Although An Tao and Lu Wangzhi were overshadowed by Wu Hao, they were not stupid, otherwise how could they be such big officials?

They knew that such a bad trick could not be thought up by the two honest people Han Zhongyan and Fan Chunli. It must have been done by Wu Haogu, Gao Yu and Pan Xiao'an, three fortunate villains.

Only the villain will come up with a trick!

And to break the villain's tricks, the best way is, of course, to kill the villain. As long as the villain dies or gets out, even if the trick succeeds, it won't hurt much.

But Wu Haogu, Gao Yu, and Pan Xiao'an, these villains are deeply favored by the officials, and it is not easy to die.

And among the three villains, except for Pan Xiao'an, who is still in Kaifeng Mansion, the other two have gone to Cangzhou to do business. If An Tao and Lu Jiawen were only exerting their efforts in Kaifeng Mansion, it would seem a bit beyond their reach.

So Lu Yihao and Ji Yi, who were going north to Cangzhou tomorrow, were both called to Lu Jiawen's mansion.

"Both of you are good men who are famous outside the Donghua Gate, and you are both civil and military, and you are the pillars of the country's future."

An Tao first praised the two young officials in front of him. In fact, it's not exactly blowing, Ji Yi and Lu Yihao, who were in the officialdom of the Northern Song Dynasty, were both officials who could write and martial arts. Because Ji Yi is from Pingjiang, his riding skills are a little worse, but he is good at sword dancing and archery, and he is also familiar with the art of war formation. Lu Yihao is a little stronger than Ji Yi, he grew up in the northwest since he was a child, not only read well, but also good at pommel horse bow and sword, a real all-round talent in civil and military affairs.

An Tao looked at the two "civil and military all-rounders", paused, and said: "You are all people who are familiar with the annals of history, and you are also quite insightful about the military system of the Sui and Tang dynasties. It should be understood that what Wu Haogu and Gao Yu did in Cangzhou will definitely corrupt the family law of the ancestors of this dynasty! ”

Ji Yi and Lu Yihao are both understanding people, so they naturally understand what An Tao said. The "knight in front of the palace" is actually a variant of the guards of the Inner Mansion in the early Tang Dynasty, and the system is more perfect and easier to maintain, with as much as 1,500 acres of vocational land.

Don't look at the fact that there are only 500-1000 places now, but once the "knight in front of the palace" system is implemented, the imperial court will really get the available soldiers and horses, and expansion will be inevitable.

1,500 acres of land and the treatment of the imperial front are extremely attractive to the generals of Kaifeng Mansion. If it is allowed to expand, it is possible to reach 5,000 or even 10,000 in the future...... Dingtian is 15 million acres of land, is it really impossible to take it out? In fact, it is almost impossible to put the land of the herd division into it.

Once there are 10,000 knights' homes, knights will be a political force to be reckoned with. They are guarding the heavenly family, and they have strong economic strength, and they are also in the same breath as the generals and nobles.

At that time, the warriors will have money, soldiers, background, and closeness to the Son of Heaven...... The ancestral family law of Wen Yuwu is about to become a piece of waste paper!

Knowing what An Tao meant, Ji Yi immediately said: "What the privy councillor said is extremely true, the lower officials must find ways to spoil Wu Haogu's treacherous plan when he goes to Cangzhou." ”

He had already accepted the same task, so the protagonist of today's night party was not him, but Lu Yihao.

Lu Yihao did not immediately agree, but asked An Tao: "In the eyes of the privymen, what kind of soldier is the best to use?" ”

"The best one, of course, is the village soldier." An Tao replied a little embarrassed by rubbing his beard.

Because the suggestion of "government soldier practice" was actually put forward by Wu Haogu - although Wu Haogu was not named, but it was published in Wu Haogu's "Wenqu Xing" magazine, who still doesn't know what Wu Haogu meant?

Before the proposal of "government soldier practice" appeared, both An Tao and Zeng Bu were optimistic about the line of the military academy, that is, to train basic officers and mercenaries.

"Where do the Privy Counsellors want to practice the law of the country soldiers?" Lu Yihao asked again.

That's a problem. Fan Zhongyan wanted to recruit government soldiers in Gyeonggi back then, but he attracted unanimous opposition.

Therefore, Zeng Bu and An Tao have discussed repeatedly these days, and they also feel that they can't engage in government military practice around Kaifeng Mansion, but there is no direction for where to practice.

"Yuan Zhi," An Tao asked rhetorically, "where do you think it is best to try out the method of government soldiers?" ”

"Xiaguan thinks that the trial in Lantian County in Jingzhao Mansion is the top." Lu Yihao said.

An Tao asked: "Is it because of the "Lantian Lu Family Township Covenant"? ”

"Exactly." Lu Yihao stroked the beard under his chin, "The lower official thinks that the law of the government and soldiers must be implemented in a place where the people are simple and the squire is virtuous, so that it can be successful." Therefore, Lantian County under Jingzhao Mansion is the best place to execute. If Lantian County, which formulated the "Lantian Lu's Township Covenant", can't get government soldiers, then where else can the government military system be implemented in the whole world? ”

Lantian Lu's relationship with Lu Yihao and Lu Jiawen is not half a penny, but an old party name that has weakened. Although Jingzhao Mansion belongs to Yongxing Military Road, one of the six roads in Shaanxi, it has always been a relatively large territory of the old party because it is not on the front line.

And the reason why Lu Yihao chose the territory of the old party to try out the government soldiers was of course not to strengthen the strength of the old party. However, although the old and new parties of the DPRK and China unanimously praise the government military system, no one wants to engage in government military service in their hometown...... It is good that the government military system is good, but it will eventually affect the local style of writing.

Because the government soldiers always have to draw from the middle and upper families, these people should have gone to study and progress, if they are trapped by the military service of the government soldiers, it is inevitable that there will be many fewer jinshi in the states and counties that will try to test the government soldiers in the future.

Whoever advocates the trial implementation of government soldiers in his own hometown is not tantamount to harming the township? This kind of thing the ancients were unwilling to do.

Therefore, there was a dilemma in the court that everyone said that the government and military system was good, but no place was willing to try it.

Now that An Tao heard Lu Yihao say this, he also felt that he had a reasonable reason to let Lantian County go to the test.

"Okay, just as you say." An Tao, who had long felt that his energy was low, yawned and said softly: "Yuan Zhi, Zeng Xianggong and the old man arranged for you to go to Cangzhou just to stop the knight's law from going to work...... It is absolutely impossible to let Wu Hao Gu buy a large piece of land easily, and pay attention to his every move, and if there is any bad deed, immediately report it to the old man and Zeng Xianggong. Do you understand? ”

Ji Yi heard these words and pouted secretly. It would be nice if Wu Haogu's pigtails were so easy to pull...... Although that guy can take bribes, they are all within the scale, and it is not a sin.

Moreover, while people make 100,200,000 yuan by themselves, they can give 1 million 2 million to the official family...... It's not a mistake to make a little bit of money like this!

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Just when Lu Yihao and Ji Yi left Kaifeng Mansion City and headed towards Qingchi County, where Cangzhou Prefecture is located. Wu Haogu also took Gao Yu, Olga and others, and under the leadership of Lin Wancheng, left Jiehe Commercial City.

When they left the merchant market, they were going to a model knight's manor, which was seventeen or eighteen miles away from the south gate of the Jiehe merchant market. Wu Haogu wrote a letter to Huang Shilang and Zhang Xizai, who had stayed in Jiehe Shang City, last winter, ordering them to enclose 1,500 acres of fertile grassland in the Cangzhou land they had purchased and build a manor.

The land here in Beicangzhou is probably the most barren in the whole Hebei East Road, from the boundary river to the south, there is not a village for dozens of miles, and a large area of land is enclosed into pasture by Hebei Jiangmen (in fact, it is a branch of Kaifeng Jiangmen), which is used to raise cattle, sheep and horses. About a quarter of the mutton consumed in Kaifeng Province was imported from Cangzhou.

Because the land is barren and the population is sparse, it is not difficult to acquire it. And once acquired, it is a contiguous piece of land, and it is really not difficult to circle a knight's manor.

But the knight's manor is not all right if the land is encircled. With land, you have to manage it well to support a knight family.

1,500 acres of land is a lot, but a knight family is also not small!

On the way to this Zhuangzi, which was named "Aojiazhuang", Wu Haogu was talking to Gao Yu about his ideas.

"This knight's manor, it's not like it's just a matter of dividing the field, and you have to help others run it, otherwise the manor will either go bankrupt or be subcontracted out and pulled down."

"Da Lang, do you still know how to farm?"

Wu Haogu smiled: "I don't know how to farm, but the Baibo martial arts family is an expert." I've consulted...... People know how to say that farming in places where there is no shortage of water in the north is best to rotate grass fields. It is to divide the field into three parts, one for pasture, one for wheat, and one for beans, and rotate twice in two to three years.

Olga, are you doing the same on the Europa side? ”

"It's called the three-garden system," said Olga, "and that's how the big estates are usually like that." ”

Wu Haogu said: "This kind of farming method can not only produce grain, but also raise horses and sheep, and also restore the fertility of the land, which is the most suitable for the knight's manor." In fact, the land of the herdsmen can also be done in this way, which is much stronger than planting grass and grazing like now. ”

Gao Yu smiled: "The herd supervisor is a mud pit...... You're going to get trapped, and I'm not going to follow. ”

"Mud pits?" Wu Haogu snorted, "It's just a land without a master...... It's still a fertile field, of course, everyone covets it. ”

In fact, there is also a three-nursery rotation system in China, and the method of three-garden rotation of beans, hemp and forage is proposed in "Qi Min Yaoshu". However, this kind of crop rotation was rare in the Northern Song Dynasty, when there were few large farmers, horse farming was almost extinct, and the people's demand for horses was not large. Therefore, the farming method of combining agriculture and animal husbandry, which is grassland rotation, is no longer applicable.

Without the rotation of grass fields, the Central Plains would naturally not produce horses. The country's horse policy favours "herd herds" rather than small family pastures. That is, the ecological environment of the grassland is simulated in the agricultural area of the Central Plains and used to raise horses. Horse...... Of course, it is not much, but the pasture has the effect of restoring the fertility of the land, so the land managed by the herdsmen has been promoted to the first-class fertile land, which is naturally coveted.