At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Father, Chengzhi him..."

"When you were fifteen or sixteen years old, my father took you by his side to guide you personally, but my father always felt regretful that he could not take you to travel all over the world, read thousands of books, and travel thousands of miles. You have read a lot, but you haven’t traveled much.”

Guo Peng turned to look at Guo Chengzhi: "To be a good emperor, you must at least have a basic understanding of your own country. You know it through the map. I hope Chengzhi can walk it by himself."

Guo Jin hesitated for a moment.

"But...Father, my son plans to formally designate Chengzhi as Crown Prince after a while."

"Oh...it's time."

Guo Peng suddenly remembered that his father, Guo Dan, had passed away for 25 months.

At the beginning of Guo Jin's accession to the throne, Guo Dan had not passed away for 25 months, so he had not canonized Guo Chengzhi as the crown prince.

When the day comes, he intends to officially confer Guo Chengzhi as the crown prince, establish his status, and confirm the status of the crown prince.

It's the same as Guo Peng canonized Guo Jin as the crown prince immediately after Guo Peng declared himself emperor.

Guo Peng looked at Guo Chengzhi who was afraid to speak, and thought for a while.

"I'll take him out on a tour. The effect is the same as your canonization of him as the crown prince. There is no rush."

Guo Jin was depressed for a while, but after thinking about it carefully, she felt that what Guo Peng said was also quite right.

The Supreme Emperor took Guo Chengzhi out for a tour. In the eyes of outsiders, the Supreme Emperor wanted Guo Chengzhi to be the next emperor of the Wei Empire. The effect was indeed similar to Guo Jin's official canonization.

With Guo Peng's prestige, it is only a matter of course for everyone to have such an idea.

So after a little hesitation, Guo Jin nodded.

"My son understands."

Then, he looked at Guo Chengzhi.

"Although you are going on a parade with your eldest father, you must not relax your studies. My father will ask Dr. Taixue to give you homework. You must continue to complete your homework during the tour and send it back to Luoyang. It is up to your father to self-check .”

"Yes, son, keep it in mind."

Guo Chengzhi dared not go against his father's request.

Guo Peng laughed out loud.

"Emperor, do you think I will spoil Chengzhi?"

"Son doesn't mean that, father, don't get me wrong."

"I don't misunderstand you. As a father, you really need to be a little majestic. That's good, and it won't make this kid's heart completely wild. You teach him the knowledge in the textbook, and I will teach him how to use the knowledge in the textbook. , how about us father and son join forces?"

"So, very good."

Guo Jin nodded and smiled.

The matter was thus decided.

The military competition ended in mid-October, and after the grand awards ceremony was over under the auspices of Guo Jin, Guo Jin released the news that Guo Peng would leave Luoyang to tour the world soon.

Chapter 1506 One thousand four hundred and forty-six grand masters

The news quickly spread throughout the Luoyang court, and then throughout Luoyang.

The news about the Taishang Huang Guo Peng will leave Luoyang to tour all over the country.

The specific inside information is not informed, and naturally no one will know the specific inside information.

However, according to some internal information from the Ministry of Education, the Taishang Emperor's tour may be related to the enrollment expansion task announced by the Ministry of Education not long ago.

After the Taishang Emperor retired to Taishan Palace, he did not ask about government affairs or military affairs. As soon as he delegated all power to the new emperor Guo Jin, he only retained the request to control the academic department.

Even the emperor can't interfere or obstruct all the affairs of the department.

Anything he decides to pass on education must be passed by the emperor and cannot be opposed-it is said that this is the final agreement between the emperor and the overlord.

Therefore, since the new emperor ascended the throne for nearly a year, he has not extended his hand to the academic department once, and all affairs of the academic department are dictated by the Supreme Emperor.

In fact, all this is not difficult to understand. Guo Peng's greatest martial arts as emperor was to crusade against Xianbei, and completely wiped out Xianbei, the biggest and most traditional enemy of the Central Plains regime since the end of Han Dynasty.

Then the country was expanded to the grassland and desert, completely solving the powerful enemy on the northern grassland like never before, and ensuring the security of the regime in the Central Plains.

And the meritorious service in Wenzhi that matches it should be that he successfully eliminated the group of scholars.

He wiped out this group, seized all the educational resources they possessed, mastered all the educational resources in the world unprecedentedly, and then popularized the education of the world.

Further abolished the examination and examination system, adopted the imperial examination system to determine the merits of the examination, created the tradition of equal emphasis on both civil and military examinations, and selected enough outstanding administrative and military talents for the Wei Empire, ensuring the operation of the Wei Empire Free from interference by the few.

The power of education and selection all fell in the hands of the Guo family emperor, who became a complete and powerful emperor unprecedentedly in history, with equal emphasis on civil and military affairs, and pushed the autocratic monarchy system to a new peak.

Guo Peng is the one who created all these miracles.

And if you want to ask him whether the most proud thing since becoming emperor is the success of the Northern Expedition to Xianbei or the creation of the imperial examination system, he will definitely say that it was the creation of the imperial examination system and the abolition of the imperial examination system.

Military feats can be achieved by a random little hunk from the sky, but political and cultural matters cannot be achieved by a true emperor through the ages.

And he, Guo, is this eternal emperor. He transformed educational resources from private ownership to public ownership, and wiped out an entire privileged class.

No matter which era it is in, this feat is worth bragging about.

Therefore, in government-run schools and schools across the country, Guo Peng's portrait is hung in every classroom.

His phrase "worry about the world's worries first, and enjoy the world's joys later" has become an eternal famous saying, and students all over the country are required to recite and memorize it, and they must be able to say it in their dreams.

Judging from the fact that Guo Peng still needs to be in charge of the education of the department after he abdicates, Guo Peng is not usually strict about education.

So seeing him alive and kicking and going out for a parade, the elders and children of the old era can do nothing but hate and curse.

Previously, the Ministry of Education announced many things that required the education departments of all states and counties in the world to handle.

For example, expanding the school building, enrolling more students, ensuring the implementation of one meal a day for lunch, ensuring the free provision of books, paper, pen and ink, etc.

Use this as an attraction to attract many school-age children to enroll in school, and to absorb as many young children as possible to enroll in school.

And it is further proposed that before the tenth year of Xingyuan, a county school should be established in every county in the country to further sink education, further facilitate school-age children to enroll in school, and share the educational pressure of state schools and county schools.

This policy has been required to be handled since it was promulgated in September of the first year of Xingyuan.

The first thing to do is the Gyeonggi area. The counties around Luoyang were first required to establish county schools in each county, officially called Xuetang, for all school-age children in the county.

With Luoyang as the center, it will gradually spread to the surrounding areas. The central and local finances will allocate funds and spend together, and strive to complete this matter before the tenth year of Xingyuan. There must be no mistakes.

This grand plan of the Faculty seems to be the handiwork of the Supreme Emperor.

The cost is frightening, and many people are going to ask the new emperor to limit it a little bit.

But at the same time, news came back that the empire had discovered large-scale gold and silver mines on Wado Island in the east.

Not long after, a large truckload of gold and silver bullion was transported back to the Luoyang warehouse for storage.

People don't know whether this is the malice of the Supreme Emperor, or whether the plan prepared by the Supreme Emperor in advance made everyone miscalculate the situation. As a result, he had already prepared the necessary funds for the new emperor and the New Deal.

China has never been a country rich in gold and silver, but gold and silver are naturally valuables, and they are synonymous with wealth that can be used for bulk transactions.

So the significance of the empire's discovery of large-scale gold and silver mines is that the empire does not seem to be short of money.

Then, there was gossip from the Ministry of Finance that the new emperor intended to promote a brand new currency system of the Wei Empire represented by gold, silver and brass.

Replace the current standard five baht coins, silk cloth, silk and other general equivalents with newly minted gold, silver and copper coins, reshape a standardized economic ecology, and give it legal recognition, thus bringing about commercial and economic changes.

Once such a change occurs, it will naturally greatly promote business.

But more importantly, this means that the empire is rich.

The price of gold and silver is naturally far more expensive than copper.

Although I don't know how much the amount is, but since the Supreme Emperor has the confidence to lower the money-burning matter of education to the county level, it is obvious that this wave of empires can benefit from it and how much gold they can get. and silver.

It seems that this is also something that has been decided very early.

Before there was no money, some people were able to obey others, but now that they had money, the Supreme Emperor would go around to check to see if there were any hermaphrodites who were obedient and violators, and took them down one at a time.

Maybe it's another big purge.

It's just that everyone didn't expect that Guo Peng could really get so much gold and silver from overseas-that's how big the minerals are.

Moreover, it has directly become the private property of the royal family of Wei State, and no other individuals or groups are allowed to reach out.

This is the death of a person.

The economic development of the Wei Empire in recent years has not been too fast. The main reason is that the empire does not have enough copper coins.

There is a lack of copper, so the casting speed of five baht coins is far from the speed at which social wealth is produced, so that it has caused deflation in a certain sense in society.

The Wei Empire implemented a grain-based economic system, and grain was linked to copper coins. However, with the further increase in grain production, the production of copper coins has not kept up, so the price of grain has been falling over the years.

Although the harvest is not good every year, and the weather is not very good, the agricultural system of the Wei Empire and the actions of vigorously repairing water conservancy, combating locust plagues, and making manure also ensured the basics of agricultural production.

Therefore, even if the weather is bad and the year is bad, the grain production of the Wei Empire has not been greatly affected.

This led to the increasing grain reserves of the Wei Empire, and the grain stocks on the market were also increasing day by day. There was no longer a shortage, and there was more grain, which directly led to a decrease in grain prices year after year.

People's demand for food is relatively constant, because it is a necessity. Even if the price of food falls, the market's demand for food will not increase much, and it cannot play a regulating role.

The emergence of this phenomenon is also the reason why Guo Peng began to go to Japan to look for gold and silver since the seventh year of Yande.

Deflation is not conducive to economic development, especially in this food standard system.

Originally, the Wei Empire held a large amount of stored grain, and as long as the stored grain was stored properly, it could still be eaten for more than ten years.

Therefore, in the case of pegging to copper coins, food prices will inevitably go down all the way.

Ordinary people's spending power is not strong, and the main consumer goods are food, not other commercial products. The prices they see in their eyes are basically equivalent to food prices.

Such a situation will only further make ordinary people think that money is more valuable, so they are not willing to take out money for consumption, but to store it, which will only further strengthen the impact of deflation.

Through statistics from the Ministry of Finance, Guo Peng is aware of the occurrence of this phenomenon. This is a situation that many countries have not encountered in this era, and it is also a problem that many countries have not encountered.

Because this kind of situation will only happen in countries lacking metal ore deposits when the empire has developed steadily to a certain level. Generally speaking, this can even be regarded as a disease of wealth.

Social wealth is greater than the value of currency, what a happy and troubled wealth disease.

As long as the country can be restored to peace, as long as the shackles on them can be lifted, what a powerful productivity they can explode...

Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties could not experience this kind of trouble of happiness, even the Sui and Tang Dynasties did not experience it much, but someone Guo led the Wei Empire to experience it.

Of course, although this is very happy, it is also a trouble after all.

Therefore, Guo Peng instructed the Ministry of Finance to set the grain purchase price very early on. If the grain price in a certain place is too low, the local storage department will use the grain purchase price to purchase grain from farmers and transport it into the warehouse for storage.

It can be regarded as protecting the interests of farmers a little bit.

On the other hand, deflation has restricted the further development of commerce. Although there are more expensive equivalents such as silk cloth and silk, they cannot be compared with gold and silver, which are natural currencies.

Once the Wei Empire has a sufficient amount of gold and silver, it will inevitably be able to liberate some restrictions on commercial development and allow the commodity economy to prosper greatly.

And this requires the commercial taxation system and taxation department of the Wei Empire to further step up the harvesting of commercial taxes, as well as regularly quantify wealthy merchants and tycoons to carry out targeted attacks——

To put it bluntly, in the feudal era, wealthy businessmen were pigs raised by the royal family. As long as they were fat enough, they could be slaughtered.

Or if you have a different idea and want to play land annexation, then even if you are not so fat, you can still slaughter it.

It's great to be able to be angry with the common people, to appease the pink eye disease, and to make money.

Chapter 1507 One thousand four hundred and seven

No one knows exactly what Guo Peng is going to do on his tour of the world.

All thoughts are speculations, and they are unpredictable before they happen.

But Guo Peng decided to leave Luoyang to tour the world, obviously because he had already determined that even without him in Luoyang, Guo Jin could still control the situation.

Guo Jin no longer needs Guo Peng to sit in Luoyang to control Luoyang, and then control the power of the world, so Guo Peng chose to leave Luoyang to tour the world.

Whether this is something Guo Peng wants to do and needs to tour the world, or whether he deliberately made room for the new emperor to show his authority, everyone does not know.

But everyone knows that Guo Jin is very lucky.

Guo Peng pioneered allowing the people to read and study history, which triggered an upsurge in history study among the people, which in turn led to the emergence of a large number of history lovers among the people, as well as the birth of historians.