Chapter 100: Always Leading (Xie Xingzhi Layman Rewards)
The spring season has arrived as promised.
After procrastinating for a long time, Zhiyao obtained the permission of both Zhisong and Zhishen to leave "Xintian" and come to "Huangfu".
The scene of Zhiyao bidding farewell to Confucius is very spectacular.
It wasn't that the Lao Zhi family put on a big show, it was just that there were too many disciples of Confucius. Those who stayed or wanted to leave would definitely have to attend the farewell.
"Since you are staying in the Zhi family, you should fulfill your duties faithfully and don't forget to abide by your duties." Confucius did not know what he was thinking about nearly four hundred disciples who chose to stay in the Zhi family. As a human teacher, he warned before leaving.
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Zhiyao, who was standing aside and watching, felt strange in her heart.
Being loyal to one's duties is a kind of ethics, and it is a matter of course to work for whomever one's salary is from.
What does adhering to one's duty mean? Is it persistence as a "Confucian", or is it the fact that we cannot forget the teachings of Confucius and that there are certain things that we must never do?
Zhiyao's eyes glanced at a carriage.
There were several boxes on this carriage, and as expected they were all filled with paper books. The carriage was the property of the Zhi family, and the books were not gifts from Zhiyao.
What happened? The car was actually given to Confucius by Zhishi, and the books may have been considered his own by Confucius after reading them???
Literary people believe that stealing books is not stealing. Even being a thief is a kind of elegant thief.
What can Zhiyao do? After recalling it, I know clearly what books Confucius can read. They are basically the works of predecessors written silently by Laozi in "Huangfu". There are no books that belong to Lao Zhiyao and are not passed down to others, so I have no intention of doing it.
Ordered something.
The main reason for thinking like this is not to make the scene too ugly!
As a result, Zhiyao determined one thing, for example, Confucius was indeed not a simple person.
"Zhong Yu can no longer be with his teacher Kong, so I hope his teacher Kong will take care of him." Although Zilu was convinced by Confucius and became his disciple, the relationship between the two was still very good.
Those who decided to stay in the Zhi family were headed by Zilu, Zigong, Ran You and Zaiyu. At the same time, they also bid farewell to Confucius as representatives of the group.
Otherwise, hundreds of people would say a few words each, and it would be difficult not to worry about it from early morning to afternoon.
Zhiyao knew that she had changed the fate of many people, but what she didn't know was that she had prevented Zilu from being chopped into pieces.
Of course, the result will not be known until the day Zilu dies. Maybe the fate of being chopped into meat has not been changed, but some enemies have been changed, and the venue has been changed?
Zhishi gave Confucius ten carriages and a carriage frame for transportation. This is not Zhiyao licking Confucius, but purely as a reward for what they and their gang did in Zhishi.
Materials have a price, but talents and knowledge are priceless. Zhiyao does not feel that he has lost anything at all. He must be generous when he should be generous.
The rest was enough to feed more than 2,000 people for a month, and the related cloth, salt, etc. were all purchased by a group of children from the Zhi family.
"Does Gongsun mean to help Confucius return to Lu?" Tian Rangju was also one of the people present.
He came to Zhishi as a prisoner, and his freedom was restricted for a period of time in the early days. Later, Zhiyao gradually gained some results. The identity of the prisoner did not change, and there was no problem in communication.
Today's nobles cannot do anything like running away secretly without being released. Running back would be a shame, not being accepted by fellow nobles, and their families would be deeply ashamed.
Therefore, no one was there to look after her anymore, and Tian Juanju, who was able to move freely, never tried to escape.
Zhiyao glanced at Tian Rangju strangely and said softly: "Why do you need Yao's help?"
Take a look!
There are more than 2,500 disciples who decided to follow Confucius to travel around the world. Each of them is not only literate, but also has his own family behind him. Their own strength may not be high, but they must have the ability to protect themselves.
Such a high-quality team traveled around the country, and if it went to some small vassal states, the princes would not necessarily dare to put it in. They were afraid that Confucius would suddenly have the idea of seizing the city and would be unable to resist.
Zhiyao looked at the mighty troops retreating and thought: "If they can be specially trained, there will be no doubt that they will become the highest-quality army in the current era."
Whether a person is literate or not is very important. At least if you are literate, it will be easier for you to understand some things. In terms of mental outlook, it is also difficult to be the same as someone who is illiterate.
Now to form an army with all literate soldiers as soldiers? That would be an earth-shattering level of luxury and extravagance. No princes could do it anyway, but Confucius had that kind of resources.
Are the "shis" and "disciples" who are eligible to receive gifts literate? This is not necessarily the case.
When you reach the level of "scholar", you may have the opportunity to be literate, but it is difficult to obtain some systematic knowledge.
"Disciples" were considered a class of soldiers. They might have some farmland, their own houses and slaves, but they were not necessarily literate.
Until education was popularized, it was extremely difficult to read. After papermaking and printing became widespread, even a book would be regarded as a treasure by ordinary families.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, some powerful people in some places were not necessarily literate, and they could only rely on their martial arts to obtain promotions; only those from "poor families" could have family books passed down. And "poor families" were not poor at all.
They just can't compare to a truly wealthy family. They still have a certain amount of farmland or other properties, and they don't lack the servants they need to take care of their daily lives.
The place Zhiyao really wants to go is to the "Hukou" side, and then he will enter the Taihang Mountains.
At present, the Lao Zhi family has begun recruiting, and has recruited more than 6,000 men aged 20 to 25 in advance. They will report to "Hukou" in batches, and then enter the base in the mountainous area.
Why did more than 6,000 people receive recruitment orders? Because as long as it is related to training, there must be a rule of elimination. How can it be possible that all the people summoned for training will be left behind in the end.
The most important point is that competition brings pressure and motivation.
In fact, it is the same. When it comes to competition, no one wants to be worse than anyone else so that more potential can be tapped.
Zhiyao still doesn't know how many of the six thousand people will be left in the end. She will never ignore quality for the sake of quantity, even if most of them are unqualified and eliminated.
When they left "Huangfu", the number of people who followed them to "Hukou" increased by more than 200.
These two hundred or so people are young people who have been gathered together by Zhiyao very early. After being taught by Zhiyao and later receiving literacy education from "Huang's Father", it is difficult for them to develop in the field of government affairs. Entering the army has become one of the few options.
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Therefore, Zhiyao will use them as the backbone to build the structure of an elite force belonging to the Zhi family, and then enrich it with young men recruited from various places to finally form an army.
Accompanying Zhiyao to the mountainous area were Cheng Shuo and Zi Lu.
If nothing else goes wrong, Zhiyao will only take control of the overall situation and join the training. The person who will be the main instructor will be Cheng Shuo, and the deputy will be Zi Lu.
"Everyone will send out their own troops, armor, food and fodder, and there will also be servants accompanying them. The number of people may be more than 20,000?" Of course Zhiyao knew that he was required to carry weapons, equipment and food when he was recruited, and he would also carry the necessary retinue.
The Jin State has relatively clear requirements for paying taxes. Those who participate in paying taxes must have armor, how many types of weapons they carry, and how long they will have enough food.
There are several military training sites in the mountainous area. The largest one is a valley with a width of one thousand meters and a length of nearly two thousand meters. The station used for daily rest is on a nearby mountain.
The task of receiving the young men who came one after another at "Hukou" was taken over by Zaiyu. He needed to understand the family backgrounds of those who came to receive gifts, and then ask them if they were willing to stay in a certain place for a long time.
It must be said that the young men who came here only gathered together for training, knowing that they were not entering a state of war. They had the right to refuse to pay taxes year after year.
In other words, in non-wartime conditions, they can serve for three to five months and then request to return to their hometown. This is different from the Warring States period and subsequent dynasties.
At that time, it would be difficult for Zhiyao to refuse their request to return home without finding a valid reason. Forced stay would be a loss of character in the current era.
Therefore, only the young men who are willing to stay will be taken to the mountainous area, and those who are unwilling to stay will be taken to other places.
Now each family is busy taking over or conquering the assigned territory. They conduct their own conscription after the spring flowers bloom. The Lao Zhi family issued the conscription order to get cover in this environment.
Whenever a team comes over, Zhiyao will go to the mouth of the valley to watch it in person.
They were just watching, not welcoming. The reason was that those young men were not qualified to receive greetings. If Zhiyao really did such a thing, they would be frightened.
This is not funny at all.
A group of people who have not made any meritorious deeds are welcomed by the leader. Will they be extremely happy or feel uneasy?
Until one day, Zhiyao got the data that more than 5,300 young men had come to the valley, and the rest were not willing to remain in a state of paying taxes for many years.
Because there was a record of names and origins, Zhiyao felt dumbfounded when she read the directory.
Among the 5,321 people, none of the people who were recruited from the Zhongxing clan ran away, but some people under the Zhi clan did not stay.
This is not surprising. Those who have just become the rulers of the Zhi family are unwilling and dare not refuse some requests. What they are afraid of is that their families will have to deal with the consequences because of their refusal.
"They gave up their own future and are destined to be unable to become a member of this army and create their own glory!"
Zhiyao will be the head of the Zhi family in the future and will build this army with all his heart. For the troops he personally trained and the people who grew up with him, his mentality will definitely be more inclined. The first thing that comes to mind is that it is beneficial.
them.
From the day the training officially started, those who participated knew that Zhiyao was training with them.
Of course people with slow thinking will not think too much.
Smart people know that as long as they don't fall in the middle of progress, even if they don't prosper in the future, their family will definitely benefit from them!
