After a pause, Kong Yingda spoke: "Your Highness, I can understand Your Highness's ambitions, and I can contact many learned doctors and others in the country, but Your Highness, I am afraid that many people will not be able to accept your ideas, because in their opinion, the knowledge of these people is not worthy of the words teacher and gentleman." ”

"If these people are included in the education system, I believe that there will be many people who will feel ashamed to be in the company. A gentleman is virtuous in the heavens, but not everyone in the world can be called a gentleman. ”

Kong Yingda's meaning is very clear, there are Confucians who can be moved by these people, but there are also Confucians who can't figure it out, who feel that they have exhausted their efforts to learn all their lives, but in the end they are called by a villager who knows dozens of hundreds of words, which is really difficult to calm down.

"So that's why we need the law." Li Ke smiled.

"Huh? Forgive the courtiers for being stupid. Kong Yingda didn't link this with the law for a while.

"Law is the lowest standard of morality, and morality is the highest law and the highest embodiment of law." Li Ke smiled.

Kong Yingda was stunned for a moment, and then pondered this sentence carefully, the more he thought about it, the more it made sense, and he couldn't help but speak: "His Royal Highness King Qin is really smart, and he can really see things that ordinary people can't see, and he can't do things that ordinary people can't." ”

"Actually, for the vast majority of people, what is education? Education is the end result of education when everyone forgets everything taught in school after leaving school, and what is left in the end is the final result of education. Li Ke said with a smile.

Kong Yingda was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't help but raise his head and look at Li Ke, the more he looked, the more he felt that His Royal Highness King Qin was really unfathomable, these words ...... To tell the truth, even Kong Yingda who said it was a certain sage and a great Confucian believed it.

It seems ordinary, but in fact it contains a very deep philosophy, people have been learning all their lives, but there are many things learned in school that they will always forget after leaving school, take him Kong Yingda as an example, he was also proficient in a variety of arithmetic books when he was young, but now what he can remember is only the most basic.

He had long forgotten about some of the more advanced arithmetic methods because they had no effect on his daily work life and research.

As His Highness said, this may be the essence of education.

"So, theoretically speaking, the things taught by those great Confucians may not be as much as the things taught by these ordinary gentlemen, after all, after literacy, a person is used all his life, and how much can these things taught by Confucianism be used?" Li Ke said with a smile.

Kong Yingda nodded: "What His Highness said is very true. ”

"In this matter, the minister will try his best to do it, and the minister will do his best to win over some great Confucians to achieve this matter." Kong Yingda agreed.

Li Ke smiled and nodded, if a person like Kong Yingda really does his best, to be honest, as the person in charge of the Confucian Mansion, his influence is still quite huge.

Looking at the tall city wall that was already visible to the naked eye in the distance, Li Ke paused and asked, "I don't know what Mr. Zhongda thinks of this Tang Dynasty that never sleeps." ”

"The business philosophy of Datang Never Sleeps City and other old ministers have already understood, although the old minister thinks that this is just a place of drunken fireworks, but presumably His Royal Highness must have a reason." Kong Yingda paused for a moment before speaking.

Li Ke smiled, "Mr. Zhongda, which of the richest people do you think is in this Tang Dynasty?" Who is the least lacking group of people to eat and drink? ”

"The family of gate valves." Kong Yingda naturally said the answer directly, in his place, the royal family is naturally a member of the gate valve family.

"Yes, even if I don't build this city, they still live in a drunken fashion, which has nothing to do with changing their lives, but building such a city here, Mr. Zhongda, do you know how many people can be fed?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"Huh?" Kong Yingda was stunned for a moment.

"According to the calculations of the people under my command, the complete operation of such a city alone requires more than 5,000 people to clean up every day, and the rest of the supporting personnel such as cleaning up manure and disposing of garbage need 2,000 people. In addition, the logistics personnel who come here from the east and west markets of Chang'an also need to be close to 3,000. ”

"The supporting city is responsible for the watch, the shop's junior, the cook and so on, and the whole city adds up to at least 40,000 or 50,000 people. In addition, it may take at least 50,000 workers to ensure the rational operation of the city, such as the Qinglou, the hook bar, the drama, the storyteller, and so on. ”

"And the monthly money that these 50,000 people receive every month, if calculated according to the minimum income standard, is enough for them to easily feed their families, and a slight surplus, that is, according to the average of five people in a family, these 50,000 people affect 250,000 people."

"More than 300,000 people will continue to be involved in the construction of the city."

"After the city is put into operation, the number of people across the country who provide food, cloth, spices, fruits, seafood and other materials for the city is probably as high as more than one million."

"In other words, such a city directly and indirectly affects at least one million people!"

"When these resources are gathered, the daily flow of materials will allow people to level and build roads, and people will dredge rivers, so that roads will be smoother, rivers will no longer be blocked, and the country will continue to be rich and strong."

"And here, it's still the city that is drunk on money."

"So, Mr. Chungda, do you think it's useful?" Li Ke smiled.

Kong Yingda was stunned, he had not been in contact with Li Ke for a long time, and he didn't know many things. But Li Ke's words made Kong Yingda unable to say what he thought, because he felt ...... It feels like the eyes of both sides are not on the same level at all.

His Royal Highness has a long-term vision, and no one can do it.

"Mr. Zhongda, about the matter of Emperor Qin, Mr. Zhongda, you should know very well." Li Ke looked at him.

"The old minister didn't dare to say that he understood, but he had read relevant history books." Kong Yingda didn't dare to say that he was highly knowledgeable at this time, because what Li Ke said just now was obviously a kind of advanced knowledge, but he didn't understand it.

"Well, Mr. Zhongda, you can be trusted, back then, the Qin Emperor used hundreds of thousands, millions of people to build the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, Afang Palace, and the Great Wall. If the whole construction process was not to use forced labor, but to distribute monthly money enough to support the people, believe it or not, there would be nothing to do with the big man at all? Li Ke said with a smile.

"This ...... Lao Chen believed. Kong Yingda paused and nodded.

"So, when the city is built, as the builder of the city, I must guide some gate valve families to spend money inside, drunk and obsessed, because their money is spent, the people can make money, and the people behind the city can make money, and then I will gradually spend this money on the people."

"When the time comes, you Confucian doctors, don't say that I, Li Ke, am poor and extravagant, and only know how to enjoy life." Li Ke said lightly.

"His Royal Highness has a noble character, and he is a model of contemporary models, I believe that there are many people who say this about His Highness, but I am afraid that no one knows His Highness's good intentions, and the old minister will inevitably unite with some great Confucians to write some articles, so that the world can see the real purpose hidden by His Highness." Kong Yingda's expression was serious.

"Hey, forget it, the prejudice in people's minds is a big mountain, I'm not afraid that people will say that I'm poor and extravagant, as long as you people don't write books and scold me. I don't care about the rest. Li Ke shook his head.

Kong Yingda was a little moved, the scholar in this world, the pursuit of fame and fortune is like a carp crossing the river, but it is too rare to just want not to be tarnished by others like His Royal Highness.

It is said that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and His Royal Highness has not only taught people to fish, but also personally established a fishing ground to seek a livelihood for everyone, which is the wind of sages!