In the summer of the fourth year of Ping, Jiang Zuo talked about the merits of Ping Yan, Feng Huan Wen was the Duke of Nanjun, the Governor of the Metropolis, the fake Huang Cheng, the Great Sima, the President's internal and external armies, the Yang Mu and Lu Shangshushi, Wen Dichong was the Duke of Fengcheng County, the Assassin of Jingzhou, and Ziji was the Duke of Linhe County. Feng Zenghua was the prince of Beidi County, the governor of the army to recruit the military, the fake Huang Cheng, the general, the general conquest of military affairs, the pastoral of Jiayong Prefecture, and the affairs of the same door.

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In the autumn and August of the fourth year of Shengping, it has been almost a year since Weijun City, the center of decades of war, fell into the hands of Beifu. With the support and assistance of Yong and other Beifu Xianzhou, this place, like the rest of Jizhou, has finally begun to sprout a sense of recovery.

According to Zeng Hua's order at the beginning of the year, Wei County, where the city is located, has been placed under the jurisdiction of Jizhou. Subsequently, Zhao County and Yangping County were also divided from Sizhou to Jizhou. Zhao County is part of Guangping County of the former Sizhou and Zhao County of the original Jizhou (Zhifang City), and Yangping County is the former Yangping County of Sizhou merged with Dunqiu County and governed Yuan City. Originally, Zeng Hua was ready to change the Jizhou administrative office to Zhending (now north of Shijiazhuang) in Changshan County in accordance with "inertial thinking". In the past, when Zeng Hua watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he admired Changshan Zhao Zilong very much, so he checked it carefully and found that Changshan County was almost a "modern" Shijiazhuang, so he had this idea.

Who knew that on the map, this is really next to Bingzhou and Youzhou, but it is a little remote from the center of Jizhou, for the convenience of governance, Zeng Hua had to accept the opposition of Zhang Shou, the assassin of Jizhou, and did not move the office. Later, I suddenly wanted to move to another "famous city in Hebei" - Baoding. But Zeng Hua couldn't figure out what Baoding was called at this time this time, so he had to give up.

Time passed in a hurry, Zeng Hua except for the end of the third year of Shengping rushed back to Chang'an for the New Year's Festival, the rest of the time was in the city, assisting Zhang Shou to govern Jizhou, after the spring of the fourth year of Shengping, Zeng Hua's assistance object had one more, that is, Qingzhou Thorn Shi Liao Qian.

Liao Qian is a student brought out by Wang Meng. can be regarded as the core figure of the Jiangbei faction. And the knowledge is far-reaching, and the little is clear. It was praised by Wang Meng as "the appearance of ambition, the instrument of the phase". Wang Meng captured Guanggu, and after recovering Qingzhou, he asked Liao to move to Qingzhou to pacify Qinglai. Liao Qian also fought for anger, pacified the people, hung the orphans and returned to the stream, and governed appropriately. And he also learned the style of the teacher Wang Meng to the fullest, chastity and selflessness, evil and evil, and lawbreakers are afraid of it.

During this period of time, Zeng Hua, who was not dead in the thief's heart, used the excuse of "restoring the ancient system" to make a big move on the administrative division of Jizhou, anyway, he had worked in Yong, Liang, Qin, Yi, Liang and other prefectures before, and he was in charge of his territory.

After a lot of tossing. Jizhou has become under the jurisdiction of Changshan, Zhongshan (and Gaoyang County), Hejian (and Zhangwu County and the northern part of Bohai County), Pingyuan (and Leling County and the southern part of Bohai County), Qinghe (and the western part of Hai County), Anping (and Boling County), Julu (and Jizhou Zhao County) seven counties plus the original Sizhou to Zhao, Wei, Yangping three counties. Ten counties in total. And it didn't take long for Zeng Hua to "revise" Qingzhou, which had just been incorporated into the territory of Beifu.

Jinan County merged the original Anle County plus the area south of the river in the original Jizhou Plain County, and still governed the city. The county of Taishan in the state was demarcated. Beihai County merged most of Chengyang County, and Donglai County merged Changguang County and the eastern part of Chengyang County.

At that time, it was Jiang Zuolang who guarded Dongguan and guarded Zhuge You, when Wang Meng led the army to attack Taishan County, Yanzhou, because the soldiers of Beifu were outside the country, they were ready to move, and at that time, the Beifu crowd was turbulent, and one by one wanted to support Zeng Hua to stand on his own, and the situation was extremely delicate. Zhuge You saw that the situation was not right, so he ran away and ran until he reached Xuzhou. The two counties of Dongguan and Langxie that he left were naturally accepted by Wang Meng and merged into Qingzhou.

Zeng Hua divided Dongguan County into two, the north was merged into Linxian County, and the south was merged into Langxi County (Langxi County also merged the southern part of Chengyang County), so Qingzhou became the state of six counties, and the governing office was still in Lin.

For Zeng Hua's big move, the whole Beifu is quite supportive, because these places have been war-torn for a long time and the population has withered, so there is no need to set up so many counties, and accordingly, there can be fewer officials and more efficient governance.

After finishing all this, Zeng Hua saw that there were two high-ranking people sitting left and right, so he came to be the shopkeeper again. Sometimes he hunts in Montenegro, sometimes he visits places, and sometimes he feasts on celebrities from Hebei and Shandong, and he is a mess.

However, today Zeng Hua was blocked at the door by Zhang Shou, the assassin of Jizhou.

There are many matters of great importance in Hebei and Qingdao, and Zeng Hua must personally make a decision. The city is relatively close to Xindu and Lindu, and it is very convenient to exchange official documents. Every two or three months, Zhang Shou and Liao Qian, who were born in the army, would ride on war horses, carry papers, and take escorts, and gallop to the city for several days to have a meeting with Zeng Hua.

Zhang Shou is Zeng Hua's sworn brother, and the relationship between the two has always been friendly. Zhang Shou was also not polite, and followed Zeng Hua into the mansion.

"Baishan, what's the important thing this time?" The two sat down, and after the waiter servant served refreshments, Zeng Hua asked.

"Military master, this time it's still for the affairs of the local powerful family. If they don't solve the problem, the Jizhou Juntian system will not be fully implemented, and if the Juntian system is not good, the Jizhou area will not be able to stabilize. Zhang Shou went straight to the point.

Zeng Hua nodded, understanding what Zhang Shou said. In the past few months, Zeng Hua has figured out the local situation in Jizhou. Unlike Guanlong, Jizhou, like Qing, Yan, Si, and Yuzhou, is the place where the powerful families are most concentrated, and there are as many high-ranking celebrities as there are toads in ponds.

Before and after Zhao's ruling center was in the Central Plains of Guandong, from Liu Cong to Shi Le, and then to Shi Hu, the powerful family of Guanlong, together with Qiang and Qu Shuai, moved to Guandong at every turn, and engaged in a face-saving project. Therefore, after Zeng Hua became the master of Guanlong, he greatly implemented the Juntian system and greatly promoted military and political reform, and there was no resistance at all, and it was smoothly implemented with a little trickery.

But the Kanto states are different, which Zeng Hua clearly felt from the governance of the annexed states. The high-ranking family, the local hero, the collusion and the intertwin, the power is immeasurable. In order to smoothly govern in Bingzhou, Zeng Hua first moved a large number of cases

strong, and then sent the "gold medal direct minister" Wang Meng to take office and assassinate the state, and the year will be over.

However, compared with Jizhou and other places, it is a little worse.

"We all know that. Since the Yongjia Rebellion, the Jin Dynasty moved to Zuo, the Central Plains was turbulent, and a large number of local wealthy families gathered in the countryside and settled in Tunbao, thinking that it was a plan for self-survival. For a time, the dock walls in the north of the Central Plains River were numerous, and the townships and counties did not exist. Zeng Hua said slowly.

"The dock wall has to be dangerous. There are obstacles that can be hindered; The source of food water plays a crucial role in the survival of the dock wall. Many of the dock walls were breached because the water transport route was cut off. The countryside on which the dock wall depends is mostly outside the danger. The harvest of grain is limited by the season, and when the grain is not ripe or the Hu Qi is invaded, it can only eat wood, bait litmus, and sit and eat the empty mountain; More dock owners had to plunder all year round, each attacking each other with deception. Zhang Shou held a stack of scrolls in his hand and echoed.

"Yes, in such a hostile environment. There are too few dock masters like Mr. Shu Bao (Gon) and Wen Cheng (Jian), and many places are local homeless marshals like Su Jun, Li Ju, Guo Mo, and Liu Yao. Sometimes there are thousands of households, tens of thousands, and sometimes the people are scattered and displaced. Few can sustain local power for a long time. Zeng Hua continued.

"It is in this way that the remaining docks will be unusually united, and they will either gather in the clan or in the village. Some of them are simply a collection of displaced people from all over the world. In the trials of life and death over the years, it has long been refined into one. However, this kind of Haoqiang is easier to clean up. They are all built into a dock for begging, and if they can get a good land, they can produce peacefully. I think most of the people in the dock will still support it. If there are a small number of powerful and powerful commanders who are unwilling to comply with the will of the people in order to maintain their own power interests, then it is also a matter of effort to destroy them. The key is to prevent them from deceiving the people. Zeng Hua slowly said what he had been thinking about during this time.

"What the military master said is similar to what I discussed in Jizhou. It's just that you have to decide the strategy of going along with it and destroying it if it goes against it. Zhang Shou said with a smile.

Zeng Hua nodded: "The Central Plains has been torn apart by war, and the people have been thinking about stability for a long time, this is the general trend of the world, and no one can stop it." If the powerful and the people conform to the general trend, we can wait for the glory of the people, and if we do not follow the general trend, we will crusade by force. ”

"But the most important thing is how to prevent the clan from continuing to grow. These people are all popular, and they will definitely form new heroes in the local area after a long time. Together, they will collude with officials, corrupt the system, run rampant, and forcibly seize fertile land. After tens of hundreds of years, this Juntian system may have no real name, and the foundation of my northern mansion will also collapse. Zeng Hua's exclamations are a summary of the decline of the Tang Dynasty in another world. If it weren't for the collapse of the Juntian system, the Central Plains military system existed in name only, and the only remaining elite Guanlongfu soldiers in the Tang Dynasty were lost in the Nanzhao and other wars, could An Fat Man be so happy?

Hearing Zeng Hua say this, Zhang Shou couldn't help frowning, thinking about it secretly, the more he thought about it, the more worried he became, "How should this be?" ”

Zeng Huayi waved his hand and said: "We not only have to plan for today, but also for a hundred years." First of all, we need to have some local arrangements as a foundation. First of all, we must determine the township to protect the armor and count the household registration to reassure the people. Then the holy religion was widely practiced, and the church was used to restrain the secular power of the clans in the township. Then, on this basis, the government military system was improved. After more than ten years, it will be the same as Guanlong, and the retired sergeants of the government soldiers or the box army will be all over the township. With the support of this dark chess, together with other measures, it will definitely completely stabilize the Central Plains. Of course, there are other more important initiatives that we need to take step by step. ”

Zhang Shou thought about it for a while, and knew that Zeng Hua had already had a big article in his heart, so he immediately moved on to another topic.

"Lord, now it's another group of people in the place. They are more difficult to deal with than the average powerful people. Zhang Shou flipped through a few scrolls and continued.

"Different from ordinary local wealthy families, Jiangyou's famous family members have been involved in court battles and disputes since the Eight Kings Rebellion due to their own geographical origins and personal kinship. Therefore, it is rare for big names to take the dock to guard the border, and they often directly join the puppet states on the right side of the river as officials. For example, Shi Zhao has Hedong Pei Xian, Bohai Shipu, Yang Zheng Department, Yingchuan Xun Xuan, Beidi Fu Chang, Zhongshan Liu Qun (Liu's son), Qinghe Cui Yue, Fan Yanglu and other celebrities, all of whom were promoted to the end of the official; Qianyan Murong Diao in order to seek prosperity, once to Hedong Pei, Daijun Luchang, Beiping Yang Tan as the master, Beihai Fengxian, Guangping Youdi, Beiping Xiqian, Bohai Feng Pump, Xihe Song Zheng, Hedong Pei Kai as the shares, Hai Fengyi, Pingyuan Song Cai, Anding Huangfu Qi, Lanling Miao Kai to the article talent as the pivotal point, Hui Ji Xuan Zuoche, Taishan Hu Wuyi, Lu Guo Kong Su to the old Deqing heavy introduction as a guest, Pingyuan Liu Confucianism should be passed, cited as the East sacrifice wine. So as to make the Yan country prosperous. ”

Hearing this, Zeng Hua had a headache. He knew that Zhang Shou was referring to the most powerful family in the Central Plains. There are no famous families who stayed in Jiangyou and fled south, in order to maintain the continuity of the family and the family. had to participate in the "puppet" regime in the Central Plains, and it itself changed the trajectory of development to a certain extent. Faced with potential threats such as killings and forced evictions, they had to make some compromises and adjustments to adapt to the harsh environment.

Although in a certain sense, they can be regarded as "traitors" as the "indignant youth" of later generations, it is precisely because of their continuation and persistence that Chinese civilization can continue. Because for a period of time, these high-ranking families were in danger of land and property due to political turmoil, so they paid more attention to the maintenance of ethics and civilization. Because these things are what every ruler needs. They maintain a strict family tradition of etiquette and good academic practices. Inherited from generation to generation, father and son. When there is a change of dynasty. Adopt the method of retreating from the world, waiting for the price to sell; If you are a little stable, you will come out to try the blessings and misfortunes.

However, once these high-ranking families return to a stable social environment, they will recover and expand at an alarming rate. Because governing a country requires cultural knowledge, and these are the "strengths" of the Maison's high family. According to the normal law, it did not take much time to go up to the central government, down to the localities, and most of the new imperial court

will be controlled by these high-ranking families. At that time, no matter who is the emperor, he will have to rely on it

Of course, Zeng Hua didn't want to see this, and the people who followed Zeng Hua to fight the world didn't want to see this. But how to deal with them? You can't beat or scold these people, and you have to treat them with a shy face. Because these people represent the hearts and hopes of the people in the world, other people from the Hanmen Shu clan are no matter how big the officials are, as long as you are a scholar, you still can't stand up in front of them.

Take out the old way and move these high-ranking families. But where to move? Guanlong's relocation to the Central Plains. The relocation of the Central Plains? As long as the knowledge of these people is still there. Everywhere it goes, it will rise again.

"We still have to move." Zeng Hua thought for a while before starting to talk about this issue, "Because we first have to use migration to disperse them so that they can't be too strong for the time being, so as to leave us for a while." This is followed by a beginner's school, a county school, a county school, and a state school. Broaden education. These high-ranking families relied on the knowledge of civilization, so they learned to succeed the world, and at the same time did a lot of foolishness. We don't want everyone in Beifu to be educated, but at least we can't let civilization and knowledge be in the hands of a few. ”

"Without knowledge there is no thought, and without one's own thought, what is the difference between man and salted fish? I don't want the Chinese people to be like before, and end up being a flock of sheep. Fortunately, in the past ten years, our Beifu has cultivated a large number of new scholars, and we don't have to rely on these high-ranking families. Speaking of this, Zeng Hua narrowed his eyes. Zhang Shou knew that his military master must have thought far away.

At the beginning of his tenure in Guanlong, Zeng Hua recruited a large number of scholars from the Hanmen Shu clan with ulterior motives, and then used the academic divisions of various schools to deliberately arrange and guide, and finally formed a new school of "people-oriented", and built the school into the mainstream of Beifu academics, and the Holy Religion became two "brainwashing" tools, one bright and one dark.

"In the end, we must implement the way of opening a branch to take scholars and break the way of the high-ranking family to control the official position - the nine-product Zhongzheng system." Zeng Hua continued after a while.

Zhang Shou is Zeng Huadi's righteous brother and an important minister of Beifu, so he naturally knows Zeng Hua's follow-up plan.

"It's just that once the implementation of the opening of the department, the Gaomen family should immediately see the mystery. For them, this is a draw from the bottom of the kettle, and I am afraid that they will resist desperately. Zhang Shou said worriedly.

"It's natural. In the past ten years, under the pretext that the world is not quiet, I have stopped the Jiupin Zhongzheng system in Beifu, and I will not resume it after that. They may tolerate this, because they think that no matter what, we have to select the rulers from among the scholars, and they have a position and prestige advantage among the scholars, so they will not worry. However, once we implement the practice of opening up a department to recruit scholars, and do not select talents based on their birth and fame, they will definitely feel more afraid than the death of the country. ”

Speaking of this, Zeng Hua paused and continued: "Let's take a more tactful approach first. After we improve the schools at all levels, we will assess and select them level by level, and finally the scholars who are admitted to the state are almost all over the country, and then study for three years in different categories, and finally take the final examination, and appoint officials at all levels according to their grades. ”

Zhang Shou quickly understood what Zeng Hua meant, and selected talents by means of education plus level-by-level examinations. The Gaomen family may feel that this is unsatisfactory, but they can reluctantly accept it. Because in their traditional thinking, reading is the patent of a wealthy family or a scholarly family, and a scholar from a poor family is really a smoker from the ancestral tomb, because the burden of tuition fees is enough to scare them to death.

However, if you know the Beifu school system, you will immediately understand Zeng Hua's sinister intentions.

According to the Beifu school system, the diocese or Baojia has a primary school, and the children of Beifu, regardless of whether they are male or female, as long as they are five years old, can be enrolled for free, with the six arts of etiquette, music, archery, riding, calligraphy, and mathematics as the foundation. Each county has a number of county schools in large dioceses or node towns, and children can be admitted to county schools after five years of initial study, and since the admission rate is 1/10 to 1/5, students who are admitted to county schools continue to enjoy free of charge.

After four years of county school, you can be admitted to the county school, and you can be admitted to the state school after four years of county school. Each state school is divided into divisions of governance, civil affairs, law, and other subjects. After three years of study, students will be assigned to the local government according to their grades, and then they will be promoted to the next level according to the examination method of officials in the northern government. Those who fail to learn in the county can be transferred to the Lianggong School or the Martial Arts Beginner, and those who fail to study in the state can be transferred to the Liangzao School or the Martial Arts Non-commissioned Officer School.

Each primary school is set up by the church or the public, and the county school and above are funded by the Beifu government. In addition to a large amount of taxes allocated by the government, these schools also have occasional donations from churches, trading companies, or wealthy people. These donations are more or less related to the reputation of the school. For example, the famous Chang'an University Hall receives donations that far exceed expenditures every year. The good works and good schools are related to the major factories, and most of the expenses are paid by these factories from the profits.

In this way, the Beifu school system is based on ensuring that everyone can receive basic education at the beginning of school, and then the county school is used as secondary education, and then it begins to divide into subjects, or train skilled workers, or continue to higher education, and finally carry out professional education.

However, each county in the northern province has a school head, a county has a school inspector, and the state has set up a school affairs and teaching to urge the children in the townships to enter the junior high school, test the merits of the school, examine and certify the teachers, and take charge of the teaching status of the teachers, and assist in organizing the examinations, but they shall not interfere with the normal operation of the schools and the enrollment and admission.

Zeng Hua spent nearly ten years of hard work to build a complete and complex education system in Beifu, especially the four prefectures of Yong, Yi, Liang and Qin. This system covers all levels of education at the junior, middle and high levels, as well as all kinds of literature, engineering and martial arts, the most special of which is that professional education reverses the general learning of the past, proposes to divide into majors, and refines them, providing a solid foundation for the political system and industrial and commercial technology development of Beifu.

Zhang Shou was very aware of the situation of the education system in Beifu, and after listening to Zeng Hua's thoughts, and thinking about it carefully, he had already understood Zeng Hua's methods to deal with the Gaomen family.

After the most important business was over, the two brothers began to talk and continued to exchange ideas on some things.