Having once served as Imperial Advisor for several months, Kong Daqian now wore a neat robe. Just standing there, he naturally exuded an imposing aura, and fooling some ordinary folk was as easy as turning over his hand.
Of course, it could not really be called fooling them. Rather, he had pointed out the pros and cons of the matter to the common people.
In their Great Zhou, sending children to school—and having them attend for free—truly brought nothing but benefits and no drawbacks.
People who farmed were certainly needed as well. Agricultural output was also an extremely important matter, and it was no exaggeration to say that it concerned the survival of their Great Zhou.
The problem was that there were already far too many people in Great Zhou who knew how to farm. As its territory continued to expand, what Zhou Xu lacked was talent—talent with literacy as the minimum threshold and no upper limit!
From the moment Zhou Xu's new policy of "Compulsory Education" was introduced, the Propaganda Department, led by Kong Daqian, had been constantly appearing in restaurants and teahouses everywhere, and even in the streets and alleys.
After they explained their ideas to the patrons in those restaurants and teahouses, whenever those patrons encountered the same topic afterward, they would inevitably discuss it with others as well.
In this way, one person told ten, and ten told a hundred. In just a few days, the number of ordinary people from every city bringing their children to register for school soared.
In recent days, Great Zhou had been anything but quiet. Listening to the latest news about the new policy from outside, Li Bowen wore a look of deep emotion.
Although he had already understood His Majesty's intentions and figured everything out when the new policy