"However, such a large territory needs a lot of talents to manage well!”
Ying Zheng pondered for a long time, then threw out another question.
The reason why he had been so eager to find talents was because Great Qin lacked talents.
Currently, many of the local officials in the Great Qin Empire, even the main officials of the prefectures and counties, had been promoted from Generals to civilian officials.
Even though they were loyal to Great Qin, their ability to govern was mixed, and some people did not know whether to laugh or cry.
For example, there was a county in Julu Prefecture that was suffering from a drought. The county magistrate had reported to the court for assistance.
In the end, when the internal historian asked how much money and grain were needed, the county magistrate and the county governor could not figure it out. In the end, Neishi Teng had no choice but to send a Taicang order to help.
There were also some officials who couldn't even memorize the Qin Law and relied on subjective judgment to try cases, causing many disputes.
There were too many examples.
Meng Yi nodded in agreement.
As an Imperial Censor and one of the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers, Meng Yi had actually assisted Ying Zheng in handling many court affairs, and was also the one who had been cheated the most.
"If you want to have more talents, you have to start a civil war, but this isn't easy in Great Qin!”
Meng Yi bitterly smiled.
Fu Su frowned.
After thinking about it for a while, he understood the problem Great Qin faced.
That was, although a hundred schools of thought were allowed to contend, it did not restrict the spread of culture.
However, it was not easy for ordinary people to learn knowledge.
The first problem was the material used to record the text.
Nowadays, there was no cheap paper, and only bamboo slips and silk were used to record words. Among them, silk was very expensive and could even be used as currency.
Although bamboo slips were easy to obtain, they needed to go through many processes to record words. The price was not acceptable to ordinary people.
Moreover, the bamboo slips still had a very serious problem.
It was too heavy.
Great Qin had an idiom that described people with extraordinary knowledge, which was called the Five Carts of Learning.
In reality, based on Fu Su's understanding, the five carriages of bamboo slips could only record about 100,000 to 200,000 words.
In the future, it was the number of words in a slightly thicker book.
Therefore, if he wanted to promote literature and nurture talents, the improvement of writing materials was the first priority.
However, this was not difficult for Fu Su.
In his previous life, Fu Su had seen the process of handmade Xuan paper when he was traveling. With his powerful memory, he could recall it very quickly.
As long as the ratio of materials was improved, it could create cheap and useful paper.
The printing process was even simpler.
The principle behind movable type printing was actually very simple. It was even easier to master than paper making.
What made things difficult for Fu Su was Great Qin's education system.
The Great Qin Empire was currently implementing Li Si's idea of 'using officials as teachers and laws as teachers'.
To put it simply, the Imperial Court would train a group of officials who were familiar with the laws of Qin to spread the contents of the laws to the people of Great Qin and the officials at the lower levels, strengthening the education of the laws.
Apart from that, Great Qin did not have any official schools, only some private schools run by the Confucians.
If Great Qin's residents wanted to learn, they could only go to the schools run by the Confucians or join the Hundred Schools.
But now, most of the commoners did not even have enough to eat, how could they afford to pay the tuition fees, and there was not much chance of being chosen by the hundred schools.
As for the merchants, they could afford the school fees.
However, due to various reasons, the status of Great Qin's merchants was extremely low. Even if they learned knowledge, it would be very difficult for them to enter the Imperial Court, so they would not delve into knowledge.
Moreover, the scholars these days all studied the Six Arts of a Gentleman and carried their swords when they went out.
Merchants were lowly people in their eyes. No matter how much money they were given, they would not bend their backs for five buckets of rice.
The reason why Ying Zheng allowed many generals who had been promoted through military merits and titles to become civilian officials was actually because he had no other choice.
Although there were quite a few people in this group who were more cunning, it was better than nothing, right?
Moreover, these people all benefited greatly from Great Qin, so their loyalty was guaranteed.
Even though Great Qin did not have the aristocratic families of the later Han Dynasty that even the emperor feared
, the channels for learning were still in the hands of the nobles.
If they wanted to touch this huge cake, it would definitely cause a backlash from these powerful people. The remnants of the Six Nations would definitely not miss this opportunity to attack the court.
Fortunately, Great Qin was still in a state of chaos.
Although Ying Zheng valued Legalism more, he did not reject the other schools of thought.
There were many Confucian students in the Imperial Court, and there were also many Mohist disciples in the General's Mansion.
Furthermore, the current Confucians had not yet become the rotten Confucians of the future.
Due to Ying Zheng's personality, the Confucianism advocated by the Great Qin government was actually based on the Gongyang School.
This Ram School advocated an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and directly started a series of fights.
Other than that, there were also the more popular schools of thought, such as Yin-Yang School, Taoism School, School of Political Strategy, Farmer School, and Medical School.
Among them, the Yin-Yang School, because of the theory of five elements proposed by Zou Yan, believed that the replacement of the fire virtue of the Zhou Dynasty by the water virtue of the Great Qin Dynasty was in accordance with the will of heaven. Therefore, they were highly valued by Ying Zheng. Although they were not as powerful as the imperial court, they had a considerable influence.
The School of Political Traversing had produced outstanding disciples like Su Qin and Zhang Yi. They should have been famous for a while, but they had too few disciples and had temporarily faded out of the court.
The farmers who studied the 24 solar terms and farming seasons and the doctors who studied medicine were all practitioners and had a certain amount of influence in Great Qin.
Although many theories were not valued by the imperial court, they all worked hard to research and publicize their own theories, hoping to gain the recognition of more people and pass on their theories.
These people were collectively called necromancers.
Although Xu Fu was a scumbag who relied on medicinal pills to fool others, there were also quite a few who had real talent.
Furthermore, they were all eager to enter the royal court and gain the recognition of more people for their theories, becoming the mainstream of the Hundred Schools of Philosophy.
This was a good opportunity for Fu Su.
In his opinion, the survival of these schools of thought had their own strengths.
What Great Qin's officials needed to do was not just to look at Confucianism but also learn from the various schools of thought. They needed to continuously refine and summarize the essence and discard the dregs!
If he could make the disciples of the Bai clan work for him, he would not have to worry about his success.
Moreover, what the court needed to do was to let the right people do the right things.
For example, the Mo Family. The imperial court is not suitable for you. You should just focus on the promising scientific research profession of invention and creation.
Doctors studied medical books, treated patients, and did good deeds.
The disciples of the farmers had mastered a certain amount of solar terms and farming knowledge. They would be a powerful help for Fusu to promote the new crops in the future.
What Fu Su needed to do was to convince Ying Zheng, to give the Hundred Schools of Philosophy a fair platform, so that they could display their talents.
"Imperial Father, your son has thought of a way!”
Fu Su laughed.
"Tell me!"
A hint of interest appeared on Ying Zheng's face.
He wanted to see what sort of solution Great Qin's future successor would come up with.
Would he be able to entrust Great Qin, this massive empire, to them?
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