Yu Chuan reported Sheng Xian's suggestion to Sun Ce, and Sun Ce learned that Wang Chong, a thinker in the Han Dynasty, was also a Huiji, and he was from Shangyu, and Yu Tuo's family was in the neighboring county.

"On Balance" was later crowned with the title of materialism, like thunder, but Wang Chong is far less famous than the work. In this era, it is even less famous, and little is known except for the locals. Sun Ce didn't know the reason for this, he had heard of the book, but he hadn't read it, let alone researched it. After listening to Yu Xuan's introduction, I realized that "On Balance" is a deviant book, which contains many reflections on Confucianism and Confucianism, such as opposing thick burials, opposing Confucianism, and more seriously, he is anti-Confucius.

Strictly speaking, Wang Chong was not against Confucius, but against the deification of Confucius. An important part of the Han Dynasty's prophecy is the deification of Confucius, who is not only a saint, but also a god. Wang Chong opposed such a trend, and he tried to strip Confucius of his divinity and restore him to a human being.

This is obviously contrary to the increasingly violent social atmosphere of Confucianism, so Wang Chong's scholarship not only could not be spread to the Central Plains, but even the locals did not think so, many people knew about it, but not many people agreed, although they all knew that many of Wang Chong's arguments were very convincing, but the flaw of non-saint was enough to offset all the advantages.

Sheng Xian's proposal to write the biography of "On Balance" at this time was largely a battle of will, and he wanted to compete with Wu Jun scholars, but there was a background that could not be ignored. Sun Ce himself likes to refute empty talk with facts, and his evaluation of Confucian classics is not high, which is in line with Wang Chong's academic views to some extent. In a sense, this is a manifestation of Sheng Xian's active ideological approach to Sun Ce, although Sheng Xian himself may not be aware of it, and he may not be willing to admit it if he is aware of it.

Yu Tuo welcomes this trend and believes that it can be guided and vigorously promoted. For the people of the Central Plains, Wu will be contemptible, the academic atmosphere will not be as strong as the Central Plains, and the resistance to change will be smaller. If this is used as an opportunity to reform Confucianism, Wu Hui will become the birthplace of new scholarship, which will be beneficial to both Sun Ce and Wu Hui.

Sun Ce accepted Yu Bian's suggestion and let him take full responsibility, without asking for instructions on everything, just report it afterwards. Yu Chuan was grateful, and immediately made an appointment with Sheng Xian, asking him to gather well-known scholars in Huiji and gather in Shanyin, and he wanted to study and deploy the development plan of Huiji County School with them.

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Leaving civil affairs, education and other affairs to Yu Chuan to handle, Sun Ce concentrated on one thing: conscription.

He only brought the personal guard battalion to Jiangdong, and later added nearly 1,000 people from Gan Ning's old department, and some of Shen You and Zhu Huan's troops. Chen Zhi was transferred to Danyang Taishou, and Guo Jun was transferred to Danyang Commander, and he allocated some troops to them, with nearly 1,000 people before and after. After arriving at Huiji, he increased the men and horses of Dong Xi and He Qi, and defeated Huang Longluo, Zhou Bo and other bandits. The number of people has increased, but the combat effectiveness is insufficient, and it must be replenished.

In fact, if Sun Ce just wants to replenish his troops, the problem is easy to solve, the Wu Hui family has a trilogy, a few hundred people, more than a thousand, as long as he wants, he can immediately recruit one or two hundred thousand people. But those people only recognize the old master and will not listen to his orders, which means that he spends money to raise soldiers for the family, and over time, a tribal system will inevitably be formed.

So he has not been conscripted, even if he brought men and horses to serve, he did not accept it easily, and he had to control the number of people if he accepted. Tai Shi Ci surrendered, he only gave Tai Shi Ci a quota of 300 people, and the same was true for Dong Xi and He Qi. This is already a high standard, and there are only more than 100 people like Quan Rou, Ling Cao and others. These people are their personal guards and will always follow them, and the rest of the troops are only temporarily under their command, and the military power is controlled by Sun Ce, and they may be transferred to others at any time. When their positions are adjusted, the composition of their forces will also change, which may be more, may be reduced, or even deprived altogether.

Sun Ce's conscription came from two main sources: one was to take prisoners and select strong soldiers from among them. But these people are relatively few, because their old masters are still in the army, and they are prone to form small hills; The second is to levy it from the people. These people were still in Sun Ce's plan and never carried it out.

Now the opportunity is ripe. Sheng Xian's article had an impact on Wu County and Huiji, arousing the desire of a large number of young people to join the army. Unlike ordinary recruited soldiers, these people are not just here to survive, but more to make a contribution, and they have a stronger motivation to fight and are more likely to undergo rigorous training.

Sun Ce gave Cai Mao an order to print a large number of conscription orders and send them to the inner level, so that every household had the opportunity to see this conscription order. There are more than 100 households in one mile, 20 or 30 households in less, and the two counties add up to nearly 300,000 households, nearly 10,000 copies, and if there is no printing press, the copying of official documents alone will be a heavy burden, and the imperial power is not lower than that of the county, and the orders of the county magistrates can only reach the township pavilions, and cannot really be conveyed to the ears of every common people.

Now Sun Ce has such conditions, he can put the conscription order on the inner door of every mile, so that every citizen has a chance to see it.

Half a month after issuing the conscription order and doing a good job of fully publicizing and building momentum, according to the pre-agreed time, Sun Ce sent more than 100 people from the Yicong Battalion to various counties to select suitable targets from among the conscripts. It is impractical for so many people to gather in the county government, and it is not very convenient to go to the county government, so these people will go to the pavilion level, so that the recruits can know whether they have a chance to pass the selection at the door of their homes, so as not to run in vain.

This is the common practice of conscription in later generations, but it is a new thing for this era, and it has caused a lot of sensation for a while. Recruitment in this era is very common, but most of them are set up in densely populated places and recruited on the spot, and it is rare to be as careful as Sun Ce who goes deep into the pavilion to select, first, they don't have this strength, and second, they don't have this awareness, they haven't realized the importance of elite soldiers.

Sun Ce's timing was very important. The time chosen is half a month before the autumn harvest, and the end of the choice is the autumn harvest, and the people who pass the selection are not immediately rushed to the county to gather, but first go home to harvest, and after the autumn harvest, they will first concentrate in the county, and by the way, the tax payable will be sent to the county warehouse, and then they will be concentrated in the county to prepare for training, saving part of the consumption of grain.

Before the soldiers arrived, Sun Ce had already received a roster of more than 12,000 people in 27 counties in two counties, all of whom were young and strong between the ages of 20 and 30, and almost all of them had already started a family and had children. There are 300,000 households in the two counties, more than 1.2 million people, and only more than 10,000 people are singled out.

Holding the name book, Sun Ce was very happy. "This is my soldier."