Crowned the New Han Dynasty

Chapter 1052 Listening instead of thinking, Chen’s busy business
After hearing Chen Zhi reveal his plan, Su Liao had nothing to say. More importantly, he heard the hidden meaning in these words——

My lord obviously plans to stay in Youzhou.

How can a normal governor's term of four to six years be enough to catch up with the elected children's adulthood?It would take at least five to ten years for these students who were selected to succeed in their studies. If Chen Zhi left at the end of his term, he would probably miss them all.

Even if the position of General Zhengbei is included, it cannot be justified.General Zhengbei focused more on military affairs, and his interference in civil affairs was actually very limited.

On the other hand, these words also reflect Chen Zhi's judgment on the situation in the world from the side -

The world will continue to be turbulent for a long time, even damaging the foundation of the imperial court.

Otherwise, why would Chen Zhi arrange such a back-up plan?
The nearly ten-year talent growth cycle and the sufficient number of scholars are undoubtedly preparations for a longer period of separatism and expansion.

In fact, in the past four years, Chen Zhi has not relaxed his attention and investment in the matter of enlightenment. He has built government schools in several major counties and counties, and has provided many conveniences for those who study. Some students left school, passed the literary examination, and invested in the construction of Youzhou.

Seeing that Su Liao understood his intention, Chen Zhi dropped the topic and asked, "How is the promotion of folk customs?"

This is actually asking how well the Juzi lectures have guided the public opinion of the people.

When facing Su Liao, there was no need to pack things up, and Chen Zhi did not need to cover up and make excuses like when talking to Lu Zhi and others.

Su Liao also answered succinctly: "People rarely have fun on weekdays. When there are speeches and lectures, most of them will go over to listen and take pleasure in it. They treat many things as legends and listen to them as they are, and discuss them more afterwards. "

"This is a good phenomenon." What Chen Zhi wants to do is to control the public opinion environment in Youzhou as much as possible.

Any form of preaching imposes one's own thinking on others. When the latter become accustomed to this form of absorbing information, they will gradually lose their ability to think and make judgments based on the thinking logic of the preacher.

This kind of thing is called brainwashing in later generations.

In fact, no one can escape being brainwashed by external information, but some people think that they have not been brainwashed.

One of the most typical examples is that in the era of information explosion in later generations, the threshold for obtaining information and knowledge has been lowered and the channels have increased. However, scattered information and unsystematic fragments test a person's ability to analyze and organize. At this time, many convenient search tools appeared, so many people became accustomed to searching.

The information obtained by searching often comes with conclusions, so many people become puppets of the search. They seem to have reached the conclusion, but in fact they do not think about it, but they think they have gained knowledge. However, this knowledge does not last long and will be lost after a few days. More new information is covered, because this is not my own perception and cannot be retained.

What Chen Zhi has to do now is to use high manpower and high costs to achieve similar effects in an era of low productivity.

"Youzhou will not be peaceful forever, and we will not be dormant forever," Chen Zhi glanced at Su Liao, who was deep in thought, "A force is like a person. The strength, food, and wealth are strength, physique, and size. And different thoughts are like many thoughts. The competition between forces is like two people fighting and confronting each other. You can use fists, but victory or defeat depends not only on physical fitness, but also on who is more determined. The fewer distracting thoughts, the stronger the will. Be determined, what Youzhou has to do is to concentrate all the power of the entire state, whether it is strength or thoughts."

Su Liao nodded: "I understand."

……………… “Brother, have you met Su Liao again?”

On the other side, when Chen Zi returned home, he met several clan members, and the identity of the leader was extraordinary, it was Chen Zhi's third brother Chen Xi.

Given Chen Zhi's status in Youzhou, his brother is naturally an important figure. However, Chen Zhi did not let his brother take a temporary post in the General's Mansion or the Youzhou Governor's Mansion. Instead, he arranged a walking position for Chen Ting. He traveled around Youzhou and arranged for Chen Xi to handle family affairs and conduct business.

At first, Chen Xi didn't understand. He made several willful actions, such as concealing his identity and participating in the literary examination. However, he really had no talent. Although he had read books, he was not outstanding, so he failed the examination as expected.

After Chen Zhi found out about it, he only mentioned it briefly but did not punish him.

After a long time, Chen Xi settled down. Over the past few years, he has grown older and more sensible. Now he runs several workshops, owns some land under his name, and married a wife. Because of Chen Zhi's relationship, this Everyone in Youzhou respected him, and his life was enjoyable.

However, despite the fact that Chen Xi had gained strength by relying on his elder brother's reputation, he was more in awe than close to Chen Zhi, the eldest brother, and it was quite unnatural to see him face to face.Compared to his brother Chen Zhi, he is closer to Chen Zi.

In fact, strictly speaking, the blood relationship between Chen Zi, who was born in the Xiapi Chen family, and Chen Xi is quite distant. However, compared to the superior Chen Zhi, Chen Zi, who has a certain amount of power, makes people feel more real. This is also because Chen Zi will take care of the development of the Chen family in Youzhou and help solve some problems and problems in the clan.

In contrast, Chen Zhi's status restricted such actions. There were some things he couldn't do in order to prevent giving a wrong example to the people below, causing them to misunderstand, and thus causing the Chen family to take the wrong path.So more often than not, when Chen Zhi wanted to take care of the Chen family, he would ask Chen Zi to do it instead of doing it himself.

Over time, Chen Zi became famous and respected among the Chen family in Youzhou.

When they heard that he was back, many people came to visit him. Chen Xi came quickly, and because of his identity, he could speak first.

They are all members of the Chen family, and Chen Zhi is in charge of Youzhou, so people of the Chen family generally have a "ownership" spirit, are very concerned about internal and external affairs, and have few scruples when speaking.

Soon, a group of people were sitting together, drinking tea and discussing Taoism, which was very uncomfortable.

They also knew that Su Liao went to find Chen Zhi, so Chen Xi took the initiative to mention it, with a hint of disgust and fear in his words.

As the head of the secret service, Su Liao had suffered several losses even for members of the Chen clan. He was afraid that other people would not dare to talk about this person, even during a family banquet. There was no guarantee that one of his servants would be a spy. The spies, maybe what they ate, drank, or said at night, were sent directly to the Secret Service's Yamen, and were interrogated by Chen Zhi the next day.

The people surnamed Chen were less scrupulous, but when Chen Xi mentioned it, the atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

Chen Zi waved his hand and said: "Instead of mentioning political affairs, let's talk about family affairs. I heard that something happened to our Chen family recently, and it was related to the lord's little sister. I don't know what the details are?"

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