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Chapter 541 The rise of the traitorous party IX

The straight and flat official road extends from the north gate of Lantian County to the northwest, passes through a large golden wheat field, until a manor with a layered house with tall and solid walls five miles away.

On the carefully built and maintained official road, a young man in green official uniform was walking forward with two middle-aged officials in the same dress and a few clerks. Behind him was a team of archers driving a donkey cart.

There are already mature wheat fields on both sides of the official road. The wheat is not growing well, and it is a bit low and sparse. Even if you can't farm, you can see that the harvest is not very good. Many farmers in short clothes harvest wheat in the fields. For the officials who passed through the official road and headed to the big village five miles northwest of the county town, they were too lazy to even look at it.

Because everyone knows that in Lantian, the one who really has the final say is not the county magistrates in the county town, but the men of the Lu family in the Lu family manor in Wulitou, northwest of the city!

Every county magistrate who came to Lantian County to take office must honestly bring gifts to visit several high-ranking officials of the Lu family...even if he is the son-in-law of the prime minister in the dynasty!

Of course, if Han Zhongyan came to Jingzhao Mansion in person, several parents of the Lu family in the Lantian Lu family would have to prepare a gift to visit, but Wu Haowen did not have such qualifications. Not only because Wu Haowen civil servant Xiao Lantian Lujiashan masters were mostly descendants of Lantian Silu, although no one passed the Jinshi, Yinpu still had an official body, and his official rank was greater than Wu Haowen, and because Wu Haowen was a junior in Luoxue, Guan Luo's studies were originally the same, so the Lujiashan masters were considered seniors in martial arts and literature.

Where can I use high officials to worship small officials in the world, and senior officials to worship juniors?

Moreover, with the "Lü Family Township Agreement", the Lu family in Lantian has organized half of Lantian County, and established a group of township autonomy besides the rule of Junzheng, which to some extent undermined county officials like Wu Haowen.

Without those from the Lu family nodding, Wu Haowen, let alone trial the military system in Lantian, even ordinary taxes and labor service would not be able to be completed.

Although Wu Haowen is the magistrate, he is alone and can still be enemies with half of the county?

With the cooperation of the Lu family, Wu Haowen could successfully fool the errands... So Wu Haowen could only bite the bullet and send gifts to the Lu family today, and at the same time tried to persuade several elders of the Lu family in Lantian to support the trial of the military system of the mansion.

Oh, it’s not about persuading, but about asking the elders of the Lu family in Lantian to ask how to fool this matter. Let’s teach the younger generation!

Although Lu Haishan was very cold to the trial mansion soldiers, Wu Haowen still knew what it was to play hard to get. The trial mansion soldiers was not only his own ladder to heaven, but also an opportunity for the Lu family in Lantian to hear the news of the emperor again...

Just as Wu Haowen was thinking about the thoughts of several great scholars of the Lu family, the chief clerk of Lantian County came to him and whispered: "County Master, Lujiazhuang is coming soon, and you can't ride a horse in Lujiazhuang."

Wu Haowen looked up and saw that he had already arrived outside a quite wide gate. The gate was open, and there were no guards at the door, and there was no one to greet him. There were many horse-tie pillars and a "horse-dismounting monument" at the entrance of the village. I don't know who erected it?

"I can't ride a horse, either?" Wu Haowen looked into the village and found that the road inside was straight and spacious, and no one set up a store on the side of the road. Not to mention riding a horse, it's okay to run a horse.

"No," the chief clerk said with a wry smile, "This is the rules of the Lu family in Lantian. If Li Dafu comes, you may be able to make an exception, but our mere ninth-rank sesame officer..."

Wu Haowen sighed and thought to himself: No wonder the teacher would rather hold the "Wenquxing Xunbao" in Kaifeng Prefecture than come to Lantian County with him to work as a screenwriter... All the officials in Lantian are like this, let alone the staff.

But the official is under the roof and has to bow his head!

"Okay," Wu Haowen smiled slightly, "Everyone is dismounted, Brother Zhongwen."

After getting off the horse's back, Wu Haowen called the name of Lu Haishan, the representative of the Lu family in the county.

A middle-aged scholar in his thirties who looked a little shriveled and still looked a little rustic had already turned off his horse's back, walked to Wu Haowen, and bowed: "Prince Lord, it's time for the lectures of the private school. Xuan Delang and Mr. Ida are giving lectures, so they can't come out to greet them."

Xuan Delang was the official of Lu Jingshan. Lu Jingshan's father died in the fourth year of Shaosheng (1097). Lu Jingshan was as worried as usual for three years until last year. After that, Lu Jingshan did not come out to be an official immediately, but continued to give lectures in his hometown.

Mr. Ida refers to Lv Yishan. Lv Yishan is the son of Lv Dajun. He did not become an official, but devoted himself to the knowledge left by his father. He once tried the Wellfield system in his hometown, so he got the nickname "Mr. Ida". He called him "Mr. Ida". In Lantian, everyone called him Mr. Ida.

"Since both gentlemen are teaching," Wu Haowen is also a tactful person. When he understood what Lu Haishan said, he smiled humbly, "Then I will listen to the lecture... I am also a junior in Guan Luozhixue, and I can ask senior experts about the Icefield system and the Mansion Army system."

...

"...The system of military service mentioned by the world now is actually two types of military service. It is roughly based on the tenth year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty. It was before the military service and then the military service was united. The military service originated from the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasty. Although it was also agricultural and military service, it was separated by military service. The military service family was in charge of military service for generations. The people who cultivated the farming service did not serve the military service. After the Sui Emperor destroyed the Chen Dynasty, the four seas were unified and the world was peaceful. The military service system should be used to suppress military service. Therefore, the military service system was reformed and the family of military service was returned to prefectures and counties. Therefore, after the tenth year of Kaihuang, the military service system changed from the world to the military service system to the recruitment of wealthy families among the people... "

When Wu Haowen arrived at the Lü Family School, there were indeed two middle-aged scholars in the lobby of the school explaining the system of the military system to a group of young scholars. The main speaker was a tall scholar with a long beard, which made Wu Haowen think of his teacher Hou Zhongliang.

The main essay was Lu Yishan. He seemed to have seen Wu Haowen and Lu Haishan walk into the classroom and did not disturb the lecture. Instead, he found a corner and sat down. He paused for a moment, nodded slightly at the visitor, and continued to speak again.

"And what kind of government system is the imperial court trying to test? Is it the military military army or the military and civilian unity? If the military military army is in charge, it must be granted land and land to support the soldiers with land and supply to the rich. If the military and civilian unity is in charge, it must be drawn to the rich family and force the rich to join the army. Do these two methods be feasible in today's world?"

In fact, the former type of mansion soldier mentioned by Lu Yishan is similar to the River Knights in the Border. Because they are cavalry, they have more land granted, reaching 1,500 acres of one household. However, it is difficult to promote this kind of mansion soldier on a large scale in the Northern Song Dynasty, where the total population is estimated to exceed 100 million.

The latter type is also impossible to achieve, because the landlords and rich peasants in the Northern Song Dynasty were mainly studying and taking the imperial examinations. Who would be willing to join the army and serve as the government soldiers?

Wu Haowen knew that those two questions were not about him, but about teaching himself a descendant. He was from a commercial and civilian family in Kaifeng Prefecture City. What kind of mansion soldiers do you know?

So he stood up modestly and said, "Is this Mr. Ida? When the junior official was in Kaifeng Prefecture, he often heard from his mentor about the "country agreement" and "Ida" of the Lv family in Lantian. He also heard that Mr. Ida had a lot of research on the military system. So he came to the door today and hoped that the teacher would give him advice."

This attitude is quite good...it's much better than his brother who doesn't know how to be tall and thick.

Lu Yishan nodded slightly, showing an admirational expression.

Like Cheng Yi and Hou Zhongliang, he was both a Confucian scholar who was a scholar, not a Confucian scholar who took the imperial examination. Such Confucian scholars made their lives by knowledge, rather than relying on an article to exchange for glory and wealth.

The Lu family's knowledge was not the kind of "preserving the laws of nature and destroying human desires" that the second Chengs did not seek the great way, but to study institutional ethics. "The Lu Family Township Agreement", the well-field system and the military system of the Du family were the knowledge of the Lu family. Two generations of the Lu family have studied it for decades, and are not as good as martial arts and literature as a ninth-rank official who has only become a cottage?

Moreover, Wu Haowen's thoughts, how can the Lu family not understand? He just wanted to fool things and get promoted by fooling them. As for whether the military soldiers can succeed in the end, he doesn't want to ask more questions! However, the Lu family in Lantian was unwilling to cooperate with Wu Haowen to fool the emperor. They either did it really, or ended as soon as possible to save the harm to the people!

Lu Yishan smiled and said, "Although the system of government troops collapsed in the Tang Dynasty, there may not be no revival in the world. In the Five Seasons and Jin Dynasty, it was stipulated that each tax household and seven families would send out one army and provide their own weapons. Our dynasty followed the legacy of the Five Seasons and Later Zhou Dynasty. In the early days of the National Dynasty, the township soldiers were widely established. Now, the archers set up in various places on the northwest edge are rural soldiers. However, now, except for the archers on the northwest edge, most of the township soldiers have form and no combat power. The reason is that there are rural soldiers but no well fields and no village agreements, there is tangible but no spiritual, so it is a piece of scattered sand."

The village agreement, the well field, the government soldiers... It turned out that Lu Yishan had worn these three!
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