When Zhou Li and her daughter saw a man walking into the hall, they probably guessed Zhang Ning's identity, so they stood up from their chairs one after another. Zhang Ning first stepped forward to greet Yao Ji and asked how her mother and concubine were doing. How are you?
Yao Ji introduced the two female guests, and Mrs. Zhou Li hurriedly knelt down and saluted.
Zhang Ning thought: Although he is a member of the "royal family" in terms of status, the emperor is the only one in the world who can ignore seniority in many situations, right? He is not a person who cares about elders, so he immediately returned the greeting: "See you
Auntie." Mrs. Li burst out laughing when she heard that. The title of aunt was really pleasant to people. She was not married yet, so she was called like a relative.
He turned to look at the girl from the Zhou family again, intending to nod to show acquaintance. After all, they were just the same generation, men were superior to women, and the status of the Zhou family was lower than that of the royal family. Unexpectedly, Zhou Niang turned a blind eye and just knelt down to say a blessing, her eyes lowered.
Looking down. Many girls are shy when looking at the ground and avoiding men's eyes, but she is not. It seems to be just a courtesy. Sure enough, the Peach Blossom Fairy didn't completely lie. This girl from Zhou's family really feels cold to others.
Then Zhang Ning sat down, and several people chatted for a while, mainly Yao Ji and Zhou Li, because they were elders, Zhou Niang didn't say a word, Zhang Ning only said a few words from time to time. Zhou Li was exposed as soon as she started gossiping
Zhang Ning was not interested at all in the vulgarity of his clothes, jewelry, and household gossip. He just smiled politely.
However, Zhang Ning caught Zhou Niang's eyes intentionally or unintentionally. When their eyes met by chance, she immediately avoided it but could not hide the truth.
Sure enough, she is still very interested in Zhang Ning. Many things can be concrete. For two men and women who have never met each other, the girl only cares about a few concrete contents, such as wealth, poverty, appearance, appearance and etiquette.
It's something you can see with your eyes, it can only be like this, and you can't blame others.
When you already have something, you can naturally become confident. This kind of self-confidence experience was something Zhang Ning could not feel in his previous life, and it turned out to be nothing more than that.
Zhang Ning sat in the hall for a while, then said goodbye and left. In this era of blind dates, men and women would not deliberately leave space for men and women to get along alone. They would just find opportunities to look at each other; if among the people, many people would still be secretive.
, for example, first invite the boyfriend to have tea, and the lady will not show up to look at him for a few times out of reserve, and then find an opportunity for the lady to show her face a little and let the man take a look, and that's it.
The next day, Zhang Ning went to the Imperial Concubine Garden to meet Yao Ji again, but this time Zhou Li and her daughter were not present. Yao Ji basically wanted to ask Zhang Ning if he was satisfied.
He only said: "My mother and concubine will decide everything."
Yao Ji nodded and said: "Then I will write a letter to your father first, and then send a betrothal gift to the Zhou family... Can you handle the affairs in the yamen?"
Zhang Ning smiled and said: "Practice makes perfect in daily affairs. We are surrounded by the same people, and the ways of handling things are also very similar. There is not much difference between running a government and a county. In addition to personally handling important matters, there are only three ways to manage politics on weekdays:
The first is to enact laws and establish rules; the second is to describe the intention to the staff council and ask them to come up with detailed rules to achieve the goal; the third is to assign a person to be fully responsible for something, mainly to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the people around him and let them do it.
Something worthy of the job.”
Yao Ji sighed slightly: "You haven't had your parents around to discipline you since you were a child, but you have learned a lot."
This time when she arranged the marriage for Zhang Ning, she found the feeling of being an elder again, but it soon disappeared again. She also once investigated the reason. Perhaps Zhang Ning had grown up, and his ability and mind were no less than those of his elders, and Yao Ji could no longer
Discipline him; there is another important thing, although she is unwilling to admit it, the secret in the anti-evil cult main altar is like a ghost that cannot be dispelled, causing her to lose her majesty as an elder in her heart.
At this time, Zhang Ning said again: "There is news recently, and the mother and concubine should also know it. The imperial court sent a few more people to take charge of Huguang affairs. The first one is Yu Qian, the second one is Wuyang Marquis Xue Lu, and there are Jin Yiwei.
Yu Qian's position is the governor of Huguang. Based on his rank, it can be concluded that the scale of the next counter-insurgency prepared by the government will definitely be much larger than that of Zhu Yong's campaign. We must prepare as soon as possible."
Yao Ji asked: "How do you plan to deal with it?"
"The expansion of the army and preparations for war have never stopped. My father's enfeoffment of my mother, my concubine, and me, as well as the marriage with the Zhou family, will allow more descendants of the remaining ministers to join the Suzaku Army. We are also selecting and recruiting from Chenzhou Prefecture.
Bravely expand the army. But these conventional means are far from enough. I am considering a more substantial policy strategy." Zhang Ning said, "At present, we occupy the entire territory of Chenzhou, Changde Gaodu County, Yuezhou Cili Shimen and Lizhou. Governance of various places
The most important thing is not to ensure political clarity and let the people live and work in peace and contentment, but how to use these resources to maximize the conversion into armed strength. The only way is to realize militarism according to local conditions..." He realized that his words were somewhat out of touch with this era.
After describing it, he was stunned and said, "Am I too boring to tell you about military affairs?"
Yao Ji shook her head and said: "Isn't it good what you said about Western Rome last time? You see, I still remember it very clearly. Although I find it strange to hear you speak, I quite like this tone, calm and attentive;
I can also understand that it feels very good, very close..." As she spoke, Yao Ji's face turned slightly red, she recovered and pretended to be calm and stopped talking.
Zhang Ning's eyes caressed her face, and then said: "In the past, I considered the righteousness of possession and the importance of being recognized. Public opinion is in the hands of the landlords and scholars, so after occupying a place, they issued mediocre but effective laws.
There are generally recognized laws, such as not to disturb the people, to be kind to the scholars, etc. But the situation is increasingly making this idea go to a dead end, especially the deteriorating situation of the King of Han in Nanjing, making hope even slimmer. In this situation, the power of force is
It is particularly important, as King Yan confirmed this truth back then."
"The so-called military state is to use all possible potential to fight wars. Before, whether it was the Battle of Yongdingwei or the Battle of Gaodu, our confrontation with Zhu Yong was just a comparison of armies. Huguang obviously has a population of tens of millions, but Zhu Yong
It can only control a few thousand people; the same goes for us. Gaodu County alone has a population of tens of thousands, but only more than a thousand of the Suzaku Army can be used for combat. What did the others do in the war? Except that it was not easy.
The land was reduced to a few strong men to build the city and transport it, and most of the grain and grass supplies came from the government treasury. The huge resources could not be used in the war. The vast majority of people did not make any contribution after the war, whether it was to the government or the army.
Or the Suzaku Army."
Yao Ji asked with great interest: "Since the people are unwilling to participate in the civil war for the government and the army, let alone sacrifice their lives for us, what can you do? Do you want to force Mrs. Latin?"
Zhang Ning said: "Combat is not just about soldiers and horses fighting on the battlefield. There are many restrictions, such as logistics and military supplies, morale boosting, etc. In my opinion, the easiest source of morale is to provide benefits to the soldiers. No one can exploit military households.
At the same time, prevent them from escaping on the battlefield... The war is already a life-and-death battle. At this time, for those in power, why should the gentry and gentry be allowed to occupy and waste a lot of resources just for a good reputation? My idea is first of all to transfer the wealth from various places
Leaning towards the military, those who are most beneficial to the battlefield will receive the most benefits and status..."
...After careful thinking, he was eager to implement this reform. It was said to be "careful thinking", but in fact it only took a few days, and there was a lack of on-site inspections and fixed-point experiments, but it would take thousands of years to shake up.
As the core of future governance, making such a decision seems to be too hasty. However, Zhang Ning has his own basis for boldness. With his current situation and territory, he does not have to shoulder the mission of the rise and fall of the entire world. Why does he not dare to make a fuss?
The strategic intention is to "incline resources greatly to those who are beneficial to the war." Productivity and wealth (the cake) are so big. If someone occupies a large piece, then some people will always spit it out. Who is beneficial to the war?
Those people? Currently, the people in power in the territory of the Suzaku Army are nothing more than two types of people: the first is Zhang Ning's official staff, the group of people in the Council of Counselors, and the civilian officials stationed in various places; the second is the military generals, who often come in and out of the Council of Ministers.
Even when discussing matters at the ministry, he is still someone who can speak up.
These people who participated in the decision-making either made suggestions for the war or led the troops. They were all "people who were beneficial to the war." If people are not punished for their own sake, the people involved in the decision-making have no reason to veto Zhang Ning's proposal; why should I?
Bleeding and sweating, holding the power of life and death, but having to watch a bunch of gentry gentlemen enjoying their wealth and status? If this kind of thing happened in a larger political power, of course there would be some people who had the courage to stand up for the "common people" and "the country".
Civil servants who come out to gain fame; but it is impossible for such people to appear within the Zhang Ning Group. Most of them are military generals, and the cultural level of the civil servants is not necessarily very high. The highest one is Zhang Ning himself, and the county magistrate Wang is just a
Supervisor.
The Council of Counselors quickly came up with several specific measures. They "requisitioned" fertile and flat farmland in the Chengxiang area and enfeoffed it to officers and soldiers. The reason was that they could not only gather troops in the Chengxiang fortress, but also farm fields. This farmland was different from the garrison farmland.
, just like the value of land in the city is different from that of land in the border mountainous areas, it turns out that those people still can't escape the circle of farming ideas. The first benefit that comes to mind is land, and if you occupy the land in densely populated areas, you can rent it to tenants.
Go out and enjoy the success and become a landlord overnight; allowing meritorious generals to be appointed as local governors is a way to improve the political status of military generals. In the Tang Dynasty, there were rules for appointing generals and becoming prime ministers. Later, those in power realized the horror of warlord separatism. During the Song and Ming dynasties,
Complete abolition, the second strategy of the Council of Ministers was also expected. Ming society was based on officials. After everyone wanted land, they wanted officials. That was it.
With many suggestions, Zhang Ning quickly realized the side effects of this matter: the possibility of warlord separatism. In fact, it was difficult to avoid this situation when he first proposed a military-state governance strategy, allowing the soldiers to obtain sufficient wealth, political status, and improper political status.
Is it the rhythm of warlords? From the perspective of social development, this is completely retrograde.