Han Dao world

"Of course, the unity of knowledge and action is exactly what you want now." Wang Can laughed and pulled Qin Mi to his seat. "The Son of Heaven doesn't like to sit down and discuss the Tao, he only admires to prove the Tao by himself. Although Zhang Zibu is pedantic, he is willing to prove the Tao, so the emperor regards him as the prefect of Bohai and orders him to prove himself. It is a pity that two years have passed, and Bohai's achievements are not as good as expected. willing."

He suddenly raised his voice. "Chen Changwen, do you have anything to say?"

Everyone looked into the corner one after another.

Chen Qun, who was sitting in the corner and chatting with others, suddenly heard his name, and was taken aback for a moment. When he looked up, he saw everyone staring at him again, while Wang Can had a playful face, and couldn't help but feel unhappy.

"I'm just a person who treats crimes, so I have nothing to say." He flicked his sleeves and turned back to continue his topic.

Wang Can touched a soft nail, feeling a little bored, touched his nose, and smiled. "Gongsi, let me start, let me see how you have gained in the past few months, and let Brother Qin know the gist of our gathering today."

The young man nodded with a smile. "Then I'll throw a brick to attract jade."

Everyone took their seats and listened attentively.

The young man's surname is Liu Mingxuan, and his style name is Gongsi. He belongs to the people of Nanyang An. He studied in the county with his elder brother Liu Wangzhi and studied under Song Zhong.The Son of Heaven patrolled Nanyang to promote education. The students who had only studied knowledge in the county school also went out of the lecture hall and went deep into the township pavilions to investigate the school situation of the township pavilions in each county, and counted the children who should be enrolled in order to prepare for the construction of the school in the coming year.

Brother Liu Zhen went to Anzhong in this county.

Nanyang is rich and prosperous, and Anzhong's conditions are also at the forefront in Nanyang. Liu Zhen has always felt that there are many schools in Anzhong, and there are only a few schools that need to be replenished. This is an easy job.

But when they went deep into the village, they realized that Anzhong's education was not as good as they imagined, and there were many people who wanted to study but couldn't.To satisfy everyone's requirements, at least ten new schools need to be built.

"We made preliminary statistics, and there are more than 15 households in Anzhong, with a population of nearly 500. Among them, there are more than 300 people over the age of ten and under the age of [-]. According to a school with [-] students, it also needs Twelve schools. There are nearly twenty schools for [-] students. But there is only one county school and two private schools in the whole of Anzhong, which is far from meeting the requirements.”

Liu Zhen explained what he had learned.

Even though a few days had passed, he was still brooding about the lack of education in this county, feeling very shocked, and even more ashamed that he had turned a blind eye to it before.

Qin Mi listened quietly, and couldn't help thinking of the experience of meeting the emperor.

The emperor once asked him, how many people have you taught to read?

At that time, he replied that he was lazy by nature and had never taught, which made the emperor very unhappy.At that time, he still felt that the Son of Heaven was trying to make things difficult for others, but now seeing Liu Zhen's self-blame, he suddenly felt uneasy.

The four words of natural laziness are indeed not enough to explain his inaction.

Since he regards himself as a scholar and requires the emperor to be Yao and Shun, how can he be satisfied with sitting down and talking about Taoism?

Asking others to do what you can't do yourself is difficult for others.

So what is it if you don't do what you can clearly do, but point fingers at others?

If I were the Son of Heaven, I would probably sneer at this kind of person.

After Liu Zhen finished speaking, another person stood up and explained the itinerary this time.

One person after another, one county after another.

Nanyang is worthy of being a big county, with 50 million households and a population of nearly 200 million. There are more than 20 people who are suitable for studying but not studying. This is a responsibility that the current county school and county school cannot bear.In order to achieve the enlightenment desired by the emperor, nearly a thousand schools need to be built.

With schools, there are also teachers.Even if a school has only one teacher, it needs a thousand people, far exceeding the current number of students in Nanyang County School.

Perhaps it means that in order to achieve the goal of the Son of Heaven, not only must all the staff of Nanyang County School be mobilized, but also more scholars must be recruited as teachers.

Of course, there are those who want to become an official here, but it is undeniable that more people may not be able to become an official. Being a teacher and earning a salary to support themselves is also a good choice.

At least it's better than relying on others.

Chapter 1056 The Return of Lu Bu

Lu Bu came faster than Liu Xie imagined.

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Lu Bu arrived in Wancheng.After meeting with Lu Xiaohuan and confirming that the situation was true, he asked to see him immediately.

Hearing that Lu Bu was coming, Liu Xie was stunned for a while.

Even if others were in Meiji, they came here non-stop after receiving the edict, this speed is a bit astonishing.

Unless he is not in Meiji, but in Inner County.

If so, there is a problem.

After the meeting, Liu Xie's first question was, where did you receive the edict?

A smug smile appeared on Lu Bu's dark and thin face. "Your Majesty, I received news from the little girl in the surrendered city, and after consulting Cao Duhu, I rushed to Hequ to wait for the edict. After receiving the edict, I traveled day and night, not daring to stay for a moment."

Liu Xie asked again immediately. "What does your daughter use to spread the news faster than the imperial edict?"

"Swallow Falcon."

Liu Xie immediately thought of Lu Xiaohuan's Yan Falcon.

He knew that Lu Xiaohuan had a falcon.In fact, many people in Liangzhou play falcons. When he was in Liangzhou, he saw many people using falcons as pets or hunting.

Falcons may seem small in size, about the same size as pigeons, but they are birds of prey.

But he didn't know that Yan Falcon could still deliver messages.

He was always looking for a vehicle to deliver a message.If it is known that Yan Falcon has this ability, people will definitely try it.

Liu Xie instinctively asked a few more questions.

The result disappointed him.

It is true that the falcon can fly long distances and is extremely fast, but it is not very good for sending letters, and its main purpose is hunting.Lu Xiaohuan has had this falcon for a long time, and this is also the first time she tries to deliver a letter.

The reason is also very simple, Yan Falcon is not very obedient and difficult to train.And this bird was born in Bingliang, once released, it will only fly north.

The mission of delivering the letter was able to be completed this time because the place where it was caught was near the Surrendered City.If he was in other places, such as attacking on the grassland, this swallow falcon would not be able to complete the task.

After hearing this, Liu Xie was somewhat disappointed.

Just saw a little light of hope, but it was snuffed out again.

Seeing this, Lu Bu asked a question. "Is Your Majesty looking for a new way to convey the message?"

"Yeah, the horse is too slow. Even if the whole journey is expedited for [-] miles, it will take nearly two months to send the news to the Western Regions. If something happens, there is no time to react."

Lu Bu pondered for a moment. "I heard from Huang Yi that he is training a kind of pigeon. It may be used to convey messages, which is better than the falcon. It is only used in the Western Regions, so there may still be some problems. There are too many raptors such as the falcon in the Northwest, and the pigeon is afraid of flying. If you don’t leave Yumen, you will be eaten.”

"Huang Yi is training pigeons?"

"Yes, it is said that the effect is not bad."

Liu Xie nodded in satisfaction and didn't ask any more questions.

Huang Yi was really surprised.Before that, I figured out a way to use constellations to locate, so that wolves have the means of navigation while riding on the grassland.Now the pigeons are trained to deliver messages, and the possibility of success is not small.

If he is not sure, he will not tell Lu Bu.

What's going on, I'll send someone back to find out.

Liu Xie immediately asked about the situation in northern Xinjiang.

Lu Bu came one by one.

After Cao Cao arrived in northern Xinjiang, he defended the city with infantry, guerrilla cavalry, and wolf cavalry were mainly responsible for going deep into the desert to inquire about news and carrying out fixed-point attacks on restless tribes.

Over the past two years, great achievements have been made.

After the main force of the Hu Lu on the grassland was severely injured, they were attacked by wolf cavalry one after another, and there was no possibility of recuperating.Even if they want to retaliate and assemble a large army to attack the border, they are not Cao Cao's opponents, and they were beaten to the ground by Cao Cao.

In a dilemma, some tribes chose to surrender, while others chose to flee westward.

For ordinary herdsmen, surrender is the best choice.As long as they survived for five years, they could be naturalized in the Dahan, become the subjects of the Dahan, and have the opportunity to move to a more affluent inner county to settle down.

But for those tribal leaders, fleeing west is more in their interest.

After naturalization, they are no longer generals with thousands of troops, they are no different from ordinary people, at most they are petty officials.Leading their troops to move westward, they can still have their own strength and live a life like a master.

There must have been disagreements, even disagreements, and they drew their knives and cut each other in a rage. They had seen too much, and Lu Buji was not even interested in talking about it.

Lu Bu made a key answer to Liu Xie's most concerned question about the barbarians from northern Xinjiang going south.

During the guerrilla campaign in the north and south of the desert, in addition to learning the situation from the captives, he also sent some scouts to go deep into the desert to learn about the situation.Generally speaking, some barbarians did migrate from the north, but the number was not large and the threat was not great.

From the current point of view, it is unlikely to break through the wolf cavalry's resistance, let alone threaten the south of the Great Wall.

But I heard that the Fuyu people in the eastern part of the desert have been doing a lot of things recently, they are gathering their troops, and there may be friction with the Youyan Dufu.

Liu Xie looked at the map while listening.

As far as his impression is concerned, the north of Yanran Protectorate's jurisdiction is the Mongolian Plateau, and further north is the Siberian Plateau.Before the potato crop was introduced to Asia, it was indeed not an easy task to survive on the Siberian Plateau.

In fact, even for the Huns, the North Sea south of the Siberian Plateau was the northernmost point of their range of activities.Further north, there are not enough resources to feed a certain population.Even if there are tribes, as long as the population increases slightly, they will have to go south.

Some people say that this is how the Huns and Xianbei came from.

The name of Siberia is related to Xianbei, that is, Xianbeilia.

Judging from the current situation, after defeating the Xianbei people, it is indeed unlikely that they will go directly south from Siberia and hit the northern border of the Han Dynasty.

It's time to shift the center of gravity to the west and protect the west of the river and the western regions.

"Is it possible to carry out long-distance marches on the grassland now?"

"Yes." Lu Bu replied: "If it's just wolf cavalry, we can march quickly and eat the enemy's food, and we can reach Jianshi City in a month. If we use infantry and cavalry together, the speed will be much slower, and it may take the whole summer. Just do it."

"What if the infantry are also equipped with horses and march in a nomadic manner?"

"That's not going to happen anytime soon, grazing takes time."

Liu Xie took a look at Lu Bu, but said nothing.

He understood what Lu Bu meant.

Lu Bu didn't want to march with Cao Cao at all, he just wanted to take the cavalry to the Western Regions by himself.

He doesn't care what Lu Bu's psychology is.What he cares about is that if there are no infantry and only cavalry, even in the Western Regions, it will be very difficult to win a real victory.

Cavalry is of course important, but infantry also plays an integral role.If you want to conquer the Western Regions and reach the Mediterranean Sea, you can't do it without a powerful infantry army.

Moreover, it must be an infantry army dominated by Han people. An infantry composed of Qianghu cannot afford such an important task.

The only infantry phalanx that could compete with the Romans and win the battle was the main force of the Han army.

In any case, he had to arrange for at least [-] Han infantry to go to the Western Regions before the prelude to the Western Expedition began.

Although Lu Bu is brave, he is not a general after all.

Chapter 1057 The Riches of Nanyang

Liu Xie stayed with Lv Bu for dinner, and then chatted for nearly an hour. After learning about all aspects of the situation, he let Lv Bu go to rest.

Before parting, Liu Xie asked another question.

Has your wife given birth again?

Lv Bu, who was talking and laughing just now, suddenly became dumb, and held back for a long time before saying: "I have been fighting outside, and I don't have time."

Liu Xie understood it at a glance.

It's not that Lu Bu doesn't have time, it's that he doesn't have time to accompany Mrs. Wei.He roamed the grassland every day, spreading seeds everywhere, so he was happy.When I returned to Senai, I had already run out of ammunition and food, and there was no way to give birth to a baby.

"Who are you going to pass on to Marquis Wen?" Liu Xie asked, "To a bastard that you don't even remember?"

Lu Bu rubbed his hands awkwardly. "Your Majesty is supreme, how can you say frivolous words. I know, I know."

"Your wife is here too?"

"Here we come, such a big event, how can we be absent."

"Then you can stay for a while, and leave after giving birth." Liu Xie glanced at Lu Bu. "By the way, let the imperial physician check your pulse to see if you are okay."

"Minister..." Lu Bu stared at him, and then realized that the young man in front of him was the Son of Heaven, so he couldn't be presumptuous, so he quickly shut his mouth and begged for mercy. "Your Majesty, the minister stays on the line, what about the wolf rider?"

"Temporarily let Wei Xu take the lead."

Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, and his stiff neck drooped completely.

Wei Xu is Mrs. Wei's elder brother. The emperor is determined not to let him go until he has a baby.

In desperation, Lu Bu had no choice but to agree.

In addition to the majesty of the emperor, he also really wanted a son.He paid such a high price for the title of Marquis Wen, and it cannot be cut off because he has no heirs.It's just that he was too comfortable on the grassland, even if he thought of this, he couldn't restrain himself, so he kept delaying.

After bidding farewell to the emperor, Lu Bu returned to his residence.

Lu Xiaohuan was talking with Mrs. Wei.The mother and daughter have not seen each other for two or three years, and there are endless whispers.Seeing that Lu Bu had returned, but with a dejected expression, they were all a little surprised. They glanced at each other and got up in unison.

"Aon, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Lu Bu avoided their eyes and waved his hand sullenly. "Grace from the Son of Heaven, let me stay with you for a while longer."