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The prince's soul was stunned for a moment, his expression confused, and hesitantly said: "Are you talking about the things in the Imperial Holy Book of Truth? That knowledge is indeed very interesting, but...but what is its use?"
"I don't know what knowledge is useful for, but I have ruled the empire for eleven years and have been building schools. Do you know why?"
"Training army officers?"
"That's only part of it. More importantly, this will allow me to successfully build an entire civil service system. With the thirteen-level civil service system, I won't have to rely on those stupid nobles to govern the country. The talented people in the empire will come forward on their own and be used by me."
Seeing the prince's thoughtful expression, Isabella shook her head: "In fact, there is a simpler statistic - building one more school means building one less prison."
The room fell silent for a long time. The prince spoke hesitantly, "Do you think Bazel will let them go? Will Nora be able to return safely?"
"Of course not."
The prince's soul opened his eyes wide: "Then you still..."
Isabella snorted coldly, "What are you afraid of? This is a good thing. These scoundrels who pretend to obey but actually disobey should be punished. As for Zeus, his reputation has always been earned through fighting. If he was afraid, he would have retreated to that island long ago."
"You mean he'll send troops to the North?"
"He planned this from the beginning. Have you read the letter he asked me to write? Wow, he's really like his father."
"His father?" The prince recalled for a long time with a bitter face, and then asked uncertainly: "Duke Cohen?"
Isabella did not reply. She changed into a more comfortable position, closed her eyes and took a nap.
Castel.
After giving some brief instructions, Zeus took most of the banshees and swam directly back to Castel from the sea.
Although the ironclad ship was docked in the port, he still chose to swim in the sea. The main reason was that he did not trust the people in the shipyard. If the ship sank, he would have to go into the sea anyway. It would be better to walk directly into the sea and skip the intermediate steps.
When he returned to the office, dripping wet, Alexei had been waiting for a long time.
Hughes took a towel and wiped his hair while discussing the negotiations between the two sides with Alexei.
"You refused the free land and instead did business with them?" the clerk asked in surprise.
"You don't understand, do you?"
"Indeed, it's such a large port, and it's also the core city of Tis. I can't think of any reason not to take it."
"It's very simple, Alexi. We are a country based on industry. Productivity is our most important thing. Before we build our territory, external expansion will only lead to slow blood loss."
In fact, it is the difference between explosive paving and precise paving.
Quickly occupying land can gain more resource reserves and population, but there are two problems here.
Resource reserves, such as minerals, do not automatically turn into steel.
As for the population of industrial countries, only the educated population can be regarded as a demographic dividend, otherwise it is just a pure burden.
The benefits brought by inefficient population utilization such as farming are not even enough to offset the administrative costs of management consumption.
Because as the management area expands, administrative efficiency decreases very quickly, and without instant communication means, a large amount of manpower will be wasted every time a part of the territory is expanded.
This is a waste of real industrial population.
"But I still don't understand." Alexei rubbed his brows. "If we just give up the land, wouldn't it be equivalent to losing these resources and population forever?"
"Who told you that you lost?" Hughes laughed. "Didn't I ask for missionary work and free trade?"
Alexei was stunned, his mind turned around for a few rounds, and suddenly he showed a look of realization: "You want to establish a school in the name of missionary work?"
"That's right. After the school is established, those who have learned will naturally move up. Castel will provide them with a path to advancement. Even if the prince wants to retain people, there are not so many positions to accommodate high-end talents."
“Will this result in a loss of knowledge?”
Hughes shook his head and his face became serious. "Knowledge is very similar to wealth. The more it circulates, the more valuable it is. And there is another key point - what is a high-level talent in Blood Harbor is just an ordinary person in Castel."
Castel has already popularized higher-level education, advanced classes? That was just the threshold to Castel.
The textbooks written by Xius were not very advanced, and the advanced classes only added a lot of common sense. On Blue Planet, it was not even beyond the scope of compulsory education. It was just that the pursuit of knowledge in this world was too dangerous, and the overall level was too poor.
This way, we can get an educated population without having to bear the burden of managing the Blood Harbor. As for the prince? He was even happier about this, as long as a school was established, the education in Blood Harbor would definitely be improved.
As for resources, free trade is no joke. If you can't buy something, you can use an ironclad ship to buy it.
"Okay, let's just leave it at that. Everything went well today. After the shipyard iterates a few more times, there should be a sufficiently reliable ship to use. Let's start organizing a team now. Then we can take a ship directly to the North."
Xius recalled the short, white-haired girl. It had been so long that her face was a little blurry in his memory. He only remembered that she always had a serious look on her face and never smiled.
Originally, Ken and Jeremiah's ship was intended to support her, but they didn't expect it to be delayed for so long that they were finally able to do so now.
"I heard that she left the Silent Temple. I guess there are a lot of stories behind that." Xius sighed, "We can find more people who are familiar with the North to participate, um, those from the Secret Order will do."
Alexei wrote in his notebook, "By the way, Lord, how are you going to deal with the matter of the Secret Order?"
"The Secret Society."
Speaking of this, Xiu Si also had a headache. According to the report given to him by his mother-in-law, these people were just borrowing the name of Castel. The so-called beliefs and scriptures were all made up.
Zeus didn't care much about this. He was only prepared to give some symbolic punishment and publicize the imperial truth, and the matter would be over.
But in the Blood Harbor rebellion, Castel personally took part, with airships and Banshees going into battle. This brought the battle scene to an epic level, with even many members of the Harbor Guards kneeling on the ground and worshipping as if they had seen a god, not to mention the Secret Order.
Is the Holy Scripture compiled? Everyone saw the great battle between the evil gods with their own eyes, so no one would believe such words anymore.
"Let's pull Josh back first. I'll study the specifics."
Xiusi was also a little hesitant. He now felt that he was in a dilemma regarding the secret society.
But that's all the trouble.
Soon, Xius finished dealing with all these messy things and went back to bed to have a good sleep - but he always felt that he seemed to have forgotten something.
At midnight, he suddenly sat up from the bed:
"Damn it, I actually forgot about this! Quick, come quickly, don't let Nini secretly distribute newspapers!!"
(End of this chapter)
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