Don't underestimate what Cai Yong has done, this is the best way to really start from the source and firmly support Li Li. Ideologically influencing the students, when these students grow up, Li Li is a god in their hearts that cannot be blasphemed, and it is their inevitable choice to support and be loyal to Li Li.

For what Cai Yong has done in obscurity, others may not be able to imagine how strong this is for Li Li, but as a reincarnated Li Li, no one can better understand how great the energy and far-reaching influence of this kind of loyal education from children is better than him.

And Cai Yong has never mentioned these things, and even Cai Yan and others don't know the true intention of Cai Yong's move. They only regarded the dispute between Cai Yong and Kong Rong as an interesting matter, and they could see that Cai Yong's maintenance of his son-in-law was nothing more.

However, when Li Li learned about this, he was very moved and truly accepted this respectable and lovely father-in-law from his heart.

I think that at the beginning, the reason why he asked Cai Yong to serve as the dean of the Tai Academy was because he did not have a great Confucian celebrity who could be trusted and had enough prestige to take on this position. As a last resort, in line with the psychology that it is better to use life than to be cooked, he chose his father-in-law Cai Yong to take over the Tai Academy. After all, no matter what, Cai Yong is his father-in-law, even if he doesn't support him, he won't deliberately ruin his reputation, and he won't do anything that is detrimental to the interests of the Xiliang Army.

Even so, Li Li made two preparations.

On the surface, Cai Yong is the dean of the Tai Academy, in charge of the two schools of the College of Liberal Arts and the Military Academy, but in fact it is not. Cai Yong's Faculty of Arts is home to celebrities from all states and counties in the world, and the families of these celebrities are all housed in the inner courtyard. It is guarded by 3,000 armor soldiers day and night, and it is strictly forbidden to enter and leave without a decree from the General's Mansion. This move is actually house arrest in disguise. forced these celebrities to keep their duties and did not dare to do anything that would damage Li Li's reputation and the interests of the Xiliang Army.

In addition, Li Ru served as the chief secretary of the college, in charge of the supply and distribution of all the scholars, and was in charge of the expenses of the college. This is equivalent to choking the throat of Tai Academy, whether it is a Confucian or a celebrity, you have to eat and dress. And these are all in the hands of Li Ru, even Cai Yong's use of money is no exception.

This is the case with the Faculty of Letters, while the Military Academy (i.e., the Martial Academy) is more strictly regulated. Li Li personally served as the dean of the Martial Arts Academy. The day-to-day affairs were in charge of the great sword master Wang Yue, and the chief instructor was Wang Yue's eldest disciple Shi A, and the daily teaching was personally taught by Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, Jia Xu, Li Xuan, Guo Jia, and Huang Zhong. In addition, the generals in the army will go to the martial arts academy to teach for a few days whenever they have time. Most of the students in the academy are the sons of fallen soldiers. Absolute loyalty to Li Li, because they were able to grow up in the Martial Arts Academy, all because of Li Li.

This is the world-famous Chang'an Tai College, which is divided into two schools, civil and military, and has been open for four years, and the first batch of 3,000 adult students completed their studies last winter. And these students, the scribes were all placed in all the counties under the rule of Xiliang, and the students who studied martial arts were arranged in the Xiliang army. All the students started from the bottom, and the scribes were county officials. Wu Sheng is a low-level general with a long and team leader. Among them, there are also many talented people, who have been promoted by leaps and bounds in just half a year, and more than a dozen scribes have taken the seat of county magistrate or county magistrate; Among the martial artists, dozens of them were promoted to military marquis or military commanders, and thirteen were promoted to captains.

It is no exaggeration to say that these two schools are entirely in the service of consolidating Li Li's supremacy, or that these students are the cornerstone of his rule over the prefectures and counties of Xiliang and even the whole world. In a few months, the second batch of students will graduate this year, with more than 5,000 students, most of whom are scribes. Therefore, with this group of scribes scattered to various counties, the shortage of scribes in Xiliang will come to an end, and a large number of civil and military students will be added every year in the future, so that the territory of Xiliang will not be short of talents due to large-scale expansion, and it can be completely self-sufficient.

In this way, even without the support of the scholar class, Li Li was able to re-cultivate a large number of new scholar classes, thus completely replacing the old scholars.

Ten or twenty years later, these scribes and generals will surely become the backbone of the Xiliang Army, with tentacles covering all states and counties in the world, creating a new era. And this is the real purpose of Li Li who did not hesitate to spend a huge amount of money to establish the Tai Academy, to cultivate talents by himself, just like the red resistance of later generations, self-reliance. Only in this way can we lay down an iron bucket-like country, not seeking eternity, but maintaining it for more than 100 years is definitely not a problem.

Today, the scale of the Tai Academy continues to grow, and the number of students has expanded from the earliest 3,000 to tens of thousands, and this number is still growing. Most of the new students came from the sons and daughters of the fallen soldiers of the Xiliang Army, as well as the outstanding middle and low-level generals recommended and selected by the generals of each battalion, as well as the children of the military generals under Li Li's command. The entry threshold for these people is relatively low, and the tuition fee to be paid is also very small, but the children of other noble families and powerful people have to pay a lot of tuition to enroll.

Even so, there are still thousands of scholars and heroes who do not hesitate to spend a lot of money to stuff their heirs into the Tai Academy, because this is currently the only formal channel that can enter the military and political realms of Xiliang. As for the Chang'an Recruitment Hall, the threshold is not high, but if you want to become a professional, you must go through a strict assessment and be hired after heavy screening. Therefore, it is extremely rare to really leap into the dragon gate, and the military generals of Wenchen who can enter Li Lifa's eyes are even rarer, and there are few in a year. Therefore, entering the Tai Academy has become the only way for the scholars and powerful to intervene in the military and politics of Xiliang, and if they want to be recognized and accepted by Li Li, they need to show enough sincerity.

I have to say that today, the Xiliang Army and its commander Li Li are strong enough, and the relationship with the scholars and the powerful has also undergone fundamental changes. As early as when Li Li was in charge of the Xiliang army and occupied Chang'an City, these scholars and powerful gentry did not take Li Li and his Xiliang army in their eyes at all, and at that time, the Xiliang Mansion treasury was empty, and money and food were in short supply.

In order to alleviate the pressure of money and food, Li Li once tried to ease relations with the gentry, hoping to get their help to tide over the difficulties. It's a pity that instead of appreciating the affection, these veteran scholars and powerful gentlemen sit on the wall and watch with gloating, waiting to see Li Li and the Xiliang army gradually decay, so that they roll back to Wuwei County in disgrace.

Forced into desperation, Li Li had to spend a lot of energy to improve the current situation of poverty in Xiliang, and finally decided to implement the strategy of recuperation and recuperation, and divided the army into pieces, leaving it to fend for itself, and developing independently and dispersed. This is the source of Xiliang's practice of recuperation, and it is also the fundamental reason why the Xiliang army has no achievements in two years, and it is also the most difficult period that Li Li faced.

Fortunately, at that time, the whole army still had the Yiwu granary left by Dong Zhuo at the bottom, so that it would not collapse completely, and it could barely be maintained for a period of time under the overall use. It was in the face of such a difficult situation that Li Li made a decisive decision to take out all the millions of stone grain stored in the Yiwu Castle and distribute it to the people of various counties, use the old grain for disaster relief, use the new grain as seeds, vigorously cultivate and cultivate, and distribute all the cattle, sheep and livestock collected to the people for cultivation and feeding, and encourage the storage of livestock.

At that time, this decision was undoubtedly a broken jar, sparing no expense, and squandering the few remaining resources, as if it was a death and a later life. Once the people had eaten up their grain and livestock, they would wantonly occupy the land and make a comeback, and finally forced Li Li to compromise and have to appoint them to retake the counties and counties and restore their former glory.

However, they never expected that Li Li would not just ignore the distribution of grain and livestock. On the contrary, before the distribution of grain and livestock, Li Li had already drawn up a detailed implementation plan, sending tens of thousands of officials to various counties and even township pavilions to supervise on the ground and teach the people how to cultivate and fertilize. At the same time, the county governments and soldiers in various localities built a large number of canals and irrigation facilities to ensure that grain crops were planted and harvested, and to avoid drought disasters to the greatest extent.

The strategy of recuperation has proven to be quite successful, effective and a wise decision with foresight. This year is the third year of the recuperation strategy, which means that from this fall, the county government will collect a 30% tax (i.e., the 37 tax system). Prior to this, the Xiliang Mansion Treasury had no harvest in three years, but the Xiliang Army exchanged a large amount of grain from the people with a large amount of seizures, while the Chang'an Treasury used a large amount of gold, silver and rare ornaments stored by Yi Wu to purchase a large amount of grain from the Central Plains states as the expenses of officials and government officials, and hoarded a certain amount of grain and grass baggage.

Li Li's trip to the Central Plains was even more fruitful, raising enough grain and grass for the Xiliang army to fight for half a year in one fell swoop, and using various means to obtain hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and grass and a large amount of gold and silver from the princes of all parties. And these rations ensured the supply of materials for the battle of Sili, and laid a solid foundation for the final victory of the Xiliang army.

The victory in the battle of Sili played an immeasurable role in Li Li and even the entire Xiliang situation, and the impact was extremely far-reaching.

After this battle, the Xiliang army not only secured the position of the strongest army in the world, but also directly defeated the most powerful Cunzài in the minds of the scholars and Haoqiang, Yuan Shao of Jizhou and Cao Cao and Lu Bu of Yanzhou, and truly became the most powerful princes and overlords among the many princes in the world. And this also completely shattered the beautiful aspirations of many gentry of the noble clan who had a wait-and-see attitude, and made them clearly realize the strength of Li Li and the Xiliang army under his command, thus driving them to take the initiative to show favor to Li Li, and take the initiative to attach themselves to them, hoping that Li Li would accept them again.

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