At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

What Wei Jun needs are more and more staff and command talents with professional military knowledge, and it is basically impossible to master this knowledge without learning in a professional lecture hall.

Mr. Guo's plan is very good, but all of these will take time, a lot of time.

Ten years, 20 years, 30 years.

The current imperial examination is only a preliminary one. He is eager to start the imperial examination immediately, just to allow more time for the imperial examination to be held more times, so that the imperial examination can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people more quickly.

While he was still alive.

As for the others, he didn't have the energy to take care of them yet.

He didn't know if he could see some signs of it before he died, seeing the prosperity of education in the world.

If he can see it, he is satisfied.

To be honest, he has changed his fate several times against the sky. This is not the last time, but it is the most successful one. He defeated and killed the scholar.

However, erecting monuments for scholars and passing on them requires more educated children of Li and common people to do it, and it needs common people to do it.

The imperial examination is a superstructure, and the construction of the superstructure needs the support of the lower foundation. If the lower foundation is not solid, the construction of the upper imperial examination will change sooner or later.

Once the battle of imperial examinations has been won, the supporting education system must also be established, and the subsequent rules and regulations also need to be continuously optimized.

For example, the rich can afford the tuition, but the poor cannot afford it. In response to these problems, policies such as financial non-subsidy and expenditure, and even tuition reduction and exemption should be introduced.

That's another world.

After one battle was over, Mr. Guo began intensive preparations for the next battle.

After the dispute over the contents of the imperial examinations was over, all kinds of news unfavorable to scholars were flying all over the sky.

When such news spread to various places, it would have a great impact on the local officials and scholar families.

The scholar families were soon suppressed, unable to continue the chaos.

Scholars and officials were strictly guarded by the army, and there was nothing they could do if they wanted to make trouble.

Long before Guo Peng was ready to act, he had mobilized troops from various places to station in very important cities, dangerous passes, etc., which was also a way to prevent riots in advance.

Once some demented families lose their minds and want to rebel with local powerful families, the army needs to counter the rebellion in time and expand the scale of persecution.

Guo has already decided on the new military plan of the Wei Empire, but he has not had time to act yet.

At present, the military camps in Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Bingzhou, and Pingzhou have completed the disarmament plan.

The standing army of the Wei army is currently maintained at around 35, which is still a little far from 20. However, the final disarmament plan will have to wait until the end of the Western Regions War and the Nanzhong War.

After the war was basically over, in addition to retaining the absolute elite, the remaining literate veterans were scattered around the farms and served as militia instructors.

Some people with better culture have appointed village chiefs and turned them into civil servants to continue to shine for the country.

The disarmament operation was carried out smoothly, so new military service plans were launched one after another. In the Central Plains and Hebei, the population statistics have been almost completed, and the military service system that Guo wants to implement is also almost formulated and ready to be implemented.

In the future, the state of the Wei army will be 20 standing elites plus varying numbers of serving soldiers.

The standing army is absolutely elite. When leading conscripts to go out to guard the border, they act as the backbone military role of officers. They have quite high requirements for cultural standards and military common sense.

Serving soldiers will be the main force to maintain frontier defense and bandit raids in the future. Their number varies from hundreds of thousands to nearly 100 million.

After a comprehensive assessment, the imperial court decided to set the military service period at three years. In principle, every man in the empire must serve in the military for three years from the age of 21.

Among them, one year received professional military training in various military training camps, one and a half years was guarded in the frontier, and received experience of wind and sand, and another half year was spent in Luoyang to join the guard army, to experience the glory of the Wei Empire up close.

Then until the age of 40, he was a reserve soldier of the country.

Once the standing army and the serving army are not enough, the reserve troops will be mobilized and go into battle immediately.

This is actually a good thing for farmers.

This is equivalent to a normal season. The state pays to help you raise your children for three years, and all the expenses for the three years of service are borne by the state. Not only that, but also military pay, which can reduce the burden on farmers and families.

Moreover, the Wei Empire has repeatedly won great victories, and the army's combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the surrounding enemies have all been wiped out. Now it is not very dangerous to be a soldier guarding the frontier.

Therefore, for such a military service system, even if it is not mandatory, the enthusiasm of farmers is still quite high.

Chapter 1203 One Thousand One Hundred and One Three

The household registration of the Wei Empire is not limited to peasant households.

With the previous policy of supporting the development of industry and commerce, the population of the market in cities and towns has also continued to increase, and many people have begun to choose to operate industry and commerce, not just agriculture.

Because most of them are engaged in commerce and handicrafts, not in agriculture, the population is more mobile than agriculture, and it is not convenient for statistics and conscription. Therefore, the military service system is not mandatory for these people.

However, in order to prevent changes in the future, some people use obtaining urban household registration and engaging in commerce and handicrafts as a means of evading military service. Regarding the population engaged in these areas, Mr. Guo made an opinion.

The proportion of taxes imposed on these industries should be increased.

After the formal military service system is rolled out, the preferential tax policies for commerce and handicrafts will be cancelled, and they will be raised to the point of surpassing the agricultural tax.

In addition, various government handymen also give priority to recruiting people who do not have agricultural household registration.

If the registered permanent residence of the relevant industry does not allow the children to serve in the military, it is also necessary to pay an additional three-year exemption tax for the son of the right age.

And until the age of 40, you have to pay an additional exempt military tax every year.

This tax is stipulated according to the size of the family's property and annual income.

This type of household registration must be counted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs every year, and then submitted to the emperor. After the emperor confirms, it will be issued to the Ministry of Finance, and then the Imperial Ministry of Finance will personally implement the collection of tax increases, and local governments are not allowed to intervene.

Of course, if this type of account voluntarily enrolls children in military service, they can be exempted from military service and conscription tax, and can also get a reward of reduced business taxes.

In short, the traditional means of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce and the military service system are mutually exclusive and restored together, and the support policies for private commerce and handicraft industries must be changed.

Farming households that were previously widely supported while managing agriculture while tossing small businesses are also classified as commercial household registration, and the tax ratio will change.

For the Empire, agriculture was always the most important thing, followed by commerce and handicrafts.

Agriculture is not only related to the basics of the empire, but also related to the source of soldiers and the empire's control over the grassroots, which is the red line.

Because no one can skip meals.

Emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is not a bad policy. The basic spirit and principles will continue to apply until there is a revolutionary leap in human productivity.

And at least in the current era, this is a necessary policy to maintain social stability, and it cannot be shaken.

Businesses can be supported, but there will be no concessions on the tax issue. Their scale and volume must be controlled, and they must not be allowed to develop to the point where they erode the agricultural field.

Otherwise, once business and agriculture compete for population and land, the basic foundation of the empire will be shaken, the foundation of the Wei Empire will be completely destroyed, and taxation and military will be weak.

At that time, the huge land and military defense system of the Wei Empire will be torn apart.

The ruling area that was finally expanded and achieved is about to shrink back to the point of the thirteen prefectures of Han.

This is absolutely not allowed by someone Guo.

Every inch of land he seized has economic value or strategic value, and cannot be discarded at will.

Therefore, he firmly implemented the policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business.

At present, when the commercial development of this place is quite prosperous, it is time to draw the blood of business to feed back agriculture.

There is no doubt that the son of an official needs to join the army, regardless of whether he is a civil servant or a military officer, no matter whether he is a nobleman or a general bureaucrat.

It is a rigid rule that at least one male must be sent out from every household to serve in the military.

It's a different matter if you don't have a son. If you have a son, you have to hide it deliberately. After being found out, you will be punished by a confinement order that prohibits you from taking the imperial examination for three generations.

In order to maintain and consolidate such a nascent military system, Guo has painstakingly formulated various policies.

In order to maintain the powerful military strength of the Wei army, they racked their brains, and it can be said that the military service system belonging to the Wei Empire was formulated on the basis of the military service system of the Western Han Dynasty.

In addition to the military service system, Guo Peng also formulated a police system. After preparations, he further transformed the force responsible for urban security into the police, so that the urban security management force was completely separated from the army, and there was no relevant connection.

These will have to wait until later to be officially implemented, but it does not prevent Guo from starting to formulate a practical system now.

After suppressing the resistance of the scholars, Guo, who finally stabilized his position and evolved into a true emperor, finally has the mind and energy to do other things.

Such as promoting the disarmament and regularization of the military and the like.

To accomplish this task, the war between Yizhou and Liangzhou must be completely ended.

The military camps in Yizhou and Liangzhou have not completed the disarmament plan, because there are still battles to be fought.

Yizhou wanted to attack the four counties in the South and Central China, and Liangzhou wanted to attack the countries of the Western Regions. These were important tasks, so Guo Peng also sent [-] central guards to Yizhou and Liangzhou respectively to strengthen the strength of these two departments.

According to the degree of difficulty, at the end of the seventh year of Yande, Guo Peng gave the order to Le Jin, the governor of Yizhou Chengdu Daying, and ordered Le Jin to lead the [-] Wei troops in Yizhou to attack the four counties of Nanzhong and end the battle. A non-staff history of the four counties in Nanzhong.

Mr. Guo, who is good at ending history, has just ended the history of former students and officials and the double monarchy. Now of course he has to go a step further and end the supernumerary history of the four counties of Nanzhong.

The Yong family united with some other local tyrants and barbarians in Nanzhong to form a joint self-government to fight against the power of the Wei Central Committee. From the third or fourth year of Yande until now, Guo has not been able to deal with them.

Of course, the main reason is that the roads have not been repaired, the traffic in central Sichuan is not enough, and the [-] troops need too much supplies to fight the battle. The rear must be very difficult when fighting, and the order has not been issued.

Le Jin led the army to stay in the middle of Sichuan for several years, and only built roads. There was nothing else to do, so he trained his troops to the death, so that the army could get used to the climate and mountain fighting in the middle of Shu.

At the same time, together with Man Chong, sit and watch the changing situation in Luoyang.

Over the years, one after another big news spread from Luoyang to Shuzhong, and one after another, the two of them were frightened and moved. Bad luck.

Especially the big change from the sixth year of Yande to the seventh year of Yande scared Man Chong and Le Jin quite a bit.

"I'm fine. I'm a soldier, and I don't care about government affairs. Look at the fact that there are not many soldiers who lead the army these years. Just take care of your hands, feet and mouth. You are not good when you are an official. Who knows what?" Suddenly something bad happens."

Le Jin felt very fortunate that he did not become a civil servant but a military commander, and the more he felt lucky as he went on, the more he felt that it was right not to participate in government affairs.

There are more sentiments that are full of pets.

"Now that I think about it, it may be a good thing for His Majesty not to let me go back to the Central Committee for so many years. Although staying in Yizhou is not as good as Luoyang, it can avoid those unclear things. The key point is that no one has ever thought of it. Your Majesty can do these things..."

Man Chong was terrified of Guo Peng's large-scale method of resolutely suppressing scholars and implicating 4 or [-] people in one go.

He felt that no matter what, it was impossible for him to have such boldness and courage, and it was even more impossible for him to think that the scholars would have what they are today.

At that time, he didn't know about this matter, and expressed his support for Guo Peng's decision-making is what he should do as a confidant for many years.

Although he also had doubts, his keen political sense still helped him.

He couldn't even imagine what would happen if he opposed the abolition of the imperial examinations.

However, he would not do this after all. As an old official of the Guo family that Guo Peng single-handedly promoted, he could not do such a thing.

Chapter 1204 It's time to crusade against Nanzhong in one thousand 110 four

Now it is finally clear.

According to Guo Peng's order, Man Chong started a project in Chengdu, re-established the Chengdu Academy, and ordered the prefects of all counties to repair the schools and re-establish a large-scale public school system.

Scholars in central Shu must enter the academy or school to register regardless of their status. It is best for all those who can read and write to go, get their school status, and study hard so that they can take the imperial examination in March next year.

Having said that, because of the urgency of time, many people went to the government to report to the government as if they had obtained their student status, and then hurried to Luoyang.

The news of the suppression of [-] scholars brought not only panic, but also great opportunities.

Many people smelled the opportunity and immediately decided to rush to Luoyang to take the imperial examination.

When the news just came out, there was turmoil in Sichuan because a large number of scholar families were suppressed. They were angry and sad, clamoring to give them a reason.

Soon, this group of people felt that the sky in central Shu was high and the emperor was far away, and they even tried to unite with the Yong family in the south to rebel and retake Central Shu together.

However, their actions were notified to Man Chong and Le Jin by some local forces in Nanzhong who were dissatisfied with Yong Kai, and Man Chong and Le Jin were asked to take precautions.

Man Chong and Le Jin immediately acted, urgently dispatched troops to suppress the uprising of this group of people, and killed them all before they joined forces, annihilating more than a dozen scholar families in one go, and uprooting them.

Because the situation calmed down quickly and did not cause a large-scale chain reaction, after the news was reported to Luoyang, Guo did not get angry and decided to bloodbath the Sichuan and Shu gentry, but ordered to praise Man Chong and Le Jin for their contributions.

Then, Guo Peng learned that the person who informed Man Chong and Le Jin was a native of Nanzhong.

He realized that the plan he had made before had had an effect, and then he made up his mind to promote the pacification of the four counties in Nanzhong.

It is time to launch the Nanzhong campaign that has been dragged on due to many things.

So Guo Peng gave an order, and Man Chong and Le Jin were ordered to advance the matter immediately.

Le Jin was of course happy, because after waiting for several years, finally there was a battle to fight.

Without Guo Peng's order, the Wei army could not take the initiative to attack the four counties of Nanzhong. They could only deter and not use force, so as not to cause a full-scale war in advance.