Flowers on the other side [Comprehensive Red House]

After the dinner, Cheng Pu's attitude towards Zhou Yu did not restrain himself in the slightest, and Wu Jing tried to persuade him, but there was no effect.In Cheng Pu's eyes, Sun Ce is the little lord, and Zhou Yu is just Sun Ce's brother-in-law, a later generation who has been valued by Sun Ce by virtue of his in-law relationship.

Zhou Yu didn't argue with Cheng Pu either. After sorting out Qu'a for a few days, he began to do what his Jianwei Zhonglang should do.

Huang Gai couldn't see that Cheng Pu was deliberately finding fault, so he deliberately sought Cheng Pu's persuasion under Lu Fan's request.

"Demou, although Gongjin is young, he used to assist Bofu when he was in trouble. Bofu broke away from Yuan Gonglu, and he led troops and food to help him. Together with Bofu, he first conquered Hengjiang, Dangli, Dazaorong, Xue Li, Zhanhuyu, Jiangcheng, entered Qu'a, he took the lead and followed Bofu with us. Why do you always like to make things difficult for Gongjin?"

Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Zhu Zhi are all old people who have followed Sun Jian for many years. In Huang Gai's eyes, these two are the same as him, while Wu Jing, Sun Ben, and Sun He are still in power by virtue of their in-law relationship.

"Zhou Yu is just as good as Wu Jing, how can he be compared with me and others."

Huang Gai was straightforward and directly refuted Cheng Pu.

"Jing Rui has been fighting with General Polu for nearly 20 years, and he has never slacked off. Do you think he is lucky?"

Cheng Pu made a slip of the tongue and defended himself, "I didn't mention Jingrui."

"Demou, when Zhou Gongjin assisted Bofu, it was the time when Bofu was in a dilemma and had nowhere to turn. Later, he brought his own soldiers and food, and it was not too much for Bofu to reward Jianwei Zhonglang according to his merits. Leaving aside the matter of Zhou Yu marrying Qiao Rui's youngest daughter, do you think he is worthy of Bo Fu's entrustment as a general?"

"General Zhonglang only led 2000 soldiers, and Zhou Lang led more than 1000 soldiers the year before last."

"Bo Fu doesn't stop at [-] soldiers. He will let Zhou Yu command more soldiers in the future."

Huang Gai saw that Cheng Pu was stubborn about how many troops Zhou Yu would command in the future, but who can say clearly about the future?Zhou Yu extended a helping hand to Sun Ce who was in distress and embarrassment. Sun Ce must have believed in Zhou Yu more.Now that the two are brother-in-law, if Zhou Yu has the ability, it is not impossible to command the three armies in the future.

However, he came to solve Cheng Pu's obstinacy in embarrassing Zhou Yu. He must try to persuade Cheng Pu and everyone to get along well, which is conducive to military training.

So Huang Gai had no choice but to say perfunctorily: "In a few years, the young masters of the Sun family will grow up one after another. With Bo Fu's help, his trust in Gong Jin will not be like it is now."

Cheng Pu was worried, "I'm afraid that before that time, Bo Fu will hand over the military power to Zhou Yu, and miss General Polu's wish."

Huang Gai felt deeply that he had given in to Cheng Pu's nonsense, and he became annoyed.

"Then why don't you go directly to Bo Fu and tell him not to trust Zhou Gongjin, it's better than yourself embarrassing Zhou Gongjin yourself."

Cheng Pu looked at Huang Gai like an idiot, "Bo Fu ate and slept with him, you want me to talk to Bo Fu? Will Bo Fu listen?"

Huang Gai was completely defeated. He knew that he couldn't persuade Cheng Pu, so he had to ask Lu Fan to tell Zhou Yu to avoid Cheng Pu, and it would be fine when Cheng Pu saw Zhou Yu's ability.

Zhou Yu didn't care much about Cheng Pu's embarrassment and difficulties, and he was always humble and polite to others.Moreover, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Zhu Zhi, etc. who had followed Sun Ce for a while and started training again according to Sun Ce's method, found that Zhou Yu's speed and quality of training his [-] soldiers were no worse than theirs.

Sun He explained to these veterans: "A few years ago when we started to train soldiers with this method, it was Bo Fu and Gong Jin who started."

Two months later, Zhou Yu began to lead the two thousand soldiers under him to participate in the main force of Zhu Zhi's military activities around Qu'a, and to wipe out the opposition forces around Qu'a.

Then Sun Ce divided the army into three groups, one from Kuaiji, the other from Wu Junping to the west, and the other from Linhai County to the south.

In Xindu County, Poyang County, Linchuan County, and Jian'an County, Sun Ce has the title of governor of Yangzhou. After the prefects of these counties expressed their willingness to obey his assignment, he asked Zhu Zhi to lead the army to take the governors of these counties. The bandits and water bandits were cleaned up one by one.

With an upright imperial order and strong military strength, Sun Ce pushed from east to west all the way. When Yuan Shu was stalemate with Lu Bu, and the friction between Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu was escalating, he not only captured Lujiang County and Jiangxia County, but also captured Changsha along the way. county.The road that cleaned up Luling County successfully surrounded Yuzhang County.

Liu Yao had nowhere to escape, but Sun Ce still gave him a way out. After surrendering, he led all his subordinate officials to continue working for the yamen at all levels in Yangzhou—teaching schools in various counties.

Liu Yao had no choice but to surrender obediently, either for himself or for those who followed him. He surrendered all his armed soldiers, and even Tai Shici, who followed him loyally, surrendered to Sun Ce.

There was no other way for Sun Ce to tolerate Liu Yao's surrender.Although Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong were there to help, they suddenly took over most of the Yangzhou jurisdiction, and immediately faced a dilemma of lack of manpower.

He had no choice but to issue an order to the world in the name of the governor of Yangzhou.

As for how many people are willing and how many people can cross the border area of ​​Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, and Zhang Xiu, where the war is raging, neither Sun Ce nor Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong dare to report any optimistic attitude.

Sure enough, it was the result of the similarity between the three of them.Except for the people from Wu, there are even few people from Jingzhou.It turned the handsome handsome guy Sun Ce into a bitter face.

I have no choice but to choose from my relatives first.Sun Ai's husband, Hongzi, was forced by Sun Ce to work in the prefect's mansion of Wujun.Then Sun Shan's husband's family, the Chen family, actively recommended to Sun Ce all the children who could read and write.

Sun Ce's uncle, Sun Jing, didn't want to leave his hometown, Fuchun, but he sent all the people in the clan who could read and write to Qu'a for Sun Ce's assessment. Those who could do things would stay, and those who failed would be taken back to continue studying.

When it was almost autumn, the lack of people in the Yangzhou jurisdiction eased a little, and the yamen at all levels slowly began to operate.

With an illiteracy rate of 90.00% and above, Mrs. Wu also frowned at the survey report she asked Sun Ce to do.

Sun Ce now owns Kuaiji, Wujun, and Danyang, which are all relatively affluent places in the south of the Yangtze River.The children of the big families basically have the opportunity to study, but that's how it is. Among the children sent by the Fuchun Sun family for assessment, some of them can only be regarded as literate, and they can't write or understand simple official documents.

And even fewer of those Han children were literate.The cost of reading and literacy is too high, and the vast majority of people are still struggling for food and clothing, and now they have to add another way to avoid war.

Even if some Han clan children got the opportunity to learn, they learned well, but they might not have the chance to stand out.The position of an official is certain. In the era when there was no imperial examination, the only way to become an official was to be recommended by officials—Xiaolian.

It is far more difficult for the children of the Han clan to be recommended by the local parents and officials as Xiaolian than for the children of the aristocratic and powerful families.

But this system of filial piety and honesty is still beneficial.Before becoming an official, the elders in his hometown assessed his character for 40 years: Are you filial to your parents?Is it clear and honest in doing things?

After being recommended as Xiaolian, the imperial court will have to take an exam.Xiaolianke became the main way for the court to select officials besides Enyin.Xiaolian who was born as a Confucian scholar had to take an examination of Confucian classics, while those who were born as a literary official had to take an examination of Jianzuo.

Mrs. Wu slowly followed the current situation in the selection of officials by the imperial court and the land of Wu. If she wanted to break the predicament that no one was available, she could only open a school and conduct a crash course in elementary culture.Only when the wisdom of the people is fully enlightened can we break the narrow restrictions on the selection of officials such as grace and local officials' recommendation.

"Bo Fu, relying on recruiting capable scholars to serve as officials in Wu, let's not consider whether we can recruit enough people. The difficulty is that there are few scholars in the world. I think it's better for us to train the talents we need by ourselves. Make a plan first, see if you can use three to five years of effort to teach some people who can be small officials, and then slowly enlist great Confucian scholars to give lectures in Wu."

Sun Ce knew that his mother's proposal to teach the officials he needed would be the most beneficial in the long run.But it took three to five years to teach people who can be small officials, and he really didn't know what to do.It's better to ask him how he can build a strong army in three to five years.

Mrs. Wu didn't expect Sun Ce to do this either.

"Bo Fu, train your troops well, and it will be good to make Yangzhou safe and peaceful as soon as possible."

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong agreed with Mrs. Wu's proposal, first teach the people how to calculate and write, and then select talents who are suitable to be small officials, and then slowly cultivate smart and good-hearted people from these small officials, Carry out further training and teaching, and arrange important positions after passing the assessment.

"Who is Madam going to teach to read and count first?"

Few people can read and write, and not many are willing to teach.In times of war, it is even more difficult to invite great Confucians.

"Let's start with the barracks. The soldiers can memorize the military regulations after several months of training. Let them use the military regulations to compare and recognize characters. Then organize people to pick out thousands of characters commonly used in the government office. If they can be compiled into easy to remember The ballad is the best. Passing these two assessments will give priority to promotion. Once disabled, you can go to the yamen to be a small official. way of making a living.”

Sun Ce very much agreed with the idea discussed by his mother and Er Zhang.Speaking with the leading generals, everyone is very supportive.Allowing soldiers to go to the Yamen to make a living as a small official after being disabled will inspire more courage in the soldiers than giving them some money and things that can only be used for a while.And starting from the military law to recognize characters, the speed is fast and the effect is good.

After the steles engraved with military laws spread all over the corners of the barracks, the army stroke set off an upsurge of reading.

And Liu Yao's assistant officials joined the ranks of teaching edicts, which made the thousand-character text published earlier.Sun Ce and Mrs. Wu were rewarded and awarded by the imperial court for enlightening the people. .