Yu Zizhen did not ask that all of them could master extraordinary skills or become amazing talents. She only asked that the vast majority of them could be "able to write, calculate, and be proficient in archery and horse riding."
As for the very small number of people who are good at literature or martial arts, Yu Zizhen will not waste their talents.
As long as they demonstrate the corresponding talents, her subordinates will focus on training them according to her requirements.
"Talent is also a kind of wealth, and a very precious one at that." Yu Zizhen said to Xiao Yuanjin.
Xiao Yuanjin's eyes were filled with complex emotions. He suddenly felt that compared to the ambitious Lu Tong, Yu Zizhen was the one who was more suitable to be the emperor. After all, she not only cared about the people, but also knew how to use people wisely.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Xiao Yuanjin was shocked by his own outrageous idea.
He didn't care who would be the emperor between Lu Tong and Yu Zizhen. What made him feel guilty was that his father was still sitting in that position.
Few emperors who were driven off the throne had a good ending. How could he expect someone to replace his father?
Xiao Yuanjin silently said "I was wrong, I was wrong" and shook his head, throwing out the idea that was extremely rebellious and unfriendly to his father from his mind.
Facing Yu Zizhen's puzzled look, Xiao Yuanjin waved at her, "Go and rest while there's still time."
Yu Zizhen was about to nod when he heard Xiao Yuanjin say, "I'll take the time to help you catch up on the lessons you've missed in the next few days."
"Okay." Yu Zizhen had no objection. She had to learn what she needed to learn anyway.
From that day on, Yu Zizhen resumed her routine of studying, learning medicine, practicing martial arts, and completing tasks. Her subordinates, who had newly recruited a large number of people, were also very busy.
What they had to do was much more complicated and tiring than what Yu Zizhen had to do. Fortunately, Yu Zizhen was not someone who was inconsiderate of her subordinates. Even though her wallet was empty, she still generously doubled the monthly salary of those subordinates whose workload had doubled.
The doubled monthly salary and the sincere condolences from Yu Zizhen instantly inspired everyone to work more enthusiastically. They worked together while showing their strengths. It only took about a year and a half, and those refugees who were originally on the verge of death were trained by them into decent people.
The adults worked hard to enrich themselves in addition to farming and working. They followed Yu Zizhen's subordinates to learn how to read, do accounting, learn basic medical skills, learn martial arts, learn simple military formations, and learn various crafts. The children were all arranged to go to school to receive education.
The school is divided into three classes. The basic class teaches them literacy, arithmetic, and martial arts; the intermediate class teaches them accounting, medicine, and various crafts; and the advanced class focuses on cultivating children with talents in reading and martial arts, allowing them to continue their studies and be of greater use in the future.
Of course, whether adults or children, they all have a course that they are taking invisibly, and that is the powerful brainwashing package produced by the system named "Ideology and Morality Course" by Yu Zizhen.
The trained teachers will teach students knowledge while quietly teaching them to distinguish right from wrong, and teach them benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trustworthiness, gratitude and loyalty.
At the same time, Yu Zizhen's subordinates did not forget to continue their work of clearing out bandits and vicious gangsters in various places.
After the bandits in various places were defeated, Yu Zizhen's subordinates would take over their territories, manpower and wealth, and then train troops, store grain and open schools in the deep mountains and forests of their choice.
The line combining temples and Taoist temples also developed smoothly. For those large in scale and with strict rules, their people would sneak in as hired farmers and lie dormant. As for those small temples and Taoist temples in the countryside that no one cared about, their people would quickly become the leaders of the temples and Taoist temples.
The network-building operation progressed smoothly. In the four directions of east, south, west and north, Yu Zizhen already had at least one complete intelligence network connected by bodyguards, merchants, gentry, monks and Taoists.
Together with the strongholds built by her subordinates among the mountains, rivers and lakes, Yu Zizhen's personal power has begun to take shape.
Yu Zizhen should be happy to have achieved such great results in more than eight years, but the recent unpredictable situation in the capital and the impending storm have left him no time to appreciate the fruits of his own and his subordinates' labor.
In the summer when she was fifteen, the eldest prince Xiao Yuanjin, who had been living like an invisible man, suddenly asked to leave the capital and go to the East China Sea to guard the territory of Da Qi and take the lead in fighting against sea pirates and Japanese pirates on the grounds that bandits were emerging in large numbers on the southeast coast and the people were suffering greatly.
He wrote an impassioned and highly inflammatory memorial to the emperor, who took it to the grand court meeting for discussion and deliberation by his ministers.
After hearing the contents of the memorial, all the civil and military officials looked at each other in confusion, and no one spoke out to express their opinions for a while.
The emperor had expected this reaction from the crowd. After all, his son had never had much presence, and people were used to ignoring him. In their inherent impression, his son was a useless prince.
Now his son suddenly stood up and demonstrated his knowledge and courage with a brilliantly written memorial, which severely refreshed the group of people's inherent perception of his son. Wouldn't this group of people be shocked for a while?
Thinking of this, the emperor couldn't help feeling a little proud.
However, some officials from Lu's party soon came to their senses.
They exchanged glances for a split second, and then someone immediately jumped out to express their objection.
Although the eldest prince volunteered to guard the East China Sea, it was obvious that he wanted to stay away from the circle of right and wrong in the capital and avoid the recent intensified controversy over the succession to the throne, which was equivalent to him automatically giving up his right to inherit the throne. However, Jiangnan was a very rich place, and the officials of the Lu family did not want to give him such a rich land.
Don't tell them that the prince has no right to govern and can only take a portion of the fiefdom taxes every year. How could they not know that? What they don't want to give Xiao Yuanjin is the rich taxes in Jiangnan.
The official who stood out in opposition first offered a slew of compliments before turning to the emperor and saying, "The eldest prince's heart is commendable, but he has a disability after all, and it's not suitable for him to travel far."
Lu Tong also said: "The eldest prince is not able to walk well, so it would be more convenient for him to stay in the capital."
This is a clear refusal to allow the prince to leave the capital.
Although Yang Zhengde and other royalists had no idea what the emperor and his son were up to, they still stood up to help the eldest prince get the job of guarding the East China Sea.
However, Fan Ting's faction did not want the eldest prince to withdraw from the competition so quickly. They did not really want to support the eldest prince to take the throne. They just did not want the second prince, who was controlled by the Lu family, to take the throne.
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