When Li Lizhi was eating, Li Shimin and the others outside had already finished discussing with Wu Ping, watching Wu Ping and them all get on the train, with a long whistle, the train finally began to move slowly.

"Let's go, go back, by the way, Guanyin, you go and take a carriage with Concubine Yang, and let Cheng Qian and the three of them come to me." Li Shimin said directly.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Empress Eldest Sun doesn't care.

And Li Lizhen, who was in the carriage at the moment, was also a little excited, after all, they were all taking the train for the first time, because of the situation outside, so the curtain near the platform Li Liqin did not open, but opened the other side.

Looking at the scenery outside began to slowly retreat, Wanshuang and several other maids were a little excited, there was nothing to do at this time, Li Lizhi had finished removing her makeup and changed into a more comfortable set of clothes, at this moment she and Xia Zhu were sitting on the other side, and the two of them were sitting on the sofa facing each other, looking at the scenery outside the window that gradually began to move.

"You say, can Datang build such a thing one day?" Li Lizhen suddenly asked.

"If Datang doesn't change the current way of education, it's going to be difficult." Xia Zhu shook his head slightly.

"The way of education? Isn't it changing? At present, although the popularization of basic education in Datang cannot be compared with that of Dahan, there are currently more than 300,000 children who can be taught every year. Li Lizhi said seriously.

Indeed, in recent years, Datang's progress has also been great, because Datang's finances have been improving in recent years, so free education has also been increasing, and the number of children enrolled in school every year has reached about 300,000.

Of course, Datang can only teach for free for about three years, and after three years, if you want to learn deeper knowledge, you need to find a teacher and increase part of the basic tuition.

Although the increase in tuition fees is not much, but for poor students, this amount of money is not a small amount, so basically after three years of study, only about one-fifth, about 60,000 children continue to study.

"Your Highness, I'm not talking about the number of people, although the number of poor students in Datang is increasing every year, and these poor students have played a major role in the society of Datang after completing their studies, I believe that His Royal Highness should see this." Xia Zhu thought for a while and said.

"Yes, although I haven't learned about this specifically, but I heard my father say that some of the older ones themselves when they study, after completing three years of free study, after they enter the society, they are the priority of the major commercial houses, and their salaries are much higher than those who are illiterate."

"It is also for this reason that more and more people are willing to send their children to the school for education." Li Lizhi nodded.

"Yes, there is indeed no problem with this, but although the entire Datang has strengthened the education of Mengxue and the children of the poor family, it is still Confucianism that dominates the education of the entire Datang, right?" Xia Zhu asked with a smile.

"That's right." Li Lizhi nodded.

"And almost all the people also attach importance to Confucianism, because Confucianism can be officials, because almost all officials in the officialdom are Confucian children." Xia Zhu smiled and said, "But do you know, Your Highness?" The train you are riding on, all the skills and abilities to build it, it is no exaggeration to say that Confucian knowledge is useless at all, as long as you are literate. ”

"What is really useful here are the three most important courses of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology, and what Datang is currently learning is arithmetic and some knowledge, such as physics, that is, Gewu, no one pays attention to it, and more craftsmen and craftsmen are learning by themselves, how can these aspects grow up?"

"The leader said that the three disciplines of mathematics, physics and chemistry are very important, so important that they need many talented scientists, just like Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao and other people for medicine, these three disciplines must have similar scientists to continue to appear, in order to promote the progress of these disciplines."

"And Datang, is there such an environment?" Xia Zhu asked with a smile.

Li Lizhi thought about it, and then she couldn't help but smile bitterly, "It's really not." Although it is said that the Tang Dynasty is not exclusive to Confucianism, in fact, the influence of Confucianism in this era has been very huge, and the most important thing is that almost all the officials above the court are from Confucianism.

And something like arithmetic, if it weren't for the fact that it is closely related to many things in life, it is estimated that not many people will learn arithmetic, and Datang does not have such an atmosphere as Dahan, so it is no wonder that Dahan should continue to strengthen in these aspects.

A special ministry of education has been set up to take care of this.

"Then does Datang still have a chance to improve?" Li Lizhen thought about it again and asked.

"Of course there is, such a change is actually not just for His Majesty Li Shimin to see, but for everyone in the entire Tang Dynasty to see it." Xia Zhu said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Li Lizhen didn't understand a little, "Isn't it enough for my father to see it?" ”

"Does Your Highness think that His Majesty Li Shimin does not know this? No, His Majesty Li Shimin has already seen this, but it is too difficult to carry out reforms, and Confucianism will inevitably hinder it. Xia Zhu shook his head slightly, just like the language of the Han Dynasty and the Confucianism of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, there is still a big gap.

The Confucian doctrine does not mean that there is no value in learning, but if the Confucian doctrine wants to learn deeply, many people have to study for more than ten years in this era of low learning efficiency, and in this time, most people's most elite time has been wasted, how can there be excellent scientists?

In elementary and middle school, the Han language only learned the most basic literacy, breaking sentences, forming sentences and writing articles, and then if you want to study Confucianism and other theories, you have to go to university to be the right way.

Universities will subdivide all disciplines for research, and even those who study Confucianism in universities actually know the basics of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

This is the essential difference between the Han and the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has already been in the Mengxue period, some outstanding students have been selected by some Confucians, some teachers, let them start to learn Confucianism, how many outstanding scientists can really study mathematics and science?

Li Lizhen nodded, although she didn't know the situation in the imperial court, but Li Lizhen was different from other princesses, because her father always came to her to inquire about anything new, so she chatted with her a lot, and in the process of chatting, Li Lizhen naturally had some knowledge of some of the situation in Datang.

She knew that what Xia Zhu said was true, this was met with the opposition of a class, there are names and surnames in the world, and almost all of them are Confucian children, you tell them now, if you want to overthrow Confucianism, do you think they are willing? Would you agree?

"Then you said that everyone in Datang should see it, how can they see it?" Li Lizhen was a little curious.

"Now some gate valve families have actually seen it, but they have not yet comprehended it so profoundly, these machines of the Han Dynasty, as well as more advanced products continue to impact the inherent business system of these gate valve families."

"And although their profits have not decreased too much, the most important production authority is not in their hands, and they will also feel a sense of crisis, but it is almost impossible for them to produce similar goods, so they have only one way, to raise more craftsmen, and strive to let these craftsmen improve these technologies."

"But the progress of technology does not depend on a certain talent, it is not advisable to make a car behind closed doors, the progress of a certain industry must be the joint study of most of the craftsmen in the world, and then the rapid progress will be made, although I don't know the situation of Datang, but I am sure that in the past few years, the biggest progress in technology must be the textile industry." Xia Zhu said with certainty.

Li Lizhi glanced at her with some amazement, Xia Zhu guessed that she was not wrong at all, in the past few years, there have indeed been a lot of new technologies in Datang's textile industry, and it is indeed the fastest industry to innovate and update.

"In fact, this is the door valve family behind the businessmen in the textile industry has seen this, they have to increase investment in order to survive, so many craftsmen have begun to improve, but this improvement will certainly progress, but the speed of progress will be very slow, or there is an upper limit, because the experience of these craftsmen comes from their masters, and they don't know a lot of principles."

"That is, they know what it is, but they don't know why, and it is difficult for them to completely change the textile industry from the principle."

"When one day the Dahan trading houses began to enter the Datang Dynasty on a large scale, and constantly squeezed the living space of the Datang trading houses, and the family of the gate lords behind these merchants began to be unable to survive, when they realized that the thing related to the life and death of their family was knowledge, at that time, Your Majesty did not do anything, it is estimated that they would push Your Majesty to carry out reforms." Xia Zhu shrugged his shoulders.

"But at that time, it was estimated that it would take many years." Li Lizhi thought for a while and said.

"Indeed, so it depends on Your Majesty's courage." Xia Zhu smiled, "Or choose to break the game from other aspects." ”

……

When Xia Zhu and Li Lizhi were chatting, Li Shimin had already sat in a big carriage with Li Chengqian and his three sons.

"You have all seen the military parade of the Han Dynasty today, the difference between the Han army and the Tang army, you should also be very clear, after all, you have all been in the army of the Han Dynasty, you have not been back for too long, I haven't talked to you carefully, after watching today's parade, what do you think is the biggest difference between them and the Tang army?" Li Shimin asked directly.

Li Chengqian and the three of them did not answer immediately, but pondered, to be honest, although they had been in the army for half a year, but when they saw the real regular army of the Han Dynasty, they were still very shocked, and this kind of shock was not so profound when they were in the army.

Li Shimin didn't urge when he arrived, just waited silently, and after a cup of tea, Li Chengqian spoke: "Father, I think the biggest difference is responsibility. ”

"Responsibility?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, "You tell me in detail." ”

"The army of the Han Dynasty has to receive some education every day, and these education tells them to be patriotic, loyal to the king, and love the people." Li Chengqian pondered for a moment and said.

"Didn't these educate me Datang?" Li Shimin frowned, how could there be no army similar to the education of the Tang Dynasty?

"Father, there is a big difference here, in addition to educating these, the Han army will also tell these armies that you are not only the army of the Han chief, you are also the army of the Han people, and you are the children of the people."

"You were born to protect the people." Li Chengqian repeated, "So for the army of the Han Dynasty, they never felt that the ordinary people were inferior, they were the same as the people, and more importantly, the education of the Han Dynasty let them know the relationship between the people, the army, and the state." ”

"And these things, let them understand these responsibilities, and how many of our Datang troops know these things? I'm afraid there aren't many, and even many soldiers are trying to survive, or even have to become soldiers. ”

Li Shimin paused, these words, he thought silently, just like Li Chengqian said, many soldiers in the Tang Dynasty don't understand anything, they can't read, no one tells them these things, how can they know? Many soldiers are messing around, even to survive, how can they have such spirit?

And if you want to understand these things, I am afraid that only many veterans can understand some in their heads, but if they do, they may not know how to say them. Even many veterans don't understand, for example, some elite armies have strong combat effectiveness, it's not that veterans understand this, but that many of their veterans have sacrificed their comrades, and they are more revenge supporting them.

However, if the Tang army is completely restructured, from the government military system to a professional soldier similar to the Han Dynasty...... Thinking of this, Li Shimin felt very worried, because the professional army is not so easy to compose, which means a large amount of material consumption and a decrease in the number of troops.

The reduction is inevitable, behind the government military system, in fact, a lot of logistics consumption has been reduced, and some armies that are not so important positions are supported by military households, and the amount of imperial court expenditure is naturally less.

If these are canceled, then the consumption of the Tang army will be paid by the national treasury, which is probably a huge expense.

And according to the current number of troops in Datang, it is absolutely impossible to raise, so in order to reduce this consumption, it is necessary to reduce the number of troops, just like the Han Dynasty, focusing on the strategy of elite soldiers, and then supplemented by patrols similar to semi-military training, but the replenishment of the army will be a problem.

Good or bad...... Li Shimin couldn't be sure for a while, as an emperor, of course Li Shimin knew very well that what was suitable for the Han Dynasty might not be suitable for the Tang Dynasty, but these things were .......

Li Shimin took a deep breath, and he suddenly thought of what Li Chengqian said, these systems...... Anyway...... All need experiments, and experiments ...... It needs a special place!