Chen Lin was one of the "Seven Sons of Jian'an" back then, and her talent was of course not comparable to ordinary people.

After receiving Cao Shu's instructions, he immediately splashed his ink, but in an instant an edict about Cao Heng was spilled out of his writing.

After writing the edict, he held it in both hands and handed it to Cao Shu.

Cao Shu looked at it, nodded with satisfaction with his smile, and then handed the edict to Guo Jia: "Look at it, Kong Zhang's talent is really extraordinary to ordinary people, but the edict written in a moment is enough to make people all over the world admire the prince."

Guo Jia took the edict and read it and said, "As long as this edict is announced to the world, no one will believe their words if there are any vicious villains trying to confuse the public."

"Do you want to add a sentence, anyone who maliciously slanders the prince will be punished for spreading rumors?" Cao Shu asked.

"No need." Guo Jia replied: "As long as your Majesty passes on this edict, even if you don't ask those people for guilt, they will not be recognized by the world. If they insist on spreading vicious remarks, they just need to pretend to be a commoner and beat them up, others will rush forward, and even if they are not beaten to death, they will at least be disabled."

"If there is really someone who is afraid that the world will not be in chaos like that, it will be no more a pity to be killed and disabled." Cao Shu nodded: "You must never let the remarks that should not have dominated, and you must not let their malicious slander shake the position of the prince."

"I understand what Your Majesty gave me." Guo Jia replied: "With this edict, I will solve the rest without your efforts."

"I have to be filial." Cao Shuo said: "Thank you two, let's go back and do your own business first."

Guo Jia and Chen Lin stood up and left.

After leaving the room, Chen Lin asked Guo Jia: "Your Majesty wants me to come and write such an edict suddenly. Could it be that someone will maliciously criticize the prince, fearing that the world will not be in chaos?"

"There are thousands of people in the world, and there are always a few who are afraid that the world will not be in chaos." Guo Jia replied: "Although the Great Wei has won the world, there are still people who think that the world is not stable yet. As long as the people are incited, some chaos can still be caused."

"The world is stable and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Who would be stupid enough to follow those people to do unnecessary things?" Chen Lin said in confusion: "Unless the people are really stupid."

"There will never be a shortage of fools in this world." Guo Jia smiled slightly and said to Chen Lin: "The edict just now was really beautifully written. Once this edict is conveyed to the world, let alone those villains who attempt to maliciously slander the prince, they cannot find excuses when they see the opportunity, the people in the world will definitely be more convinced of the prince."

"Your Majesty has taken great pains to the prince." Chen Lin said: "It is very difficult for the prince to attack the alien race. Your Majesty to clean up the mess for him in Chang'an."

"When His Majesty led his troops to fight south and north, no one behind him was willing to clean up the mess." Guo Jia said: "When Emperor Wu was still alive, he often had doubts about His Majesty. The more aides and generals he spoke for His Majesty, the deeper the doubts in his heart. It was not until his death that he realized that the only one who was really suitable to take over the power of the Cao family was. Many of the remarks were actually secretly spread by the second son of that year."

The Emperor Wu mentioned by Guo Jia certainly refers to Cao Cao.

After Cao Shu ascended the throne, he posthumously named Cao Cao's temple name Emperor Wu of Wei.

The temple name is added to the next emperor after the death of the emperor. So Cao Shu didn't know what his temple name would be after a hundred years.

When talking about Cao Cao's treatment of Cao Shu back then, Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh.

Cao Cao was actually a father who loved his son, especially in the later period, he increasingly believed that Cao Shu was his successor, but he could not control Cao Pi's ambitions, so that the Yecheng Rebellion came into being.

Cao Shu did not attack Cao Pi immediately after Cao Cao's death.

The strengths of the two sides are too different. Once Cao Shu takes action, he will definitely crush Cao Pi.

Although Cao Pi did evil things at that time were enough to kill him hundreds of times, once Cao Shu did that, there would always be some people standing on the moral high ground to attack and slander.

His status is not particularly stable, and Cao Shuo cannot take such a risk, so he can only temporarily retreat to Shouchun and let Cao Pi struggle for a while first.

When Cao Pi was almost troubled and many people were extremely disappointed with him, Cao Shu repented that Yecheng had taken him down in one fell swoop, and he could be eliminated forever.

It was from that incident that Guo Jia truly recognized Cao Shu as suitable for taking over the power of the Cao family and thus unify the world and achieve success in his achievements.

Being at a high position is not only about being cruel to the opponents that must be eliminated, but also about being forbearable.

Often, when it seems that you can easily crush your opponent, it is the most unsuitable thing to crush.

Cao Shu had a good grasp of this degree back then. After killing Cao Pi, he could still win the hearts of the people in the world and finally unify the Great Wei, thus defeating the Eastern Wu, destroying the Shu Han, and finally completing unification, replacing the Han Dynasty, and establishing the Great Wei Dynasty.

Compared to Cao Shu back then, Prince Cao Heng was indeed cruel to the enemy, but he was still young after all, and his environment was very different from Cao Shu.

When Cao Heng was outside the barrier, he considered the most how to defeat the alien race. He had no concern at all during the conquest, he did something that he should not do and how to use to recover the influence.

Of course, only Cao Shu, who was in Chang'an, did this for him.

As the emperor and the father of the crown prince, Cao Shu did this simply to tell the harem and the whole world that the only one who inherits the imperial power of the Great Wei is the crown prince. No one should try to shake the position of the crown prince, because behind the crown prince, he, the emperor of the Great Wei, always stands!

Guo Jia and Chen Lin left, and Cao Shu also walked out of the room.

Cao Shuo's voice came from the room: "Please invite Chen Gongtai."

When the Great Wei Dynasty was established, Chen Gong was named Dasikong, in charge of construction and farming.

The Grand Sikong was ranked third duke. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three dukes were undermined. By the time of Cao Cao, the prime minister replaced the three dukes to assist in the administration.

In order to avoid the powerful ministers covering the sky with only one hand, after Cao Shu ascended the throne and established the Great Wei Dynasty, the system of Three Dukes and Nine Ministers was rebooted, and the Prime Minister and Three Dukes checked and balanced each other, so as to achieve the goal of a stable court.

Chen Gong arrived under the imperial edict.

Cao Shuo signaled him to sit down, and then asked: "How is Penglai lately?"

"Report to Your Majesty." Chen Gong replied: "Penglai craftsmen have developed new ordnances. Since the new cannon was put into use, the progress has been very fast."

"I know that the progress of military industry is not slow, the important thing is people's livelihood." Cao Shuo said: "Have they made new progress in people's livelihood research and development?"

"The cost of the people is not the top priority of Penglai." Chen Gong replied: "Penglai craftsmen have really not developed it."

"Immediately search for talents who are good at arithmetic, mechanical skills and other skills from all over the country." Cao Shuo said: "If you open schools in various places, the Dawei needs not only those who study for the sake of being an official, but also many talents with professional skills. Talents in all fields can study and study technology to promote the rapid development of the Dawei. What I want is a Dawei Dynasty that is ahead of other places in all aspects, rather than a Dawei Dynasty that just urges scholars to study and become officials."

"I understand what Your Majesty means." Chen Gong replied: "These things have been raised, but the progress is a bit slow. After all, many people think that studying is just for being an official."

"Study is to be an official." Cao Shu smiled and shook his head: "From today on, their ideas are wrong. I will not select officials with the Six Strategies, nor will I select officials with literary talent. Any official must sit up from the local area. Do not do many practical and effective things for the local area and when leaving the local area, officials who have no unfinished projects under their name can be promoted. The days when one article can be selected as an official by the court should be gone forever. You should consider how to establish a new school, and choose the major they study according to each person's different expertise. To let everyone in the world know that it is difficult to embark on the career path with articles alone. If you want to become an official in the Great Wei Dynasty, you must achieve something in a certain field. The talents that the Great Wei Dynasty wants are unconventional, not on the surface. I say that, you may understand?"

"I know what Your Majesty means." Chen Gong lowered his head and replied.

"Just just now, I discussed something with the Prime Minister, and planned to dig the Grand Canal from south to allow for the future transportation of the canal." Cao Shuo asked Chen Gong: "Do you think this matter is feasible?"

Chen Gong said: "Most rivers in the Central Plains go from west to east. Your Majesty wants to dig a canal from north to south, which consumes a lot of manpower and financial resources."

"Of course I know that the cost is quite large, but the digging of the canal is a reward for the present and the future." Cao Shuo said: "Maybe the canal construction will become a tyrant who is extravagant and desire in the future. But I know very well that what the tyrants do often can bring endless benefits to the world."

"If Your Majesty was willing to limit the construction period and divide the river into places and the excavation was carried out by various places, it might be better." Chen Gong replied.

Cao Shu's eyes lit up and he asked, "Please explain it clearly on the official station."

"From south to north and then into the sea, if the canal plays a role in connecting the north and south, it must be connected to many rivers." Chen Gong replied: "Trust the excavation task to various places, and strictly order the recruitment of civil servants should not exceed one month. Different civil servants will be rotated every month, and civil servants who participate in the excavation of the canal will be distributed with money and grain. The limited time period is five years, and it may not be a waste of money or money."

After pinching his chin and thinking about it, Cao Shu asked, "If the local government deducts the salary and rations of the people from it, wouldn't the crime be on my head?"

"So while digging the canal, you need to deal with the inspector's office, Dali Temple and other governments." Chen Gong replied: "Any local officials, from village chiefs, pavilions to county magistrates, county magistrates, and even local governors, will be severely punished as long as they find that they deduct wages and food for civil servants. They will be subject to serious laws and polite treatment for civil servants. Your Majesty will no longer bear the charges for local evil officials."

Cao Shu nodded.

Of course he knew that many so-called tyrants in history actually had no problem with the decrees issued by them.

Therefore, it eventually evolved into a waste of money and great joy. It was nothing more than that when local officials exercised their powers, they infinitely expanded their authority, and even gained benefits from it, and took the money allocated by the court to collect the money and grain distributed by the court in order to achieve the goal of filling their personal pockets.

These things done by corrupt officials are often fallen on the head of the emperor.

If these emperors bear the blame for corrupt officials, they will not lose money.

If they exercised their supervisory authority from the beginning, strangled corrupt officials into the cradle, and made local officials afraid to have bad ideas about the project funds they invested, they would not have caused trouble in the situation of people's misfortune.

"The public station is right. I will explain to the Supervision Department and Dali Temple in person." Cao Shuo asked Chen Gong again: "How is the farm being promoted now?"

"The farm that Your Majesty had previously promoted outside Luoyang City has now begun to make profits." Chen Gong replied: "The farm requires not much, but the income is several times greater than that of ordinary villages. Nowadays, farms are being promoted everywhere, and it is probably not enough for two or three years. There are only farms in the territory of the Great Wei Dynasty, and there will be no scattered pastoral areas."

"Now, the industries of the Great Wei are mostly based on agriculture." Cao Shuo said: "Actually, you and I know very well that relying on agriculture alone, the Great Wei Dynasty could not be completely strong. We need to expand cities in various places, build factories and other industries in the city. We will attract more people to the city and replace agriculture with industry."

"If you follow Your Majesty's plan, then all cities will probably be overcrowded." Chen Gong replied: "And most of the fields between the countryside will not be cultivated."

"Farming is only three or four months a year." Cao Shuo said: "When farming is busy, farmers still have some things to do. Once they wait until the farming is slack, they are idle every day and have almost nothing to do. Is it a pity for the office to consume manpower like this?"

Chen Gong asked Cao Shu in surprise: "I dare to ask if your Majesty's plan is..."

"Encourage and expand the city." Cao Shuo said: "The construction of the Great Wei Dynasty is focused on industry and another industry that is not industrial and peasant. As for agriculture, manorization like farms can already meet the needs of the people. The Jianghuai, Central Plains and other places have developed water and land and relatively complex terrain, which is not suitable for the development of agriculture. The land is handed over to farms, but the focus should be on industry and other industries. The northern plains, fertile fields and flat terrain are the best areas for truly implementing agriculture. As for the barbarian zone in the south, Lingyun Pavilion and Wangyue Tower were told to send long-distance merchant ships to look for other continents where people live. Once they find it, trade with those places. Those who refuse to trade will order a naval expedition and defeat them until they are willing to trade. Various places develop different economic entities according to their own conditions. Sooner or later, the Great Wei will become the most powerful dynasty in the world."

"I have recorded all the instructions from Your Majesty." Chen Gong had not thought about many of the instructions that Cao Shu had ordered, especially the last one, that the development of the south actually required merchant ships and navy to advance side by side, which was indeed something he had never considered before.

"The Great Sikong of the Great Wei Dynasty is different from any previous dynasty." Cao Shuo then said to Chen Gong: "The burden on the Gongtai is not light!"

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!