After Zhu Youxiao sent Yuan Chonghuan to the Hetao area on the second day of February in the second year of the Apocalypse, he received the good news that Sichuan quelled the rebellion, especially Sun Chengzong's report on Li Xin's land reform policy made Zhu Youxiao happy. Prepare the groundwork for domination in South Asia.

Thinking that the uprising of Xu Hongru in Shandong that occurred in history occurred in May this year, Zhu Youxiao had asked Luo Sigong and Song Jin to send people to secretly investigate, I don't know if Xu Hongru was too cunning, or Zhu Youxiao's judgment was wrong, so far no trace of Xu Hongru has been found. However, Zhu Youxiao still did not dare to have any carelessness, he ordered Sun Chengzong to leave Li Xin a mixed force of 5,000 musketeers and artillery to form a mixed battalion, let Qi Jin leave two thousand generals to cooperate, and let Li Xin use this as the basis to form a new army of Sichuan and Guizhou, the establishment should eventually be expanded to 30,000 people, and the troops should be trained there, and the rest of the men and horses should be quickly transferred back along the Yangtze River, and they should return to Beijing in mid-March at the latest.

The old bureaucrats in Shandong have already returned to Beijing for training, and Zhu Youxiao has given them a generous pension for all officials who have reached the age of 50, so that they can go home and enjoy their old age, and those under the age of 40 will be retrained to become officials in other places. The new officials have already begun to familiarize themselves with the management work at the grassroots level, and these new officials have abandoned the old bureaucratic way of working, and except for one person who takes turns to sit in the county office, everyone else has gone deep into the countryside to understand the actual situation in the countryside and carry out different construction work in light of different rural conditions and village conditions.

Whether it is the construction of rural primary schools, or the promotion of training and popularization of new crop cultivation, the new officials are with great enthusiasm to practice what they have learned in the official school, it does not matter if they do not understand, after returning to the county seat, several people study and discuss together, in a word, the practice of these new officials has been widely welcomed by the people. Because these new officials are not like the old bureaucrats, they are all high-ranking lords, and now they are more like friends of the common people. The students in the county school have received new training, and all the young ones will be trained in various new crop planting techniques and new teaching methods in the Chinese language, and in the future they will be the main force in rural work, and all the students who can teach in rural primary schools with peace of mind, Zhu Youxiao will ensure that their living standards are not lower than the level of ordinary officials, and they will be equivalent to state-run teachers in later generations, and they will be respected gardeners. As for the sour Xiucai who was unwilling to teach in the countryside at ease, Zhu Youxiao let them go home and read the dead book by themselves, in order not to cause too much backlash from these corrupt Confucians, Zhu Youxiao still retained the tax-free treatment they originally enjoyed, but if they want to gain fame through the imperial examination in the future, it has been completely cut off. Since they have all been replaced by new-style county-level officials, the content and method of the examination in the future will definitely be completely different, and it is certain that all literati who cannot adapt to the new changes will be naturally eliminated.

With the hard work of the new officials in Shandong, the rural form of Shandong began to change dramatically, all school-age children can go to school for free, and the school gives each primary school student a copper coin at noon, why, because these children do not go to school, they can mow grass at home can have about a copper coin income every day, especially the farmers who have lost their land, the children must rely on their own labor to obtain food at home, and the children who have a little land at home need to participate in labor at home, Help the adults with their work. Now that they have this one copper penny, the adults no longer object to them going to school. Of course, this is not the busy farming season, and when the farming season comes, there is still a holiday to ask the children to go home to work, after all, the current level of productivity is still very low, and more people need to work in the fields.

The officials repeatedly emphasized how the emperor was close to the people, how he shrunk his clothes and diets in order to ensure the strength of the country, and how the subjects should follow the emperor's example to do good things for the country and the common people, alleviate the hardships of the peasants, and improve the living standards of the majority of the people. In order to make the squires accept these new ideas, some local officials also wrote inscriptions to encourage those enlightened squires, because at that time, the inscriptions of the county lords were still very decent, as for the unwilling squires, the officials mobilized their tenants to leave their homes, and it happened that Zhu Youxiao was also considering immigrating to Liaodong, so the county would provide food, travel expenses, and anyone who was willing to go could get ten acres of land for free. The gentry lost the peasants who worked for them, and naturally the harvest decreased, while the taxes were not at all less, and even the officials increased.

New crops have been widely promoted by these new officials, especially sweet potatoes, which grow better in the semi-sandy land of the Yellow River impact plain in western Shandong. Both landlords and tenants were full of respect for the officials when they looked at these green and prosperous new dealers. The officials were filled with a sense of accomplishment when they saw the people in the countryside with a new mental outlook, and their sense of identity with the emperor's new policy increased a lot, and they had a new understanding of Zhu Youxiao's words about Wei Zheng.

There are always some small bumps in the development of things, and there are always people who can't open their eyes looking for trouble. In the Yuncheng County Ya, the Jining prefect was sitting in the county hall and reprimanding the Yuncheng lord Bo. Why? Today is Yuncheng's fourth-in-command master Bo on duty, this master Bo is a student from the Ming Dynasty Official School, named Wang Bo, originally did not need to be the main Bo, should do the work of the county, but he is honest, practical work, and not very good at talking, plus a little older, he did the work of this Bo. Today's sudden arrival of the prefect of Jining, especially the high-spirited and high-spirited style, made him a little uncomfortable, plus when he was in the Daming official school, Zhu Youxiao had abolished the kneeling salute, just bowing to greet the prefect, which made the prefect furious, and there was no official demeanor. The two of them came up with the cow, and the prefect wanted to find the magistrate and the county. The lord Bo told him that the magistrate and the county had gone to the countryside to inspect, and if there was anything he could explain to him, he could relay it. This prefect originally came here to make some money and water, but how can he say this, to put it tactfully, the master Bo didn't go on the road at all, pretending to be stupid, so angry that the prefect of Jining was furious and reprimanded.

Just when the prefect of Jining was furious, the county lieutenant came back, and this county lieutenant came out of a student from Daming Technical School, named Xue Meng. This Xue Meng is not a child who entered the Daming Technical School, he was blinded in one eye by the * of the 'two kicks' small cannon on the battlefield in Liaodong, Sun Yuanhua saw that he was literate and sent him to school, and then came here. As soon as he saw that his companion was humiliated, he slapped the prefect of Jining twice on the left and right without saying a word, beat him, and then ordered someone to tie him up and send him to Jinan Mansion to be handed over to Lord Wen Zhenmeng for processing.