After the adjustment of the army, the Gaochang County Guard issued another regulation, all Gaochang local soldiers and county archers are counted as military status, and can rent five acres of land from the county to grow grain, except for normal taxes, Gaochang County does not collect field rent, this treatment until three years after discharge.

Yang Chong came through and knew that the army with the strongest combat effectiveness was an army of faith, but as a local official, if he gave the army something like faith, it would be rebellion. Gaochang is located in the Western Regions, where various ethnic groups live together, and the Han theory in the Central Plains cannot be said, and Yang Chong can only treat the wealthy with the same means for the time being, so that the interests of the army are evenly distributed.

Gaochang County has a registered population of nearly 70,000, and the total number of registered fields is only 380,000, excluding the planting area of cotton and grapes, and less than 300,000 grain cultivated land; Coupled with the plundering of the wealthy families, it would be good for the average family to have two or three acres of land to plant, and the annual land rent would be at least forty percent if the land was rented. Yang Chong's move is tantamount to treating the military as a profession, which has a bit of the flavor of military family treatment, and there has been a fierce debate in the county for this.

Yuwen Rutong and Wang Jun were stunned and thought that the land should be directly distributed to the soldiers to completely buy the hearts of the soldiers; Meng Fu and Fang Xuanling supported Yang Chong's proposition, the land was in the hands of the government, and it could always be supplied to the soldiers, even if some soldiers rented it for a little longer. Once given to individuals, these farmers can't stop the squeeze of wealthy families at all, and maybe the fields will be gone in less than a year, and it will not be easy for the county to want fields at that time.

Long Shanming, Mi Shun, Bald Kulin and others understood that this hand was powerful. Since Gaochang's original officers were largely laid off in Nanping City, half of the officers in the army are now newcomers who have been promoted, and half are officers who have been transferred from the government army and the Fan army; In addition, if the military status is so messed up, the soldiers below will be affected by interests, and the traditional influence of the Gaochang army will be greatly reduced, and the remaining 6,000 people in the whole territory will be firmly controlled by Gaochang County in a short time.

After the Zhang family was destroyed, the Bald Hair Clan, the An Clan, and the Long Clan were the strongest in Gaochang's original army, and the three families behaved submissively after Yang Chong took office, and in fact, they had been waiting for Yang Chong to ask them for help after the army was uneven, but he didn't expect Yang Chong to get a military membership. On this day, Bald Kulin went to Nanping City to participate in the opening ceremony of the Turpan Commercial Bank, and as soon as he returned home, he was found by the patriarch Bald Chang Hui, who only asked one thing, how many people could Bald Kulin control in Gaochang's army.

Bald Kulin was originally not conspicuous in the family, this time Yang Chong adjusted the officers, and the two uncles Bald Xun Xuan and Bald Dark Stone retired from service, and Bald Kulin was unexpectedly promoted by Yang Chong, and only then did he become a rising star in the family. Bald Kulin said truthfully: "The adjustment of military personnel is very great, after we were promoted, a large number of grassroots officers were transferred from the Sui army, plus the matter of military status, except for the tribal slaves in the clan, the control is very weak. ”

The bald Chang Hui said with a gloomy face: "Once you lose the support of the army, Yang Chong will attack our warriors whenever he wants. ”

The bald Kulin shook his head and said, "Uncle, you think too much. Yang Chong and the Zhang family were the result of endless death, and it was not the Gaochang people who were in rebellion with the Zhang family, hundreds of them were from foreign countries, including Turkic, Sogdian, and Tiele places. In my opinion, the county guard will definitely rely on us locals in the future, but Yang county guard is very smart, and no one who is disobedient will be wanted. ”

Bald Chang Hui was a little angry, but he didn't say it, Kan Zhong was the one who offered the drawings Bald Chang Hui heard about it, so he was still a little worried about Bald Kulin, a distant nephew, worried that Bald Kulin would betray the interests of the family in front of the high-ranking officials Houlu. It's just that Bald Kulin and Kan Zhong are the two locals with the highest positions in Gaochang City at present, not only Bald Chang Hui, but even other Shi clans can't suppress it, and Bald Chang Hui can only snort.

The bald Kulin didn't notice the uncle's strangeness, and continued: "Uncle, the Nanping School in Nanping City is about to open, and I am going to send the child over to study, if there is anyone in the clan who wants to go, I can tell the county guard, it should be no problem." ”

Nanping School is one of the many hot topics about Yang Chong, a county guard, who paid for a three-year free school, which caused quite a stir in Gaochang County. The most eye-catching thing is that Yang Chong's school doesn't care about his background, the craftsmen and slaves bought by the Turpan Commercial Bank, the young soldiers laid off in the army, and the children of the officials in Nanping City can all go to it. The bald family is a century-old family, relying on the prestige of the army from generation to generation, as a Xianbei family, reading is the right of a few people in the family.

The bald Chang Hui said dissatisfiedly: "Reading is the self-absorption of the Han people, what is the use of our bald people reading, if you don't make it good, you will be stunned." ”

Bald Kulin smiled: "Uncle, I've been to see it, Nanping Academy doesn't advocate scriptures, he cultivates knowledge of literacy, craftsmen, and accounting, which is very practical." Haven't you always wanted to go back to the Central Plains to develop, where it is already the world of the Han people, if you don't know how to do Chinese characters, at least three years with room and board, and no tuition, this is a lot of money. ”

Bald, Changhui's face improved slightly. The past is vivid, in order to study when Bald Kulin was a teenager, Bald Kulin's mother sold all the jewelry she had to marry, so Bald Kulin has an obsession with reading, not a tendency to become inflammatory. The bald family looks powerful, but in fact, it can't be compared with other families in terms of heritage and business, if it doesn't control Grape Valley, it is no different from ordinary people.

The bald Chang Hui swallowed a mouthful of spit and asked, "Yang Chong is said to be a good businessman, so he didn't tell you anything?" ”

The bald Kulin finally understood what this uncle was worried about, and replied with a smile: "I went to the Turpan Trading House in Nanping City, they just don't do wine business, I heard Jiang Duo say, Yang Junshou has a promise in Chang'an, not to touch the wine business, and now it is the Dugu Kaiche brother of the Duhu Valve family who is doing it, if you are interested that day, I will call the two of them." The Yuan family wants to open a branch of the Changfeng Shop in Nanping City, and I heard Zhu Hongdao say that it may be a commercial bank in the future. ”

The Yuan family and the bald family are actually from the Tuoba family, and the trade of the Changfeng car company has always relied on the bald family in Gaochang to take care of it, and now it seems that the Yuan family wants to start a new business and collude with Yang Chong. Bald Chang Hui said angrily: "My peers are enemies, what do I know with Brother Dugu." You care about what business does Turpan Commercial Bank and Changfeng Motorcycle Company have. ”

The bald Kulin thought for a moment and said, "Yes." I heard that the county wanted to customize 3,000 sets of cotton jackets, and the Turpan trading house couldn't eat it, so it was decided to outsource it to other workshops, and Mi Shun was in charge of this matter. ”

In the state of anger, consternation, and worry of the Gaochang clan, Yang Chong's first red envelope was distributed by Mi Shun, which made Mi Shun indescribably happy. The upper and lower levels didn't look at him differently, and now no one cares about what happened to him back then, and the vague undercover experience made Mi Shun a layer of mystery and became a legend in Gaochang City.

The other eight undercover agents just missed the opportunity because of a moment of hesitation, and after many rounds of review and writing materials, they have been sent back to Chang'an; Mi Shun knows that Pei Ju has no foundation in the army, and it will be difficult for eight people to have a chance to hold real power in the future, and if they don't get it, they will be sent undercover again.

Yang Chong used the cloth and cotton copied from the Zhang family to customize 3,000 sets of cotton jackets in various workshops, only asking for fast, it was simply sending money to the door, the Long family, the bald family, the Qiang family, the Kan family, and the Shanxi family were all going all out, and only the Koji family refused because the order could not be arranged. Yang Chong was afraid that the speed of the government was not fast enough, so he arranged for Jiang Duo, Wang Fu, and Jing Pantuo to take people to Humud City to buy thousands of cotton clothes and a cart of Chang'an liquor, and transported them to Luomanshan for trading, and with the help of Liu Hongji, they were exchanged for two hundred horses.

Subsequently, Gaochang County sent 1,500 pieces of cotton clothes, as long as 50 horses and 100 cattle and sheep, the Turks are not stupid, Jiang Duo is a charcoal in the snow, and it is the business of the county guard, there is always a difference. After the first batch of more than 100 Turkic families settled in Hengjie City and Wubancheng near Dujin Shu, Suo Yanshou and Gao Bei, the leaders of the two Turkic tribes, made a special trip to Nanping accompanied by Dai Zhou to inquire about Yang Chong's entire detailed resettlement plan.

Yang Chongming said that Tianshan County will first build six wars, which will be formed into counties, and the Turks can only land or graze in a short period of time; However, Yang Chong agreed that 100 Turkic nobles and 100 craftsmen would live in Nanping City, and 100 old and weak families would live in Puchang County, and Dai Zhou would be responsible for how to identify them.

Dai Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, Dai Zhou has always been uncertain about the placement of more than 3,000 Turks in his heart, Yang Chong is now representing the county to take over 300 households of nobles, the old and weak, and craftsmen, more than 1,000 people, and decompose the pressure for Tianshan County. The remaining 2,000 people can form an army, whether they are placed in a fort or a castle.

Yang Chong's series of actions made the Gaochang people stunned, seeing that they could get benefits, and the counties could be formed in a blink of an eye, and no one in Gaochang dared to squeak for a while, but Shanshan, Yiwu's scholars and official recitals then poured into Chang'an in large numbers. Chang'an City spread the rumors that Yang Chong was killing in Gaochang, killing nearly 2,000 people within three days of taking office, and uprooting the Zhang clan, the first scholar in Gaochang.

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