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Chapter 304 Goguryeo Army

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

After the snow melted, the wet river gurgled and gurgled.The surface of the river is like a big puddle, with a wide pavement, grass everywhere on it, and silver fish swimming.

In addition to the wet water, there are several seasonal rivers south of Yuyi Town, which are all formed by flowing and converging from the hillside after the snow melts.In the early spring of this season, the river does not dry up until the mulberries mature.

The Han people who settled here sometimes called these rivers in the valley Sanggan River, which means that the river dries up when the mulberries are ripe.

Near the river, the Han people had built dams to enclose the fields for reclamation, and also learned from the Hu people, grazing cattle and sheep.Compared with two years ago, Yuyi Town has taken in many refugees from the Central Plains, so there are several more villages here.

Although Li Chongjiu was a generous businessman, he gave them political status, but the tax was very heavy for businessmen, and he was relatively tolerant compared to farmers.

Therefore, the villages near Yuyi Town are full of honest folk customs, and they feel like a paradise.The Han people lived and worked in peace and contentment, which is equivalent to a good imitation for the Goguryeo people. Goguryeo taxed the people of the valley very heavily, five bolts of cloth for each person, five stones for grain, and one bolt of fine cloth for ten people (Note [-]).Here there is no taxation at all.

And although the people of Goguryeo mainly focus on farming, supplemented by fishing and hunting, they don’t harvest much, so the common people are used to dieting, but Yuyi Town is such a beautiful place, compared with the bitter cold place in Liaodong, it is almost a paradise. .Therefore, Li Chongjiu was worried about the turmoil of the Goguryeo people, but it did not happen. Many of them simply abandoned Liaodong and planned to live and work here in peace.

In order to let the Goguryeo people feel at ease here, Li Chongjiu also asked these Goguryeo villagers to keep their original customs.

Therefore, in addition to farming around the dam, the Goguryeo people also spontaneously built temples.However, Ji Chuan, who accompanied Li Chongjiu, had a look of disdain and criticized the custom of the Goguryeo people. In his words, the Goguryeo people had many obscene temples, bathed in the same river, and slept in the same room.

The so-called obscenity is the belief in polytheism. In Goguryeo, there are many beliefs, such as the god of the ancestors and the god of tunnels. Everyone believes in multiple gods, almost to the point of worshiping the gods.

This is of course very contemptuous to Himekawa, but Yinghefu, Erto and the others understand very well that most people believe in shamanism, and shamanism means worshiping multiple gods.As for bathing in the same river, it is easy to understand seeing naked Goguryeo men and women everywhere in the depression of the Rushui lake. No wonder Ji Chuan said that they are vulgar and obscene.

Of course, there are also the opinions of Himekawa and the others. In the eyes of Yinghefu, the Goguryeo people are almost the same as the Han people. Firstly, both Goguryeo and Han people are mainly farming. Hair, not like the Khitan people who are all hair.

Goguryeo people are the same as the Han people, they all have their hair tied in a bun on the top of their heads, and their clothing is also similar. The men all wear wide robes and long sleeves, while the women also wear skirts and accessories.

After inspecting the farmland, Li Chongjiu asked Goguryeo's Yingjilang general to call the six hundred young men in his mansion for inspection.

The purpose of Li Chongjiu's review was firstly to see whether the Goguryeo army could fight in the first place, and secondly to be familiar with the fighting power of the Goguryeo people so that they could fight against the Goguryeo people in the future.

After inspection, the Goguryeo people were not very strong due to long-term dieting, but Goguryeo's military equipment was quite good in order to resist foreign enemies for many years.

At least every young and strong Goguryeo can draw a bow, and has good archery skills. This is related to the fact that the kings of Goguryeo all paid attention to bow skills.

In addition to archery, the Goguryeo people are good at building cities, and of course they are also good at riding.People in Goguryeo generally rode war horses, but Guoxia horses. The reason why they were called Guoxia horses was that the horses were very short and could only reach under fruit trees.For example, the originator of Yunnan horses in later generations in China was Guoxia horses.

Li Chongjiu and the generals analyzed it. Although the Goguryeo army is not as durable as the grassland cavalry, and not as powerful as the Mohe cavalry, but their archery and fortification are very good, so they can be used for defense during wartime, or when marching. The auxiliaries are good.As for dismounting the horse, although it is not suitable for use on the frontal battlefield, it is very beneficial for the Korean Peninsula and the Taihang Mountains in the future for mountainous terrain operations.

Li Chongjiu intends to trade with Silla, introduce and breed a large number of fruit off horses, and distribute them to the Goguryeo army. In the future, the Goguryeo army can be used as Li Chongjiu's mountain combat troops.In history, the Goguryeo warriors of the Tang army were stationed in the mountainous Yingzhou to guard against the Khitan Xi people. Therefore, the Yingzhou Goguryeo warrior group was formed later, which became a unique force in the late Tang Dynasty.

So Li Chongjiu told Goguryeo, the Han generals, to train the Goguryeo soldiers during the slack season.
The two were overjoyed to see that Li Chongjiu attached so much importance to the Goguryeo army.In Li Chongjiu's eyes, the Goguryeo people will gradually be assimilated by the Han people if they continue like this. I believe that in a few years, there will be famous Goguryeo generals like Gao Xianzhi and Wang Sili under his command.

Of course, in order to encourage the Sinicization of Goguryeo people, Li Chongjiu also decided to allow the children of Goguryeo generals, or clan nobles, to study in the county schools in Huaihuang Town and Yuyi Town.

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

After Zhou Xu saw Li Chongjiu, he immediately bowed down. Now that he has been teaching for many years, he already has the bearing of a great master, and he is no longer the silent and dull look he had when he came to Huaihuang Town as an official.

Li Chongjiu looked at Zhou Xu's changes with great satisfaction, and said, "Zhou Jijiu, I'm here to inquire about your county school."

Zhou Xuyan said: "According to the previous arrangement of Lord Shanggu, we have started county schools in Huaihuang and Yuyi towns in the past few years. The county school in Huaihuang town has been going on for more than two years. By June this year, 50 students will be able to graduate. At that time, some of these people can be promoted to the county schools, as for Yuyi Town and the county schools in Shanggu County, they only have one year, which is not enough to study."

Because Li Chongjiu felt that the three-level jump between Mongolian school, county school, and county school was too long, so he shortened it to only two levels, that is, the Mongolian school will take the county school.

County learning, the policy of elementary school, was one of the three policies that Wen Yanbo proposed to Li Chongjiu at the beginning, that is, Wang Dao should focus on education, supplemented by criminal law.

It was also Dong Zhongshu's famous saying at the beginning, but everyone knows that the emperors of all dynasties in China have always been Confucianism outside and Law inside.

At present, there are 50 students in the first batch of county schools, and 20 of them are promoted to county schools. After graduating from county schools, they can directly enter the county officials, but for the remaining 30, Li Chongjiu also decided to assign them to various counties. For officials.

The county magistrate, county magistrate, county lieutenant, and master Bo are all low-ranking. They are called officials, and they are appointed by the imperial court.Next, such as Liucao in the county, and a doctor of county studies, etc., even though they have a lot of power, they are also important positions, but they are usually recruited by the county magistrate, and then they can be filed with the Ministry of Officials.

As for Liu Cao's book office and arresting head, these people don't even need to file a record.As for the book office, helpers, how many people and how large the archers can be, it all depends on whether the county has oil and water to fish for.

The fatter the counties are, the more officials are raised, and the poorer the counties are, of course, there are too many monks and too little porridge.

This kind of official system is something that anyone can see is wrong, but it is the rule of Xiao Gui Cao Sui for thousands of years.The reason is the same, county magistrates, county magistrates and other officials sent by the imperial court must enlist the help of a powerful family in the county to manage a county, otherwise they will be emptied as airborne troops, and Liu Cao of a powerful family, While explaining to the Shangguan, I also keep minions such as the book office, the assistant, and the archer, who come to run errands for them in the folk, and rely on these people to fish the common people.

In this way, one level at a time, from the imperial court to the local people, can be properly governed, and everyone can share the benefits.But this is not good for Li Chongjiu. On the one hand, the common people have been exploited as the bottom, and on the other hand, the local gentry and tyrants have too much power.

Gentlemen like the Lu family are not only in Zhuo County, but also in the imperial court, there are officials in the family and in-laws who have been married for generations to take care of them. Therefore, it is a system from top to bottom, except for Huang Chao. The second pole of the Lu family must be uprooted, otherwise it will be difficult to shake the nobles like the Lu family.

Therefore, Li Chongjiu wants to squeeze the power of the Lu family. As a warlord, his biggest advantage is that he has the military power in his own hands. With his own army under his command, the gentry dare not oppose him.

Later, Li Chongjiu supported businessmen, workers and other forces to weaken the power of the gentry. Finally, Li Chongjiu used the officials trained by the county school to change from the lower level. The county magistrate must rely on powerful officials to manage local bad habits.

However, after graduating from the county school, it is impossible for these students to become officials like Liu Cao and others at once. Of course, they must start from level to level.

At present, these 30 people are all assigned to various counties, and they will first serve as secretary offices and police officers, so that they can gradually adapt.Of course, Li Chongjiu didn't want to be too radical, so he didn't prohibit the nobles from being officials.

Li Chongjiu specially selected from the four counties of Shanggu County, Zhuo County, Anle, and Western Liaoning.Allocate 2 of these [-] students to Anle County, which Li Chongjiu won from Gao Kaidao just last year. It has just recovered from the war, and the people are only more than [-] people.

To resume production, Li Chongjiu must rely on powerful officials, but the local officials are extremely lacking.

Li Chongjiu divided these 15 people into book offices, headhunters, and served as officials in Anle County. Among them, those with the best school grades were promoted to Hucao in the front line of Anle County, and were responsible for transferring part of the grain in Zhuo County to disaster relief.

There were 15 people left. Li Chongjiu dismissed some of the old and weak and those who were too disadvantaged in the remaining three counties. They made it themselves.

Note 46: From Sui Shu Biography [-]
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