In the third year of Hongwu in the Han Dynasty, spring.
Yanzhou, Puyang County, Baima.
As an important county that is only adjacent to the river, an important task of Puyang County's military soldiers is to prevent rivers in winter, that is, to patrol the frozen river surface to prevent rumored thieves or enemies from stepping on the ice.
Although it has been almost impossible for enemies to come since Jizhou was pacified and Jiehu was driven away, for the military soldiers in Yanzhou, such an important task must not be slacked off.
However, now that winter is turning to spring, the ice on the river is about to melt, and the military soldiers of Puyang County will also stop patrolling the river and switch to guarding the ferry more leisurely.
As a newly appointed commander, Zhang Chu, who had just become a soldier of the Han Army, was definitely a well-known figure among the soldiers of the Puyang Army.
He was recruited in Jizhou last year to join Zu Ti's general Zhengxi. When he went north to attack Jiehu in Xiangguo, he killed three more Hulu, turning from a small soldier into a great leader in one fell swoop.
When the emperor moved to the army, he, as a newcomer, acquired 300 acres of land and a house in Puyang, Yanzhou.
In this way, he turned his two younger brothers into his auxiliary soldiers. In this way, not only can the brothers take care of each other, but they can also work together to farm.
After all, the army soldiers need to be trained well. If they only rely on Zhang Chu, a bachelor, they may not even be able to grow their own rations.
Today, Zhang Chu just finished his three-day duty in Fanghe. After leaving the team, he walked towards his 'home'.
It is a full three miles from the team leader's home to his own home.
Today, Yanzhou has resettled a large number of refugees. Almost half of the people in Puyang County are military soldiers and resettled refugees.
In order to facilitate management and prevent the refugees from causing trouble, each village houses hundreds of households of refugees, as well as a military officer. Most of the affairs of this village are decided by the commander.
"Come back!"
"The chief is back!"
As soon as Zhang Chu walked outside the brand new village, he heard the voices of children on the watchtower of the village.
These half-grown boys will be sent as security guards when they are unable to work.
Surrounded by these twelve or thirteen-year-old children, Zhang Chu passed the village gate and entered inside.
Zhang Chu, a leader, was an absolute big shot in the eyes of these children. The livelihoods of hundreds of people in the entire village were all in his hands.
He did not chase these children away, but enjoyed this moment in his heart.
As soon as Zhang Chu returned to the stronghold, he seemed to have become an emperor.
"Bah, capital punishment, capital punishment, how dare I think of an emperor as a little person!"
His face suddenly darkened, and he was frightened by what he had just thought.
The villagers and auxiliary soldiers met along the way all enthusiastically complimented Zhang Chu, the leader, or village leader.
With a straight face, he passed by these people with dignity.
When Zhang Chu returned to his home, he saw five or six people in rags in the yard as soon as he entered the door.
These people were all dirty and their hair was disheveled, just tied up randomly.
Even Zhang Chu couldn't tell whether these people were men or women.
"Brother, you are back!"
His younger brother Zhang Qi, as soon as his elder brother came back from entering, immediately came forward happily in time.
"Who are these people?"
Zhang Chu asked.
Because from the looks of these people, they were not refugees assigned by counties and counties. Although the refugees assigned were poor, they would be washed away before they were assigned to various villages.
The brigade commander in the county has said that if these refugees are not cleaned up and the plague is brought into the village, it will kill everyone in the village.
"Tian Ke escaped from the east!" Zhang Qi came to his side and said softly.
"East again?"
Zhang Chu was slightly startled when he heard this.
The so-called east side by the two brothers refers to the Tao family in the east, not far from their village.
This Tao family is a powerful man from Puyang, Yanzhou. His family not only has thousands of fertile fields, but also thousands of servants and guests.
Tao's Wubao was strong and vast, and even in Zhang Chu's opinion, it was not much worse than Baima County.
Even for such a powerful man, life has become increasingly difficult recently.
First, the officials in Puyang County went to inspect the fields one after another, and then the servants of the Tao family fled one after another.
Just over a month after the beginning of spring, Zhang Chu's village had taken in more than a dozen escaped slaves.
"Well, I've asked about them. They are all Han Chinese. They are not some bastards. If they come to our village, they will be able to work for us in the future!"
Zhang Qi said very happily.
In today's Qingzhou Han Kingdom, it is absolutely strictly forbidden for Han people to be slaves. Even guilty people will never be punished as slaves. They will either be beheaded directly or serve a prison sentence.
The laws of the New Dynasty only recognized that powerful clans could recruit tenants, but not slaves.
If slaves are accepted, they must be barbarians such as Zahu, otherwise they will not be recognized.
As a result, many powerful slaves began to flee. As long as they were encountered by officials or military soldiers, they would be accepted as good registered households, or as auxiliary soldiers of the military soldiers, that is, as tenants of the military government. .
Although the three Zhang Chu brothers were all born in Kuhaha, since Zhang Chu gained military merit and became a small village leader.
His two younger brothers have gradually developed the consciousness of being superior to others, and they both want to recruit more powerful escaped slaves from nearby. In this case, with more manpower, they will no longer have to work in the fields themselves.
"Well, then take them to change into clean clothes first!"
After Zhang Chu learned that these people were all Han, he no longer had any worries.
Since the family's slaves Tian Ke fled one after another, the powerful Tao family first went to Baima County to file a complaint and demanded the escaped slaves who were taken in by the government and military soldiers.
Unexpectedly, the Baima County Magistrate, who had always been respectful to the Tao family, now had a different look. He ignored the fugitive slaves that the Tao family asked for, and even disappeared in the end.
As for the escaped slaves who were taken in by the military government, under the personal intimidation of the military commander, Tao's people never showed up after they fled.
Zhang Chuke clearly remembered the proud face and words of the brigade marshal of the county's central military office at that time.
"Listen to me, these escaped slaves from powerful families, as long as they are capable Han people, will be kept by themselves. If anyone has the ability to recruit auxiliary troops to cultivate the land, then he has the ability!"
"Hey, if you don't have the ability, just go to the mud and pull the plow yourself!"
As a result, Zhang Chu and other small military leaders tried their best to recruit and lure the slaves of powerful families to flee.
When he heard that his elder brother Zhang Chu was going to change the clothes of these escaped slaves, his younger brother Zhang Qi had a look of pain on his face.
"How expensive are the clothes? Don't they have clothes?"
After hearing what his brother said, Zhang Chu immediately said dissatisfied.
"The clothes they are wearing are just a few pieces of tattered linen. Look, that person's buttocks are exposed!"
He pursed his lips and said.
"Go quickly, it's still very cold now. If one or two people freeze to death, then there will be one or two less people working."
"This young man, hey, we can't finish the three hundred acres of land even if we are exhausted!"
Zhang Chu, a newly arrived military leader, only has fields and houses left to divide. The auxiliary soldiers and land guests that the former military soldiers were allocated have long since disappeared.
Nowadays, if the military soldiers in Puyang County want to grow food, drink and military supplies from their fields, they must find ways to recruit people to farm the fields.
After listening to Zhang Chu's words, Zhang Qi shrank his neck and had to go reluctantly.
Zhang Chu returned to the house and sat on the table without changing his clothes.
Immediately there was the sound of water outside, and the sound of a group of people exclaiming.
He knew that Zhang Qi was washing them with water. Anyway, they were all those who had endured hardship and survived, and they had never been treated like this before.
After drinking a bowl of warm and sweet turbid wine, Zhang Chu couldn't help but feel very satisfied and began to squint his eyes and doze off.
Suddenly, there was a shouting sound outside. He thought it was his brother calling him, and he slowly woke up.
But he never expected that his younger brother Zhang Qi would rush in.
"Brother, hurry up, the flags of the brigade commander and team leader are outside the stronghold!"
When Zhang Chu heard this, he immediately jumped up excitedly.
"What! Brigadier?!"
The brigade commander is the commander of the army in Baima County. How come he came to this small Nanhengzhai?
"It's the brigade commander's flag, and there's a large group of people in Wuyangyang!"
Zhang Chu immediately grabbed his weapons and ran outside.
The brigade commander, the team leader, and other military soldiers suddenly arrived. There must be something big to do.
Moreover, a rider has not been sent to inform, so it is definitely a more important matter.
As soon as he reached the gate of the village, he heard the sound of the door being called outside.
"You, go and report quickly and ask Zhang Chu to see the brigade commander!"
Zhang Chu immediately responded loudly and hurriedly.
When he arrived outside the stronghold, he was immediately shocked when he saw the scene in front of him. Almost all the military soldiers from Baima County had arrived.
He immediately broke into cold sweat.
"It's broken. They're here to catch me, right?"
While Zhang Chu was thinking wildly, the brigade commander riding on a horse spoke up.
"Zhang Chu?"
"Yes, it is humble!" Zhang Chu responded quickly.
"Well, hurry up and order the regular soldiers and auxiliary soldiers in Qi's stronghold, and follow the brigade commander to hunt down the thieves!"
Zhang Chu was shocked when he heard this.
"Begging for a thief?"
He blurted out unconsciously, but the captain of the team next to the brigade commander glared and scolded.
"Talk too much! The brigade commander has an order, so hurry up and go!"
Zhang Chu immediately lowered his head and apologized, but the brigade commander didn't take it seriously.
He waved his hand and said with a slight smile.
"Of course I'm begging for a thief, so there's no harm in telling you that the thief is none other than you, the Tao family from the east of the village!"
"Dow?"
Zhang Chu immediately thought that if he came so suddenly today, could it be that he didn't trust himself before?
"Okay, let's go quickly. All the soldiers from the county are here to hunt down thieves today. If we go late and delay the military leader's important event, we will have to drink soup!"
The brigade commander gave the order, and Zhang Chu immediately took the order and flew back to the stronghold to light up the men.
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Yanzhou, Luzi.
In the main hall, Liu Yu and a group of officials gathered to discuss.
"Your Majesty, the Yanzhou Military Office has reported that there are thirteen families in total of Puyang and Chenliu counties responsible for causing trouble in the countryside and secretly colluding with thieves, and they have all pleaded guilty!"
Xi Jian, the servant, said to Liu Yu.
"Okay, now that everyone has pleaded guilty, we can't tolerate it. They will confiscate their family records and lose their property, and they will scatter their slaves and landowners!"
Liu Yu said very proudly.
The powerful two counties of Yanzhou absorbed a large number of people and occupied a large number of acres during the previous Hulu and Jin civil strife, which can be said to have greatly enriched the country's wealth.
Now Liu Yu ordered all states and counties to implement "scholar registration", that is, to forcibly stipulate the number of people with privileges in powerful families.
If you want to enter the "official status", you must either pass the examination organized by the imperial court and become a reserve official, waiting for recruitment and appointment at any time, or you must pass the examination of riding and archery skills and become a qualified official of a good family. In case of war, you must also prepare your own supplies. Horses and weapons accompanied the army in battle.
Compared with the previous ones, although this so-called "scholarship" recognizes privileges, it must fulfill corresponding obligations.
Since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, these powerful people from aristocratic families who claim to be the embodiment of justice in the world have never received such treatment.
One of the purposes of their fights with relatives and eunuchs is to criticize and brag about each other, and then be recruited by the court and easily serve as high-ranking officials.
Today's Qingzhou Han Kingdom's 'official selection' was officially announced, but it was far beyond their expectations.
Different from the previous recruitment system, this kind of official selection that tests civil and military skills does not take the candidates' place of origin or family status into account at all!
This immediately made many high-ranking nobles feel dissatisfied.
In fact, these high-ranking officials are all heirs of poetry and calligraphy. For them, it is equally easy to obtain official positions through examinations.
However, in the official selection system implemented by Liu Yu, the number of official positions obtained from these Confucian classics examination schools could not satisfy them at all. Many official positions required examinations on martial arts, farming, miscellaneous studies and other "sideline" examinations.
What is even more irritating is that these officials who came out of "heresy" or "reformed from military service" are on an equal footing with these powerful families who inherit the classics.
"Your Majesty, the scholars and people in Jizhou are now full of complaints. Many people feel that your Majesty does not rely on the study of classics to get an official position, but only emphasizes the learning of junior talents and does not emphasize the way of virtue. It is really against the sages and kings!"
Gongsun Sheng next to him suddenly said with gloating.
"Haha, the scholars in Jizhou today probably don't know what happened in Yanzhou!"
Liu Yu immediately understood what Gongsun Sheng meant.
"Pass on my order, these traitors in Yanzhou will be beheaded immediately, and the message will be sent to Jizhou, and then to Youzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, well, as for Qingzhou, there is no need!"
In fact, Liu Yu knew that the powerful Tao family in Puyang that Xi Jian just mentioned were just chess pieces pushed out by larger families to test.
They never expected that Liu Yu's reaction would be so violent.
They actually killed them all as soon as they came up!
Liu Yu thought for a moment and then said.
"Well, let's specifically ask Yan Shenggong to handle this matter!"
"To promote the new dynasty's elegance and politics, it is most appropriate to be a saint!"
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