This cave village is built between two mountains and is quite large in scale, with more than a hundred households. A small river winds out from the valley, and there are shepherds grazing cattle and horses by the river.

Seeing the large group of people coming, the village entrance quickly returned to the village to report.

In a vague sound, the sound of gongs and the barking of dogs sounded. Immediately afterwards, an old man in black, wearing a wingless high-crowned gauze hat and a waisted sword led six or seven hundred men, women, young and old, out of the village, and knelt down on both sides in an orderly manner, allowing the road to the village to open.

"The person who comes must be the emperor. You can't wait to make noise. Just kneel down!" The old man's hair and beard are all frosted, nearly 60 years old, but he is still very imposing. Judging from his clothes, it must be Muramasa.

Soon, several guards in bright clothes and angry horses came to the village gate with three hundred cavalry. The leading guards B shouted loudly to the villagers kneeling on the ground: "His Majesty the Emperor is in the north patrol, and he wants to enter the village to check the people's situation. Where is the village?"

The old man immediately bowed down and said, "Old Li Nianzhong, the official Lijiazhai Village, have seen all the generals!"

At the same time, a man and a woman also came forward to pay homage. One of them was a public security envoy and the other was a civil servant envoy. Both were the lowest officials of the tenth rank. The salary of the tenth rank was only 12 yuan per year, but after all, they belonged to the official body.

A purple guard jumped off the horse's back, "Li Village was exempted from courtesy, and the Public Security Commissioner's wife was exempted from courtesy. His Majesty the Emperor passed by here, thinking about the suffering of the people, he wanted to enter the village for half a day. We were about to enter the village police and arrange a welcome driver."

When Li Nianzhong heard that it was indeed the emperor who was going to enter the village, he was very excited and quickly said, "Your Majesty came to Lijia Village in person. It is really a blessing for Lijia Village. I will now order to kill chickens and sheep..."

"It's not necessary." The guards of the B, laughed, "Your Majesty is a saint who has descended from heaven and loves all people. How can you let the people offer wine and food? Your Majesty has an order. You don't need to prepare anything, just someone can reply."

"Abide by the order!" Li Nianzhong said with his hands crossed his hands, "Since Your Majesty has the order, I will just wait here."

Have the people of Lijiazhai ever seen such a situation? Six or seven hundred villagers knelt on the ground in a dark way, not daring to make noise.

Although Li Nianzhong is a tenth-grade village master and has seen some worldly affairs, he is still extremely nervous at this time, fearing that something will make a mistake and will not afford to be punished.

His Majesty the Emperor wants to enter the village in person.

"General, my Lijiazhai belongs to Canglin Township. The township office is just over ten miles away. Should I come here to pick you up together?" Li Nianzhong asked nervously.

The guard replied: "No need. You know the truth when you see the small things. Your Majesty will not be here for too long, so you don't have to come here."

Soon, hundreds of cavalrymen entered Lijiazhai and were on guard to avoid hiding suspicious elements.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of cavalry came and shouted in unison: "The Holy Lord is coming!", then dismounted and set up a warning at the entrance of the village.

"The Holy Lord is coming!" The third group of cavalry soon arrived at the entrance of the village again, wearing canopy, crank umbrella, axe and other ceremonial guards.

Then the fourth batch of cavalry arrived, catching the emperor's flag and the dragon flag.

"The Lord is coming!"

Then a group of guards wearing purple cloud patterned jackets came, standing like nails holding Tang swords and holding their heads with their chests.

In half a quarter of an hour, five groups of imperial guards and guards were connected, all of whom were dressed in bright clothes and angry horses, with extraordinary temperament, showing the majesty of the emperor's personal army.

Where have the villagers of Lijiazhai seen such a big scene? Even the village chief Li Nianzhong didn't dare to raise his head and kneel silently.

Then, the emperor's army led by the emperor came to the entrance of the village.

"Long live your Majesty, long live your life, long live your life!" The imperial guards and guards who came to the village entrance first knelt down at the imperial guards, shouting long live the mountain.

The people of Lijiazhai also followed the mountains and shouted long live and kowtowed.

Lord Tang, surrounded by guards and ministers like stars and moons, saw the villagers kneeling respectfully, and said calmly and like a sound of nature: "Premium."

The imperial guards beside him immediately shouted loudly: "Your Majesty has an order, and the military and civilians will be calm!"

"Your Majesty has an order, the military and civilians will be calm!" Several guards rushed forward and shouted loudly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" After hearing this, everyone stood flat together, and naturally stood in a long row of left and right rows, freeing up the middle road into the village.

Li Luo walked into the cave village, then dismounted and took the ministers to observe the village. This was the first time Li Luo went to the village to observe the people's sentiments since he was called King of Tang seven years ago.

The monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty saw rows of caves in the village, in an orderly manner. There was a large square in the village, next to it was a village office, and there was a notice stand in front of the village office, and there was a recent major policy of the court. When Li Luodingqing saw that there was a notice on the Western Expedition and the discovery of Yanzhou tripod.

According to the Tang court system, any edicts or important ministries issued to the world must be copied and copied to the grassroots level.

The village school is east of the village square.

The village school was just a bungalow. Li Luo entered the village school, but saw that there were short seats inside and the ground was compacted, so he could only sit fifty or sixty people. Although it looked simple, it was cleaner.

There is a blackboard, and there is also a chalk and matte developed by the Ministry of Works. Next to the blackboard is a teacher's book case, which is written by Li Luo and Cui Xiuning and printed by the Tang Dynasty publishing agency. There are five courses in Mandarin, arithmetic, a brief history of China, geography and moral education, and the content is very simple and simple.

Datang popularizes compulsory education for village studies. Before the age of seven, you must enter village studies and study in the city. Before the age of twelve, you are absolutely not allowed to leave the school, which is considered a five-year primary school education.

Take Mandarin as an example. In addition to including hundreds of surnames and thousands of characters, we also need to include some simple and easy-to-understand Tang poetry and Song lyrics, as well as simple collections of classics, history, and subtitles, such as fragments of the Analects of Confucius and Tao Te Ching.

During the entire village school stage, there are 3,000 commonly used Chinese characters. It is required to read and write two thousand characters before you can graduate from the village school.

Arithmetic requires a simple algorithm that requires a simple calculation.

A brief history of China requires a brief understanding of the legends from the mythical period to the alliance era, as well as major events from the Three Dynasties to the early years of Hongwu, such as the Qin throne of the Six Kingdoms, the rule of Wen and Jing, the three kingdoms, the Five Barbarians invading China, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the two Song dynasties, the land of Shenzhou, and the reconstruction of Hongwu.

A brief geography is to briefly understand the mountains, rivers, land, lakes and seas, and overseas geography.

Moral and Consciousness is the education of moral personality, mainly in the form of stories. In fact, it is the humanity promoted by the Heavenly Taoism, with the core of "loyalty, courage, trust, righteousness and propriety", commonly known as "Nine Characters of Moral and Consciousness". By promoting the nine characters, one can achieve the great way of gentlemen and respond to the gods of heaven and earth.

Loyalty is to the country, to the king and the father; courage is to the enemy, to the evil people, to the lawless things; faith, righteousness and courtesy are to relatives, friends and others.

If the "Nine Characters Virtue" is done poorly, it is the inferior person who is unfaithful and unjust, not only cannot sense the gods of heaven and earth, but will also suffer misfortune and retribution. No one can hide the bad things done by anyone, and will sooner or later be punished.

In addition, Decao also briefly describes the personality aesthetics of the "Six Arts of Gentlemen".

All of these five courses are the main courses, and there is no distinction between the main and the second.

However, due to the lack of teaching staff in the Tang Dynasty and the finances cannot afford to support too many teachers, the village school does not divide the classes, and there is only one teacher who is entitled to eat imperial grain.

The textbooks are not divided into grades, only these five books.

In order to solve the disadvantage of too few teachers and not distinguishing the class, Cui Xiuning adopted the "Senior Assistant Teaching System", which is to use students with good grades and early admission to help teachers teach younger students who enter late admission. Seniors with good academic performance can be given priority to obtain the teacher's recommendation and go to the hometown to continue their studies.

In this way, the big problem of insufficient faculty and finance is solved, and at the same time, the atmosphere of supporting the elderly with the elderly has been developed, which strengthens the child's sense of responsibility and trains the child's comprehensive abilities.

It can be said that three goals can be achieved in one fell swoop.

As for rural education, it is no longer a popularization of compulsory education, so it requires an exam. Generally speaking, at most, only one-fifth of the village students have the opportunity to enter rural education.

After three years of study in the village, there is no class difference, and the "school-student student assistance system" is adopted.

Li Luo opened a Mandarin book and saw a poem he compiled into that year, pity the farmers. He opened the arithmetic and saw the area calculation method and multiplication formula compiled by Cui Xiuning.

I opened the brief history of China and saw a sentence I wrote myself: In the first year of China, Huangdi Xuanyuan defeated Chiyou and unified the various Xia tribes. The era of the Chinese Alliance began and the legendary era ended.

When I turned to the end, I saw: "In April 3981, the Duke of Tang restored Lin'an and officially launched an army to expel the Tartars... On the first day of October 3983, King Shuntian of Tang responded to the order. After the three requests of all officials and people, he inherited the throne of Huaxia in Jiangling. His country was named Datang and his reign was Hongwu."

Finally, I picked up the geography brief. The first sentence of the opening is: The Tang Dynasty has vast land and vast land, with thousands of miles of territory, east to the sea of ​​sunrise, west to the east of the Caspian Sea, south to the island of the ocean, north to the desert, land land of 10,000 square meters Tangli 30 million square kilometers.

There is also a map in the book, which is a map of the territory of the Tang Dynasty drawn by Cui Xiuning. From the map, the entire later generations of Asia, except for several countries west of the Caspian Sea and central and southern India, were all the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Eighty percent of the Asian lands in later generations are in this map, with an area of ​​three times that of later generations. It is really crazy. This is a map drawn a few years ago, which shows that the great ambitions of the Emperor and Empress of the Tang Dynasty have long existed.

On the map, the westernmost end of the territory of the Tang Dynasty is the Caspian Sea. Moreover, the entire Caspian Sea is divided into the Tang territory. Half of the Persian Plateau is divided into the Tang territory. Half of the Persian Gulf is also divided into the Tang territory.

As for Lake Baikal in the North Sea in the north, there is no need to mention it. The map has become an inner lake, and the entire Siberia is in the territory map of the Tang Dynasty.

Even the four countries of Song, Wei, Liang and Li were also within the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and were only marked as "Princes".

There are only seven countries left in the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains. Apart from the Tang Dynasty, there are only six countries in the central and southern parts of India.

But even the six Kingdoms in India were also foreign vassals of the Tang Dynasty and were vassal states of the Tang Dynasty.

It's so domineering. Just talking about the area, it's about the same size as the Mongol Empire during the Ogedei period.

Li Luo finished browsing the textbooks with satisfaction, sat on the desk chair in the classroom, and ordered: "Send the village officials and teachers to see me."

"Abide by the order!" The guards took the order and left.

In a moment, Li Nianzhong, the village chief, and four others were taken into the school by the guards, three village officials and one teacher.

"Long live the emperor, Li Nianzhong, thank you to His Majesty the Emperor..."

Li Nianzhong respectfully and bowed tremblingly, and the other three bowed together.

According to the Tang Dynasty's etiquette, even the smallest officials could call themselves humble ministers when they saw the emperor, rather than assassin. However, Li Nianzhong and others did not dare to call themselves ministers.

"Please calmly." Li Luo sat on the chair calmly, looking very free and easy, "Li Nianzhong, I ask you, how many household registrations do this Lijia Village have, how much taxes are, and how many people join the army?"

When Li Nianzhong saw the emperor's gentle expression, his heart fell down, and he relaxed. He bowed his hands and replied: "Report to Your Majesty, there are 132 households in Lijia Village, and there are 653 men, women, young and old. Taxes were paid in Hongwu in the fifth year of Hongwu. A total of 516 stones of wheat, fifteen stones of cocoons, equivalent to 583 yuan in silver. At present, twenty-eight people in the army were all cavalry. However, two of them were killed during the Northern Expedition."

Li Luo and the ministers were a little surprised. In a village with a population of 600 or 700, there were nearly 30 people joining the Tang army, and they were all cavalrymen. This proportion was really high. In an administrative village in the south, there were often thousands of people, and only ten people were in the army.

This is not surprising. The locals are good at riding, not lacking horses, and they are brave and good at fighting. Otherwise, there would not be the famous Hengshan Iron Cavalry. Just talk about the Hengshan soldiers among the Tang army's cavalry, there are at least 5,000 people.

"I didn't expect that there were twenty-eight Tang cavalrymen in a small village and two of them were killed in battle. It was really not easy. Are you all survivors of the Western Xia?" Li Luo asked.

Li Nianzhong said: "Your Majesty knows that most of the heads of Lijia Village's households are surnamed Li, and they are indeed the remnants of Xia. But today, we are no longer Dangxiang people, but belong to Han people."

Lord Tang nodded, very satisfied with Li Nianzhong's attitude.

"Your surname is Li, but are you descendants of the Xixia royal family?" Li Luo asked.

"Reply to Your Majesty," Laocun Zhengdao, "Although Caomin and others are descendants of the Xia royal family, their lineage is four hundred years away, which can be traced back to the Xia Duke's branch."

"So that's true, it's really a long time ago." Li Luo understood. Who is Duke Xia? It was Li Sigong. The governor of the Dingnan Army of Tang Dynasty. Because of his contribution to suppressing Huang Chao, he was granted the title of Duke Xia. This Li was also given a surname to the Tang Dynasty.

Xixia was founded by Li Yuanhao, the legitimate lineage of Li Sigong, more than a hundred years later. Li Nianzhong is a descendant of Li Sigong's common lineage. Speaking of it, it has nothing to do with the Western Xia royal family, even the royal family cannot say it.

The only valuable identity is that his surname is Li, who was even better than others during the Western Xia period.

"How is the villagers' livelihood? Maybe they have enough food and clothing?" Li Luo asked the most concerned question.

Li Nianzhong replied: "Reply to Your Majesty, since the Tang Dynasty recovered this place, implemented the equal land order, and set 20% of the taxes, the people's livelihoods have improved greatly, and all the refugees have returned to their hometowns. These are the merits of the Holy Emperor. Compared with the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, it was so much better. As the saying goes, life is tight, and you can still eat and wear warmth."

"Then I'm relieved." Li Luo smiled and looked at a gentle middle-aged man, "Are you a teacher in this village?"
To be continued...