Chapter 547

Qin Mu, however, laughed out loud.

"I am letting you two look at what the essence of this matter is.

A few wolves bit six sheep to death.

Then the governor took people and wiped out the wolf pack.

Think about it carefully, do you have no feelings about this?"

With such a blunt hint, if they still could not think of it, Li Ke and Lu Yu could really go and hit their heads against a wall.

The Emperor was letting them continue to reflect on the matter of the Wang clan being wiped out.

How similar was it to this wolf pack?

The Wang clan was Wu Li Ke this wolf pack; although it was only those few wolves that bit the sheep to death, no one would think the wolf pack was innocent.

They must be completely wiped out to ensure the safety of the sheep flock.

With such an example, Li Ke and Lu Yu suddenly understood.

The common people are Wu Li Ke sheep.

The aristocratic families are Wu Li Ke wolves.

One cannot always wait until the wolves have bitten the sheep to death before going to catch and punish the offending wolves.

"Your Majesty, this subject understands; different origins determine one's role from the very beginning."

Qin Mu crumpled up a piece of paper and threw it, hitting Li Ke on the forehead.

"Stupid!

Your understanding of this is too superficial!

The role does not lie in any specific person, but in the two words 'aristocratic family'!

Just Wu Li Ke you two, you have each broken away from your own families, and thus simultaneously cast off that man-eating role."

Qin Mu explained it to them clearly, hoping that the two of them would not keep dwelling on this matter.

And quickly walk out from the influence of this case.

Li Ke finally had a sudden realization.

"Your Majesty, for the past few days, I have been thinking hard at home, wondering if I am guilty?

I could not figure it out no matter what.

If it weren't for Your Majesty's reminder, I fear I would have fallen into that circle and never walked out!

So it turns out that once I break away from the family, the great crimes committed by this family will no longer fall on my head!"

Lu Yu had also just figured it out.

She let out a long sigh, clearly feeling a sense of relief.

"Your Majesty used this example to untie the knot in our hearts. This subject thanks Your Majesty!"

With the knot untied, both of them felt much lighter.

Qin Mu knew that the most critical part had been cleared for them.

As for the remaining details, he would leave them to themselves.

These two people were still relatively important to Great Qin.

"Li Ke, here are a few books; go and have them printed.

Afterward, take them to the academy as a compulsory subject."

Qin Mu threw a few books to Li Ke.

Li Ke picked them up and looked.

Shen Kuo's *Dream Pool Essays*.

Song Song Yingxing's *Tiangong Kaiwu*.

Xu Xu Guangqi's *Complete Treatise on Agricultural Administration*.

Li Li Chunfeng's *Yisi Zhan*.

Li Li Shizhen's *Compendium of Materia Medica*.

They were all books about craftsmanship, agricultural technology, meteorology, and Chinese herbal medicine.

In the academy, the Four Books and Five Classics had always been the compulsory subjects.

These technical things were never taught.

Qin Mu was once again going to subvert a tradition.

Li Ke dared not question Qin Mu's decision.

But he still had doubts in his heart.

"Your Majesty, if the Confucian classics are replaced by these technical books, I fear it will cause opposition from the literati."

Confucianism had always had many defenders; it was precisely because these people guarded it generation after generation that the status of Confucianism had not been shaken for thousands of years.

There were advantages and disadvantages.

Qin Mu tapped on the dragon desk and reminded him.

"The literati you speak of, who are they?"

Li Ke suddenly woke up.

These Confucian defenders basically all came from aristocratic families; their ultimate goal was to maintain their own authority.

But in Great Qin, the "anti-social crime" had already been established.

How could these people still dare to jump out?

Li Ke, after all, came from the imperial clan, and unconsciously, he would carry his previous habitual thinking.

"Your Majesty, I understand."

Qin Mu said.

"The children of Great Qin, reading such books from a young age, will be able to contribute more to the country when they grow up. The foundation of Great Qin's nation-building is technology, not those ideological shackles!"

These words were deafening!

Challenging the tradition of over a thousand years!

Lu Yu, on the side, had not spoken much.

Since joining Great Qin, she had witnessed Qin Mu's various reforms with her own eyes.

How should one put it?

Qin Mu's thinking was unconstrained, absolutely not bound by some inherent views of this era.

Regardless of the problem, he had his own profound views.

This was the point that Lu Yu admired the most.

"Your Majesty, Great Qin is rich and strong because of technology, which is also what other countries covet.

If these books are published publicly, I fear it will leak these technologies to other countries."

Leaking technology was a major taboo.

Especially Great Tang, which always wanted to steal/learn something from Great Qin.

Back then, when Li Ke came to Changancheng, he had racked his brains to steal Great Qin's book-making techniques for Great Tang.

At that time, Great Tang did not understand printing techniques.

Now, once these books were printed, a large amount of technology would be announced to the world.

Letting those countries pick up a bargain for nothing.

Qin Mu looked at Lu Yu with a smile in his eyes.

"Lu Yu, you want to keep these technologies secret forever, and then use these technologies to earn the world's wealth forever, is that it?" Lu Yu heard the teasing tone in Qin Mu's words.

But she could not deny that she was harboring such thoughts.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, craftsmen have kept their unique techniques secret; such a thought is not wrong, right?"

Qin Mu looked at Lu Yu's timid appearance and found it quite funny.

This young lady, now, did not even dare to speak confidently about her own firmly held views.

Perhaps he had subverted too many ideas in their hearts.

"The idea of keeping secrets cannot be said to be wrong, but it is also not entirely correct."

This sentence left Li Ke and Lu Yu stunned again.

So, is it correct or incorrect?

Qin Mu was not trying to be mysterious, but this thing required a sense of scale.