The next day, Yan Zheng ordered Lu Wan, Anai and Zhang Sanfeng to lead three platoons to escort Li Haigou and others down the river.

The order given by Yan Zheng was that the three platoons would immediately go up the river after completing the construction of the improvised trestle.

Then use the Yan'an River as a link to sweep away all the tribes on both banks. Moreover, this sweep required ploughing and sweeping the caves, destroying the territories of these tribes, and capturing all the population of these tribes as slaves.

At the same time, Yan Zheng announced another expansion of the army, increasing the number of professional soldiers, and naturalizing a group of prisoners of war.

The purpose of this is to control more manpower, and to clear out potential threats, and by the way, to vacate all the land.

Suddenly changing the moderate policy will naturally trigger a bloody storm of the downstream tribes, but Yan Zheng can't wait.

This is a change in external conditions, so he has to make a new response, if it is not for the limited number of troops, he still wants to send troops to the headquarters of various societies at the same time.

Only when these threats are eliminated can Yan Zheng dare to adopt a more open attitude in foreign exchanges.

Because once the other party starts to communicate, in a profitable situation, it will immediately trigger more businessmen to come to Dongfan.

Yan Zheng believed that since Yan Siqi and Zheng Zhilong could think of recruiting displaced people to reclaim the fields, then other businessmen would definitely be able to think of it as well.

So he has to make sure that he actually controls the basic market and sweeps away any potential threats around him.

As a result, these merchants had to go further north, or further south, to cultivate their fields.

As long as his development cannot be curbed in a short period of time, then Yan Zheng can do business with everyone with the most open attitude.

After sending the expedition team, Yan Zheng immediately gathered all the clansmen and early naturalized people, and asked them to bring their children to the tribal clearing.

When the tribesmen learned of this, they quickly assembled, and one by one they craned their necks, thinking that there was some benefit to them.

Under the eyes of the clansmen watching the excitement, Yan Zheng personally walked around the children's pile.

As a result, he was a little disappointed, for the clansmen, as long as they are children who can work, they can no longer be counted as children.

So most of these children who were pushed out were under the age of six or seven.

"As long as it is less than twelve years old, it is considered a child! Stand up! Yan Zheng said to the clansmen.

After the clansmen present understood, some children came out, including a teenager with a tattoo on his face.

Yan Zheng roughly estimated that if you remove the ones that are too small, and then remove the ones that are too big, there are about eighty school-age children.

And that's just the children of the Mona tribe plus the early naturalized people, and if the scope is expanded, it may be doubled.

The only regret is that most of the most populous wandering savages did not bring a son and a half daughter to join Monabu.

However, there are more than eighty of them, and Yan Zheng thinks it is almost enough.

He cleared his throat and said, "From today onwards, these children who have been selected by me need to come and receive my teachings every day!" Learn what only God can learn! ”

The clansmen were stunned, and then burst into exclamations, and the children who were selected were even more stunned in surprise.

Their parents were already screaming.

Yan Zhengwei smiled, waved his hand and said, "The future belongs to children, and every child should have the right to learn in the future!" ”

"Miko! Son of God! Son of God! The clansmen chanted Yan Zheng's name.

Yan Zheng looked at these lovely clansmen, and shouted: "All craftsmen also need to learn, and all agricultural technicians also need to learn!" ”

When the craftsmen and agricultural technicians heard this, they were also extremely honored to puff up their chests and express their cheers with a chirp.

"Chief, do we soldiers want to learn?" An San on the side asked.

Yan Zheng looked at him and said, "You can come and learn, but I will still send someone to give you a cultural lesson in the future?" ”

"Cultural lessons?"

"Oh, the cultural class is the knowledge that makes soldiers more able to fight and fight!" Yan Zheng explained.

An San nodded: "Then I want to learn culture!" ”

Yan Zheng smiled, he originally planned to play turtle stream, step by step, but now he can't.

Now if he wants to dominate the world, he must first dominate East Asia, and if he wants to dominate East Asia, he must first develop Dongfan Island, and if he wants to develop Dongfan Island, he must first establish an industrial system.

And the industrial system he was able to build, according to his knowledge base, was at most at the level of the early nineteenth century.

But this is not something he can start alone, industrialization needs supporting talents, and it is even more necessary to transform people's thinking in education, establish a system of talent training and scientific research, and the relevant legal system.

Only in this way will the explosion of technology not be a flash in the pan, but will grow in an exponential way, because this is a qualitative change caused by the continuous accumulation of technology.

If you only focus on hardware, then it is possible to be like the Song Dynasty. Science and technology in the Song Dynasty can be said to be very developed, and three of the four major inventions appeared in the Song Dynasty, mathematics, navigation, and astronomy are all good.

However, in the past few hundred years of the Song Dynasty, there has never been any modern science, let alone a group of scientific talents.

Because the guiding ideology of the Song Dynasty is essentially the same as Confucianism, and the talent system is a imperial examination system that has been left behind for thousands of years.

The imperial examination system allowed all scholars to go to study the Four Books and the Five Classics, and the class could only be promoted through examinations to become officials, although it reflected a certain degree of advanced nature, but it also seriously caused the official standard and hindered the free development of thought.

Therefore, in order to engage in industrialization and play with science, the first thing is to emancipate the mind and at the same time create a suitable environment for scientific invention and research.

After selecting the children in the clan, Yan Zheng found the Ming women who were rescued that day.

After a few days of eating a full meal, the women's complexion was noticeably better, but they were still emaciated, suffering from malnutrition and deformed teeth.

They also seemed to be idle, and they had already set up the loom they had brought back and began to weave the captured raw silk into silk.

After seeing Yan Zheng, they immediately greeted each other.

Yan Zheng looked at the silk they weaved, and couldn't help but smile and said, "You weave silk, it's better to weave linen for me!" Our tribe has planted a lot of hemp, and when other tribes also promote the cultivation of ramie, we may be able to form a new job! ”

Wang Jiang said respectfully: "This is very good, in the past, when they were at home, the women would also weave linen and weave cloth, and the summer cloth woven would be worn at home, and the other could also be sold to the cloth village." ”

Yan Zheng smiled, pointed to the loom and said, "It's just that this loom has to be changed!" You can add a stake under the pedal, as long as the height is regulated, you don't have to worry about the strength of your feet! This will definitely do more with less. ”

After Wang Jiangshi lowered his head and thought for a while, he smiled faintly and said, "Big ...... What the chief said makes sense, I'll try it later! ”

Yan Zheng nodded with a smile, indicating his intention: "I came today to tell you that if you are willing to read the word consciousness, you can take half a day to go to school every day!" Those under the age of fifteen must come to school, and the rest decide for themselves! ”

These women were surprised, they didn't expect this short-haired king to let them read and write! They can't even think of it!

Eventually, eleven younger, bolder women agreed to read and write, while the older ones said they had lost the mind.

Yan Zheng didn't have much to say, he didn't have this mind, it showed that he still had the intention of going, and he still had the idea of going back to his hometown.

He didn't want to leave people's flesh and blood, so he simply let these people decide for themselves, anyway, with Wang Qimei and Li Ya, there were also thirteen people who wanted to come to study and write.

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