Wu Yi also knew Liu Yan's worries. He thought about the situation in Shu County and called Liu Yan's attention.

"My lord, my subordinates have an idea. Shu County is now very powerful, which will not only affect us, but also southern Yizhou and southern Liangzhou.

We, Yizhou, have enough food, and my lord can contact the various forces in Zangqi County and Yizhou County in the south. If they can send troops, they will not only consume Liu Xin's strength, but also contain the opponent's energy.

As for the northern part of Shu County... If the lord can give up the vassal state of Guanghan to Ma Teng, Liu Xin will definitely have to fight with the opponent for the safety of the northern part of Shu County. The land in Xiliang is barren, and he has long been looking forward to entering Shu.

County, and Ma Teng is not simple." Wu Yi said.

Liu Yan wanted to refuse outright. If the Guanghan vassal state was lost, the entire northern Yizhou would become the enemy's battlefield. If the local aristocratic family knew about it, they would not hate him to death.

But when he thought about Liu Xin, Liu Yan never said his words of rejection.

"Establishing relations with the counties in southern Yizhou can be done now. As long as they are willing to send troops, we can provide some weapons.

It’s better to wait until you contact Ma Teng! Don’t mention it again after leaving this room today. Guanghan Shu Kingdom is an important barrier for our Yizhou and cannot be lost,” Liu Yan said.

Liu Xin no longer regards Liu Yan as a threat to him. The construction of his three military camps can well protect the safety of Shu County. Now the more Liu Yan struggles, it will become easier for him to take over the entire Yizhou in the future. By the end of Jiu

At the beginning of the month, the grain harvest in all counties in Shu County was completed, and soon the harvest status of the eight southern counties was reported to Liu Xin.

Ruixian County's grain harvest this year reached 33.62 million shi, which is enough to feed the entire Ruixian County for seven years and the entire Shu County for one and a half years.

The grain harvest in the other seven counties has more than tripled that of last year. The government's grain control amounted to more than 18 million dan. In addition, Shu County's grain surplus last year exceeded 10 million dan. Now Liu Xin no longer has to consider the cost of food.

On September 3, Liu Xin convened the county education leaders. This year, the county-wide education popularization decree issued by Liu Xin was not implemented very well in various places. In addition to textbook problems, Liu Xin also found many problems with education.

First of all, the teachers invited to teach students in different places use different teaching materials. Most of them just find a book at random and let the students memorize it by rote. Then the students can recognize the words and write them back.

Liu Xin gave the children the opportunity to study in the school for eight years. To teach them this little thing, Liu Xin might as well hold a training class. The school was not only for the children to learn to read, but also for them to learn how to behave and do things.

The courses he taught in schools and academies changed in local villages. The nature courses became for everyone to learn how to farm, and the music courses became decorations. When asked in the county town, the villagers said that bells, chimes, drums, etc. were all

It's too expensive and can't be bought in the countryside.

This completely misinterpreted Liu Xin's meaning. Liu Xin decided to establish the Ministry of Education in Shu County and directly appointed Cheng Yu as the Minister of Education, in charge of annual education subsidies, and the most critical thing was the revision of teaching materials.

He asked the entire army to use unified textbooks and establish an education college in Chengdu County specifically to train teachers. The Ministry of Education also had hundreds of scholars dedicated to writing textbooks. After all textbooks were decided, they had to be reviewed by Liu Xin personally.

Through this, Liu Xin gave general instructions to each subject in the Chengdu School. There was only one textbook, from simple to basic, showing the knowledge in front of everyone bit by bit.

He requested that all textbooks should not be too boring as before, and the focus should be on the popularization of basic knowledge and patriotism. The history class also started from the creation of the world by Pangu, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the gradual decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He optimistically told the story of a dynasty in this history.

The role played.

Moreover, Liu Xin’s explanation of the role of aristocratic families in society was also very objective.

Throughout September, Liu Xin has been working in the Ruixian Textbook Compilation Institute, which is an important institute of the Ministry of Education. In more than 20 days, he has written the outline and main expansion of the previous book, especially the "Three Character Classic" that made everyone

They all praised it and it was used as an introductory textbook in school.

Liu Xin also compiled the Four Books and Five Classics and studied it as a textbook for universities and academies, although now his university, college, and academy are still under construction and there are not a single student.

On this day, Liu Xin made a more complicated flute out of bamboo, intending to make it a basic musical instrument in schools. He also planned to make an erhu, but snake skin and horsetail were easy to find, and the steel wire used for the erhu was more difficult to make.

Liu Xin has already passed the order for the steel wire used in making the erhu to Iron Fort. Whether it can be made depends on the skill of the craftsman.

Cheng Yu came to the Textbook Compilation Institute and told Liu Xin that paper that could be used as books had been produced. After hearing the news, Liu Xin hurriedly rode to the Twenty-Four Fort where the papermaking workshop was located.

Liu Xin saw the paper in the hands of several craftsmen. Although the paper was thicker than he expected and the color was a little gray, its flexibility and hardness were very good. He used a brush to write on the paper, and there was no trace of it.

The phenomenon of ink accumulation could not help but nodded with satisfaction.

"Lord, with this paper, we can let a large number of people who can write keep copying, and soon every township in Shu County will have textbooks to use!" Cheng Yu happily said to Liu Xin, he knew this

Paper represents the meaning of Liu Xin’s hope that common people can be literate. The biggest obstacle to the popularization of education in the world is actually books. A bamboo slip with hundreds of words costs tens of dollars, and a large book with tens of thousands of words costs tens of dollars.

It is difficult to buy even for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there are still many missing volumes.

"Don't worry about it now. You can find some craftsmen who can engrave characters. I have a way to quickly copy the fonts. If this method works, we will have a steady supply of books. It will be easy to complete the school textbooks by then."

Liu Xin said.

Although Cheng Yu didn't know what Liu Xin could do, he still asked someone to find a craftsman who could engrave characters. He cut the paper into squares of the same size as Liu Xin asked, and asked him to carefully write the full text of the "Three Character Classic" on the book.

, wrote the three characters "Three Character Classic" on the writing, and Liu Xin asked him to write "Special for Children's Education and Enlightenment" under the writing. After working for a long time, the first book made of paper was born!

Liu Xin took this rough textbook, and he thought about asking the papermaking workshop to make some thick, hard paper for the cover and title page, so that the book with only more than ten pages would be better preserved.

The craftsman arrived in the afternoon, and Liu Xin asked the craftsman to carve out all the characters that could be used. The craftsman found a lot of people and started carving in the papermaking workshop. Liu Xin hoped to see the historic movable type printing technology in his own country.
Chapter completed!