"You always talk like this, as if I want to do something to you."

"Haha! Rights are absolutely selfish, and sometimes they surpass all friendships in the world.

Your friendship for me is not fake. I can see this.

But sometimes, there are some things that you can't help.

Do you think Zhu Hongwu was willing to kill Li Shanchang? Zhu Wenzheng?

There are so many meritorious generals, so many direct relatives and in-laws, why shouldn't they be killed at the first sign of death?

The iron ticket to avoid death finally exempted me from several capital crimes.

There are some things that you can’t help yourself, you can’t help yourself!”

Sun Chengzong's words made Li Xiao a little stunned. Something must have happened when the old man spoke like this.

Otherwise, with his wisdom as an old man, he would never say anything casually. Moreover, he would still say such sensational things.

"What happened? You would say something like this."

"Oh, I guess you don't know?" Sun Chengzong looked at Li Xiao in surprise.

"What's going on?" Li Xiao was a little anxious.

"Haha! I was blinded by the mystery, haha! I'm old, really old." Sun Chengzong smiled helplessly and shook his head.

"You can tell me what happened."

"Do you still remember the time when my wife sent the young marshal back from Uralsk?"

"Remember! Lin'er did break military regulations, and Zhijie punished him without any problem." Li Xiao blinked and asked.

"It must be his uncle who wants to avenge his nephew when he sees that he has been wronged.

Forget it! It’s okay not to talk about this matter.

Tell me what confusion you have encountered. Let me see if I can help you solve it."

Having said this, Li Xiao was not in a hurry.

Since the matter is related to Li Hao, it will be clear if I go back and ask Li Hao later.

"This time when I went to Liaodong, I met a village bandit bully.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you wouldn't have imagined that these people were so arrogant. In their eyes, the laws of the Ming Dynasty were simply nothing.

What about the officials at the bottom? Instead of eradicating these bullies, they treat them as capable subordinates.

If things go on like this! How will the people view the imperial court?"

"hehe!

You can't change this kind of thing, even if you are a commander-in-chief.

More than ten years ago, we had not conquered the world.

At that time, of course, when hiring people, we had to select the ones that were easy to use and those who could manage the ground. If the carrots were too fast and we didn’t wash the mud, of course, everyone had to use them.

It is inevitable that there are those who are indolent and vicious.

In the past ten years, some of these people have been promoted, and some have become local emperors even though they are still serving as local officials.

In the local area, these people have relationships within relationships, favors within favors, and they are intertwined.

If you want to eradicate it, it’s not easy!”

"Lu Xiangsheng said that we can learn from the previous inspection system." Li Xiao told Lu Xiangsheng his idea.

"Inspection system? Haha!

What would you do if the patrolman took advantage and helped hide the matter?

Find more people to oversee the Supervision and Supervision Department?

The Ming Dynasty's imperial guards rode all over the world, but what happened next? Didn't the emperor take over Dongchang again?

Dongchang manipulates power and is arrogant, what next?

Then there was the West Factory monitoring the East Factory, and maybe the emperor also knew about it later.

If this kind of supervision continues, I'm afraid there will be factories in the south and north. One person will monitor one, and it will take eight people to monitor one person.

If there are too many people monitoring, the so-called monitoring is no longer monitoring.

The same goes for inspections. If there are more people doing inspections, no one will actually go on inspections.

If you really go down this path, you will find that you have entered a strange circle. In the end, you will not trust anyone!

Do you know what it means to be alone? At that time, you will be alone."

Li Xiao nodded, his initial worry was right.

"We can't just let it go like this. If it continues to be so lawless, what's the point?" But then, Li Xiao thought of another question.

“Two ways, one is to rely on time.

When these people are old and have withdrawn from the officialdom, the little boys you have trained are all capable of taking over, and the matter will be resolved openly.

But it takes a long time!”

"That's too long, don't say you can't wait. I'm afraid I won't even be able to wait for that day!"

"Then the only other way is to recruit a large number of new people and replace these people.

Use those who are ideal, educated, and willing to devote themselves to the Ming Dynasty.

However, this has a huge side effect.

That is, once it succeeds, nothing can be said. If it fails, it will cause turmoil in the world.

If it is not done well, it may cause huge changes that will overturn the building.

Don't underestimate these little officials!

These people are inextricably linked to your Liao army. If it gets to that point, it is really a question whether your Liao army can be mobilized."

"Hiss...!" Li Xiao took a breath, he didn't expect this at all.

Just like that Wu Dasheng, his son is the company commander of the First Division.

God knows how many such officers there are in the Liao army.

"Besides, if you think that everyone can be an official, you are totally wrong.

Being an official is actually a technical job that tests one's brain very much.

If someone who is not smart enough becomes an official, that is the nightmare of the common people.

People who can be officials or be good officials are very rare. It can even be called scarce!

How many officials were there at each level in the Ming Dynasty?

You have so many people inside now, how about replacing them?"

"...!" Li Xiao was very helpless. What he lacked now was people.

To be precise, what is lacking is available people!

Modern education has only been in place for ten years, and the first wave of people who entered primary school can barely use it now.

These people either become officials in yamen, teach in schools, or enter factories and research institutes.

However, due to limited conditions at the beginning, there were only a few primary schools in the Gyeonggi area.

It's not that Li Xiao doesn't want to open more schools, but... there are no teachers.

It is even more difficult when it comes to middle school. On average, there is only one middle school out of ten elementary schools.

There is no way, there are still not enough teachers.

For ten years, Li Xiao worked hard to build schools. Even small villages near Taining Prefecture had schools for primary education.

But this is only in Liaodong, Shandong, Hebei and Gyeonggi.

In other parts of the Ming Dynasty, only provincial capitals had a few decent primary schools.

Provincial capital cities with more than two million people have only one middle school, and some even have no middle school.

Cultivating talents is a long-term process!

At that time, Taizu Taizong proposed a century-old plan! Education is the foundation!

Now it seems so reasonable.

But Li Xiao couldn't wait for a hundred years, and there was no way he could wait for a hundred years.

Presumably, the people who were bullied by the bullies could not wait a hundred years.

"There is another solution, which is not a solution.

However, it is difficult to say whether the effect is good or bad." Just when Li Xiao was frowning, Sun Chengzong said quietly again.

Judging from the tone, it's not a good idea.
To be continued...