Civil Affairs

The year of Ganlu was not bad. After a heavy snowfall in March, the climate returned to normal and it rained one after another.

The river water is abundant, and some lower-grade fields become higher-grade fields, and the upper-grade fields become more fertile.

Many people actively cultivate wasteland after cultivating their own fields.

Mulberries and hemp are planted in the mountains, fish ponds are surrounded by tidal flats, and grasslands are turned into pastures.

In the land of Guanzhong, chickens and dogs hear each other, and the streets are connected with each other.

There are children running and laughing everywhere.

The Xianbei people, Qiang people, Hu people, and Huns people have gradually faded away. They speak pure Chinese, wear Han clothes, and live in houses with Han courtyard styles.

Of course, if you don't want to be Chinese, you will have no choice but to stay in the waiting stage for the rest of your life. The land tax is 20% higher than that of governing the people.

Children and grandchildren cannot study for the imperial examinations, nor can they enter the Youth Camp. Even if they join the army, unless they have the merit of first ascending to the throne and killing generals, they will remain soldiers all their lives, and their military merit will be halved at the 12th rank.

Under various measures and adjustments, various ethnic groups were unknowingly Chineseized.

Only some old people and young people in Chang'an City still maintain the old traditions of the Xiongnu and Xianbei. They don't have a house to live in, so they have to set up a tent in the yard, and everyone else's fields are cultivated, and their fields are planted with grass and sheep...

However, these people are destined to be submerged in the tide of the times.

What their next generation sees, hears and feels when they go out are all the customs and customs of the Han family. Living in such a big environment, it is impossible not to change.

Yang Zheng attaches great importance to children.

Set up a nursing home in Chang'an and provide broth every other day.

While eating meat and drinking soup, Xuanyi Lang began to tell stories, and various stories were filled with private goods.

Why is the King of Qin a saint descended from heaven to save the suffering grassland herdsmen and the people of the Central Plains?

Two thousand years ago, everyone was a family and drank water from the Yellow River together.

It is not simply preaching, but integrated into various fairy tale-like stories and performed vividly.

Xuanyi ordered Wei Zhu to take charge of this matter and sent the written story to Yang Zheng for approval.

Yang Zheng added more interest based on the experiences of later generations.

The Youth Camp became a children's organization, and selected outstanding children, regardless of ethnic group, were sent to Taixue for further education.

Taixue became a comprehensive university.

Yang Zheng also added a lot of private goods. Although Confucianism is still the mainstream, its proportion is decreasing, and the proportion of arithmetic, medicine, alchemy, and studying things is secretly increasing.

Huangfumi and Ji Kang are both great in this regard.

Zhang Hu and Du Kuan also wrote quite a lot.

Feng Qi, who was far away in the Western Regions, somehow tricked some scholars into coming here, carrying a thick book bag.

The Qin State was stable, and the number of monks in Tianzhu increased a lot.

But most of them gather in Guzang.

Guzang has become a place of learning and thought, where various civilizations collide, from east to west, from north to south.

Confucianism originally disdained communicating with these evil sects, but at Yang Zheng's insistence, Du Kuan and Zhang Wei joined them with a group of Confucian scholars to start an ideological collision with Western scholars.

Yang Zheng feels that as long as any civilization remains stubborn, it will begin to decline.

Even in this era, when Chinese civilization stands at the pinnacle, it still needs to open its eyes and look at others.

The most enthusiastic monks are from Tianzhu. How can they be ordinary people who have traveled thousands of miles from Tianzhu?

Almost all of them are scholars from Tianzhu.

In about one year after arriving in Guzang, you will be able to master Chinese proficiently, be able to speak and write, and translate Buddhist scriptures in large quantities.

The most famous one is Zhu Fo Tucheng, a native of Tianzhu. He became a monk in the country of Wu Chang at the age of nine. He went to Jibin twice to study Dharma. After completing his studies, he traveled to various countries in the Western Regions. He became famous for a while and had nearly a thousand disciples. He was highly respected in the Western Plains.

He was nicknamed the "Divine Monk" and later entered Guzang from the Hexi Corridor. He debated with Zhang Xiu, Du Kuan and other scholars from the Western Regions, and became famous for a while.

Yang Zheng thought, if Buddhism flourishes, it will be a powerful weapon to control the grasslands and the Western Regions.

Of course, too much is not enough, and if this thing develops too unscrupulously, it will not be a good thing.

It depends on how you manage it.

It happened that Zhu Fotucheng proposed to the government to build a new Buddhist temple.

Yang Zheng brought it under the jurisdiction of the government. All monks must pass the examination of the Xuanyi Department and get the certificate to be a real monk, otherwise they are illegal monks.

Buddhist temples in Hexi and the Western Regions also had to pay taxes on a per capita basis, and if they had Buddhist fields, they had to pay land taxes. Yang Zheng only exempted them from corvee service.

Guzang has a strong academic atmosphere, and the biggest reason is because of paper.

This is definitely one of the major contributions of Chinese civilization.

The increased demand for paper allowed powerful people to see a way to make money and build paper workshops one after another.

However, in order to prevent environmental degradation on the Loess Plateau and the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Yang Zheng banned the construction of paper workshops in Hexi, Guanlong, and Hetao.

Only in Shuzhong and Nanzhong are they supported on a large scale.

It can also be regarded as a compensation for the powerful people in Sichuan.

Papermaking in Sichuan is far away from Hexi, which also avoids leakage of technology.

In Yang Zheng's understanding, when a country becomes strong, its culture will definitely prosper.

There are more paper-making workshops, technology is slowly improving, and the price of paper is slowly coming down. With the addition of government-controlled printing shops.

There are a lot of books on the market.

Confucian classics, poems and songs, as well as "Sima Shi", "The Rise of the Qin Dynasty", "New Three Kingdoms" and so on published by the Xuanyi Department.

Although the name is weird, the printing and cutting is very rough, and the paper quality is also very poor, it is cheaper than anything else.

A book costs about 20 yuan, which can be afforded by middle-class families.

Yang Zheng also set up a library and added a variety of picture books and short story books that could be rented for only one penny for three days.

If you study in the library, it is free.

Of course, people are busy making a living and not many can read, but children can read a lot after receiving two or three years of free education in public schools.

They are the ones who visit the library the most.

The other two beneficiaries are scholars from poor families and students from common people. Many books are monopolized by powerful people and ordinary people cannot read them at all, and libraries are almost free.

In later generations, Yang Zheng still remembered something. Zeng Guofan took a fancy to a copy of "Twenty-Three Histories" and asked for one hundred taels of silver, equivalent to fifteen thousand to twenty thousand yuan in later generations. He pawned his clothes and borrowed the money.

I bought it with great effort and I am very happy...

This was still the Qing Dynasty when productivity was relatively developed. You can imagine the price of a book during the Three Kingdoms era.

Ordinary people may never see the shadow of books in their lifetime.

Of course, in addition to the simplecover version, there is also a hardcover version with gorgeous binding, white paper, fine brown, ink, and paste. The cover is also painted with gold and silver threads, decorated with silk brocade, etc., and was copied by someone with superb calligraphy skills.

, but such a book is directly equivalent to gold.

He was highly sought after by powerful scholars.

When a copy comes out, I buy one at a high price...

Some nobles from the Central Plains even made a special trip to place orders.

Perhaps seeing the huge business opportunities, many scholars who failed the imperial examination no longer returned to their hometowns to farm, but instead copied Buddhist scriptures and Confucian classics in Guzang and Chang'an.

The powerful sons of the gentry disdain to do this, but it is the way of life for many common people from poor families.

At this stage, the library is still losing money, but Yang Zheng insists on establishing it.

No effect can be seen in one or two years, but in ten or eight years, it can cause a dimensionality reduction blow to the noble families.
Chapter completed!