Liu Yu almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. Although he had never seen the famous enrollment advertisement before traveling through time, it sounded strange. He calmed down and looked at Liu Muzhi: "Why do you have to be here?" Where is the land of Qilu?”
Liu Muzhi said seriously: "Because for thousands of years, starting from the Spring and Autumn Period, this place has been a place where traveling scholars from all over the country have gathered. From the Jixia Academy in the Spring and Autumn Period to the Taixue established by Murong De, they are all public institutions run by the government and civilians. Sex schools, and the great educator Confucius also came from here. Running a school here will not encounter resistance from aristocratic families like other places. As long as the state funds the place and the teachings are provided by some smart officials who can speak out from their own experience, there is no need to worry. No one comes to school.”
Liu Yu frowned: "But this school of yours has to be allocated, and it has to be assigned to each village as a grassroots official. According to the national law, is this possible? Now we have launched a system that can only rely on According to the rule that grassroots officials can only get titles through meritorious service, wouldn’t it conflict with our current policies if we continue to do so?”
Liu Muzhi smiled slightly: "These can be solved at the operational level. In the past, people who were not awarded titles without merit were not allowed to occupy these grassroots management positions because they were afraid that like before, high-ranking families would appoint their own stewards at will. When Zhuang Ding takes up these positions, it means that the high-ranking families of the aristocratic families promote their own people to control the grassroots. Those who are awarded titles for their merits mainly refer to the officers and soldiers in the army. They obey the orders of the country, or in other words, you. , if a noble family wants to bribe and control them, the cost they have to pay is very high, far beyond what can be compared with instructing several family managers."
Liu Yu nodded: "Actually, once this battle is over, according to the current merit records of the Battle of Linqu, more than 20,000 soldiers will be able to obtain the most basic civilian title. After these people return to their hometowns, they will be qualified to serve as village chiefs. , Li Zheng, Qiu Kui and other officials."
Liu Muzhi nodded and said: "Yes, but that doesn't mean that if you have a civil servant, you must hold a real position. Especially for someone who doesn't know how to manage, if he insists on being pushed to that position, it will not be a good thing for him or his neighbors in the village. I have also considered this. Just like in each county, there are county commanders and county lieutenants, these military attaches who are responsible for managing warriors and soldiers. In villages and villages, we can also let retired brothers serve as Such a position."
Liu Yu said with a smile: "Are they supposed to be captains of strong men in the village, or captains of the militia?" At this point, his mind came back to the times he had experienced in later generations, from the county people's military department to the village soldiers. The platoon is a complete system for grassroots veteran management and mobilization, and his father is a member of the village militia. Over the years, those memories of later generations that had been gradually forgotten began to appear in my mind more and more frequently and more strongly, and I don’t know why. You know, during the twenty years when he was a boy in Jingkou, he almost forgot that he was a soul from the next generation who traveled through thousands of years.
Liu Muzhi smiled and said: "Militia? This is a good word. I originally thought it meant Ding Zhuang, because our recruitment in the Jin Dynasty is based on Ding men. In the event of a big war, one out of ten Ding men will be selected. In normal times, it is usually done as corvee. In the form of letting them go to the prefectures and counties to do some manual work. These people actually need to be recruited and managed, but in the past when they were in the world of aristocratic families, all these manpower were used by the noble families. To put it bluntly, it was because there was no imperial court These are the grassroots administrators who can give direct orders."
"If this scholar from the Lanxiang Official School can be trained to teach farmers and mulberry trees in the village, collect taxes and preach the law, and let the retired soldiers serve as captains of this kind of militia after they return, they will be responsible for recruiting, training and managing the entire village. If the village has its men and carries out necessary military training, then the village will receive food in peacetime and produce men in wartime, and its financial, material and human resources can be used by the country."
Liu Yu felt excited in his heart and nodded: "It's a good idea. The village chief can be appointed by a local elder with high moral standing and someone in his family who has meritorious service to coordinate the relationship between the civil and military people, just like the governor of a state or the governor of a county. We need to coordinate the relationship between Sima and Changshi of Honshu County, and become the final person in charge. But I still have a little doubt, that is, this person from Lan Xiang Li School, he himself has no merits after studying in Li School. Civil lord, this is not the same as the situation of the soldiers who have made meritorious service and returned to their hometowns to serve as militia captains. After all, we have established the rule that no one will be awarded a title unless he has meritorious service, and he will not be an official without a title. You cannot take the lead in violating it yourself. If you open this hole, you will As you said before, you will have to make more compromises with the noble family in the future."
Liu Muzhi curled up his lips and said, "These village officials and township officials are not officials, but officials who have migrated out of the country. They are not within the scope of our original regulations. In fact, most of the villages in Wudi are already for aristocratic families." The management of high-level families has been taken care of by the village heads. In this regard, you can't help it. The reason is the lack of talents as I said before. If you don't even know the words and can't count, how can you manage ordinary people? What is a good village? Only after people have been educated and trained, and trained the professional skills of relevant officials, and then become village-level chiefs, or township-level household officials, can they effectively run these villages."
"Even the soldiers who have returned from the army do not have the ability to organize and govern. At most, they can only train the young men recruited by the village officials to train their military skills during their leisure time or in service. "
Speaking of this, Liu Muzhi said with a smile: "Besides, just like the sergeants who have just joined the army, they need to enter the recruit training camp. There were no formal military positions at that time. Do you still remember that you and I just joined the Feibao Camp of the Beifu Army? Do you practice martial arts?" Zhong defeated Ah Shou and was given the position of acting building owner, and he could not be promoted to a full-time official until he had made meritorious service during the official battle. We can also use the grassroots officials in the same way. Let them act as a village official first. As the deputy of the village chief, he is not given a salary. He is only given a piece of land in the village for living at a standard that is slightly higher than that of ordinary households. Then he is evaluated every year or every three months based on his work performance. Those who do outstanding work can be transferred to full-time positions, because having political achievements in the local area is also meritorious, and they can also be awarded civilian titles. In this way, it does not violate the principles of our merit and title system, but also gives them opportunities. Isn't it the best of both worlds?"
Liu Yu's brows widened, he clapped his hands and said with a smile: "This idea is really good. In other words, only those who have passed the training at Lan Xiang's official school and passed the assessment can they go to the grassroots to become such village officials, such as village officials. A long history or a village master, etc. This avoids the situation where a noble family can just appoint a steward to control the village. Wonderful, really wonderful. However, will this condition attract scholars? "
