The battle in the north was in full swing, but Handan City was still peaceful. The merchant market under the city is prosperous, the fields and manors are in order, and the Han herdsmen in the distance are chasing herds of horses into the river by the sun, and they are running with joy.

Yan Bei likes to walk to the city gate tower at sunset and look south, and his eyes are often on those horses and sheep. Many years ago, he was a true expert at doing these things.

Now it's different, now he has to focus on some other things, such as building a school palace.

He can't receive accurate news about the war outside the Saiwai for the time being, and the battle reports he got are all old news from a month ago, so it is better to choose to believe in the talents of Tai Shici, Yu Ban and others than to be afraid...... They are not the best generals in the Central Plains, but when they are placed outside the Sai, tactical strategy is not the most critical thing. Logistics, these things that Yanbei has tried his best to do can really affect the war situation outside the Seychelles.

In order to ensure that the baggage outside the fortress will never be extinguished, although Youzhou is the government of Yandong, Yanbei still sent Sima Yi and Wei Chun to patrol with the seal letter to supervise the follow-up grain road matters.

Only with these close ministers to do this can Yanbei really rest assured. No matter how loyal the people in power are, corruption is inevitable in the general environment of human rule. Just as people will deceive Yan Bei over small things, he believes that Yan Dong will also be troubled by this.

The reason why Zhao Guo wanted to build a school palace was because there was a higher demand for Chinese culture in the country. Since the Yan clan started in the northeast, Yan Bei knew that his background and prestige would not make those scholars who had a noble status and high self-esteem in the past compete for help, and even lower-level officials would not be willing to work under his banner. After all, compared with the rest of the princes at that time, it was difficult for Yanbei to compete with others in terms of prestige and background.

A dozen years ago, he had little influence among the scholarly class. The other princes are different, they have experienced family learning, study tours, filial piety, and places of service since they were young, and everyone will meet countless young heroes in the process of growing up, so that there is no shortage of talents around them...... The people around them are all good friends like Xiahoudun, Xiahouyuan, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou.

But what about him Yan Zhongqing? After experiencing a career in herding, business, horse bandits, and rebels, his hair is a good friend such as the tomb robber Jiang Jin, the little blacksmith Wang Yi, and the rebel captain Wang Zheng.

can't be compared at all, if you really go to Yanbei, you will wipe your neck and hang yourself.

Since then, he has attached importance to talents, to the talents under his command, and to the talents who have not defected to him, but what he attaches the most importance to is the talents who have not grown up. Xiangping County School, Liaodong Academy, and even later the four counties of Youdong, the entire Youzhou, the entire Jizhou, and later the Guanzhong Division, including today's Taixue.

Reviving the almost stagnant academic affairs after the Kanto and Kansai melees, but limited by his knowledge and talents, even if he has a long-term vision, he still can't fill the last critical juncture of these things...... Talented and knowledgeable students are cultivated, how to become Yan's subordinates.

In fact, most of these students are only the children of Liaodong who are naturally willing to serve the Yan family, and the students of Youzhou are relatively few, even if they are official Youzhou, they are not from Yanbei, let alone go all the way to Handan. Youzhou is like this, not to mention Jizhou, people have no will to fight for the Yan family, even if they are arranged by Yanbei to go from home to township, township to county, county to county, county to state, and even from state to Taixue...... It didn't work.

Youzhou and Jizhou have long been pacified, and most of those scholars from poor backgrounds will join the county as a small official to subsidize their families. But for the land-owning scholars in the past, they did not need this status, and most of their natural identity was ...... Landowner.

They did not study to be officials, or to be lower-level officials, and not to be in office did not contradict governing the people. They don't need to be county officials, but they can rely on their knowledge and talent to gain the respect of the villagers, so as to adjudicate all the affairs of the township.

In fact, including the pavilion chief, the township wolf, and the thief, these official positions are not used to govern the government, and the imperial court only relies on these official positions to obtain a negligible military power from the township pavilion. With them, the wealthy families in the township would not have had the need to gather many soldiers, and without them, the place would be completely autonomous.

There is a great reason why the world is chaotic and the Yellow Turban Emperor ordered all over the country to gather troops in order to defend themselves. Although the yellow turbans were removed, the imperial court lost its most basic ability to control the local area in the following years. The Haoqiang clan has hundreds of soldiers, will they still be afraid of hundreds of county soldiers in the county?

However, the situation in Youji Prefecture is much better, and these so-called princes today are all from Haoqiang, even if it is Yanbei, he has money, food and soldiers, and he is also Haoqiang, but he has no background. As these princes grew larger, most of their energies were devoted to annexing and ruling the powerful in addition to dealing with foreign enemies, and although the means used were different, the direction remained largely the same.

The powerful princes destroy the powerful, the prestigious princes subdue the powerful, and the weak princes take advantage of the powerful, and in either way, in the end, the powerful and powerful who have soldiers in various places are more invisible...... Those who did not eliminate the powerful could only be limited by the local attributes of the powerful to contain their own development, and eventually became a disadvantage in the increasingly fierce war of annexation of princes.

Liu Biao is one of the most intuitive and special examples, his state capital has no generals, and there are not many soldiers, all strength lies in the support of the powerful surname, once the support is lost, the huge state and county will collapse.

At this point, Yanbei has obviously long been ahead of the princes of the world. Youzhou's Haoqiang was eliminated at the earliest, while Jizhou was mostly slaughtered by the Montenegrin army, and the remaining part was taken away by the Yuan family, leaving not much baggage. There is no Haoqiang in charge of military power under his rule, and the Yan clan will act against the only remaining power of the Haoqiang clan...... The power to govern the place.

Frustration is on the move.

In the last year, Tian Feng proposed to build a royal mausoleum with additional conscription, and Fu Zhu began to send the places under the Taixue Zhusheng, and set up a new level of officials in the townships and pavilions, so that the power of the imperial court could reach the people directly and change the status quo of the imperial power in the county.

This kind of change can only be achieved when the princes are in full swing, otherwise even the emperors of the past would not be able to do it.

But just right, Yan has such an ability. Before the world was calm, all the people under the command of the Yan clan were unanimous and unbeatable.

Zhusheng went to the countryside.