Great Zhou Empress

Xue Zhijing called some shopkeepers of Shengfeng Bank and the gentlemen from the School of Economics of the Royal Comprehensive University for a meeting, and she was going to do a big thing.

Everyone gave her a reassurance. After years of training, these shopkeepers and gentlemen are already very proficient in finance. They quickly calculated how much money this matter will cost and how to operate it is more appropriate.

After they left, Xue Zhijing called the walkers from the Military Aircraft Department for a meeting.

Now, the walkers in the Military Aircraft Department have each taken a real position in the center, and it is more beneficial to control the court through the Military Aircraft Department.

"High-speed waterway construction?"

"Construction of expressway?"

However, although the walkers in the Military Aircraft Department are young, they still can't keep up with Xue Zhijing's thinking speed.Xue Zhijing is like a person who has been running all the time, she always has a hunting wind on her body, but her core courtiers want to run for a while and rest for a while, and take a look at the scenery by the way.

"The unfavorable traffic conditions are an important reason for the shackles of commercial development. At the same time, it will also be detrimental to the connection of the entire country. It takes as long as one month to go from the northernmost to the southernmost of our country. The decree of Bianjing City goes out to the border, It will take half a month at the fastest, and this time is too slow. Information is everything, we have a solution now, why can’t we solve it.”

Xue Zhijing greeted the students of the Engineering College to bring two models.

The students' hands-on speed is extremely fast. Half a month ago, Xue Zhijing called them over, dictated to them two things he wanted, and drew a sketch on paper. Soon, the clever students quickly gave She sent it, and after two revisions, it's perfect now.

Xue Zhijing put it in the study of Jianzhang Palace, and watched it day and night, and now he showed it to his courtiers.

The first model is a model of a waterway. There is a straight waterway in the middle of the sand table, with a few exquisite boats in the middle. There are two railings at both ends of the waterway, and there are docks and other things beside it.

"In our dynasty, water transportation was the most important mode of transportation. I believe you all know that Bianjing City is a capital city that thrives on water transportation. I decided to build more waterways in my dynasty and expand the places where there were originally waterways. To deepen, and to build canals in cities and towns without water channels, it is necessary to build a network of water channels extending in all directions.”

Xue Zhijing's loud words were indeed very exciting, but some officials asked worriedly, "Your Majesty, the construction of waterways is naturally a good thing, but since ancient times, such a large-scale project not only consumes a lot of money, but also requires a lot of people's resources. , it is time to recuperate, such a big project may affect the foundation of the dynasty."

Xue Zhijing nodded, this is a steady and upright courtier.

"That's right, if the imperial court pays for this kind of funds, and let the people build it in the form of labor, it will easily shake the foundation of the dynasty. Therefore, my idea is to invest in the construction in the form of private funds."

All the courtiers: "???"

Xue Zhijing really likes how her group of young courtiers look at her like ignorant students look at their teachers. It is estimated that deep down in her heart, what she most wants to be is the teacher of the school.

"I have discussed the specific operation method with the treasurers of Shengfeng Bank and the gentlemen of the School of Economics of the Royal Comprehensive University. The government of each state hired the design team of the School of Engineering of the Royal Comprehensive University to carry out the local terrain and the original waterway conditions. Survey, put forward a construction plan, and then submit the fundraising plan to Shengfeng Bank, through which funds will be raised from across the country, and investors will get benefits after the waterway is completed. Such waterways will return funds in the form of segmented fees. "

Essentially speaking, it is to borrow money from big families across the country. After the waterway is built, the fee will be charged and the income will be obtained in proportion to the borrowed money.

The goods that need to be transported by waterways are basically bulk goods. There is no other alternative transportation plan for such bulk goods transport. It is more expensive and time-consuming to use horse-drawn carriages to travel by land, so I am not afraid that if there are no merchant ships to use these waterways, the income will be different. But definitely not without benefits.

At the same time, using the School of Engineering to conduct survey planning and design will also avoid the construction of useless waterways in some remote areas, and hosting the fundraising work through Shengfeng Bank will also avoid corruption in some local state capitals.

Seeing that the courtiers expressed their approval, Xue Zhijing showed them the second model.

This model is a model Xue Zhijing likes very much. It looks like a toy train from later generations, traveling on a revolving train track that has been built.

But this train does not have a locomotive, and there are two wooden horses in place of the locomotive.

It's so delicate and beautiful.

"The current land transportation in this dynasty mainly relies on horse-drawn carts and ox carts. The speed of ox carts is slow, mostly for short distances, and horse-drawn carts for long distances. However, the efficiency of horse-drawn carts is low. Two to four horses can only pull one carriage, and the land road is winding. , one day can only travel two to three hundred miles. And this fast horse track is to increase one carriage to three, four or more carriages, and increase the number of horses to six, eight or more than ten horses. At the same time, add a straight track so that the car can run in the track. In this way, it can not only avoid the bumps of ordinary land roads, increase the speed, but also maintain stability. If it is built straight, it can solve the waste of time caused by twists and turns .”

In fact, Xue Zhijing thought that it would be nice to have a train, but from steam engine to locomotive, there is still a long development process, and it is not something she can think of.But if such a track is established, it may stimulate the Engineering College or Gong Xuyang to develop the locomotive.

This expressway is actually very meaningful. There are many water systems in the south of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Naturally, the waterways are better, but the further north you go, the precipitation is scarce. If you build waterways, you probably don’t know where to divert water.But the terrain in the north is flat, and if roads are built, they can extend straight to the sky. Building such a track may really allow the transportation speed to travel thousands of miles a day.

When practicing archery with Xiao Liege in the afternoon, Xue Zhijing told her about what she told the courtiers today, Xiao Liege was also a little curious, after hearing Xue Zhijing finished speaking, she said, "We don't have any archery in Liao Kingdom. For such a demand, the grassland is too vast, and the speed of horse racing is the fastest.”

Xue Zhijing smiled, "Different places have different construction methods, but we are short of wood in Dazhou. If we want to build a fast carriageway, we will import wood from your Liao country."

"How lucky?"

"I leased a port in the area controlled by the Shiwei tribe in the eastern part of your Liao Kingdom. When the time comes, you can ship it from there and ship it directly to sea. If there is a large amount of use in the future, I can even build a factory there. Roughly process the wood. Then you people from Liao Kingdom can come to work in my factory."

Xiao Liege had a weird face, and then turned red, "Xue Zhijing! When did you rent a port in the backyard of my Liao Kingdom?"

Xue Zhijing: "..."

It's over, didn't I tell her?

Xue Zhijing was a little embarrassed, and said with a dry smile, "No, when we confronted each other along the Huaihe River last time, I didn't send a marine corps."

"What Marine Corps? You tied up a bunch of straw men to lie to me!" Xiao Liege was so angry that he started to turn over old scores.

"Baby, soldiers never tire of cheating, don't they?"

"Go away! Tell me, what's the matter with your port?"

"Didn't the Marine Corps scare you to retreat last time, so I asked the Shiwei tribe to sell them a bunch of weapons, but the Shiwei tribe is poor, and there is nothing to buy, so I let someone rent it out." A port has been established as a condition. As such, the current utilization rate is also very small.”

"You still want to have a high utilization rate?"

Xiao Liege jumped up and wanted to pinch her, "Xue Zhijing! I want to go back to my country! I want to bring soldiers over to beat you."

Xiao Liege rushed over and directly threw Xue Zhijing to the ground.

Fortunately, the place where the two of them practiced their arrows was a piece of soft grass, and it didn't hurt if they fell down. Xiao Liege rushed over to beat her up, but when his hand fell, he kneaded Xue Zhijing's face again. Bun-shaped.

"Ah! I'm so mad, Xue Zhijing, what else are you hiding from me?"

"Well, not anymore." Xue Zhijing's face was crumpled, and his voice changed.

"Hurry up and withdraw from that port for me. I didn't agree to your lease, and you are not allowed to lease it."

"Baby, I rented it from the Shiwei tribe, so I have to talk to them."

"The Shiwei tribe is a territory of my Liao Kingdom, and they have to listen to what I say."

Finally, Xiao Liege stopped rubbing her face, the two sat up, Xue Zhijing opened his mouth, changed his articulate position back to the original position, and said with a sigh, "Hey, I didn't say, you Liao Kingdom The control of the border is too weak, I think the leased port is still reserved, if your eastern tribe rebels in the future, I will start from there and help you attack back and forth, how about it?"

"Do you tube!"

"..."

The three-year compulsory education will be piloted first in Bianjing City and its surrounding areas.

After all, it is right under her nose, and Xue Zhijing also needs to take a close look at whether her idea can be truly implemented in this era.

The preliminary preparations are mainly simple. She first sent out the demand for recruiting teachers to the whole country. No matter male or female, as long as you have knowledge and pass the exam after registration, you can become a teacher.

Although such teachers are different from officials with imperial examination backgrounds, they are recruited by the Empress after all. It is naturally better to work for the Empress than to work for others, and there are many candidates.

Among them, most of them are middle-aged or elderly scholars. They have no hope in the scientific examination and can only live in idleness. However, if they can pass the examination, they have far surpassed the talents of most people, so most of them usually live in their hometown or clan. He runs a school in middle school and makes a living by teaching.

In addition, there are also some older women. They or the men in the family cannot earn enough to work and are widows at all. But they are basically scholars or daughters of wealthy families, so they have the opportunity to go to school. On weekdays, most of them are hired by rich families to teach their daughters to read.

Xue Zhijing does not have high requirements for these elementary school teachers. After all, this is the beginning of compulsory education. The starting point is too high to start. She only requires these teachers to be able to read and write, with neat handwriting, to be able to speak Mandarin, and to be able to explain the most basic enlightenment. What are the readings about.It would be even better if I can learn some mathematics, physics and chemistry, can sing and dance, or be humorous.

So most of the people who came to take the exam had a primary school teacher's staff. Xue Zhijing was happy, and they were also very happy.

The rest is the classroom.

Xue Zhijing activated the trick she used when building the Royal Comprehensive University in Jiankang City, asking wealthy families to donate houses or money. If they donate houses, they can name the school "Dazhou Public So-and-so Primary School", This so-and-so is the name of the donor.

If there is really no one to donate, the original local school will be leased, such as the yard of the local scholar's home where the class used to be, or the house originally provided by the village.

With such an easy method, teachers and classrooms are ready in no time.

What is more troublesome is the unified teaching materials and unified teaching plan, as well as the requirement to enroll all school-age children.

Xue Zhijing invited the gentlemen from the Royal Comprehensive University and the members of the Military Aircraft Department to discuss it together.They are all cultural people, they have received enlightenment education since they were young, and they have put forward a lot of opinions.

For children's enlightenment, enlightenment books are indeed enough. Works such as "Thousand Characters" can not only allow students to recognize characters, but also allow them to learn the truth of what it tells.

Therefore, several enlightenment books were selected. The basic requirement of the course is to ensure that after three years of compulsory education, students can read and write, understand edicts, and be able to tell the stories provided in the enlightenment books.

In addition, Xue Zhijing also put forward requirements for students to learn "mathematics", "national history" and a small amount of knowledge of astronomy and geography, but these enlightenment books need to be rewritten.

But for primary school students who are being enlightened, such knowledge does not need to be overly complicated. The masters of the Royal Comprehensive University and the students studied together, and soon came up with a set of preliminary plans, and Xue Zhijing made some adjustments.

"Mathematics" has added a lot of pictures, entertaining and entertaining.

"National History" starts from the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty, interspersed with a lot of knowledge of astronomy and geography, the main purpose is to convey a unified national concept to elementary school students.

As for astronomy and geography, it is more like a book that talks about pictures.

Xue Zhijing also asked people to make many national flags, which were the Panlong flags that were scattered throughout the city of Bianjing when he was enthroned. He asked every elementary school to raise the national flag and sing the national anthem every morning.

Some of Xue Zhijing's requests were quite special, but everyone was used to their empress doing things differently from others, and it was not difficult to do, so they all complied seriously.

After they are ready, they will conduct unified training for these new elementary school teachers. The venue will be arranged at the Royal Comprehensive University. These teachers will not only learn to conduct enlightenment education according to the unified teaching plan, but also learn what they are familiar with Unfamiliar mathematics and other miscellaneous subjects.

At the same time, they also need to learn some new rules. For example, every quarter, members of the assessment department will go down to assess their teaching results. If they dare to teach not seriously, or be lazy, they will be punished.

Finally, after the new year, nearly [-] primary schools in Bianjing and its surrounding towns started school at the same time.

Together, Xue Zhijing and Xiao Liege specially left Bianjing City, picked a direction at random, and went to a village to see the opening of the local elementary school today.

Just in time, when they arrived, they were raising the national flag and singing the national anthem.

Standing outside the low wall of the yard, Xue Zhijing and Xiao Liege saw dozens of children of different heights standing in the loess yard. They were all wearing uniform gray clothes with "Da Zhou Elementary School" printed on the back. "Four words.

"This clothes is a big expense," Xue Zhijing said to Xiao Liege, "but it is of great significance. First, it allows the poor people at the bottom to send their children to school for the extra clothes. Second, they can wear uniform clothes. The children have a collective feeling. Everyone can remember that there is such a primary school when they see the four words on their backs. After a long time, they can send their children here. "

"Is this the meaning of raising the national flag and singing the national flag?" Xiao Liege asked.

"Basically, it's all about giving the children a sense of collective identity." Xue Zhijing smiled.

Xiao Liege was a little silent, probably thinking of the Liao Kingdom.

At this moment, a group of barefoot little girls ran over from behind. They came and lay on the wall of the school, looking at the children in the school with some envy.

Xue Zhijing frowned slightly. Although she never thought that all the school-age children would be able to enroll on the first day of school, she still felt uncomfortable seeing the children who were eager to enroll but could not.

"Children, what are your names? Why didn't you go to school?" Xue Zhijing asked the children around him, bending slightly.

The children were a little timid, but seeing Xue Zhijing was kind, the older girl at the head said, "We have to work at home, and there is no shortage of people in the family. For example, I have to herd cattle, and my second sister has to take care of just My younger brother was born, my family sent my third brother to school alone."

Most of the other girls said the same way. It sounds like most of them need someone to work at home, so at most one or two boys are sent to this elementary school.

Xue Zhijing was a little angry, yes, the idea was beautiful, but it was still not good enough to implement it in specific places.If there are four children in each family, only one child will go to school, and the enrollment rate is 20.00%, which is far from what I expected, and most of them exclude girls.

Xue Zhijing greeted the guards and said, "Go, call the gentry and elders from this village, and Lizheng, too."

It seems that I have to talk to the officials at the bottom. What I want is a 80.00% school attendance rate. Even if there is a discount, it must be [-]%. Otherwise, the literacy rate will still not be improved in the future. How can I achieve greater goals in the future? .

Zhao Wutong put on makeup for Yan Yi.

In fact, she was not very satisfied with her makeup skills, and felt that the painting was a bit ugly, so she made Yan Yi's very appearance ugly by five points, but she has a handicap, so she really can't draw better, let's make do with it.

Yan Yi looked at herself at the water basin.

His hair was messed up and tied into a masculine look.Zhao Wutong's eyebrows were thickened for her, like a strong man who has been farming for many years in the countryside, and Zhao Wutong smeared some kind of paint on his face, making his complexion dull and gray, as if he had been sick for many years, and it was even uglier. What's more, she also had a thick mole on her face.

Ouch, it's so ugly, I can't bear to look directly at it.

Zhao Wutong also giggled and wrapped Yan Yi's chest tightly with cloth strips, patted her chest after wrapping it up, and praised, "The chest muscles are quite strong."

Yan Yi: "..."

Going out, the two look like a couple who have been tortured by wind and sand for many years in the countryside.

Walking all the way to the coastline, although Yan Qi was calm, she was injured after all, and felt tired after walking for a while, and her eyes were a little hard to open. Zhao Wutong had no choice but to find a bullock cart.

She didn't dare to ride in a carriage or ride a horse, it was too conspicuous.

In this way, the two of them successfully escaped countless searches.

No matter how much your hunted portrait looks like a real person, the real person is no longer like yourself, how can you still find it.

Yan Qi asked Zhao Wutong countless times if he could let him go, but Zhao Wutong refused.

Yan Qi's physical condition at this time does not allow her to use all her strength to escape directly, not to mention that she also understands that life-saving grace must always be repaid, and she cannot leave easily.

"But I said, why are you going to assassinate the emperor?"