In the midst of the busy. The seventh year of Guangxi finally came to the end of the year.

In this year, too many unexpected things have happened, and if you look back and take a closer look, you will find that most of them seem to be related to one person, and this person is the newly crowned king of Pingxi, Zhao Guochang.

Today's Zhao Xing is already a well-known celebrity in the Han Dynasty, and even the old and weak women and children can tell many stories and rumors about this legendary man in one breath when they mention Zhao Guochang, the king of Pingxi.

Prestige is something that can neither be seen nor touched, but for those who like to play with power, it is the most important intangible asset, which may be hard to accumulate and spend in a moment. The biggest disadvantage of the lump sum deposit is that the process is long, suffocating and even desperate, and the advantage is that you can feel the great pleasure of sitting on the world in a moment of spending.

The above feelings are valid for the vast majority of people who are interested in changing the dynasty and seeking to win the world, but they are not applicable to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing, who has been living in Crouching Tiger City since the second half of the year and has never been anywhere, has neither the anxiety and irritability of waiting, nor the frivolity and joy after being sealed, but is busy all day long with some things that others can't understand or understand.

Zhao Xing found several doctors of Taihang Academy, and discussed and debated with them about the subdivision of the classification of Taihang Academy, although there was no consensus in the end, but Zhang Jian, Cai Yong, Kong Rong, Guan Ning, Bing Yuan and others still accepted Zhao Xing's idea of "there is a specialization in the art industry, and the discipline needs to be classified", and now the rest is to argue about how many major categories to open, and each university subject is divided into several sub-categories, and those contents should be used as basic disciplines.

Zhao Xing invited a group of the most famous craftsmen in Crouching Tiger City to the mansion, and took out a stack of confusing patterns, as if he wanted to set off a second round of invention and production. In Zhao Xing's production list this time, there are still some amazing names, such as: double-layer steel thermal water bottles, wool knitwear, duck down thermal clothing, fireproof alcohol stoves, smoked canned preserved fish, dog-pulled climbing plows, deer sleds, lifebuoys, life jackets, composite portable multi-purpose sabers, simple portable Sinan needles......

These craftsmen who have cooperated with Zhao Xing, because they participated in the invention and production last time, have tasted a huge sweetness from it, and they look forward to the resummons of King Pingxi every day. This time, Zhao Xing handed over to them the drawings that were more complicated and even required to be developed by several industries, which made these craftsmen excited one by one. They are not afraid of complexity, they are afraid of having nothing to do.

Zhao Xing asked Chen Qi and Li Ru to separate up to collect detailed information about the Taiping Taoism and the Wudou Mi Sect, and put Lü Meng in charge of investigating what Shamentoutuo was doing in the vicinity of Luoyang.

In his spare time to inspect his children's homework, Zhao Xing still found a lot of time to meet with representatives of the people from all over the country and patiently listened to their opinions or suggestions.

Zhao Xing attached great importance to the opinions and suggestions put forward by the representatives of the people in various places, and made detailed records when he talked with the visitors. Once the visitors were gone, he would call out to Li Jinsi and take the transcripts of the conversations to the Shadow Headquarters, but no one knew what he had done.

The people who can meet Zhao Xing may be an inconspicuous big grain grower on the Jizhou Plain, or an elder of a family in Xuzhou, or a small boss who sells coal stoves in Youzhou.

Engaging in such a complicated procedure is not because Zhao Xing is worried that he will be assassinated in the palace, but because he should try to select outstanding and representative people to meet with him, and try to see only one of them, so that he can roughly understand the living situation of the industry and class where this person is located, so that he can make a more accurate judgment and provide a real reference for the next step of revising and improving the domestic policy.

Being able to personally meet Zhao Xing, the king of Pingxi, in the mansion of the lord of Crouching Tiger City, is naturally a great honor for ordinary people, and it is enough to make people remember for a lifetime. But before they arrived in Crouching Tiger City, they all received a thick stack of papers similar to the questionnaires of later generations, and were asked to hand them out to people like themselves before leaving for Crouching Tiger City, and fill them out carefully. These activities are carried out under the protection of special personnel, without any supervision or interference from the local government.

As the territory under his control grows larger and the population grows, Zhao Xing has now realized the need to establish an institution similar to the Government Council to coordinate and guide the internal politics of each state, and avoid all kinds of vicious competition, duplicate construction, blind investment, and local law governance.

As far as Zhao Xing himself is concerned, he is still more interested in the cabinet auxiliary system implemented in the early days of the Tang Empire. The idea of bringing the Han Empire into a constitutional monarchy or even a republic is a good idea, but its implementation is tantamount to building in the air, or destroying the Great Wall.

After a toss by Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty, the current Han people have recognized the view that "the world is unified and the monarch is divinely granted", and if there is a sudden shocking remark such as "separation of powers", it will not only have a huge impact on the society, but also destroy the unification and stability that is not easy to come from.

Zhao Xing hopes that in his lifetime, he will be able to establish a system that can operate for a long time and can repair itself, and even if he encounters major social problems or institutional defects later, he can reform in a more moderate and gradual way, instead of carrying out a bloody massacre and rebellion at every turn, and then re-exploring and building after complete destruction.

At present, Zhao Xing has already given in-depth thought to some issues that may affect the long-term peace and stability, and he himself summed up several factors that may lead to the collapse of the country and the collapse of the imperial dynasty; the first is the land issue, the second is the nationality and religion issue, the third is the issue of unrestricted and supervised imperial power, the fourth is the issue of the restriction or even stifling of advanced ideology and science and culture, and the fifth is the issue of population and the development of the productive forces.

Perhaps Zhao Xing's thinking has not been deep enough to dig into the key aspects that led to the collapse of the country and regime change, but it is enough that he is now able to think seriously about these issues and is willing to act for some changes.

Just imagine, if Zhao Xing had developed a complete system for future generations, which could largely prevent the royal family, bureaucrats, and wealthy people from unscrupulously annexing the land on which the peasants depended, then many peasant uprisings could have been avoided, which would have made the foundation of the empire easily unshaken.

If Zhao Xing can resolutely and thoroughly solve the problem of the northern nomads and promote the realization of multi-ethnic integration, then the empire will no longer be anxious about the invasion of various foreign peoples, and will consume financial and material resources.

If Zhao Xing can leave a set of mechanisms that can limit and supervise the imperial power, prevent the children of the imperial family from being only obsessed with grabbing power and dumping infighting, and avoid the fall of a dynasty because of the coming to power of a bastard emperor, then the long-term stability of the empire can also be expected.

If Zhao Xing can make the people of the world understand a truth, that is, "I don't support the truth you say, but I support you have the right to speak!", let the academic grand occasion of a hundred flowers blooming and a hundred schools of thought contending again, provide a platform for everyone to argue, and put an end to academic hegemony similar to Dong Zhongshu and his ilk of "deposing a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism", then the people will become smart in the prosperous era of "the more the truth is debated", and they will no longer be easily fooled and deceived by others.

There are too many ifs, even if only one aspect or a small step in one aspect can be achieved, which is a qualitative leap and a huge progress for the future empire!