Inside a side hall beside the Hall of Diligent Governance, Zhou Xu was discussing the matter of sending teachers to the mountain regions with Kong Daqian and the Education Ministry's vice minister.
He had originally wanted to call the minister over, but then he remembered that the minister was Wang Dong, who had been pulled away by the Population Registry Bureau to lend a hand. He was not even in Black Moon City right now.
Still, discussing the matter with the vice minister was just as good.
They had only just settled on sending laborers to the mountain region to extract resources and build mountain roads, laying the groundwork for future development.
With that as a prerequisite, education naturally had to keep up as well.
Cultural education was one aspect, but ideological education was, to some extent, even more important.
After all, the mountain region was now essentially a remote mountain area within their Great Zhou. The mountain folk living there were largely cut off from the outside world.
Over the years, the population within the mountain region had naturally continued to grow.
It was just that the mountain region's original population base had been far too small, making it difficult to raise the growth rate quickly.
According to Zhou Xu's thinking, they could simply send two or three teachers and missionaries over to provide some basic education, and that would be enough.
After all, the mountain region truly was not a focus of their current development.
Even earlier, he had considered whether they should simply move out the entire population of the mountain region and leave the place deserted for the time being.
Once Great Zhou's technological strength had improved and it had fully developed, they could launch a massive wave of development there all at once.
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