Li Jie and Yang Shiqi walked along the built railway and chatted. It has to be said that Yang Shiqi is indeed a person with outstanding abilities. Less than a month after he arrived at the railway, he had already figured out the entire project clearly. No matter what Li Jie asked, he could answer it. No wonder he was able to become a famous minister in history.

But at this moment, Li Jie suddenly changed the topic and immediately asked Yang Shiqi with a smile: "Shiqi, you must know the transfer of officials. What do you think about this?"

"This..." Yang Shiqi, who was unprepared, was also stunned by this question. He hesitated for a moment before he said cautiously, "In fact, the officials cannot see why the prince-consort insists on changing the official position. After all, this incident will touch the interests of too many people. Even the reason why Wang Shuying made up his mind to attack the prince-consort was the direct inducement."

Yang Shiqi did not express his clear view on this matter, but it can be seen from his meaning that he did not support Li Jie's insistence on being transferred to an official position, but this was also a normal reaction. After all, except for Li Jie and Zhu Yunsheng, few people can understand the necessity of this matter.

"It's normal for you not to understand. It may even seem that in some people, I'm just making unreasonable and deliberately suppressing those scholars. Unfortunately, these people don't know at all that their actions have caused to the country." Li Jie sighed heavily.

If possible, Li Jie also wanted to live a relaxed life, even hello to you and I, everyone, but reality is reality, and some people's interests need to be exploited from another group of people. However, the exploiters take it for granted. There are too many such people throughout history.

"What danger can scholars cause to the country? Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce perform their own duties. Only a country can prosper, and scholars are just one of them. It is because scholars are officials that can help the king manage the people of the world. Is this wrong?" Yang Shiqi asked again in confusion. At this time, when he spoke, there were a few different things in his eyes.

"It is certainly true that scholars, farmers, industry and commerce perform their duties, but you touch your conscience and tell me, do you scholars really look down on farmers, craftsmen and merchants?" Li Jie asked Yang Shiqi with a glance.

"I..." Yang Shiqi instinctively wanted to argue, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he didn't know what to say. Or under Li Jie's gaze, he did not dare to fool Li Jie with the words he used to fool others.

Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce were originally from Guanzi, but later they were imposed on many concepts by scholars. For example, craftsmen and businessmen have always been regarded as low-level businesses, especially businessmen, with extremely low status. No matter how rich you are, their low social status has greatly suppressed them and they even have to cling to the powerful. Only in this way can they survive.

As for farmers, let alone, although scholars call for farming every day to build a country, and there is no food in the world, and of course agriculture is indeed extremely important to the country, the status of farmers is also low and even becomes the main target of exploitation by scholars.

For example, many scholars like to claim that their family farming and studying through family members, as if they could study while arriving in the land. But in fact, these people are all landlords, and they are the ones who study, but the tenants who cultivate the land are dependent on their tenants. The tenants are actually landless farmers, and their status is even worse than that of craftsmen and merchants.

Seeing that Yang Shiqi was not talking, Li Jie did not mock him, but suddenly sighed and said, "What I asked for was not personal wealth and honor. Otherwise, I would have resigned from office and refused to do it, and flew with the princess together. But some things were seen, but I had to do it. Even if I left endless infamy, I wouldn't care!"

When Li Jie said the above words, his tone seemed very calm, but in Yang Shiqi's ears, it looked like a thunderous drum. He believed that Li Jie was telling the truth. After all, with Li Jie's status, he could choose a smoother road.

"The biggest problem of you scholars is that you are pretentious and think that you can represent the people of the world. In fact, you can only represent yourself and cannot represent others at all!" When Li Jie said this, he also reached out and patted Yang Shiqi on the shoulder.

In fact, Li Jie doesn't like to use this kind of words to teach others, but he was also inspired by Yang Shiqi, a person with unknown origin, so he said a little more. Maybe he didn't find out. In fact, he still hopes to fight for Yang Shiqi and let him serve him.

Yang Shiqi was also silent for a long time, and finally raised his head and looked at Li Jie and asked, "Your Majesty, you seem to have prejudices against scholars. I admit that scholars do have many problems, but the country needs officials, and not everyone can be competent. The transfer of a prince-constituent to an official can only be regarded as a temporary measure. In the future, the problem of these people's lack of abilities will definitely be exposed!"

"Haha, is it because the official is not capable enough? Just by your and my mouth, it doesn't matter. There will naturally be facts to prove it in the future. Moreover, reading a lot does not mean that you have strong abilities. You must have seen a lot of nerds who can only read but not do things, right?" Li Jie did not argue with Yang Shiqi about this issue, not because he was afraid that he could not compete with him, but because he was too lazy to fight.

Yang Shiqi did not argue any more, because Li Jie's words also had a significant impact on him, especially Li Jie seemed to have a longer-term plan for the transfer of officials, which made him a little curious.

Just as Li Jie and Yang Shiqi were talking, a strange car suddenly appeared on the railway ahead. Two people in the car kept pressing a seesaw-like thing, which drove the car forward. There were several officials in the car. When two of them saw Li Jie, they immediately shouted loudly: "Brother Li, you are here, we are about to look for you!"

The person who spoke was Xie Jin and Guo Zhenglin. Li Jie was very happy when he saw the two people in the car. He immediately stepped forward and said hello. The car they were in was called a road chariot, also called a hand-cranked car, which was a relatively simple railway vehicle.

"Brother Guo, Brother Jie, aren't you installing a steam locomotive? Why are you here when you have time?" Li Jie and Xie Jin asked immediately after a few words of politeness.

Xie Jin and Guo Zhenglin were in charge of the construction of the railway, but after planning the route, the specific affairs were also handed over to officials of the Ministry of Works. They both happened to have time to assemble the steam locomotive on the railway. After all, such a bulky guy can only be assembled directly on the railway, otherwise they would not be able to go to the railway at all.
Chapter completed!