Chapter 88 Zhao Yi's Plan to Open a School
After the successful operation of the train, the speed of track laying was further increased.

It is 1.5 times as much as before.

After all, with train transportation, rails can be transported to the track laying site more conveniently and in large quantities.

Instead of requiring manpower or horsepower to transport it to the front, which takes a long time as before.

Currently, the daily track laying capacity can reach 600 meters.

It is entirely possible to complete the railway to Sand Hill County before the temperature drops below zero.

Otherwise it will be inconvenient to carry out construction.

Because once the temperature reaches below zero, the ground will be frozen solid.

Once the railway is connected, the production speed of Shahe Village will be further improved, so that Zhao Yi's rebellion can be prepared one day earlier.

At the same time, for Ying Zheng, it means he is one step closer to his ideal Qin Dynasty with railways all over the country.

Even now, villagers can take the train when they go out to work in the fields, and the harvested crops can be transported by train to storage warehouses.

In order to speed up the laying of the railway, Zhao Yi even stopped all transportation tasks except the transportation of ore raw materials.

Because Zhao Yi felt that as long as the railway was completed, it would be possible to transport goods quickly to Shaqiu County by rail.

With Shaqiu County as a transit station with a highway, all kinds of materials can reach Shahe County quickly.

And Ying Zheng also agreed with Zhao Yi's decision.

At the same time, after Ying Zheng returned, he ordered half of the imperial guards stationed around Xianyang to guard the capital to be transferred here.

This was to once again strengthen the defenses of Sandhill County.

After all, Sandhill County will soon be connected to the railroad.

It is not safe enough for Ying Zheng to guard Shaqiu County with only his shadow guards and secret guards now, so he must increase the military force.

In addition, Ying Zheng also planned to implement a new policy in the surrounding Shaqiu County.

People who are not locals of Julu County cannot apply for a pass to Shaqiu County.

The so-called road pass was the communication certificate in ancient times.

The personal information is recorded on it for the garrisons in various places to review.

Without a pass, one cannot travel to places more than a hundred miles away, and will be considered a vagrant or a spy and arrested by the local garrisons.

And the final outcome might be being demoted to a slave and sent to a distant place to perform forced labor.

The road permit system was first invented by Shang Yang of the Qin Dynasty.

Therefore, Ying Zheng planned to make Shaqiu County invisible in Daqin.

Except for the locals of Julu County and people from the Qin court, no one else is allowed to come to Shaqiu County.

Even locals from Julu County would undergo strict scrutiny when applying to come to Shaqiu County to ensure that there were no spies.

Ying Zheng's approach can completely prevent similar incidents like Yu Ji from happening again.

He would not allow any spies from the remnants of the Six Kingdoms to reach Shaqiu County.

What happened to Yu Ji can only happen once.

After implementing the universal education system and official selection system proposed by Zhao Yi, Ying Zheng will settle accounts with the nobles of the six countries.

Of course, Ying Zheng knew who was behind the rebellions that occurred from time to time in various parts of Qin.

At that time, Ying Zheng would liquidate the local nobles one by one according to the number of rebellions that occurred in each place.

Even Ying Zheng felt that the aristocratic system should be abolished in the future.

Because the existence of the nobles had absolutely no benefit to the future rule of the Qin Dynasty.

After the railway network was successfully built, Daqin no longer needed nobles from all over the country to help maintain its rule.

So what's the point of Daqin keeping those nobles? It would be better to further concentrate power in the central government, which would be more beneficial to the future development of Daqin.

Especially now with Zhao Yi's various technical "help".

If those nobles were still around, they would only use it to pursue their own interests.

When the order of the transfer of the imperial guards from Ying Zheng reached Xianyang, Feng Quji became even more confused. What on earth was His Majesty trying to do?

Even half of the guards had to be transferred to the sand dunes.

Your Majesty, is he planning to stay in Shaqiu County and never come back?

Does Your Majesty want to move the capital to Shaqiu County?

It shouldn’t be!

Shaqiu County is considered the eastern border of the Qin Dynasty.

It is neither a major transportation hub nor has any important resources, and has absolutely no conditions to become a capital.

Moreover, once the capital is moved to Shaqiu County, it means that it will take twice as long for news from the western border to reach Your Majesty.

This is totally detrimental to Your Majesty's rule.

On the contrary, Xianyang is located in the center of Daqin, and news from any place can reach Your Majesty quickly, making it convenient for Your Majesty to handle and issue orders.

Feng Quji could not think of any reason to move the capital to Shaqiu County.

But for Ying Zheng, as long as Zhao Yi is in Shaqiu County, Shaqiu County has such value.

If Ying Zheng himself is the center of the Qin Dynasty, then Zhao Yi is the new center of the Qin Dynasty.

After all, Ying Zheng's limit was to destroy the six kingdoms and unify the Central Plains.

But if Zhao Yi was there, things would be different. The Qin Dynasty could even conquer the world.

Although Feng Quji did not understand His Majesty's order, he still conveyed His Majesty's order to the generals of the imperial guards and arranged supplies for the mobilized imperial guards on the road.

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After the train was successfully rolled off the production line, Zhao Yi began to produce primary teaching materials.

Because Zhao Yi thinks winter is a good time to receive education.

That's why he was in a hurry to get the teaching materials out so that his scumbag father could arrange people to open a school.

After all, winter was a very scary season for ordinary people in ancient times.

Because when the temperature starts to drop below zero, almost all crops will be frozen to death.

It can be said that the only work of civilians in winter is to go out and collect firewood, but this is also done when there is insufficient firewood reserves at home, or in order to sell firewood to supplement the family income.

This means that the lower-class civilians will have to stop working and can only rely on the food stored in the autumn to survive the winter.

But food reserves are limited.

Therefore, the lower-class civilians will reduce unnecessary activities and stay at home all day to reduce calorie consumption in order to survive the difficult winter.

This way of spending the winter is also called "hibernating".

So since ordinary people have nothing to do during the winter, it is a good opportunity to learn.

At that time, we just need to open a school and provide free food.

At that time, civilians will naturally flock to the area.

After all, there is a place where you can get free heating and food to eat, so people will naturally take advantage of this.

However, Zhao Yi will naturally set some conditions.

After all, his purpose is to popularize education so that there will be enough talents for future construction.

So he would design some learning tasks, and only those who completed the learning tasks could receive food from the school.

I believe that by then the lower-class people will work hard to complete their learning tasks for food.

In fact, even if Zhao Yi’s school did not provide food, there would be a lot of civilians rushing to study.

After all, studying is something that only nobles have the money and qualifications to do.

As common people, not many people can afford to pay the tuition for a teacher.

Now that there is an opportunity to study for free, ordinary people will naturally go to study.

(End of this chapter)