When the merchants heard this, they were dumbfounded, and they had to send the best descendants of the family who were going to succeed them to join the army, and maybe they would die outside, this ......

"If the children of your family are martyred in glory, then you can get the pension given to your family by the Hall of Heroes of the Hundred Battles, and those who want to enter the Hall of Heroes of the Hundred Battles and do business with the imperial court must not only come back alive, but also accumulate enough military merits."

This is Guo Zongxun's move to rectify the division between civil and military affairs in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In the past, the children of the civil official family did not join the army, and the children of the military general's family rarely followed the literature, but now it is different, do you want to get involved in the business and trade of the Great Zhou, do you want to make a fortune, come on, come to join the army, this is the premise, it cannot be changed.

Summing up history, Guo Zongxun found that often when the country's survival is at stake, even if the military generals defend the land and defend the emperor, what about the civil officials?

Civil officials, hehe, a large part of them have no concept of their home and country, all they think about is how to play with power and suppress the power of the generals, and it is best if the generals always lose the battle, then they will never be able to raise their heads.

When the country perished, the emperor ...... Does it matter who the emperor is?

Throughout the history of China, the sense of honor of military generals dying on the battlefield has always existed, so what can civilian officials defend desperately as a sense of honor?

It doesn't seem to be.

Therefore, Guo Zongxun wants to establish the sense of honor of the family and country of the civil and official groups, and also gradually establish the sense of honor of the family and country of the nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Just imagine, no matter whether the Great Zhou family or nobles, whether it is a family or a wealthy businessman, the elite children of their clan must join the army in order to get the reward of joining the Hall of Heroes of the Hundred Battles to do business, will these people still be indifferent to the national war?

I believe that the vast majority of people are bound to care, care about the situation of the best children in their families in the army, care about whether the Great Zhou can win foreign wars, and care about whether their family has the opportunity to get a piece of the national business group of the Great Zhou.

Guo Zongxun was ready to use this trick to tie them firmly to the chariot of the Great Zhou.

Rectifying Jiangnan's commerce and trade is only the first step in Guo Zongxun's long-term goal.

It's still a long way to go, but at least it's already walking.

The merchants in Jinling City who are unwilling to leave or unable to leave have finally realized that if they want to live a prosperous and comfortable life, first of all, you must contribute to the country, and first of all, you must love your country.

The elite children of the merchant families were mobilized and signed up for the army, and the added value of these people entering the army was that the merchants began to donate a large amount of money and materials to the army in exchange for certain low-level military positions for the children of the clan.

It is better to be a low-level military rank than to be a big soldier, at least you can command some people, and someone will take the initiative to protect him when he goes to the battlefield.

The merchants' brains were still very sufficient, they did not give up the method of paving the road with money, and the army of the Great Zhou also gave them this shortcut.

After all, even Guo Zongxun admitted that money is really close to omnipotent.

And Guo Zongxun firmly controls all the commerce and trade of the Great Zhou, which is equivalent to controlling the economic lifeline of the entire country, which is something that people in this era do not understand at all.

War is not a fight for people, but for the economy and science and technology, and for the overall strength of the country.

As long as Guo Zongxun firmly grasps this point, it is really not too difficult to control the entire country.

Recruiting talents and martial arts from all over the world, last year's liberal arts autumn festival achieved very good results, and this year's martial arts was even more unprecedented.

Yue Fei and Wei Renpu are the double main exams of this martial arts, Yue Fei focuses on martial arts, and Wei Renpu focuses on military strategy.

In fact, Yue Fei's military strategy level is much higher than Wei Renpu's, but Guo Zongxun still let Wei Renpu serve as one of the chief examiners of this year's martial arts.

This move is also a signal that the generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty have slowly developed in both civil and military affairs.

In the future, those who can only do martial arts will be able to be a thousand-person team at most, and they can't even be the lowest-level generals.

When the generals are both civil and military, the proportion of civil officials among the local officials will decrease, because there is no need to assign a civilian official to the generals, and it is enough to have a military general on the pastoral side.

Regarding this calculation, Guo Zongxun did not say it explicitly, he wanted the civil officials to guess for themselves, and if they guessed correctly, they were willing to take action, and send all the elite children of the family to the army as soon as possible......

That means your family is still worth saving.

The rest, those who are not enlightened, and who still want to cling to the advantages of the civilian cluster, are sorry, you will be eliminated.

Guo Zongxun should do things boldly, without ambiguity, imperceptibly, and never in a hurry.

In this martial arts department, a total of 215 martial artists were admitted, of which the top ten were occupied by the Great Zhou Wuju.

The undergraduate martial arts champion is Di Yuanshan from Fenyang, Shanxi.

Bangyan is Meng Tong from Cangzhou, Hebei.

Tanhua is Kong Lingjun from Qizhou, Shandong.

Xiao Qinai, the best descendant of the Xiao clan of the Khitan State, ranked eleventh.

Chen Dingzhou of Western Shu ranked seventeenth.

Xiao Qinai and Chen Dingzhou are relatively prominent in the foreign martial arts, and among the top 20, only two of them are outsiders.

Guo Zongxun, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was very happy, personally received the undergraduate martial arts, and held a banquet in the palace to entertain him.

"Everyone, you are all good men of my Great Zhou, I am still young and can't drink, so I will replace wine with water, congratulations on your ability to enter the sequence of Great Zhou generals, I hope you will remember the glory of the warriors, remember the mission of the soldiers, protect the family and defend the country, and be loyal."

"Ministers thank Your Majesty, the ministers must be unswerving, remember the glory of the warriors, remember the mission of the soldiers, protect the family and defend the country, be brave in battle, and shroud in horse leather."

Guo Zongxun didn't drink alcohol, so he asked Yue Fei and Wei Renpu to accompany him, and gave Wuju wine one by one.

"Di Yuanshan, you are from Fenyang, but I have heard that Fenyang is a good place to produce talents. Come, drink this cup full, and be faithful to your country. ”

The famous general of the Great Song Dynasty, the famous Nirvana general Di Qing, is a native of Fenyang, but he will not be born until a few decades later.

Guo Zongxun began to think again, this Di Yuanshan can't be Di Qing's grandfather or something, right?

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

came to Meng Tong's side again, and Meng Tong was so excited that he couldn't speak.

"Meng Tong, you are from Cangzhou, and it is also a good place, three years ago, Zhenhai Roar has been cast, and I must go to see it if I have the chance. Come, drink this cup full, and be faithful to your country. ”

The Cangzhou Iron Lion, also known as Zhenhai Roar, was cast in Cangzhou in 953 AD, when Guo Rong was in power.

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

This year's Wuke's exploration of flowers made Guo Zongxun very interested, this person is actually from Qufu, Qizhou, and is called Kong Lingjun, this is a descendant of Confucius, ranked according to the sect.

Guo Zongxun wanted to deal with Confucianism, originally wanted to start with the Confucian family, not to say how unbearable the Confucian family was, but if the Confucian family was not brought down first, the banner of Confucianism would not fall.

However, the appearance of Kong Lingjun made Guo Zongxun see another possibility......