After the establishment of the provincial institutions, the provincial state capital was gradually established.

Guo Gai and others summed up the lessons of Eastern Rome in their early years. At the beginning, the various officials, missions, and titles of Eastern Rome overlapped with each other, the division of labor among military, judicial, and administrative officials was unclear, and the various organs of the military region were stacked on top of each other. Not only did it reduce efficiency, but it also failed to solve the problem of aristocratic rebellion when faced with the real problem.

Therefore, a simple but efficient system is a must. And this system needs to rely on a large number of experienced and reliable officials.

Previously, the Greeks had also made a lot of attempts. In the whole world west of the Green Mountains, their system may be the most developed and perfect, even surpassing the Persians as teachers. But the Greeks were still unable to solve the problem of infighting and rebellion among the nobles.

Guo Gai and others believe that this is not the fault of the system - the system of the Greeks has even been overperfected and has begun to be Songized. The real reason is that their education level is not as good as that of the Central Plains, and they are unable to provide a large number of management talents for the citizen class.

We have always relied on these big families and churches to provide education and talent, and of course we cannot escape their influence.

As for how to get so many officials, Guo Gai's idea is to choose from the army.

Since its establishment, the Purple Horde has been very unpopular with the surrounding God-worshipping forces, and basically has to fight with people when there is nothing to do. Therefore, the military atmosphere within the Khanate was very strong, and the military organization and administrative organization at the grassroots level were often the same thing.

At the same time, the veterans of the army were also the most literate and managerial people at the grassroots level of the khanate.

According to the experience of the Han and Tang dynasties, it was an important task to promote education in the army. Many soldiers are not of high origin, have no systematic education, and have difficulty even reading and writing. In the army, it is difficult for such people to read complex military orders, they are unable to write official documents, and their training and mission performance will be affected.

According to the regulations of the Han Dynasty, illiterate people could not pass the examination and become military officials. This is not a deliberate creation of thresholds, but because a combat-ready army cannot be a hastily pulled rabble.

In addition to performing military tasks, a grassroots officer also has a lot of paperwork to do: routine inspection and maintenance of weapons, the health of soldiers, the performance of training, the results of evaluations, and even the food reserves, non-staple food procurement, and medicine reserves of the station...... All kinds of official documents and account books have to be written and signed by them.

War is not about brute force, but about the collision of two machines. These trivial and complicated matters seem to have nothing to do with the tense and bloody fighting, but they and the rules and regulations behind them are the source of combat effectiveness. To this day, in the Western Regions, there are still pamphlets used by soldiers in the Tang Dynasty to learn characters, which shows the popularity at that time.

What the people of the Han Dynasty could do with simple scrolls, now with the use of printing, they are more qualified to achieve it. After all, for soldiers, of course, the more literate the better. In addition to words, it is better to know mathematics.

In the Central Plains, there is a classic story:

During the Northern Song Dynasty, some people dug up some crossbow machines of the Han Dynasty, so they tried to restore this ancient high technology, hoping to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. Shen Kuo, a well-known scholar, also studied these crossbow machines.

Shen Kuo found that the aiming parts of this crossbow machine were quite long, and there was a scale on the side. The intent of the design is to aim at the end of the arrow, the target and the number of scalar scales when firing, and measure the angle of the launch to adjust the height of the arrow. What is used here is the Pythagorean method of the arithmetic.

Before, the people of the Han Dynasty left a mantra, but at that time people no longer understood its meaning. Shen Kuo compared the crossbow machine and found that it probably tells the user the standard gestures to hold, the method of aiming, and the Pythagorean technique for calculation. It is said that the ancients used this method to hit ten shots and ten hits in the same place.

Shen Kuo restored a crossbow and went to the shooting range to experiment by himself, although he was a novice, he could also hit seven or eight out of ten, so he thought that this method was effective.

So, can Shen Kuo's method help the Song Dynasty army?

Of course not.

In the Han Dynasty, soldiers were required to learn to use crossbows and were regularly assessed. Along with the number of beheadings, the results of the assessment are the most important indicators of reward and promotion. In addition, they usually have to carry out complicated maintenance and overhaul work on the crossbow, check whether the tension of the two arms of the crossbow is equal, whether the strength and range are qualified, etc., and make detailed records, and from time to time they will send people to spot checks.

And this kind of weapon, when the Han Dynasty was prosperous, was a thing that did not occupy the establishment - the main infantry could basically carry one with one hand.

Even if Heavenly Father threw the crossbow of the arsenal directly to the Northern Song Dynasty army, how many of them would be able to learn to use it? Can it be maintained? Can you guarantee that it will not become scrap or even sold to other countries after a few months?

The Han crossbow itself is now outdated. However, the quality of the armed forces is a factor that cannot be ignored at any time.

As Romans who fought every day, Guo Gai and others certainly had a deep understanding of this.

Here, however, there is an even more important need for education: most of their soldiers are recruited from all over the world, and they do not speak the same dialect with each other. And except for the Greeks, everyone basically has no mature writing, and they can't do the work of writing if they want to. Under such circumstances, if education is not carried out in the army, I am afraid that it will not even be possible to give orders to the soldiers.

The nobles of the Purple Horde are actually not very well educated, but they are at least a little bit good: the Li brothers are engineers who repair water conservancy for people, and their basic measurement and measurement skills are very good; The father and son of the Cao family were born in the accounting office and were good at arithmetic; As the most knowledgeable person in the Khan's court, he participated in many local sects in West Asia, not only can he translate various popular languages, but also has rich teaching experience, and knows how to teach these zero-based recruits......

Anyway, they are not needed to be gentlemen in the army. According to Guo Gai's experience, as long as a few hundred Chinese characters, combined with some concise and concise stick figure marks for the military, can meet various needs from daily copywriting to flag identification.

Later, even these symbols were eliminated - the soldiers thought that Chinese characters were originally simple stick figure symbols, and there was no need to create another set.

In order to unify the password, Zhang Yimu also used Greek letters to phonetize these Chinese characters to make it easier for recruits to read. Although the accent may be a bit weird, you can understand it and don't expect too much.

Over the decades, a set of traditions has developed in the armies of the Khanate, which may be quite unique in Europe. Military veterans and grassroots officers have also provided sufficient personnel for local administration.

In particular, the hundred households at the grassroots level, in the system of the khanate, were both grassroots administrators and grassroots officers. Managing a village in peacetime and leading troops to fight in wartime is the daily routine in many places.

In the city, it's the same.

In most of the areas controlled by the Purple Horde, except for large cities like Constantinople, there were no urban traditions. Many of the cities that emerged with the development of the Khanate were in fact war factories, responsible for producing ordnance and other logistical supplies to meet the needs of the legions at the request of the Khanate.

In the city, it is only the workshop that replaces the farm, and the square district replaces the village. The other systems, including the arsenal for keeping weapons and the armed squares for organizing soldiers, are identical. In terms of management, the difference is not very big.

With this kind of grassroots support, it is much easier to organize further.

(End of chapter)