"The reclamation order issued by the county, our Zhou family must resolutely participate."

"There is no need to pay taxes for ten years on the cultivated land, and we can also accept displaced people to open up the wasteland, and when the fields are cultivated, they will set up manors and collect them as tenant farmers."

Looking at Zhou Bai and himself answering himself, the discussion in the group hall seemed to have become a hall of words, and the high-level officials looked at each other, not daring to oppose the agricultural policy that the new patriarch focused on.

After all, as a family, it is always right to open up more fields and accumulate some food.

The first policy was passed, and no one could withstand the pressure of Zhou Bai for the adjustment of the layout of the commercial industry.

The main thing is that he really knows the family very well, and after some analysis, even the clan elder can only nod in agreement.

Of course, there are also a few young deacons who have the courage to express their opinions, such as Zhou Qi, who was born in a branch this year.

He wanted to hone his skills for a few years before he took the exam, and he couldn't just study behind closed doors, so he became a deacon first.

Zhou Qi put forward his idea based on his experience in the county town to participate in the county examination, and he found that many families in the county town did not have suitable clay materials for repairing their houses, and even opening manors outside, so they often needed to spend a lot of money to buy glutinous rice milk and egg white mixture.

The biggest specialty of their red clay township is red mud, although this red clay is not as sticky as glutinous rice milk, but it is much better than ordinary clay.

Therefore, Zhou Qi suggested that a new trade route to the county town should be added to sell red mud.

Zhou Bai praised this, because although what he said was a little immature, it did have merit.

So Zhou Qi was immediately rewarded with five taels of silver, and was appointed as the organizer and implementer of the red clay trade route.

All the clansmen deeply realized that Zhou Bai was practicing the rules set by the group hall, and the capable went up, and the mediocre went down.

Regardless of the lineage, as long as you contribute, you can be valued by the patriarch and have the opportunity to display your talents.

Because of Zhou Bai's style of acting, for a while, many children in the clan actually wanted to join the inner government.

There is more abundant money, and there is a more perfect and fair reward and punishment mechanism.

It's just that the shelf of the Inner Mansion is only so big at present, and Zhou Bai doesn't need and can't afford to raise too many people, so he can only raise the threshold, and then let Chen Zhongbang record the right people.

Once the inner government expands later, there will be sufficient talents for officials immediately.

With the end of this ancestor worship, the news of Zhou Bai's knighthood is also known to the large and small families in Pingcang County.

Regardless of whether the relationship is good or bad, they have all sent gifts from Hejue, and even the county tyrant Zhao family has sent people to maintain the superficial effort.

In fact, Zhou Bai was very curious, why was the Zhao family fine, didn't Hu Yanhe tell the Son of Heaven that the Zhao family had bought off the Kukou guards?

On the day of the knighthood, the Kukou Pass guard was then taken down by Wang Xiu and sent to Beijing.

There are also a group of generals in Cangbei County who have defensive loopholes, all of whom have been reprimanded, and they can't escape from demotion.

However, the Zhao family did not have a single matter, and Zhou Bai did not know what kind of exchange of interests was involved.

I only vaguely heard that in the holy decree read by Wang Xiu, he only said that the bitter mouth and the guards would collude with the Jin people, and did not mention the names of other families.

Zhao Liangji, as the son-in-law of the Zhao family's generation, did not deal with him, so Zhou Bai naturally wanted to have a snack.

At this time, Zhou Bai received an invitation from the county, it turned out that it had not rained for a long time recently, and Ji Hongzhe was going to invite the county's celebrities and talents to hold a ceremony to worship the gods and pray for rain.

It is not to offer sacrifices to the heavenly court, but to worship the local parent god, Pingcang County Chenghuang.

There is no way, there is no big river near Pingcang County, and there is no dragon king to ask for, so you can only turn to the gods who have this position.

In addition to guarding the city, protecting the country and the country, and ruling the souls of the dead, the god of the city god also happens to have the priesthood of reconciling the wind and rain.

In the past, when the sectarian forces of the Taoist sect dominated the mundane, they also made a rule: "There is no special sacrifice in the City God Temple, but floods, droughts, and epidemics must be prayed for, and tributes and fasting must be told; Therefore, the temple is erected, so that the gods have something to rely on. ”

So the county officials remembered their Pingcang County Chenghuang, who has always been well-known and is a promising god in the minds of the people of the county, and the incense of the Chenghuang Temple is not prosperous.

It happened that after Zhou Bai was knighted, he needed to meet the officials of the county government, and at the same time heard the news of the Zhao family from Ji Hongzhe, so he accepted this invitation.

Worshipping the gods is a sacred and important event, especially the official sacrifice presided over by the government, which often consumes a part of the local legal system.

And in order to ensure that each main sacrifice can be successful and not damage the face of the court, officials who know the inside story will often be cautious to ask for sacrifices, and will not trouble the gods until they have to.

It is desirable for them to receive sacrifices, but if the work they do is too expensive, the gains often outweigh the losses.

Therefore, please put a date on the end of April, and the invitees should meet before April 20th.

The officials and men of Pingcang County still want to wait for a while, if it rains in this half month, they don't need to consume county gas to worship the gods.

In April, in addition to dealing with clan affairs and internal government affairs, Zhou Bai also studied and trained soldiers.

Read books, read the Five Emperors Sutra.

The Blue Emperor of the East, the Red Emperor of the South, the Yellow Emperor of the Central, the White Emperor of the West, the Black Emperor of the North, after each Heavenly Emperor passed on the Fa, there was a corresponding general outline of the Taoist scriptures.

These five general outline of the Taoist scriptures are the scriptures of the heavenly court, but in order to prevent the ignorant villagers from studying and hurting their bodies, and they are also afraid that the children will read it in advance and delay the foundation, they are only allowed to study by those who have meritorious fame.

The examination is the general outline of the Five Emperors, and every verse in it may be tested, of course, most of them have no standard answers, and the scoring only depends on your level of understanding.

The general program rules all the laws of the world, and every time you read through it, you have new insights, although Zhou Bai has already memorized it, it is not a waste of time.

In addition to the Taoist scriptures, Zhou Bai is to read "Jingwu Yaolu", he wants to read it through, and then teach it to the officers in the village protection team.

Especially Zhou Yuan, this kid is a little smart, and he can often draw inferences, if he can't answer when asked, it should damage his image as the lord.

Now Zhou Bai has two armies in his hands, a clan soldier and a village guard.

The clan soldiers are relatively loose inside and outside, and they belong to the nature of family members, and there are only more than 100 people who are out of work at present.

In addition to guarding the home, they also have to take on the escort of caravans and patrol the various estates.

In this way, it is obvious that there are not enough manpower, so when Zhou Bai established a team to protect the village in the name of protecting the village, no clan objected, and other families and even the government did not have many doubts.

After all, it is the inner government that pays for it, and it can also make those frizzy half-sized children in the clan settle down.

The village guard team is currently stationed in Zhou Bai's manor, implementing militarized management, serving three meals, and practicing every day.

five people in a unit, including a captain; Two soldiers and one tithe, and another chief of the tithe; Five tithes are a team, and another team is set up with a team leader and a deputy team; The two teams are one capital, Zhou Yuan is the deputy leader, and Zhou Bai leads the capital.

Of course, for the time being, these military systems are called internally, and externally they are ordinary one or two teams.

In the case of mastering the Taoist Priest Regiment, although the imperial court has enough confidence to suppress the unsubordinate, it will not let you go too far.

When the army condenses its military spirit, it can confront the supernatural powers, and which one realm and two realms in this world dare to attack the military formation of the Jiaoma cavalry army.