Seeing that the monk Qisong was embarrassed, Xu Ping smiled and said: "The mage has a high monk, and these verbal disputes don't have to go to the heart. The Master of the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info has come from thousands of miles away, and the road must be hard, come, take the Master to rest. ”

Qi Songkou announced the Buddha's number, thanked Xu Ping, and followed the post guard to the news in the courtyard. He is a high-ranking monk, and even if he is a little embarrassed to talk to Zhang Zai, he will not take it to heart. It's just that at first glance, I heard that the Buddha family in the Western Regions, which has always been prosperous in Buddhism, has declined, and I am a little sad. In fact, Zhang Zai deceived Qisong as a southern monk, and he was not clear about the affairs of the northwest, so he deliberately filed his spirit.

Reciting the name of Guanyin Bodhisattva in his mouth, Qi Song left a little gloomily. Everywhere he went, he carried a statue of the Bodhisattva on his back, and recited the Bodhisattva Dharma 100,000 times a day, which seemed easy to do his daily homework, but in fact he had to recite it all day and night when he had free time.

When Qi Song left, Xu Ping sat Zhang Zai down, served tea, and asked him, "What books does Xiucai read on weekdays?" ”

Zhang Zai arched his hand: "The scriptures are slightly fair, and all the books of the sages are read hard by students on weekdays." Recently, there are two books of "Hidden Books" and "Pingtu Shu" by Li Xijiu, the son of Guan Gou Guo, who has been passed to Xifu, and students have borrowed them from friends and are studying them. ”

"Oh, these two articles by Li Jing were written in the past two years, and you have also read them? Let's hear it. ”

Zhang Zai straightened his sitting posture and talked eloquently: "Li Xianjiu's articles say that the world is not rich and the people are displaced, all because the cultivators have no land, and those who have land do not plow. If you want the world to be rich, you should let the cultivators have their land, and those who do not cultivate should not occupy more land. It is precisely because of this that Li Xijiu advocated that the world should re-implement the system of Zhou Shi Jingtian. Li Xijiu said that at this time, there were many scholars who said that the well field was profitable, but they only said that the well field could be rich and poor, so that the cultivator could be self-sufficient. I only know one thing, but I don't know the other. In ancient times, the system of well fields not only wanted to make the cultivators have their fields and make the land profitable, but also to make people spare no effort. One hand and one foot are all ploughed, one step and one acre are all crops, so that the land is used to the fullest, and people do their best, then the fields are rich and the grains are rich, and the people are rich and the country is strong. ”

Xu Ping couldn't help but smile when he heard this, Li Jing's articles were not instructed by him, but they were revised under Xu Ping's guidance. Of course, Xu Ping will not be like these Confucian scholars, bent on restoring the ancient system and redrawing the well field, he is just reforming the ancient system. Leaving aside the specifics, the Ida system is actually a collective labor system in agriculture. As for how to operate, of course, according to Mencius, it is against the will of the sage with my will, and it doesn't matter what the sage says, what I want to do is important.

The propaganda of the Ida system was Xu Ping's creation of public opinion for the further expansion of the camp and field affairs. The packaged well field system is actually the current system of field affairs, and it is also the system that Xu Ping wants to do in the northwest tuntian. The various ethnic groups in the northwest are scattered, and the land conditions are not good, and it is difficult for the small-scale peasant economy of one family to persist under such difficult conditions, and it must rely on the strength of the collective. The well field system is precisely a kind of agricultural collective economy, and as for whether it should be the same as the system mentioned in the classics, of course it is not necessary.

After Zhang Zai finished speaking, Xu Ping said: "Li Ji's "Book of Flat Soil" analyzes the system of Jingtian very deeply, and it does look farther than others. However, the hinterland of the Central Plains is densely populated and the place is rich, and it is inconvenient to suddenly implement the system of well fields. The northwest is vast and sparsely populated, and mixed with Qiang, but it can be implemented. In fact, there is another advantage to the well field system, can you say that you can show your talents? ”

After bowing his head and thinking for a while, Zhang Zai said: "The student only read Li Xianjiu's book, and he felt that the system of Ida was very useful to the present world, and as for the subtleties, he had not thought deeply. The students are ready to buy some idle land in the township in the past few years, hire some customers, and really try it with the system of the well field. ”

"It's rare that you have this ambition. There is also an advantage of the well field system, that is, the military order is in the internal affairs, and the command of the cultivation and formation in peacetime is the same as in wartime, picking up a hoe to farm, putting down the hoe and picking up a knife and gun is a soldier of the imperial court. In the northwest frontier, only in this way can the idle fields be opened up as wasteland, and if there is a Fan Qiang to invade, the enemy will be outside the country. ”

In his previous life, Xu Ping didn't think there was anything special about the organization of the surrounding villages, from township and town to village, village to team, team to group, but he just thought it was a normal administrative structure. When I really experienced civil and military affairs in this world, I woke up to the fact that the organizational form of townships, villages, teams, and groups was originally semi-militarized. In times of preparation for war, it is easy to organize a militia in this organizational structure, and once a war breaks out, the militia can be transferred to the regular army. Even in extraordinary times, administrative organizations can be quickly transformed into military organizations, so that all people can become soldiers.

That kind of organization is a political structure prepared for world war. Of course, the world war could not be fought, so it slowly began to be abandoned. But in remote or particularly unstable areas, it is still irreplaceable.

Xu Ping was not interested in restoring the Jingtian system, but it was what Xu Ping wanted to do by using the army's organizational system to Tuntian, entertaining soldiers to the people, and opening up the Hehuang area where the Tibetan and Han dynasties were mixed. Only in this way can they resist the surrounding nomads and even form an advantage. The production methods of small farmers and small households, which still have to rely on official military force to survive, do not meet Xu Ping's requirements.

Zhang Zai lowered his head and pondered, only to find that a well field system actually contains a lot of knowledge, and there is no limit to the truth when you study it deeply.

Raising his head, Zhang Zai said to Xu Ping: "Jingluo, this time I came to Qinfeng Road, are you going to use Jingtian to make tuntian on this road?" ”

Xu Ping smiled and said, "I have this idea. Xiucai, do you want to come to the army to help? The ancients said that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. Applying what you have learned is better than reading any number of books. ”

Zhang Zai stood up and arched his hand: "The student dares to disobey!" ”

Xu Ping and Liang Qian looked at each other and smiled, and said to Zhang Zai: "On the way from the capital, I am in a hurry, and there is still a time limit for ten days to arrive at Qinzhou and Cao Zhizhou. You can arrange it at home these days, if there are any difficulties, just tell Liang Tongju, and he will help you. Five days later, come with me to Qinzhou and make a career in the extreme borderland. ”

Zhang Zaizheng hurriedly thanked him and promised to go with Xu Ping then. As a side marshal along the way, Xu Ping has a lot of people under his account, and he also has his own qualifications to recruit low-level officials, whether it is in the Shuai Si or in the state government, he can arrange people.

Zhang Zai is twenty years old this year, and he is young and vigorous, and he is careful to have great ambitions, and he has done some things for the court and the world. With this opportunity, I will naturally not let it go.

Sitting down again, Xu Ping asked Zhang Zai in detail about the books he usually reads. Yixian County is in the main traffic route, especially most of the people who go out of Sichuan pass through here, and the culture of Shu is developed, and the humanities are prosperous here. However, the imperial examination is a little shabby, there are few jinshi in Fengxiang Mansion, and there are few famous teachers, Zhang Zai's mind is mostly used for academics, but he doesn't care much about the imperial examination articles.

Xu Ping instructed Tan Hu to take a set of books engraved by Guozijian and Sansi over the years and give them to Zhang Zai. This time he came to the northwest, Xu Ping brought a lot of books, in addition to the books of sages, there are also books that have been implemented in the new policy in recent years. In addition, he even brought a large number of Buddhist scriptures and technical books, Buddhist scriptures were given to the Qiang, and religion was used to win them over, and technical books were given to the localities.

Fengxiang Mansion is the big base and rear of Qinfeng Road prepared by Xu Ping, and it is necessary to build an industrial and commercial center here, as well as an academic and technical center. Many of the books brought here will be kept here and donated to the state and county schools, in fact, as a library to cultivate qualified talents.

At this time, the center of the northwest was naturally the Yongxing Army, that is, Jingzhao Mansion, and Xi'an in later generations. Because of the special status and historical origin, the name of the government is generally used for fictitious positions such as Jing Zhaoyin, and the government officials and governors generally use the Yongxing Army, that is, the military number. Yongxingjun is the capital of Shaanxi Road, and its cultural economy is more developed than other places, but it is a bit far away for Qinfeng Road.

(Note: Historically, Li Ji's "Book of Pingtu" was written during the Jingyu period, and Zhang Zai's Jingtian thought was deeply influenced by it.) ）