If killing one doesn't solve the problem, then ten; if ten isn't enough, then a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand! A hundred thousand!

If the Song Dynasty does not reform from within, it will surely be destroyed by the Tanguts and the Jurchens within ten years.

Therefore, this is a path with no other choice.

It's either a phoenix rising from the ashes or it withers away.

Zhao Huan chose the path of rebirth, but whether he would succeed was unknown. This was a completely new path, and who could predict the future?

After the opposition was suppressed with the executioner's blade, the conservative forces left over from Emperor Shenzong's reforms suffered a heavy blow and were unable to cause any trouble for a time.

The main reason was the series of events that led to changes in the political landscape, causing a violent upheaval in the court. On the day the emperor ordered the assassination of the Luoyang faction, not a single official dared to speak out.

If the emperor's fierce battle with the Jurchens demonstrated the resilience of the Song emperor, then the handling of the Confucius Mansion and Confucian scholar cases was the emperor's declaration to the entire Song Dynasty of his absolute rule over the country.

Perhaps those south of the Yangtze River and in Sichuan have not yet felt the wrath of the emperor, with millions lying dead, but the Central Plains have truly experienced the power of the current emperor.

The idea of ​​the scholar-officials ruling the country was severely shaken during this period. Regardless of what the scholar-officials thought, they would no longer take any action, or at least remain quiet for a while.

These days, Zhao Huan spends either in the imperial study or in the gym.

When he was in the gym, he was constantly sweating profusely. In just half a year since he came to the Northern Song Dynasty, he had done so much, more than he could have done in his previous life.

Murder. The thing people do most often here is kill.

Killing also requires courage; it requires breaking existing emotional habits and enduring intense emotional shocks.

It can be said that Zhao Huan went from being tense and excited at the beginning to being calm now, having endured and digested a lot.

He was lonely because almost the entire country opposed him. Under immense external pressure, in addition to maintaining his health and strength by eating on time, reading, exercising intensely, and having a normal sex life, he also had to strictly demand of himself to handle a large amount of official business.

Only in this way can he persevere as strong as steel.

After Xie Dahai reported the current situation in the Central Plains to Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan breathed a sigh of relief.

He immediately summoned Shi Ziming and Qin Hui.

"Your subject kowtows to Your Majesty."

Zhao Huan asked, "How is the new school plan going?"

Shi Ziming presented a plan: "Please take a look, Your Majesty."

Following Zhao Huan's suggestion, Shi Ziming and Qin Hui created a systematic classification of disciplines that was more in line with later generations. Shi Ziming and Qin Hui felt that the emperor's mind was full of very strange things, so they listed each discipline and also provided a corresponding question for each discipline.

For example, in physics, a physicist should think about why peaches fall from trees.

For example, a person studying mathematics should think about why a straight distance is shorter than an arc.

For example, history was listed as a separate discipline, traditional Confucianism became literature, and the study of flowers, trees, birds and beasts was also established as a special discipline called biology.

For example, if you study business, you must understand the overall planning of business.

For example, when studying geography, one must be clear about the macro-level map of China, such as where Japan is, where Goguryeo is, where Southeast Asia is, where India is, the location of the Western Regions, and the location of the Jin Dynasty.

These terms were completely foreign to the officials of the Song Dynasty. They had no idea why they were called that, nor did they understand why a normal person should learn these things.

According to the emperor's wishes, the entire system of private schools across the country must be re-established.

The imperial court allocated funds to establish schools in every prefecture and every county.

The school is divided into primary school, middle school and university, each lasting three years.

Furthermore, the imperial court would promulgate an "Education Law" stipulating that all children, regardless of their social status, must begin attending school at the age of eight. Local government offices would be obligated to encourage every household to send their children to school, and each prefecture would have a fixed annual education fund, funded by the imperial court, to subsidize children from poor families.

Although Zhao Huan knew that this would inevitably lead to a large number of corrupt officials, the country needed to develop, and it couldn't just focus on prevention. If it kept preventing things too much and restricted everything, it would eventually be impossible to do anything.

It is also stipulated that literature, mathematics, history, and geography are basic subjects and compulsory courses in the three years of primary school. In secondary school, students begin to study mathematics, literature, and basic physics and biology. In university, students can freely choose the major they want to study, such as business planning, law, literature, Taoism, etc.

After reviewing the framework established by Shi Ziming and Qin Hui, Zhao Huan expressed his satisfaction and said, "Every school should establish scholarships for students with outstanding academic achievements!"

"yes!"

Zhao Huan then said, "I intend to build the first military academy of the Song Dynasty in Tokyo, to collect all the classic military texts and case studies from history, and to invite those with outstanding military achievements to teach the students."

"The military academy's students come from two sources: the best people selected from the current army, and students from schools. You two should think about the specific rules carefully."

"Furthermore, I will personally serve as the first headmaster of this military academy."

"Yes, sir!"

Shi Ziming listened with great excitement, because he had always wanted to restore the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Now the emperor's plan was to completely break the dominance of Confucianism and develop various schools of thought.

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