen didn't bother to look at everyone's expressions, looked out of the car, and continued:

"In the future, highways will be built across the country to make cars travel at speeds of more than 100 kilometers per hour, and trains will continue to increase their speed to reach speeds of more than 150 kilometers per hour......

"How can this be done? What if Europe and the United States can't do it now? Someone couldn't help but ask.

Hu Zhen was annoyed when he heard this: "If Europe and the United States can't do it, can't the Huaxia Empire do it......"

The person who spoke was a young official, a rare intellectual, who had traveled through Europe and the United States among the former Qing officials, and when he heard that Hu Zhen was angry, he quickly stood up from his seat and knelt down to confess: "The minister is lying nonsense!" ”

Unexpectedly, he was stopped by Hu Zhen stretching out his hand: "It's not necessary to confess!" I don't blame you, after all, from the crow. At the beginning of the war, Huaxia suffered heavy blows from the European white army again and again, and lost to the small Oriental Japanese in the First Sino-Japanese War, and the confidence accumulated by the ancestors for thousands of years has long been beaten without a trace! The past is gone, from now on, the Chinese Empire must build confidence! ”

"Yes, what the emperor said is extremely true, there is no difference between the Chinese and the European people in intelligence, it is not difficult to surpass the European countries in the industrial machinery manufacturing revolution, now the difficulty is that the education level of the personnel of our Chinese Empire is too low, in the process of building railways and managing railways, not only are there not enough senior engineers and technicians, but even qualified basic workers are not enough, we have to spend a lot of time in our daily work to organize training, but the Chinese blindness rate of grassroots workers is too high, and we don't know where to start when training." , can only start with the most basic primary school cultural learning! ”

Everyone turned their heads and saw that it was Zhan Tianyou, Minister of Communications, who had been working on railway construction for many years, and he had the most say in the cultural quality of the people in mainland China.

"It is difficult to quickly improve the cultural quality of all the people, but if you want to improve the youth of the people, there are ways to improve them!"

Everyone shifted their eyes again and found that the person who spoke this time was Su Wenzhen, the chief of the general staff of the imperial army who was accompanying the emperor. ”

"It's very simple, just expand the size of the army directly!"

"What is the relationship between expanding the size of the armed forces and improving the cultural quality of the people?" Everyone was stunned.

Su Wenzhen glanced at Hu Zhen, saw the emperor's encouraging eyes on him, and said: "The current army soldiers are completely different from the primitive army soldiers who specialized in dirty work back then, and the advanced weapons of the modern army, navy, and air force all need soldiers with good cultural quality to operate, otherwise the power of these weapons will be greatly reduced, and even become a pile of waste......

Some people were very unimpressed by this, and before Su Wenzhen finished speaking, he said: "It is true that the army needs soldiers with good cultural quality, but there is no direct relationship between expanding the size of the army and rapidly improving the cultural quality of the people?" ”

Su Wenzhen: "Our Chinese army, from the first day of its establishment in Nanyang, is not only a melting pot for high-ranking generals, but also a huge machine that turns all grassroots soldiers into literate and skilled workers!" ”

Zhan Tianyou, who was next to him, nodded in agreement: "Indeed, the personnel who work in the railway industry after retiring from the army not only have the best discipline, but also have a certain cultural foundation, and they are the fastest to cultivate. ”

"Well, many of the teachers in primary and secondary schools across the country are selected from veterans for accelerated training!" Zhang Zhidong was helpless about the lack of teachers in the construction of imperial schools, but he was satisfied with the way teachers were selected from among the retired military personnel.

"Why is that?" People who are not familiar with the inside of the Huaxia Army think it is very strange, how can the army become a school, and even the teachers of primary and secondary schools are selected from among the soldiers, which is something that has never happened in China?