A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 25 Promotion System, Li Shige Code
Wang Ernian

Bai Di, Yi Yi

It is a relatively flat town built in the Taihang Mountains. However, due to the terrain, the houses in Changyi are of different levels. Therefore, a unique cargo transportation system has evolved here, with porters and two people carrying one pole. root rope.

Chang was a citizen of Zhangyi. His grandfather died when Yan Xun attacked Zhangyi. The Bai family gave his family a yard as compensation. His father was originally a soldier of the Bai family and later retired. However, his elder brother inherited his father's will and became a soldier of the Bai family.

The life of his family was much better than that of Zhou people in other places. Before his great-grandfather came to Baidi, there would never have been such a good life, with houses and meat to eat.

Chang Zaiyi was engaged in agriculture and forestry. His father sent him to school to learn how to read. After graduation, he went to work on Bai's farm. Bai's farm was assigned managers by Bai to recruit local people to work. Due to the scarcity of land resources in the Taihang Mountains, Bai invented a farm system that combined agriculture, forestry, and animal husbandry.

The farm system is unique to the Bai family and is a system designed to adapt to life in the Taihang Mountains. A farm has a director, who can be managed by an official sent by the Bai family, or it can be a private person, because the Bai family allows private contracting, but the ownership is with the Bai family, and private individuals only have the right to use it.

The farm where Chang is located is Bai's farm. I heard that the director of the farm is Bai's son, but Bai's son is really easy to get along with, and I haven't heard of anyone he has ever been in love with. In addition, the farm also has a court, a legal hall, small legal officials, specialized researchers, and farmers who do specific things.

There are fruit trees, grain crops, medicinal herbs, famous flowers, tea trees, chickens, ducks, geese, cows, sheep and several horses on the farm. The farm is very large, with several mountains. During the harvest season, the crops are harvested, and after preliminary processing, they are handed over to the warehouse where the road is repaired, and are supervised by dedicated personnel.

If the crops are taken care of well, there will be rewards every year. If the crops are taken care of poorly, they will be expelled. If the crops are considered to be damaged, they will be held responsible under family law. But even so, there are still many people rushing to work, because the Bai family pays commissions, and the commissions paid every year are large enough to support a family of three.

If you serve particularly well, you can be promoted to be a mountain chief or a valley chief, and the commission will be even higher.

"Chang, you are going to deliver goods to Zhangyi. Is there anything new happening in Zhangyi recently?" asked Chang, a farmer tending vegetables by the roadside.

"Hey, don't tell me. There are really new things happening in Zhenyi recently. I heard that the family is planning to expand its army recently, and Zhenyi is recruiting troops recently. Don't you have a younger brother? I heard that he is a hunter? He has two guns. Why don’t you try your strength?”

The farmer smiled bitterly and said:

"I also want him to give it a try, but the Bai family's recruitment examination is too strict, so he may not be able to do it!"

"Well, you can't say that. This is an expansion of enrollment. The requirements must be looser than before. I heard from my brother that there are quite a lot of enrollment this time. Go and give it a try. Maybe you will be selected. If you are selected, , Didn’t your family get rich? Look, didn’t my family get rich just because my brother became a soldier? Go and try."

After hearing this, the farmer slapped his thigh and said, "That's right! It doesn't cost anything to try. Soldiers are not recruited every year. If you are selected, my family will become prosperous. I have to tell my brother that he You may not know this news in the mountains, Chang, thank you, if you are selected, I will treat you to a drink when you come back."

After saying that, he immediately ran towards the mountains. Chang watched the people go away, picked up the goods with a pole, smiled and continued on his way to his farm. This time Chang went to Zhangyi to deliver goods to the farm, and bought some daily necessities for the farm to pick up.

In the farm court, Chang put down the goods sweating profusely and asked the clerk inside to count them. After finding no problem, he turned around and left. As a porter on the farm, Chang can earn a lot more commissions every year. If the normal commissions can only support three people. Individually, Chang can feed four people.

When he was returning to Lishe, he suddenly saw many people gathered outside the Dharma hall. He immediately went over and asked the people next to him what the case was. They said:
"It's a land division case. The plaintiff said that the defendant dug up the ridge of his family's land, causing all the water in his land to drain away. The defendant refused to admit it and said that the ridge collapsed on its own."

In the law hall, the young legal official was so troubled that he didn’t know how to judge, because he only knew how to judge small cases, but he didn’t know how to judge this kind of case, so the young legal official said:

"Both of you, I'm very sorry. Your case is a bit difficult for me and I can't decide it. If you still want to continue the appeal, I can transfer the case to the Zhuyi Law Hall and let the Zhuyi Law Hall take over the case. .”

"That won't work. How much time will it take to come and go?"

"Yes, yes, I can't go to Zhenyi. I have to go back to prune the fruit trees."

So the plaintiff and the defendant discussed and asked the defendant to pick up a few buckets of water and pour it into the fields. The defendant said that although he did not dig it, he thought he was unlucky, so he just carried a few buckets of water. Seeing the case end like this, Chang smacked his lips and went home.

When he got home, he ate some food first, then went to the manure tank to pick up two buckets of manure and watered vegetables in the field. Then he went to the fields to see if there were any problems. Then he went to the mountains to see how many of his fruit trees were doing. No problem, I went home and took a wooden bucket to the foot of the mountain to fetch water, and by the way, I watered some of my own flowers at the foot of the mountain. I heard that the nobles like these flowers the most. I don’t know what’s so good about these flowers. There are a lot of them in the mountains, and they are quite expensive.

Baiyi, Baifu.

Bai Zheng promulgated the Bai family's promotion system and standards for retainers and officials in the family council hall, and the Bai family's standards are also the same:
A: If a retainer needs to be promoted in the future, he will need the opinions of the superior officials, the officials at the same level and the subordinate officials. They will need to have no objections before he can be promoted.

B: The appointment of officials requires both ability and political integrity. If you have a criminal record, you are not allowed to be an official. C: Under the same conditions, Bai's sons have priority over retainers, retainers have priority over the people of the town, and the people of the town have priority over foreigners.

Ding: Literacy is required for any position, and school graduates are given priority over non-school graduates.

E: The chief of the shadow guard, the military hall master of the military hall, and the civilian hall master of the civil hall are hereditary from the three families of Quan, Yuan and Su. They are hereditary. Anyone from the three families can be appointed by the head of the family.

Ji: If an official breaks the law, the official who recommended the official and the officials above him will be responsible; if the official has merit, the official who recommended the official and the officials above him will all be responsible.

Geng: Implement a merit system. Every achievement is divided into major merit, minor merit, and hard work. Every mistake made is classified into major fault, minor fault, and minor fault. Promotions and demotions should be judged based on merit and mistakes, and promotions and demotions should not be made without reason.

Xin: A hall of merits and demerits was established to count the achievements of officials. A hall of merit and demerits must be set up at each township pass, and a general hall of merit and demerits must be set up in Baiyi.

Once Bai Zheng's promotion criteria were announced, Bai Di was agitated. Everyone knew about it. In the future, Bai Di's positions would no longer be randomly appointed based on close relationships.

It will not be like before, no matter who the person is, they can be appointed as officials. Although this system still cannot escape the relationship, it can at least guarantee the basic level of governance of officials.

After the Gong Guo Tang was on the right track, the supervisor immediately inspected various places based on the information from the Gong Guo Tang, and immediately investigated and punished a large number of incompetent officials and mediocre officials.

The emergence of the Bai political system has greatly improved the efficiency and quality of governance in Bai Di.

Wang Sannian

Huaiyi's advance into Luoyi has become a serious problem for the Zhou Dynasty. The Emperor of Zhou sent the eldest father of Duke Guo to attack Huaiyi, but due to the weak national strength, the eldest father of Duke Guo could not win.

So the Emperor of Zhou immediately summoned all the princes and ordered the princes in the west and the princes in the east to gather towards the Heluo area from the west and east, in an attempt to form a pincer attack and annihilate the army of Og in one fell swoop.

The Emperor of Zhou relied on the personal soldiers of the noble ministers to resist the Huaiyi attack. General Yu of the Zhou Dynasty led the private chariots of Minister Wu Gong to defend 200 people, and thousands of soldiers participated in the battle. After a fierce battle, the Emperor of Zhou finally resisted He withstood Huaiyi's attack and protected the safety of Luoyi.

Subsequently, the allied forces of the Eastern and Western princes attacked Huaiyi from the left and right. In an instant, Huaiyi was defeated. However, because the military power of the Zhou Dynasty was not particularly strong, and the princes did not want to pursue any more, a large number of Huaiyi escaped from the attack. , this battle only wiped out part of the Huaiyi.

After this war, Emperor Zhou made up his mind to abolish the canons, so he changed the practice of Duke Zhou and Duke Zhao of "serving as ministers for generations" and appointed the eldest fathers of Duke Rongyi and Duke Guo who had expertise in economics and military affairs.

This approach was naturally strongly opposed by the old nobles. So they created a poem "Dang" in which Duke Zhao and Duke Mu lamented the great evil in the Zhou Dynasty, in order to protest against the Emperor Zhou's use of "corrupt and violent" people instead of "old ministers". They said that the Emperor Zhou's moral character was unknown, so he could not I know who will be the assistant, but I don’t know who will be the minister.

Then the topic changed and he talked about history in an admonishing tone, saying that God cannot be blamed for the demise of the Shang Dynasty. It was because the King of Shang did not use his old ministers. The current behavior of Emperor Zhou was "typical" of the Shang Dynasty.

It is also said that the children of the royal family and aristocratic families are the pillars of the country. The poem repeatedly emphasizes "big states" and "big clans", intending not to break the old political order.

Economically, Emperor Zhou tried to revitalize the dilapidated royal economy. He seized on the two main links of "patents" and agriculture.

Because the mountains, forests, rivers and swamps under the direct control of Emperor Zhou were actually owned by nobles at all levels, Emperor Zhou requested to stipulate a number of "special" material wealth to be paid to the royal family from the mountains, forests, rivers and swamps owned by the nobles.

At the same time, Emperor Zhou also defaulted to selling his title with money to solve the financial difficulties of the royal family.

In terms of agriculture, Emperor Zhou regarded the "crop" as a national treasure, which enabled the development of agriculture.
Legally, Emperor Zhou took measures to strengthen the legal system.

At the same time, in order to ensure the implementation of the Reform Code, Emperor Zhou set up an eyes and ears agency in the capital that belonged only to him to monitor the people who made comments in public places and to arrest slanderers, that is, those who spoke nonsense and affected the implementation of the Reform Code.

At that time, the powerful Chu State between Jiang and Han Dynasties had already become king during the reign of King Zhou Yi. But after the Emperor of Zhou revolted, the power of the Zhou Dynasty shocked all parties. Xiong Qu, the king of Chu, was afraid that the Zhou Dynasty would be powerful and attack Chu, so he voluntarily canceled his royal title.
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King Zhou Li became the first reformer with a surname in Chinese history. It is called in the history books: "Li Shi Ge Dian".

——"The Reforms of King Zhou Li: Why Li Shi's Gedian Failed"

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