Improving the quality of the people? It's a great and unimaginably difficult project.

The empire began to pay attention to education five or six years ago, because in such an era, it is not possible to learn if you want to read, knowledge is in the hands of a few, and they rely on their family knowledge to cultivate generations of elites, resulting in less than 300,000 literate people in China's nearly 20 million population...... There may not even be a literacy rate of 300,000 people!

When he first rolled out the education system, he concentrated some literate people and personally took the time to teach them to learn pinyin and use pinyin to promote Mandarin, so they didn't need to be knowledgeable, they just needed to be literate.

After teaching a group of people, Lu Zhe used these "crash course" people to teach more people. Because of the existence of pinyin, in fact, it is not much difficult to promote Mandarin with the same pronunciation, especially on the premise that those who receive education are literate themselves, and it took about two years to train nearly 4,000 junior teachers.

What is a so-called junior teacher? It is to know how to apply pinyin. This group of junior teachers is assigned to all parts of the South County, usually with one to two literate people per mile, and they educate children between the ages of six and thirteen, and they also teach adults at night in their free time.

Night shift literacy is a great thing, the day ~ dynasty era is to rely on night shifts to educate adults to carry out literacy, and the facts have proved that the effect is not as good as imagined, but at least it is a little useful.

"We now have nearly 40,000 teachers who are working hard in the countryside to contribute to the education of the Empire, and have trained at least 1.4 million literate people for the Empire in the last five years alone." With a smile on his face, Lu Zhe said: "There is nothing more remarkable than cultivating 1.4 million literate people in four years!" ”

Of course, that group of people is just literate, and they can understand most of the common words. The lack of reinforcement in learning deeper knowledge is fundamentally related to the rudimentary nature of the Empire's current education system.

What is the current level of universal education in the Empire? It only promotes pinyin, and other things, such as mathematics, are only nine nine addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, more esoteric things...... To be honest, Lu Zhe's own knowledge is limited, and he can't remember anything too profound just by recalling, even if he can think of it, there is no way to form a rigorous and logical system of those knowledge, so how can it be used as educational material?

Any knowledge that does not form a rigorous logic. Especially when it comes to science, the only way to spread such knowledge is to distort the future of a nation's science and technology tree. Science is definitely not leapfrogging development, it is a set of cyclical and gradual development mode, any science and technology is involved in more than one subject of knowledge, you can imagine how much knowledge base is needed to achieve achievements in science.

"I'm too anxious!" Lu Zhe sighed: "People now don't know what it means to enrich the border counties, and they won't have that kind of consciousness. ”

Zhang Er of Huiji County is doing things, and it can't be said that he is messing around, because he is doing things out of the needs of national policy. There is one more thing about him. That is, everything that does not exceed the legal basis of the empire, and the executive orders are based on the legal basis of the empire.

Lu Zhe knew that there was a local civil unrest in Huiji County, and he was able to scold Zhang Er in his heart, but no administrative document could deal with Zhang Er, who acted in accordance with the law. Even when such a thing happened in Huiji County, I could only think about wiping my ass and solving it properly.

The reform of the country will certainly usher in continuous pains, and they will turn their heads and praise when their lives improve in the future, and some will scold and cry in the process, and nothing more.

"Your Majesty......" Li Si pondered his words. "It's because they don't know that we should enforce it strongly," he said. ”

Recently, Lu Zhe has also been thinking about related issues, such as continuing to use moderate means to immigrate. Ang or use relatively heavy-handed means to immigrate.

Zhang Er's work was not pretty, but he gave a brilliant answer, and within three months, 160,000 people were concentrated, just waiting for the central government to send people to arrange for the migration to the border counties that wanted to emigrate.

It was precisely because Zhang Er was able to gather 160,000 people waiting to be relocated in only three months that Lu Zhe doubted whether his previous moderation was right.

In such an era, the emperor's gentleness towards the people under his rule was not a completely right attitude, according to many people's thoughts, it was of little use to make the people love and fear, and the people could govern the country better. But is that really the case? I don't know...... I really don't know.

"Zhang Er's behavior can't be encouraged, but ......" Lu Zhe paused, straightened his face before continuing: "Meritorious service is the cornerstone of the country's stability. ”

The clear rewards and punishments for governing the army can make the soldiers willing to die, and the governance officials are actually like this. Lu Zhe can't not reward Zhang Er because he doesn't like Zhang Er's series in his heart, that is tantamount to destroying the basic rules of rewarding attendance, even if Zhang Er's merits are not worthy of encouragement, but the achievements are there.

What is Lu Zhe's hesitation? is knowing that the mountain people did not kill the officials, and then kill innocent people, then a series of things in Huiji County are clearly Zhang Er's officials within the framework of the law to force the people to rebel. He could not and could not go beyond the framework of the law, because his subjective consciousness to deal with Zhang Er, not only could not dispose of it, but also rewarded, and instantly felt a little confused in his heart.

Not only did Liss think that the people should not be indulged, but 90.9% of the officials of the empire would think that the people should be ruled by force, and they thought that the people were ignorant, and as a ruler, they should plan and formulate the rules of life of the people.

Lu Zhe was very helpless, he knew very well that Chinese history went on like this, it was the officials who decided the fate of the people in the past, and it will be the officials who decided the fate of the people in the future, until the Tian~ Dynasty era, it is still the officials who decide the fate of the people.

In fact, to put it another way, what country in the world is not an official who decides the fate of the people? But there must always be a channel for the people's voice to be "heard by heaven" and effectively give back to the rulers.

"There are loopholes in our laws." Lu Zhe touched his forehead, he looked at Li Si with blazing eyes, and said, "Not only the law, but even the administrative system is unreasonable. ”

Li Si's head was "buzzing" when he heard it, and he wanted to cheer, all because of the words that the emperor had said to him.

There will be loopholes in any set of laws, and there will even be inconsistencies in the laws. This kind of thing is not avoided even in modern times.

Speaking of the administrative system, Lu Zhe used to directly use the Qin State's Three Princes and Nine Secretaries system, but later because of the repeated expansion of the territory, the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries system is a little difficult to support the larger and larger political system, especially some unprecedented departments have been set up, each department always needs at least one chief official and corresponding officials and clerks, but there are so many official titles in the Three Princes and Nine Secretaries system, what should I do?

Lu Zhe's response was to name some new official positions, and then come up with a set of specious Jiupin Zhongzheng system, which led to the phenomenon that the system of the Three Princes and the Nine Emperors and the Jiupin Zhongzheng system existed at the same time.

The empire not only existed at the same time as the system of three princes and nine secretaries, but also the system of nine products in the middle of the truth. Even the two sets of systems, some departments actually overlap a little. In the state of war, everything is prioritized by conquest, and the hidden worries are covered up by continuous conquest, Lu Zhe has already told the minister in advance that once the threat of the grassland is lifted, the empire will usher in a period of peace, although it is not an absolute peace, but the war of more than 100,000 people will stop, and the empire is about to start a civil rule, and a group of magistrates will begin to be unable to hold back.

The "cultural governance" mentioned by Lü Zhe was by no means a suppression of the military to encourage the rise of the civil servants, but a series of changes in the hinterland of the empire. That is, the so-called agricultural and industrial replanning, and the local officials have long been eager to see through the country's governance. They were also governing and building places before, but the emperor's attention was not here, and the center's attention was also involved in foreign wars. The great and small credit for governing the place is because public opinion cannot cause public opinion to influence public opinion on the conquest, although it is still a reward for hard work, but it is what Wenchen expects to be able to get a greater influence.

Historically, Li Si strongly advocated the implementation of a centralized system, which was to concentrate all power in the hands of the emperor alone. It is tantamount to putting the "head of the family" implemented by the people on the "state system". What does such a claim amount to? It is equivalent to becoming a variant version of "the family and the country in the world", that is, the so-called "the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister".

In the Spring and Autumn Period, "under the whole world, it is not the king's land." The interpretation of "The Shore of the Land is not the Prince's Minister" is: The land under the world is governed by the ruler, and the lords and lords who govern the place are also the ministers' ministers.

The Spring and Autumn Period was a feudal era, which talked about "what's yours is yours, and what's mine is mine; Your courtiers are your courtiers, and you are my courtiers", because it is the fiefdom lord system that will involve the consciousness of "property autonomy", but through the centralized system, it becomes "yours is not yours, mine is still mine; You are my courtier, and your courtier is also my courtier", which means that the first person in the world (the emperor) has the absolute power of life and death, and the property autonomy of the feudal era has also disappeared.

What does centralization bring? is that everyone is staring at the throne of "the first person in the world", because as long as they sit on that throne, they can have the absolute power to kill and seize the common people in the world, and the result is that everyone is looking forward to the turmoil in the world, and there will be a terrible cycle of "the emperor will take turns to come to my house next year".

Does Lu Zhe want to wield absolute power? It's that everyone has a desire for power, but they just don't know how to control it. He has always tried his best to control his desires, and many times he expresses his tyranny to the outside world, and only when his mood is smooth can he treat the people under his governance better.

Under the premise of the needs of the national policy, when it was found that toughness was more effective than moderation, especially when it was related to whether the empire could have those newly occupied areas for a long time, and considering the enrichment of a series of immigrants who would be repeatedly opened up in the future, Lu Zhe had actually wavered.

It is not that Lu Zhe's concept of external development is shaken, but that he is hesitant to be gentle internally. Regardless of whether he is really gentle internally, or has been pretending to be mild, when he finds that enforcement is more useful than persuasion, because the people do not cooperate with the national policy of the border counties, there is no disappointment and impatience in his heart, one or two say that he should be tougher on the people, and then Zhang Er and other people take advantage of the loopholes of the law to do some results, and their hearts are immediately chaotic!

"The country's administrative system needs to be changed." Lu Zhe said but found that Li Si's eyes were bright and bright, and the uncle and grandson next to him looked thoughtful, and the other people were either shocked or dazed. He retracted his gaze and said, "Three provinces and six ministries may be a good administrative system. ”

Li Si was very eager to speak, but was robbed by his uncle and grandson.

Shusun Tong also looked anxious and asked, "Your Majesty, what are the three provinces and six departments?" ”

The administrative system before the empire was entrusted by Lu Zhe to Shusun Tong to carry out reforms, and deleted and added from the three princes and nine kings and the nine products of Zhongzheng, which obviously made a four dissimilarities. The formulation of the administrative system has earned Shusun Tong enough fame and fame, although he has always been in the administrative position between the doctor and the secretary, but because of the relationship of prestige, he is relatively open.

"The three provinces are: Zhongshu Province (also known as the Inner History Province), Menxia Province, and Shangshu Province." Lu Zhe found out about his uncle's eagerness, he didn't break it, and said slowly: "The Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Soldiers, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Industry are all six. ”

The time when the three provinces and six departments appeared was the Yang Sui period, which was improved in the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, and the biggest feature of this system was that there was no prime minister, and the power of the prime minister was distributed to Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and Shangshu Province.

The main role of the province is to draft government decrees; Shangshu Province is to manage government affairs; The ministry is to review the decree. The power of the Trinity comes from the original power of the prime minister, which is equivalent to dispersing the power of the prime minister to form a unique check and balance.

Uncle Sun Tong's eyes lit up when he heard this, Li Si's eyes lit up when he heard it, some people were happy, and naturally some people were shocked and worried.

Six? As soon as the Ministry of War heard it, it knew that it was a military organization, and the Ministry of War was classified under the framework of six ministries, which was equivalent to being on an equal footing with other "ministries". You must know that the imperial military can be the priority level in everything, and the civilian clique has long wanted to change this status quo, and the exhilarating statement is still clear, it should be said that it is ecstatic.

didn't wait for the civil officials present to be happy for long, and they didn't let the facial features worry for long, Lu Zhe added: "Maybe it's not suitable......"

At this moment, all the people were worried, they didn't know why Lu Zhe's thoughts were so erratic.

There are too many reasons for Lu Zhehui, one of which is the chaos of the administrative system, and the other is related to some of Zhang Liang's recent actions...... (To be continued.) )