The best county magistrate

"Xuanchen, all of you here are seniors, please be more careful what you say." Yan Chenghai reminded.

Yang Xuanchen nodded and smiled, but Meng Lang said the last sentence just now.

"Mr. Li, the three heads of the college, please forgive the students for speaking so freely."

"But there are some things students still need to make clear."

Li Changliu drank a glass of wine to calm down his dissatisfaction.

"The northwest frontier has broken down the methods according to your policy theory."

"There have been many fewer Huma invaders in our Dayan borderland last autumn."

"You can see how exquisite it is. Qingzhou is far away from Liangmeng Province, and these students and scholars don't have the opportunity to see it with their own eyes."

"Why don't you, the one who figured it out, answer everyone's questions?"

Following the steps he gave, Yang Xuanchen saluted.

He does not believe that the Minister of Education has not read his policy, but his ideas are a bit advanced, and people of this era may not understand them.

It is a good opportunity to let these ancient people understand what cultural invasion is.

"As I mentioned just now, my strategy focuses on trade, convenience, and missionary development."

"Advance troops to defeat the enemy's plans, and defeat the enemy's troops without fighting."

"First we need to conduct a thorough analysis of the barbarians outside the Northwest Pass."

At this time, Ma Fugui intervened, "I have been to the grassland once in my early years. There are no cities on the grassland, only tribal tents."

"Their conditions are difficult and they are not suitable for farming..."

Yang Xuanchen grabbed the topic, "Brother Ma is right, barbarians are short of food and have made a living by herding for generations."

"The climate on the grassland is changeable and not suitable for farming. In winter, they will do anything just to have a bite to eat."

"This is why every autumn, barbarian Huma will repeatedly invade our two states of Great Yan."

Guo Changzhou asked: "Since the barbarians have a blood feud with me, Dayan, why do we still encourage trade with them?"

"This is about history!" Yang Xuanchen shook his head, "Decades ago, the barbarians gave birth to a khan."

"He led the entire grassland tribes to fight against Dajing, and their horses once reached outside Shangjing City..."

At this time, Yan Chenghai added: "As Xuan Chen said, after the barbarian Khan withdrew his troops, the grassland calmed down, and there were no more hundreds of thousands of troops and horses."

This period of history is basically known to everyone here.

Then, An Wenyuan, the dean of Molin Academy who is deeply involved in history, told several young people stories about that year.

After the story was told, everyone's eyes focused on Yang Xuanchen again.

He touched his nose and continued: "One of the reasons for doing business with barbarians is to resolve conflicts between ethnic groups."

"The second is mutual benefit and mutual market access."

"The third and most important point is cultural export!"

"I call it cultural invasion!"

As soon as the words came out, everyone at the table was shocked.

What is this ghost?

Relying on men of letters to fight the war?

"Master Yang, what do you mean by this?" Wen Jingxing asked the question in his mind.

Yang Xuanchen picked up the wine glass and took a sip, "We speak the same language and use the same characters as the barbarians."

"It's just that they don't have as many literati as we do who can enlighten the common people, so they appear to be uneducated."

"Why do we need to communicate with each other? The key lies in the merchants!"

"Although businessmen are not as literary as scholars, I have to admit that businessmen are also some of the smartest people in the world."

Speaking of this, Yang Xuanchen deliberately glanced at Ma Fugui.

Everyone knows that the Ma family can become the richest man in Qingzhou in just ten years, which must be extremely talented.

"Barbarians also have merchants, and merchants have a keen sense of smell and will be interested in new things, poems, songs, and written stories."

"I will rack my brains to think of how to make money from our common people."

"You must be familiar with the story of Du Kang and the Seven Fairies, right?"

Halfway through his words, Yang Xuanchen suddenly asked another question.

At this time, Fu Tingxue's clear voice sounded, "Such a poignant love story, touching the heart."

"But what does this have to do with businessmen?"

A few people who knew the key had mysterious smiles on their faces.

Yang Xuanchen laughed twice and continued: "If I say that I made up this story, how will you respond?"

The small mouth under the veil opened slightly, and there was a look of shock in her beautiful eyes.

Is this story made up?

"I have stories and wine. Would you like to spend some money to listen to the stories and drink a few glasses of wine?"

"This is what a businessman is! If you don't go there without profit, you will be crowded with people!"

"We just want to use merchants to export our Dayan culture to the grasslands."

"Let as many barbarians on the grassland know the goodness of my Great Flame as possible."

Speaking of this, Liang Wenjin put forward his point of view, "Barbarians have known that Dayan is rich since ancient times, and there is not a day that goes by that they don't want to invade my land."

"Isn't this unnecessary?"

Yang Xuanchen laughed, "This is why I said just now that scholars are ignorant!"

"Culture is exported in all aspects, from food, clothing, housing and transportation to firewood, rice, oil and salt."

“Start with the economy, then from the ideological dimension, and finally introduce politics slowly.”

"In a subtle way, through cultural transformation and ideological transformation, conquer and control the barbarians!"

"This is a long process of changing the culture, values ​​and lifestyle of the barbarians in order to achieve political control and gain."

At this point, Yang Xuanchen stopped talking because everyone here needed time to digest the views he brought.

There are too many new terms, and everyone has been talking about the transformation of values ​​​​and cultural invasion for a long time.

After Yang Xuanchen's explanation, everyone suddenly became enlightened and called him a genius.

The four great talents in Qingzhou spoke sincerely but were not convinced. The arrogance of the literati made their mouths harder.

"Master Yang just said twice that I, a student from Qingzhou, have foolish opinions."

"If a student is not talented, he still has the reputation of being a good candidate. If Qingzhou is a good candidate, he will not be looked upon by Master Yang."

"I dare to ask, are there any scholars in the world who are interested in it?"

Wen Jingxing's question is not without poison. Although Yang Xuanchen really despises these rotten scholars, he doesn't dare to say it out loud.

He smiled and asked: "Haha, then I dare to ask Brother Wen, why do you study?"

Yang Xuanchen’s question is not only asking Wen Jingxing, but also asking all the scholars here, why study?

Wen Jingxing was about to answer, but An Wenyuan grabbed him, and his sharp eyes stopped him from speaking.

"I believe that studying is to understand things and to serve the country with what you have learned throughout your life."

An Wenyuan's words stood at a high point and won praise from everyone.

Shi Qian added: "Of course, scholars of our generation also study for the inheritance of culture."

Guo Changzhou, the most literary person, said: "Reading is also to enrich one's heart and find the direction of life."

To the ears of scholars, the words of the three big men are naturally golden words.

When the four great talents saw that Yang Xuanchen was silent, they all thought that he had been beaten into silence and were about to take advantage of the victory to pursue him.

Li Changliu spoke, "Based on the opinions of the three heads of the academy, I would like to ask a question."

"Xuanchen, why are you studying?"

This is a good question. If you ask me to show off, I'm shooting myself in the foot.

The four great talents looked a little sarcastic, waiting for Yang Xuanchen to speak.

Yan Chenghai frowned. After all, he was his subordinate. If he didn't answer well, he would be embarrassed.

Zhou Miaomiao and Xiaolian were also extremely anxious. After all, the good words had been left to the three heads of the hospital to say.

No matter how smart Yang Xuanchen is, he can't make up a more ambitious ambition for studying.

They looked at him with hope and prayed for him silently.

The Ma family and his son only knew business. Even if Ma Chao had some literary talent, he had no idea of ​​his ambition to study.

On the other hand, Fu's father and his daughter ignored the matter and ignored it. The light in Fu Tingxue's eyes had faded a bit.

The Yang Xuanchen in front of him was too arrogant. If he could not survive the current situation, no matter how good his literary talent was, he would still be inferior to a scholar.

All the looks with different expressions fell on Yang Xuanchen's eyes.

He smiled slightly, it seems that this guy must pretend to the end today.