"Yes, yes, can we use your method to other places?" Li Shimin looked at Huo Gang and asked.

"Where?" Huo Gang looked at Li Shimin a little strangely and asked.

"For example? Railway? Li Shimin asked tentatively.

At present, the advantages of the railway, not to mention Li Shimin, it can be said that the people of the whole Datang have seen it, and the people of the whole Datang want to build more railways, of course, maybe the heads of some border places do not want to, after all, they are almost all local emperors, but they can't affect the situation, or they don't dare to put these ideas on the surface at all.

The reason is very simple, the current Datang is too strong, because after there is no Turkic threat, almost all the troops around the entire Datang have begun to train continuously, and only a small part of the western border is retained.

Originally, because of the government military system, many unqualified government soldiers have been properly handled, so almost all of them are elite, which means that Li Shimin's control of the entire Tang Dynasty has reached the absolute peak, and no one will dare to fight against the Tang Dynasty at all.

So even if they don't want to, they can only think about it in their hearts, and it is impossible to say it on their lips.

"Hmm, how do you know that I want to open the railway to you Datang?" Huo Gang looked at Li Shimin and asked with a smile.

"I don't know, just ask, so, okay?" Li Shimin's eyes lit up instantly.

"To be honest, our family doesn't talk to each other, it's not that we are unwilling to open up the construction of the railway to Datang." Huo Gang thought for a while and said, "Actually, it's because Dahan's production capacity is not enough. ”

"Not enough capacity? No, at the speed at which you can build armor, it should not be that difficult to make rails, although it is difficult. Li Shimin didn't hide it, he asked directly if he had any questions, and he also knew that Huo Gang was not the kind of person who went around the bend.

"No, in fact, steel and steel are different, steel is actually an alloy of carbon and iron, in addition to manganese steel, tungsten steel and other different steels, these steels have high wear resistance, high strength, high pressure resistance and other different characteristics, such as the steel used in the rail is carbon steel, and the production difficulty of these steels is more difficult than ordinary armor steel, the technical conditions are also higher, and the production speed of Dahan is not high." Huo Gang smiled and strengthened.

Li Shimin: "......"

Li Chengqian: "......"

Li Ke: "......"

Li Tai: "......"

A few of them were tempted to ask, "What exactly are you talking about?" Why can't we understand? ”

"Ahem...... Well, I don't know much about what you're talking about, but if you say that, it means that the steel may have to be transported from Dahan? Li Shimin coughed dryly, he didn't understand, and he couldn't pretend to understand.

"Yes." Huo Gang nodded, and then glanced at Li Shimin strangely, "Your Majesty, you don't have any ideas?" ”

"Thoughts? What idea for you to put rail production in Datang? Li Shimin asked with a smile. Of course, he thought, that if you can produce steel rails, that means that there is no difficulty in armor or anything like that.

"yes." Huo Gang nodded.

"I guess you can't." Li Shimin is very free and easy.

"It's not that I can't, but I give it to you, and you can't make it." Huo Gang smiled and shook his head.

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, "This ......"

"The idea I said is actually this ......," Huo Gang said with a smile, "Datang's current basic knowledge can't keep up." ”

Li Shimin was silent for a long time before he raised his head seriously: "I know what you mean, in fact, Datang has strengthened the education of various disciplines, Gewu and mathematics, but at present, we have few teachers in this area." ”

Speaking of this, Li Shimin smiled bitterly, the popularization of free knowledge in Dahan has actually gone through a certain road, for example, at the beginning, Dahan only carried out literacy activities, and after the literacy, the twelve maids taught by Huo Gang taught a total of hundreds of students, and these students did not learn much knowledge, at that time they only learned the mathematics level of junior high school.

Then I have a preliminary understanding and cognition of geography, physics, and chemistry.

And then these hundreds of students taught thousands of people by themselves, and in the process of learning, these people continued to learn on their own, as long as the official encouragement in this area was strengthened, and with the top craftsmen of the industrial city, or now they can be called scientists, with their people as the most cutting-edge scientific research.

The whole system began to gradually expand from the bottom to the top, until now, the basic education of Dahan has been popularized to the junior high school level education in later generations, and the high school education in later generations has basically equivalent to the knowledge of the university level.

As for the higher level, at present, there are only studies in the industrial city, and there is no complete textbook for these studies, and according to Huo Gang's estimates, these studies have actually reached some levels of later universities, especially in physics and chemistry.

The main reason is that the Han Dynasty spared no effort to invest capital in this area, and used the power of the state to assist these people in research, plus Huo Gang was also able to give a certain direction of guidance, all of which had such results, but if these research results were to be popularized into teaching materials, it would be necessary for these scholars of the Han Dynasty to begin compiling themselves.

In the eyes of all scientists and others in the Han Dynasty, this is very sacred, and writing books and biography has been something that only accomplished university scholars can do since ancient times, so these scientists are also very serious at present, and the Ministry of Education has also invested great strength.

But even so, it is estimated that it will take about five or six years to be able to fully compile the knowledge of the later generations that is about the same as high school.

And Datang can't, how difficult it is for Datang to change this cultural attitude, because this is the whole society is opposing, not to mention those gate valve families, even Du Ruhui and they are estimated to have resisted in their hearts.

Therefore, although Li Shimin has been working hard to popularize Gewu and mathematics, the effect is not much, because it is also deeply influenced by the people, and the people of the folk also prefer their children to learn the sage language, at most to learn mathematics, Gewu is equivalent to those carpenters, masons, and blacksmiths on the market in their opinion.

Could it be that the family supports their children to study for half a day, so that they can become blacksmiths? Since you have studied, you have to be an official! This is the idea of the people of Datang, in such an environment, how difficult it is to learn it.

"Teacher, Father." At this time, Li Chengqian, who was next to him, said, "I have an idea, I don't know if it can be done." ”

"You say." Li Shimin looked at his eldest son.

"Datang is currently limited by the social environment, and it is difficult to carry out education in this area, but if the three of us succeed, it will not be very difficult, after all, in the local area, as long as we fight down, it is our final say, and it is impossible for the local gate valve family and ordinary people to influence us, and when the time comes, it should be possible to carry out education in the place where the three of us belong, and feed back to Datang." Li Chengqian said.

"It's a solution, and that's why I agreed with you in the first place." Li Shimin nodded, when he agreed to Li Chengqian's departure, in fact, there were some reforms that allowed Li Chengqian to practice in other places first, accumulate experience in governance, and then carry out some experimental reforms in these places, and some reforms that are not convenient to implement in Datang for the time being.

"It's a solution, but the conditions for implementation are too low." Huo Gang shook his head very dryly.

"Why?" Li Chengqian and the others were all stunned for a moment.

"First, first of all, if you want to popularize Chinese in these places, it will take at least a few years, and after popularizing Chinese, you can start relevant teaching, and the cultural education in these places itself is far lower than that of Datang.

"But you forgot one thing, even if my big man provides you with enough material support for you to teach in these places, but what about the back? Do you want the people in these places to return to Datang and teach the people of Datang? At this point, those children who have not studied probably don't care, but all the literati classes up and down the entire Tang Dynasty will instantly begin to rebel. Huo Gang looked at a few of them and said.

Li Shimin and the others were stunned for a moment, and then reacted instantly, indeed, at present, in the entire Datang Dynasty, there is only one person who can make these people face up, and that is the Dahan, this is because the Dahan was first established by the Central Plains people, and has the same root as them, and secondly, the Dahan is now too powerful, and the Dahan has basically not received too much funding from them.

When the strength reaches a certain point, they naturally don't care about these details, they naturally feel that the big man is really powerful, and admit that these are nothing.

But what Li Chengqian and what they did would make the Tang people think that even if these countries were independent, they were still dependent on the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that they were originally all small countries, and they were all fought down by the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and you suddenly let these small border countries come to the Tang Dynasty to impart knowledge and become the teachers of the readers in the mainstream society of the Tang Dynasty in the future?

How can you let these scholars and cultural people accept it?! It is absolutely unacceptable, and it will be strange if the whole country does not oppose it when the time comes.

"That's a real problem, so what do you say? Is there any good way to do it? Li Shimin thought for a moment before he spoke.

"It's best to solve it from Datang itself, in fact, it's not impossible." Huo Gang pondered for a while, in fact, this thing is difficult to say, and it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult.

"A sage once said that if you want to open a window on the roof of a house, you just say that they will not agree, but if you come up and say that you want to tear off their roof, when they violently object, you will open a window, so that they will be more acceptable." Huo Gang said with a smile.

"Which sage said this? It's straightforward, but it does make a lot of sense. Li Shimin asked with some curiosity.

"A person who is not famous, I also saw it in an ancient book, as for who said it, it is estimated that there is no way to verify." Huo Gang shook his head.

"I get the reason, so what do you mean?" Li Shimin looked at Huo Gang and said.

"I mean, Datang can also set up a separate Ministry of Education, which is responsible for coordinating the country's education issues, and then you will release the rumor that Datang is going to carry out basic education reform, and all school-age children in the country must be enrolled in school, and free education will be carried out, and the state treasury will give subsidies." Huo Gang said with a smile.

Li Shimin frowned, and didn't say much at that time, because what Changle did before had actually begun to be done in Datang, but the scale of what Changle did was limited, and it is estimated that even the eleventh children in Datang were not wrapped in it, and it was a voluntary principle.

Therefore, although it has been said that the children of the poor family who have achieved academic achievements have appeared in recent years, at present, these people cannot enter the real core power layer of the Tang Dynasty for the time being, and they can only be used by Li Shimin in some petty officials.

But even so, it has relieved Li Shimin's great pressure, and it is conceivable the usefulness of the children of the poor family, but those family members did not object at the beginning, because they knew that most of the people who did not see this voluntary way of going to school would not send their children there.

And a small number of people who have eyes are willing to send their children to school, which also includes a problem of their own strength, and finally, this kind of voluntary schooling, these gate valve families can still occupy a considerable part of the places.

It is true that large gate valve families such as the five surnames and seven wangs, and even the medium-sized gate valve families have their own private schools and book teachers, etc., but these families also have countless small families attached to them, as long as they signal, these small families will naturally send their children to study.

In this way, it will naturally greatly squeeze out the number of the original poor disciples, so although Changle's free education has opened an opening in the rules for the gate valve family to control the top-level knowledge, but this opening is not big enough, at least in a few decades, it is estimated that it will not affect the situation.

And if Huo Gang said these words, it means that they will directly start to dig the foundation on which these gate valve families rely for survival, you say that they are not panicking, and you don't have to think about it to know that they are definitely starting to oppose it from all sides.

Even if Li Shimin has an absolute advantage now, it is impossible for him to ignore the information of these families across the country.

"So, what about the real destination?" Li Shimin turned to Huo Gang, thinking of what Huo Gang said just now, he still didn't know that this was not the ultimate goal, and it was impossible to achieve such a goal at once.

"If the above comprehensive education is not enough, then we must maintain the current situation of active education and improve the subjective initiative of poor children."

"This requires Datang to formulate a policy to improve the status of those students who study mathematics and gewu, so that all the people can realize that learning this knowledge is not completely useless, maybe they can't be officials, but their social status is no worse than being officials. Only when the people see the real improvement of their status will a large number of people learn this. Huo Gang shrugged his shoulders.