"Zhou Jia is a talent!" Yang Yanshou sighed after reading Zhou Jia's "Book of Zhou's Request to Move Changling".

It is indeed the origin of family education and the Zhou family in Runan is full of background. Zhou Jia's writing is sincere and at a glance it makes people feel that Zhou is very sensible. Although the book expresses the meaning of sharing the worries of the court and serving Your Majesty, the same words are convincing, and people feel that they are of high quality and high quality.

Yuan Chang smiled and said, "Zhou Jia's letter is written wonderfully, but the officials have a feeling that the letter is not just for the prefect to read."

"Oh? Who did you show that?" Yang Yanshou glanced at him.

"This tone and this sentence are enough for Your Majesty to view, and for the people of the world."

"Haha!" Yang Yanshou laughed, "Zhou suffered such a big loss, but he was so arrogant that he hoped that there would be some reward. I was about to read this book to heaven, so please read it."

Doing this naturally made the Zhou family famous, which was also a good thing for Yang Yanshou. Under his rule, such a family of great wise men and great virtues appeared, which shows that the moral governance of Runan County was very successful. Of course, he, the prefect, made an indelible contribution. This was also his political achievement of Yang Yanshou.

This is like a tacit cooperation between Zhou and Yang Yanshou, which is beneficial to both parties.

"Two months later, the Zhou clan moved. Before they moved, they were still people under the rule of Runan County. I want to refer Zhou Jia as a filial and honest person to commend Zhou clan's knowledge."

Filial piety and integrity were the right way for officials in the Han Dynasty to be promoted, equivalent to the "singer outside the Donghua Gate" in the Song Dynasty. It was an extremely honorable thing for the person being hailed and his family.

The "result system" is used for the selection of officials. The inspection is a regular inspection, and the recommendation is an election, which means that the local chiefs must inspect at any time within their jurisdiction and regularly recommend talented talents. The origin of this system must be pursued to Emperor Gaozu of Han, and after Liu Bang won the world, he issued an edict to seek talented talents, requiring counties and states to recommend talented talents.

By the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the system of recommendation was basically complete, and various systems and related subjects were determined, making them a unified standard for talent selection, and a certain examination method was also available.

After being recommended by the county and state, the filial and honest person who was elected went to the court to pass the exam. After that, he usually joined the court as a magistrate and had the opportunity to get close to the emperor, had a broad prospect and was promoted very quickly, so he was highly valued.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, one person in each county and country was required to elect one filial and honest person. This quota was very expensive. For a big county like Runan, even the children of the seven major surnames had to wait in line. I don’t know when the year would be the turn of a filial and honest person.

After Liu Yu decided to favor the scholars of Guandong, in addition to selecting officials every year, he also opened a special department, allowing each county and country to elect one filial and honest person.

Yuan Chang felt a little uncomfortable when Yang Yanshou wanted to give Zhou Jia this special subject filial integrity. He was similar to Zhou Jia, both proficient in Confucian classics, and were very capable in civil affairs. He was the two most capable people under the prefect. Now Zhou Jia has cited filial integrity before him, and is one step ahead of him in his career.

"This filial piety and integrity is well deserved by Zhou's behavior." Yang Yanshou suddenly reached out and patted Yuan Chang on the shoulder, and said, "Ziyi, your talent is not inferior to Zhou Jia, and your future will not be inferior to him. Work hard!"

Yuan Chang secretly slandered Yang Yanshou in his heart, giving him a faint hope, but without a clear promise. On the surface, he was very worried and stood up and bowed: "The subordinate officials can serve the prefect and live up to the prefect's trust, so they are satisfied. How dare they hope for something else?"

The migration quota for Runan County was set. Two months later, the Qi family and the Zhou family were going to move to Changling. But after only half a month, the Taigong of Qi died.

Taigong Qi was 71 years old this year and was a senior citizen in that era. This migration made him unable to get out of trouble and fell ill directly. During his illness, he kept scolding Mu's family for being untrustworthy. He clearly agreed not to recommend each other, but he still brought Qi to prevent the disaster.

Qi's family has a lot of land and houses, but it has to be processed within two months. In such a short period of time, it must be dealt with at a lower price, but there are still no buyers. Because since the relocation of Changling Order came out, a wave of land selling suddenly appeared among the people, making the land price even lower. I believe the powerful people have understood that a lot of land may not be a good thing.

In this case, only the government has such great ability to accept these industries. Of course, the government must buy land at a low price. Most of the lands of the Qi family and the Zhou family were taken over by the government.

It is false to say that you don’t feel sorry for such a big loss. Qi Taigong was already sick, but now his illness is getting worse and worse, and he is even saddened all of a sudden.

Qi Hong, the grandson of the Grand Duke of Qi, was strong-willed. Because his grandfather died in a cowardly state, he added this resentment to the Mu family, who elected Qi. He gathered some heroes and went to the gate of Mu family to search for opportunities to kill two Mu family children, one of whom was the eldest grandson of the leader of the Mu family.

This time, the thief Cao, the thief in the county, came from the Mu family and immediately took the messenger to the Qi family's mansion to capture the murderer. The Qi family was also very tough and refused to send an official to the government to get people.

At that time, these powerful men had their own armed forces, with hundreds or thousands of people. Dozens of soldiers from the county and county came to their homeland and were no match for them at all. When the thief Cao saw that he could not defeat him, he had to return to the county and report to the prefect, saying that the Qi family had resentment towards the prefect because of the migration, they did not obey the government's management, gathered their followers, and made ill-behavior. To deal with such unruly people, they could only use the army, which meant that they wanted to destroy the Qi family.

Yang Yanshou is a personal spirit, how could he be fooled by his words? Now, because of the migration, he has tormented half of the powerful men in the county, and every family is holding their breath, but there is no place to vent. At present, their resentment is facing other powerful men, and the government is in a neutral position, and can reap the power of a fisherman and strengthen their control over the powerful men.

The Qi family was originally the target of migration, but after being wronged, the powerful people would inevitably be sad about the death of the rabbit and fox. They were quite sympathetic to the Qi family. If the government destroyed the Qi family due to internal conflicts between the powerful, it would probably cause trouble and attract the anger of the powerful to the government.

Yang Yanshou was not stupid. Although he angrily scolded Qi in front of his subordinates, he actually made up his mind to lower the matter. He was thinking of a solution, but he received an urgent letter from Qi Hong, saying that it was because the thief Cao Zheng was a child of the Mu family and he did not dare to entrust his life to him, so he refused to come to the door to the official. Qi only trusted the prefect and was willing to obey the prefect's law. Now he is about to surrender to the county.

Yang Yanshou breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself that it seemed that Qi was wise and gave the government a step. If the matter was handed over to the prefect, he would naturally deal with it according to law. In terms of probability, Qi Hong's death is not likely to be very serious, because the Han Dynasty often had general amnesty for the world, and he could be exempted from the crime of being pardoned by the death penalty.

The emperor has decided to make the world new, and the possibility of a general amnesty is even greater. Qi Hong only needs to eat a prison meal for a while and wait for a general amnesty, and this life will be recovered.

What's more, there was a trend at that time. Under the background of the so-called Confucian "Great Revenge" spirit, society was very tolerant of killing people for revenge for their relatives, and some were even praised by the whole society. Qi Hong's revenge for his grandfather may not necessarily be sentenced to death.

Unexpectedly, an accident happened again.

As soon as Qi Hong arrived in the county, he had not yet reached the prefect's mansion, but he actually met the thief Cao. Without saying a word, he went forward to take the people and did not listen to his excuses. During the dispute, he killed Qi Hong with one knife.

With his feet, he could think that the thief Cao must have received the news. He knew that Qi Hong had entered the city and attacked him before he arrived at the prefect's mansion and killed him in the name of resisting arrest.

But he didn't know that the prefect had a letter from Qi Hong to surrender. He was originally here to surrender, and the so-called refusal to arrest was simply untenable. Such a pro-proposition and taking personal revenge on public affairs made Prefect Yang furious and immediately ordered people to imprison the thief Cao, threatening to punish him severely.

The Qi and Mu surnames are now in the same power, and the other powerful people are not calm. Because there are many powerful people who have made enemies this time, they don’t like each other and keep rubbing. This makes the county and county governments a popular commodity.

The original situation was that the powerful and powerful team joined forces, relying on their local forces, they did not take the government seriously, and they had to discuss with the wealthy families whatever they wanted to do, and they were somewhat begging them. But now, the alliance of the powerful and powerful has broken down. In order to gain support, they all moved closer to the government and tried to use the power of the government to suppress the enemy.

Not only Runan County, but also other counties. Although only more than 100 powerful families were moved this time, they made the counties difficult, and rifted between the powerful people and the authority of the government increased.

The court used this migration to reclaim a large number of idle fields, weakening the power of the wealthy families. Because of concern for future fate, the powerful people's enthusiasm for annexation of land decreased, and a large number of land sold in society even occurred, and the land prices continued to fall. The emperor ordered the government to take action and purchase the land at a low price, and the powerful people were robbed of wool.

The imperial court has more idle fields in its hands, so it naturally needs to release manpower to farm.

The emperor ordered that soldiers over 30 years old in the general be released and given land to them and let them farm. Of course, there should be preferential treatment for soldiers who fought against the country. Each person was granted a hundred acres of land, all of which were up to the land, and the ownership belonged to him, which was equivalent to the treatment of the Red Eyebrow Army that was disbanded in Chang'an.

The emperor issued an edict to pardon the evading households and call on them to return home. Those who had land originally had land went back to continue farming, while those who had no land were organized by the government to participate in the civil settlement. In order to encourage the land of the military farm, the court promised that those who had been farming for more than six years would have the land of the farmer. After that, there was no need to pay the harvest to the government in proportion, and only one-thirty-one of the land tax was paid.

In other words, as long as you work for the government for six years and pay the harvest in half of the proportion within six years, then the land will be your own.

It has been six years since the military farming in Guanxi. When the people of the military farming farming learned that they would own this land, they suddenly heard a thunderous joy and praised His Majesty Jianshi. They were all refugees who had nothing at the time, and they were blessed by the emperor, gave them food and allowed them to survive. Now they were given land and made them proprietors. How could the people not be grateful?

When the hidden households and refugees in Kanto learned of this policy, they immediately set off a wave of returning home, causing the military farming in Kanto to be vigorously carried out. Cao Jin, the general of the Diannong Zhonglang, was very busy. Fortunately, the Han Dynasty had a mature military farming team for so many years, but he had just moved from Kansai to Kanto. They had already become familiar with these things.

Some ministers in the court looked at the wind direction and understood the emperor's intentions. They submitted memorials to propose the release of slaves and prisoners, and further increase the manpower supply in society.

The emperor looked at it, put it aside, and said, "No hurry. You have to eat food one by one, and the road has to be taken step by step. There are too many people coming out at once, and it may cause wasteland. The great man's servants are not only tens of thousands, but they are all released. How can I have so many fields for them to plant? Then they will not be able to make a living, but they will resent me. Let those wealthy families raise them first, and then talk about them when I have fields."

Yang Yin said: "Your Majesty, those prisoners in prison are not supported by wealthy families, and they eat all the food from the court."

"You are right! I have to let them farm, so I won't raise idle people." The emperor frowned and said, "However, they violated the national laws and not only did they not be punished, but instead wanted to plant my fields. How could such a good thing be done? In this case, everyone will try the law with their own body!"

He pondered for a moment and said, "As the same as before, move all the prisoners in the world, go north to west, enrich the border, and develop the southern border, so that they can go to sparsely populated places, go to farmland, and go herd cattle and sheep, the farther away, the better!"

The Changling Order was implemented almost perfectly. Although there were inevitably overestimating the powers of power to confront the government, the emperor was not a benevolent person. He was not soft-hearted when he waved the butcher knife. In Yuyang, an unlucky and powerful family was destroyed, which made the entire Youzhou wealthy family terrified.

In order to deal with Liu Xiu, who was far away in Liaodong, the place with the largest number of troops in the world was Youzhou. The emperor was about to take this opportunity to manage Youzhou well so that this remote area could know the power of the court. The powerful people who dared to cause trouble at this time were really ignorant of life and death.

The implementation of policies requires clear rewards and punishments. In addition to powerful means, the emperor strongly commended the wealthy families that actively cooperated with the court. The Zhou family in Runan praised the emperor for their voluntary migration.

Zhou Jia's "Book of Zhou's Request to Transfer Changling" spread all over the world overnight and became a famous article. The emperor rewarded Zhou's family with money and land, so that he could not be as rich as his wealth in Runan. Zhou Jia himself entered Chang'an as a filial and honest county county, and was used by the emperor directly by his side as a minister. Because he was very clear about the affairs of the county and county tyrants, he was very capable, and the emperor valued him very much, and the subsequent court's policies often had his opinions.

Once when Zhou Jia was serving the emperor, the two chatted about the figures in Runan and accidentally mentioned that they were not in the position of Yuan Chang. When they heard that their surname was Yuan, the emperor paused and asked, "Whoever has the surname Yuan of Runan? Could it be that the family of Runan Yuan of the fourth generation and third generation?"

"Your Majesty, Yuan Chang was born in the Yuan family of Huaiyang and moved to Runan three years ago. Runan does not have Yuan family of four generations and three dukes. I wonder which surname you are talking about?"

The emperor then came to his mind that the Yuan family of the four generations and three dukes he mentioned was actually the family of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu during the Three Kingdoms period, which was more than a hundred years later. It seems that the Yuan family of Runan has not yet made a fortune.

The emperor suddenly asked, "Is there anyone named Yuan An in Yuan Chang's family?"

"Yuan An? No." Zhou Jia shook his head and suddenly stopped, with an incredible look on his face, "Yes, there is indeed Yuan An! Yuan Chang's youngest son born two years ago was named Yuan An. I went to send a gift back then! But Yuan An is just a child, Your Majesty, how did you know?"

The emperor ignored him and just smiled thoughtfully. Yuan An, the ancestor of the Yuan clan of Runan, was the key figure who led the Yuan clan to soar into the sky. The Yuan clan of Runan, the source of the Yuan clan was originally here.
Chapter completed!