In different periods, for people of different classes, there are huge differences in their own pursuits.

And Zhang Yan can clearly see and accept this.

Smiling and waving towards the bottom, the soldiers immediately saw many people walking out of the city in groups of two carrying many wooden boxes on poles.

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"I know that you want something practical rather than verbal praise and rewards."

"So... I prepared this."

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After signaling to everyone in the audience to open the boxes, Zhang Yan stood on the high platform and seemed to see Kuai Qi's expression of aggrieved and reluctant look at himself.

But he didn't say much, but nodded affirmatively towards the other party.

At the same time, the soldiers and generals became a little excited when they saw several large boxes being carried out.

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"coming!"

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"What is it, is this gold!"

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A slight commotion sounded slowly among the crowd.

Many soldiers in armor looked a little dazed, and began to guess what was in the box.

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Will it be money?

Should not be.

Looking at the appearance of these large boxes, if they contained silver coins, they would look like hundreds of thousands of dollars... If such a small amount of money is sprinkled into tens of thousands of soldiers, it may not even splash a little bit of water.

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Would that be gold?

To be honest...that's also unlikely.

It has to be said that gold in this era is still very valuable. A catty of gold can be exchanged for 1, or even more than [-] Han coins.Even if everyone present gets two taels, it is still a considerable asset.

It's just that these people add up, and the thousands of gold...is it really so easy to get out?

Even the scholars of many large aristocratic families may not be able to see so much wealth in their lifetime. Zhang Yan may indeed have this money, but it is really unlikely to take it out to reward the three armies when there is no war.

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For those ordinary soldiers, when they saw these large boxes, they couldn't help but have a curious thought in their hearts.

And for those officers...

Then one by one was a little excited.

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"Good guy, it must be that one!"

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"Damn it, why didn't we win this exercise!"

"Otherwise, I'm afraid we will be the ones who got these things this time!"

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Leaving aside the noisy voices in the army, after receiving Zhang Yan's signal, Kuai Qi reluctantly ordered people to open those large boxes, and at the same time, all the things that had been sorted inside were opened in front of everyone. Take it out.

In it... is his busy hard work in recent months, and since last winter, as the population of Lujiang gradually increased, he, as the Prime Minister of Wancheng, has been busy.

It wasn't gold, silver or utensils as everyone had guessed... Under the eyes of everyone, stacks of clean and tidy "papers" were taken out of those boxes.

At the same time, a thick roster was handed over to Kuai Qi by Lu Su with a smile on his face.

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"Here, Prime Minister Kuai, this is the list for this exercise."

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Lu Su handed over the roster to the other party, then squinted his eyes and stood behind Kuai Qi.

As one of the upper echelons of the military system, now that Zhang Yan is willing to "spend all his money" to reward the army under him, Lu Su is naturally happy to see this.

It's just that the same thing is not so pleasant in Kuai Qi's eyes.

"This... this is hundreds of thousands..."

"Oh, that's all, it's not a bad thing, just follow the Lord's heart."

He glanced at the roster in his hand with some hesitation. After a long while, Kuai Qi stepped forward and looked at the many soldiers present with a cold face.

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"The first soldier, the first battalion, the third battalion and one row!"

"Wang Er! Come out!"

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As his voice sounded, a young man who was originally in the phalanx and listening to the voice in front of him trembled suddenly, and then ran forward quickly under the eyes of the people around him. Some resentful Kuai Qi's direction.

And not long after he took the position, the generals noticed that Zhang Yan, who had been standing on the high platform to speak, had come down from the tower at some point and stood not far from Kuai Qi.

Seeing the sword and shield soldier named "Wang Er" come out, Zhang Yan smiled and waved at him, then pulled a piece of white paper full of small characters and handed it to him.

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"See... see the prefect!"

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Looking tremblingly at Zhang Yan in front of him, that young man seemed to be facing such a high-ranking official for the first time, so his voice stuttered a bit.

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"Hehe, relax, relax."

Not caring about the dust on the opponent's body, Zhang Yan reached out and patted the opponent's shoulder, then pointed to the writing on the white paper and asked him softly.

"You are Wang Er?"

"Have you ever read?"

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It has to be said that for the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty...or even for the entire land of China during the feudal period, literacy was actually a very luxurious thing.

Even in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the literacy rate of men among all common people was only a little over [-]%, and that of women was less than [-]%.

In contrast, the last years of the Han Dynasty were even more miserable-in this era, among the entire population of China, if the literacy rate was [-]%, it was regarded as the emperor's high incense.

Not to mention that in the ancient army sequence, soldiers were originally the least educated of all the population.

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"Back... back to the prefect, I know... I know a little bit."

"I was a peasant who was bought by the lord Chang Shi in the imperial capital, and I can read a little. Later, you ordered the soldiers in the army to accept 'literacy', and I followed suit for almost two years."

"However, my brain is not good enough. Even after studying for so long, I still can't fully recognize many characters. The common ones are fine."

Wang Er nodded to Zhang Yan with some embarrassment. Only then did Zhang Yan realize how difficult it is to popularize education in an army.

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Don't look at those senior traversers who are always literacy for the army, teaching them to do arithmetic and write reports, you must know that the implementation of this seemingly simple task has also troubled Zhang Yan for a long time.

Even he has been carrying out this matter for almost two years, and if he randomly catches a veteran today, he is still not very proficient in understanding and using Chinese characters.

Fortunately, he is not very impatient.

This was the case today. According to his plan, it would be best if these soldiers could read and write, and it didn't matter if they were illiterate.

If they are literate, let these people read the things on the white paper to their colleagues in front of everyone.

If you don't know him... then you can only find someone to do it for him.

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"You can read, but you're not familiar with it?"

"It's okay, let's see how much you can recognize the things on it."

"If you recognize a place, read it aloud."

"If you don't recognize it, I will teach you once. After you go back, work harder, and sooner or later you will be able to remember what is written on it."

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And under Zhang Yan's kind gesture, soon, the soldier named Wang Er took the white paper full of words with trembling hands.

But just looking at it, the dense writing on it made him feel a little dizzy.

But out of respect for the prefect, he quickly read it in front of everyone.

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"Land... what right, proof?"

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It seems to be a little nervous, or it may be because I don't know a word in the first sentence on this thing, Wang Er's face is obviously redder than before.

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"Ahem, this is called an option."

"Certificate of land option."

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