Can I get to the other side?

After showing off the improved papermaking technology and movable type printing technology, Liu Xie continued to explain his ideas for reforming universal education to Guo Jia and Jia Xu.

First of all, if you want ordinary people to read, you must make them literate. This is a quite big problem.

Otherwise, ordinary people will not even know how to read, and books will be useless no matter how cheap they are. Educational resources are a big problem.

The reason why ordinary people have difficulty studying is not only because books and paper are expensive, but also because there are no teachers.

"I have come up with a special method for Ruhe to help people become literate, which I call the 'quick literacy method'."

"First learn the phonetic symbols, then learn the characters through phonetic symbols, and then further understand the meaning of the words."

Liu Xie briefly explained the concept of Pinyin to the two of them.

In order to facilitate their understanding, I also wrote down all the consonants on paper and told them the meanings of these phonetic symbols.

Guo Jia and Jia Xu are both smart people. Liu Xie only told them once, and they understood the usage and convenience of pinyin.

"Your Majesty, how on earth did you come up with this?"

Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh, and looked at Liu Xie with admiration and complex eyes.

In his opinion, this pinyin literacy method is really wonderful. If this method can be implemented nationwide, literacy will no longer be difficult.

Because the Pinyin literacy method first simplifies the text into individual phonetic symbols, allowing people to quickly memorize it first and then slowly understand it.

This is much simpler than memorizing a text directly.

It is not a problem to memorize dozens or hundreds of words in a day.

The Emperor was truly a genius among geniuses for being able to come up with such a simple and easy way to read.

He couldn't even think of it.

Liu Xie coughed lightly and said without blushing or heartbeat: "I thought of it by chance, thought of it by chance... They are all the legacy of the wisdom of our ancestors."

He comes from a later generation, and although he has traveled to ancient times, to him these things are indeed the legacy of his ancestors.

Jia Xu smiled and said: "With this method, the problem of literacy difficulties has also been solved. However, I think it is still necessary for the imperial court to open office schools in various places."

"Just having a method won't work if no one teaches you."

If you want to study and study, a teacher is very important, which is why Teacher Weihe can be ranked alongside the ‘Prince of Heaven and Earth’.

A teacher is someone who teaches, teaches and resolves doubts.

Liu Xie said: "I will start preparing for this matter. Regarding the selection of teachers, I will specially select a group of children from poor families to be trained in the Imperial College, and then let them go to schools in various places to teach knowledge for three or five years."

"Those who excel in the evaluation can directly join the official service."

The idea of ​​​​the Imperial College, Liu Xie mentioned to Guo Jia and others during the chat just now, is actually the same as that of the Hongdu School.

It also bypasses the existing examination and evaluation system, and the emperor directly selects talents to study in it, and those with outstanding academic performance can directly join the officialdom.

With the example of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the establishment of the Imperial Academy would not be too eye-catching. Others would at most think that the emperor wanted to imitate the late emperor and select talents by himself.

Of course, the study content of the Imperial College needs to be re-formulated.

Guo Jia nodded and approved the emperor's idea, but hesitantly said: "But your majesty... this will be a huge expense."

Opening the Imperial College, opening public schools and public libraries in various places, and compiling and publishing books all require money.

And it's a lot of money.

For a man who had just experienced war and had just been unified, this money was a big burden.

The key is that this investment is not a short-term return or effect, it is a long-term investment.

"I have asked Xianyi to liquidate the major families. This should bring in a lot of money, so you don't have to worry about the initial investment."

"And I don't plan to implement it nationwide. I will only pilot it in each county's government offices and slowly popularize it in the future."

Liu Xie said.

Yuan Xi has received his secret instructions to liquidate the families who took the wrong side in this reunification.

Kill those who deserve to be killed, and copy those who deserve to be copied.

Even those families that had been pardoned, such as the major families in Jiangdong, had to pay a sum of money to save their lives.

The crime of disobedience is not so easy to be dismissed.

This is a good opportunity to rip off someone.

Of course, he couldn't do it openly, so he asked Yuan Xi to do it in private.

Yuan Xi had blackmailed wealthy families in Yuzhou and Yanzhou before, and he was very good at doing this kind of thing.

It's nothing more than attracting more hatred. It doesn't hurt at all for Yuan Xi, who is left alone after his entire clan is dead.

"Then what does Your Majesty plan to do in the future?"

Jia Xu asked, with a worried look on his face: "This method is okay in the short term, but it won't last long after all."

Copying disobedient families and blackmailing major aristocratic families are all one-time transactions, and you can't just keep herding a bunch of sheep.

"So this involves another reform that I plan to carry out, which is the tax law reform."

Liu Xie said calmly: "In the final analysis, the treasury is still empty. The reason for the treasury's emptiness is insufficient taxation."

"But the people are in poverty, so raising taxes on the people will definitely not work, so I want to start with the major aristocratic families and the powerful and prominent families in various places."

"I plan to clear the land and conduct a population census across the country."

As soon as Liu Xie said this, Guo Jia and Jia Xu changed their expressions.

Clear the land! Census the population!

This is no small matter!

The Han Dynasty followed the mausoleum town system. The so-called mausoleum town system means that when the land owned by local landlords reaches a certain level, they will be forced by the court to buy and sell, and then move their families to the mausoleum town.

This system is to prevent the problem of land annexation, but it is also this system that led to the emergence of aristocratic families.

Because although the mausoleum town system requires the sale of land, it does not stipulate to whom it is sold, so it is generally purchased by people of the same clan.

Over time, large clans gradually began to emerge, and after several generations, they evolved into aristocratic families.

Later, in order to maintain their influence in the local area, these families began to conceal the land and population owned by the family.

In this way, the concealed land and population increased.

The aristocratic families became stronger and stronger, and the country became poorer and poorer.

In short, the country originally wanted to collect taxes on 10,000 acres of land and 10,000 people, but these aristocratic families openly said that they only had 2,000 acres of land and 2,000 people, but in fact they owned 5,000 acres of land and 5,000 people.

But the total amount of taxes to be collected in various places remained unchanged, so these taxes fell on the remaining 5,000 acres of land and 5,000 people.

Although Emperor Wu had issued an edict during his reign to strictly investigate families that dared to conceal information, and rewarded those who reported it, the effect was minimal.

Later, as the aristocratic families became more and more powerful, no one reported it, and concealing land and population became commonplace.

As long as they were powerful, they would do this.

And now Liu Xie actually planned to survey the land and census the population. Isn't this equivalent to directly taking action against the major aristocratic families?

Guo Jia couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, isn't it too fast to do this? I'm worried that..."

"What are you worried about? Are you worried that they will rebel?"

Liu Xie interrupted Guo Jia, with a cold look in his eyes, "I have just unified the Han Dynasty, and it is the time when the army is strong. If I don't do it now, I will be even more unable to do it in the future."

"Rebellion? Let's see if they have the courage!"

"Besides, the land survey is nothing, it's just an appetizer, and what I really want to do is still behind."

Liu Xie's words are full of domineering.

Of course, he knew that the land survey and population census would directly affect the interests of the gentry class, but he had to do it.

His current status is similar to that of the founding emperor, his power is at its peak, and the army is all controlled by him.

If he doesn't take action now, he will be unable to take action after seven or eight years, or more than ten years.

His move is to tell the major families clearly that I am short of money, the Han Dynasty is short of money, and they should all spit out the money obediently.

Do you want to be decent yourself, or do you want me to help you be decent?

Moreover, he has another purpose in surveying the land, which is to prepare for the implementation of the "One Whip Law" in the future and the distribution of land tax.

Surveying the land is indeed just an appetizer.

Only by finding out how much land and how many people there are in the country can these reforms proceed.

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"Wenhe."

Liu Xie cast his eyes on Jia Xu.

Jia Xu was shocked and stood up respectfully, saying, "I am here!"

Liu Xie said, "I am not at ease if others do this, so it is only appropriate to hand it over to you. The matter of surveying the land and the census of the population will be the responsibility of the Embroidered Uniform Envoy."

"I don't care what means you use, I just want the result, do you understand?"

The Embroidered Uniform Envoy is the sharpest knife in his hand.

Today's Embroidered Uniform Envoy has developed to a scale that is no less than that of Emperor Wu, and even more than that, which is just right for this matter.

The embroidered uniform envoy went to survey the land, representing the will of the emperor. If anyone dared to make a small move, the army would come next time.

Meet the embroidered uniform envoy or meet Lu Bu and Zhao Yun.

You can choose one of the two.

It must be said that the founding emperor is the best in this respect.

With the military power in hand, he can punish all directions!

Jia Xu immediately accepted the order and said, "I obey your order!"

Liu Xie then said to Guo Jia, "Fengxiao, the selection of talents to enter the Imperial College is handed over to you, is there any problem?"

"I will do my best!"

Guo Jia stood up to accept the order, feeling very excited. The emperor's appointment was exactly what he wanted!

"Okay."

Liu Xie nodded with satisfaction, also stood up, and patted their shoulders.

"This is the beginning of my great Han reform. The road to reform is long and arduous. Please don't let me down."

"If you have any difficulties, you can directly ask me. I will naturally find a way to solve them for you if I can solve them."

"In short, I want to see results."

Guo Jia and Jia Xu agreed.

Liu Xie relaxed and said with a smile: "I still have to accompany the princess, so I won't keep you. You can leave."

After that, he left the greenhouse directly.

Guo Jia and Jia Xu also left one after another.

On the way out of the palace, the two were still talking about what the emperor had just said to them.

"Your Majesty is really diligent. Even now that he has unified the world, he has not slacked off and immediately started to work on reforms."

"We, as ministers, really can't rest for a moment."

Guo Jia smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Jia Xu glanced at him and snorted, "If His Majesty really starts to slack off, you will definitely be the first to worry."

"And I don't know what you are busy with. Isn't it just recruiting people to enter the Imperial College? Is it more important than what His Majesty has given me?"

"Surveying the land, taking a census... I have to sleep with one eye open in the future."

What he was going to do would inevitably offend the entire gentry class.

He was under the greatest pressure.

Although the emperor gave him the power to execute first and report later, this power was also a hot potato.

Not everything can be solved by killing people.

Guo Jia rolled his eyes at him and said unhappily: "Do you think it's easy to open the Imperial College? You didn't mention how many people opposed and how much resistance the late emperor encountered when he founded Hongdumen School."

What he was going to do was not much easier than Jia Xu. As long as it touched the interests of the gentry class, it would not be easy.

The only difference between him and Jia Xu was that Jia Xu cut meat directly from the aristocratic families, while he simmered it slowly over low heat.

"To borrow a word from your majesty, it's difficult but we have to do it, and who makes us your majesty's hawks and dogs?"

Jia Xu said self-deprecatingly.

There had been similar sayings in the court for a long time. He, Guo Jia, Yuan Xi, and Lu Bu were called the four hawks and dogs of the emperor.

But he felt that this was not an insult. Being the emperor's dog was also an honor.

Guo Jia slowly restrained his expression after hearing this, and said seriously: "Whether it's a running dog or a hawk, we just need to walk on the right path."

"The merits and demerits will be judged by future generations. I don't fight for one life, I fight for eternal fame!"

Guo Jia believed that after a hundred or a thousand years, his name would shine in the history books, and future generations would point to his name and say: Look, this man is called Guo Jia, with the courtesy name Fengxiao, and is the first minister of the ages!

And now, those who hinder the advancement of the general trend will only turn into a handful of yellow earth, submerged in the long river of history, and no one cares about them.

"It's good that you can think so."

Jia Xu rarely spoke sarcastically to Guo Jia, but smiled and said.

He didn't care about his reputation before and after his death.

He didn't ask for much, but to die for his confidant and repay the trust given to him by the emperor.

Guo Jia suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, how is Cao Chong now? Have you killed him?"

Jia Xu shook his head and said, "How can it be so fast? If we kill him now, won't it tell the world that His Majesty can't tolerate him?"

"We have sent people to monitor him. We will let him die of illness in about a year without anyone knowing."

Cao Chong must die, but he can't die so obviously. We must maintain the reputation of the emperor.

Guo Jia breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good. I wanted to remind you that although Cao Chong is the son of a guilty minister, he is still a child. If he is killed, there may be many hypocritical people who say that His Majesty is cruel and can't even tolerate a child."

Jia Xu curled his lips and said, "You don't need to remind me what to do in this matter."

The two chatted and left the palace.