After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Royal study room.

Li Wenhou left, and Li Chenan suddenly felt comfortable.

It's hard to deal with this stubborn guy who is half old!

After all, my surname is still Li, and I can't write two characters "Li" in one stroke.

Regardless, his starting point is right.

With him guarding the household department, Ning Guo's money bag will be safer.

The court needs such ministers. Although it sounds unpleasant to say so, in the end it is the country that benefits.

He did not mean to blame Li Wenhou. In the current history, neither Li Wenhou nor Wen Boiyu knew the direction of future development of society.

I don’t know about those advanced products and commercial marketing methods.

And I am not better than them, I just have thousands of years more knowledge and insights.

If we want to liberate productivity, the first thing we need to do is to liberate our minds.

We will go to Changle Palace in two days. Major national affairs are mainly handled by the cabinet.

People in the cabinet must have a clearer understanding of the future direction of a country.

Then you must know what is happening and why.

"Eunuch Wei,"

"The old slave is here!"

"Go and call Master Nian, Master Su and Master Qi."

"Old slave, I obey."

"Wait a moment... After you call them, go to Jiuyu Tower and tell Song Ting that Xiang Qingyun and Zhuang Dingchun will be released."

"Go to the Ministry of Punishment and inform Yu Hongtu, the Minister of Punishment, and say... just say that after my interrogation, the two of them are not guilty."

"Go ahead."

Eunuch Wei bowed and stepped back. Not long after, Su Yian and the others arrived at the imperial study.

On this day, in this imperial study room, Li Chenan did his first serious thing since he ascended the throne!

He told Wen Boyu and the others in detail what Ning Guo needed to do in the next five years.

It involves many fields such as economy, military, education and so on.

Economically, how to transform the things researched by the Academy of Sciences into commodities and bring them to the market.

This brings us to a question of choice——

Is it established by the state, managed by officials, and sold by businessmen?

It is better to adopt the form of technology licensing and sell those technologies to private businessmen, who will then invest in setting up their own workshops to produce and manage their own products, and also sell them in the market.

Regarding this issue, Wen Boyu advocates that the state should take the lead.

"I think that since the emperor said that the things produced by the Academy of Sciences are rare things and have unique market competitiveness,"

"Nachen's understanding is that it is not worried about the market not accepting it, which means it has no worries about sales."

"Then profits are guaranteed."

"In this case, if the state takes the lead and all profits belong to the state, doesn't this solve the problem of empty national treasury?"

Su Yian's family is a businessman from Jiangnan. He has different views on this, but it is difficult to express his position at this time.

Li Chenan looked at him and smiled slightly:
“Speak freely!”

"Don't worry so much, just like when we chatted at Sanwei Bookstore."

Su Yian pondered for three breaths, "Then let me tell you my opinion."

"Although the state-led business can transfer all profits to the state treasury, I think there is still something wrong with the state doing these businesses."

He looked at Wen Boiyu and said:

"Let me not talk about the disadvantages of competing with the people."

"The state is responsible for construction and management, so the funds for construction must come from the national treasury, and the people who manage it... must be officials of the imperial court."

"So, doesn't it mean that every time a workshop is established, a group of production management officials must be appointed?"

"According to what the emperor said, in the next five years, many new things will appear in the Academy of Sciences, or all kinds of things..."

"That means building different workshops and hiring more officials."

"How much will the number of officials in the imperial court increase in three to five years?"

He looked at Li Chenan again and said seriously:

"I am more worried about the efficiency of these officials!" "They are scholars. They may be able to pick up poems and articles at their fingertips, but when it comes to commodity production... I ask myself, although I am an official of the first rank, I have a poor eye for production and management. Discredit!"

"This is why when I left Kyoto and returned home, my father did not leave the family business to me."

"What he said makes sense."

"You are a scholar, and the things you can do are only related to learning."

"Doing business also requires knowledge, but it has nothing to do with your knowledge."

"The most taboo thing in doing business is for laymen to guide insiders. As long as laymen can concentrate on learning and listen to the opinions of experts with an open mind, it's just that scholars have the so-called self-esteem that is shameful."

"One wrong decision can be enough to cause a fatal blow to the family's business."

"So... you should go teach and educate people."

"That's how I went to Jingyang County to teach."

"Similarly, the main responsibility of the imperial court is the overall management of the country, rather than personally engaging in production and management."

"No one can guarantee that the appointed officials will listen to the opinions of the craftsmen with an open mind. After all, they are officials and the craftsmen are the people!"

"Even if the people are right, if the officials say they are wrong, they are wrong!"

"To control a workshop is also a kind of power!"

"When the number of workshops controlled by the state gradually increases, the court needs more manpower to supervise, and it also needs to assess the profits created by those workshops, etc."

"We all need people!"

"With the increasing number of officials, I am afraid that there will be more and more cases of bullying and domination."

"After all, businessmen don't dare to fight with officials."

"I... I am thinking about this issue from the perspective of a scholar. I may be biased. It depends on your opinion, Your Majesty."

Li Chenan nodded approvingly:

"Your concerns are very reasonable."

"In the future, things belonging to the Academy of Sciences will be handed over to private businessmen for investment and management through competitive bidding."

“But the country cannot just sell it and leave it alone!”

"The state must ensure the interests of businessmen after winning the bid!"

"This involves a patent issue..."

It was another topic that Wen Boyu and the others did not understand. Li Chenan explained the skill of half a cup of tea and assigned the power of patent protection and enforcement to the Ministry of Punishment.

It will be implemented in cooperation with the Imperial City Department.

"The Ministry of Punishment has the right to legislate patents. Whether it is a patent from the Academy of Sciences or a private patent, once the application is approved and filed with the Ministry of Punishment, it will be protected by national laws."

"But for orderly competition, all patents need to be protected for a limited time, such as... twenty years."

"Leave this legislative matter to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. Do it now and show it to me after you draft it."

After a pause, Li Chenan said again:
"Next, let's talk about the education plan for the next five years."

"I have mentioned this issue more than once, but education is a huge expense, and our Ningguo's economic strength does not allow it now."

"But it can be included in the new five-year plan..."

This time Li Chenan elaborated on his plans for education.

He talked about the issue of education for three hours!
Lunch is delivered from the imperial dining room!
After I finished speaking, it was almost dusk.

Regarding Li Chenan's plan, Wen Boyu and the others were shocked!

They never expected that this plan would be so huge!

Li Chenan actually hopes to reduce the number of illiterate people in Ningguo by half in the next five years!
In the next ten years, we need to popularize national schools to the township level and make everyone in Ningguo literate!
The key is...it's free!
Don’t charge a penny for tuition!
This……

How much money does this cost?

If Li Wenhou was here, he might have jumped up at this time.

“It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people!”

“Education is Ningguo’s century-old plan!”

"Only when everyone in Ningguo is literate, well-read, sensible, and able to think about problems independently can Ningguo be truly powerful!"

"As for making money...it's all for educational services!"

"This year will pass quickly. Next year will be the 26th year of Zhaohua."

"I decided to change the year of Zhen'an to the first year of Zhen'an!"

"This is a new starting point for Ningguo!" (End of this chapter)