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Childe and Chen Yuan talked a lot about Europe, but the focus was on business, and he tried to tempt Chen Yuan in a very indirect way, trying to convince Chen Yuan that if the Great Song Dynasty could develop a shipping route to Europe, it would be a golden route. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In any case, everything that Childe said was Chen Yuan's first peek into Europe in this era, from the people's situation, to the military situation, and the current situation of each country, Chen Yuan asked one by one, and Childe always gave Chen Yuan an explanation according to his own statement.

Child's values made Chen Yuan even more sure that this person was not an aristocrat, because although he pretended to be polite, the kind of philistine and cunning in his bones were often revealed through his tone. He didn't have that aristocratic elegance in him at all.

Chen Yuan didn't say anything, for him, it didn't matter at all whether Childe was the papal messenger or not, the important thing was whether this person was worth using himself. In his plan to open up Europe in the future, can Cialder play a certain role in helping?

The fact that he was able to follow Zhang Kuangzheng's instructions all the way east is enough to show that he is very persistent in the pursuit of new things. After he came, he dared to set his identity so high, and he didn't worry about goofs at all, which shows that this person is bold and dares to take risks. He just lacked some composure.

Before Child had finished all the words that tempted Chen Yuan, Han Qi came in from outside and told Chen Yuan that noon was almost here, and now Chen Yuan had to leave here and go to Crescent Moon Villa to accompany Ouyang Xiu and the gentlemen of those academies.

Hearing that Chen Yuan was about to leave so soon, Child's face was somewhat disappointed, Chen Yuan got up and said with a smile: "Honorable envoy, I am busy with things today, so let's do it, I will put aside all entertainment tomorrow night, and ask the honorable envoy to go to the palace with me to meet our emperor." ”

Chard was stunned for a moment, seeing the emperor of the Song Dynasty? In their European terms, it was Chen Shimei who was going to take him to a higher level of talks! This somewhat caught Charde off guard. Really, he just wanted to use this identity that he thought no one could expose to deceive some business from Da Song, as long as he could fool Chen Yuan.

But now that he was going to take him to see Renzong, Chad was a little nervous, he knew that he had made a big deal of it, what were these Song people going to do?

Chen Yuan walked up to him and whispered: "Please make the story more exciting, if you can make our emperor interested in you, I think the envoy will definitely become a real nobleman." To be a true emissary of our interconnectedness with the Pope. ”

Childe trembled when he heard this, but Chen Yuan didn't say anything more, bent down and bowed: "Farewell." ”

Chen Yuan believed that Childe would be interested, and after getting into the carriage, he no longer thought about this issue. All the way to Crescent Moon Villa, a few gentlemen had already arrived, but Ouyang Xiu didn't appear until noon.

Hearing that Chen Yuan wanted them to hold a calligraphy contest for children under the age of twelve, Ouyang Xiu was very happy.

To be honest, Ouyang Xiu was very dissatisfied with a businessman like Chen Yuan at the beginning, thinking that he was full of poetry and books but went to business, which was insulting to Sven.

But later, from the beginning of Chen Yuan's sponsorship of those poor students, the relationship between Ouyang Xiu and Chen Yuan was slowly improving, and this time Chen Yuan proposed this idea, which in Ouyang Xiu's view was to promote the culture of the Great Song Dynasty, and he was very supportive at that time.

Chen Yuan originally asked Ouyang Xiu to accept the winner of the first place this time as a protégé, but Ouyang Xiu was happy, and he patted his chest, and he wanted the top three!

The people at the wine table roughly calculated that there were about 30,000 students of the Song Dynasty age in Bianjing, of which the number of applicants was estimated to be about 10,000, which was destined to be divided into two stages.

First of all, in the preliminary round, 2,000 outstanding players will be selected from among the registered children, and these players will receive the "pen and ink fee" of three taels of silver per person provided by Chen Yuan.

Then among the 2,000 children, there will be a hundred excellent ones, and these 100 people will be provided by Chen Yuan with a "scholarship" to ensure that they will pay all expenses from now until the completion of their studies.

In the end, the ten best children were selected from a hundred people, and these ten children would become the protégés and disciples of these famous literati of the Great Song Dynasty invited by Chen Yuan today, and receive their special guidance. If you are a poor student, this step means that their life has changed!

And in order to encourage the school to take the cultivation of outstanding students as its own responsibility, send the children who are really capable to the competition, regardless of their nationality, name, skin color, these ten children's schools can also get a lot of "education funds" because of the children's awards. ”

Chen Yuan told Ouyang Xiu that he wanted to use this incident as an opportunity to change the current situation of children studying in the Great Song Dynasty. The current Great Song Dynasty has not yet implemented the education law, and there are many children who cannot enter the school at all.

Take Bianjing as an example, there are about 800,000 people in Bianjing now, and the number of school-age children is about more than 100,000, but less than 30% of them actually enter the school.

There are many reasons for this, in the Great Song Dynasty, studying and being an official is a desirable thing, and the current residents of the Song Dynasty basically don't worry about their children's tuition fees, but as ordinary people, they are still used to letting their children make money early.

On the other hand, the lack of the academy also played a limiting role. Chen Yuan wanted to change all that, but he knew it was a bigger, more lasting project. I must start slowly from little by little, and gradually improve the education system of the Great Song Dynasty.

Children are the future of Da Song, and they must make the future of Da Song one step faster.

This time it is just a competition in calligraphy, and after that, Chen Yuan will set up a special fund, such activities will be more, more frequent, held once a year, involving more and more wide, and strive to cover the entire Great Song Dynasty within five years. Let sending children to study become a matter of course in the hearts of everyone in the Great Song Dynasty. Let sending children to the school of the Great Song Dynasty to study has become the dream of all qualified people in the surrounding countries.

This must have never happened since ancient times, and these people invited by Chen Yuan were also very happy that they could participate in this matter.

This event was jointly organized by these academies, Chen Yuan provided funds and prizes, and Ouyang Xiu was responsible for finding some calligraphy experts to serve as judges.

After the future matter was settled, Chen Yuan began to prepare to solve the problem of Liao. He had now set his sights on the Arab region, and Sima Guang was right, if the problem of the Liao State was not resolved, the Great Song Dynasty would not be suitable to intervene in a more difficult war. Before stepping into Arabia, Chen Yuan must ensure the stability of the rear.

Solving the Liao State is also to solve the problem of Goryeo in the last step. At first, Chen Yuan thought that it would be easy to solve Goryeo, and it would be enough to send troops over. But the news from Li Wei was not optimistic.

For the control of the Song Dynasty, although those sticks didn't dare to say anything, their small actions in private continued. Later, Chen Yuan found out the root cause, that is, the existence of the Liao State was a glimmer of hope in the heart of the stick, or in other words, the main factor in the instability of the situation in Goryeo.

Why was it only in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties that Korea submitted to China and became a vassal of China? Why was Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty unable to achieve effective control over the Korean Peninsula even if he destroyed Goguryeo and established the Andong Governorate? Because as soon as there was a problem on the northern frontier line, the connection between the Central Plains and Goryeo would be immediately cut off, and the sea lanes of this era were simply unable to achieve control over the Korean Peninsula.

In fact, the problem of the Liao State is very simple now, Yelu Gollu has 400,000 cavalry in his hands, but he has nothing but the 400,000 cavalry.

The 400,000 cavalry was like a sharp knife, and although the blade was shining, Yelune had no strength to wield it. Chen Yuan had seen the information he had collected about the Liao State, and this winter, more than 100,000 people in the entire Liao State had starved to death.

When the Song Dynasty marched, the Khitans fled all the way north, and in their opinion, it was happiness to be able to escape, and if they couldn't escape, they would definitely be killed by the Song army. But to their surprise, the Song army did not launch a massacre against the Khitans, on the contrary, those who did not run away when they were a little slower at the beginning lived much happier than them under the rule of the Song Dynasty.

If anyone could find their relatives who had stayed in the Song Dynasty and get help from them, it would mean that they would not have to starve to death.

Jerüne Gollum was now counting on a respite from the summer of this year, when spring came.

Chen Yuan wouldn't give him this chance. If the Great Song Dynasty wants to fight now and is willing to pay some price, there is no hope for Yelu Gollum. But Chen Yuan didn't want to play the game so simple now, he not only wanted to defeat his opponent, he also hoped to get the knife in Yelu Negol's hand!

400,000 cavalry! If Chen Yuan has the ** to go to Arabia to fight, then this number is enough to tempt him. If you want to snatch this knife out of Yelu Negol's hands, you must use the two chess pieces of Xiao Tatari and Yelu Hongji.

Are they willing to use it for themselves?

Xiao Tatar's expression was a little decadent, and Bai Yutang told Chen Yuan that when they found Xiao Tatar, this woman was locked in a dungeon by Yelu Neghulu, which was dark and damp, and bed bugs and cockroaches were visible in it.

And that's not all. Yelune put Xiao Tali in a large cell, and in that room there were more than a dozen men besides Xiao Tali, and Xiao Tatari ate and drank and slept with these men all the time.

The men in those prisons are all short of women, and the long-term detention must have made those people's hearts a little perverted, Chen Yuan really admired Yelu Ne Gulu and was able to come up with such an idea. This really made her more painful than killing Xiao Tatari, and no one could imagine what she had experienced in prison.

Bai Yutang whispered to Chen Yuan that when they rescued Xiao Tatari, she was like a madman. Even now, her sanity was not quite normal.

This is not good news for Chen Yuan, more than 20 knights in the Great Song Dynasty, is it just a woman who is of no use to him at all? When Chen Yuan saw Xiao Tatari for the first time, he could no longer find the former queen mother. When he took a step forward a little bit into Xiao Tatar, Xiao Tatar actually had a slight, subconscious dodge action, as if he was afraid that Chen Yuan would hurt her, but that action was so helpless, as if she herself knew that it was useless to dodge at all.

Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment and stood still: "Queen Mother, don't be afraid, no one here will bully you." ”

Chen Yuan suddenly understood at this moment that Xiao Tali really couldn't do anything for himself.

(To be continued)