It's summer vacation, and my little brother is going home today. During the summer vacation, I also went to a driving school to study for a driver's license. After two months, the younger brother tried to do a change every day, if there is a lack of change, please forgive me!

From the paper on the bookcase, Xiao Chen saw the current achievements of the first student in Tai Academy. The one-month internship period has not yet ended, but the achievements made by Fengyuan are obvious to all. In just over 20 days, all the bridges, roads, and ditches that had been built in various parts of Tongwu County were repaired, and those that were not built were even called on the militia to build them. What's more, all this did not delay the agricultural season, and thanks to the vigorous construction of the ditches, the wheat grew very well this season.

It can be said that Fengyuan's achievements in Tongwu County are already very good, and even ordinary old scholars may not be able to do better. There is no idea of being blind and arrogant, and everything starts from the most basic in Tongwu County. First of all, it is the roads and bridges necessary for communication and exchange in various places, and secondly, the most important farmland for the people. Although these two items seem inconspicuous, and the round of political achievements is not too good feats. But this is the most basic and the most beneficial to the people.

Your economy is developing, and no matter how much tax you collect, you can't take care of the fertile land. When the harvest in the fields is good, the people will not only be able to feed and clothe, but also hand over more grain to the state. If there is a surplus, then a small sum of money can be obtained. According to the calculation that there is a stone of harvest for one acre of land, almost all the farmers in Beichen Kingdom have five acres of land, which is five stones of grain. And a family of four can eat up to two stones and two stones within half a year. Coupled with the tax of half a stone, it is only two stones and five buckets. Even if the common people reserve some food in order to prevent disaster years, it will be able to have one or two more stones. If you sell these two stones to the imperial court, you can also harvest one or two pieces of silver.

Now don't underestimate the spending power of a tael of silver, a tael of silver is a full 1,000 copper coins. And now the market price is only 300 copper and one stone of grain, if it weren't for the amount of grain that the imperial court has set every year, it will really give some profiteers an opportunity to take advantage of. This is true for buying food, and some of the rest are even cheaper. It's like pork, ten copper plates can buy a pound of pork, and if it's other meat, it's a bit expensive. After all, pork was not popular in ancient times, so it was very cheap.

And like cloth, a hundred copper can buy several meters of coarse cloth, which can make several clothes. A better cloth will not be too expensive, unless it is that kind of silk brocade. The most necessary salt for the people of the world is even cheaper in Beichen Kingdom. Sometimes, no one buys it for the price of 100 copper stones. When the price of salt was at its lowest, it was only 20 copper and 1 stone. With such a price, it is absolutely the only one in the Beacon Continent. There is no way, who has made a lot of coastal areas in Beichen Kingdom, and there are a lot of salt farms that can be built.

Looking at the Xia Kingdom, an ally of the Beichen Kingdom, just the price of salt, the price of one stone of salt in the Xia Kingdom is five hundred copper and one stone, which is still a great discount given by the Beichen Kingdom to the Xia Kingdom. And in the central position of the Beacon Continent, I don't know how many guys have been scolded in the forum, there is a shortage of salt, and there is very little salt production in the interior, and many countries have been killed by this trick. For a salt mine, there are many fights, and for an inner lake, the country will gather its own players to rob it. In this way, it can be seen how much salt is lacking in the central region of the Beacon Fire Continent.

Now Beichen has made a lot of money just by exporting salt, and I believe that the profits will be greater in the future, because the population will only increase.

Judging by the prices of various commodities in the market, a good harvest in the fields is undoubtedly the most beneficial for them and at the same time the most beneficial for the country. From this point of view, although Fengyuan's achievements are not big, he is very pragmatic, which is very good. Others don't know how arrogant the protégé of the Son of Heaven is, can they not know? Just looking at how arrogant the Whampoa military academy students of the Republic of China are, it is enough to see it.

Wu Yuan, who is a relative of the emperor, did a very good job this time. Maybe he didn't do as well as Fengyuan for bridges, roads, and field harvests, but this guy made a specialty in the local area. At this time, the local people are all busy making special products, and the profits are very large. And also set up several workshops, relying on his own connections to contact many caravans, but made a lot of money. At the same time, it also drives the commercial development of the entire region, which makes Xiao Chen also very gratified.

In fact, when it came to what Feng Yuan and Wu Yuan did, Xiao Chen felt that Feng Yuan had done a very good job. Because in China, there is an old saying that the people take food as the sky. This is not just talking, the biggest advantage of the Han people is that they have a large population. Just looking at the 80 million Han people in Beichen Kingdom, plus 20 million foreigners who are assimilating, it is more than the population of two or three principalities in Europe. With a huge population advantage, it naturally has a stronger war potential. But at the same time, it also brings huge food pressure.

Now the Beichen Kingdom has cut down most of the deep forests, just to obtain land that can be cultivated to make up for the food pressure in the country. Since the occupation of the Cossack State last year, the amount of arable land has increased considerably, and the food pressure on the Beichen State has been relieved. But later, the population will be larger in the future, and the wars will be more and more difficult in the future. Therefore, Beichen needs to take more care of cultivated land, and if it can produce a little more grain, it will produce a little more grain.

The commercialization of the city is very good, and it is also the inevitable product of the evolution of imperial feudalism to capitalism. However, now for Beichen Kingdom, there is no need at all, it is dispensable. After the completion of the construction of the Chi Road, the domestic economic development has been greatly improved. Now almost all the chambers of commerce have begun to conduct foreign trade, and eighty percent of the country's businessmen have joined the chambers. In foreign trade, the most important point is salt. The huge profit of salt is undoubtedly the largest export item of Beichen Kingdom, followed by silk. It's just that there are a lot of Chinese players on the Beacon Continent, so the profits of silk are not very large.

But even so, the annual customs duties of the imperial court were as high as millions of taels of silver. With such a commercial and economic capacity, there is no need for Beichen to evolve into a capitalist country. You just need to follow the steps and continue to develop slowly. The most important thing is food, and in the future, we must focus on food, and don't forget that there are wars everywhere in the Beacon Continent now.

In addition to the two outstanding people of Fengyuan and Wu Yuan, there are still more than ten people among the protégés of the Son of Heaven who have made very good results. In addition, there are more than 2,000 people, although they have not made any political achievements, but they are also honest and have no illusions, and they have finally stabilized the place. For those hundreds of arrogant students, Xiao Chen could only shake his head helplessly.

Build a county town into the strongest city in the kingdom and become the largest fortified city on the western front of the kingdom. This is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, after arriving in a small border town in Xizhou, he actually shouted such a slogan. And also paid practically, anxious tens of thousands of migrant workers, to expand the city. When I first heard the news, Xiaocheng squirted out all the tea, and I really admired how the student came up with it.

Fortunately, Xiao Chen sent someone to stop the strongman in time, and also deducted a few points, which made the lord stop and give up the slogan.

In addition, there are two people who are even more powerful, and one person actually gathered an engineering team of more than 30,000 people in the county. Call on everyone to get out of the house and build the national truth, so that the kingdom can pass through every village. Xiao Chen was in a cold sweat when he saw this.

God, do you know how high the cost of building a gallop is? I didn't see that there are only a few major galloping roads in the kingdom now. Some of the branches of the Chi Road are only close to the city next to the Chi Road. That's it, and Beichen almost drained the treasury. Now this guy is actually arrogant that he wants to build the gallop road to every village. The idea is very good, but have you ever thought about that gallop that is tens of meters wide?

In addition, all kinds of strange things are endless, which makes Xiao Chen feel in a painful and happy feeling all the time in the past few days.

It's really unbearable for my students to be happy and miserable for themselves.

Early in the morning of this day, Xun Yu and Jiang Wan joined forces and came to the outside of the study to see Xiao Chen. The two prime ministers came over, and Xiao Chen naturally greeted each other.

As soon as he entered the study, Xun Yu said with a red face: "Congratulations to the king, congratulations to the king!" ”

Xiao Chen looked at Xun Yu, who was extremely happy, and Jiang Wan, who was also happy next to him, and asked, "Wen Ruo, where does this joy come from?" ”

Xun Yu smiled mysteriously and said, "King Qiyu, it has been a month since the first batch of students of Tai Academy took office. And in the past month, these students have achieved extraordinary results. Not only has the development of order in various places that had undergone the Great Purge Movement completely restored, but many places have developed better than before. Only a few places are recovering, but most of the officials in these places are low-level officials promoted from the firing line. ”

During the tenure of the 3,000 protégés of the Son of Heaven, although many people were blind and arrogant in the early stage, fortunately, they were corrected in time and did not delay the restoration of the kingdom. In contrast, those officials who were promoted in the line of fire were extremely unbearable, and several places not only did not recover smoothly. Even, there are two people who continue to be corrupt officials after the Great Purge, which makes people feel sad. Fortunately, Jinyiwei and the Military Intelligence Bureau found out in a very timely manner and did not cause any harm to the locality! ”

"Now, with the efforts of these three thousand disciples of the Son of Heaven, Tai Academy has completely become famous. When the enrollment season is over, I believe that more talents will gather in Tai Academy! Isn't that a great thing? ”

The corners of Xiao Chen's mouth twitched, and he said boringly: "Eh, that's it." Alas~ This king still thinks that Wen Ruo can bring some good news! Those students have just passed a month of internship, and although they are doing well, this does not mean that they will be in the future! ”

"That's right!" Xiao Chen suddenly thought of something and continued: "Wen Ruo, can the household department approve a sum of money now?" The scale of the current military academy and the Tai Academy is too small, and this king thinks that it is best to expand it. ”

There are only 800 people in this phase of the military academy, and it is mainly aimed at monks and Taoist soldiers, and only these two troops have been expanded. But don't the other troops care? Although the rest of the troops were already at full strength, many of the junior officers in the army did not know what the art of war was, and some of them could not even read a few big characters. This is still a low-level officer, and among the middle-level officers and senior officers, there are also many people who are very unfamiliar with the art of war.

Therefore, Xiao Chen plans to continue to expand the military academy, at least to meet the needs of recruiting 5,000 cadets at one time. As for the goal of recruiting students in the next season, Xiao Chen plans to focus mainly on the rest of the troops. After all, the rest of the troops also need a large number of knowledgeable commanders, and they can't rely on a group of officers who can only fight brute force and don't know the slightest art of war to charge into battle with knives!

In addition, the Tai Academy will also be expanded. Now that everything is in the kingdom, there are no more official positions to be inserted. However, how can you not do your best to cultivate your own cronies? There has been no war in the past two years, so put the cadets at the grassroots level and start from the bottom. After that, the right to slowly boil up two years of seniority, as long as the war breaks out, I am afraid that I will have too few local officials in reserve.

Therefore, the expansion of the Tai Academy and the Military Academy must be advanced.

"What the king said is reasonable, judging from the performance of the cadets of the first phase of the military academy and the cadets of the Tai Academy. Both academies have very good teaching, and it is a blessing for the kingdom to be able to expand and train more military talents and local administrative talents for the kingdom! Jiang Wan finally interjected a sentence on the side, expressing his sense of existence.

"Weichen thinks that the Tai Academy and the Military Academy should also be expanded, and the household department can still pay for it!" Xun Yu said with a smile.

"Okay, since the two prime ministers have agreed, then it's decided! After a few days, the money and materials were ready, and the two schools were immediately expanded! Xiao Chen said.

"No!"

Xun Yu replied and continued: "King, the court control and system reform plan you handed over to Weichen the day before yesterday, Weichen still feels that it is still inappropriate. That system is to be more perfect than the current system, but now is not a good time to reform. “

"That's right, my lord. At present, the kingdom has just undergone a great purge, and the people are panicked and have not yet settled down. If we carry out structural reform in a big way, I am afraid that it will cause a lot of trouble. Jiang Wan also said on the side.

"Then, Wen Ruo! When do you think reform is the best time? “

"Advancing to the empire, the king of the yellow robe is added, and the ninety-five is in the world! At that time, the king, as the supreme of the Ninety-Five, said that if you want to talk about reform, absolutely no one dares to jump out and oppose it! Xun Yu said with a serious expression.

Xiao Chen sat on the chair, frowning, and fell into deep contemplation....