"Without pillars and foundation stones, it will inevitably collapse..."
Wang Anshi replied in a deep voice.
Kou Ji smiled with satisfaction and said: "That's all I learned today. Think about this issue carefully when you go back. It will be of great benefit to you in the future."
Wang Anshi thanked Kou Ji for his teachings, packed his things and left the study.
After Wang Anshi left, Kou Ji said to himself: "Boy, you are the prime minister of that utopian country. The decree that made the people miserable is the Qingmiao Law."
There was only one person in the study, and no one heard Kou Ji's muttering to himself.
Kou Ji stayed in the study for a long time after Wang Anshi left.
Then go back to your room and sleep.
The next day, Kou Ji met Liang Shi in the main hall.
Liang Shi is a middle-aged man, three years older than Kou Ji.
The Liang family is a famous family.
Liang Shi's father and brother were both the number one scholar in the Song Dynasty, and they are known among the people as the number one scholar in the Song Dynasty.
In the history books, from Liang Shiguan to the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, father and son were known as the "Three Liangs of Loyalty and Filial Piety", as famous as the "Three Heroes of the Chen Family" and the Three Sus of Wenqing.
He has eight sons, each of whom is an outstanding person.
There are even more grandchildren.
Among them, ten out of ten live in temples.
In the Song Dynasty, he gained a reputation as "mantangwa, Liang Banchao".
Other people call it Banchao, which is the accumulation of old friends and disciples.
His family relies on its own people.
However, Liang Shi's official career was somewhat bumpy.
Both his father and son died early, which caused him to live in another house again and again, missing the best time to become an official, and he did not prepare to take the imperial examination until his thirties.
The appearance of Kou Ji disrupted history and caused another glitch in his career.
He should have passed the Jinshi examination and become an official.
However, because of the appearance of Wenchang Academy, he temporarily gave up the scientific examination and entered Wenchang Academy to study.
Kou Zhun left those words behind when he left Bianjing City.
He resolutely followed Kou Zhun and rushed to Han Dynasty, becoming one of Kou Zhun's many followers.
After Kou Ji learned about the details of his family, he always felt that this person was deliberately recruited by Kou Zhun.
After all, his family has a good academic background and a rigorous family tradition, and all the children in his family are outstanding people.
Kou Zhun recruited him, which was equivalent to recruiting a talented person.
With the help of Liang's family, Kou Zhun could not only quickly establish his cultural background in Korea, but also quickly build up all levels of yamen in Korea.
Kou Ji plans to ask about this matter when he gets to Han.
Liang Shi met Kou Ji and bowed respectfully, "Your Majesty, Liang Shi, see the old prince..."
Liang Shi now serves as the chief official in the Han Palace, and he can be regarded as Kou Tianci's retainer. It is also appropriate for him to call himself a minister in front of Kou Ji.
It's just that the word "Lao Wangye" sounds a bit harsh.
Although in this era where the average age is around thirty, those over thirty are qualified to be called old.
But Kou Ji still didn't like it.
He has always felt that only people over sixty years old are qualified to be called old.
But Kou Ji didn't want to care about it.
After Liang Shi saluted, Kou Ji raised his hand slightly and asked, "How is everything in Han Di now?"
Liang Shi said seriously: "Back to the old prince, there are now 60,000 households in Han, 130,000 criminal households, 170,000 soldiers, and 23 million dans of grain, mostly rice.
Kou Gong divided Han into one capital, two prefectures, eight states and thirty-two counties.
Now Kaiping has been designated as a capital, named Hancheng, also called Handu.
The two prefectures are North and South respectively, with Linhai Prefecture in the south and Guiyi Prefecture in the north.
The other eight states and thirty-two counties each have their own names."
Kou Ji could completely understand Kou Zhun's re-division of Han and his renaming of various places in Han.
Kou Ji's move was to cut off the remnants of Goryeo.
As long as the Kou family rules that land long enough.
People in that area will gradually forget the place names of various places in Goryeo in the past.
When the people in that area became familiar with the place names, learned new knowledge, and spoke Chinese, then Goryeo would be completely destroyed.
Kou Ji pretended to be shocked and said: "Tianci is just a prince, not the leader of a country, how can he build a capital? Also, 170,000 soldiers and horses? Where did they come from? Where did 60,000 households of common people come from?
Came out?
I remember that when my grandfather and Tianci went to Korea, they only brought less than 13,000 people with them.
More than two hundred thousand people appeared out of nowhere?
The number of registered households has not changed. Could it be that they were robbed from the Song Dynasty?"
When Kou Ji finished speaking, panic appeared on his face.
Seeing this, Liang Shi quickly explained: "General Di Qingdi is in command in Liao. Who dares to snatch people from Liao? Duke Kou restrains the soldiers and horses of Han, and the people of Han never cross the border without permission."
Yalu River.
The establishment of the capital in Han Dynasty was allowed by the officials.
The officials secretly gave the princess a secret decree, and the princess only announced it to the public after she arrived in Korea.
It was precisely because of the official's will that Kou Gong dared to establish the capital of Han.
As for the extra people in Han, some of them were brought by Duke Kou and the prince when they went there, and some were brought by the princess when she went there.
The rest is all in effect.”
Kou Ji pretended not to believe it and asked: "More than 100,000 people surrendered. Are you kidding me? I have never heard of hundreds of thousands of people leaving that place nearby."
Liang Shi hesitated for a moment and said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "I dare not deceive the old prince. Those people are all remnants wandering on the sea. Some are from the former Sui Dynasty and some are from the former Tang Dynasty. Their ancestors seem to be soldiers from the former Sui Dynasty and the former Tang Dynasty, so
All of them have weapons and armor, and their martial arts are not weak either.
They appeared when the prince was patrolling the seaside.
When the prince saw that they had been wandering on the sea without a fixed residence, he took them in and classified them as citizens.
He also exempted them from taxes for two years and issued them criminal certificates for them to drive.
There were many disabled men and single men among them, so the prince also gave them some convict women as wives.
Since their family size was too small, the prince divided them into two or three households.
After they settled down, the prince admired their martial arts and summoned them to serve as soldiers.
To be honest, I didn't expect that the prince's casual move would cause such a big reaction.
After those people settled down, they saw that the prince was a diligent and caring prince, so they summoned their friends to go to sea and brought many survivors from the sea.
I never expected that in one year, they would collect nearly 200,000 people from the sea."
Kou Ji looked horrified, "There are actually more than 200,000 people floating on the sea. How come we didn't notice it before? With such a huge number of people floating on the sea, there is no way there is no sound at all."
Have you confirmed that those people often wander at sea?"
Liang Shi solemnly said: "I have carefully observed that some of them should have drifted on the sea, but some of them should have been on land all year round."
Kou Ji raised his eyebrows and asked: "You mean, some of them may have problems with their origins?"
Liang Shi nodded and said: "I think their origin is a mystery. I searched along the sea for a long time, but nothing was found."
Kou Ji frowned and said, "Two hundred thousand people appeared out of thin air?"
Liang Shi pondered and said: "I feel that some of them should have come from the place north of Wei Shi, and some of them have come from the islands on the sea.
They should have been lurking at sea and in the far north.
There is some communication in the middle.
Chen looked through Goryeo's suicide note and found traces of their interactions in it.
They should be the survivors of the former Tang and Sui Dynasties."
Kou Ji thought about it and said: "Then why can't they make it? They can't come out late, but they come out at this time."
Liang Shi said in a deep voice: "Kou Gong said it may be related to the fact that the north outside Wei's house is getting colder and colder."
Kou Ji pondered and said: "You said before that they have considerable strength, and they can definitely pick a piece of unclaimed land and occupy the mountain as king.
Why didn’t you show off your appearance before?”
Liang Shi said frankly: "I sent someone to ask them privately, and they said that they were waiting for me, the Han Dynasty, to regain Goryeo. When I, the Song Dynasty, attacked Goryeo, they were ready to contribute. But they didn't wait until they followed.
We contacted each other and we conquered Goryeo."
Kou Ji gritted his teeth and said: "That's all, what they say is true or false. We will believe their words for the time being. When you go back, tell Tianci that as long as they regard themselves as the common people of Han, obey them.
According to the laws of Korea, we will just forget about it and accept them.
As if they are our people.
If they have other intentions, then ask Di Qing for help and let Di Qing lead his troops to clean them up."
Liang Shi nodded and said: "Kou Gong said the same thing. Kou Gong said that Han is short of people now, so as long as they are descendants of our Han family, we should accept them.
We don't ask about their origins.
After three generations, no matter what their previous identities were, they will become Koreans through and through.
As for whether they have different intentions, there is no need to worry at all.
Kou Gong said, as long as you are still in the Song Dynasty, no one can make waves in Korea. Anyone who makes waves in Korea will be killed by your troops.
Therefore, the prince felt relieved and recruited all the young men among them as soldiers and assigned them to various places to guard."
Kou Ji let out a long breath and said: "Grandpa is right... As long as there is any trouble in Han, I will inform the officials and dispatch Di Qing to lead the army to march straight in."
Liang Shi nodded seriously.
Kou Ji seemed to have put aside his worries and asked Liang Shi with a smile, "How are the farming in Han, the circulation of goods, and the establishment of new schools?"
When Liang Shi heard this, a smile appeared on his face, "Although the details of those people who came from the sea are unknown, they are all murderers, and they punished the criminals in Han.
Those criminals are very diligent in farming.
In addition to the original fertile land in Korea, nearly one million acres of fertile land have been reclaimed.
We went late this year, so we only planted one season of beans.
The prince spent money to buy more than 20 million tons of grain from Cochin and is now feeding the people.
Next year, as long as there are no natural disasters, we will definitely have a good harvest.
We brought a lot of stewards with us when we went there. When yamen were established in various places, the stewards also took people to set up grain stores, cloth stores and other shops in various places.
Those who came from the sea also opened some shops.
Although it is still very depressed, goods have begun to circulate everywhere.
In the middle of the year, the imperial court opened a border market along the Yalu River.
Many merchants swarmed in and brought a lot of goods.
The steward of the palace purchased some goods from all over Korea and sold them in border markets.
The two parties exchanged what they had, and in just one and a half seasons, they brought 300,000 yuan in tax revenue to the palace.
In the future, when our cities in various parts of Korea become fully prosperous, the tax revenue we will harvest will definitely be even greater."
Kou Ji listened to Liang Shi's story with a happy smile on his face.
Although he had already known what Liang Shi said through Kou Tianci's letter.
But now that Liang Shi was telling the story again, he still had to look happy.
"Where's the academy?"
Koji asked with a smile.
Liang Shi said with a bright smile: "Kaicheng, which is now Hancheng, has the Taixue left by Goryeo. After Kou Gong led his people to Hancheng, he started teaching at Taixue.
The people sent by the government demolished part of the Imperial College left by Goryeo.
Then, materials were used to build a huge academy based on the Imperial College of Korea.
It covers an area of 10,000 acres and has all kinds of pavilions and pavilions.
Kou Gong took advantage of the situation and opened many subjects.
There are just a few students.
However, after the survivors from the sea entered Korea, some of them were added.
Currently, there are 642 teachers and only over 300 students.
Kou Gong said that there will definitely be more than ten thousand students in the future."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, "Ten thousand acres? Half of Hancheng is accommodated, right?"
Liang Shi smiled and said: "No...just a quarter."
Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "That's not small... Ten thousand acres can no longer be described as a school. It should be called a school palace. My grandfather asked the officials to help him build a school palace. Aren't you afraid of being scolded by the officials?"
Building a palace covering an area of 10,000 acres is no different from building a palace complex covering an area of 10,000 acres.
Such a huge project requires a considerable amount of money.
Zhao Zhen paid for this money himself.
Liang Shi said with a smile: "Labor is free, and lumber is almost free. If you remove these two things, the cost will not be that big. Otherwise, Kou Gong would not have opened his mouth to build a 10,000-acre academy."
Of course, Kou Gong asked the court to build only some of the core places.
Most places are vacant.
Kou Gong said that when there are more students later, we can build it again."
Kou Ji thought for a moment and said: "My grandfather would not do thankless things. He occupied ten thousand acres of land in one go. Is there any other deeper meaning?"
Liang Shi nodded and said: "The old prince can guess right. Kou Gong did this because he had no choice. Hancheng was the capital of Goryeo in the past, and it covers a large area. After the people inside were assigned to the crime list, they were assigned
He went to other places and became a farmer.
Hancheng is an empty city.
At present, there are only 13,000 people we brought here, and 10,000 soldiers and their families who came from the sea. Almost all the sinners who farm around Hancheng live in some villages outside Hancheng.
Hancheng looks very depressed.
That’s why Mr. Kou came up with this strategy.”
Kou Ji nodded slowly and said, "Where are the elementary schools in various places?"
Liang Shi said with a smile: "Mongolian schools have been established in various places, and the nobles in Korea have been cleaned up. So many mansions have been vacated. In addition to those allocated to the common people, there are still many left.
As long as you take a little rest, you can become a Montessori Society.
Not only the children of the common people are studying in Mengxue, but also the children with criminal records are studying in Mengxue.”
Kou Ji pondered and said: "You should only have established elementary schools in the county, and there should be no elementary schools in the villages and towns. How do you solve the problem of traveling back and forth for children with criminal records?"
Liang Shi laughed in a low voice and said: "The prince sent someone to tell those criminals clearly that studying for the children was their only hope of leaving the country. He asked them to send the children over six years old out and live in a school in the city.
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They did everything they could to get out of the country.
There were even a lot of girls packed in.
Kou Gong took pity on them and knew that some of them only had girls in their families, so he took advantage of the situation and included the girls in elementary school."
Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "In order to make them work submissively, you actually used other people's children as hostages."
Liang Shi said decisively: "We are disciples of saints, and we cannot do such unscrupulous things. We have made the stakes clear to them.
If they don’t want to, we will never force them.”
Kou Ji shook his head and asked with a smile: "Have those children become much more well-behaved after they entered the city to study?"
Liang Shi nodded solemnly, "Your Majesty was kind and allowed those children to go home for seven days a month. After those children returned home, they told everything they had done in school.
The criminals know that we are sincerely educating those children to read, rather than using them to do evil things.
So I obeyed a lot.”
Kou Ji smiled bitterly and said: "This is worse than using someone as a hostage..."
Liang Shi smiled in a low voice without saying anything.
After Kou Ji smiled bitterly, he said to Liang Shi: "When I go back, I will tell Tianci that the conditions for deportation can be lowered. Han Dynasty is not as good as the Song Dynasty. They don't need to pass the Jinshi examination, as long as they can pass the imperial examination established by the two subsequent governments.
As for the academy established by my grandfather, for the time being, it only accepts Han Miao descendants.
Those children who were born to men from my Han family, or who married into my Han family, are also counted among them.
If both parents are convicted of crimes, they can only stop at the government school."
Liang Shi hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
What he studied were the articles of saints, and what he said was that there is no discrimination without distinction.
However, Kou Ji spoke and blocked the children from the door, and there was nothing he could do to stop them.
Thinking of Kou Ji's brutal methods against people outside the Song Dynasty, he could also understand Kou Ji's approach.
After giving instructions on education, Kou Ji started to give other instructions, "When there is slack in farming, you can let sinners and soldiers build official roads. Official roads are a must."
One hundred and seventy thousand soldiers is a bit too much.
Some of the 170,000 soldiers with disabilities should be selected and sent to government offices at all levels to serve as petty officials and government servants.
Each county can keep 500 riders.
Each state can keep three thousand cavalry.
Each government can leave 10,000 infantry.
Fifty thousand people can be drawn from among the people and organized into an army, and a battalion of 15,000 people can be stationed in various fortresses in Korea.
Another 30,000 people were recruited to form a navy army, which was still a battalion of 5,000 people and were stationed at the six corners of Korea.
Hancheng can keep 12,000.
Two thousand of them and the princess's 3,000 soldiers formed the Hancheng guard.
Another ten thousand can be stationed on the edge of Hancheng to act as a suppressing army."
Liang Shi calculated carefully and said: "In this way, there are only 150,000 soldiers left. After the remaining 20,000 people are transferred to various places as government servants, there should be more than 17,000 people left."
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How are they accommodated?”
Kou Ji said confidently: "Some people can serve as postmasters and postmasters of the post station. Others can serve as the head of the locality, the head of the township, etc."
Liang Shi calculated it and said: "There are still 14,000 people left."
Kou Ji said with a smile: "The remaining people are distributed to different places, with one head per ten households. One head of a household leads two households and controls the criminal registration of eight households."
Liang Shi's eyes lit up and he clapped his hands and said, "Wonderful!"
Kou Ji smiled and said nothing.
Han Dynasty is only the land of the Song Dynasty.
It is far easier to manage than the Song Dynasty.
Kou Ji, a Tongzhongshu who governed the Song Dynasty, could easily govern a small Korean land.
This is even more true for Kou Zhun.
In fact, this method was not thought up by Kou Ji.
But Kou Zhun.
Kou Ji is now entangled in all the affairs of the Song Dynasty and has no time to deal with the problems of Han Dynasty.
Kou Zhun came up with this method after carefully understanding the situation of the people in Han.
He knew the details of the soldiers who came from the sea, and knew that those people were now loyal to Kou Ji, not Kou Tianci.
Therefore, when the officers and soldiers disrupt their distribution, Kou Ji must speak up before the officers and soldiers will listen.
Kou Ji now uses Liang Shi to bring the words back, which is just right.
After Liang Shi praised Kou Ji, he couldn't help but said: "Old Prince, you have almost allocated most of your troops to the interior of Han. There are only 30,000 naval troops on the border.
There is not even a strong army on the Yalu River, aren't you afraid?"
Kou Ji laughed loudly, "What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I will send troops to attack your fiefdom?"
When Liang Shi heard this, he was not embarrassed. Instead, he said seriously: "You have to prepare for the future. You can't stay in Bianjing forever."
Hearing this, Kou Ji put away the smile on his face and looked at Liang Shi seriously, "Are you ready to take root in Han?"
Liang Shi asked back: "I am already a retainer of the Kou family. Do you think I still have room to regret it?"
Kou Jizheng said seriously: "If you are tired of staying in Han and are willing to work in Bianjing City, I can help you."
Liang Shi smiled and shook his head and said: "Since you have already served as an official in Han Dynasty, it is meaningless to serve as an official in Bianjing City. You will not gain any trust."
When Kou Ji heard this, he knew that Liang Shi really planned to stay in Han.
Kou Ji felt very emotional about this.
He really wanted to ask Kou Zhun what kind of soup he fed this guy to make him so loyal to Kou.
Kou Ji stared at Liang Shi and said: "Since you have decided to take root in Han, I am not afraid to tell you some truth. There are too few people in Han now.
If there are too many soldiers and horses, there will be no one to lead those sinners to cultivate the land.
So we have to wait until the population increases before we can support more soldiers and horses."
Liang Shi hesitated for a moment and said in a deep voice: "You must not have the intention of harming others, and you must have the intention of guarding against others."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "I understand this truth. But as long as I am in the Song Dynasty, there will be no problems in Han. What's more, once there is a problem in Han, other places may be in trouble."
Liang Shi pondered for a moment and said, "I hope so..."
Kou Ji said with a warm smile: "What did you bring to pay tribute this time?"