The King of Wei and the accompanying Wei people have always been able to see the prosperity and prosperity of Taoqiu only from the surface of their daily lives, and they cannot see the powerful power hidden in the depths of the entire Taoqiu. However, Wei Xianggong Sun Yan is different, this famous man with both strategic vision and unique military insights can see Tao Qiujun's ambition!

In the richly decorated house in the palace, Gongsun Yan turned a blind eye to everything, and instead focused on the few newspapers in front of him.

"The sovereign received the delegation of King Xiang of Wei, and the King of Wei personally promised to ensure the neutrality of Taoqiu among the countries!" That's the headline in the Taoqiu Daily.

"Affected by the arrival of the envoy of the Prime Minister of Wei, the price of grain on the exchange rose by 5 percentage points yesterday!" This newspaper is a report of the Taoqiu Business Daily.

"The government of the king of Taoqiu shocked the Wei State!" This is an article by the Confucian Sage Newspaper that the Dao, Mo, and Nongjia families rose in Taoqiu, and gradually lost their right to speak, and had to frantically curry favor with Taoqiuyi.

"When a delegation from our Wei Kingdom arrived at Taoqiu, the views of this individual tree species appeared in the newspapers. With such a newspaper, why should the superior be deceived by others! Gongsun Yan muttered there while looking at the newspapers.

Once a great good creation of the Qin State, and now it has become the Xiangguo of the Wei State, Gongsun Yan is no longer surprised by the scene of bullying and concealment in the officialdom. As a famous general, he can deeply understand the importance of information integrity for decision-makers! When King Qi Wei promulgated the Xu Min Defamation Law, he, as a young scholar, felt that this was the bearing that only a Ming monarch could have. But when he became the decision-maker himself, he felt that such a decree could not exist for a long time, because although it allowed the people at the bottom to speak their minds, its efficiency was too low, which made it easy to become a superficial decree!

And there is no such thing as a newspaper. Gongsun Yan can even guess Dai Yan's daily office situation, and let people collect a few newspapers on the market every day, and after reading them, they can basically understand the thoughts of Taoqiu people from all walks of life!

This is the best way to solve the problem of "the king's concealment"! Efficient, yet easy!

In the years that had passed, the emergence of new institutions, the new output, and the rise of the merchants had turned the entire pottery hill upside down. However, just as the Celestial Empire has become the world's largest industrial country in later generations, there are still people at home and abroad who believe that the Celestial Empire is in an extremely backward state, and the blockage of information dissemination and people's prejudices will spontaneously hinder the spread of these news.

Let the meeting of the prime minister be held in Taoqiu, and take the initiative to let the high-level leaders of various countries come to Taoqiu to see this change in Taoqiu, in fact, it is conducive to Taoqiu spreading this influence. Even if some kings do not recognize the wealth and cultural prosperity of Taoqiu because of the pride in their hearts, it is still profitable to promote Taoqiu's advanced equipment and help Taoqiu merchants pull some business! For example, the porcelain factory in Taoqiu has already received orders from the Wei court to make unique tiles, bathtubs, toilets, etc. for the various palaces of the Wei king, isn't this a huge business?

Gongsun Yan's impression of Taoqiu in the past few years was actually mostly hearsay. He didn't have time to pay attention to the changes that had taken place in such a small city in the east of the Wei Kingdom, but this change over the years really shocked him, and he paid more attention to everything in the entire Taoqiu!

Seeing the raging black smoke not far from the palace, when Gongsun Yan knew that this place was the ironworks in Taoqiu, he immediately proposed to Dai Yan that he wanted to visit this place, Dai Yan was very vigilant about this, and rejected Gongsun Yan's request in a tactful but clear manner.

In order to appease the emotions of this famous man who promoted the cooperation of the five countries, Dai Yan also had to make concessions in some aspects. He opened the porcelain factory and some civilian shipyards to Gongsun Yan for a visit, originally thought that this celebrity would refuse, but Gongsun Yan immediately agreed!

When Gongsun Yan saw the porcelain factory, from the selection of incoming materials, to kneading mud, drawing blanks, printing blanks, drying blanks, carving, glazing, firing kilns and then painting, the entire porcelain production was completed, and every step was divided and organized by a special person! This kind of professionalism reminded him of the art of war, when he was training in the Qin State, he actually used this method, training elite soldiers, and letting professional soldiers do professional things!

And for the shipyard, he saw a much bigger picture. As a person with a keen sense of smell, although he only saw the process of assembling the ship in the shipyard, and could not see the production of various parts of the hull in other factories, he could also guess the intention of the person who designed this system: secrecy and efficiency!

Gongsun Yan could see in his eyes that if there was a war in the future, the entire shipyard in Taoqiu would appear in a steady stream under the order of Taoqiu Jun, and fill the entire Jishui and Heze, and consume the enemy to death through a steady stream of materials from various countries!

Obviously, this kind of statecraft is different from the agriculture-oriented Legalists such as Qin and Wei, but another kind of governance with craftsmen and merchants as the main body: "New Legalists"!

Although such a system has never really exerted its own strength to fight a war, Gongsun Yan's vision let him know that if such a new Legalist can gather as many people as possible, then its efficiency will inevitably be higher than that of gathering peasants in a vast territory, and its explosive power will be even stronger!

Subsequently, Gongsun Yan went to visit the school in Taoqiu. For this item, Dai Yan originally just wanted to open Taoqiu University for Gongsun Yan to visit, but this celebrity was not interested in a college similar to the Linzi Jixia School Palace, and he insisted on visiting Taoqiu's primary and secondary schools.

In elementary school, he saw children as young as a few years old learning about various cultures in the mornings in the classroom, and in the afternoons, they would go outside to run for endurance, line up to strengthen order, and learn skills like swordsman and archery!

He even inquired in detail about Le Yi, the captain of the Taoqiu cavalry who accompanied him on a tour of the primary school, and learned that the primary schools that Taoqiu had established in the past few years were all built by his own lord and even borrowed money from merchants!

For compulsory education, Gongsun Yan almost didn't have to guess to know what a powerful policy it was! As a military general who commands the army, he has a very deep understanding of the quality of soldiers, and the higher the basic quality of a soldier, the stronger the combat effectiveness of this soldier will inevitably be!

Why was the Wei Wushu trained by Wu Qi able to defeat the 500,000 army of the Qin State with a mere 50,000 people? Isn't it because Wei Wushu are all carefully selected soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the common people of Qin?

In Gongsun Yan's eyes, the most powerful army should be composed of the army with the best physical fitness, the strongest desire to fight, and firm beliefs! He had trained a specific army, an army of all long-term training of non-commissioned officers, and an army of 500 men could defeat an army of more than 10,000 peasants!

In his vision, if a country's army was composed entirely of soldiers who had been trained for a long time, then such an army would be absolutely invincible! But such a thought has always been a luxury in his mind!

After all, the number of scholars in a country is limited after all, and no matter how strong the monarch's financial resources are, he cannot support too many soldiers. If they are recruited from various countries, and because the scholars have too many ideas, they have not undergone a long period of training, and their combat effectiveness is also limited.

The martial arts of the Qi State are the best examples, although there are many scholars among them, when it comes to the physical fitness and combat skills of the technical fighters, even Wei Wushu may not be able to compare. However, it is because these recruited soldiers have too many ideas and cannot form a joint force in the army, and can only be tempted purely with high rewards, so the Qi State Technician can only fight a downwind battle, and when encountering a slightly headwind, the Warrior can easily collapse!

Therefore, the composition of the armies of various countries today is mostly composed of educated scholars as officers, and ordinary people as soldiers. In fact, this is also a copy of the army composed of scholars as chariot soldiers and Chinese people as foot soldiers in the Spring and Autumn Period.

However, the hand of compulsory education can be regarded as allowing Gongsun Yan to see other ways. By educating and nurturing children from an early age, this is a large-scale training of scholars throughout the entire Taoqiu! If anything happens in the future, these educated children will grow up to be adults, and the army they form will be a pure army of soldiers, what a powerful force this must be!

Through a comprehensive understanding of information in newspapers, organizing people through institutions such as factories, and training powerful soldiers through schools, a road to the rise of Taoqiu has been clearly displayed in front of Gongsun Yan! Once such a new Legalist is completely different from the previous way of Legalism that takes agriculture as the key link, once completed, how powerful it will burst out will be, even if a person with excellent vision is like Gongsun Yan, it is still impossible to predict!

This made him deeply jealous of Taoqiujun, who opened up a new development model of Taoqiu and used it to enrich the country and strengthen the army! Whether it is as a Wei person, or now as a Wei minister, he has a reason to interrupt the path of Taoqiu's rise when it is gathering momentum, otherwise, it will be a greater threat than the current Qin State in the future!

Therefore, he only visited the two elementary schools in a hurry, and then stopped visiting the schools. Afterwards, he found the king of Wei and told him that he had something important to report!

However, at this time, the King of Wei ignored Gongsun Yan's intention at all, and he was wholeheartedly watching the Keju exhibition match conducted by Qiyun Club and Yuanshe, the two largest Keju clubs in Taoqiu!

It is said that when King Wei first saw Keju, he was very confused: "Everyone says that you Taoqiu people are rich, but you Taoqiu people let twenty people grab a Piju on such a vast field, can this be considered rich?" ”

Regarding the confusion of the King of Wei, the Taoqiu people were quite speechless. Subsequently, the lord of Taoqiu personally explained the rules of Keju to him, and the king of Wei was a little embarrassed to understand the rules of this movement. Then, he fell in love with this hot-blooded, exciting sport!

"Who is that tall bower? is so powerful, if you enter the army, you can be a fierce general! Seeing the highlights, King Wei pointed to a player from Qiyun Club in the field and said.

Dai Yan, who was watching with him, explained with a smile: "King Wei, this person is a Qi person. Before coming to Taoqiu, he was originally a skilled fighter of the Qi country. Now he is the most offensive striker and the most popular player in my Taoqiu Ju, and every time he walks on the street, the street of my Taoqiu will be blocked! ”

After hearing this, King Wei also laughed out loud!