Chen Yuan originally asked Ouyang Xiu to take the first place winner this time as a student, but Ouyang Xiu was happy and beaten up his chest and he wanted all the top three.

The people at the dinner table roughly calculated that there were about 30,000 students in Bianjing, and the number of people who signed up should be around 10,000, which destined that the competition would be conducted in two stages.

First, in the preliminary round, two thousand outstanding contestants were selected from the registered children, and these contestants would receive the "pens and ink fee" of three taels of silver provided to them by Chen Yuan.

Then one hundred outstanding children will be generated among the two thousand children. These hundred people will be provided by Chen Yuan to ensure all the fees from now on to the completion of their studies.

Finally, the ten best children were decided from one hundred people. These ten children will become the disciples of these famous scholars of the Song Dynasty invited by Chen Yuan today and receive their special guidance. If they are cold students, this step means that their lives will change.

Moreover, in order to encourage the school to take the cultivation of excellent students as its own responsibility and send truly capable children to competitions. Without looking at their nationality, name, and skin, the school where these ten children are located can still receive a considerable amount of "education funds" because their children won awards.

Chen Yuan told Ouyang Xiu that he wanted to use this matter as an opportunity to change the current situation of children studying in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty has not yet implemented the education method, and many children cannot enter the school at all.

Take Bianjing as an example. Bianjing now has a population of about 800,000, and the number of school-age children is about 100,000, but less than 30% of them actually enter the school.

There are many reasons for this. In the Song Dynasty, studying and becoming an official was something that people yearn for. Now the residents of the Song Dynasty basically don’t worry about the little tuition fees of their children, but as ordinary families, they are still used to letting their children make money early.

On the other hand, the shortcomings of the school also played a limiting role. Chen Yuan wanted to change all this, but he understood that this was a larger and more lasting project. He had to start slowly from bit by bit and gradually improve the education system of the Song Dynasty.

Children are the future of the Song Dynasty, and they must make the future of the Song Dynasty one step ahead.

This time it is just a competition of calligraphy. In the future, Chen Yuanhui will set up a special fund, and such activities will be more and more frequent, held once a year, and the scope will be wider and wider. We will strive to cover the entire Song Dynasty within five years. Let sending children to study becomes a matter for everyone in the Song Dynasty. Let sending children to school to study becomes a dream for all people with conditions in the surrounding countries.

This is probably something that has never happened since ancient times, and the people invited by Chen Yuan were also very happy that they could participate in this matter.

This matter was jointly organized by these academies, with Chen Yuan providing funds and prizes, and Ouyang Xiu was responsible for finding some calligraphy masters to take charge of the review.

After the future was resolved, Chen Yuan began to prepare to solve the problem of the Liao Kingdom. He has now set his sights on the Arab region. Sima Guang was right. If the problem of the Liao Kingdom is not solved, the Song Dynasty would not be suitable for intervening in a more arduous war. Before he stepped into Arabia, Chen Yuan must ensure stability in the rear.

Solving the Liao Kingdom is also to solve the problem of Goryeo in the last step. Chen Yuan initially believed that solving Goryeo was an easy thing, and just sending troops to go there. However, the news from Li Wei was not optimistic.

Although those bāngzi dared not say anything about the control of the Song Dynasty, their small actions continued to be done. Later, Chen Yuan found the fundamental reason, that is, the existence of the Liao Kingdom was a glimmer of hope in bāngzi's heart, or in other words, it was the main factor that the situation in Goryeo could not be stabilized.

Why did Korea surrender to China and become a vassal in China only in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties? Why did Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty destroy Goguryeo, and the Anton Guardian established could not achieve effective control of the Korean Peninsula? Because once problems arise in the northern border, the connection between the Central Plains and Goryeo will be immediately interrupted, and the maritime channels of this era are simply unable to achieve control of the Korean Peninsula.

In fact, the problem of the Liao Kingdom is very simple now. Yelu Niegulu has 400,000 cavalry in his hands, but he has nothing but the 400,000 cavalry.

These 400,000 cavalry were like a sharp knife. Although the blade was shining, Yelu Niegulu had no strength to wield. Chen Yuan had seen the information collected by the Liao Kingdom. In this winter, more than 100,000 people starved to death in the entire Liao Kingdom.

When the Song Dynasty marched, the Khitans fled north. In their opinion, it was happiness to escape. If they could not escape, they would definitely be killed by the Song army. But what surprised them was that the Song army did not launch a massacre against the Khitans. On the contrary, those who were slower and did not run away lived much happier than them under the rule of the Song Dynasty.

If anyone can find their relatives who were originally staying in the Song Dynasty and get help from their relatives, it means they don’t have to starve to death.

Yelu Niegulu is now counting on the chance to breathe in this summer after the chuntian comes.

Chen Yuan would not give him this opportunity. If the Song Dynasty wants to fight and is willing to pay some price, Yelu Nie Gulu has no hope at all. But Chen Yuan doesn't want to play the game so simply now. Not only does he want to defeat his opponent, he also hopes to get the knife in Yelu Nie Gulu's hand

If Chen Yuan had hope to go to Arabia to fight for 400,000 cavalry, then this number would be enough for him. If he wanted to snatch the knife from Yelu Niegulu's hands, he had to use the two pieces Xiao Tali and Yelu Hongji.

Are they willing to use it for themselves?

Xiao Talisman's expression was a little decadent. Bai Yutang told Chen Yuan that when they found Xiao Talisman, the man was locked in a dungeon by Yelu Niegulu. The dungeon was dark and wet, and the bed bugs and cockroaches inside were visible to the door.

These are nothing. Yelu Niegulu locked Xiao Tali in a large prison cell. In that room, there were more than a dozen men. Xiao Tali was eating, drinking, urinating and sleeping with these men all day long.

The men in those prisons are short of NV people, and the long-term detention must have made those people feel a little perverted. Chen Yuan really admires Yelu Niegulu, who can come up with such an idea. This is really more painful than killing Xiao Ta. No one can imagine what she has experienced in the prison.

Bai yùtang said to Chen Yuan softly that when they rescued Xiao Talis, she was like a lunatic. Even her mind was not normal until now.

This is not good news for Chen Yuan. Is the more than 20 heroes of the Song Dynasty just replaced an NV person who was useless to him? When Chen Yuan saw Xiao Talis for the first time, he could no longer find the former queen mother. When he took a step forward in Xiao Talis, Xiao Talis actually had a slight, subconscious dodging action, as if he was afraid that Chen Yuan would hurt her, but the action was so helpless, as if she knew that dodging was useless at all.

Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment and stood in his own footsteps: "Empress Dowager, don't be afraid, no one here will bully you."
Chapter completed!