Chapter 920 Military Changes
"As for culture and education, continue to increase investment. We can't let outsiders think that we only produce martial arts in Pingzhou!"
Speaking of this, Shang Ji made a little joke, and everyone laughed in agreement.
Pingzhou only produced martial arts, which was not proposed by Shang Ji.
Although the current situation in Dahan is still stable, there are no large-scale conflicts. However, the open and secret struggles among the princes from all walks of life have already begun, and the most typical ones are all kinds of smearing competitors.
The record of the Pingzhou Army is outstanding, and there is really nothing to be ashamed of in terms of martial arts, so many people turned their minds to culture and education.
Taking advantage of the fact that Pingzhou was backward in culture and education, they wantonly smeared and tried their best to portray Pingzhou as a barbaric place.
Not to mention, this kind of propaganda with ulterior motives really brought some troubles to Pingzhou. At least Pingzhou made it more difficult to recruit immigrants.
Of course, Deng Yan and the others also thought about fighting back, but in the battlefield of public opinion, how can Pingzhou be the opponent of the gentry clan who control the right to speak (the main force of discrediting is Yuan Shao, Han Fu and others)? However, the current general environment does not allow the use of force, so Pingzhou can only bear the slander from others.
Others laughed, but Deng Yan didn't. To strengthen culture and education, it is useless to spend money alone. Those great Confucians either regard money as dung, or they are not short of money themselves.
The three great Confucian scholars and more than twenty great Confucian scholars who were invited before were basically obtained by Guan Ning and Wang Lie, who used all kinds of tricks and abductions to save face.
Wanting to invite more, Guan Ning's face is not easy to use!
As for self-cultivation, Pingzhou's background is too poor, and there is no suitable candidate for it for the time being.
Shang Ji naturally saw Deng Yan's embarrassment, smiled slightly, and said proudly: "The rumors spread that I have "Book of Changes", "Poems", "Books", "Rituals", "Spring and Autumn", "Han Feizi" in Pingzhou. ", "Laozi", "Warring States Policy", "Mojing" and other works, all great Confucians who have come to Pingzhou to give lectures for a year can freely choose one to study."
"hiss--"
The others hadn't responded yet, but Deng Yan was the first to gasp.
"Master... Lord, this matter must not be joked!"
Shang Ji smiled and said nothing, directly took out a classic from the Qiankun Ring, and threw it to Deng Yan casually.
Deng Yan hurriedly caught it,
Taking a closer look, I saw two simple characters of "Book of Changes" written on the cover!
Deng Yan flipped through it hastily, making sure that Shang Ji wasn't bragging, he immediately became excited.
For high-ranking scribes like them, the attraction of an isolated ancient book of the sages is definitely more attractive than most temptations in the world.
Relying on these isolated classics is enough to attract a large number of well-educated scholars. Especially those from poor families who came from humble backgrounds, even if they bring their own dry food to work in Pingzhou for ten or eight years, in exchange for the opportunity to consult classics, they will be happy!
"My lord, don't worry, with this help, Xiangping will not be far away from becoming a treasure land of Wenhua's heyday!"
Not only Deng Yan was full of confidence, but even the faces of Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Yan Xie and others beside him were blushing. They knew the significance of these classics better than Shang Ji, and they also knew that Pingzhou had a large number of solitary copies of sages. Classics, and the news that it is open for reading will cause a big sensation.
Seeing everyone eager to try, Shang Ji laughed and said while the iron was hot: "Not only these, we also have "Wu Zi", "Sun Bin's Art of War", "Sima Law", "Six Secret Teachings", "Three Strategies", "Wei Liao" Seven military books, including "Ancient and Modern Formation Detailed Explanation", four heavenly-level internal energy treasure books, nine various martial arts secret books, and twenty-seven treasure books are all unique books, and you can exchange for learning opportunities with your meritorious deeds."
Now even Liu Yi, Zhao Yun and others who were not very interested were excited. Leaving aside those military books, the thirteen martial art cheats alone are enough to arouse their great interest.
Don't think that they are not interested in other high-level exercises because they have heaven-level exercises.
At their level, there is basically no gain from working behind closed doors. They need to learn from others, gather the strengths of hundreds of schools, and create their own path. These martial arts cheats are an excellent opportunity.
Seeing everyone excited, Shang Ji waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, don't worry, everyone has a share. There is no limit to the number of times you can learn a single copy!"
"The last general is on behalf of all of you, thank you, Lord, for your kindness!"
Liu Yi stood up and expressed his thanks on behalf of the generals.
"Hahaha, since my brother is here, let me introduce the military changes in Pingzhou over the past year!"
Liu Yi clasped his fists when he heard the words, and said in a loud voice: "My lord and many Paoze expeditions to foreign lands. During this period, our army's strength is mainly divided into four parts, namely the Longhou Mountain Group, the Lulong Fortress Group, the Xiangping Group, and the Grassland. department cluster.
In the past year, our army has pursued a military strategy of active defense, focusing on training troops, suppressing bandits, and stabilizing the interior. In the past year, the overall situation in Pingzhou was stable, and no major wars occurred. After a year of supplementary training, the total strength of the army has recovered to seven million, and its combat effectiveness has also been significantly improved.
There have been six small-scale conflicts between the east and west clusters and surrounding forces, but all have been properly resolved, and the conflict has not expanded.
In one year, the army with more than 5,000 troops dispatched 36 times, suppressed six rebellions, and wiped out more than 80 bandits. At present, there are no large-scale bandits in our army. In order to extinguish the rebellion and banditry and deal with local conflicts, more than 8,000 soldiers of our army died in battle.
"Rebellion? Where's the rebellion?"
Shang Ji frowned when he heard this, he hadn't received a report on the rebellion before!
"My lord, there were six rebellions, four of which came from other parts of the grassland, one from the remnants of Goguryeo, and the last one was from the Wuhuan rebels. The scale of the six rebellions was not large, and the largest grassland tribal rebellion had only 20,000 rebels. The remaining people were wiped out by the surrounding prairie tribes before our troops to quell the chaos arrived.
The same is generally true of the other incidents, none of which caused major losses. In order not to affect the lord's expedition to foreign lands, the lord was not informed. "
Shang Ji nodded knowingly.
It is not surprising that there is a rebellion. If there is a big tree, there will be dead branches, and if there are many people, there will be idiots. There are more than 500 million people in the whole territory, and there are always some people who are not very spiritual and rebel because of one or another weird reason.
But no matter what the reason for the rebellion was, Shang Ji's attitude towards the rebellion was just one word - kill!
Although Shang Ji was not around, Liu Yi still carried out Shang Ji's policy perfectly. The masterminds and main participants of the six rebellions were all executed, and the soldiers who participated in the rebellion were also sent to prisoner-of-war camps as coolies for the construction of Chidao in Pingzhou. make an effort.