The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 85 Improving the Military System
Leaving internal affairs to Chu Hui, Liu Tai was quite relieved.

As the order of the entire Taishan County gradually restored, the aristocratic families were expelled by themselves, and they began to gradually place some old retired soldiers at the grassroots level. This gave Liu Tai the ability to bypass Chu Hui and directly control the grassroots level.

So Liu Tai is not afraid of what Chu Hui will do. If something happens, it can only be his own problem.

This made Liu Tai dare to let Chu Hui go, because although he was the son of a noble family, he also wanted to bring the noble family into Taishan County, but in reality, the entire Taishan base was still managed by his own soldiers who had followed him all the way.

In this day and age, no one thinks this is a problem.

Just as the nine-level Zhongzheng system reached its peak in the Jin court, another military merit system that ran through the powerful Han Dynasty and the prosperous Tang Dynasty became more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

This is a more viable system than the nine-level Zhongzheng system. It arranges retired veterans to work directly at the grassroots level. In Chu Hui's view, it is just a variant of the military merit system.

In this era, the only system that could compete with the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System was the military merit system.

After all, the nine-level Zhongzheng system determines the starting point of your official position, but the military merit system determines the final end of your power.

Just like this, after the emergence of the imperial examination system, it was basically aimed at suppressing the military merit system.

Because the imperial examination system requires stability, no matter how fair the imperial examination is, there are various ways to improve the probability of passing the imperial examination through class differences.

You have to tell me that the person who raised the question is your teacher. Does studying under him count as cheating?

The person who graded the papers was a relative of yours. If you went to ask for a few articles and you knew that he liked the writing style, is this considered cheating?

Or maybe if your status is higher, the question maker will read the article you wrote, and will it be considered cheating to specifically ask questions that you are good at?

When you successfully land, you will know how to repay.

But there is no cheating in the military merit system. To be more precise, in the military merit system, even if you can kill a good person temporarily, you still have to pay it back in the end.

Because unless you never fight or win a war, no one can guarantee that you will end up safely.

Anyone who goes to the battlefield is gambling with his or her life, regardless of your status or family background.

The Sima royal family, which had so many members in the Eight Kings Rebellion, died at the last word. As the leader of the Langya Wang Clan, Wang Kuang was defeated at all costs.

Under the military merit system, everyone must respect any commander who can fight his way up from the bottom.

Because as long as there are soldiers, they are the most powerful human beings. No matter how many people will die in the process, this is a smooth road that makes people speechless even if they go from slaves to generals.

Therefore, Liu Tai arranged for retired soldiers to work in management. Not only did Chu Hui have nothing to say, but it was also an inspiration to the locals in Taishan County.

These soldiers who retired to Taishan County may not actually be very high officials, and some may not even be pavilion chiefs.

But each of them not only owns land, but also receives official food from the government. For the people at the bottom, especially the kind of people who can't even afford to get married, that is really attractive.

As long as he can survive, Liu Tai will be able to arrange a wife, land and official positions for himself!
There is nothing better than this!

Therefore, Liu Tai asked retired soldiers to do grassroots management. In fact, the people of Taishan County welcomed him.

When the soldiers implemented Liu Tai's decrees, they would be somewhat rough in execution. If they were placed elsewhere, they would definitely conflict with the local wealthy families or the common people.

But now the wealthy family has been beaten away by Liu Tai, and even Gou Xi cannot be beaten back. As for the common people, if they stand upright and upright, there is no need to be afraid.

As for other local gangsters, they are probably the ones who will be beaten when faced with veterans who have killed people before.

And it must be said that although Taishan County has gradually become more stable under Liu Tai's governance, it is undeniable that it has just fought two wars.

Under such circumstances, with a retired veteran managing the grassroots, many grassroots people feel much more secure.

Liu Tai no longer took care of internal affairs, because Liu Tai believed that Chu Hui should do a good job in this area. At this moment, Liu Tai found Xu.

"I have met the general!" Mrs. Xu smiled slightly when she saw Liu Tai.

Liu Tai looked at Mrs. Xu and said, "Mr. Xu, how is the school? Is there anything missing?"

"I feel that teaching "Han Shu" to children in elementary school is still too profound. New textbooks need to be compiled, more tables and chairs need to be added, and if there can be more food... I feel like everything is lacking!" Mrs. Xu looked at it Liu Tai said seriously.

"That's it, then I guess you will be short of people soon!" Liu Tai couldn't help but sigh.

"Ah?" Mrs. Xu didn't react when she heard Liu Tai's words. Didn't you ask me to come over to help me solve my problem, but to create trouble for me?
“As we defeated Gou Xi, the situation in Taishan County stabilized during the war.

But when I visited old farmers, I found that people’s understanding of many things is different from ours! "

Liu Tai thought, "This lack of understanding is likely to cause communication problems between us and the people. It will also cause the orders from above to be completely changed when they reach the bottom!"

"What do you mean, general?" Mrs. Xu was a little confused when she heard Liu Tai's words.

"I need you to select some women who are good at singing and dancing to unify and integrate literature, music, martial arts, rap, martial arts, acrobatics, and clothing.

It ranges from reshaping mythical stories to telling stories of romance and love, and can be arranged and performed according to official needs.

The most important thing is that when we issue the decree, we need you to cooperate with the decree to perform in every village in Taishan County! "

As Party A, Liu Tai decisively put forward his needs.

"General, do you want me to push my sisters into the fire pit?" After hearing Liu Tai's words, Mrs. Xu was so bold that she couldn't help crying.

Xu could tell that although Liu Tai, the general, wanted to let others work all the time, he was very reasonable.

Otherwise, women like me would not be allowed to teach elementary school, but just like that, I would occasionally use my female advantage.

Liu Tai raised his eyebrows and said calmly, "So what if I just made you jump into the fire pit!"

"The general once promised to be a concubine to a female teacher in Meng Xue, so that he could survive in this world even without relying on a man.

Nowadays, it is difficult for the sisters to be respectfully called sir. How cruel would it be to let the sisters leave again! "

When Mrs. Xu said this, she choked up and said, "I even pushed my sister into the fire pit with my own hands. Isn't it bitter?!"

"What's all this?!" Liu Tai heard Xu's words and said, "Don't fill my head with so many things.

Since they are cooperating with the government to promote propaganda among the people, they naturally eat public food and have public status. ,
As long as they keep themselves clean, anyone who touches them will be a slap in my face.

However, you are right, then they will retain their status as female teachers in the school and will be suspended without pay.

After the tour is over, if you want to stay in Mongolia and be a female teacher, just stay! "

"Thank you, general, for your strength. Thank you for your strength, general. I will thank the general on behalf of my sisters!" Mrs. Xu couldn't help but salute, then glanced at Liu Tai and said tentatively, "Then I will go down and deal with this first. One thing!" "Come back!" Liu Tai said, "There is another thing that I need your help with!"

"Please give me your general's orders. I will do my best!" Mrs. Xu finally said after hearing Liu Tai's words.

Liu Tai looked at Xu and said, "How many students in the school are male students, and how many students are female students?"

"Most of the Mengtong students are boys. I have never seen a few female students!" Mrs. Xu felt sad when she said this.

"Hmm..." Liu Tai nodded, "The Meng Academy offers female classes, divided into two categories.

One type is to be your assistant, and will also become a female teacher in the future.

The other group adopts some abandoned and orphaned women, you just have to make arrangements! "

Mrs. Xu was a little surprised when she heard Liu Tai's words, but she quickly saluted Liu Tai and said, "Mrs. Xu, thank you general!"

"No need to thank me, I'm not trying to save them, I'm trying to use them." Liu Tai said calmly to Mrs. Xu,
"You go down and prepare. In addition, you go and collect some jobs that you think women can do. It's a long-term mission."

"Yes!" Mrs. Xu didn't say much. She just saluted Liu Tai and then left.

For Liu Tai, he has no intention of forcibly improving the status of women in this era.

However, as a large number of adult men went to participate in the war, it was naturally inevitable that women should take on more production responsibilities.

Therefore, we need to cultivate corresponding talents for the future and be able to replace some industries.

And it must be mentioned that he plans to fight Gou Xi in Qingzhou after the summer harvest next year.

If Qingzhou is captured, it will inevitably copy the model of Taishan County, and then the model of its own school may also be copied.

This requires more female teachers to enlighten these underage children to literacy.

Liu Tai took a deep breath. Liu Tai originally wanted to organize a group of female doctors.

But Liu Tai thought for a moment and finally suppressed this thought.

Because medical camps are still in their infancy, doctors in medical camps are actually positioned as generalists.

My requirements for the doctors in the medical camp are not only to be able to treat the wounded, but they also need to accompany the army on expeditions.

Therefore, female doctors are not suitable, at least not when they are not big enough.

At the same time, cultivating enough female doctors requires a lot of resources and time.

And now I can't afford to support such a special organization. I haven't even managed a first-generation medical camp yet, let alone a female doctor.

Liu Tai took a deep breath. The conversation with Xu finally allowed him to solve another problem.

But soon Liu Tai found Jie Fei and told him that he needed to build a water conservancy mill.

He and the entire government camp were assigned to Yu Yao, and asked to cooperate with Yu Yao's county soldiers to dredge canals and build water conservancy mills.

To a certain extent, Yu Yao's county soldiers were considered to be government soldiers who had acres of land.

But even so, there are still military histories in Yu Yao's army. Most of these military histories are young people, who are under the dual jurisdiction of Yu Yao and Jun Zuoying at the same time.

If they violate military discipline, Yu Yao can punish them, but after punishment, they must report the matter to the military aide camp responsible for managing military history.

Jun Zuoying will go down below to investigate what happened, and then report it to Liu Tai.

Their tasks among the government soldiers are also to teach the "Book of Han" to record military history, and to find ways to cultivate the collective sense of honor of the county soldiers. Then the best among the county soldiers will be added to Liu Tai's main army.

Of course, the task of military history is not to select county soldiers, but simply to supervise and record them.

The daily records and comments of military historians will not change whether soldiers can be promoted, but they will determine which camp they will be accepted into.

Liu Tai's idea is that the army in his hands is probably positioned as a field army, and their main task is to study how to fight a good war.

As long as the world is not unified, this army cannot be used for emergency rescue and disaster relief.

Otherwise, if someone else takes this opportunity to attack you while this army is providing rescue and disaster relief, you will not even have a chance to protect yourself.

But Liu Tai also wanted to establish a connection between the people and the army, so the only way to do this was for the soldiers to do it.

Let the government soldiers become the communication medium between the elite soldiers and the common people, so as to keep the cost of maintaining the army as low as possible.

After all, since ancient times, the soldiers of the government have owned their own land. That is called the soldiers of the government. They can raise the soldiers at the minimum.

But their support is not in vain. Basically, some public facilities are built with them as the core, and then guide the people to do it. The most important thing is to let them support the people when rescue and disaster relief are needed.

However, in order to avoid being left behind in the future, military history has become an important basis for supervising the operation of the military system.

However, once the political situation is stabilized, the government soldiers will need to be continuously rotated and dispatched to surrounding counties to prevent the government soldiers from staying there for too long and forming new interest groups.

At the same time, the best among the government soldiers will be selected into the regular army.

I actually don't value their usual achievements in the army. Basically, as long as they meet the standards, it's enough.

After all, unless it is a rare innate divine power like his own, the gap between people is not that big.

What I really chose was the way they cared about the people by communicating with and helping the local people when they were serving as soldiers.

Although for generals, this thought is even a bit luxurious, Liu Tai understands that if these people really have the opportunity to reach high places in the future, they must be generals and prime ministers.

And such people can think more about the people when making decisions in the future, which will be a good thing for the people at the bottom.

I don't expect that in the future there will be someone like Yue Fei in my army who can really put the people in his heart during the feudal era.

But if there can be a few more generals like Zhao Yun who are loyal, courageous, benevolent and righteous, and who pay more attention to the people, then what's the harm?

However, this process must be carried out slowly, and the current system is just a start-up.

Letting Yu Yao lead the county soldiers to build local canals and guide the people to work was the first step in his attempt.

　The next update will be a little later, no need to wait.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)