"I want to see how capable Wu Chongdao is?" Su Che had a smile on his face and sat in the eaves pavilion outside Kaifeng Prefecture. He had a table table in front of him, and a few wine and dishes were placed on it.

The person sitting opposite Su Che was his eldest son Su Chi, and Su Che's second son Su Shi was accompanying him.

Su Che came to see his eldest son Su Chi away. Su Chi had just changed from the position of the Northwest Third Road Transportation Commander to the Shaanxi Road Transportation Commander. Although it was a transfer, the Shaanxi Road Transportation Commander is easy to achieve political achievements at the moment.

Because Shaanxi is basically no longer a border area, it needs to change from a high degree of combat readiness to a peaceful state. The huge number of Western Army needs to be cut and reorganized, and the corvee service that is pressing on the shoulders of Shaanxi people also needs to be greatly reduced.

And these tasks have to be operated by the Shaanxi Road Transportation Department.

In addition, since the Shaanxi Pacifier Road was abolished after the rise of Xixia, six strategic Pacifiers were relocated. However, the Shaanxi Road Transfer Envoy has always existed, and when Shaanxi Six Road was set up separately (Shaanxi Six Road did not always have its own Transfer Envoy, but was sometimes established and sometimes cancelled), the Shaanxi Road Transfer Envoy also existed as their superiors.

Therefore, the Shaanxi Road Transportation Command can also be regarded as the last trump card for the imperial court to control the Shaanxi army. The Transportation Command is stuck with the military pay of the Western Army and the official fields for archers.

This time, in the operation to reorganize and reduce the Western Army, the Shaanxi Road Transport Authority will also play an important role. Because it seems too authoritative to concentrate the military power of the Shaanxi Sixth Route in a Strategic Pacification Authority, the imperial court still did not restore the establishment of the Shaanxi Road Strategic Pacification Authority, but established a Shaanxi Sixth Route General Military Computer Room, which is only a general staff department and no headquarters, which means that the Sixth Route General Military Computer Room is also a temporary yamen office.

The Shaanxi Road Transfer Envoy will temporarily assume the responsibility of the Shaanxi Strategic Pacification Envoy, and will work with the General Military Command to organize the Western Army.

However, it is not easy to accomplish this. After all, the Western Army has developed a certain force in the decades of war. Many military leaders also have backers in the court and will not be easily sorted out. Therefore, the military reorganization has been delayed, and there has been no progress until now.

Su Chi knew Wu Haogu's methods and smiled and said to his father: "Sir, if Wu Chongdao dares to take on this job, there must be a way..."

"Of course, it is not difficult for Wu Chongdao to sort out the Western Army, but how much benefit does this matter have to him? He is now a thorn in the side of civil officials. If you want to reorganize the Western Army and offend those Western Army generals, are you making too many enemies? Moreover, Wu Chongdao turned down the Xuanfu of the Northwest Third Route, who could have made contributions and become the General Army of the Sixth Route in Shaanxi that offended people. What do you think he is planning?"

Su Che was not optimistic about the Battle of Anxi, and advancing to Anxi far away from the Central Plains was clearly following the footsteps of the Tang Dynasty. Fortunately, the main force of the Western Expedition was the Hexi British Army, and the Song Dynasty's court had to pay very little. Moreover, even if the Hexi British Army was defeated, the court could still take the opportunity to eat the Hexi Army. However, if Wu Haogu had made the three northwest Xuanfu, he would still be trapped in Lingzhou, so he would be unable to take into account the Yuntai Academy and the Coastal Maritime Control Department in the east...

However, Wu Haogu was willing to go to Shaanxi to do offend the army, and was not willing to go to Lingzhou to serve as the Protector of the Third Northwest Route.

Su Chi, who was sandwiched between the traditional Confucian scholar-officials and the new school of empirical empirical schools, certainly knew Wu Haogu's situation and understood his father's thoughts. However, he did not want to be an enemy of Wu Haogu: "No matter what he was thinking, as long as he could organize the Western Army properly, it would always be beneficial to the country."

Su Chi is actually mixing with the slightest.

When dealing with the issue of the empirical school, the father and son of the Su Che family have very different positions. Su Che saw the harm of the empirical school to shake the foundation of the country (the foundation of the country is a scholar-official), so he wanted to try to curb it. However, his eldest son Su Chi believed that the empirical school "although it has no virtue, it has a great way" and "the great way is above virtue", so the victory of the empirical school is impossible to stop. No one can defeat the Tao with virtue, and the heights of the two are completely incomparable.

As for turning the school struggle into a power struggle, Su Chi was even more disdainful. In his opinion, it was unreasonable to play with power. Moreover, playing with power is not good at, and Wu Haogu can now cultivate witness talents and strong military officers in batches. Even if Wu Haogu fails, the talents he trains will still grow up and occupy the center of the court sooner or later.

Since the empirical school is invincible, it is better to join forces with it than to oppose it... In this way, my family may be able to become my husband.

As for Su Che's second son, Su Shi, he simply became one of the leaders of the empirical school, and now he has replaced Mi Youren to take over the Jiehe Maritime Affairs Office.

Su Che's youngest son Su Xun also opposed the empirical school like his father. However, he did not oppose it from the bureaucratic standpoint, but as a Confucian scholar, he opposed Wu Haogu's doctrine, trying to draw ideas from the metaphysics of Buddhism and Taoism to oppose positivism and rationalism.

"Although Wu Chongdao's knowledge is worthy, he only strives for success and ignores moral integrity. He also uses it too fast. In just seven or eight years, he has already had many disciples and is of varying quality. Moreover, the empirical school requires too much wealth, which forced him to establish himself in Dabu and market, and take great business as the basis. In the long run, the world will not be shared by scholars and officials!"

Su Chi sighed secretly.

Su Che's words must be very reasonable. With the talents and money that the Empirical School currently possesses, in another ten or twenty years, it will definitely subvert the pattern of the dynasty sharing the world with the scholars and officials.

The process of the inherent power structure being subverted is often accompanied by sharp turmoil, and there will even be a war that swept the world!

Of course, this prospect is not something Su Chi is willing to face. But he is a little helpless. He is much younger than Su Che, so he can naturally accept new things faster. He sees the empirical school more thoroughly and understands more. Therefore, he also knows that this school has a great acceleration effect on industry and commerce!

If the empirical school prospers, then industry and commerce will definitely accelerate its development. The accelerated development of industry and commerce will give the "money-burning" empirical school more funds to "study things and learn knowledge".

Traditional small farmers (referring to small peasant economy, and landlords are also part of the small peasant economy) will definitely be increasingly harmed by large craftsmen, large merchants, and even large farmers... The literati and officials based on small peasants will naturally decline with them.

"Since the empirical school values ​​the Tao and neglects virtue," Su Chi was still planning for himself. "In the humble opinion of the child, then we might as well open a school to recruit students with both moral integrity and talent."

This is also a solution, but running a school is very expensive! Su Zhe had a gloomy face, "...But where does the money come from? Could it be that Zhongnan wants to raise it from merchants?"

Su Che is the prime minister, Su Shi is also an empirical general and the official of Jiehe Maritime Bureau. There is no problem if he wants to build hundreds of thousands of yuan to open a "Sichuan University".

But the problem is that if you take the money from the merchants, you have to train their children. Just like the current Jingdong Gezhi Academy, there are also children of wealthy businessmen... The teachers of Gezhi Academy were all poached from the Yuntai Department at a high price, and they are also keen on various "speculation" projects like Yuntai Academy, and spend money the same as those of the Yuntai Academy. Therefore, Zhang Dan and Zhang Nai (all of Zhang Dun's grandchildren) who presided over the school had to recruit a lot of wealth to pay.

Moreover, "caizi" are not necessarily all playboys who have a face that is specialized in finding sex, and their learning ability is no worse than that of the sons of rural landlords. The reason why they cannot gain the upper hand in the imperial examination is because their base is much smaller than that of rural literati.

But now, even in the Qingcheng Academy, which doesn’t care much about tuition fees, the proportion of the children of rural literati and officials is very low.

So you think about some things very well, but when you actually do them, you will go wrong without realizing them!

Su Chi frowned and said, "Sir, fresh things are always more expensive. Now there are not many students from Yuntai Academy, and the way out is good. You either become an official or a screenwriter. There are not many people who can be role models, and the demand is large, so your salary is naturally not low. However, now the school is expanding and the number of new students is gradually increasing. New students in the future will definitely not be as expensive as it is now."

The high cost of new-style education is largely due to the high salary of teachers. The same situation also existed in later generations in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. After all, it is rare to be expensive! And there is no place to hire foreign teachers at present, so we can only recruit students from the Yuntai Academy and the Biyong Academy. The students of these two academies, especially those in the Yuntai Academy, are of high quality and have a wide range of ways to go, so we naturally have a lot of value.

However, this high value cannot be maintained forever. As the colleges (universities) become more and more popular, the value of empirical students will inevitably depreciate.

At that time, more new schools will naturally appear.

"How many years will it take? Moreover, the empirical school has helped the industry and commerce too much. By then, state affairs would have been chaotic by the evil businessmen."

The principles of the empirical school are correct, and Su Che does not deny this, but he also discovered the subversive characteristics of the empirical school.

"What do you want to do with your father?" Su Chi knew that his father must have had some advice. "You are dull, so you might as well say it clearly."

"You have been in the northwest for many years, don't you know the Lu family's village agreement in Lantian?" Su Zhe said, "Isn't the government soldiers who have made achievements for the country now from Lantian? In my father's opinion, rural agreements, rural soldiers, and rural learning are the way out for the country!"

"Farmership school?" Su Chi was stunned, "What to teach? What to do?"

Su Che smiled and said, "I don't know if I am a father, but Wu Chongdao must have a solution! Bo Chong, do you know what to do?"

"I understand!" Su Chi thought for a while, "The army, the village agreement, the village soldiers, and the village school are all one. Wu Chongdao cannot just regulate the Western army, regardless of the others. Otherwise, the northwest will inevitably be in chaos!"
Chapter completed!