Wei Shuo and his entourage inspected all the way east along the cement road from Jicheng to Xiangping, and the last stop was Xiangping City.

Since Yongjia captured Xiangping from Cui Yu in the sixth year, Xiangping City has been under the control of the Liaodong Army for several years.

After many years of large-scale construction and expansion, Xiangping has become the largest city in the Pingzhou area.

The expansion of Xiangping is the first time that Liaodong has renovated the city, but there is no shortage of infrastructure in the city, even compared with Jicheng, which claims to have the most complete facilities.

And because Xiangping is located in Liaodong, it is a good place to escape the summer heat, and now there is still a mansion in Weishuo in the city, which is thinking that the world will be peaceful in the future and want to go back to Xiangping to live.

Seeing that Wei Shuo did not sell the mansion, the other civil and military staff naturally did not dare to make a move easily, and kept the Xiangping residence one after another. Although Xiangping's status has declined a lot, it still has an unusual status in Liaodong because it is the place where Weishuo started.

In the first year of Taixing, in mid-September, Wei Shuo, Mo Han, and Pei Wei first went to the local cemetery where the bodies of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army were buried in Xiangping to visit and worship.

Looking at the rows of neat mausoleums, Wei Shuo was full of emotion, Liaodong can have today's situation, it is all the lives of thousands of Liaodong army soldiers in exchange.

In front of the altar, Wei Shuo nodded his head, and behind him stood Mo Han, Pei Wei, Chen An and other guards, all of whom solemnly bowed and worshipped with incense in their hands.

After worshipping the martyrs, everyone climbed the high platform and looked into the distance, only to see that the distant mausoleum hills were neatly bathed in the sunshine of the west slope, and the straight and wide mausoleum road and the quiet mountains and forests around it added a bit of solemnity to the whole cemetery.

"The people buried here are all Chinese warriors, without their sacrifices, maybe China would have been wiped out! Never forget the heroic deeds of the warriors, as the lucky ones, we must learn from the indomitable momentum and fearless sacrifice spirit of the warriors! ”

After paying respects to the fallen soldiers in the cemetery, Wei Shuo and his entourage went to visit Pingzhou University Hall. Pingzhou University Hall is the first university in Liaodong, which has cultivated a large number of talents for Liaodong over the years, and the first batch of graduates has made a name for itself in the scientific examination.

Huangfu Zhen, Yang Yu, Feng Yu, and Pei Kai have become examples for countless junior students to follow.

Although Liaodong Mufu has successively built several large-scale university halls such as Youzhou University Hall, Bingzhou University Hall, Jicheng University Hall, Jinyang University Hall, etc., it is still far inferior to Pingzhou University Hall in terms of heritage.

Every year when it comes to applying for the state school, Pingzhou University Hall is still the first choice of scholars from all over the world, even if Youzhou University Hall invites Liu Kun, a famous scholar, to sit in charge, it is still impossible to change the leading position of Pingzhou University Hall in the short term.

However, Wei Shuo knows very well in his heart that after all, Pingzhou University Hall is located in the cold land of Northeast China, and its cultural and educational heritage is far inferior to other places.

Under the rule of Liaodong, the mountain chief responsibility system was implemented, and each school was responsible for specific affairs by its own mountain chief, and major affairs were decided by the academic council composed of doctors of the school after deliberation. On the contrary, the government Cao has no right to dictate to the local schools, and even the Cao only has the right to supervise, guide but not manage.

When Wei Shuo led people to the gate of the university hall, the mountain chief Kong Su, Dr. Zhu Zuoche and Liu Zan were welcoming him at the door.

"Oh, it's a great honor to bother the mountain chief and all the doctors to greet you!"

Wei Shuo did not dare to slack off, and the disciples stepped forward to greet several outstanding Confucian scholars. Don't look at Liu, Zhu, and Kong, who have never contributed any earth-shattering schemes in their lives, but the role of the three of them is not much less than that of Pei, Mo, Wen, and Gao.

It can be said that without Liu, Zhu, and Kong educating and transforming Liaodong from the perspective of careful thinking and culture, even if the Liaodong Army achieved a brilliant victory, the final outcome would not be much better than that of the former Qin in history.

"The lord comes to the school in person, and the ministers should welcome them in person as subordinates."

"In recent years, Liaodong culture and education have become more and more prosperous, and the three of them have made great contributions, thank you here for the three of you!"

"Eh, the lord is polite! It's our responsibility! The three world-famous Confucians hurriedly stopped Wei Shuo, who was about to salute.

Next, Wei Shuo walked on the straight cement road in the school accompanied by Kong Su, Zhu Zuoche, and Liu Zan, and encountered students coming and going from time to time along the way.

"Chief Kongshan, how many students are there in the academy today?"

"Back to the lord, there are more than 5,000 students in the fourth level in the school at present, and the number of students enrolled every year is increasing year by year. With the passage of time, the number of children receiving education has increased, and more and more students have applied for state and county schools every year. ”

Wei Shuo was quite smug when he heard this: "Well, this is exactly what I want!" Only by opening the wisdom of the people will the nation rise! ”

Everyone present knew their lord very well, and knew that he had always opposed the policy of foolishness that had been admired by the rulers since the Qin and Han dynasties.

The core of the art of foolish people governing the country passed down from Shang Ying: one is to destroy the business, and the other is to weaken the people. Not to mention the destruction of business, the most important measure in the policy of the weak people is not to promote knowledge to the general public, only to ensure that a small number of elites in the upper echelons master the knowledge, and finally achieve long-term peace and stability of the dynasty through the weak people!

It's just a pity that although the policy of the rulers of the past dynasties has been successful for a while, they have never created any long-lasting dynasties. Counting the successive dynasties that have implemented the policy of fooling the people since the Qin and Han dynasties, there has never been a peaceful and prosperous era of more than 300 years (the Eastern and Western Han Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty are strictly two dynasties).

After Wei Shuo came to power, he quickly abandoned the traditional policy of governing the country, and began to vigorously promote education to open up the people's wisdom, and at the same time implement the policy of simultaneous agriculture and industry, he wanted to try to take a different path.

At the very beginning, whether it was the promotion of education or the importance of industry and commerce, it was contrary to tradition, and Liaodong had many doubts about this. However, under Wei Shuo's strong insistence and after so many years of practice, no one has any objections to the policies implemented by Wei Shuo.

The tremendous changes that have taken place under the rule of Liaodong are the most powerful support for the various policies of Liaodong.

Soon, the news that Sima Weishuo was inspecting the Pingzhou University Hall spread throughout the school, and all the students, professors, and doctors were excited and flocked to Weishuo's location.

Later, Wei Shuo saw that it was not possible to go on like this, so he discussed with Kong Su and others that it was better to hold a meeting in the auditorium. Kong Su was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered someone to arrange it, and he planned to let the students have a face-to-face exchange meeting with Wei Shuo.

Under the guidance of the mountain chief Kong Su, Wei Shuo and his entourage walked into the auditorium and were warmly welcomed by hundreds of doctors, professors and students. Many people are seeing the famous Sima for the first time, and it is inevitable that they will be nervous.

Wei Shuo greeted everyone very politely, and seemed very approachable, which made some students and professors who were nervous temporarily relax.

During the exchange, Wei Shuo also told some jokes and jokes from time to time to liven up the atmosphere, and the professors and students who participated in the exchange under his slow guidance became more relaxed and began to speak without scruples.

Even if some of the words sounded offensive, Wei Shuo also waved his hand very generously and disagreed, in his opinion, students should maintain their own independent personality, and then have their own clear and unique views on external things, not just follow the crowd.

If Liaodong spends a lot of effort and finally cultivates people who only know how to make promises, it will be too much of a failure.

Soon the exchange meeting ended, and Wei Shuo's generosity, humor, and erudition left a deep impression on the students. I believe that for a long time to come, Weishuo will be the center of the students' conversation. And Wei Shuo's image has become more lofty in the minds of all students.

In the end, Wei Shuo listened to the report of Kong Su and others again, and it was not until nightfall that he left the university hall and returned to his residence. Wei Shuo will then go south from Xiangping City to Xi'anping, and after a short stop, he will go west to Port Arthur, and finally end his inspection in Liaodong and return to Jicheng by sea. (To be continued.) )