Chapter 285: Second Five-Year Plan (II)
In this grand court meeting, Sima Shu's main purpose was to let local officials give full play to their abilities, and he only had to grasp the general direction. The next few days were spent in a state of controversy, and at first Sima Shu was interested in it, but then he delegated the task of presiding over the discussion to the cabinet, while he himself began to enjoy life.
On this day, Sima Shu came to the dormitory of Yang Xianrong, and happened to see his eldest son Sima Yu'er just getting out of school. It turned out that at the beginning of September this year, the eldest prince who had reached school age was sent to the school by Concubine De, according to the rules set by Sima Shu at the beginning, the prince and princess must enter the school once they are over five years old!
"Huh? I remember that Yu'er was born in February of the first year of Hongwu, why is she going to school now? Sima asked puzzled.
"Didn't Your Majesty say that the princes would enter the academy after the age of five?" Yang Xianrong didn't understand why the emperor asked this question.
"Ah, I was negligent!" Sima Shu reacted suddenly, the ancients used imaginary years to calculate their age. At the beginning, Sima Sui's five years old was actually counted as one year old, but he didn't make it clear, so that the harem could only be done according to the conventions, so that the age of the princes to enter the school was actually only four years old.
Sima Shu's heart twitched at the thought of a three- or four-year-old child who would have to receive a cruel cultural education. However, his golden mouth has been opened, and it is really difficult to change his words.
I saw him stretch out his hand and pick up Sima Yu on the ground, and said in a doting tone: "Yu'er, tell me what you have learned in the academy?" Did you have a good time at the school? ”
"Hehe, Father. Mr. today taught us to read, and Erchen knew three more words, hehe......" Sima Yu replied innocently.
"Hehe, you're awesome!" Sima Shu held up his son vigorously as a reward.
"Aifei, is Yu'er's study task heavy?" Sima Shu asked after handing the son in his arms to his mother, Yang Xianrong, who was worried that his son, like those children in later generations, would have to learn a lot from an early age. Although he attaches great importance to the education of princes and princesses, he does not want to raise his son to be a nerd.
"Your Majesty, it shouldn't be very heavy, and there aren't many tasks left by Mr. every day. Basically, it can be done in a quarter of an hour. Yang Xianrong couldn't figure out the emperor's true intentions, so he could only reply cautiously.
"Hmm. I don't want the heavy schoolwork to wear out the child's nature, and it seems that the school department is doing a good job in this regard. Also, does the gentleman from the school know the identity of the child? This is what Sima Shu is most concerned about.
"In the opinion of the concubines, they should know a thing or two. But it was not made public. We didn't deliberately promote the identity of the prince. However, most of Yu'er's classmates are children of the family. Something can be seen from here! On this issue, Yang Xianrong didn't dare to fool Sima Shu.
Sima Shu fell silent when he heard this, he had already expected this result. If you want to completely shield the identity of the prince. It's basically impossible, those ministers and gentlemen are not stupid, and it's good to have such a situation now!
Since Sima Shu established the heir selection system, the women of the harem have all increased their attention to the education of the prince, except for the virtuous concubine Luzhu because she does not have the support of her own family, the other concubines' families have made every effort to ensure that the prince receives the best education.
Taking Sima Yu as an example, from the husband who taught him to the children who were his classmates, they were all chosen by the Yang family after repeated selection. Among them, Mr. Teaching is a 'celebrity' hired by the Yang family from Chang'an University Hall with a huge amount of money, and Sima Yu's classmates are all descendants of the Yang family's children and allies of the Yang family.
For this situation, Sima Shu is powerless to change, because even the queen's maiden family does this, and Wang Yan even gathered all the essence of the Langya Wang family and put it on his grandson Sima Zang. Only Concubine Luzhu didn't pay too much attention to it, she honestly sent her daughter into the 'most ordinary' school.
The next day, after Sima Shu personally sent his son to the school, he once again devoted himself to the formulation of the economic plan. In the following days, Sima participated in almost all the discussion meetings. Finally, after a week of arguing, the whole of Dajin finally reached an agreement.
Sima Shu was very satisfied with the first draft submitted by the cabinet, and the cabinet was confident that the economy of Dajin would be raised to a higher level through this plan. Since the Great Jin plundered a great deal of wealth from overseas trade, the plan took care of profiteering industries such as tea, silk, cotton spinning, porcelain, glass, soap, and spices.
After the Great Dynasty Meeting, businessmen from all over the country who heard the wind increased their investment in various places. Youzhou, Bingzhou, Pingzhou three places were the first to act, the local chamber of commerce organized a large number of materials and manpower, have poured into these states and counties, they are not fools, during the first five-year plan, many businessmen are passive, now they know how to take the initiative.
In order to raise Jizhou's cotton industry to a higher level, Jizhou officials organized in the name of the Chamber of Commerce to send people to Qingdao Port to contact the fleets engaged in overseas trade and prepare to sell them to foreign countries. At present, there is no such term as "dumping" in the world, and it is a completely disorderly competition.
The merchants of the Great Jin Dynasty did not use the method of lowering prices to sell, and they still don't need it, and the materials and commodities are still very scarce, and it is completely a seller's market.
At this time, the Chinese goods, is a kind of taste, is the grade, is the quality, but also the trend and status of the symbol, can be used in the world as a hard currency to exchange, in a certain king held a banquet, if there are not a few silk and cotton clothes or ornaments produced in the Great Jin Dynasty, then your taste, identity will also come down, not good will be driven out.
After the Great Dynasty Meeting, the entire Dajin Dynasty set off a new round of construction climax, with continuous investment in various places, and new factories, new roads, and new schools were constantly under construction. However, there are also a number of hidden dangers. In order to prevent some people from embezzling and accepting bribes in various localities, Sima Shu asked Zhongshu Province, the General Procuratorate Office, and Dali Temple to form a joint inspection team to go to various places to supervise the work.
Anyone who participated in the formulation of the Second Five-Year Plan knew that the imperial court had focused on infrastructure, especially roads. Since the imperial court realized the benefits of highways in the first five-year plan, this time the imperial court has paid unprecedented attention to highway construction.
The east-west artery was already in place, and this time the imperial court focused on the construction of the highway in the north-south direction. One of them is the main artery of the highway between the mainland and Liaodong - Vladivostok to Luoyang, and the other is a highway connecting Mayi, Jinyang and Luoyang. In order to build these two roads, the imperial court was prepared to invest a huge amount of money and spend five years.
In addition, in this new economic plan, in order to win over and appease the Hu people, the Great Jin Dynasty also introduced a lot of policies related to the Hu people. Now some Xiongnu and Xianbei tribes are basically not voluntarily subordinate, and they are all temporarily subjugated under the guns of the Great Jin.
Since the abolition of the Hu regime in the north, a large number of Han Chinese officials from newly educated backgrounds have come to Bingzhou, Liaodong, and Northwest China to abolish the tribal system that had been implemented before and fully implement county management. The first is to establish a perfect school system from the primary school to the advanced school among the Hu people in all departments, and force the Hu people in all departments to give up the existing culture and writing, and fully accept the Sinicization education.
Economically, the imperial court wanted to change the nomadic management model of the Hu people who had no permanent residence, and then supplemented it with a settled captive approach. In the Second Five-Year Plan, the imperial court invested heavily in establishing settlements for the Hu people in the northern and eastern Liaodong regions, and then taught them advanced animal husbandry techniques.
Sima Shu believed that it would not be long before the Hu people would unconsciously integrate into the Great Jin, and many Hu slaves had already felt the changes brought about by the Great Jin. They found that the Jin people did not oppress them like the previous nobles, and as long as they sincerely attached themselves to the imperial court, they were suspicious of adopting an equal approach, which really helped them improve their living standards.
When the simple nomadic life was changed, the Hu people would find that their living standards had improved a lot. They sell their cattle, sheep, wool, skins, meat and other products to other chambers of commerce, and then use the money to buy daily necessities. With the convenient road transportation, a large amount of grain and daily necessities were brought in, and at the same time, the materials produced by the Hu people were transported away.
The second five-year plan of the Great Jin Dynasty was like a shot in the arm, and the entire Great Jin Dynasty went crazy. Everyone is like clockwork, and they all seize all the time to devote themselves to construction.
"Boss, has the supervision and inspection team been dispatched?" Sima Shu asked, looking around the gray-haired man.
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, this time it was personally led by Lord Wen, and Zhongshu Province has dispatched a total of one hundred capable personnel to form dozens of teams to go to various places." Zhou replied.
"Well, very good, you should focus on checking the use of funds in various places, especially to supervise the use of special funds for education and transportation construction, if you find that someone dares to embezzle funds without permission, you will immediately report to the General Inspection Bureau, and then hand it over to Dali Temple for handling."
After the prelude to the large-scale construction, Sima Shu paid the most attention to the issue of supervision, the imperial court was relatively poor in the past few years, and in order to perform better, there was basically no corruption problem. But after five years of peaceful life, officials everywhere must have changed a lot.
This time, in order to prevent accidents, Sima Shu has intensified supervision and stripped all kinds of signs in the cradle. He didn't want to dig up a huge corruption in the future, because then even if the corrupt officials were brought to justice, the local people would suffer. Sima Shu doesn't want the people to be unlucky with the corrupt officials! (To be continued......)