Chapter 213 Achievement Settlement
With curiosity about new things, Tian Feng made a gesture to the two or three subordinates who came with him, and followed the footsteps of the two children.
Walking from the ridge of the field to the high village terrace, he didn't go far before he saw a scholar sitting under a tree, surrounded by a group of children.
Some people who were working with hoes on their way stopped nearby and also stopped in the outer circle.
Because Tian Feng's attire made him look more like a traveling merchant, he didn't seem very noticeable.
Looking over the heads of the children in front of him, he saw the scholar unfolding the large page of Leping Hou paper in his hand on his knees.
Apparently, this is what they call the "monthly report".
Although a lot of Menle Pinghou paper has been sold to foreign countries in the past two years, those of this specification are rare.
However, when Tian Feng looked around, he saw that these children were used to it.
One of the more active ones even said to the writer, "Chang Shigong, tell us the interesting stories in the September issue!"
The adult next to him seemed to be his father. He patted his shoulder and said, "Stop reading nonsense and listen to the part about agriculture."
The child immediately muttered, "You have almost finished planting your land this year, so it's okay if you don't worry about a semester of agricultural science."
As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted responses from a group of companions around.
What concerned Tian Feng on the side was not the so-called miscellaneous talks and agronomy, but the way the child addressed the scholar in the middle.
The person who can be called a staff member is most likely an official under Qiao Yan's governor.
It’s a pity that quite a number of the people promoted by Qiao Yan did not have any particularly prominent reputation before taking office, and their surnames were not iconic either, which made Tian Feng unable to guess his origins for the time being.
So he naturally didn't know that the other party was Chang Lin, an official from Shangdang County.
Correspondingly, Chang Lin did not notice that there was an important person coming from Jizhou in the crowd.
He has been responsible for supervising the affairs of Shangdang County for two years now.
His appointment at that time also represented Qiao Yan's attention to the people flowing into Bingzhou.
However, Chang Lin himself was quite capable in handling miscellaneous affairs, and in his spare time he would read the Leping Monthly Report to the children in the villages of Shangdang County.
The one I have received now is the September issue.
It's no wonder that those kids like the interesting stuff in the monthly newsletter.
In the case that most people have not received any education, stories are of course easier to understand than obscure articles. However, the gossip section in this monthly magazine is a bit special. After considering it for a while, Chang Lin said, "Let's go in order this time."
Putting things in order, for these children who have something new to listen to, being able to hear what they want to hear is enough to make them feel satisfied.
How could they have any objection?
Moreover, as Cai Zhaoji gradually improved the planning content of the Leping Monthly Report, she began to consider its universality of promotion.
Although from the perspective of literacy, it is impossible for these children who are active in the fields in the countryside to read this monthly report, but considering that the monthly report also plays the role of word of mouth, paving the way for public opinion wars and cultural invasion, the content and genre of the monthly report need to gradually form a kind of cognition in people -
Even a farmer who cannot recognize a few words can understand the contents of the newspaper through the retelling of others, and even a child can understand a wider world.
This is what Cai Zhaoji wanted to achieve.
Under this trend, in addition to people like Chang Lin who became newspaper readers out of boredom, there were also those who originally wanted to build up their reputations through the method of selecting filial and honest officials, but instead accumulated reputations before entering officialdom by reading newspapers to their neighbors.
Qiao Yan had not been in Bingzhou for a long time and had not heard of this trend. However, Xi Zhicai, Lu Yuan and others who were in charge of the rear for her knew about it, but they thought that since reading newspapers had not produced any outstanding talents so far, they did not plan to report it to her.
But regardless of whether further changes can be achieved, Chang Lin has already talked to these villagers about the content of the literature section.
Written on it is a five-character poem written by Cai Yong, entitled Kingfisher Poem.
This is a poem that is not difficult for children to understand.
"Kingfishers come and gather from time to time, flapping their wings to refine their shapes. When they look back, they see green; when they wave their wings, they see the dark blue." Such a vivid description makes it easy for people to imagine the appearance of a bird perched on a branch and feeling refreshed.
And for children with relatively innocent minds, this is also a poem with a happy ending.
In the subsequent verses, it is written that the kingfisher escaped from the hunter's bow and arrow and came to the gentleman's courtyard. Its docile heart was protected by the gentleman. Here, both males and females lived in peace and longevity.
As Chang Lin guided the recitation word by word, the children also started to recite along.
"Fortunately I escaped from Yu's scheme and was able to visit the gentleman's court."
"Tame your heart and trust your master, and both sexes will live a hundred years."1
In order to avoid appearing to be too out of place and thus being noticed, Tian Feng also recited along.
However, as he was reciting it, he vaguely remembered that this did not seem to be a poem written by Cai Yong recently, but a poem he wrote in his early years during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han.
The kingfisher in the poem met a gentleman who saved it from hunters, and it also had a good end of life. But for Cai Yong at that time, the appearance of this poem was more like promoting the beautiful vision in his heart, and he longed for a shelter that would keep him away from persecution.
However, things went against his wishes, and he had to go to Mount Tai and take refuge with the Yang clan of Mount Tai.
But when these last four sentences were recited by the children by clapping their hands, forming a song that was almost like a nursery rhyme, Tian Feng had no doubt that the original meaning would be erased, leaving only the literal happy ending of the story.
When I think about the fact that Leping Academy in Bingzhou has now welcomed Zheng Xuan, a good friend of Cai Yong, and many literati to accompany it and assist in cultural creation and the compilation of the Han Dynasty history, it seems that the kingfisher has really settled in the courtyard of a gentleman.
The people's livelihood scenes that Tian Feng saw along the way are also a portrayal of kingfisher poetry.
He intuitively felt that the promotion of this poem, just like the poem praising Huangfu Song in Jizhou back then, was a means of praising the prosperity of Bingzhou.
But this poem has a deeper meaning than Huangfu Song's folk ballad.
Kingfishers are often used by scholars to compare themselves to each other, so when conveyed in this context, it is also a promotional song for Leping Academy!
We are recruiting talented scholars from all over the world who are trying to avoid disaster!
This is such a powerful move!
While Tian Feng was still trying to figure out the meaning of killing two birds with one stone, he heard Chang Lin change the subject and move on to the medical section.
Interestingly, the content of this section is also birds.
However, it is not a kingfisher, but a bird play among the Five Animal Play created by the great doctor Hua Tuo.
For these children who had just learned to recite the kingfisher poem, imitating the bird's behavior seemed to be a natural thing to do.
They immediately imitated Chang Lin's movements, standing up with both hands, raising one foot, spreading their arms, and raising their eyebrows to encourage strength.
Chang Lin said: "From the previous May issue to the current September issue, it happens to be the last set of movements of the Five Animals Exercises. Those who are in poor health, or who don't have the conditions to practice swords, guns, sticks and clubs, can follow this set of Five Animals Exercises that all officials in the prefecture need to do, and do it until they sweat."
Chang Linke did not have the airs of a civil servant at all, and he explained while demonstrating.
He came to Bingzhou two years ago and started working as an official in Shangdang County that year.
In the past six months, his light body shape has been obvious to all, and everyone feels that there must be something subtle about it.
Tian Feng looked at the interaction between officials and citizens, feeling both admiration and a bit of bitterness in his heart.
But before he could figure out this emotion, he saw Chang Lin had already turned to the third part, agronomy.
In Bingzhou, most of the agricultural knowledge has been passed on to other people through the planting teaching system hosted by Qin Yu and others, so the agricultural section of this monthly magazine is not about farming or pig farming techniques, but two pieces of news.
"One was about a new crop called spinach."
The name spinach instead of Persian vegetable is of course used to reduce outsiders' knowledge of the origin of spinach.
This Leping Monthly Report mentioned that spinach has been successfully cultivated in Liangzhou. Now with the expansion of the planting area and the increase in vegetable varieties, it can also be supplied to Bingzhou. If anyone is willing to plant it, they can go to the provincial capital to get some seeds, which can be regarded as adding another food to Bingzhou's table.
The second reason was that Guanzhong was initially settled. Because it was necessary to set up military settlements and cultivate land in Guanzhong, experienced farmers were recruited from Bingzhou.
Since there was no war in Guanzhong in the short term, the salary allowance of these old farmers was only half of that of ordinary soldiers. However, any harvest from farming on the Guanzhong land that exceeds one-third of the original output value can belong to them.
"This is a good deal!" said one of the farmers. "I heard that the yield per mu in Guanzhong is three shi. Our current yield per mu, considering the best fertile land, is about nine shi. In other words... every mu of land can yield two shi for itself!"
According to the state government's statement, this part of the proceeds is not included in the net income for tax purposes.
Tian Feng was stunned to hear the man continue to say to his companions: "According to our current farming efficiency with curved plows and plowshares, each household actually has a redundant laborer, and can earn a few dozen dan more in a year. Why not do it!"
"You think too little. I heard that the land in Guanzhong is not only fertile but also flat. It is much easier to cultivate than our Bingzhou." Another person replied, "Since the official recruitment will be more than ten days away, I will discuss with my wife first to see whether we should send my eldest son there."
This sentence sounded simple, but Tian Feng could hear an unreserved trust in Qiao Yan.
Guanzhong is a fertile land, but because of the invasions of Sanfu by Liangzhou over the years and the subsequent rule of Dong Zhuo, it has become a place that people are afraid to talk about.
But those Bingzhou people who talked about this place seemed to have no doubt at all whether the old events of the early years would happen again.
But when you think about the fact that in recent years only the Xianbei people on the grasslands changed color when they heard Qiao Yan's name, and there has never been any news that Bingzhou became their target for winter robbery, it doesn't seem strange.
This is the result of having real achievements in hand.
This is not the most incomprehensible thing for Tian Feng!
The most difficult thing to understand is the sentence "nine stone per mu"!
What does it mean to produce nine stones per mu?
If Jizhou can achieve such an output value, he will dare to instigate Yuan Shao to directly take over Youzhou tomorrow and then march into Bingzhou!
It’s a pity that such output value appeared here among their opponents.
Hearing their tone of voice that they were completely unaware of the astonishing yield per mu, Tian Feng couldn't help but suspect that even the land they described as a little barren might have a yield that was not much inferior to this yield per mu.
It is precisely because of such per-acre yield that they can enjoy such a living standard.
Tian Feng felt that his trip here to learn from others was a good decision, but he couldn't help but speculate about the grain reserves in the Bingzhou treasury through the living conditions of these Bingzhou farmers, and he felt a chill in his heart.
This Qiao Bingzhou...
"It's up to you to make the choice. Let's go back to the Leping Monthly Report first." Chang Lin's voice interrupted Tian Feng's thoughts.
He quickly adjusted his expression to prevent his shock from revealing his origins.
But Chang Lin had already turned around to talk to the villagers behind him, and did not notice anything unusual about Tian Feng.
The children couldn't help but come to him because he didn't directly tell them the knowledge in the monthly report, but asked someone to bring iron needles, magnets, dead leaves and a basin of water.
This kind of encirclement made it difficult for Chang Lin to notice Tian Feng standing outside.
Under the eager gazes of the children, Chang Lin rubbed the iron needle for mending clothes on a magnet and placed it on a dead leaf. He then placed the leaf in water. He then saw that the iron needle and the leaf began to rotate, and finally pointed north and south.
No matter how any of them moved the blade, it would return to this direction.
"Chang Gongshi," the child who was fiddling with the leaves turned back to look at Chang Lin and asked curiously, "What's the principle behind this?"
Chang Lin spread his hands, "Every profession has its own specialties. You shouldn't ask me about this. This is something that the Academy of Sciences in Leping has developed. If you have the opportunity to go there, you will naturally know the specific reasons and where it will be used. Occasionally, they will teach assistants with outstanding skills. Even if you don't study in Leping Academy, you can still get in through recruitment."
He returned the basin to the villager behind him and turned the page of the Leping Monthly in his hand.
Thinking that the fifth page was about geography and the sixth page was the miscellaneous talk they were looking forward to, although they were full of doubts about the pointer, the children stood there obediently and listened attentively to Chang Lin telling them stories.
In fact, they haven't even reached the sixth plate yet, but the geography of the fifth plate has already fascinated them.
This issue of the monthly magazine introduces the Qin Straight Road between Liangzhou and Bingzhou.
Nowadays, traveling to study and seeing the sights and sounds of the world is not a life that most people can enjoy.
Even if these children were born in Shangdang County of Bingzhou, by the time they grow up, very few of them would be able to leave the county, let alone go towards Liangzhou.
When the children heard that a road several meters wide was built on the mountain and that it had been weathered by wind and frost for three or four hundred years without any weeds growing on it, their eyes suddenly lit up.
The existence of Lepinghou paper and the design of the monthly report allowed them to even see the pattern of this highway.
Although the pattern is a bit ugly, it is much better than letting them imagine it directly.
Chang Lin explained: "Once the provincial government has recruited enough people to go to Guanzhong, we will go south along this road to Guanzhong."
As soon as he finished speaking, the man who had just said that he wanted to let his eldest son go to Guanzhong immediately received envious glances from the children.
But he wasn't the one going there in person, and no matter how he thought about it, he felt like he was losing out.
Of course, the one with a more desolate expression at this moment was not him, but Tian Feng.
This capable strategist under Yuan Shao was truly a first-rate foresighted person. How could he not see what the children in Bingzhou would be like when they grew up if they were educated in such a way that they were proud of the geographical features of the state?
Jizhou's satisfaction even lies only in the fact that this year's harvest was good.
The yield per mu is less than half of that in Bingzhou!
What made Tian Feng feel like he was struck by lightning was that he heard Chang Lin turn the monthly report to the last page and said, "Okay, tell us your favorite gossip stories. But today's gossip is a little special. It's not about the strange people and events in Bingzhou, but about Jizhou next door. It's not entirely correct to call it gossip. This may also be a problem of calculation."
"To talk about this matter, we have to start from the crusade against Dong Zhuo two years ago. At that time, the various troops at the Suanzao Alliance were short of food, so..."
Tian Feng: “…”
Oops.
Even though he only heard the beginning, it did not affect Tian Feng's judgment that what Chang Lin wanted to talk about must be the matter of borrowing grain from Yuan Shao and Qiao Yan!
No matter how many copies of the Leping Monthly Newspaper have been circulated, or whether it is only the people in Bingzhou who have such a copy, as long as there is such an interesting and interesting newspaper reading segment in its dissemination channels, I am afraid that in a few days, the whole Bingzhou will know that Yuan Shao has failed to figure out a certain account.
Recording this matter in the monthly report might have been just to prevent the people of Bingzhou from being deceived by such interest claims, but it was also a real slap in the face of Yuan Shao.
But what position does Tian Feng have to accuse this matter?
His name is now "Yuan Feng" instead of Tian Feng.
Qiao Yan and Yuan Shao were also in absolutely opposing positions.
Tian Feng was sure that if it was Qiao Yan who made such a mistake today, Yuan Shao would never miss the opportunity to strike at his opponent.
This is a fight that will never be compromised due to any factors such as age or gender!
Qiao Yan not only refused to give in when targeting Yuan Shao, she also had no intention of giving in when it came to fighting for her own interests.
This specifically refers to taking advantage of the system.
The last time she approached the strategist system was to inquire whether she could obtain corresponding strategist point rewards from the system by successfully promoting woodblock printing one day in the future.
In the blink of an eye, more than three months have passed.
During her journey from Liangzhou to the surprise attack on Chang'an, she completely relied on the accumulation gradually built up in Liangzhou and Bingzhou, as well as seizing the fleeting opportunities for battle, and did not rely on the help of the system at all.
To the extent that the system felt that it was just a group responsible for cheering for Qiao Yan after he successfully killed the enemy and captured the city.
However, it has been serving as an atmosphere group for a long time. In this case, as a system, it should also have self-awareness and accept the reality.
But having said that, after hearing Qiao Yan asking him about the strategist points and achievement settlement for this period, the system remained silent for a long time before slowly opening the panel.
[Name: Qiao Yan]
【camp:? 】
[Occupation: Strategist (?)]
[Age: 17 (years old)]
[Physique: 95 (100), Force: 80 (100), Intelligence: 82 (100), Luck: 86 (?)]
[Remaining points available for allocation: 54]
[Skills: History lv7, Eloquence lv9, Incitement lv10, Cultural Relics Appraisal lv4, Archery lv12, Horseback Riding lv11, Painting lv3, Calligraphy lv7, Field Archaeology lv5, Ancient Coins lv3...]
[Remaining allocable skill points: 18]
[Strategist Points: 530 (for every 10 Strategist Points you gain, you will automatically gain 3 attribute allocable points and 1 skill allocable point)]
530 counselor points!
Since returning to Bingzhou after defeating Dong Zhuo in Luoyang in the first year of Guangxi, Qiao Yan's additional achievements include [dissuading Qu Yi from joining Yuan Shao], [During the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, assisting Lu Bu, Wang Yun and others in killing Dong Zhuo], [During the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, resolving the incident of Li Jue and Guo Si causing chaos in Chang'an], and [persuading Zhang Xiu to join and dissolving the Wancheng Incident].
These are achievements derived from historical events.
In addition, there are some routine events that require the settlement of counselor points. For example, out of consideration for the Han Dynasty, Qiao Yan pacified Liangzhou to safeguard the Han Dynasty's rule, which of course also required the settlement of counselor points.
But when the system looked at this series of counselor point events numbly, it still couldn't help but doubt the judgment logic of the built-in program.
Those few achievements are fine.
Whether "assisting" Lu Bu, Wang Yun and others in killing Dong Zhuo was "assisting" or "leading" is not important. What is important is the result achieved.
The solution to the chaos in Chang'an caused by Li Jue and Guo Si can certainly be considered a solution after both Li Jue and Guo Si died.
Zhang Xiu had completely surrendered because of Zhang Ji's capture, and there was no such thing as the Wancheng Incident. This achievement also has a reasonable explanation.
But why is it that Qiao Yan's tricking Liu Xie into becoming a woodcutter is considered to be called—
[Achieve the goal of escaping from the siege for the lord]?
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