339: Chapter 339 A strong youth makes a strong nation!

This led Zhao Fusu to reflect on the need to vigorously promote Compulsory Education and carry out Literacy work within Great Qin.

Over the past three years, in his spare time, Zhao Fusu had already compiled textbooks for modern Mandarin's pinyin, Radicals, dictionaries of common characters, and grammar.

He also knew that if he promoted education on a large scale, it would be inevitable that the Remnants of the Six States would acquire knowledge in Science and Engineering.

However, overall, the benefits far outweighed the drawbacks.

If the youth are strong, the nation is strong!

He would continue to strike down the Remnants of the Six States.

But the Six States were a thing of the past; now, there were only the Six Lands!

The people of these Six Lands were also part of the Huaxia People.

The stronger they became, the stronger the Huaxia People would be.

"Your Majesty the Paramount Leader!"

Li Si hurried into Zhao Fusu's Imperial Study and reported to him, "Our train has been attacked in Kuaiji Commandery."

"These are the specific details of the incident."

Li Si handed a document to Zhao Fusu.

It recorded the entire course of the train attack, as well as the statements extracted from the captives.

"The Water Bandits of Yunmeng Marsh!"

Zhao Fusu was surprised.

How did they travel so far without alerting the Louchuan Soldiers along the way?

Zhao Fusu was well aware that a large number of Water Bandits had gathered in Yunmeng Marsh.

After paper was introduced, it was used for recording government affairs.

Zhao Fusu had standardized the format for Memorials. Besides the date and the official's title and name, he required reports to be concise and clear. Unnecessary words were to be omitted, as their repetitive ramblings were otherwise excessive.

This was like modern official document writing, striving for brevity and clarity rather than using a bunch of archaic particles that made it difficult for the upper echelons to understand.

Some officials even used the Memorials as an excuse to engage in blatant flattery.

This only increased the workload of the upper echelons.

For those at the bottom, being complimented was a matter of great prestige.

Because normally, no one offered them such praise.

But once one reached the top, there was so much flattery that they became immune to it after hearing it so often.

When they were working, having a large amount of flattery pop up in the documents they handled simply added to their workload!

The National Assembly would process the Memorials before passing them to Zhao Fusu for review.

This greatly increased Zhao Fusu's efficiency.

After the Memorials were processed by the National Assembly, he only needed to read them once; if there were no issues, he would simply stamp them with the red "Reviewed" seal.

Zhao Fusu had seen the issue of banditry in Yunmeng Marsh in the Memorials sent by the National Assembly.

Yunmeng Marsh was located in the Chu Region.

During the pre-Qin period, this was the hunting ground of the King of Chu, and others were forbidden from approaching.

After the State of Chu was destroyed, many local commoners still did not dare to enter Yunmeng Marsh.

But for outlaws, it was a paradise.

Those who could not endure tyrannical governance and heavy taxes fled into Yunmeng Marsh.

Yunmeng Marsh was vast and filled with wetlands; if they wanted meat, they caught fish, and they could also grow their own rice and vegetables.

After Zhao Fusu reduced taxes, many people returned to their hometowns.

Yunmeng Marsh was then reoccupied by aggressive bandits who relied on the marsh's vastness and dense reed beds to evade government pursuit.

Over time, more and more bandits gathered in Yunmeng Marsh. They robbed passing ships and even went ashore to pillage the commoners, becoming a major scourge for Nan Commandery.