Chapter 996: The establishment of five houses to benefit the country
After a winter of cultivation and rest, the already vibrant Han Empire ushered in a vigorous spring, and a busy scene everywhere could no longer see any traces left by the smoke of wars in the past.
The former Wohu Agricultural Academy has been written by the emperor and renamed the Dahan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, ranking first among the colleges. The president is still the one who is obsessed with agricultural production increase. Don’t underestimate the position of the president. Zaozhi now enjoys ministerial treatment. When it comes to titles, he is also a dignified second-rank duke!
Zao Zhi enjoyed such a high title, but it was not because of his fame, but because of his real merits. After more than ten years of hard work, Zao Zhi forced the grain output of various parts of the Han Dynasty to triple. This is why although the Han Dynasty had wars for years, no one starved to death. Although some people were lost in the war, the population of the Han Dynasty increased by nearly ten million due to the bumper grain harvests on both sides of the Yellow River for many years.
In an era of extreme backward productivity, agriculture is the foundation and lifeline of the country. Zhao Xing attaches so much importance to agricultural production and gives Zao Zhi and his subordinates such high treatment to encourage and inspire them to always provide strong technical support and equipment support for the agricultural, animal husbandry, fishery and breeding industries of the Han Dynasty, and ensure that the Han Empire will not suffer from food crisis in the process of continuous expansion.
The Dahan Academy of Engineering was ranked behind the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, which was formerly the Hokkien Equipment Academy, and the president was Ma Jun, who was also the second-rank duke. Previously, Ma Jun's main energy was spent on studying how to create killing weapons, and occasionally involved some new equipment manufacturing related to people's livelihood, but it was still serving to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops. Now that the war gradually subsided, the equipment level of the Dahan army was enough to sweep across various countries abroad. Therefore, Ma Jun's main task now is to convert a series of advanced military technologies into civilian technologies, in order to contribute new wisdom and strength to the development and construction of the Dahan army.
The Academy of Engineering is similar to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. There are many branches below, each focusing on research and design work in a certain aspect. For example, the Department of Water Conservancy Engineering mainly studies rivers, lakes and seas, and how to make full use of water resources; the Department of Road Engineering mainly studies how to open mountains and build bridges and build strong and durable roads; the Department of Construction Engineering mainly studies how to build strong border defense facilities and towns suitable for human settlements; the Department of Mining Engineering mainly studies how to deeply excavate and exploit various mineral resources.
The third place is Dahan Business School, which was formerly the Agricultural Soldiers and Commercial Banks, Sihai Trade and Goods Stores, and Jinguo Business Association. The president was personally served by Mi Zhu, Minister of Finance of the Government Council. After so many years of corrections and influences, the people of Dahan have changed their attitudes towards those who do business, and no longer despise and look down on the people who do business as before. Emperor Xinghe once made a clear discussion on the huge role of commerce in the development and construction of the country. He said: "Agriculture is the basis for stabilizing the country, industry is the key to strengthening the country, and commerce is the way to enrich the country. Only when a country is rich can the people be strong. The vigorous development of agriculture and industry is inseparable from the lubricant and catalyst!"
Because the emperor attached great importance to business development and because ordinary people have gained huge benefits from rapid business activities over the years, even old scholars such as Cai Yong and Zhang Jian no longer think that there is anything wrong with the emperor paying attention to business. Children of ordinary families are naturally willing to apply for the promising Dahan Business School and become the financial management expert that the empire urgently needs in the future.
The fourth place is the Dahan Military Academy, which was predecessored by the Crouching Tiger Lecture Hall and the Crouching Tiger Young Class. The dean was personally served by the imperial emperor Zhao Xing. In the future, he was responsible for cultivating and training military command talents at all levels. Considering that the emperor had to do a lot of things, the Military Academy had several vice presidents to assist Zhao Xing in handling daily affairs. Those who were fortunate to become the vice presidents of the Military Academy were Gao Shun, Wang Lu, Xu Hui and Ma Su. Although their names were not as good as Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Guo Jia, Pang Tong and others, it was enough to preside over the daily work of the Military Academy according to Zhao Xing's idea of establishing the army.
Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Guo Jia, Pang Tong and others are now leading the army to expand westward. They can't come back for ten or eight years. Even if Zhao Xing wants them to serve as vice president, it can only be a decoration. It is better to arrange a few people who can do things in real life and seize the time to cultivate and reserve sufficient military command talents for the armies of the Western Expedition.
The students recruited by the Dahan Military Academy are divided into four levels. The top students must be the generals at the army level or above, mainly receiving personal teaching from Zhao Xing, learning military strategic ideas and some extremely important core military secrets; senior students are mainly targeting generals from the regiment level to the division level, mainly receiving teaching from the vice president and professional military instructors, and learning theoretical knowledge such as battle command; intermediate students are mainly targeting grassroots officers at the company and battalion level, learning tactical theories of cavalry, infantry, navy and other tactical fields, and skills such as primary battlefield command and daily military management; low-level students are targeting all ordinary soldiers. After cultural assessment, physical fitness assessment and practical inspection, the best soldiers are selected as alternate grassroots officers, and specializing in two-year concentrated education and training.
The former Youzhou Training Group, Wohu Training Group, Gaoping Training Group and Junqucheng Training Group were all assigned to the management of the Dahan Military Academy and became an affiliated organization of the academy, mainly responsible for routine training of ordinary soldiers.
According to Zhao Xing's idea, the dean of the Emperor's College will always be the emperor in the future. If the crown prince, as the crown prince, does not have outstanding military talents and cannot be competent for the position of the dean of the Military Academy, then he is likely to be kicked out of the throne heir. If the crown prince wants to have military talents to convince the Han military and civilians, he must enter the army and even lead troops to fight when he was young.
Don’t blame Zhao Xing for being so harsh to his descendants. If the person who inherited the throne of the empire was a cowardly and incompetent person, how could he control the super Han Empire that was about to span the world? As the guardian of the empire, the Han emperor must firmly control a powerful army and be able to mobilize and command this army to fight for the Han Dynasty at any time.
The one who ranks last is Dahan Academy of Sciences, which is equivalent to mixing future sociology and philosophy together. In theory, Zhao Xing should understand that philosophy is the foundation of various disciplines and should be ranked first, but Zhao Xing just listed it at the end. Why is this?
It was just because Zhao Xing felt that before solving the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation, he was talking about metaphysical things, and the content of metaphysical philosophical content was a bit nonsense. What made Zhao Xing even more afraid of was that schools such as Confucianism, metaphysics, and later Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism were not of much benefit to the development of the country and the happiness of the people's lives. Instead, it made a good country mess and eventually destroyed the country.
This is really not alarmist, there are living examples.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the classics were prevalent, and scholars and officials sat on the ground to discuss the truth, and the Han Dynasty was in vain. The Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was prevalent in the Song Dynasty, and the richest Song Dynasty at that time was destroyed by the Mongols who did not understand the bullshit Neo-Confucianism.
Work hard to revive the country, and talk nonsense! Zhao Xing tried his best to control the scale of the School of Science, and only let Cai Yong and Zhang Jian serve as vice presidents, and threw the theory of the mind of a great man in later generations to these two people, so that they could take a group of idle peddlers to think about it carefully. This is also the reason why Zhao Xing believed that "it is better to be loose than to block", and specially prepared a paradise for those who were afraid that the world would not be in chaos. Instead of letting all kinds of messy thoughts come out and disrupt the country and society, it is better to propose a theoretical destination that is difficult to overcome for everyone to discuss it, as long as it does not delay development and construction.
Wang Shouren's theory of mind is quite beneficial to the country and the people compared to Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. With its profoundness, it is enough for philosophers to discuss for many centuries but cannot draw conclusions. The reason is very simple. Lao Wang's core idea is to persuade people to "do good and eliminate evil" and thus achieve the state of "conscience".
People are all greedy and selfish. It is not easy to be able to "know good and evil". If you want to do good and evil in practice, you will need lifelong practice!
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