"Zhang Jun! Pass it to me! ”

"It's coming!"

When Zhu Youzhen asked about the overseas students, the wind of the Little Western Ocean had already blown away the chill of India with the warm monsoon.

At this moment, the capital of the Zhou Kingdom, Luoyi City (Kolkata), is undergoing a Keju contest between the people.

Inside a square wall made of stones, young men of sixteen or seventeen years old ran on a Keju field, which was about the size of a football field.

On the surrounding city walls, thousands of people watched the game with small horses, while the Zhou family, as a royal family, sat on the stone platform on the side of the field, hiding under the hot sun to watch the game.

"Dad, there are 50,000 local people rebelling in Zhongmu County in the north, and the eldest brother has already led troops to suppress it."

Under the canopy umbrella, when Zhu Gongyu, the sixty-one-year-old king of Zhou, was eating fruit and watching the event, standing behind him, Zhu Shaoyu, the king of Huairen County, who was in his thirties, stepped forward and whispered a reminder.

Zhu Gongyu, who heard this, frowned, and said helplessly: "These local people are always ungrateful, the imperial court has already given them two acres of land each, and they still want to rebel." ”

"Dad, I think it is better to use threats to deter them, they are not afraid of virtue."

Zhu Shaokun, the king of Chenliu County behind Zhu Shaohong, stepped forward with a disbelievable face and said: "Anyway, in February, the fourth brother is going to extradite a thousand families from the national dynasty, and he is now disbursing it unfamiliarly. ”

"Dad, that's what the fifth brother said." Zhu Shaoyu echoed his younger brother's opinion, and Zhu Gongyu, who saw this, also nodded:

"Yes, send a message to your eldest brother."

"Yes!" Seeing that his idea was agreed, the two sons made a decision, and then returned to their seats and sat down, continuing to watch the Keju competition.

At present, eleven years have passed since the Zhou Domain, and many things have happened in the eleven years, the old Zhou King Zhu Suqin died of illness in the seventeenth year of the Apocalypse, and Zhu Gongyu, the son of the Zhou King, ascended the throne, and at the same time canonized Zhu Shaoyang as the son.

King Zhou's lineage entered the thirteenth generation, and Zhu Gongfang and Zhu Shaoyun also inherited the family style of the Zhou royal family, and the rule was wide inside and strict outside.

Luoyi City is the capital of the Zhou royal family, and it is naturally the place where the most immigrants live.

A total of 120,000 people migrated here, and the remaining 120,000 were distributed among the more than 30 county towns of the Zhou State.

Zhou has more than 15 million mu of state-owned land, and although there are only 240,000 people, they occupy 4.8 million mu of land, which is nearly one-third of Zhou's land.

The remaining more than 10 million acres of land is the land that the Zhou royal family temporarily handed over to the local people to cultivate.

They can take back the land at any time, and the only way not to take it back is for the whole family to learn the official language of the Ming Dynasty and write Chinese characters.

If this can be done, or if the daughter marries the Han Chinese, then the Zhou State will give each of the local people five acres of land, which can make a poor family enter a well-off life at once.

However, the difficulty of learning official dialect and Chinese characters is well known, and at present, there are less than 5,000 native households in the Zhou Congress who can speak official dialect and write Chinese characters.

Because the learning environment is not good, most of the natives chose the second more direct method, marrying their daughters......

Of course, this practice also led to many native men not having women, so they also used their strengths, often abducting native women in broad daylight to vent their animal desires.

In this regard, Zhu Gongfang, the king of Zhou, was resolute in attacking, so the local men were often under the blows of the government, and such blows naturally caused riots.

Zhongmu County (Durgapur) is the third most populous county seat in the Zhou State, with more than 6,000 nationals and 170,000 natives.

The local native youth had a famine at the beginning of the year, because it was Lu Xiangsheng who stepped down, Zhu Gongfang didn't want to find something to do at this juncture, so he gave each of the local natives two acres of land.

I don't think it's been less than a year, and the local people have begun to ask for five acres of land inch by inch.

This move naturally angered Zhu Gongyu, and Zhu Shaoyan, as the prince of the prison country, naturally took responsibility and led more than 9,000 soldiers and horses of the three battalions to Zhongmu County to suppress the rebellion.

For Zhu Gongfang, this kind of rebellion was easy to suppress, and he was mainly worried about the safety of the 6,000 people in the city.

Fortunately, before the Keju competition was halfway through, he received a message from Zhu Shaoyang from the Tang Ride.

"Your Highness, His Royal Highness the Prince has rushed to Zhongmu County with his troops and defeated the 50,000 thieves besieging the county seat."

"The six thousand people in the county are fine, His Royal Highness the Prince is preparing to rest for a day, and tomorrow he will send troops to encircle and suppress the thieves outside the city."

"Good!"

When Tang Qi reported the news, the happy Zhu Gongqi also saw the scene of Luoyi Fuxue's successful goal, and couldn't help but shout hello.

He picked up a small hanging Apocalypse Tongbao on the table and threw it to Tang Qi: "The news is good, it's the way, go and quench your thirst with a few taels of wine."

"Thank you, Your Highness Longen!" Seeing this, Tang Qi picked up the hanging hundred copper coins and got up to leave, and Zhu Gongqi finally focused his attention on the Keju event.

The Keju Contest was a competition organized by the feudal clans to promote Han culture, and the contest was often dominated by the competition between government and government schools.

A few days ago, the official school competition has ended, and the current government school competition has also entered a white heat.

In competitions like this, the leader often gets 100 taels of education funds, and the participating students can also get 2 taels of silver each.

In this small western land, many people's parents earn only ten or twenty taels a year, and two taels of silver can already solve a lot of things for the family.

There are many other competitions such as polo, dragon boat, riding, field hunting, shuanglu, tug-of-war, Go, martial arts, foot ball, archery, corner and other competitions.

These competitions tend to take place during the summer and winter holidays, and the Han culture they can spread is quite extensive.

For example, on the field, there are no less than five local students running back and forth.

If the feudal clans want to assimilate the local people, it is naturally impossible to exclude the local people, no matter where they are, the children of the local people can go to official education, and they are also treated the same as national students, and they do not charge any tuition, only books and food.

But even so, many families still don't have the capital to send their children to school.

It's just that this situation has also made the people feel comparable, because everyone knows that as long as their children can graduate from the official school, then they will get an official position from Jiupin after graduation.

The vassals of the Ming Dynasty are unified for official positions, and the annual salary of fifteen taels of silver can immediately get them out of the title of extreme poverty for the native families whose family income is less than five taels.

As a result, the natives are trapped in a strange cycle in which they have no money, borrow money to pay for their children's education, and pay off their arrears in a few years as long as the children graduate.

If this invisibly promoted the spread of Han culture, then the official promotion system of the vassal states was a part of the more test of the spread of Han culture.

In order to be promoted, the parents and heirs of the family must be able to speak the official language, write Chinese characters, and recite no less than ten ancient poems.

These things have made it a lot more difficult for the promotion of local officials, but for the local people who once practiced the caste system, it is already the grace of the Buddha.

Therefore, it is not uncommon to see many children in each feudal kingdom who have to teach their families at home after returning home from school.

"Your Highness, the Little Western Supervision Envoy has sent a message."

When Zhu Gongqi was watching the ball game enter the white heat, Zhou Guochangshi walked over with a document from the Xiaoxi Supervision Envoy Department.

This news made Zhu Gongyu's heart immediately tighten, wondering if the war ahead had changed, and the southern captives were about to invade again.

He hurriedly grabbed the paperwork, and after glancing at it, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's okay......"

"Father, what's wrong?"

Seeing Zhu Gongfang's appearance, all the sons stepped forward one after another, and Zhu Gongqiao also shook the document in his hand and said:

"The dynasty wants to recall the officials who were previously sent to the vassal states, and it seems that there is an internal change."

Zhu Gongzhen's words revealed one of Zhu Youzhen's backs.

Since the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, due to the lack of manpower in various vassal states, the Ming Dynasty has successively sent many officials.

This method is like a filter, because the officials assigned are sent by Zhu Youzhen, and if anyone is related to the Yanshan faction, they will use their connections to transfer themselves back to the Ming Dynasty, and transfer those who are not conducive to Yanshan to serve in the feudal domains.

The Ming Dynasty helped the feudal lords to manage the country, with no less than 200,000 officials, and the Yulu had always been issued by the feudal states, so they had been at peace for a long time.

Now that Daming suddenly wants to recall these officials who were excluded by the Yanshan faction, who is Daming targeting? Go without saying......

"However, the number of graduates from Fuxue this year is only more than 2,000, which is not enough at all."

Zhu Shaokun frowned and spoke, there are more than 24,000 civil and military officials in the Zhou State at present, of which more than 13,000 are the officials sent by the Ming Dynasty to help.

It would be easy for the Ming Dynasty to transfer them, but the Zhou State would vacate more than 13,000 official positions at once, and the country's administration was almost in a state of vacuum collapse.

Even if more than 2,000 people can graduate this year, it will definitely not be able to fill this gap.

Therefore, their concerns are not without reason.

However, Zhu Gongqi also smiled at this:

"Zhu Youzhen's work is not so desperate, and besides, the vassal has officials of the state and the dynasty, which is helpful for the imperial court to monitor the vassal state."

"Therefore, although he transferred back more than 13,000 officials, he also sent 10,000 Daming Mansion officials to come."

"It's okay in this way, the officials from our Zhou State can be promoted, and those officials who get along well with our Zhou State are estimated to be promoted after returning to Daming this time, which can enhance the voice of our Zhou State in the imperial court."

Zhu Gongyu's words show that the Ming Dynasty's control over the feudal domains was not simply based on supervising the envoys, but from the inside out.

In the local area, after all, it is a small clan and a big clan, and if there is no strong backing, most officials can only choose local natives.

In this way, it is easy for local native officials to steal power and eventually overthrow the vassal king.

Therefore, for the vassal king, the Ming Dynasty sent officials was a more reliable means.

After all, no matter how much the old Zhu family cuts the domain, except for Zhu Yunwen, there is no precedent for other emperors to kill the vassal king at will.

Compared with being beheaded by the local people, Hui Daming continued to be a captive vassal king, which can be said to be a good treatment.

The credibility of the royal family for more than 200 years is still there, and the vassal kings are not afraid of being seized power.

For them, even if the Ming Dynasty seized power and continued to keep them in captivity, they would still make money, after all, their respective internal funds had accumulated more silver than before the domain.

Zhu Gongzhen is not afraid of Zhu Youzhen's attack on the feudal domains, he can understand Zhu Youzhen better than many feudal kings, and from Zhu Youzhen's character, he will not attack the feudal domains, after all, he himself is one of the feudal clans.

Instead of worrying about Zhu Youzhen going to attack the feudal domains, it is better to worry about his affectionate brother Zhu Youxiao and his nephew Zhu Ciran, who has been known for his "tyranny" recently.

"I still have to reply to the letter with the feudal clans, wait for the students of the prefecture to arrive, and then hand over the matters in hand, change the officials and leave."

Zhu Gongkun opened his mouth to explain to Zhu Shaokun, and Zhu Shaokun was also relieved when he heard this, and hurriedly went to work on this matter.

The Ming Dynasty recalled the officials in the feudal domains, and this matter was like a monsoon in the small Western Ocean, blowing from India to Levia, and even to the Qi country.

For Zhu Youzhen, it is necessary to support a group of newcomers who have just entered the political arena, but they can only take over the grassroots, and their political methods at the middle and high levels are too immature, and it is easy to show their feet.

However, overseas officials are different, most of them are officials who have been squeezed out by the Yanshan faction, and they first hate the officials of the Yanshan faction, and secondly, they also have many years of experience in governing the government, so they can deal with the Yanshan faction very well.

The number of officials of the Ming Dynasty in overseas vassals was nearly 100,000, and this did not include the biggest variable.

"All the officials were transferred?"

Layue's Xijing City was almost the same time as the time when the small Western vassals received the news, and when Xia Yunyi, who was the governor of Qi, received the news, his first reaction was not to believe it, and the second was to be surprised.

At present, the number of civil officials in the Qi State has reached more than 78,000, and what he wrote in his Chinese book is to transfer all middle- and grass-roots officials except necessary.

You must know that the officials of the Qi State are different from the officials of the other domains, the Ming officials of the other domains were all transferred and excluded, while the officials of the Qi State took the initiative to come to the Qi State.

In other words, in terms of ideology and ideals, they are a group of rare talents, which is one of the reasons why the corruption problem in Qi is not serious.

Now that this group of people is to be transferred back to Daming, will there be any differences between the newly transferred officials and Qi Guo's own school students? This seems to be full of uncertainties.

Xia Yunyi rejected this decree, in his opinion, the most important thing for His Royal Highness the King of Qi to do was to immediately become a vassal and lead the Qi country to a brighter future, instead of playing politics with the insects in Yanshan in Daming.

"Daddy! I am back! ”

Just as Xia Yunyi was sitting in the study at home, looking at the order in his hand and frowning, a young man's voice came into the study.

Xia Yunyi hurriedly put away the order, and a young man with a bookcase walked into the study after a while.

He has red lips and white teeth, although he is only eleven or twelve years old, but people can't help but praise him as a "good boy" after seeing it.

"Why did you come home so early today?"

Xia Yunyi looked at his son Xia Wanchun hurriedly drinking tea as soon as he came back, and couldn't bear to ask with a smile.

In this regard, twelve-year-old Xia Wanchun also turned his head happily and smiled:

"Dad, you just said yesterday that you had winter vacation today, why did you forget it today?"

"Forehead......" Hearing Xia Wanchun's words, Xia Yunyi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled awkwardly: "With this memory, I actually forgot that today is the day you graduated from the official school." ”

"How? Is the school volunteer filled in? ”

"Naturally, it's Nishikyo and Tokyo." Xia Wanchun came over with a hot water kettle while drinking tea, adding hot water to Xia Yunyi's already cold tea, and at the same time talking about his volunteer problem.

"Anyway, Dad, didn't you say that there will be provincial and Beijing studies in the future? Then I'll stay in these two most prosperous places and wait for the study all the way. ”

"By the way, Dad, are provincial schools and Beijing schools also five-year systems?"

Xia Wanchun sat back on the wooden chair next to him and looked at Xia Yunyi curiously, but Xia Yunyi only said helplessly:

"Naturally not, if it's all five-year years, then wouldn't you be studying for a third of the events in your life?"

"I don't know about Jingxue yet, but the academic year system of the provincial school was set by His Highness last year."

"Provincial learning is mainly for three years, and it is a school with specific disciplines, mainly for the in-depth study of the disciplines they study in the provincial school."

"As for Jingxue, I guess it's about the same as the Armaments Academy, and it's already a place where you can be awarded an official position and specialize in research."

Xia Yunyi said his opinion, and Xia Wanchun also touched his smooth chin when he heard this, this action seems to have been learned from Xia Yunyi.

After a while, he smiled brightly: "It's a pity that the kid doesn't like to be an old pedant, I still want to be an official like my father." ”

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"You......" Xia Yunyi smiled, and seemed to approve of Xia Wanchun's idea, so after a while, he also waved his hand and said:

"I'll show you something, but this matter is about the country, and you can't tell others easily."

After that, Xia Yunyi took out the edict issued by King Qi, and Xia Wanchun got closer and picked up the magnifying glass to take a look, and couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise at the content of the edict.

"This ...... How many people do you have to transfer? Xia Wanchun opened his mouth in surprise and said melancholy:

"And...... I have heard from the teachers of the official school that many officials on the Ming side are good at corruption, like to exploit the people, and politically the party is the same and the party fights against differences, and cannot see the differences between others and their own. ”

"If this kind of person is transferred to the Qi country, will it become unpeaceful on our side?"

"That's not ......" Xia Yunyi smiled helplessly, feeling that many Qi students had demonized Daming, so he couldn't help but say:

"Although there are officials in the Ming Dynasty who like to fight against the same party and exploit the people, there are also unyielding people with iron bones."

"I asked you about the school, just to ask you, do you want to go to Shuntian or Yingtian to study, I think if you go to Daming, in Daming for several years, it will be conducive to the development of Qi in the future."

"Me?" Xia Wanchun pointed at himself, a little hesitant: "I don't want to leave the Qi country, this is my home." ”

"You kid ......" Xia Yunyi was helpless by what he said:

"The dynasty and the clan are one, and wherever you go is home."

"I don't believe it!" Xia Wanchun said stubbornly: "If I go to Daming as an official, then if His Majesty the Emperor of Daming calls me like this in the future, then won't I have to go back to Daming?" ”

"If I don't go, I'll be in Qi country."

"What you said ......" Xia Yunyi said helplessly: "Even if you are a courtier of the Qi State, the Ming Emperor called you, and you have no reason not to go." ”

"Then I'll pretend to be sick!" Xia Wanchun has his own set of crooked reasoning, no matter what Xia Yunyi says, he will not let go, and he is very resistant to going to Daming.

"That's it......" Seeing Xia Wanchun's appearance, Xia Yunyi discussed with him and said:

"Haven't you always admired His Royal Highness King Qi? How about I write a letter to His Royal Highness the King of Qi and ask you to go to the Qi Palace? ”

"Qi Wangfu?" Hearing these three words, Xia Wanchun immediately hesitated.

Obviously, he was very curious and admired the His Royal Highness King Qi in his heart, after all, he had been exposed to all kinds of deeds of His Royal Highness King Qi since he was a child.

For them, His Royal Highness King Qi is Huo Quzhi and Li Shimin, who not only echoes the spirit of young people, but also echoes the majestic strategy of creating a prosperous era.

Such a person has a great temptation to Xia Wanchun, and Xia Yunyi did not hesitate to coax in order to let his son go to Daming to exercise:

"Although His Royal Highness King Qi said that he would be a vassal in the twenty-third year of the Apocalypse, he had also said so before, I estimate that His Royal Highness King Qi has not returned to Beijing by the end of your school."

"It's a rare opportunity for you to study hard by his side for five years now."

"Hmm......" Hearing his father say this, Xia Wanchun was indeed a little hesitant.

Seeing this, Xia Yunyi took retreat as advance, sighed and said:

"That's it, since you don't want to go, forget it, I remember that I was taken by His Royal Highness King Qi before, it seems to be Cao Bianjiao's general soldiers, Cao Dingjiao's general soldiers, Li Dingguo's general soldiers, and His Royal Highness the current Prince of the Prison State."

"It's a pity......"

As he spoke, Xia Yunyi picked up his wolf pen and continued to prepare to deal with the music, and said mercilessly:

"If you don't want to go, don't go, you can go back to your room to rest, and tell Chef Li that you can prepare dinner."

"I'll go! Where did I say I wasn't going?! Hearing Xia Yunyi's words, Xia Wanchun was directly anxious, and he hurriedly said:

"I was just thinking about which subject I would study if I went to Suncheon Academy, and it wasn't that I didn't want to go."

"It's just that Dad, are you sure that after you go up, can Your Highness take me with you?"

"You don't believe me?" Xia Yunyi showed a surprised expression, which made Xia Wanchun a little embarrassed and said:

"It's not that I don't believe it, it's just that I remember that Dad, you obviously haven't met His Royal Highness King Qi......"

"Although I haven't seen it, I am the chief of Qi after all, Your Highness will not reject me, besides, you are not bad at studying." Xia Yunyi coughed:

"Since you are going, let's prepare well, and we will leave in ten days, and it is estimated that we can arrive in Tianjin before the start of the school year."

"There are many uncles with you, and you don't have to worry about boredom on the way, you can ask them some questions."

"Good!" Hearing this, Xia Wanchun put the bookcase on his back and walked out of Xia Yunyi's study happily.

Looking at his back, Xia Yunyi touched his beard unconfidently:

"Your Highness, you should be able to give me this face......"