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"Your Majesty, the Minister and the Ministry of Rites and Rites, and the Ministry of Culture, Education and Health, Lord Kerich, have discussed the need to increase the number of troops in the Tengger Grassland, the Peninsula Region, Northern Luzon, Burmese County, the Western Regions, On the issue of cultural and educational investment in the Indean region, including the Meili region, which has just been brought under the control of the empire, the minister and several adults agreed that it is imperative to increase investment in culture and education in minority areas, which is related to the long-term planning of the development of the empire in the future, and at present, there are many ethnic groups in the empire, and there is no clear and long-term goal for local cultural and educational undertakings, and our Tang civilization should be said to be a huge treasure trove for all ethnic groups, which can also cover our Tang civilization in the entire imperial control area when absorbing the essence of various ethnic groups, so that all ethnic groups can enjoy the benefits of our Tang civilization。 Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

At the same time, both the Imperial University and the Northwest University should expand the enrollment scale, especially the number of students enrolled in the border areas and ethnic areas, so that some imperial officials could be trained for all ethnic groups, which would play a very important role in consolidating and strengthening the empire's rule and management in these areas. In addition, the ministers and the lords also agreed that the current educational strength of the empire is weak, and there are only two comprehensive surname universities and three military academies in the entire empire, and the ministers thought that the future empire could build universities in economically developed and financially abundant county-level areas, such as Jiangnan County, Donghae County, and counties with very important locations such as Kansai, should also establish a comprehensive surname university, so that it can not only cultivate such laws and administration, economy, culture, education, etc. Professionals in finance and taxation can also gradually regularize the management of all aspects of the empire, which will play an immeasurable role in promoting all undertakings of the empire. ”

Xiao Tang, the prime minister of the Government Council, who came forward to speak freely, has always been one of his most concerned points of concern about accelerating the development of education, originally he wanted to put forward a relatively complete outline of education development when he went out to patrol the south of the Yangtze River, but in view of this is a considerable amount of expenditure, and the imperial finances were not rich at that time, so he also suppressed this idea, but now with the gold stored in the South Indian region and transported back to the imperial treasury, the currency reform is about to advance, and the finances and taxes of Solian and Punjab may also be incorporated into the imperial financial system in a relatively short period of time, and the imperial finances will gradually improve, and the launch of this plan is a suitable time。

"Oh, Xiao Tang, I have already read the plan you handed over, this matter should be said to have a good intention, but such a huge plan requires a huge amount of money, Jiangnan University, Tunghai University, Kansai University, and dozens of junior and intermediate schools will be established in the border and ethnic areas, is this plan too huge?

In fact, Wu Feng is well aware of the significance of Xiao Tang's plan, as the area of the empire continues to expand at an extraordinary rate, the proportion of the empire's native area in the empire territory, where the Tang nationality dominates, continues to decline, and the proportion of the Tang population in the total population of the empire is also declining. If all the minority populations in the Meili area are counted, although the population base of the Tang nationality is large, it probably only accounts for barely more than half of the total population of the empire, which is of course caused by the vigorous expansion of the empire, but if the ethnic diversity is not maintained by the centripetal force of the empire, it will lead to many troublesome problems, which is clearly seen by Wufeng, and to form a cohesive force and centripetal force for these ethnic groups, the assimilation of culture and language is undoubtedly the most important, and all this must be achieved through the promotion of Tang education, so he did not intend to oppose the plan, but he preferred to have a clear and detailed long-term plan。

"Your Majesty, I think that no matter how difficult the empire's finances are, this plan must be pushed forward quickly, otherwise the empire will definitely pay a greater price for it in the future! In order to let these ethnic minorities gradually integrate into the civilization of our Tang nationality, this is a rather long process, and the time it takes is not a year or a few years, but more than ten years, decades or even a hundred years. ”

The next person in the queue was the Imperial Minister of Culture, Education and Health, Kerich, although he kept claiming that we were Tang people, but he was a mixed race with Caucasian blood, but after several generations, the Caucasian characteristics were almost no longer visible, except that the name could also be seen that there may be some white blood. He is a candidate highly recommended by Wei Zhongxing, the former Minister of Culture, Education and Health of the Tang River Empire, and he is also a former admirer of Li Sanshu, an extremely dedicated official, who is very trusted by Wufeng.

"Your Majesty, we don't want to roll out this plan all at once, such as Tengger, Burmese County, and the peninsula area, the civilization of these ethnic groups is inextricably linked with our Tang civilization, and the degree of ethnic integration is relatively high, and we have also made a lot of achievements in the preliminary work. In these areas of Meili, the influence of our Tang civilization is relatively small, and it is a relatively weak link in the empire, so it is imperative to start a pilot project in these two places first, steadily expand its influence, and not slack off. In addition, the minister also had some ideas, such as encouraging the development of non-governmental educational institutions in these areas, and promoting the promotion of Tang language and Tang culture and art, in which the Imperial Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Culture, Education and Health could give some policy and financial support and support. Lao Min, Minister of Rites, also joined the suggestion camp.

"Well, Xiao Tang, it seems that you have also done sufficient research on the feasibility of this plan, and I agree to this plan in principle, but it must be coordinated with the ability of the imperial treasury to pay. What I mean is that Cui Wenxiu can now order the middle and senior colleges in the Meili area to add two courses in Tang language and Tang culture to promote the popularization of Tang civilization, and the Indean region can establish a series of Tang language schools from elementary to intermediate in West Indean, South Indean, Punja, and Solian respectively, and select local talents to be trained in Imperial University and Northwest University, so as to further promote the use of Tang language. In addition, Pauling can come forward to select local people who can speak Tang to serve as officials within the scope of our ability in the Indean region, and this will gradually form a system in which the official language of the Meli region and the Indean region must be added to the Tang language, and it will gradually become dominant. In this regard, the Government Council should come up with a detailed five-year or even 10-year plan, and it should be clear how much to invest each year and what major projects will be made. ”

After pondering for a while, Wu Feng made another final decision: "The Imperial Ministry of Justice can discuss this legislative issue with the Imperial Senate and the Civic House, as Kerich said, this is a long-term project, and it is unrealistic overnight, and legislation must be used to ensure that this policy is implemented for a long time, well, it is called the "Imperial Culture and Education Promotion Law", and the Imperial Treasury must be included in the budget every year to ensure that it is a special appropriation expenditure. ”

A series of military and political affairs were quickly determined under Wufeng's decisive decision, which made a cadre of courtiers also feel that His Majesty the Emperor seemed to have improved his energy and mental state to a great extent after his trip to Jiangnan, and His Majesty the Emperor became a little impatient during the period when the empire was just established, and his mood seemed to have been not very good。

After the dissolution of the court, Wu Feng specially left Xiao Tang, Ling Tianfang, Su Qin and Bo Jinchen to discuss the consequences of the drought in the northern region and the feasible surnames of the landless and poor displaced people to emigrate to the three provinces of Burma County and the Pamir Province and Kuiyang Province of Northern Luzon, and finally decided to immigrate 800,000 people from Yanyun and Beiyuan counties to Burma County and Northern Luzon County, and the immigration cost was solved by paying half of the imperial finance and the local finance.

At the same time, the five discussed the opinion of Cui Wenxiu on his request that the Government Council send personnel to form a local government in the Meili region as soon as possible, but there was a huge difference of opinion between the military and the government on this issue, and the military held that the situation in the Meili region was different from that of the Indean region, that the economy was developed, and that the situation was now stable and important, and that the administrative Yuan should take over the management so that the army could spare enough energy to deal with other affairs in the central and mainland regions; however, the Government Council expressed its opposition, holding that the Meili region had just come under the control of the empire, and that the over-hastening to establish an administrative organization would easily arouse the resentment of the local people, and would not be conducive to the rule and management of the empire in the future, and suggested that military management should be carried out for the time beingWhen the time is ripe, we will complete the establishment of the administrative agency together with the Indean region, but in terms of finance, the Ministry of Finance can send personnel to take charge of the finances.

The two sides were at a stalemate on this issue, and even Wufeng himself could not decide for a while whether it was better to form a local government in the Meili region or to wait until it was more appropriate to settle the matter together with the various ministries in the Indean region, and finally the two sides reached a compromise and decided to set up an advisory investigation team to investigate the situation in the Meili area first, and to come up with an opinion on whether to immediately form Meili County as soon as possible, and the members of the investigation team were composed of the Imperial Council, the Privy Council, and representatives of the Civic Council.

(To be continued)