The straight and smooth official road extends northwest from the north gate of Lantian County, passing through a large golden wheat field until a manor with high and solid walls lined with houses and walls five miles away.

On the well-built and maintained official road, a young man in a green official uniform was riding a horse with two middle-aged officials who were also dressed in the same costume, as well as a few people who looked like officials. Behind them was a group of archers driving donkey carts.

On both sides of the official road are ripe wheat fields, and the growth of wheat is not good, some are low and sparse, even if Wu Haowen, who does not know how to farm, can see that the harvest is not very good. There were quite a few peasants in short clothes who were harvesting wheat in the fields, and they didn't even bother to look at the officials who passed through the official road and headed to the big village five miles northwest of the county seat.

Because everyone knows that here in Lantian, it is not the county officials in the county town who really have the final say, but the Lu family masters in the Lu family manor in the northwest five miles of the city!

Every county official who goes to Lantian County has to honestly bring gifts to visit several senior officials of the Lu family...... Even if he is the son-in-law of the prime minister!

Of course, if Han Zhongyan came to Jingzhao Mansion in person, the parents of several Shanzi generations of the Lantian Lu family would still have to prepare a thin gift to go to visit, but Wu Haowen really did not have such qualifications. Not only because Wu Haowen is a small civil official - most of the masters of the Lantian Lu Jiashan generation are the descendants of Lantian Silu, although there is no one in the Jinshi, but the official body of Yin Bu is still there, and the official rank is greater than Wu Haowen - but also because Wu Haowen is the younger generation of Luoxue, and Guan Luo's learning is the same, so the old men of the Lujiashan generation are all considered to be the predecessors of Wu Haowen in learning.

How can there be a reason in the world for big officials to worship small officials, and seniors to worship younger generations?

Moreover, with the "Lu Township Covenant", the Lantian Lu family has organized half of Lantian County, and set up a township self-governing group outside the rule of the monarchy, which to a certain extent has hollowed out county officials like Wu Haowen.

Without the nods of the Lu family, Wu Haowen would not have been able to complete the trial implementation of the military system in Lantian even if it was an ordinary tax and conscription.

Although Wu Haowen is a county magistrate, he is alone, can he still be the enemy of half the county?

And with the cooperation of the Lu family, Wu Haowen was able to fool the errand very smoothly...... Therefore, Wu Haowen could only bite the bullet today to send gifts to the Lu family to ask for peace, and at the same time try to persuade several respected elders of the Lu family in Lantian to support the trial of the government military system.

Oh, it's not persuasion, but to ask the elders of the Lantian Lu family for advice - how to fool this matter, a few teachers will teach the juniors!

Although Lu Haishan was very indifferent to the trial government soldiers, Wu Haowen still knew what he wanted to capture. The trial of the government soldiers is not only their own ladder to heaven, but also an opportunity for the Lantian Lu family to hear about the Son of Heaven again......

Just when Wu Haowen was pondering the thoughts of several great Confucians of the Lu family, the chief bookkeeper of Lantian County came to his side and said in a low voice: "County Zun, Lujiazhuang is almost here, and you can't ride a horse in Lujiazhuang." ”

Wu Haowen looked up, and sure enough, he had already arrived outside a rather wide gate. The gate was open, and there were no guards at the door, and it was deserted, and no one came out to greet it. There are a lot of horse-tied pillars at the gate of Zhuangzi, and there is also a "dismount tablet", I don't know who erected it?

"I can't ride a horse either?" Wu Haowen glanced at the village and found that the road inside was straight and wide, and there was no one setting up a stall on the side of the road. Not to mention horseback riding, even horse running is no problem.

"No," the master said with a wry smile, "The rules of the Lantian Lu family are like this, if Li Dafu comes, he may be able to make an exception, but our Jiupin Sesame Official ......"

Wu Haowen sighed and thought: No wonder the teacher would rather run Lao Shizi's "Wenqu Xingxun Bao" in Kaifeng Mansion than come to Lantian County with him to do the curtain...... Lantian's officials are like this, let alone the staff.

But the official is under the eaves, so he has to bow his head!

"Okay," Wu Haowen smiled slightly, "get off the horse, Brother Zhongwen." ”

After getting off the horse, Wu Haowen called the name of Lu Haishan, the representative of the Lu family in the county seat.

A middle-aged scholar in his thirties, who looked a little shriveled and looked a little rustic, had already flipped off his horse, walked up to Wu Haowen, and saluted: "County Zun, it's time for the family school to start teaching, and Xuandelang and Mr. Ida are giving lectures, so I can't come out to greet them." ”

Xuandelang was the rank official of Lu Jingshan, and Lu Jingshan's father Lu Dafang Shaosheng died in the fourth year (1097), and Lu Jingshan was worried for three years until last year. After that, Lu Jingshan did not come out to be an official immediately, but continued to lecture in his hometown.

Mr. Ida refers to Lu Yishan, Lu Yishan is the son of Lu Dajun, who did not become an official, but devoted himself to the knowledge left by his father. He once tried the Ida system in his hometown, so he got the nickname "Mr. Idada", and everyone called him Mr. Ida in Lantian.

"Since the two gentlemen are both lecturing," Wu Haowen is also an interesting person, and he understood what Lu Haishan's words meant, so he smiled modestly, "Then the official will go and listen to the lecture...... This official is also a junior of Guan Luo's school, and he can just ask his predecessors about the Ida system and the government military system. ”

……

“…… Nowadays, the military system of the government that people in the world say is actually two kinds of military systems, roughly bounded by the opening ten years of the Sui Dynasty. The soldiers of the military government, starting from the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, although they were also farmers and soldiers, but they were separated from the soldiers and the people. The family of the army, the family of the military government, has served for generations. The people who cultivate do not serve in the military. After the Sui Emperor destroyed Chen, the four seas were unified, the world was peaceful, and the military people should be suppressed by the rule of culture, so the military system was reformed, and the home of the government soldiers was returned to the state and county. Therefore, ten years after the opening of the emperor, the system of government soldiers changed from the world army to the transfer of private wealthy families to join the army......"

When Wu Haowen arrived at the Lu family school, in the lobby of the family school, there were indeed two middle-aged scribes explaining the military system to a group of young scholars. The main lecture was a tall scribe with long hair, which reminded Wu Haowen of his teacher Hou Zhongliang.

The scribe who was the main lecturer was Lu Yishan, and he seemed to see Wu Haowen and Lu Haishan walking into the class—the two did not bother with the lecture, but found a corner and sat down—he paused slightly, nodded lightly at the guest, and continued to speak.

"And now what kind of government military system does the imperial court want to try? Is it the military government, or is it the integration of the army and the people? If you want the army to be a soldier, you must give land and soil to raise soldiers with land and supply it thickly. If you want to unite the army and the people, you must draw the rich and force the rich to join the army. Is there a way to do both of these in today's world? ”

In fact, the former kind of government soldiers mentioned by Lu Yishan are similar to the river knights of the realm, because they are cavalry, so they give more land, reaching 1,500 acres per household. However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, where the total population was estimated to exceed 100 million, it was difficult to promote this kind of government soldiers on a large scale.

The latter is also impossible to achieve, because the landlords and rich peasants of the Northern Song Dynasty mainly studied and took the imperial examination, who was willing to join the army as a government soldier?

Wu Haowen knew that those two questions were not asked to himself, but to teach himself - he was a post-learner, and he was born in a merchant family in Kaifeng Prefecture, so what kind of soldiers did he know?

So he got up very modestly and said, "This is Mr. Ida?" When Xia Guan was in Kaifeng Mansion, he often heard his teacher talk about the 'Township Covenant' and 'Jing Tian' of the Lantian Lu clan, and I also heard that Mr. Jing Tian had studied the military system. Therefore, I came to the door today, and I hope that the gentleman will give him advice. ”

That's a good attitude...... It's much better than his brother who doesn't know how thick the sky is.

Lu Yishan nodded lightly, showing an expression of appreciation.

He, like Cheng Yi and Hou Zhongliang, is a Confucian who does learning, not a Confucian who takes the imperial examination.

And the Lu family's learning is not the kind of "preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires" that Ercheng engaged in - they are not seeking the Tao, but studying institutional ethics. The "Lü Township Covenant", the Jingtian system and the government military system are the learning of the Lu family. The two generations of the Lu family have studied for decades, and they are not as proficient as Wu Haowen, a fledgling Jiupin official?

And Wu Haowen's thoughts, how can these people of the Lu family not understand? He just wants to fool things around, and he can be promoted if he fools the past, and as for whether the government soldiers can succeed in the end, he doesn't want to ask more! However, the Lantian Lu family was unwilling to cooperate with Wu Haowen to fool the emperor, either they really did it, or they ended it as soon as possible, saving a lot of harm to the people!

Lu Yishan smiled and said, "Although the system of government soldiers collapsed in the Tang Dynasty, then there may not be a time for revival in the world. Five seasons later, it was stipulated that each tax household should send a total of one soldier to each of the seven households, and bring their own armaments. Our dynasty followed the legacy system of the Zhou Dynasty after the five seasons, and set up township soldiers in the early days of the dynasty, and now the archers set up in various places on the northwest edge belong to the township soldiers. But now, except for the archers on the northwest edge, most of the village soldiers have no combat power. The reason for this is that there are village soldiers but no well fields and no township covenants, and there is a form but no god, so it is a piece of scattered sand. ”

Township Covenant, Jingtian, Fubing...... It turned out that Lu Yishan wore these three!

"Therefore, if you want to go to the army, you must go to the well field first, and if you want to go to the well field, you must first make a township covenant." Lu Yishan shook his head and said, "The township covenant started from Zhou Li, and Zhou Li said: five families are compared, ten families are united, five people are together, ten people are united, four Lu are clans, and eight Lu are united." so that they may protect and receive each other, punish and reward each other, and share them together, so that they may receive state duties, serve the state, and bury each other. In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Warring States Period, the Zhou rites had not yet collapsed, and the Helu was still one, and the wise men and doctors were still in the shadows, so the countries could send a large number of village soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of them were at every turn, although the attacks were endless, but they would not disintegrate the whole country. Now, if you want to carry out the government army, you must first revert to the law, use the township covenant to make the wise men and doctors govern the people, and use the well fields to make the people have no worries about food and clothing, and then they can form a comparison and share the state affairs. ”