Chapter 135
Although there were these concerns, Liu Yu could not prevent these subordinates from marrying the powerful men of Qingzhou counties and counties.
For these Donglai rebels and refugee generals, the girls from the powerful families who originally needed to look up to were probably fairies with fragrance in their feet. Now, as long as they nodded, they could become people by their pillows. These mud legs who had just tasted the taste of power were absolutely irresistible temptations.
Moreover, Liu Yu had no position to stop these subordinates from doing this. After all, his own wife was from the Wang family of Taiyuan, a famous family in China. You have found a girl from a gentry family. It is not okay for the old brother to find a woman from a powerful county family. What is that?
Of course, Liu Yu knew that these old subordinates were still trustworthy now.
However, in the relationship with the powerful Qingzhou is getting closer and closer, if Liu Yu and the powerful Qingzhou will encounter opposition in the future, the loyalty of these people may not be as reliable as they are now.
Regarding the sugar-coated shells shot by these "local tyrants and evil gentry", Liu Yu felt that "it is better to be loose than to block".
These subordinates are just the mentality that ordinary people have. Just like "people go to high places and water flows to low places", making in-laws with the powerful people in these counties is a process for them to go to high places.
If Liu Yu wants to continue to control the hearts of these generals, he must give them higher and better expectations, far higher than what these Qingzhou powerful men can give them.
Of course, fame, wealth and wealth are all part of this, and Liu Yu should give some things that ordinary powerful officials cannot give.
For example, the ultimate expectation of ordinary people in ancient times was to "become a marquis and ministers". This was no longer something that a county official or aristocratic family could give. At least it was the prime minister-level official of the court who had this opportunity. In many cases, this was the power that the emperor had.
If these Liu Yu's generals were just greedy for pleasure, it would be enough to be a rich man who married the powerful in Qingzhou.
However, Liu Yu would not let them stay so comfortable. These people need stronger utilitarianism to stimulate them. Liu Yu needs to draw a big pie for them so that they can subjectively break out of the shackles that are enough to be a rich man in a small county town for the rest of their lives.
Moreover, if a person is changed in his mind, the results achieved are something that ordinary interests cannot be changed.
Thoughts are more powerful than weapons.
Therefore, Liu Yu personally taught the class, allowing all the generals around Linzi City to participate in the literacy school. After several months of teaching, he basically exceeded Liu Yu's goal.
All people have gotten rid of the illiterate state. Of course, the popular parallel poems and essays cannot be written nowadays, but understanding the letters written in common words is enough to be the leader of the village.
Moreover, in the courses arranged by Liu Yu himself, he not only taught the knowledge of literature and verbal knowledge, but also taught practical subjects such as basic mathematics, physics, geography, and history.
Liu imagined that even if the Five Barbarians of the Five Barbarians will fall into China in the future, the glorious China civilization will be depressed for a while.
However, when the Han people's power once again regained China, the knowledge seeds that transcend the times they left could add a little glory to China when it prospered again, then Liu Yu felt that all this was worth it.
Of course, those generals who were forced to learn from Liu Yu did not know his painstaking efforts. Even if they knew, they would probably not understand it.
However, none of this is a problem. The school opened by Liu Yu is not for enlightenment to children, and it is not gentle. Those who are not focused in everything in class will immediately serve the personal soldiers on duty; those who fail to complete the course will serve the whip; those who fail the exam will serve the whip.
If you were just serving a whip, these thick-skinned generals would probably not be too scared. Therefore, Liu Yu stipulated that in the final assessment, those who failed to meet the standards for three consecutive times, no matter what military position they held, they would be all the same and go to the army to become soldiers. Anyway, this kind of IQ is probably a reckless man even if he was an officer.
Under Liu Yu's series of cruel supervisions, almost all the generals who came to study were all fighting for the first place, and almost all of them worked hard.
Finally, when everyone completed the assessment set by Liu Zhi, Liu Zhi could clearly feel that these farmers, hunters and bandits in the Donglai Mountains had undergone tremendous changes from the inside out.
Although in the eyes of the Western Jin people, they could not recite poems and essays, and could not be regarded as the ranks of scholars, at most they were the literate level.
However, Liu Yu knew that the nearly 200 people he taught were all practical talents. They could read and write ordinary letters, calculate the number of troops, count the statistics and distribution of food and fodder, draw simple scale maps, and know the general idea of famous mountains and rivers in the world. They also knew the history of China's struggle since the Yellow Emperor expelled the Sanmiao.
Although the cognition and understanding of these people are far from comparable to that of modern people, compared with the vast majority of ordinary people in the late Western Jin Dynasty, these people who were educated by Liu Yu were no longer comparable to those people with only a radius of ten miles.
These generals of Liu Yu can be regarded as opening their eyes to see the world.
In the hearts of these people, Liu Yu, who taught them this knowledge, can already be regarded as a "prophet".
Especially some fellow villagers of Liu Yu from Donglai County, they swear to say that Liu Yu had never had these talents before. If they were different from ordinary people, they would have stronger force and better Lu Pu.
Almost everyone thinks that Liu Yu can know that these are definitely not manpower, and I am afraid that only God can do it.
This kind of gain in people's hearts even exceeded Liu Yu's expectations.
Therefore, in the principle of using a good method to the extreme, Liu Yu began to plan to convene all the generals stationed in Qingzhou to study in batches, receive re-education from Liu Yu's original ecological science and simple nationalism, and at the same time strengthen the improvement and supervision of loyalty.
The counties and counties in Qingzhou were basically useless before. The commanders of each county and county were basically managed by the garrison and military households. The powerful men of all sizes supervised their own territory. The county officials could manage only the poor households who had already fewer.
However, Qingzhou was basically stable at this time, and a large number of refugees and families migrated from Jizhou. Liu Yu decided to select capable scholars from Jizhou to serve as officials of various prefectures and counties to curb the powerful Qingzhou.
With Hua Xiu's recommendation, Liu Yu appointed many scholars from Jizhou as chief officials or assistant officials in various counties. At this time, when he was under the throne, these gentry members from high families had to be brave enough to serve and no longer have the capital to stand idly.
On this day, Liu Yu had just read the report letters from several new officials in Jizhou scholars and sighed softly. Almost all the official documents written by the people from the Wei and Jin Dynasties were brilliant and they all liked to use gorgeous words. Although they looked pleasing to the eye, they gave Liu Yu a headache, who was handling official documents, and there were too many redundant words.
Liu Yu immediately ordered the clerk to reply to the new county officials. After the processing, Liu Yu looked at it early and it was not yet lunch time, so he decided to go to the paper workshop in the city to see if the new paper method was being tested had progressed.
Suddenly, a guard on duty walked to the door to report, saying that a few people from Jizhou were asking for a meeting at the gate of the mansion.
Because Liu Yu's personal training is still in short supply, and even the army of confidants is not enough, in order to better recruit talents for his own use, Liu Yu learned about Cao Cao's approach back then, issued a few orders for seeking talents, and told the guards at the door of the mansion that no matter when or who comes to seek advice, as long as they are not evil people, they must report immediately.
After hearing the guards' words, Liu Yu thought he was a scholar who sought officials in prefectures and counties. These people were usually granted some officials in prefectures and counties by Liu Yu based on their rank and fame.
Liu Yu quickly sorted out his clothes, which was to conform to the hospitality method of the Wei and Jin dynasties. At this time, the Confucian scholars still had the legacy of the scholars of the Han Dynasty and had not yet been infected with some pseudo-Confucian habits. If they were not dressed in order, they would make some passionate scholars think that they despise him and draw their swords toward each other, which would be too embarrassing.
Liu Yu quickly sorted out his clothes and met in the main hall in advance.
When several scholars from Jizhou came to the hall under the guidance of the guards, Liu Yu found that these people did not seem to be the gentry with high crowns and high sleeves, but ordinary people in their clothes, but they had a slight sense of martial arts in their form.
After saluting each other, the words of these people confirmed Liu Yu's speculation. These people were not scholars from Jizhou like Hua Xiu, but ordinary refugees and heroes.
When these people were in Jizhou, they were the heroes who defended themselves from the fortress and resisted the barbarians and rebellious soldiers. Now they have been wandering to Qingzhou and have become the refugee commanders of various refugee groups.
In order to resettle these refugees, Liu Yu ordered all refugees to be moved around Linzi to facilitate control and enriching their core forces.
Liu Yu initially thought that these people came to seek an official position, so after a few greetings, he asked the person who led the leader.
"Brother Bocheng, when you come this time, you and I have a close conversation. I wonder if you are willing to become an official in the county?"
These people are from Changshan County, Jizhou, and the leader is named Wu Xin and his courtesy name is Bocheng.
Wu Xin straightened his body and said seriously.
"A few people are all rough people, and they are not as good as those famous scholars in the high rank who can help the generals solve their problems." Wu Xin paused for a moment and continued, "To be honest, we came today and did see the general's order to seek talents, but we did not want to seek officials as officials, but we wanted to join the general's command."
After hearing Wu Xin's words, Liu Yu was a little surprised. Most of these refugees were tired of war. This was the first time that Liu Yu saw those who were willing to join the army, but he was still very happy.
"I am just looking for the generous men from the land of Yanzhao to join the army."
Liu Yu's words made Wu Xin and others secretly happy.
Wu Xin's eyes moved a few times, and he said again as if he was determined.
"Thank you for your praise, but we have another request to join the army, and I would like to ask the general to agree."
After listening to this, Liu Yu felt that the conditions mentioned by Wu Xin should be land, taxes, household transfers, etc.
"Jun Ng said it's okay."
"We all led the clan towns to Qingzhou. After we joined the army, we did not want to separate from the generals. We also wanted to form our own army, but we were definitely serving the generals sincerely."
After hearing this, Liu Yu understood that these refugees must be afraid that they would be separated after joining Liu Yu's army, losing their backbone, and becoming the middle and lower class of Qingzhou army, so they wanted to become independent army.
In fact, Liu Yu could accept this request, which was equivalent to recruiting a powerful private army that could obey orders at any time. Liu Yu could also agree to such refugees who were willing to take the initiative to join the army.
However, Liu Yu did not intend to just reply so easily. He did not comment. Instead, he asked why Wu Xin and others took the initiative to join the army instead of being registered households?
Afterwards, Wu Xin expressed the thoughts of several people.
It turned out that after the refugees in Jizhou flocked to Qingzhou, Liu Yu did not force these refugees to serve in military service or to draw soldiers from them, but instead placed them around Linzi City, allocated land to them, and treated them as registered households and Qi people.
In this way, the safety and life of these refugees were basically guaranteed, but at the same time, Liu Yu began to restore the functions of officials in prefectures and counties at all levels, and the expenses of the Qingzhou Governor's Department instantly increased.
With the operation of increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, these newly surrendered refugees have become the best targets of exploitation.
These refugees need to pay 70% of the harvest in the first year, 60% of the second year, and 50% of the harvest in the third year.
Although this tax ratio is a part-time job, almost keeping up with the crushing efficiency of Emperor Wu of Wei’s military farming, it gives these refugees a way out and does not limit the amount of land they reclaim. As long as they can reclaim more, they can harvest more in the long run, and the refugees themselves can also harvest more.
However, Wu Xin and other refugee commanders were not suitable for this refugee resettlement method, because when Wu Xin and the Changshan people were in their hometown, they did not rely on farming as the leader. Wu Xin and several refugee commanders were both famous merchants in Changshan County who raised horses and sold horses. Their family members were not very good at farming. If they had to bear 70% of the tax in the first year, they would probably work hard for a year, and by autumn there would be no more than three melons and two dates left.
Moreover, Wu Xin and others lived in Jizhou for a long time and were close to the troublesome Hu people in Bingzhou. They did not despise the experience of joining the army like the Heluo scholars, but instead looked down on those romantic and tender men in Luoyang who were painted and powdered.
So, after thinking about it for a while, Wu Xin and the others wanted to make a living by joining the army and have a better chance to find a future.
After hearing this, Liu Yu spoke.
"It's not impossible to let Brother Wu lead the army alone. I just don't know if your troops can be competent for the duties of qualified soldiers?"
"Don't worry, this general, my Erlang is all the heroes of Yan Zhao. He will definitely not be vague when he goes to the battlefield to kill the enemy. If you don't believe it, the general can also send someone to test it?"
When Liu Yu heard this, he immediately became interested. Wu Xin was so confident?
"There is no joke in the army, Brother Wu really dares to give it a try."
"Of course, whoever is afraid is raised by Hu Bi!"
Chapter completed!