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"Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine and sorbet, open the city gate to welcome the King of Liao, and the King of Liao will not pay food when he comes.

If you eat his mother, she will not eat enough with the King of Liao."

Happy songs resounded on the streets of Kunming, and the ones that the children sang the most recently was this song.

The people are quite unfamiliar with this song. As for how the song was circulated, everyone is not very clear, but the content of the song is quite appropriate.

Since the Liao King came to Kunming, they not only planted potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes, but also exempted taxes for three years.

Isn't this what is sung on the song?

Everyone was naturally very happy, and Li Er was in no way happy. It was the first time that he had encountered such a good thing as tax exemption after living so much.

And better things are still behind. In addition to duty-free, there are also various high-harvest crops. His Highness the King of Liao actually plans to run a school in Kunming City.

If Li Er had many doubts and doubts about Zhu Qi, the King of Liao in the Ming Dynasty, before, then now he has 100% trust in His Highness the King of Liao.

When I started a school in the past, I might have to consider whether to send it to my children.

But now when he heard that His Highness of Liao was going to build a school, he immediately asked about the first thing he did was whether the school would accept people, when will the school start, etc.

And the matter about the school is not a secret, and the Jinyiwei has already started to promote it on the streets.

This school is naturally similar to that in Liaoyang City, with various discounts and discounts.

In short, the establishment of schools is mainly for ordinary people.

It was not for the nobles to come to school, but Zhu Qi still said the same thing, not just to make the people in Yunnan have a sense of identity with Han culture.

More importantly, it is to prepare for the future imperial examination.

If the teaching content of new-style schools is not promoted nationwide as soon as possible, then the Four Books and Five Classics will be tested in the scientific examination in the future.

Isn’t this recruitment of officials the same as before?

My own set is now very advanced civil service exam content. It is a waste not to take it out and let others learn it.

Of course, the main teaching of natural science is the content of the school.

Li Er naturally didn't know so much, but he also knew that this school was opened by Zhu Qi, the king of Liao, and there were so many preferential policies.

When children come in, they not only have the opportunity to reduce tuition fees, but they can even work and make money.

Li Er now has 100% trust in His Royal Highness Liao. Of course, there is no need to say more. He discussed this matter with his family when he went back.

His wife looked strange after hearing this, but she didn't expect that there would be such a good thing.

After asking repeatedly, I confirmed that it was indeed a notice posted by the government office, and I quickly thought about letting my children try it too.

To be honest, their chief was naturally thinking that the villagers were all circling around him, rather than going for the court.

However, their village chief had been called to talk before, so naturally he didn't dare to stand up and say more at this time.

This is close to Kunming, so the Ming Dynasty's control over them is naturally stronger.

Those villages far away from Kunming are not so easy to control.

There is a village in the mountain where the village chief is. Although he can't understand His Highness the King of Liao, he also knows that His Highness the King of Liao is to win the hearts of the people.

If the villagers' children were really allowed to study, I'm afraid that over time, my village chief would have no prestige.

Therefore, the village chiefs of these far-off villages, that is, the chief officials, naturally tried their best to prevent the people in their village from getting in touch with the Ming Dynasty court.

Even if the villagers thought that His Highness of the Liao King was very capable, they did not dare to disobey the village chief directly because of their own village chief.

I could only look at the newly built school, but my children didn't dare to sign up.

If Zhu Qi acquiesced to happen like this, it wouldn't be him.

The method to deal with those village chiefs is also very simple. As long as it is not directly pushed by force near the mountains, it is better, and those who are convenient for escape will be different.

If you go directly to push the force directly, you may have conflicts and sparks.

It will not be so easy to resolve these contradictions at that time.

If a few people die, it will not be so easy to make peace.

Even if you see your Ming Dynasty reduce tax exemptions, that amount of tax is still incomparable to human life.

Therefore, Zhu Qi could only use Huairou's policy for those villages that were convenient for escape.

To put it bluntly, a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry were given to the village chief, so that the village chief would turn a blind eye and let the villagers come to Kunming or the largest nearby schools for education.

As long as they can get their children out to school, the next thing will be very easy to do.

After receiving school education, it will naturally not be as difficult to communicate as it is now.

However, it is inevitable that some village chiefs will not be willing to let their villagers study in the school even if they give money.

There is no particularly good way to encounter this situation. You can only ask the Jinyiwei to inquire in private if there is any handle or a breakthrough that can be broken through.

However, these are just the most basic things, and if you want to fundamentally solve the problem of weak control over Yunnan, you can only start from the system.

After all, now with Zhu Qi's personal prestige, he can suppress it here, but what should I do if Zhu Qi leaves?

So the best way is to establish a better system, and Zhu Qi also knows that the best system is to set up government departments in the local area.

Now the Ming Dynasty has at most set up government departments in towns, but there is no government organization in the rural areas, which is definitely not possible.

If there were no government organizations sent out, that is, the so-called village officials, the voice of the court would not reach the grassroots level at all.

It is not so easy to establish a government organization.

At least the village chiefs, that is, chieftain officials, would not easily allow such things to happen.

So we can only come step by step. Those who are willing to seek refuge in the Ming Dynasty will first start by investing in the grassroots level from them.

As for other people who are unwilling to do so, they can only bite the bullet and start a war with them.

It is also unrealistic to not think about loving softness everywhere.

During his time in Yunnan, Zhu Qi did not do anything else. He just wanted to find out the villages that he did not want to obey, kill the chief of the chieftain, and then send the traitor to manage it.

During this period, we should try our best to avoid direct conflicts with the villagers, so assassination became Zhu Qi's best choice.

Although it sounds a bit cruel and unclear, Zhu Qi will not have any psychological burden if he actually does it.

After all, this is all for the sake of the future of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Qi still doesn't care at all.

Those villages that have been controlled by the Ming Dynasty are arranged to manage grassroots officials as soon as possible.

Of course, in addition to arranging grassroots officials over, there is another important measure, which is the self-management of the people.

This village is different from a town. The population of towns may be tens of thousands or even 100,000, but the villages come and go only two or three hundred people, even less than five hundred people.

In this case, if each village arranges an official to stay in the village, there will naturally be no problem with the current finances of the Ming Dynasty.

But the main problem, such a situation, will cause those officials to quickly corrupt.

Without institutional restraint, the village officials sent to the village are almost the same as those of the local emperor.

Therefore, Zhu Qi planned to send village officials on one hand. The people who work under the village officials must be selected by the villagers themselves.

Under the restraint of the two sides, it is impossible for village officials to do whatever they want without any brains.

It depends on whether the people selected by the men are willing to be obedient.

If it is really a mess, according to the current laws of the Ming Dynasty, you will tie up your village official and send it to the city to sue.

That's not a bit of temper. You should know that Zhu Yuanzhang's violent temper won't tell you the truth, as long as it is reported by the people.

Once it is found out, even the skin is stripped, and there are no more than one or two hanging at the gate of the yamen.

Just as Zhu Qi vigorously promoted the system of grassroots village officials, some people in the court who did not understand began to speak.

What they don’t understand is naturally why the court took so much effort to send officials to the village.

You should know that the total number is only two or three hundred, so an official must be sent to manage it.

He is given a salary every year, and this pressure is very great.

If this is the case all over the country, I am afraid the salary is not enough to be paid to these grassroots officials.

The most important thing is that these people don’t know what it means to manage two or three hundred people by one.

They didn't know, but Zhu Qi knew very well how terrible it was to not go to the countryside without imperial power.

In the late period, gentry was dominant, and these gentry were the ones at the bottom, so their relationship with the court was useless.

Look at the late Ming Dynasty, didn’t those gentry just ruin the Ming Dynasty and then invite Aisin Gioro to come back?

The people at the bottom have changed one after another, and these gentry are still acting as a mighty person at the bottom. Have you ever seen anyone change?

What Zhu Qi wanted to do was to uproot these gentry who were at the bottom and firmly controlled by the bottom and replace them with official officials of the court.

This naturally caused a series of condemnation in the court, but Zhu Yuanzhang had already heard Zhu Qi talk about the importance of imperial power going to the countryside.

He was an emperor with great ideals and dreams, so he naturally understood the key point.

He would not listen to what those ignorant ministers said, and after hearing those people opposed the dispatch of village officials in the village, Zhu Yuanzhang became more determined to reform the imperial examination.

If the imperial examinations are not reformed, wouldn’t the people recruited in the future still be this group of short-sighted people?
To be continued...