The great affairs of a state lie in sacrifice and war.
This was one of the famous lines from the ancient Chinese classic Zuo Commentary. It meant that the two most important matters in governing a country were ritual sacrifice and warfare. This passage recorded how, around 572 BC, Duke Cheng of Lu, Duke Kang of Liu, and Duke Su of Cheng joined forces to help Duke Li of Jin attack Qin. During a sacrifice, Duke Su of Cheng had behaved with insufficient reverence, and Duke Kang of Liu criticized him for it.
In this account, "sacrifice" included not only religious rites, but also culture and education. Faith, culture, education, and war—during that age, when agriculture was underdeveloped and industry was practically nonexistent, these truly were the most important matters of a state. Even in later generations, they remained affairs of utmost importance.
Even in another world, it was the same.
Incidentally, Sui Xiong did not know where this saying came from. He remembered it because, in some game, the background of a character illustration had used those eight words as decoration. That character was named Kong Qiu, a kind and gentle educator who, well, habitually educated people through "physical" means.
Actually, the character's design had a problem, because the separation of education and religion had begun precisely with Confucius...
Of course, Brother Xiong did not know any of that. He only remembered the saying and thought it made a great deal of sense.
In this world, the boundary between education and religion was not clear. There were few scholars independent of religion, and even among the nobility, many were completely illiterate. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the entire world was an educational desert.
Precisely because of this, Sui Xiong's technical schools and Vol's promotion of