The second day of February is the Spring Society Festival.
When the queen arrived in Bianzhou, the governor of Henan Province and all the major officials below Feng Wei went out of the city several miles to greet her.
Zhongye, the Prime Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is supervising the construction of the Imperial Mansion near the old city of Daliang.
Huangzhuang, named Shahai, is located twelve miles northwest of the old city of Daliang and about forty miles away from Bianzhou.
Shahai was the place where the monarchs and ministers of the Wei State gathered to discuss important matters during the Warring States Period. It was originally a swamp with rich water and grass, but it later dried up. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty introduced Bian water into it to train the navy in preparation for the expedition.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was close to drying up, leaving only some water at the bottom of the lake, and a grassland with a radius of more than ten miles formed around it.
This pasture and wetland belongs to the boundary of Junyi County, Bianzhou, and is now assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to build Huangzhuang.
As soon as the news came out, many officials, wealthy families, and powerful people in Henan Province were a little disappointed.
Although the sand sea has dried up, the land is still quite good. Even though the name contains "sand", the soil in most areas is actually very moist. However, a few times a year, due to lack of maintenance, some soil is raised.
It's just wind and sand. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty could divert water and pour it into it to form a lake that could be used for naval training. Of course they could too.
Don't think about anything now. Once the Ministry of Internal Affairs gets involved, this will become the Shao family's property. If you think about it any more, you're courting death.
Chu Zhongye was originally the magistrate of Dengfeng County. Because his daughter Chu was deeply favored by the saint, he was transferred to the position of Prime Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became one of the housekeepers of the royal family.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is a completely different organization. Although there is also a theory of official hierarchy, once you enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs, it will be difficult for you to enter other departments. Unless you become a government supervisor, even junior supervisors are very difficult.
But Chu Zhongye has no regrets. He knows very well how his family's wealth came from. Even he, the county magistrate, paid for it with phone bills - not because his daughter or grandchildren helped him earn it.
He does not have the title of Jinshi, he is still a country rich man, and his abilities are just that. Apart from being relatively loyal to the saint, he really has no merit. It would be a loss to join the Ministry of Internal Affairs, since he has no future in the serious officialdom anyway.
He had known the news of the queen's arrival in Bianzhou in the morning. Fang Zhe had a complicated mood and did not dare to offend or get close to her, so he simply stayed away from her. Anyway, he was not qualified to go to Bianzhou to meet her as a sixth-grade official.
Might as well concentrate on taking care of the royal family!
Chu Zhongye took several descendants of the Chu family's distant ancestry to the edge of the ditch being excavated and pointed.
A group of half-grown teenagers were sweating profusely, wielding shovels and pickaxes, and working hard.
"Where did this young man come from?" Chu Zhongye asked.
"There are 112 people in total, including people from Dongyue and Qizhou of Han Dynasty, people from Cangjing, Lulong and Yiding towns in Hebei Province, and captives from the grasslands. The younger one is ten years old and the older one is sixteen or seventeen years old." Sha Haihuang
Zhuang Zhuangzheng replied.
"Why are they all men?" Chu Zhongye said dissatisfied.
"Young Supervisor Zhao has already inquired about this matter." Zhuang Zheng said, sweating profusely, "Beiping Prefecture will send a group of girls over in the near future, most of whom will be prisoners of Yingzhou."
"Not bad." Chu Zhongye nodded and said: "Huangzhuang will be restored for ten years. After these ten years, taxes will also be levied. Don't be careless."
"Yes." Zhuang Zheng replied.
In fact, the ten-year tax holiday is quite long. The main reason is that farmers are generally young and have limited or even no short-term production capacity.
Chu Zhongye was once puzzled, could he earn any income in this way? It wasn't until Zhao Zhi, the young supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, came to inspect and had a conversation with him that he realized that the saint did not expect Huangzhuang to make money for him at all.
The households in Huangzhuang are mainly from war captives and orphans. Like Shahai Huangzhuang, the first batch of 112 teenagers were orphans who were collected and settled in Huangzhuang. At first, they were provided with food and raised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs until the rest of their lives.
Able to support oneself.
Shahaihuangzhuang covers a large area. Based on the 60 acres of land given to one household, it can accommodate five to six hundred households. Considering the need to set aside some public land, as well as swamps, sandy lands, etc. that are not suitable for farming, three people can be resettled.
Hundreds of households are overwhelmed.
If nothing else happens, these 112 teenagers will become 112 households in the future. There will be 188 households of boys and girls coming to settle in the future, and their sources are already known - the King of Qin in Sichuan came to report, there are barbarian villages and tribes with the help of
Li Maozhen defeated him and captured some of Dingkou.
Minors are the most malleable. Whatever you teach them, they become what they are.
Of course, there will be education in the imperial village. The teachers are all ready, and it is enough to let the Confucian classics students from the prefectures and counties take turns to attend classes.
There are so many economics students, and if they come in turns, each person will not take up much time, and they may not even have to pay - there are two levels of economics students at the state and county levels, ranging from 40 to 80 for the state economics students (divided into upper, middle and lower states), and 20 for the county economics students.
-40 people, each person can receive some subsidies per month, the former is 200 yuan, and the latter is 100 yuan.
This is a welfare benefit that is difficult for children in ordinary counties, villages and towns to enjoy. And the reason is also high-sounding: turning barbarians into summer, being loyal to the emperor and patriotic.
Considering that the students are required to attend classes and have poor sense of responsibility, most of these Imperial children and teenagers will not achieve much in their studies. However, the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not pursue this in the first place, and the teenagers do not need to learn much.
Just be proficient in writing and ink.
When these children grow up, they will be just like the military student officers and Sixth Palace slaves in the Forbidden Army. Relatively speaking, they are very good in terms of loyalty.
"Dang-dang-dang--" the sound of the cymbal sounded.
Chu Zhongye was suddenly startled and subconsciously thought this was on the battlefield.
When the teenagers heard the sound of the trumpet, they immediately stopped what they were doing, divided the fire, and the team was assembled and stood on the grass.
"Chu Fu Cheng." Several people came from a distance, and the leader bowed and saluted.
"You are..." Chu Zhongye asked hesitantly when he saw this man wearing a helmet and armor, looking like a warrior.
"Zhou Zhiyu, the Marquis of Yu, Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, please see the Prime Minister." Zhou Zhiyu bowed again and said.
Like the Camp and Field Administration, the Yuhousi is also a first-level administrative agency under the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The former officer is called Ling, who is on the seventh rank. The latter officer is called Du Yuhou, who is on the seventh rank.
Under Du Yuhou, there are still several Yuhou members, up to the eighth rank - the number of posts is not fixed and can be increased or decreased at any time.
Only then did Chu Zhongye remember that this Zhou Zhiyu was once a junior colonel of Li Siben's army who captured students. He surrendered with the general. After being tossed around, he was actually taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"Hou Yu of Zhou." Chu Zhongye bowed in return and asked, "Are you here to train your son?"
"Not entirely." Zhou Zhiyu replied: "Young people have weak muscles and bones and cannot do heavy work for a long time, nor can they practice equipment for a long time. Today I will teach them how to recognize the golden drum flag."
This is military education, which is somewhat similar to martial arts.
Shao Shude has been running a martial arts school for many years and has trained countless students. The Tianxiong Army is a completely martial arts team. In addition to the officers who stand out from the ranks because of their bravery, the rest of the ranks range from captain to captain and deputy to ten generals.
, the commander, and Yu Hou are almost all martial arts students.
Needless to say, the bravery of the martial arts students. In the Battle of Feishui, he used less to hit more, and the team that Zhu Yanshou had trained with all his efforts was severely defeated. Many martial arts student generals died on the spot, and their wounds were all on the front.
I would rather no one escape.
In addition to the Tianxiong Army, various armies also have military student officers, more or less.
Otherwise, even if you were the founder of the Great Xia Forbidden Army and fought to keep them from chaos, you would not have been able to do so with ease.
There are more and more martial arts student unions. This is a process of accumulation, because there are graduates every year, and new martial arts schools are often opened. The longer time goes by, the larger the group of martial arts students becomes. Shao Shude likes to do this kind of "making time" very much.
"Friends" type of investment.
"Learning battle formation knowledge at such a young age." Chu Zhongye sighed slightly: "Ten years later, they will all be good soldiers."
Zhou Zhiyu said: "I am a surrender. Before I surrendered, I still relied on my bravery and felt that the world is so big and I can go anywhere. Now that I have been surrendered for more than a year, I realize that I was really sitting in a well and looking at the sky."
He agreed with Chu Zhongye's point of view. Taking Shahaihuangzhuang as an example, after ten years, three hundred families of teenagers will grow up. Even if there is only one child from three families, an army of one hundred people can be formed. The ability of these one hundred people is actually
He is stronger than the average Tutuan countryman, much stronger.
If the imperial court organizes it into an army and fights some battles, its combat effectiveness will not be bad. The most important thing is that its loyalty is no problem, so you can use it with confidence.
Zhou Zhiyu also learned that the Saint also had an army of bodyguards formed by the Five Palace Slaves, whose equipment was not weaker than that of the Forbidden Army. The only flaw was probably that they had less combat experience, and they were not professional warriors, so their actual combat effectiveness was only
Similar to the state army.
Zhou Zhiyu is very smart and knows that this is a check and balance.
Generally speaking, when warriors rebel, it is impossible for everyone to rebel. It is usually a small group of people who stir up trouble and blackmail some people, while most of the soldiers just sit back and watch, not helping anyone, and waiting for the results.
Many generals are often unable to withstand the attacks of these rebel soldiers. For example, Wang Chongrong, the governor of Hezhong, was killed when his personal guards failed to stop the rebels. In fact, the rebels attacked the guards for a long time.
If an army came to help, the situation could have been completely reversed, but unfortunately there was not.
After Wang Chongrong's death, his brother Chongying killed the rebels and became the military governor, because most of the Hezhong sergeants did not participate in the rebellion and just watched from the sidelines.
Today, I have quite a lot of ideas.
Zhou Zhiyu smiled. Isn't the bodyguard army equivalent to the backyard army of Jiedushi? It may not be reliable after a long time. But considering that they are from the grassland, the rebels in that place are always noble people.
, there are really not many big-headed soldiers who are messy. They are more servile and should be more reliable.
However, these people in Huangzhuang are a bit like the "adopted sons" of the saint. Combined with the bodyguards and soldiers, they should be very useful in saving lives. The saint may not need them, but the new emperor still needs them.
"Marquis Zhou Yu trains his children well. A saint is generous and benevolent, and will be rewarded for his merits. Everything you do is seen by his elders." Chu Zhongye said: "I still have to go to Fengze."
"Chu Fu Cheng can do as he pleases," Zhou Zhiyu said.
Fengze is located twenty miles south of the old city of Daliang, and extends southward to the northern suburbs of Weishi County, sixty or seventy miles long. When Qin Xiaogong came to power, he sent the princes, young officers, and commanders to meet with the princes and go to the emperor.
In the former Tang Dynasty, it was renamed Pengchi, and Tianbaozhong was renamed Fuyuanchi. Fishing and harvesting were prohibited, and it was one of the royal forbidden areas.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in the Xia Dynasty, the ancient name was changed back to Fengze, and the surrounding land was placed under the jurisdiction of Sinong Temple. Now it has been given to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and an imperial village is about to be built. This is also the only three imperial estates in Bianzhou.
one.
The scale of Fengze is larger than that of Shahai, so it's quite busy.