[PS: Once again, thank you "Apathetic Guy" for your previous tips. This chapter is the promised additional chapter. Thank you for your support!!!]
With money in his pocket, Ouyang Shuo could put some of his ideas into action.
During this period of time, Ouyang Shuo had been thinking about a problem. The territory had developed to the point where it had four counties. If this was in the real ancient times, the size of a territory would be the same as a country.
At this point, where should the reformation of the territory go?
In his previous life, Ouyang Shuo had obtained bits and pieces of territory management experience through the forum. It was no longer enough to guide him in making a long-term plan for the territory.
In the five years of his previous life, Di Chen's territory was about the same as the current Mountain Sea Territory. In other words, Ouyang Shuo had used less than two years to complete the path that Di Chen had taken five years to walk in his previous life.
Therefore, there was no higher level of experience for Ouyang Shuo to learn from.
At this point, Ouyang Shuo had to rely on himself. Whether it was Xiao He, Fan Zhongyan, or the others, although they had historical memories, their thinking was still limited to the ancient times.
Therefore, it was not a problem for them to carry out Ouyang Shuo's strategy. Xiao He and the others would carry out Ouyang Shuo's orders perfectly. There was no need for Ouyang Shuo to worry.
However, to ask them to stand at the height of the era and guide the territory was a bit too much. Not to mention Xiao He, even the Sage Strategist Zhang Liang might not be able to do this.
It wasn't that they weren't smart or powerful, but that their way of thinking was fundamentally different from the Overlord players.
This difference was called the generation gap. To put it more broadly, it was the limitation of the era.
In all kinds of historical novels, the male protagonists were able to dominate the world. The modern knowledge of the previous life was only the surface. Their most fundamental advantage was that their thinking was ahead of the ancient people.
It was precisely because of this that they could jump out of the fence and forge an unusual path.
Ouyang Shuo was currently playing the role of such a transmigrator. Therefore, no one could help him. The only one who could help him was himself.
Ouyang Shuo had expected today's situation since a year ago.
Because of this, Ouyang Shuo buried himself in his studies, and he ceaselessly sought guidance from Fan Zhongyan and the others. His goal was to enrich himself so that he could guide the territory in the future and serve as a good helmsman.
Thinking of this, Ouyang Shuo stood up and walked to the window.
Outside the window, the small courtyard was still as quiet as before. There was no longer the hustle and bustle of the day. The bright moon hung high in the sky. The pure white moonlight gently sprinkled on the courtyard, like a thin silver veil.
Under the cover of the night, Ouyang Shuo's figure under the moonlight suddenly seemed somewhat lonely.
I am the one who stands at the top!
The experience of being reborn made Ouyang Shuo even more lonely than others.
With no one to talk to, there was no way to continue.
Ouyang Shuo's current accomplishments had already exceeded his expectations when he'd just been reborn. His and Bing 'er's situation, compared to his previous life, was completely different. It was like heaven and earth.
Logically speaking, Ouyang Shuo should be satisfied and should enjoy life properly.
Unfortunately, he didn't!
The reason why Ouyang Shuo wasn't satisfied with the current situation and continued to temper himself was because he wanted to become an overlord that lingered in the heart of a man.
When awake, he wields the power of the world; when drunk, he lies on the knees of beauties.
Which man in the world had never dreamed of being a hero?
Now, Ouyang Shuo had this opportunity.
Standing at the crossroads, Ouyang Shuo didn't want to waste time and let down the good times.
Times create heroes, and heroes also create times.
The wheel of history pushed Ouyang Shuo to his current position, and there was no way back.
The road of hegemony was like rowing a boat against the current. If you don't advance, you will fall back.
If Ouyang Shuo dared to relax for a moment, countless enemies would pounce on him and tear him to pieces. His ending would be even more miserable than his previous life.
How could the road of hegemony be perfect?!
If Ouyang Shuo wanted to obtain the world, he was destined to lose his freedom.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The moonlight was like water. Ouyang Shuo's state of mind once again recovered its tranquility. The loneliness just now was like a ripple that quietly spread out in the lake of his heart before continuing to disappear.
Ouyang Shuo closed the window and returned to the desk in the study.
The military and political meeting that was held during the day only solved the current urgent problems. There were still many things that Ouyang Shuo needed to summon the ministers one by one to discuss in detail.
For example, after the reorganization of the army, the direction of the future attack. Should they head east to attack Jiaozhou County or Shaozhou County, which were in a weakened state? Or should they continue to carry out the previously planned westward strategy and attack Wuzhou County, where Chiyou City was located, and then attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?
Speaking of which, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had been raised by Ouyang Shuo for almost a year, and it was already a huge monster. It had to be said that Ouyang Shuo's previous prediction was too confident and too optimistic.
The current Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was probably not something that Shanhai City could deal with at will.
Ouyang Shuo didn't expect that Hong Xiuquan's ability to summon surrender was so heaven-defying. Think about it, Shanhai City had gone through a series of bitter battles to conquer Leizhou County and Zhaoqing County.
On the other hand, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's attack on Zhen 'an County and Guilin County was as easy as pie.
When the two were compared, it was obvious who was superior.
This monster had become a great threat to Shanhai City.
Nurturing a tiger only invited disaster!
In the future, Shanhai City and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were destined to have a fierce battle.
Other than that, there was the issue of the internal reform of the territory.
The military rank system and the military merit system were just a small test for Ouyang Shuo.
Ouyang Shuo's next step was to prepare for an even bigger change. His eyes were set on public affairs, or rather, public services, which had been neglected before.
Public services were the core concept of public administration and government reform in modern society. They included strengthening the construction of public facilities in urban and rural areas, developing education, technology, culture, health, sports, and other public services, and providing a guarantee for the public to participate in social, economic, political, and cultural activities.
Projecting into the game world, except for sports, all of them had their own needs.
The first was education.
This went without saying. From private schools to higher education in Southwest University China Hall, the purpose was to inspire the people and nurture talents for the territory.
The second was technology.
Technology was the number one productive force. This sentence still had a guiding meaning in the game world. Otherwise, the various technical manuals wouldn't have been fought over by the lords.
The third was culture.
Culture and education were interdependent and restrained. There was no need to say more.
The last was sanitation.
This sanitation, in addition to public health, actually also included public medical care and other contents.
These four areas all had flaws in the planning of the territory, and all of them had hidden dangers. To put it in simpler terms, the previous extensive planning of the territory needed to be carefully managed.
Take education as an example.
The educational institutions of the territory, Southwest University China Hall and the Military Martial Arts Lecture Hall, needless to say, were the highest educational institutions. Not only in the territory, but in the entire China region, they were also becoming more and more influential.
The private schools also flourished under Ouyang Shuo's guidance.
The crux of the problem was that between the private schools and the highest educational institutions, there was a gap in the territory's educational institutions.
In ancient times, a more complete education system started from elementary school, then county school, county school, academy, and finally the Imperial College, forming a complete chain.
Strictly speaking, this chain was also present in the territory.
Every county in the territory also had academies as a secondary educational institution. Southwest University China Hall was actually playing the role of the Imperial College.
The problem wasn't the gap in the academies, but the curriculum.
In the elementary school stage, there was no need to mention the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", and other introductory books. Southwest University China Hall had eight schools, which could be considered a hundred flowers blooming.
What was neglected was the county and county level academies.
Basically, all the counties and counties were seized through war. The academies that were originally built in the territory were naturally inherited after the territory was occupied.
These academies all taught traditional classics and history.
In other words, the counties and counties' academies could only send students to Southwest University China Hall to enter the School of Classics. The other academies, such as the Law School, Business School, Physics School, Architecture School, and so on, none of them matched.
The other academies all recruited students from society, or simply the basic government officials to study in the academies, and then they would be sent back to the factory to be reformed.
This was definitely not a long-term solution.
Before this, the problem wasn't prominent because Shanhai City only had one county. Southwest University China Hall could still accept students from society within the territory.
But now, the territory already occupied four counties.
Even if a carpenter from Zhaoqing County was willing to travel thousands of miles and spend a month on the road to study at the Physics School of Southwest University China Hall, the academy had to be able to accommodate them.
The students from the four counties would definitely fill Southwestern University to the brim.
Therefore, it was necessary to set up a transfer station in the county.
In other words, the county's academies had to offer the same subjects, such as mathematics, business, law, and so on. So that the local students could enter the school nearby.
At the same time, it would also use the local academies to screen the students again and again. Only the most outstanding among them would be qualified to be recommended to study at Southwest University China Hall.
In this way, not only would the problems of the students be solved, but the quality of the students at Southwest University China Hall would also be improved, so that it could truly match the status of the highest educational institution.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be a great waste of the territory's educational resources if great masters like Han Fei and Xu Xing had to teach some useless people who couldn't become great people?
In addition, once this system was established, it would automatically form a perfect talent selection chain. In other words, through the layers of examinations in the academies, the territory would be able to select talents even without passing the imperial examination.
Anyone who successfully graduated from Southwest University China Hall would be the most outstanding talent in the territory. (To be continued.)
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