People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 256 Xuanxia Academy
"The Allied Forces are mature. How to fight this war can be decided by itself. Xuan Xia's goal is always the land of China. There is no need to spend too much energy on the Alliance."

Xu Chen was sitting in the room, from where he could clearly feel the bustling noise outside, as if something big was going on.

Compared with Xuanxia’s current internal affairs and the main goal of advancing into Shenzhou, the letters in hand are actually not that important. As long as the alliance is on the right track, there is no need to worry too much.

When the alliance was first established, it was a fairly independent organization that was not controlled by any member, including Xuan Xia. Instead, each member sent officials to form an alliance committee to lead the operation of the alliance, and each member only needed to fulfill their alliance obligations.

This is also a question of trade-offs. Xuan Xia can certainly rely on its strength to gain a stronger position, or even completely control the alliance, but this means that Xuan Xia will also have to pay more operating costs. Rights and obligations have always been complementary. If you want to get more, you have to bear the weight.

By giving up enough dominance, enough burdens will be relieved. As the alliance has expanded to this day, Xuan Xia's costs have been continuously diluted, and now it can be said that he is relieved.

You only need to pay a fixed amount of equipment and soldiers to enjoy the huge benefits brought by the alliance. This was Xu Chenju Su's original idea for creating the alliance.

Today, the alliance can fully integrate its strength and grow through system rules. It is not my turn to worry about it, and occasionally looking at the battle report is just a routine matter.

Ju Su, who was standing by, saw Xu Chen put the battle report aside and said with a smile, "There is really no need to worry about this battle. With the current strength of the alliance, we will not suffer any loss at the hands of the enemy. At most, the momentum of expansion will be hindered for a while."

Xu Chen nodded: "We can wait for the result with peace of mind. This battle may not be over in a short time. After all, there are 50,000 cavalrymen, and they have enough initiative to fight or run."

Ju Shou flipped through some documents in his hand, most of which were densely packed with data tables. He continued talking only after he saw the data he wanted to see.

"It may not be a bad thing for the alliance to pause for a while. Due to the huge production demand brought by external trade, Xuanxia's industry has grown rapidly.

The number of factories has increased nearly fivefold this year, reaching nearly a thousand, with nearly 50,000 male and female workers, producing countless goods every day. But even so, it is still not enough to meet Xuanxia's own and external commodity needs at the same time."

At this point, Ju Shou frowned and said, "It's hard to continue the growth of the factory to this point. At this rate, the population will be insufficient. Once it affects agricultural production, the gains will not outweigh the losses."

Hearing Ju Shou's words, Xu Chen also shook his head and sighed. This was indeed a problem that Xuan Xia was facing now.

No matter what, agriculture is always the foundation. Fifty thousand industrial population will not reach the limit of Youzhou, but it will not be much more, and it will not affect agricultural production in any way.

Then what Ju Shou said might not be unreasonable. The current industrial capacity is not enough to fill Xuanxia and the alliance, but the industrial scale is almost reaching its bottleneck. If the alliance expands further, Xuanxia may not be able to produce so many goods.

After pondering for a while, he said, "Let the court draft a proposal to give Changshan some preferential tax policies to attract merchants to come there, and let Changshan take over some of its industrial capacity. Agriculture cannot be shaken, and industry cannot stop."

When Ju Su heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up. This was obviously good news for businessmen, and the Ju family today was a merchant family.

There is no need to worry about making money when opening a factory in Xuanxia. The huge demand from both inside and outside the country cannot be met at all. Every tribute trade between many alliance members is a huge transaction, and all merchants in Xuanxia can get some of the dividends.

Business is indeed easy to do, but the Xuanxia court is really tight-fisted. There is a minimum wage for workers at the bottom and commercial taxes at the top, which directly control the entire merchant group. Merchants do make a lot of money, but it is far from making huge profits, which makes many merchants feel uncomfortable.

If Changshan can offer some business tax concessions, it will be enough to attract a large number of businessmen. It is believed that there will be a large number of businessmen flocking to Changshan at that time.

A little more profit can drive businessmen crazy. Business tax incentives mean a more relaxed business environment, and the influx of businessmen is inevitable.

At least Ju Shou had a plan immediately. After returning, he immediately arranged for his tribesmen to develop in Changshan.

At this moment, the sound outside the room gradually faded away. Ju Su's expression changed and he said with a smile: "My lord, the speech is about to begin."

Xu Chen smiled upon hearing this, and stood up, but he did not walk out, but just stood in front of the window and looked down. He could see a wide and flat field with two or three hundred young men and women standing there. They were all looking at a figure on the wooden platform in front of them. It was Zhang Zhongjing, the principal of Xuanxia Academy.

Today is the day when Xuanxia Academy is established. As the highest institution of learning in Xuanxia in the future, this day is of great importance.

As for the position of principal, Xu Chen handed it to Zhang Zhongjing without hesitation. Although Zhang Zhongjing repeatedly declined and asked Xu Chen to take the position himself, Xu Chen had no interest in it at all. He was already busy as a leader, prime minister and alliance leader. If he took on more tasks, he would be overloading himself.

It can only be said that Xu Chen never thought of himself as a model worker, nor did he think that he had to do everything by himself.

At this school opening ceremony, the principal Zhang Zhongjing inevitably had to give a speech. Even from a distance, Xu Chen and Ju Shou could see Zhang Zhongjing's solemn and happy expression. Although the students below maintained quiet order, they were visibly excited.

What made Zhang Zhongjing happy was that he instinctively felt the extraordinary significance of this pioneering university.

Although the current knowledge system is not perfect enough, Xuanxia Academy is still established in the form of division of disciplines. Students of various disciplines can specialize in one and delve into it in depth. Of course, excellent students can also study both. The current disciplines cover a wide range, covering all categories of natural sciences and the Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is studying animals and crops, mathematics and medicine, or alchemy and physics, everything can be studied.

In fact, the main role of university teachers is to conduct joint research on a wide range of topics with students.

The principles of natural science are completely blank, waiting to be discovered by the world. Teachers and students are standing at the same starting line, and no one knows more knowledge than anyone else.

Rather than studying, students are conducting research with the help of school resources. They can discuss freely, propose ideas and arguments for all issues, and seek to verify all possible results.

Their research results may become the basic theories of natural science in the future.

This comprehensive institution of higher learning, which is open to various disciplines, reminded Zhang Zhongjing of the Jixia Academy in the pre-Qin period.

That was an academy founded by the State of Qi during the era of a hundred schools of thought. It also had no restrictions on subjects, and the ideas of the scholars from the various schools of thought collided there, eventually giving rise to many sages such as Mencius and Xunzi, and many famous works were also produced in the academy.

It is a pity that the Jixia Academy was only a flash in the pan, but now Xuan Xia seems to be trying to emulate it and open another holy place of literature and art.

Just thinking about the significance of this, Zhang Zhongjing couldn't help but be excited about it. If Xuanxia Academy could reproduce the kind of ideological collision that led the trend of the times like Jixia Academy, then he, as the principal, would have no regrets in death.

At this moment, Zhang Zhongjing was expressing his expectations for the students below and the Xuanxia Academy itself with the strongest emotions in his heart.

The students below were also excited, they were all born into poor families in Xuanxia, ​​and they had to struggle painfully at the bottom of society until their death, but now, ordinary people like them could enter the academy and fight for a bright future, which was their greatest luck.

Even Xu Chen, who was watching from a distance, felt quite relieved.

These are the new generation that we can truly place high hopes on, new talents who have truly grown up under the knowledge system of natural science. When there are more and more of these people, and as Xuanxia expands and controls the academic discourse, then China's ideological field will completely change.

In this era, we can see things getting done one after another, which in itself is a great satisfaction.

Xu Chen clearly felt that under his promotion, the times had begun to brew the power of drastic changes, and one day, the color of the world would change.

(End of this chapter)