In March, on the grassland near Yuyi Town, grass grows and birds fly.

After the melting snow melts, the moist river water flows gurglingly, and it is a thousand twists and turns. The river surface is like a large puddle with a wide pavement and the grass above it is full of silverfish swimming.

In addition to Rushui, there are several seasonal rivers south of Yuyi Town. They are formed by melting snow and flowing from the hillside. When they reach the lower reaches, they are like Rushui, and the river surface becomes wider. In this season, the river is not dry until the mulberries are ripe.

The Han people who settled here sometimes called these rivers in the valley dry mulberry rivers, which means that the river water dried up when mulberries mature.

Near the river, the Han people had already built dams and cultivated fields, and also learned from the Hu people to grazing cattle and sheep. Compared with two years ago, Yuyi Town took in many refugees from the Central Plains, so there were several villages here.

Although Li Chongjiu was a generous businessman and gave him political status, he was quite heavy on the taxes and was relatively tolerant than the farmers. If the farmers had arrears of taxes for a while, Li Chongjiu also ordered local officials not to urge them to pay.

Therefore, the rural areas near Yuyi Town all have a simple and elegant custom, which is quite a paradise. The Han people's living and working in peace and contentment meant that they were very imitating the Goguryeo people. Goguryeo paid heavy taxes on the people of the valley, with five pieces of taxes and five stones of grain, and ten people had a fine cloth (note 1). There is no tax here.

Moreover, although the Goguryeo people mainly use farming and fishing as supplements, they have not gained much, so the people are accustomed to dieting. However, Yuyi Town is such a rich place, compared with the bitter and cold place in Liaodong, this place is almost a paradise. Therefore, Li Chongjiu was worried that the turmoil of the Goguryeo people would not have happened. Many of them simply abandoned Liaodong and planned to live and work in peace.

In order to allow the Goguryeo people to settle here with peace of mind, Li Chongjiu also asked these Goguryeo people to retain their original customs.

Therefore, in addition to farming in the dam, the Goguryeo people spontaneously built temples. However, Ji Chuan, who accompanied Li Chongjiu, looked disdainful and complained about the customs of the Goguryeo people, and used his words to express it. The Goguryeo people have many lewd temples, and they bathed in the same river and slept in the same room.

The so-called lewd temple is a kind of god-belief. Goguryeo believes in many faiths, such as the ancestor gods and the tunnel gods. Everyone believes in multiple gods, and they almost reach the point of worshiping the gods when they see them.

This is of course very contempt for Ji Chuan. But it is easy to understand Yinghefu, Etuo and others. Most of the people believe in shamanism, and shamanism worships many gods. As for the two rivers, looking at the depressions of Rushui Lake, there are all naked Goguryeo men and women. It is easy to understand. No wonder Ji Chuan said that they prefer lust.

Of course, there are also Ji Chuan and others' opinions. In Ying Hefu and his eyes, the Goguryeo people were almost the same as the Han people. On the one hand, the Goguryeo and the Han people were both mainly farming, and on the other hand, the Goguryeo people had hair. They were neither like the braided hair of the Xi people, nor like the Khitan people.

Like the Han people, Goguryeo and Han people, they all have hair tied up on the top of their heads and their clothes are similar. Men all have wide robes and big sleeves, while women also wear skirts and robes with rim decorations.

After inspecting the farmland, Li Chongjiu asked Goguryeo's Eagle-killing General to recruit the six hundred young men in his mansion to inspect.

The purpose of Li Chongjiu's inspection was to see if the Goguryeo Prefecture Army could fight in one battle, and to be familiar with the combat effectiveness of the Goguryeo people in the future, so as to fight against the Goguryeo people in the future.

After reviewing, the Goguryeo people were not very healthy due to long-term dieting, but in order to resist foreign enemies for many years, Goguryeo's military skills were still quite good.

At least every young Goguryeo can draw a bow. And shoot well, which is related to the fact that all the kings of Goguryeo have attached great importance to bowing.

In addition to archery, the Goguryeo people are good at building cities, and of course they are good at riding. The Goguryeo people usually ride war horses. They are called off the horse because the horse is very short and can only be under the fruit tree at most. Although it is not tall and not suitable for fighting, the off horse is very suitable for mountain march. For example, the originator of the Yunnan horse in later generations in China was off horse.

Li Chongjiu and the generals analyzed that although the Goguryeo Army was not as resistant to warfare as the grassland cavalry, and even less as impact power as the Marine cavalry, its bowing skills and city building were very good, so it could be used for wartime garrisons or auxiliary troops during marching. As for the horse, it was not suitable for frontal battlefield use, but for the Korean Peninsula and the Taihang Mountains, it would be very beneficial for the mountainous terrain combat in the future.

Li Chongjiu planned to trade with Silla, and introduced fruits to a large number of breeding and rations to the Goguryeo Prefecture Army. In the future, the Goguryeo Army could be used as a mountain combat force in Li Chongjiu. Historically, the Tang army generals of the Goguryeo were stationed in the mountains of Yingzhou to guard against the Khitan Xi people. Therefore, the Yingzhou Goguryeo Warrior Group became a unique force in the late Tang Dynasty.

So Li Chongjiu told Goguryeo that Han generals should practice Goguryeo's palace soldiers during the slack season.

The two were all very happy to see Li Chongjiu attach so much importance to the Goguryeo Prefecture Army. In Li Chongjiu's eyes, if the Goguryeo continues to be like this, it will gradually be assimilated by the Han people. I believe that within a few years, his famous Goguryeo generals like Gao Xianzhi and Wang Sili will appear under his command.

Of course, in order to encourage the sinicization of the Goguryeo people, Li Chongjiu also decided to let the children of Goguryeo generals, or clan nobles, go to Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town to study.

Speaking of county schools, after Li Chongjiu returned to Yuyi Town, he called Zhou Xu from Huaihuang Town.

When Zhou Xu saw Li Chongjiu, he bowed to him. Now he has been a teacher for many years and has a certain degree of a grand master's demeanor. He has long since disappeared from the silent and dull appearance when he came to Huaihuang Town to serve as an official.

Li Chongjiu looked at Zhou Xu's changes with great satisfaction and said, "Zhou Jijiu, this is to ask about your county school."

Zhou Xuyan said: "According to the previous arrangement of Shanggu Duke, in the past few years, we have started county schools in Huaihuang and Yuyi towns. Huaihuang towns have been in county schools for more than two years. By June this year, fifty students can be dropped out. At that time, some of these people can be promoted to county schools. As for Yuyi Town and Shanggu County, there are only one year, and it is not enough to drop out."

Because Li Chongjiu thought that the triple-level trip of Mengguan, county school and county school was too long, so he cut it off and only needed two levels, that is, the county school was selected. After three years of graduation, those who choose the best can enter the county school.

The strategy of county and elementary school is that Wen Yanbo presented Li Chongjiu with three strategies, that is, the kingly way should be based on education as the main task and criminal law as the supplement.

It was also Dong Zhongshu's famous saying at the beginning, but anyone knows that all the emperors of China have always been Confucianism outside and law inside. Li Chongjiu set up a Mengguan. The purpose of county school was to select the children of poor families and divide the power of the gentry.

There are now fifty students who have dropped out of county schools, and twenty of them are promoted to county schools. In the future, after dropping out of county schools, they can become county officials, but Li Chongjiu also decided to assign them to various counties as officials.

The county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, county magistrate, and magistrate are all from the right rank, called officials, and are appointed by the imperial court's Ministry of Personnel. Next, the six county magistrates and doctors in the county, even though they have great power, they are still important positions, but they are generally recruited by the county magistrate, and then they can be registered with the Ministry of Personnel.

As for the Literary Office and the Captain of the Six Catholics, these people do not even need to register, and are non-staff personnel. The Literary Office is generally called upon by the Literary Office, and the Literary Office, and the Literary Office, and the Literary Office, are directly recruited by the Literary Office. As for the Literary Office, the Literary Office, and the number of people and the size of the archers can have, it depends entirely on whether the county has enough money to make.

The richer the county, the more officials they raise, and the more barren the county, of course, there will be no enough money for more monks and less porridge.

Anyone can see this kind of official system, but it is the rule that Xiao Ruo and Cao have followed for thousands of years. There is no different reason. The county magistrate, county magistrate and other officials sent by the court must be recruited from powerful families in the county to manage a county, otherwise they will be undermined as airborne soldiers. While telling Shangguan, the six Caos of the powerful families will also raise the books and help the idles and archers to run errands for them to work on the people, relying on these people to make fish and meat.

If this continues one level after another, from the court to the local people, you can manage the jurisdiction properly and everyone will share the benefits. But this is not good for Li Chongjiu. On the one hand, the people, as the bottom, have been stolen, and on the other hand, the local gentry and tyrants have too much power.

Aristocrats like the Lu family are not only in Zhuo County, but also in the court, and in-laws who are officials of their families and in-laws who have been married for generations. Therefore, it is a system from top to bottom. In addition to two poles like Huang Chao, it is difficult to shake aristocrats like the Lu family.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu had to squeeze the power of the Lu family. As a warlord, his biggest advantage was that he had military power in his hands and had his own army to suppress him. The gentry did not dare to oppose him.

Later, Li Chongjiu supported merchants, workers and other forces to weaken the power of the gentry. Finally, Li Chongjiu used the officials trained from county schools and county schools to change from the lower level. County magistrates must rely on powerful officials to govern local bad habits.

However, after dropping out of the county school, it is impossible to get these students to serve as officials like Liu Cao and others at once. Of course, they must start one level after another.

At present, these thirty people were all assigned to each county, and they were first appointed as the clerk and constable, so that they could gradually adapt. Of course, Li Chongjiu did not think that it was too extreme, so he did not prohibit the gentry and powerful people from being officials.

Li Chongjiu specially screened the four counties of Shanggu County, Zhuo County, Anle and western Liaoning. He assigned fifteen of these thirty students to Anle County. Li Chongjiu, who just won the Anle County in Gao Kaidao last year, was just recovered from the war. The people were only more than 20,000 people, and there were all in vain.

Li Chongjiu had to rely on powerful officials to resume production, but local officials were extremely lacking.

Li Chongjiu divided the fifteen people into letter offices and heads, and went to Anle County to serve as officials. Among them, those with the best grades in the school were promoted to households on the front line of Anle County, responsible for transferring some of the grain in Zhuo County to disaster relief.

With fifteen people left, Li Chongjiu dismissed the old and weak among the other three counties, and of course he filled them up and let them go directly to the front line to experience. As for what level they can reach in the future, it depends on their own luck.
Chapter completed!