Not much was discussed over the hot pot dinner.
Ren Baqian proposed education for all, but no one other than the empress understood its importance.
Everyone's thoughts still revolved around the idea of an individual leading the rest, whereas the development of all the technological stuff would be left to Ren Baqian and his students to handle. If manpower was insufficient, he could still recruit more students to help.
Not only did they think this way, many of the commoners refused to let their children learn something that they felt wasn't of much use.
To them, things like steam engines, combustion engines, the driving force of gunpowder, and nuclear fission were too far fetched.
These things were so distant that they had no interest in understanding what these things were.
To them, practicing martial arts was the right thing to do.
