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Chapter 369: Expansion and expansion

The most impact of the changes in Xu Country is the surrounding countries, which mainly have two aspects. The first is the most direct military threat. You have made trouble on the border of Xu Country before, and it is time to settle the accounts; and the second threat is the political policy adopted by Xu Country makes the surrounding countries panic and fear, the nobles begin to tremble, but the merchants and civilians begin to prepare.

The king of Song State had already begun to panic. When the Xu State rose at an unprecedented political and speed, the old Wang Ting, who had fought with Dali Wang Ting for hundreds of years, began to make all kinds of bad remarks. Some nobles had already begun to prepare to run away, and the backbone was being reorganized. The merchants were constantly acting in secret, and the civilians began to get in the mood... The country began to be in chaos!

Faced with these situations, the king of Song State was powerless and his politics had begun to lose control. The complete defeat of the Zajia and Li Zongfa in the Xu State forced the two families to temporarily restrain themselves; the 11 masters who shone together with the Sun and Moon, the losses were earth-shaking. Even in the war between the human race and the barbarians in the past two hundred years, the Sun and Moon, the masters who died of the Sun and Moon, were only within twenty years. Now a conflict has been lost. Not to mention the Zajia and Li Zongfa, even if others heard it, they felt their hearts trembled. This is the master of the Sun and Moon,!

After the Za Family and Li Zong Fa Family were defeated, the Mo Family of course had to settle the accounts with the king of Song. We spent so much effort to support your ancestors back then, and you will repay us like this! No, all the accounts, debts, grudges, grudges, and resentment should be calculated. In fact, with the comparison of Xu State, the Mo Family is already very dissatisfied with the situation of Song State, and the result of being dissatisfied is to give up!

As a result, the Mo family gave the State of Song an order. You should quickly deal with it and surrender to Xu. This will save your life; if you wait until the State of Xu calls you, you still don’t know what kind of consequences will be.

This really scared the Song State; the Song State has been in peace with the protection of the Mo family for thousands of years, which means losing its spirit. In addition, after all, after all, the Song State has lost all its spirit for thousands of years. But after all, it has been passed down for thousands of years and is very deeply rooted; so although it has lost its spirit, the Song State did not simply give up, but said that it would consider things, and it was just dragging it down anyway.

In fact, there is also a luxury in the State of Song, hoping that the Zajia and Li Zongfa can take action. Although the State of Song has always been inclined to the Mo family before, and it is also a country supported by the Mo family, it involves rule, etc., and it is impossible to count it. No ruler likes to have someone in charge of it! The State of Song is like this. Xiao Hao can cooperate like this, but don’t point fingers at my country.

However, if Xiao Hao has this courage, others may not be sure! Xiao Hao implemented all the new policies, and even the Han Zongfa and Mo families must study honestly.

At the same time, Cai State in the north of Xu State also began to panic; unlike Song State, Cai State was similar to the original Dali Wang Ting; Cai State and Dali were tied together to compete with Song State. Now Song State has begun to weaken their feet, let alone Cai State. However, Cai State is also in a difficult situation. Behind Cai State is the Li Zong Lejia, and Cai State itself is also supported by Li Zong Lejia, and it is a luxury to have a chance to surrender openly like Song State.

On the contrary, Chen State in the south of Xu State has always been relatively peaceful; not long after Xiao Hao won the victory, Chen State in the south took the envoy to Xu State with their northern commander Nangong Zhi as the representative of Chen State. He was preparing to participate in the founding ceremony after the Xu State in the year.

There is a land of mountains, forests, swamps, and miasma. Only a few places can be passed through. The two sides are still very harmonious. In addition, the new Xu Kingdom does not have much power, so the two sides live in peace. However, Nangong Zhi is not just here to see, but to explore the atmosphere and seek the scriptures, the new policy of Xu Kingdom, which has shown great power. Then the surrounding countries must have seen the crises and opportunities here, and it is easy to understand if someone comes to seek the scriptures.

When Nangong Zhi stepped on the territory of Xu Kingdom, Xiao Hao's soldiers had completed the recovery of the northern Baizhou. At this point, Xiao Hao and Xu Kingdom had completely taken over the territory of Dali Wangting; but after the alternation of the old and new, the population had decreased by one tenth in just two years! Countless people were numb in this war. Especially the three northern states, they actually openly demoted almost all the civilians to slaves. They asked for it and trampled on them. I don't know how many families were broken and crying. So when the three northern states were completely stable and the trial started, countless nobles were eaten alive by angry civilians... It was really eaten...

However, the actions of Xu Kingdom also made the surrounding countries even more afraid, especially Song Kingdom and Cai Kingdom. The nobles suddenly discovered with conscience that they knew not to treat slaves well, but also began to beautify themselves and began to paste gold foil on their faces.

After a little rest, Xu Kingdom actually began to send troops to attack the north and the west. Although Xu Kingdom is quite difficult now, it cannot make the enemy prepare enough, so sending troops is inevitable. Not to mention that Haizhou has made many small moves behind it. Civilians and merchants in many places were instigated to fight back at the critical moment.

Of course, Xiao Hao, who is too smart, will definitely not have only such a simple purpose, but also a deeper and darker purpose. Think about it, when every city occupied by Xiao Hao is caused by civilians and merchants are uprising, what would the king think of the remaining nobles? I have to say that Xiao Hao is very good at playing with this trick. Although his political methods are still a little unfamiliar, he can also play with ordinary enemies in the midst of applause.

In fact, the result is definitely needless to say. When a large number of civilians and merchants are uprising and rebelling, these nobles and kings will basically use very fierce measures: control civilians and detain merchants. The consequence of this is to completely confusion in the country and quickly fall into the bottomless abyss. Without merchants circulating wealth, the whole society will be in chaos.

At this moment, with the help of local civilians and merchants, the army of Xu Kingdom was like entering a no-man state. The solid and heavy city walls could not stop the army. Because many low-level soldiers of civilians, or some soldiers who were half-threatened by merchants (fakes and tigers) were half-buried by merchants, they would open the door to the city and open the door to treat thieves! At this time, the power of wealth was also shown. At some point, the powerful power of wealth was another "magic power", didn't it say that money could make the devil push the mill!

At Yanzikou, the Song State Pass, which had been confronted with Dali Wangting for hundreds of years, had not even been able to hold on for three days. Then he opened the city gate and surrendered. Then the army sang all the way. As long as he went to a place, he immediately opened the warehouse and released the grain immediately. Anyway, it was not his own. The soldiers of Xu State were very generous and generous. After dividing all the granaries one by one, they would leave a certain amount of military rations. All the nobles and bullies were detained, waiting for later trial and investigation; those who dared to resist were killed on the spot without hesitation.

Later, someone organized local businessmen to temporarily lead and manage and stabilize the regime. For the first time, the merchants burst out with unprecedented passion. Xiao Hao played a good hand and used the power of the locals to conquer the local area! What Xu Guo needed to send was a spearhead team. Those rebels would definitely not rebel again no matter what, because they had no way to retreat, so they could only follow Xu Guo to the dark!

Under such a policy, the territory of Xu Kingdom was expanding rapidly; when the New Year approached, Haizhou once again increased the area of ​​two states! This miraculous expansion speed made the surrounding area start to fear and panic. In this environment, the delegation from Chen Kingdom from the south respectfully came to Xishan Town.

Standing in the distance of Xishan Town, looking at the crisscrossing roads, looking at the bridges spanning the river canyon like a rainbow, and watching the vast caravan flow, Nangong Zhi was a little confused for a moment! Although he has seen this situation more than once, almost every big city can see it, but every time he sees it, he feels shocked.

Especially in Xu Country, the most prosperous building I see must be the school! In Xu Country, the school is no longer a single-class back garden. There are flowers blooming here, and even the Zajia and Li Zong Fajia have people to give lectures here! This is simply unimaginable. With the relationship between Xu Country and Zajia and Li Zong Fajia, these two families will give lectures here! In addition to the Zajia and Li Zong Fajia, there are Confucianism, Mohism, Han Zong Fajia, Zong Fajia, famous masters, doctors, farmers, and all kinds of craftsmen! This small Xu Country actually miraculously gathers all influential schools in the world to give lectures here! And the students here actually teach for free. All the fees are paid by the state; it is illegal to not send children to school!

For the time being in Xu Kingdom, there are only the Mo family, the Han Zongfa family and the Qiuye Wutong Mountain family that can open the mountain gate and collect their own exclusive disciples.

Looking at the faces full of smiles and listening to the relaxed and cheerful laughter, Nangong Zhi vaguely understood: Xiao Hao was able to expand the small Haizhou to become a big country with 11 states in just less than three years, and to have unprecedented cohesion, not because Xiao Hao had any exaggerated ability, but because he found something "thing"! This kind of thing made the entire Xu Kingdom "live".

There are no city walls in Xu Kingdom, neither the Great Wall nor the city walls! There are only big roads, and the civilians and merchants who put their gratitude deep in their hearts. The motivation to pursue wealth and happiness makes merchants and civilians work spontaneously. There are no slaves here, and the nobles are curled up, the officials are efficient and honest, and the whole country is orderly under the management of the law.

"Maybe, Haizhou can become the current Xu Kingdom, not just as simple as the surface, it is not as simple as releasing slaves, imprisoning nobles, attaching importance to merchants, and governing the country according to law. There are more core things!" Nangong Zhi took his questions in his heart and was preparing to ask the relevant personnel of Xu Kingdom for advice.

"Welcome." From a distance, Lan Hai led his staff to welcome him. There was also a large etiquette group next to him responsible for playing music, etc. In this era, it was not enough to meet him, but also a series of complex etiquettes. Fortunately, Xiao Hao didn't have to worry about these, and it was enough to hand them over to the relevant departments.

"Oh, Prime Minister Lan Hai's name is well-known." Nangong Zhi is completely familiar with it.

After some etiquette, the two of them completed the meeting ceremony.

"Before this, can I go to your school to see it?" Nangong Zhi, the old fox, saw the school at first sight.

"No problem." Lan Hai didn't care. The school was here openly and invited teachers from various places in China to work, and also promoted compulsory education in Xuguo. There was nothing confidential about it. Even in Xuguo schools, you can see foreign race teaching, and not many foreign races are immune to the precious wealth of Qiyun coins!

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Nangong Zhi was dressed in a elegant manner, and while walking, he secretly cursed the cunning Lan Hai, the damn Lan Hai, I remember the calculation this time! It turned out that Nangong Zhi wanted to enter the school in Xishan Town, but how to enter was a problem. If you just take a look, it doesn’t matter what your identity is; but if you want to observe for a long time, you need to make good arrangements. The identity arranged by Lan Hai for Nangong Zhi is the teacher of the military strategy course! But... there is no salary!

Without a salary, he had to teach children in Haizhou! He lost a lot! In order not to embarrass and not to lose his reputation, Nangong Zhi stayed up late to sort out some information.

While walking, Nangong Zhi cursed secretly, "Why do you, the prime minister, make things difficult for me, the old man?" But it's not far from the school. I arrived at the school gate in a few steps; a bright smile appeared on the old fox Nangong Zhi's face, with a little stiffness and gloom.

There is also a stone tablet at the entrance of the school, with two lines engraved on it: the state has the responsibility and obligation to correctly educate the people, the people have the right and obligation to receive the correct education; and the people have the right to refuse any wrong education that is incorrect, illegal, and unethical.

The simple words made Nangong Zhi tremble. Although Nangong Zhi saw the school along the way, he did not observe it closely; but this time he was observing carefully. Simply, even some vulgar words in the eyes of literati exuded the glory of the soul.

But below this stone tablet, there are many green grass leaves, plum petals, etc., which look a bit messy, but it can be seen that they are all sorts of thoughts, and they are arranged neatly.

A cheerful voice came, and several teenage children walked together, including men and women. They were dressed neatly and neatly, with bags on their backs. Everyone held grass or petals in their hands, and could find green grass and petals in winter. It was not easy. These children were not masters of the magical powers of purple Qi Dongsheng. I saw these children walk under the stone tablet and bow respectfully, put down the things in their hands, carefully arranged them neatly, and happily entered the school gate. At the gate, a fifty-year-old man looked at the children walking with a smile.

"Hello Grandpa Xiang. Hello Grandpa Xiang..." Several children immediately greeted him happily when they saw the old man.

"Okay, okay. Haha..." The old man laughed with satisfaction. For a moment, a different kind of warmth spread out at the entrance of the school.

When the students left, the old man who was looking at the door immediately looked at Nangong Zhi, and their eyes were sparkling.

"It turned out to be a general who has been on the battlefield! At least a acquired master!" Nangong Zhi was surprised at this time. As the commander, of course, he could feel the aura that only survived from the killing battlefield from the other party.

"Nangong Zhi?" The person guarding the door asked.

"It's me."

"Come with me." After the old man who was guarding the door said, he walked in.

"You...you are the generals who are guarding the door here?" After walking a few steps, Nangong Zhi couldn't help it.

“Precautioning the national gate is just as important as guarding the school gate!”

"Important? The school gate is not as important as the national gate!" Nangong Zhi was dissatisfied.

The veteran smiled slightly, "We can fight back if the national gate is lost. But what if the gate of morality and wisdom is lost? I will block all dark things from the school gate, so that there is only joy and light in the school.

In Xuguo, there is a general guarding the gate of every school!"

Nangong Zhi stopped suddenly, and the shock in his heart could not stop. He turned his head stiffly, looked at the students jumping happily, looked at the movement forms that he didn't know, and looked at the students and teachers who were reciting in the snow holding books, an indescribable touch arose from the bottom of his heart. Suddenly, he had the idea of ​​teaching and educating people here!

At this time, Nangong Zhi's eyes changed completely when he looked at the surrounding environment again, and his heart was even more stormy. Xu Guo's education on students is completely free. Until the age of 16, he will spend the learning stage in the school. In this process, the school is responsible for all food, clothing, housing and transportation, and civilians do not have to spend a penny. Building schools, hiring teachers, equip four treasures of food, clothing, housing and transportation, etc. are all directly responsible for the state. The Ministry of Education is temporarily responsible for Xiao Hao's mother Li Yufeng.

Nangong Zhi just calculated a little and found a rough number. According to Chen Guo's situation, a student would spend about four to seven thousand copper coins a year, which means four to seven taels of silver. However, Xu Guo promised to bear this part of the cost permanently. Every child over five years old must be admitted to school and educate until he was 16 years old! All of this is a real astronomical number.

In such a school, the ones who look at the gate are all generals who can count them as generals, and at least they have commanded teams of more than 1,000 people to fight. What kind of work is this!

But Nangong Zhi still did not give up, "Will some people not need to go to school? For example, some rich businessmen, nobles, officials, etc. After all, these people have the ability to hire teachers alone. If you have a unified education like this, it is impossible to cover everything."

"No!" the old general raised his head proudly, "Whether it is a businessman, aristocrat, royal family or civilian, all the children are here. Even the Xiao family and the Li family have sent their descendants. The Han Zongfa and the Mo family have sent some of their children in Xu Kingdom. My grandson is in this school!

No aristocrat, businessman, etc. can organize education of such a scale. A private teacher (teacher) can only impart a part of his knowledge, and here he can accept all his knowledge.

All the workers in the world have lectures here. Businessmen, soldiers on the battlefield, farmers, fishermen and even scammers are lectures here! Even excellent officials come to lecture every month, and His Majesty comes back to lecture when he has time.

Here, you can learn the knowledge of the whole world. You can learn the reasons for the changes in the world. You can know the advantages and disadvantages of all the theories in the world. You can even learn some knowledge from foreign races. You will get unprecedented wisdom enlightenment here!"

"Can students learn so many subjects?"

General Xiang, who was looking at the door, smiled, "I told you that you can't understand either. You will understand after staying here for a while, and you will also know why even the nobles who were dissatisfied with the Xu Kingdom would try every means to send their children in."

Then the two of them had nothing to say and took Nangong Zhi to a prepared office where they already had comprehensive information, such as sand tables, contour maps, various brand new map annotation methods, etc. There are also a wealth of tools here, and many tools can be moved directly to the army.

"This... is all a secret thing?" Nangong Zhi is not stupid. Everything here can probably make military strategists jealous.

"It used to be. It's not now."

"Confidential is confidentiality, it is confidential at all times!" Nangong Zhi stood at the commander's perspective at this time, and his tone was a little stiff.

"When you learn these things from here, every person from Xu Kingdom is disdainful. Okay, be familiar with the environment here, I can guide you for three days. These three days will let you understand these things. If you don't understand the use of these tools, you will be ridiculed by students."

After a brief understanding, Nangong Zhi suddenly didn't know how to describe his mood. The arrogant commander of the Northern Chen State was actually taught by a small general how to use combat tools in the army. This was simply a shame; but what was even more shameful was that he actually...he couldn't understand something!

Three days later, when Nangong Zhi passed the assault training, he finally stepped into the lecture hall and started his first class. He heard that it was Chen's northern commander who came to give lectures, and more than 200 people were squeezed into the classroom, which could only bear 60 people normally.

"Soldiers are also insidious ways..."

"Teacher, don't talk big. We can all recite the words of memorization!" Nangong Zhicai said something and was cut off by the naughty students.

The first reaction of Nangong Zhi was that he was furious and wanted to beat the board; but looking at the more than 200 students in the classroom, the neat and clean school uniforms, and the bright eyes, he couldn't get angry for a moment. Then he thought that he was not really here to teach, but to investigate. Since this is the case, of course he had to follow the rules here.

Thinking of this, Nangong Zhi directly took out several classic battles he had prepared and commanded. However, Nangong Zhi was completely stunned this time! The students were arguing with each other, and criticized the classic battles of Nangong Zhi. The various problems and loopholes made Nangong Zhi sweat.

Then Nangong Zhi turned around and left! These gangsters couldn't teach them anymore! But their hearts began to be heavy. Thinking about the current education of Xu Kingdom, all children of the age of suitable age need to be admitted to school. Thinking that everyone in Xu Kingdom will be a general in the future, Nangong Zhi's heart couldn't help but tremble.

At this time, the words on the stone tablet at the entrance of the school flowed through Nangong Zhi's mind again, and he vaguely grasped something. On the other hand, he suddenly felt a little emotional in his heart: Xu Country is expanding! This expansion is not just a territorial expansion, it is an all-round expansion! Faced with this expansion, Chen State has almost no ability to stop it! If Xu Country suddenly turns its spearhead and moves south, then Chen State's best choice is to surrender!

Once the country of Xu stabilizes, no country in the world can stop the country of Xu!

Nangong Zhi, who failed to educate others and was criticized, had to leave the school in shame at this time! He really couldn't stay.

But at this time, I just saw several caravans unloading a large amount of supplies after leaving the school gate. The relevant personnel of the school were counting, and some students were helping. The merchants were smiling and greeting the surroundings, which were smiles from the bottom of their hearts. The merchants, who were always covered in copper smell, actually showed a pure smile at this time. Many merchants could even see them taking out candies and snacks from the carriage and giving them to the excited students around them.

"You...the school actually communicates directly with the businessmen?"

"Why not?" General Xiang and the guardian looked at Nangong Zhi mockedly. The commander who was scared away by the students on the first day of teaching was so embarrassing.

Nangong Zhi is not very thick-skinned, "Then these unscrupulous businessmen won't make unscrupulous money, right?"

"No! They are doing business with the school, they are losing money! They always sell to the school at the lowest price in the market, and this price is often lower than their purchase price." General Xiang shook his head.

"Losing money? Didn't you Xu Guo say..."

"We are willing!" A middle-aged businessman looked at Nangong Zhi coldly, "The country can pay money to educate students. We businessmen have no other skills, but at least we can also provide the students with the best food, clothing and school supplies at a cheap price."

"Then... there are so many schools across the country, aren't you losing all of them?"

The other party's eyes when he looked at Nangong Zhi were filled with a faint arrogance: "There are more businessmen in the country!"

"The whole country... businessmen are doing this!!!" Nangong Zhi's heart beat wildly, and his eyes almost rushed out of his sockets.

"Yes, the whole country! The country can do so much for us, and we must also prove that we can contribute to the country."
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