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Chapter 297: A Small Meeting Leads to a Big Event
The following court meeting was mainly about the Grand Tutor instructing all places to resume production as soon as possible and promote high-yield crops. As for those princes who came to Luoyang, he naturally would not kill them, but directly replace them!

For example, Gongsun Zan was transferred from Beiping to Xiliang, and Ma Teng was transferred from Xiliang to Liaodong.

Taking half a step forward is a genius, taking one step forward is a madman. The current productivity of the Han Dynasty makes it impossible for him to carry out drastic reforms, even with the funding from the urban plane.

After all, it is complete nonsense to rely solely on urban planes to supply tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.

Besides, even if we directly launch the so-called colonialism and want to dominate the world, there are not so many people right now, right?

Nowadays, there are only more than 50 million people in the whole world, not to mention America and Europe. Even Zhejiang is considered Shanyue, northern Hebei is Wuhuan, and Gansu is even called Xiqiang!
By the way, the so-called southern barbarians are actually our cousins from Yunnan and Guizhou!

I can only say that those people on the Internet who are always wanting to colonize the whole world are just making up their minds on the spur of the moment ideas. Unless all the Han people are now directly promoted to become cultivators, it would be the limit for them to occupy most of the area of the Mesopotamian Basin with just these 50 million bases.

Of course, we can also learn from the Tang Dynasty and directly recruit foreigners to expand the population, but if a country’s foreign population exceeds the main ethnic group, that is definitely not a good thing, right?

Therefore, Li Qingyuan’s most important task now is to expand the population. With a larger population, he can naturally expand outward.

As soon as the eunuch shouted to adjourn the court, the little emperor ran away. He wanted to go back to play games!

The vast majority of court officials began to retreat. They came to the meeting just to get full attendance and create an atmosphere. Ninety-nine percent of them were there just to make up the numbers.

Soon, there were only a few people left in the huge Xuanzheng Hall, and this was when the formal topic of the meeting began.

As the saying goes, people talk nonsense in big meetings and talk business in small meetings. The few who stay behind are the core figures who truly dominate the Han Dynasty.

"Brother Ciming, the promotion of planting nationwide is now in your hands. No one is allowed to interfere. However, there is no need to force anyone to do anything. You just need to ensure that each state and county has a test field!"

Human nature is to seek profit, avoid harm, be greedy and selfish. If the charges were directly levied in the name of the court, many people would probably think that the court wanted to kill them.

But if only certain people were allowed to grow high-yield crops privately, then there would be no need for the court to publicize it, as those farmers who worked in the fields all year round would naturally try every possible means to steal the seeds.

Everyone thinks that farmers are ignorant, but they don’t think about it: if these ignorant farmers were truly ignorant, could they survive?
"The Grand Master has good intentions, and it is a blessing for the world!"

Xun Shuang quickly stood up and thanked him. Although the Xun family has always advocated loyalty to the emperor and the country, and should distance themselves from evil leaders like Li Qingyuan who are bringing disaster to the country and the people, what the other party has done is indeed beneficial to the world, so Xun Shuang also admires him sincerely.

After all, once this kind of grain that produces dozens of stones per mu is promoted, it is obvious that the Han Dynasty will experience a boom in both economy and population!
"Wenhe, how is Hongwenguan doing now?"

After explaining the most important issue of food, Li Qingyuan then asked Jia Xu.

"We have enrolled more than 800 children of school age, and are currently teaching them measurement and official documents! But every day there are always people who want to send their children in, and I really can't refuse!" Jia Xu was a little distressed. His current identity was the deputy director of Hongwenguan, and his daily task was to teach a bunch of little kids to write, which really exhausted him.

Jia Xu said that he originally just wanted to find a job with little work, high pay and close to home, but why is he so busy like a top every day?

But he also knew that all the students of Hongwenguan would be sent out to serve as officials in the future. As long as he could teach them through a few years, all the states and counties in the Han Dynasty would be his students. As the deputy director, wouldn't he be able to take off immediately?

To be honest, it was only because Li Qingyuan held the title of the museum owner, otherwise Jia Xu would really be afraid that he would be killed suddenly one day.

After all, this network of contacts is really terrifying and scary!
"If someone wants to send them, let them come. We just don't have enough people right now. But remember to give priority to the children of military families. As long as they can pass the assessment, they will be allowed in!"

Naturally, Li Qingyuan would not implement compulsory education in the Han Dynasty. The main source of students for Hongwenguan was the military households under his command. Anyone who had military merit and reached the rank of Dubo, or platoon leader, was eligible to recommend one of his own sons or nephews to study at Hongwenguan. As long as they graduated from Hongwenguan, they could be directly awarded an eighth-rank official position!

Everyone talks about the seventh rank as a minor official, but in fact, the seventh or eighth rank is almost a ceiling that ordinary people can hardly reach in their lifetime!

Haven’t you seen that even those aristocratic families who originally disdained the Hongwenguan are now trying to find ways to squeeze their younger generations in!
Although the Eastern Han Dynasty implemented the system of recommendation, it seemed that every major family had the right to appoint officials at will, but in fact, even for top families like the Yuan family, the number of positions that could be appointed each year was quite limited.

Besides, since Li Qingyuan came to power, although the recommendation system was not directly abolished, the number of places was further reduced, causing the nobles who used to look down on Jia Xu to have to lower their face and ask him for help through the back door.

As for resistance?
Now the morale of the army under Li Qingyuan is absolutely strong. No matter it is for the land or the future of their offspring, they will definitely kill indiscriminately. They are worried that they can't find military merit. Who with a hole in his brain dares to seek death at this time?
"Fengxiao, have you finished the research you were asked to do?"

After finishing talking about the important things, Li Qingyuan asked the young man standing next to him.

That’s right, this young man is the newly recruited Guo Jia Guo Fengxiao, who is also known as the wisest man of the Three Kingdoms in Douyin.

But no matter whether Guo Jia really has the ability or is just bragging, Li Qingyuan thinks he should use it first.

"Reporting to the Grand Master, bamboo charcoal paper and Xuanhua paper have been produced, the curved plow is being tested, and coal detoxification and refined salt production have also made some progress, but wool weaving is still a mystery!"

Guo Jia replied quickly.

Although his official position now is only a general manager, everyone knows that those who are qualified to stay here will definitely be the pillars of the country in the future.

Didn’t you see that Xun Shuang begged and pleaded to keep Xun Yu and Xun You here?
Moreover, Guo Jia used to think that he was a genius, but after receiving a book called "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" from the Grand Tutor, he realized that he was too ignorant before!

(End of this chapter)