Chang'an City. It is now the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in the seventh year of Yongshi, Laba Festival.

This imperial capital of the Han Dynasty has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to seven years ago.

The entire suburbs of Chang'an are now full of chimneys, with hundreds of steel mills and iron furnaces, all around Chang'an and extending to Xinfeng for thousands of years.

The tall chimneys kept sucking and spitting smoke from morning to night, and the air quality in Chang'an has dropped in seven years.

The frequency of various lung diseases among citizens and officials living here has increased countless times.

But no one complained.

Because it is these steel mills and iron furnaces that have been smog all year round that have created the national power that the Han Empire is so strong that it is unimaginable!

A super heavy industrial system with an annual output of more than 10 million kilograms of crude steel, 20 million kilograms of fine iron, and 10 million kilograms of cast iron.

With this unimaginable steel output, the country's development is changing with each passing day.

Today, the 138 counties of the empire (Yanhe Zhongben is 106 counties. However, since Yongshi, they have newly expanded the Western Regions, obtained the land after the Xiongnu moved westward, and divided them into the south of the Mosun, the land of Hehuang, the land of feudal Fusang, Fusan, and the land of the southwest vassal states, and the land of thirty-two counties and four prefectures) have all realized the ironization of agricultural tools. The rich lands of the inner counties have even begun to popularize all-steel farm tools, and various new water trucks and transportation tools have also emerged.

As for the near the imperial capital Chang'an, an experimental road with a material building called asphalt was built since the previous year.

This road surrounds Chang'an City, passes through the Taixue Wuyuan, and reaches Xinfeng. The total length is only 200 miles, but it costs tens of millions of funds from the country.

The average cost per step is as high as thousands of dollars.

However, after the cultivation is completed, everyone in the world will praise it.

There are even voices in the government and the country, and they request that such roads be built everywhere.

Because fools know, how many benefits are there for such asphalt roads?

But no matter whether it is windy or rainy, there will be no muddy roads.

Since its completion, trucks transported from Xinfeng, Wannian, Lintong to Chang'an can travel quickly day and night, and the speed is very fast.

Unfortunately, the material called asphalt is difficult to extract.

Today, the Han Dynasty has only discovered several extracted mines in Gaonu in Guanzhong and Dunhuang in Hexi, mobilizing tens of thousands of slave workers to mine and refine them day and night, but the output is only tens of thousands of kilograms per day.

It may be difficult to meet the needs of the world.

At this moment, in the cold wind, a carriage was slowly driving on this road paved with asphalt.

This carriage is extremely luxurious, and even the curtains are made of gold and silver.

The car is extremely luxurious, and even the car boards are covered with expensive cashmere blankets.

This is the Qiang people who picked the goat velvet weaves from the plateau thousands of feet high. The yield is rare and they have always been priceless.

Two pretty and cute girls with blond hair and brown eyes and high noses were kneeling on the blanket in front of their master and gently hitting the legs of the carriage owner.

If anyone knows the goods here, he will definitely recognize that these two female slaves must be specialties of Wusun and Shache in the Western Regions.

And the best quality of these two girls must be the tributes paid by these two countries.

It is an existence that only appears in the palaces of important officials of the Han Dynasty.

"Ming Gong, will the Prime Minister reuse you when you return to Beijing this time?" A scholar in green asked in a low voice opposite his master.

"You are so serious..." The master chuckled: "No matter where you are, you are just serving the Prime Minister's great cause and expending your life for the prosperity of the world..."

"Whether you live in a prefecture or county or go to court, there is no difference between me!"

"Just as the Prime Minister said last year: I am worried about the people of the temple and the world is far away, and I am worried about the country!"

"This is true of our words!"

The scholar smiled and bowed quickly, saying, "Ming Gong is far inferior to his virtuous officials!"

But both of them were as bright as a mirror.

Since Yanhe, the prime minister has been in power, the emperor has been chasing, the world has been peaceful, and the world has flourished.

As a result, the Han political arena and the trend of the Shilin people changed.

Both inside and outside the government and the country were looking for theoretical support for the various changes made by the Chief after the reign of the government.

Including the Prime Minister himself, he is also seeking the cornerstone of ideological and theoretical aspects.

So, Xunzi and Mencius's remarks were picked up from the pile of old papers, wiped the dust and used them again.

Even the classics of Lu Buwei, Shi Zi and others were taken out to study as the basis of their own theory.

At the same time, the world's literary world also launched a trend called "I am annotating the meaning of the scriptures".

It is a completely different contrast from the previous sutras.

The so-called melody of the scriptures is a trend since Dong Zi, which talks about the use of the words and deeds of the ancestors, mainly the spirit of Confucius and his disciples to explain the great righteousness of "I" or the world.

Scholars and literati are practitioners who respect the sages, the sages, and the kings.

But this "I am annotated with the meaning of the sutra" is different. It refers to taking the meaning of the sutras of the sages and kings for my use, and cut them at will. If they are combined, they will be combined; if they are not combined, they will be cut.

In short, it means that only those that are in line with my wishes and principles are recognized and used. If they are not in line with each other, they pretend that there is no such words and meaning.

Since its emergence, this trend has quickly swept across the world and completely changed the trend of the Han literary world and the Shilin style.

All kinds of monsters and monsters appeared, and great scholars and great scholars have created schools.

In just a few years, the world's schools have divided into hundreds of schools.

The Prime Minister was happy to see his success, and encouraged and even rewarded the great scholars to set up their own businesses.

According to the "Resulting Academic Order" of the Prime Minister in the second year of Yongshi, in every county, there will be a school in the prefectures and counties, as long as there are more than a hundred disciples, they can apply to be established as a county and prefecture school and receive state funding.

The prefectures and counties in various places will be assigned to assess and evaluate the grades of school and private schools in the jurisdiction to determine their advantages and disadvantages.

The two-level institution of state and county were set up in each state and county, which were established and guaranteed by the state.

The number of disciples who are admitted to state and county schools every year is used as an important bargaining chip for assessing and judging their pros and cons.

State and county schools are important sources of Tai students. After the assessment, as long as the admission score line of Taixue is reached, they can be admitted as Taixue students and enter Taixue to study.

And the Tai student is the proud son of heaven and is known as the disciple of the prime minister!

As long as you graduate, you can be admitted to an official position and you don’t need to pass the exam.

Over the past seven years, the size of the Imperial College has been increasing. Today, it has increased from only fifty people a year to tens of thousands.

International students in Wuyuan and Imperial College are not listed here.

In the eyes of outsiders, these changes are the actions of the prime minister and great master who imitated Confucius, promoted education and benefited the people.

But this is not the case in the eyes of scribes and carriage owners.

In fact, they all understood that this was a decision made by the Prime Minister and his group of "decisive and supportive heroes" for their own power, wealth and status for thousands of years.

The carriage owner personally participated in the formulation of these decisions and policies.

"I am annotating the meaning of the scriptures" is to grasp the right to speak, and to make people forget the old virtues of the Liu family, forget the emperor in Jianzhang Palace, forget the power of the country, and fall into the hands of the prime minister and others.

The purpose of promoting education and establishing education is to further divide and weaken the influence of great scholars, and also to allow great scholars and great scholars to have something to do so that no fools will suddenly remember that the emperor of Jianzhang Palace is still there, so as not to get angry, wanting to respect the king and eliminate traitors and protect the royal family.

The expansion of Tai students and the continuous increase in education expenditure is to cultivate new officials and literati, and replace old officials and literati with them.

Now it seems that the effectiveness of these plans and policies is surprisingly good.

Nowadays, for their respective academic schools and Taoist thrones, the great scholars and great scholars in the local prefectures and counties have set up their own businesses, recruit disciples and disciples, and open school.

In order to compete for students, to maintain and prove their own way.

The great scholars attacked each other and the dog's brain was almost out.

Naturally, they don’t have the time and energy to care about whether the emperor in Jianzhang Palace is wronged again?

On the contrary, they all forgot that there was the emperor in Jianzhang Palace!

To fight against foreign countries, we must first settle the home.

Before defeating those damn heresies, these people probably had no energy to respect the king and eliminate traitors.

Plus the theories and ideas that were picked up by people.

For a time, in the literary world, the popular trend of thinking that the people value the king over the country, and the world is far more important than the king.

Some people even began to promote that the emperor is the harm of the world, whether virtuous or not!

Therefore, the best emperor should be like this now - hanging clothes and governing the world.

Just leave the country’s major policies to the wise ministers and gentlemen to deal with them.

Many of these remarks even appreciate and even agree with the heroes who have made decisions and helped the people.

For example, the current Beihai Tower General was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the

These close ministers around the prime minister support this remark.

Of course, there are supporters and there are also opponents.

Among the heroes who have made up their orders and helped the people for helping others for a long time, there have always been many royalists.

Many old ministers led by Shangshu Ling and Suiyang Hou Zhang Anshi have been thinking about it all the time, thinking of waiting for the little emperor to grow up, and then persuading the prime minister to return the power to the emperor.

The owner of the carriage knew that the scholar opposite him was from the royalists.
To be continued...