Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 176
Wu Yun just entered the lobby of Liang County Prefect's Mansion, but he saw everyone whispering, not knowing what they were talking about.Wu Yun said: "What are you talking about?"

Almost everyone said in unison: "Young and strong!"

Wu Yun was confused, and asked in puzzlement: "What young and strong?"

Chief Shi Shen Zheng cupped his hands and said: "Isn't the military envoy worried that there will be no soldiers to use? There are more than [-] young and strong in our city. As long as we distribute weapons to them, we can form an army. Elite soldiers."

Because of Murong Jun's imperial decree, almost [-]% of the young and strong in the Yan Kingdom were drawn out to practice day and night, preparing to give Di Qin a surprise attack under the banner of the Southern Expedition to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.The more than [-] young and strong people in this city are definitely a powerful support.

Wu Yun almost rejected Chang Shi Shen Zheng's proposal without even thinking about it.

Shen Zheng bowed his head, and asked in puzzlement, "Wu Shijun wants to give up the county seat of Sui County?"

"Bullshit!" Wu Yun said displeased: "Mr. Wu's whole family, young and old, are hostages in Yecheng. Once Mr. Wu surrenders the city, my Wu family will definitely not survive tomorrow!"

Wu Yun still didn't say a word. He was already 56 years old at this time, and he was already dying. Even if he could get promoted in his official career because of his dedication to the city, he was no longer capable of spreading the branches and leaves for the Wu family.

Shen Zhengdao: "Since that's the case, then why did Mr. Wushi still..."

Wu Yun almost popped out the word "Mu...ye" from between his teeth, and after finishing speaking, Wu Yun walked away with his hands behind his back.

"What Muye?" Shen Zheng turned to Juncheng and asked, "What does Wu Shijun mean?"

"Did Shen Changshi forget the Battle of Muye?"

Hearing about the Battle of Muye, Shen Zheng suddenly realized.The Battle of Muye, also known as "King Wu's Crusade against Zhou", was a decisive battle between the coalition forces of King Wu of Zhou and the army of the Shang Dynasty in Muye (now south of Qi County, north of Weihe River, near Xinxiang City).However, the main force of the Shang army went on an expedition to Dongyi, leaving Chaoge (now Qi County), the capital of Shang, empty and without soldiers to defend. Di Xin was shocked by the Zhou army's attack, so he had to hastily arm a large number of slaves and prisoners of war, together with the troops guarding the capital, and marched to Muye to fight.According to the "Historical Records", the total number of troops dispatched by Emperor Xin was 70, and other documents recorded 17. "The Book of Songs·Daming" said: "The journey of the Yin and Shang Dynasties will be like a forest."

In the end, Emperor Xin was defeated because of the defection of the slaves.Of course, this is only historical records, and the real situation is by no means the case.In fact, the Battle of Muye was not a failure of the Shang army caused by the defection of slaves. In fact, it was a huge military change. The Zhou army fought in chariot formations, ending the light infantry of the Shang army and creating a new war mode. (In the Bamboo Book Chronicle, the war lasted for more than two months, and the battle line was drawn from Muye to the East China Sea. Among them, 18 merchants were killed and 33 surrendered. Others who fled were not at all. Such a thing as defection before the battle.)
In fact, at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Qin II used Zhang Han, the Shaofu, to arm the Qin army with Lishan prisoners and slaves to meet the Chu army.Zhang Han defeated Zhou Wen, Zhou Wen left the pass and fled to Cao Yang, Zhang Han pursued and defeated Cao Yang.Zhou Wen was once again defeated in Mianchi. More than ten days later, Zhang Han attacked Mianchi, defeated Zhou Wen, and Zhou Wen broke down himself.After defeating Zhou Wen, Zhang Han marched to Xingyang (now northeast of Xingyang, Henan Province).When Chen Sheng was in trouble, the princes rose together, and hundreds of thousands of troops approached Hangu Pass, Zhang Han was ordered to temporarily organize Lishan prisoners, defeated Zhou Wen's hundreds of thousands of troops, and then defeated the Qi and Chu coalition forces. Victory, defeated Xiang Liang, commander of the Chu army, and killed Dingtao.

In history, it is not impossible to use slaves to arm the army. On the contrary, because of slaves' desire for freedom and power, they fought more bravely and fought violently.

Wu Yun returned to the inner courtyard of the prefect's mansion, closed the door and began to sigh.Regarding the situation in Yan Kingdom, as a prefect of a county, he saw it far more clearly than Shen Zheng.At this time, the state of Yan was in troubled times, and rebellions continued everywhere. This time Gao Jingzong's Northern Expedition not only defeated Murong Chui, but also approached the city. However, the reaction of the court was surprisingly slow.This made Wu Yun have to pay more attention.

In Yecheng nine years ago, who would have thought that Ran Min would suddenly raise his troops?In fact, no one was optimistic about Ran Min at that time. Ran Min's trilogy was only three thousand, and he was a weak general in the later Zhao Kingdom.No matter Ma Qiu, Sun Fudu or Liu Zhu, they are far stronger than Ran Min.However, Ran Min killed Hu Ling with one piece of paper, causing all the seven states in the North to rebel. If it hadn't been for the Jin Dynasty and the forces of all parties to suppress and kill him, it might really have allowed Ran Min to stabilize his country.

Even if Ran Min failed in the end, like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, he injected the blood of resistance into the hearts of the people all over the world.As long as Gao Jingzong persisted unwaveringly, it might not be impossible to overthrow the Yan Kingdom.

Thinking of this, Wu Yun decided not to put all the treasures on Yan Guo.He found a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote a letter with a pen.Wu Yun shouted: "Come on, call Wu Ji!"

Not long after, a hulking young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes came outside the study and said, "My lord!"

"Come in!"

"Children meet the father!"

Wu Ji claimed to be Wu Yun's clan son, but in fact he was Wu Yun's direct son.However, it is not from the current wife Li, but from the former wife Liu.Because the Li family was jealous and would not tolerate Wu Ji, Wu Yun fostered Wu Ji under the name of his younger brother since he was a child.

Wu Yun said: "Ji'er, there is an important matter for my father, and I need you to handle it yourself."

Wu Jidao: "Father please tell me!"

Wu Yundao: "Here is a letter from my father. You must not let others see it. Hand it over to Gao Jingzong, the governor of the Beifu Army. You will stay in the Beifu Army and make it clear to him that as long as you show up at midnight tonight Three piles of bonfires will be lit under the North Gate and on the upper floor of the North Gate, and at that time, the gate will be wide open, and the Beifu army can enter the city."

"Father...you!" Wu Ji was very filial, and his eyes were streaming down at that time.He is not a fool, and he also knows Wu Yun's intentions, which is to use the 30 young men in Suixian County in exchange for his own future.

Wu Yun scolded angrily: "Don't pretend to be a little girl, you are getting old as a father, time is not long, your good life has just begun, and the important task of revitalizing the Wu family will be entrusted to you in the future."

Wu Ji nodded heavily, grabbed the secret letter, turned and left.

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Gao Jingzong opened the imperial examination for the first time, and there were fewer officials selected, which lacked practical significance.However, he is now only one county in Qiao County, plus twelve Wubao, at most two prefects, two long officials, two county officials, and 33 county magistrates.The admission ratio is no more than one-tenth, and it will not achieve a sensational effect.

Although there were far fewer officials in ancient times than those in later generations, there was only one county magistrate and one county magistrate in a county, and the others were not considered officials in the imperial court system.There is neither salary nor benefits.Hundreds of people in the counties who have no source of income, such as bosses, officials, officials of the third class of water and fire, gangsters, and jailers, can only rely on corruption or plundering the people.This is also one of the root causes of official corruption in ancient times.

After all, everyone needs to eat.Gao Jingzong thought about it and felt that this problem should be solved as soon as possible.The first is to set the establishment for each county. A county magistrate is absolutely not good at managing a county, and must have its auxiliary officials.In Gao Jingzong's prediction, a county government has one county magistrate, one county magistrate, one county lieutenant, six chief officials of the six households, and 12 deputy officials, making a total of 21 officials.I am afraid that people in this era will not accept the adoption of provincial, departmental, divisional, and departmental levels in later generations.

Gao Jingzong corresponds to the rank, the county magistrate of Zhongxian County is the seventh rank, the county magistrate of the upper county is the sixth rank, and the county magistrate of the lower county is the seventh rank.The county magistrate in Zhongxian County is the eighth rank, the upper county is the seventh rank, and the lower county is the eighth rank.The chief officials of the six houses are Zhengjiupin in Zhongxian County, Congbapin in Shangxian County, and Congjipin in Xiaxian County.

Then there is the corresponding salary.According to the Han system, the county magistrate is an official of six hundred stones, calculated according to one stone and one hundred catties.In fact, the annual salary of county magistrates in ancient times was about 18 to 20 yuan.This income is estimated to make future officials of the Celestial Dynasty cry to death. According to the legal salary income of officials in a certain province, the annual salary of the department level is less than 36, so it is no wonder that they are not corrupt.Gao Jingzong also planned to adopt high salaries to support integrity, and gave each official seventh-rank official a salary of 48 shi or equivalent property according to the Han system.And the county magistrate is four hundred stones.The head of the six rooms is two hundred shi.The deputy is one hundred stone.At the same time, there are 24 yamen servants in each county, 36 in the upper county and [-] in the lower county.The head of the third class and the deputy of the sixth house, such as Jie, have an annual salary of [-] shi.Ordinary yamen servants are [-] shi.

Calculated in this way, a middle county has a fixed staff of 21 officials, and the annual salary expenditure is about [-] shi, plus yamen servants, clerks, jailers, and watchmen.Spend five thousand stones.Calculated based on the population of [-] households in Zhongxian County, each household needs to bear two buckets with one stone.Such pressure is not high.

Gao Jingzong took out so much salary at once, which is really a big deal.Judging from the salary of a county magistrate, it is almost 2 yuan per month, which is already the standard for middle-level employees in large companies in later generations.As for the county magistrate and the supervisor of the sixth house, they can be regarded as small white-collar workers in first-tier cities.

Of course, Gao Jingzong did not intend to plunder farmers’ mouths. His main source of income was to develop commerce and industry. The income from agricultural taxes in various places was mainly used to pay officials’ salaries and maintain local order.

When Gao Jingzong was grading the test papers, he had already set the standard for admitting [-]% of the candidates in his heart.He also didn't expect these people who were proficient in writing and ink to get any good grades in the exam.However, when Gao Jingzong saw the first test paper, he was attracted by the regular script on it.The writing on it is very beautiful and clear.Looking at the name again, it turned out to be Wang Jia, named Zi Nian.

Gao Jingzong felt that this person seemed familiar, as if he had heard of it somewhere.It took a long time before I remembered, isn't this Wang Jia the author of "Supplements of Relics"?

"Shi Yi Ji" is not as famous as the four great masterpieces, or "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Characters", etc., but this "Shi Yi Ji" is the originator of short stories in Chinese history, and also the originator of mythology, fantasy novels.

Gao Jingzong laughed suddenly: "This is really a treasure!"

Wang Jia is an alchemist, but he is a very funny and funny person.Yet this man was very talented.

(End of this chapter)