The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 2514 Attracting Talents

A few days later, the Jingguo Cabinet issued an official document, saying that since everyone is a human race, it is normal to pay compensation, but the compensation is too much, so the Jingguo Cabinet decided to invite some students from Qingguo to study in the new-style academy newly built in Jingguo, and all expenses will be deducted from the compensation.

As soon as this statement came out, all parts of the ten countries praised Jingguo and believed that Jingguo had done its best.

Not only did the voices in Qingguo who wanted to go to war with Jingguo disappear, but they also had an internal conflict over whether to go to Jingguo to study.

Most people believed that going to Jingguo to study would be a betrayal of one's ancestors and a shame to the ancestors of Qingguo, and they must not learn from Jingguo.

But a few people believed that if Qingguo wanted to surpass Jingguo, it must learn everything that was better, and only when Qingguo itself became strong could it be the root of everything.

Only a few people doubted Jingguo's intentions, but it did not attract attention.

However, scholars from various countries did not care much about the lives of Qingguo people, and soon focused all their attention on the new-style academy.

Gongdian personally took action, and the first batch of technical colleges had been built.

Five colleges, including the First Agricultural College, the First Engineering College, the First Medical College, the First Legal College, and the First Military College, have begun to send invitations to celebrities from all over the ten countries, and have even started to select the first batch of students in Jingguo, in preparation for the official opening of school on the first day of March next year.

While the new-style colleges are sending invitations to celebrities from all over the country, many engineers and scholars from all over the country have also received invitations from Yuhai City.

Because Yuhai City is not talented enough.

Under Fang Yun's guidance, many mechanisms and tools designed by Yuhai City have successfully attracted the sea tribe, and the number of sea tribes is extremely large, often with a large number of orders.

Jingguo's production capacity cannot keep up.

Most of the raw materials for these goods come from the ocean, so this is not a shortcoming.

However, there are not enough workshops, too few high-level engineers and scholars, and too few skilled workers.

Although Gongdian fully supports Jingguo, it is impossible to poach people from various countries. It has sent all the talents that Qingguo and Guguo can control to Jingguo, but it is far from enough.

Therefore, Jingguo could only find a way on its own.

Talent investment has become the biggest means for Jingguo to attract scholars from all over the country.

Although Gongdian did not explicitly help Jingguo in this regard, it allowed Fang Yun to use the authority of Xusheng to transfer archives of various countries from Gongdian, allowing Jingguo to select technical talents from various countries very accurately, and then offer generous conditions.

Many scholars from Gongjia are contradictory. On the one hand, they want to get more wealth, but on the other hand, they want to improve on Gongjia's holy way.

However, people's abilities and energy are limited. Once they pursue wealth, they have to give up the consumption of holy way for themselves and their families. And once they pursue the holy way, they will also abandon a lot.

Skills and Tao are not contradictory in themselves, but people who pursue skills and Tao often find it difficult to balance the two.

Jingguo has a better understanding of many Gongjia scholars with the archives of Gongdian. Those who like money are promised high salaries, and those who like the holy way are provided with conditions for deep research on Gongjia technology. Those who want both are provided with double guarantees.

After a few days, the top leaders of various countries found that a large number of workers and scholars had left their countries, and many of them even left with their families.

All countries immediately conducted a strict investigation and soon found that the destination of those workers and scholars was Yuhai City. They immediately realized that Jingguo was snatching talents, so they secretly used means to prevent those workers from leaving.

However, most of these countries could not put forward conditions as high as Yunhai, so talents from various countries were still lost.

All countries also tried to forcibly intercept people going to Yuhai City, but Jingguo directly arranged water monsters to escort them, and they took the water route all the way, giving no opportunity for countries to take advantage of them.

So, some officials couldn't help but scold Jingguo for being despicable and shameless on the discussion board.

However, the scholars of various countries did not blame Jingguo for this, but instead accused the countries of being incompetent and unable to retain talents. They should reflect on themselves, why many people would rather drag their families across the ocean to go to an unknown and strange place.

Then, all countries united to put pressure on Jingguo.

After discussion, the cabinet of Jingguo compromised and decided to establish a joint workshop with various countries in Yuhai City, seconding a group of talents from various countries every three years, and the income of the workshop was distributed according to a certain ratio, while technology was shared. Jingguo also promised to try not to attract talents from various countries.

At the beginning, the countries disagreed.

However, the countries forgot that many big families and big businessmen had many workshops, workers and scholars under their command. What they valued most was not the loss of national talents, but money and technology.

Therefore, big businessmen and big families from all over the country directly bypassed the courts of various countries and cooperated with Jingguo.

The matter was done, and the countries had no choice but to agree to cooperate with Jingguo.

Under Fang Yun's conscious control, the technical exchanges of the ten countries began to accelerate, and the overall strength of the human race began to increase, but Jingguo gained more benefits.

The final verdict of the Dingfu Rebellion was soon announced.

King Kang was found guilty of harboring traitors, and his entire family was executed.

Among the tens of thousands of officials and runners in Dingfu, 34 of them were beheaded with their entire families, and the rest were either executed, exiled to ancient places and never allowed to return, sent to the frontier, or transferred to other places to grow crops.

All those who were bribed by King Kang to participate in the looting and burning, the 77 leaders were beheaded with their entire families, and the rest were all executed.

The execution ground in Dingfu City was filled with blood and gas, and every household in Dingfu City closed its doors.

It took three full days for the bloody smell lingering in Dingfu City to dissipate.

On the day of the execution of the culprit of the Dingfu Rebellion, the Strict Strike Division listed a long list of many families in Jingguo. Behind each family, the serious crimes committed by the important figures of this family were marked.

There were a total of 106 families on the list, including a wealthy family.

This list frightened the whole country.

Jingguo only had five states and one capital, and there were only more than 2,000 families that could be called families. Today, so many families were sentenced at once, and all of them were severely punished. There were many important figures such as the head of the family being directly executed, and they were often exiled to the border. This was unprecedented in the history of the human race.

Most of these families participated in the siege of the Jingguo Palace and local government offices, and many families were convicted of treason and rebellion.

In short, 106 families completely disappeared from Jingguo.

Afterwards, the Strict Strike Division announced that from now on, some families would be allowed to confess their crimes on their own initiative. Those who confessed would be treated leniently, and those who resisted would be treated severely. The Strict Strike Division would appropriately reduce the punishment. If they still resisted after ten days, the crime would be aggravated.

Obviously, the Strict Strike Division believed that the disappearance of 106 families was enough to shock everyone, and there was no need to continue using such drastic measures. Next, maintaining the stability of Jing State was the top priority.

The measures taken by the Strict Strike Division and the Criminal Court frightened many family heads, and many family heads even went to various government offices overnight, knelt down and confessed their crimes. Some family heads even wrote a confession letter, pressed their fingerprints, and then committed suicide at home.