More than an hour later, Xun Yu and the others went and returned, and brought good news.

Liu Zhang immediately said that he would ask his mother to perform the gifts of Nacai, asking for names, Najib, Nazheng, and asking for the date as soon as possible to marry Cai Yan.

Everyone was overjoyed, Liu Zhang's wedding was on the horizon, Yizhou's successor was expected, everyone could not hide their excitement, and they set up a banquet in the governor's mansion that night.

Liu Zhang didn't pay much attention to the wedding, and everything was left to his mother and Xun Yu to arrange. Early the next morning, he handed over the affairs of Chengdu to Xun Yu to be in charge, and he took Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Zhou Cang and Wu Ming, escorted by 500 personal guards, to go out to inspect.

This named Wu Ming was brought by Liu Fan and Liu Yi when they returned to Yizhou to participate in Liu Zhang's crown ceremony at the beginning of the year. Liu Fan and Liu Yi followed Liu Zhang's orders to improve the relationship between the Han and the barbarians (Liu Fan even set a marriage date with the daughter of the local barbarian Wang clan, and only waited for the filial piety period to pass before accepting her as a concubine), after three years of unremitting efforts, a series of government decrees greatly changed the life of the barbarians, and also made the barbarians' attitude towards Yizhou gradually change from suspicion to recognition, and finally evolved into support. Liu Zhang also ordered the conscription of barbarians into the army in due course (the conscription in Yizhou always implements the principle of voluntariness), firstly, he can support his family with salary, and secondly, he can excel in the army and excel in his ancestors. Moreover, Liu Zhang explicitly ordered the barbarians to be composed separately, and they should be treated the same as the Han people. In three years, the number of barbarians who volunteered to join the army had reached 15,000 (and thousands more were dissuaded from retirement for health and family reasons), and Wu Ming was one of them. Wu Ming was nameless, his father was a barbarian, and his mother was a Han woman who was snatched back to the tribe by his father, and gave birth to him after being forced to marry his father. When they were eleven years old, their tribe was infected with a plague, and most of them died of the disease. At this time, the tribes that have always been hostile to them take advantage of their weakness to take advantage of their weakness, how can they be defeated? The tribe was burned, and all the tribesmen were put to death (the tribe had a plague and did not dare to keep the prisoners, otherwise the women and children would become spoils of war). Before he was captured alive, he was only eleven years old, but he killed three of his enemies with his bare hands, and after being captured alive, the enemies tortured him by tying him to the pillars of his house, and then set fire to him in an attempt to burn him to death. Who knew that he had infinite strength, and he actually broke the rope and escaped. Since then, he can only live in the mountains and forests for many years, using leaves as clothes and caves as houses, living a life like a wild man. The long-term lack of salt has made his physical eyesight very poor, his body is full of white fluff, and he is in his early twenties, but his body is as weak as that of a sixty-year-old man...... One day, when Liu Fan went out to observe the people's situation, he accidentally found him on the verge of dying, and after a mouthful of broth, he miraculously came back to life. Since then, he has regarded Liu Fan as his master, volunteered to join the army, and always followed him. Liu Fan soon found that after a short period of recuperation, his body had completely recovered, and his eight-foot-long weight soon reached more than 200 catties, his arms were almost as thick as Liu Fan's thighs, and his youthful divine power slowly returned to him. Liu Fan once tried, let people drive three horses to compete with him, although he did not have the strength of three horses, but he was strong in endurance and competed with three horses, and finally the three horses were so tired that they collapsed. Liu Fan thought of Liu Zhang's ambitions, and knew that this young brother would definitely face a lot of dangerous situations in the future, and he needed to be protected by others, and he was in the rear, and safety was not a problem, so he took the opportunity to participate in Liu Zhang's crown ceremony to bring him and handed it over to Liu Zhang. He gave his life to Liu Fan, regarded Liu Fan's orders as holy decrees, and obeyed them all, and Liu Fan asked him to protect his brother with his life, so he put his body in front of Liu Zhang, guarding him at all times, and whenever anyone wanted to hurt Liu Zhang, he had to step over his corpse.

This time, Liu Zhang wanted to inspect Shuxue, which Xun Yu called the cradle of the Han Dynasty.

Shuxue is the collective name of a series of institutions established after Liu Zhang took charge of Yizhou. In imitation of later generations, elementary schools, middle schools, and universities were separated, and of course, the names were initially changed to county schools, county schools, and state schools. The county has a county school, with a five-year school system, depending on the local population, and sets up a number of schools with varying numbers of schools, recruiting children from eight to fourteen years old in the county. The county has a county school, the school system is three years, because the systematic education system has just been established, students can not be recruited from the county school under its jurisdiction, so the students are not limited to age, and they are recruited locally by examination (children under the age of 14 can also enter the county school if they fail the examination, and the county school is still recruited by examination above the first grade), the education of the Han Dynasty is still very imperfect, and the scholars are mainly from the privileged class, and can not recruit too many students, so the county school each county has only one, and the students who are too far away from home can live in the school; The state capital has set up a state school, the school system is three years, the implementation of closed education, militarized management, the current students such as the county school in the general way of admission, the age of 14 to 20 years old students if the examination fails, can also enter the county to study, of course, want to succeed in admission, still have to go through the examination; Liu Zhang also set up a senior college in the state school, with a two-year school period, and now the students are mainly recruited from the Yizhou military and political departments, and in the future, people with outstanding ability will be selected from the state school to enter the further study. Liu Zhang also stipulated that civil and military officials at all levels in Yizhou should be evaluated and selected every two years, and if they failed to pass the examination, they would be forcibly sent to the academy to study for half a year, and then sent back to their original posts after half a year, and then with half a year as the inspection period, and if they were still unqualified after half a year, they would be directly dismissed.

In order to encourage school-age students to enroll, Liu Zhang stipulated that all students are admitted free of charge, and if there are students in the family, the government will exempt 10% of the tax, and the accommodation fee in the school will be completely free, and only a small meal fee will be paid. Before that, reading was completely the preserve of the upper class, and the common people were busy from the beginning of the year to the end of the year to barely feed the family, where could they have the money to pay for their children's tuition? Moreover, the children of the poor are in charge of the family early, don't look at the young children, but they are also a labor force, if the children are allowed to study, it will not only increase the burden on the family, but also reduce the labor force, which can be described as a double "loss", so it seems that the people have always been interested in the children's reading. Nowadays, after learning about "free" and "tax cuts", many parents who want to change the fate of their families immediately bring their children to school, and their emotions are very enthusiastic (although they have to pay for meals when they live on campus, don't they have to eat at home?). ）。 Liu Zhang could only sigh after knowing it: "Sure enough, everything is inferior, only reading is high!" ”

The academy has decided that in addition to studying, all cadets must also undergo regular military training to strengthen their physical fitness. The college is the same as the 21st century, but also winter and summer vacations, but the time is different, one month of summer vacation, two months of winter vacation, because there are no cars, high-speed rail, airplanes in the Han Dynasty, many students have a long way to study, take the state school as an example, some people have to use twenty or thirty days to come and go, if it is the same as the 21st century, the winter vacation is only one month, students have not even returned home, and they have to rush back to the college, there is no way to reunite with the family during the Spring Festival, enjoy the joy of family, and the college stipulates that the last two days of each decade are holidays, Students can move freely to relieve the pressure of studying.

As soon as Liu Zhang's order to run a school was promulgated, it inevitably received some opposition (mainly the cost issue, Yizhou is rich, but if it is implemented according to Liu Zhang's order, the cost will be an astronomical amount, and a lot of funds will be invested every year in the future, which will cause Yizhou's financial difficulties), but Xun Yu and other far-sighted people support Liu Zhang, they know very well that as long as it is carried out according to this, Yizhou will have a steady stream of talents to enrich all parts of society in a few years, which will greatly enhance the overall strength of Yizhou.

Liu Zhang knew the importance of education better, he swept away all opposing voices, and Cai Yong concurrently served as an academician of the highest university in Shuxue, and was fully responsible for education, directly responsible to him and Xun Yu.