Regarding the solution to the problem, Zhao Lin suggested that Xu Shiyang, while he has money now and has the support of literary giants like Wen Xianggong, it is better to hire some Luodi Xiucai in Jiangnan to open a private school in Qi Province to solve the education problem.

However, Xu Shiyang is very wary of these old literati - sooner or later, he himself will create a rebellion against the Great Zhou, and if the talents taught by his school are full of "serving the Great Zhou" one by one, then the fun will be great!

What's more, the form of private school could not meet Xu Shiyang's needs, and he wanted to run a school with a very strong sense of utilitarianism, and it was impossible for students to waste their precious time on studying Confucian classics.

It's just that the situation is stronger than people, and at this stage, the readers that Xu Shiyang can hire are mainly Luodi Xiucai, and it is certain that for a long time in the future, these people will become the middle of the teacher's force.

"Forget it, I can find a way to hire some talented people, but they must teach strictly according to my requirements!"

The Taizu of the Red Dynasty had to use barefoot doctors to meet the medical needs of the countryside when he had no choice but to use the old literati to meet his own teaching needs.

However, education is the top priority of the future work, and the behavior of these people must be strictly regulated, and a group of more suitable teachers must be trained as soon as possible to replace them.

That's what happens when everything is valuable, and everything has to be used as much as possible.

There was much to come, including the construction of the medical system, but also the construction of the army in the next phase, the development of weapons, and the decisive battle with the Jurchen army after the Grand Canal was cut off.

In fact, only by withstanding the counterattack after the Tartars can Xu Shiyang really cut off the Grand Canal.

Otherwise, as soon as Allah's power comes, the Grand Canal will be unimpeded, and Xu Shiyang's achievements will be too watery.

Based on Pu Luhun's confession and the information obtained from the previous torture of Hai Linbao, Xu Shiyang estimated that so far, the Jin army has about 40,000 true Jurchen Ding Zhuang, about 20,000 new Jin Jurchen Ding Zhuang, more than 100,000 Khitan, Bohai, Goryeo, Tatar Dingkou, and more than 100,000 Han Dingkou.

All of them can be used as soldiers, but except for the 60,000 true Jurchens and raw Jurchens, the combat effectiveness of slave soldiers of other nationalities is not worth expecting at all.

On the contrary, the Han people in the Yanyun area are extremely strong, and they can dispatch 40,000 to 50,000 traitor soldiers with good combat effectiveness.

The strength that the Jin State can use is around 300,000, which is ten times the total strength of the alliance, but they definitely can't put all their strength into the battlefield of Qi Province.

One is that they can't afford to raise it, and the Jurchens have been plundering southward for the past two years, and it is impossible for the Yanji region to provide any supplies for the Jurchens who went south.

If the Jurchens attack this year, then all the grain and grass will have to be transported from their homeland, not to mention whether the Jurchens can take out so many supplies without the New Year's coin, that is, the consumption along the way to Qi Province is enough for a pot of Tartars to drink.

Not to mention the threats from elsewhere - mainly the Tatars of the steppe, and the birth of the Jurchens who had not moved into the Kingdom of Jin would not mind robbing their true Jurchen relatives if they had the opportunity.

Xu Shiyang estimated that if it was defensive, with new weapons, the Dock Fort Main Alliance in Qi Province might not be able to completely cut off the canal.

It's just that a lot of things have to be prepared now.

Thinking of this, Xu Shiyang immediately wrote a letter to his father in his hometown and the main officers of the New Army.

One is to ask Daddy to issue a mobilization order to all the dock lord within the Qingzhou Mansion, asking them to join the dock lord alliance headed by the Xu family.

In order to be justified, Xu Shiyang even hinted that Xu Muhe made up an official identity in advance, even if he first appointed himself as an envoy.

Anyway, the Xu family has a large amount of food and material support from Jiangnan, which can endorse Xu Muhe's identity and make the dock castle owners have no doubts.

The other is to demand that both the new army and the militia intensify their military training, and that since food is now available, agricultural production should be given a secondary position and transferred to women and children as much as possible.

Once Xu Shiyang returned to Qi Province, the alliance army would take the initiative to destroy all the Wubao forts within the Qingzhou Prefecture that did not obey orders and did not join the alliance.

Xu Shiyang estimates that he should return to Juzhou by the end of next month, so that he will have less than four months to digest Qingzhou and then take the initiative to cut off the Grand Canal.

Then use the looted 1.6 million taels of wealth to annex the Yellow River and the east part of the canal in Quancheng Mansion and Yanzhou Prefecture, as well as the two prefectures of Laizhou and Dengzhou east of Qingzhou.

If all goes well, at the end of this year, Xu Shiyang will use the strength of most of Qi Province to start the first decisive battle with the Jurchens.

The timetable is tight and the margin for error is extremely low, but Xu Shiyang has no other choice, and if he wants to get the political and economic support of the main battle faction in Jiangnan, he must make enough achievements.

At this time, a soldier knocked lightly on the door: "Commander, it's time to eat!" ”

The Wen family's subordinates sent a delicate lunch, and when the plan came to an end, Zhao Lin rubbed his wrist and asked, "Time is so urgent, do we still have to stay here for a month?" Don't need to go back sooner? ”

"I still have some things to do."

Xu Shiyang replied:

"What's more, we also have to leave a little time with the dock lord in Qingzhou to make a decision, at this time, it would be better to fight one less civil war if we can fight one less."

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After lunch, Xu Shiyang left the Wen family and took two guards to the human market in the north of Lin'an Mansion.

If there are still three children waiting to be selected around Himein, then the homeless people who sell themselves in the human market have been completely treated as livestock by the people.

Most of the homeless people, men and women, young and old, were curled up together, their bodies were filthy and foul-smelling, and their expressions were numb enough to make people think that they were a group of dead people.

Some of the housekeepers of large households picked and chose among the crowds, and from time to time they broke the mouth of a homeless person and looked at his teeth, and the posture was really exactly the same as picking up livestock.

Seeing this, Xu Shiyang couldn't help but say angrily: "How different is the life in Jiangnan from Jiangbei!?" ”

"Jiangnan at least doesn't have to eat people."

An unfamiliar voice answered Xu Shiyang's question.

"Who's talking? Get out! Xu Shiyang said angrily.

Xie Bao, who was rushing to be a guard, turned around and rushed into the crowd, put a knife on the neck of the person who spoke, and escorted him directly.

Another selector drew his waist knife, vigilantly protected Xu Shiyang's back, and confronted the thugs who faintly surrounded the city.

Xu Shiyang looked at the guy who still held his neck and refused to give in under Xie Bao's knife, and asked coldly, "You just talked to me?" ”

"Yes and what!" The man exclaimed, "Am I wrong?" Jiangnan at least doesn't have to eat people! Even if you fall into this city, at least you still have the opportunity to be picked up by a big family to be a slave and eat half full every day! ”

"If you haven't been picked, who will supply the food?" Xu Shiyang asked.

"There are often big families who come to give porridge!"

"Is it enough?"

"It's better than cannibalism!"