Prime Minister Wen glanced at the newspaper headlines, and immediately put down the newspaper and rummaged through it on the table. After turning it over a few times, I suddenly remembered, touched the silk rope hanging around my neck, picked up my glasses and put them on. There is nothing to blur his vision again, Wen Tianxiang carefully looked at the headline "No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and no matter how hard you can't be bitter about children." Zhao Guanjia took out 1.8 billion yuan of assets to form the Great Song Education Fund".

After reading it, Wen Tianxiang stood up and shouted loudly: "That's how it should be!" That's how it should be! After going back and forth a few times, Wen Tianxiang sat back in his position and wrote a letter to Zhao Jiaren. After writing a letter to Zhao Guanjia, he was still unsatisfied, and sat down to write an article to the "Great Song Daily" that resolutely supported the complete eradication of illiteracy in the Great Song Dynasty through compulsory education.

In the next few days, Wen Tianxiang waited for the article to be published, and it was too easy for Prime Minister Song to deal with the government affairs in the county. Here, Wen Tianxiang immediately called a meeting of all units in the county to discuss the work of implementing comprehensive compulsory education in the county. After Wen Tianxiang finished speaking impassionedly, everyone's eyes fell on the director of education. The director of education asked helplessly in the local dialect of Guangnan West Road: "Prime Minister, I don't know how much money the imperial court can allot." ”

Wen Tianxiang's sharp eyes looked at the director of the finance bureau, and the director of the county finance bureau knew how powerful the county magistrate of the Great Song Dynasty was, so he could only muster up the courage and say: "Prime minister, our county has invited a master to help make jasmine tea, and more than a dozen iron chain bridges have been built. The county owes a lot of debts, and there is really no money to build schools. ”

Before Wen Tianxiang could ask, someone rushed in from outside to report, "Prime Minister, the people from the neighboring county are going to drive cattle across our bridge, and they are fighting with our people again!" ”

Wen Tianxiang stood up angrily and stood up, but Wen Tianxiang couldn't say anything. Since the chain bridge connected the traffic of Guangnan West Road, a poor county located in the transportation hub, there has been no shortage of such things. As long as you pass through a chain bridge of tens of meters or hundreds of meters, you can save dozens of miles, and it is a fool not to go from here. After thinking about it, Wen Tianxiang sat back in his seat, "Invite Liu Zhixian from the next county." ”

After the order, Wen Tianxiang looked at the director of the Finance Bureau again, "Education is a hundred-year plan, and there is a way out only after studying." Let's ask each village to build a school building first, and then we send teachers there. ”

"Prime Minister, those who are willing to study have already come to the county to study, and it may not be useful to send people to the village." The Secretary for Education sighed.

"How do you know if you don't do it?" Wen Tianxiang asked coldly.

The director of education didn't dare to say anything, so he could only respond: "I know." ”

As soon as the matter was assigned here, someone hurriedly came to report, "Prime Minister, something happened." Kill someone! "Everyone at this meeting looked at the past, it was not the first time that someone died, but dozens of people died within a year, which had too much impact on everyone's future.

The next morning, Liu Zhixian from the next county and a group of officials from the county and Wen Tianxiang met by the bridge where the accident occurred. Liu Zhixian's face was ugly, and he came up and said, "Prime Minister Wen, how are you going to report this matter!" Do you still want to say that the people on our side can't make trouble? ”

Wen Tianxiang was unhappy in his heart, he had always been noble and had never been willing to rely on power to oppress others. But Wen Tianxiang doesn't do this, it doesn't mean that the people below don't do it. The last few times the officials on his side wrote very biasedly, and the documents were sent to the state capital, of course, the state government was afraid of Wen Tianxiang, so he ordered Liu Zhixian on the other side to write down two major mistakes. Wen Tianxiang was angry enough after learning about it, and the people below felt that this was done smoothly, and Wen Tianxiang himself was a face-saving person!

"I will read the report of this incident first, and then show it to you." Wen Tianxiang replied.

"I think it's better to ask the prime minister to tear down this bridge." Liu Zhixian directly stated his opinion.

Wen Tianxiang was greatly unhappy and said angrily: "What? Is this self-defeating? If you've already written a complaint to the government, it's time to come down. If you really value your future, you can do things well! Such a broken can, are you worthy of yourself! Are you worthy of your father and mother who worked hard to provide for your schooling? ”

Liu Zhixian dared to be angry at Wen Tianxiang, but he also felt that he had no future. One term of office has two major demerits, which is equivalent to announcing the end of Liu Zhixian's political career. Even if Wen Tianxiang asked him to appeal to the government, Liu Zhixian felt that Wen Tianxiang was just playing a small trick, and if Liu Zhixian's appeal was successful, Wen Tianxiang would lose face. Everyone is a politician, and face is more important than life.

At this time, hearing Wen Tianxiang speak like this, Liu Zhixian was furious, but it was reasonable that Wen Tianxiang had already taken advantage of the reason, Liu Zhixian's face was flushed, and finally he said loudly: "Prime Minister Wen, there was no such chain bridge before, everyone had to walk for a few days when they went out, and they didn't go out!" Now with this bridge, everyone wants to go out. You need to bring things when you go out, and who doesn't want to drive the livestock. If you don't let the animals go, it will happen again!" What do you say to do? ”

"I've thought about it, so let's see if I can build a bridge that can cross cattle. If not, think about what a solution there is. If you run away from something, where do you want to escape! The ends of the earth! Wen Tianxiang couldn't help but reprimand Liu Zhixian.

If Liu Zhixian had a way, he would have used it a long time ago, and when he was reprimanded at this time, he simply broke the jar and fell, "I am Zhixian, you are also Zhixian, Wenzhixian might as well talk about how to solve it." I'm listening. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about!" "When is Prime Minister Wen the magistrate!" The officials and cadres on Wen Tianxiang's side immediately reprimanded.

Wen Tianxiang turned his head and shouted to his subordinates: "You all shut up for me!" ”

The people below didn't dare to say anything, although they felt wronged in their hearts, but what kind of person was Wen Tianxiang! The future of everyone present was in Wen Tianxiang's thoughts.

At this moment, someone from the opposite county came out and said in a local dialect with a hint of Mandarin: "Prime Minister Wen, I see that such a chain bridge has been built here, but I don't know if I can build a smaller ropeway next to it." ”

"What do you mean?" Wen Tianxiang asked.

The cadre immediately explained, and it took a lot of effort for Wen Tianxiang to understand. It turned out that the local cadre felt that the key to the problem now was that the chain bridge had a load-bearing ceiling, and the livestock carried heavy objects on their backs exceeded the load-bearing limit. But objects don't need to be carried by animals, and even less by people. Therefore, it is recommended to build a ropeway next to the chain bridge to transport goods, and if people and goods are separated, many things that could not be passed can be passed.

It's just that this cadre is a local, and his Mandarin is not as good as the local dialect, Wen Tianxiang didn't understand it until he had his old nose, and Liu Zhixian next to him simply didn't know what this cadre was talking about.

Wen Tianxiang felt that this method was feasible, so he asked the cadre, "Why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

"I said it, but no one listened. Everyone thinks that Prime Minister can spend so much money because of the imperial court's money, how can we have the money to repair these things in a county. ”

Wen Tianxiang sighed in his heart, and the officialdom felt that things had to be done by his own people. Wen Tianxiang did not pay for this himself, nor did the court pay for Wen Tianxiang. Just by using the resources that the county can apply for, these things are solved. The only special thing is probably the expert that Wen Tianxiang invited from Zhao Jiaxin in a letter, but Wen Tianxiang is not ready to hide it, he is not discussing with other counties to do jasmine tea business together just because Wen Tianxiang himself is worried that this thing will not be done, and if he forcibly promotes it, it may trap other counties.

Looking at the nervous cadre, and then at the nervous and confused Zhixian, Wen Tianxiang suddenly remembered something, and he asked Liu Zhixian, "Do you understand what this Mo Xizi said?" ”

Liu Zhixian was stunned, paused for a while, and said with some embarrassment: "I don't understand too much!" ”

His guess came true, and Wen Tianxiang was greatly disappointed. This is also thanks to him writing a letter to the government privately, asking the government to accept the appeal, and cancel the two major tresses as much as possible. The co-author, the magistrate, didn't even master the local dialect. Angry is angry, and Wen Tianxiang did not have a seizure. There are many such officials in Guangnan West Road, not only in Guangnan West Road, but also in the land newly recovered by the Great Song Dynasty. Even in many places where the Great Song Dynasty did not lose Guangnan East Road and Sichuan Road, such things are common. The difference is only that the Great Song Dynasty cleaned the barbarians in other places clean enough, so that there was no need to worry about dealing with the barbarians locally.

Wen Tianxiang told Liu Zhixian about Mo Xizi's suggestion, Liu Zhixian's expression became excited after hearing this, and he asked uneasily: "Prime Minister Wen, ...... this money?"

"We all write reports to the government, and we all keep an eye on it. If it works, these rickety chain bridges can be even more useful with a ropeway. I thought that if those people were driving the big bulls, they themselves might not dare to cross this rickety bridge. ”

Liu Zhixian listened to Wen Tianxiang's simplicity, and his face couldn't believe it. It's just that it is possible to solve the problem fundamentally, and he does not dare to make a mistake. After pausing for a moment, Liu Zhixian asked tentatively, "This matter of human life." ”

"Let the relevant departments on both sides start investigating." After Wen Tianxiang finished speaking, he left after a few words.

Along the way, he felt unspeakably uncomfortable. He originally thought that Zhao Jiaren let these ministers go to the local area for the last time was just a political means, just like in the previous way of unification, the emperor would decentralize some officials before returning to heaven, and in the ancestral family law, after the emperor returned to heaven, the prime minister and the ruling party had to resign to be the mountain envoy, so as to facilitate the new monarch to use talents according to his own ideas.

Now he doesn't think so, all kinds of things in the local area are only known about some things that are more out of the ordinary when he is the prime minister. But when I really looked down, I realized that it wasn't quite like that. Especially in this era of drastic change, many things seem ridiculous, but they are not. In the past, the Great Song Dynasty only owned this place in name, and did not establish a real government in these counties as it is now. The officials didn't know what the locals were talking about, and this ridiculous-looking thing just happened.

After Wen Tianxiang arrived here, he asked the locals to teach him the local dialect every day, learned four words, and could speak a sentence. It took almost a year to barely know what the local dialect was all about. Wen Tianxiang is going to sort out all these for the imperial court to know after returning to Beijing, and he thinks that other high-ranking officials who come to the local area will not pretend not to see the local affairs even for their own sake.

Adding a few iron cables and building a few buildings is nothing to the Great Song Dynasty. Even in the desolate Quang Nam West Road, these things can be done with just a few orders.

At this time, the focus of the Great Song Dynasty was the new actions of the Zhao official family, and someone from the Ministry of Finance wrote an article and published it in due course. What is written in it is the heavy infrastructure pressure faced by the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial court bears too huge expenditures, and even the Zhao official family has to take out all their assets to support compulsory education.

Wen Tianxiang saw that his article firmly supporting compulsory education was not published, and this article, which he thought that compulsory education should be carried out, but could not be carried out on such a large scale, was published. What does this mean exactly, is it possible for someone to contradict it? Without waiting for Prime Minister Wen to write a letter to the "Da Song Daily" to urge, a vote of articles was published one after another. Wen Tianxiang immediately dispelled the idea of urging, and most of the articles were all kinds of statements calling for speeding up external expansion and increasing the income of the Great Song Dynasty. Wen Tianxiang knew that this was not someone who wanted to contradict him, but someone who was leading the rhythm!

Seeing that these people were leading the rhythm, Zhao Jiaren was unhappy, and he first called Zhao Qian to ask his opinion. Zhao Qian hurriedly replied: "Official, of course I don't think that the war itself can make money. The increase in income is achieved by increasing labor efficiency, reducing labor costs, and expanding the scale of production. A great war could not bring back 10,000 ships of booty, and commercial trade could fill 100,000 merchant ships a year. ”

Hearing that his son didn't mean to make any mistakes, Zhao Jiaren asked Zhao Qian to leave. Zhao Qian hurriedly asked, "Official, do you want to publish something?" ”

"No, I don't. Don't say anything yourself. Zhao Jiaren ordered. He really wanted to see what these guys were trying to do, and since they advocated a tough attitude, there had to be a place for their interests. Or to expand the territory, or where to loot. Zhao Jiaren really wanted to see what kind of elephant tusks could come out of the mouths of these people.

Without Zhao Guanjia coming out to speak, people from all walks of life began to get involved in this announcement for various purposes. The representatives of Mongolia and Eastern Rome were initially surprised, but when they saw their country's name being mentioned, they were so frightened that they rushed to send the news to their country while collecting information.

Seeing that it was already the New Year's Day of the Great Song Dynasty 339, Sheila was waiting for the news of the ticket in the Ankara region at this time, and at this time, all the major forces in the Ankara region expressed their goodwill to Sheila. Even the Eastern Military District sent someone to give Sheila a clear hint. The legion and its family members were now the most important vote base in Eastern Rome, and in addition to the legion, more than half of the eastern nobles sent people to show goodwill to the senator Sheila, and Sheila only felt very relieved with these expressions.

Although her abdomen was not yet bulging, Sheila had already begun to feel the changes in her body from within. With the support of so many people, she still can't rest assured. The people have accepted a female senator so far, but what will they think of a pregnant female senator?