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Chapter 61 General Outline of the Five Emperors
"Our Zhou family must resolutely participate in the land reclamation order issued by the county."

"There is no need to pay taxes on land reclaimed for ten years, and we can also accept refugees to reclaim wasteland. When the land is reclaimed, we will set up manors as tenant farmers."

Watching Zhou Bai alone there asking questions and answering questions, the collective discussions in the group affairs hall seemed to have become a discussion hall, and the high-level officials looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to oppose the agricultural policy that the new patriarch was emphasizing.

After all, as a family, it is always right to open up more fields and accumulate some food.

The first policy was passed, and no one could withstand Zhou Bai's pressure on the rest of the adjustments to the layout of the commercial industry.

The main reason is that he really knows the family very well. After some analysis, even the elders of the clan can only nod in agreement.

Of course, there are also a few young deacons who have the courage to express their views, such as Zhou Qi, who just graduated from middle school this year and came from a branch.

He wanted to hone his skills for a few years before taking the exam for a scholar, and he couldn't just study behind closed doors, so he took the post of a deacon first.

Zhou Qi put forward his idea based on what he had seen and heard in the county test. He found that many people in the county did not have suitable clay materials for repairing houses or even building manors outside.

And the biggest specialty of their red mud township is red mud. Although this kind of red mud is not as sticky as glutinous rice milk, it is much better than ordinary clay.

So Zhou Qi suggested that a new commercial route to the county town be added to sell red clay.

Zhou Bai greatly appreciated this, because although what he said was a little immature, it did have merit.

So Zhou Qi was rewarded with five taels of silver immediately, and was appointed as the organizer and implementer of the red mud trade route. The higher the sales efficiency, the higher the salary.

All the clansmen have deeply realized that Zhou Bai is practicing the rules set by Qunshitang, the able will go up and the mediocre will go down.

Regardless of direct lineage or collateral lineage, as long as they make contributions, they will be valued by the patriarch and have the opportunity to display their talents.

Because of Zhou Bai's behavior, many children from the clan wanted to join the inner palace for a while.

The salary over there is more generous, and there is a more perfect and fair reward and punishment mechanism.

It's just that the inner mansion's shelf is only so big at present, Zhou Bai doesn't need and can't support too many people, so he can only raise the threshold, and then let Chen Zhongbang record suitable people.

Once the inner government expands later, there will be enough talents for officials immediately.

As the ancestor worship came to an end, the news of Zhou Bai's canonization was also known to the big and small families in Pingcang County.

Regardless of whether the relationship is good or bad, they all sent congratulatory gifts, and even the county tycoon Zhao's family sent someone to maintain their appearance.

In fact, Zhou Bai was very curious, why the Zhao family was fine, didn't Hu Yanhe tell the emperor that the Zhao family bought the guard of Kukou Pass?

On the day of the knighthood, the general guarding Kukoukou was taken down by Wang Xiu and sent to the capital.

There are also a group of generals in Cangbei County who have defense loopholes, all reprimanded, and they can't escape even if they are demoted and dismissed.

However, there was nothing wrong with the Zhao family, and Zhou Bai didn't know what kind of benefit exchange was involved.

I only vaguely heard that in the imperial decree read by Wang Xiu, it only said that the guard of Kukou Pass would go to Lian Jinren, and no other family names were mentioned.

Zhao Liangji, as the legitimate son of the Zhao family's generation, was at odds with him, so Zhou Bai naturally wanted to have some snacks.

Just at this moment, Zhou Bai received an invitation from the county seat. It turned out that it hadn't rained for a long time, and Ji Hongzhe was going to invite famous figures and talents from all over the county to hold a ceremony to worship gods and pray for rain.

Instead of offering sacrifices to the heavenly court, it is to worship the local god of parents, the town god of Pingcang County.

There is no way, there is no big river near Pingcang County, so there is no dragon king to ask for, so I can only turn to the gods who have this function.

In addition to guarding the city, protecting the country and the country, and ruling the souls of the dead, the God of the City God happens to have the priesthood of reconciling wind and rain.

In the past, when the sectarian forces of the Taoist sect dominated the ordinary world, they also established rules: "There is no special sacrifice in the Town God's Temple, but floods, droughts, and epidemics must be prayed for, paid tribute to, and told about fasting; therefore, the temple is built so that the gods can rely on it." .”

So the county officials thought of their Pingcang County Town God, who has always been well-known and is a promising god in the hearts of the people in the county.

It just so happened that after Zhou Bai became a knight, he needed to meet the officials of the county government, and at the same time get information about the Zhao family from Ji Hongzhe, so he accepted the invitation.

Worshiping the gods is a sacred and important event, especially the official sacrifices hosted by the government often consume part of the luck of the local legal system.

And in order to ensure that every official sacrifice can be successful without compromising the court's face, officials who know the inside story often ask for sacrifices carefully, and do not trouble the gods unless it is absolutely necessary.

It is true that they have incense to accept sacrifices, but if they consume too much, the gains will often outweigh the losses.

Therefore, please post the scheduled time in late April, and the invited people should meet before April [-]th.

The officials and lords of Pingcang County still want to wait for the weather. If it rains in the first half of the month, they don't have to waste the county's energy to worship the gods.

In April, apart from dealing with family affairs and inner government affairs, Zhou Bai was studying and training soldiers.

Reading, reading the Five Emperors Taoism.

The blue emperor in the east, the red emperor in the south, the yellow emperor in the center, the white emperor in the west, and the black emperor in the north.

These five general outlines of the Daoist scriptures are the scriptures that the Heavenly Court has revealed to the world. It is just that the humane court only allows people with fame to study them in order to prevent ignorant villagers from messing up and hurting their health, and also afraid that children who read them in advance will delay their foundation.

The Juren Examination is the general outline of the five emperors. Every sentence in the scriptures may be tested. Of course, most of them do not have standard answers. The score only depends on your understanding.

The general outline guides all laws in the world, and every time I read through it, I have new insights. Although Zhou Bai has already memorized it backwards, it is not a waste of time.

In addition to Taoism, Zhou Bai just read "The Essentials of Classics and Martial Arts", and he will pass it on to the officers in the village protection team after he has finished reading it.

In particular, Zhou Yuan is a bit smart, he can often infer other things from one instance, if he can't answer the question, it will damage his image as the protagonist.

Now Zhou Bai has two armed forces, one clan soldier and one village guard soldier.

The clan soldiers are relatively loose inside and outside, belonging to the nature of servants. Currently, there are only more than 100 people who are out of production.

In addition to guarding the house, they also have to undertake the escort of the caravan and the patrol of various manors.

Obviously, the manpower is not enough, so when Zhou Bai set up the village protection team in the name of protecting the village, no clansman objected, and other families and even the government didn't have much doubts.

After all, the inner government paid for it, and it could make those frizzy half-children in the clan settle down.

The village protection team is currently stationed in Zhou Bai's manor, implementing militarized management, providing three meals a day, and practicing continuously every day.

There are five people in a team, including a team leader; two teams and one team, and a team leader; five teams make up a team, and the other team has a leader and deputy team leader; two teams form a capital, and Zhou Yuan is the deputy. The capital, Zhou Bai led the capital himself.

Of course, these military systems are called internally for the time being, and they are ordinary one team and two teams externally.

In the case of mastering the Taoist group, although the court has sufficient confidence to suppress disobedient ministers, it will not let you go too far.

When the army gathers its military spirit, it can fight against those with supernatural powers. In this world, who in one realm and two realms dare to attack the formation of the cavalry army.

(End of this chapter)