"Who are we, our people in the Tang Empire, and they are standing on the land of my Tang Empire, then they are also my people of the Tang Dynasty, they have concerns and vigilance in their hearts, it doesn't matter, we need to use various methods to make them identify with us, identify with themselves, and recognize that they belong to the same nation and country as us, what does this depend on? It depends on your efforts, on the spread of ideas and culture, to make them identify with us, so that we can completely assimilate them, just as our Chinese ancestors did! I waved my arms vigorously.

Knowledge is not only power, words are not only tools to record history, nor are they more than artistic and ornamental, in many cases, they bring far more lethality than guns. Most of the jobs they are about to embark on need to deal with the barbarians in various regions, so it is quite necessary to let them understand their responsibilities in advance, and treat those who are not enemies, since they are not eliminated from the **, they need to be completely assimilated from all aspects such as consciousness, tradition, and history, so that they can identify themselves as members of the Chinese nation, rather than wild monkeys who come out of the mountains and forests to dance bare-ass.

"You are not only a member of the Tang Empire, but also the young officials of the Tang Empire, you are the hope of the future of the empire, and similarly, the future of the country is also in your hands, your responsibility is to help the country, reduce internal conflicts, coordinate ethnic contradictions, improve the relationship between various ethnic groups, assimilate other weak ethnic groups, and make them identify with us as belonging to the same country, a nation, and a great empire......"

What I said was very naked, and some of the candidate officials here had a look of unbearability, or uncertainty, but the vast majority of them were happy and excited by my remarks, and I was the helmsman who controlled the direction of their progress as they navigated the misty sea, and I was also the guiding light for them as they navigated the dark thorny road.

We have not only discussed the question of national assimilation, but I would also like to point out at the same time what means are needed for national assimilation. "Did you see that? The books I put on my desk, several of them are Mengxue's lesson plans, which were jointly studied by this official and the students of the previous issues when they discussed the construction of the Liaodong Hongwen Museum, and there are also these, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Five Emperors of the Historical Chronicles", and ...... Do you know what these are for? ”

------------------------------------------------ "My lordship means a lot to set up educational places in these barbaric places, so that those barbarians will be inclined to Sinology, edification, and ......benevolence," an official stood up and shook his head. I nodded: "You are half right, it is necessary and necessary to open more educational places, and it is necessary, we cannot rely on them to automatically and consciously move closer to our national culture, so we need to rely on education, adults, most of them have fixed their thoughts, as well as their thoughts, but children are different, children have a strong plastic surname, educate children, let them identify with the essence of our culture, and regard themselves as a member of our Datang, this is what we need, in addition, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" Do you know what these books are for? ”

I subconsciously grinned, probably a little wickedly, which made these non-professional students can't help but shiver subconsciously, only my royal disciples also showed the same evil eyes and smiles as me. They understand their own master better.

This class lasted until late at night, all the students were listening attentively, taking notes hard, everyone worked hard, and studied quite seriously, which is very good, they can be regarded as the first batch of patriotic officials who have received intensive education in national political concepts, the first few batches of education in Honglu Temple are too short, at most they are the products of short-term training courses, however, their patriotic ideas are strengthened and those diplomatic means of learning are enough to make them competent for the job.

At present, Datang has sent envoys to nearly 57 subject countries, all of whom are outstanding students educated by Ben Gongzi, and I believe that their existence will definitely enable Datang to no longer take good face as the highest goal in diplomatic work, but to obtain practical benefits for Datang as its responsibility.

Just like now, several countries in Central Asia have negotiated with the envoys sent by the Tang Empire, and the Tang Dynasty has provided technology and local manpower to carry out mining operations, and after refining the various minerals mined, the Tang Dynasty has discounted the part of the share that should be given to the Tang Dynasty, purchased it at a low price, or exchanged other trading materials for the various metals that my Datang needs. For example, copper, gold, silver, iron.

The new steelmaking technology is still in the hands of the Martial Arts Research Institute of the Tang Empire, but now, it has been promoted by several important craftsmen in the Tang Dynasty, after all, whether it is a steel weapon or a farm tool, it has the insurmountable superiority and durability of iron products.

At present, the Institute of Martial Arts has begun to trial production of steel farm tools, of course, the use of agricultural tools is the steel clamping method, with wrought iron clamping steel bars, not only to reduce the consumption of steel, but also to obtain a better application than all iron farm tools. Of course, I rushed here today, not to listen to these reports, but to watch the situation of hydraulic stamping machinery coinage, 200 production lines, the annual output of coins can reach 5 million, in the past, the Datang coinage, the annual production of new coins will not exceed 3 million, moreover, the cost of paying is high, even more than the value of the money itself, and since the use of modern assembly line production technology, smelting and improvement, the cost of coinage has dropped to an acceptable range.

However, this is not what I want to see, I want to have a better, richer monetary mechanism, and a currency that reflects more value. I have been researching at home, and after more than ten drafts, I finally completed the prototype, and it was only after discussing with the craftsmen of the Martial Arts Research Institute and confirming the feasible surnames that it was considered a success.

Holding the drawings, squatting at home, thinking about whether to make a pattern first and present it to Uncle Li for appreciation? It should be presented to Uncle Li first, and then it will be produced. There are some entanglements, this kind of problem is the most annoying, at this time, Li Zhi and Li Shen walked in with a smile, and saw that my master was squatting on the low couch, staring at a few pieces of paper in a daze, and was very curious to come closer to see.

"Hey, Brother Jun, you want to fix something, isn't this a portrait of my father?" Li Zhi recognized at a glance the portrait of the human head on the coin enlarged by 1:20.

I glared at him angrily: "Nonsense, it's not your father, who else has the qualifications to engrave his face on a coin." "Coins?" Li Zhi's eyes burst into a burst of electric sparks, and he sat down next to me with great interest, picked up the pattern to look at it, and after Li Shen on the side looked at it a few times, he couldn't help but ask me: "Master, there is no hole in this money." ”

------------------------------------------------ my eyes showed the white of my eyes again: "There is that hole, do you want your father's face anymore?" My words choked Li Shen half to death, and Li Zhi also nodded in agreement: "That's the reason, if there is a money hole in the middle, the main thing is to wear twine, which is easy to carry, but if the head and face of my father are printed on it, if you dig a money hole, who will recognize this son." ”

"But...... There is no hole in the middle of this money, how can I carry it? Li Zhi touched his chin and poked his finger at the portrait of his father, as if comparing him with his father's handsomeness. You think I'm having fun as a teacher, but I'm telling you that I'm preparing to mint gold and silver coins for my teacher. ”

"Gold and silver coins?!" Li Zhi's voice suddenly raised an octave, and on the side, Li Shen's eyes widened, it seemed that they were still stuck in the mode of thinking that only regarded copper as metal currency.

Without further ado, I reached into the waistband of my trousers, pulled out my purse, and then untied my pocket, and shook it on the table, and with a clanging sound, a dozen or so gold and silver coins fell out, and after a little dripping on the table, they all fell to the table.

"These, these words on them are not the Chinese characters used by our Tang Dynasty, Master, these should not be the currencies used by those barbarians in the Western Regions, right?" Li Shen was very smart and deduced it at a glance, and Li Zhi on the side picked up a gold coin, held it in his hand, and looked at it curiously. I have also mentioned to them before that most of the currencies used by Western barbarians are gold and silver, and our Datang mainly uses copper coins.

"Well, it is the currency used by those Western barbarians, such as this one, which was used when the ancient Roman Empire was strong, and this one, it should be that after the emergence of kings in the Roman Empire, they learned to extend the portrait on it......" I was very interested in explaining the origin of these Western gold and silver coins for Li Shen, but at this time, Li Zhi on the side snorted sullenly, and did not speak with a gloomy face.

(To be continued)