The World of Yellow Sky

"After fifteen days, send a letter to Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju, saying that we are willing to send troops to support their rise, and see if they can help us get in touch with Wuhuan in Shanggu County."

Yan Zhong stood up, he already had a plan in mind.

"Immediately send a letter to the great virtuous teacher to explain the situation of Dai County and Shanggu County."

"Request to mobilize the Xiaoqi Battalion, the Wuju Battalion, and the two armies eastward to Daijun. I will personally lead the army out from Feihuxing. Both routes will go out and attack Daijun first."

"Eagle Guards continues to investigate information, and the first thing is to focus on the military capital. When the reinforcements from the two counties pass through the military capital, they can report to me."

Chapter 298 Better Soldiers and Simplified Administration

After weighing again and again, Xu An still rejected Yan Zhong's proposal.

The successive battles have exhausted most of the Yellow Turban Army.

The Xiaoqi Battalion has not yet completed the training, and most of them are composed of the Han army. Xu An is also afraid of changes when he rashly enters Youzhou eastward.

Because Youzhou needs to guard against northern enemies in the north, most of the cities can be regarded as solid cities.

The Yellow Turban Army lacked siege equipment. If they could not win quickly, they might be dragged into the quagmire of war.

To deal with the Han Empire, you can only win quickly with a small attack. Competing for mobilization and war potential, the Han Empire is far superior to the Yellow Turban Army by dozens of times.

For the same reason as not being able to attack Hedong County, if too many troops are lost in the Youzhou battlefield, then the Yellow Turban Army will completely lose the capital for subsequent hegemony.

Moreover, Wuhuan is indeed a major hidden danger. Nanlou has at least tens of thousands of soldiers under his command.

Although Yan Zhong's plan is indeed exciting, Xu An knows that the current Yellow Turban Army is far from ready.

Xu An rejected Yan Zhong's proposal and clarified his point of view.

Then he transferred Yan Zhong's order back to Jinyang City,

Set up the Northern Army in the northern part of the Taihang Mountains, with a fixed number of 8000 troops, under the command of Liu Shi.

The duty of the Northern Army is to guard Feihu and Puyinxing.

The rest of the captives, together with more than 8000 mountain residents, returned to Bingzhou with Yan Zhong.

Bingzhou is sparsely populated, and many places can actually be cultivated, so there is no need to cultivate in the mountains.

With the immigration experiment in Hedong County, Xu An finally started the next step of immigration.

His next move is to move all the residents in the north of Taihang to Taiyuan County in Bingzhou, and all the residents in the south of Taihang to the interior of Shangdang County.

The Yellow Turban Army in the two counties has a large amount of land that can be cultivated by them, and those lands are all connected together, which is more convenient for management.

What Xu An wants to do now is to vigorously promote Mintun.

The land in Shangdang County and Taiyuan County is far more fertile than the land in Taihang Mountain, and the yield can be more. It is beneficial and harmless to let the mountain people move out of the mountain.

However, it is difficult to leave their homeland, and it is quite difficult for those mountain people to move away from the mountainous areas where their ancestors have lived for generations.

Even though the Yellow Turban Army had the greatest influence in the Taihang Mountains, some people were still unwilling to leave the Taihang Mountains.

Xu An can only increase the remuneration for going out of the mountain, and ensure the safety along the way, as well as various matters, let Fu Zhu go door-to-door to persuade.

The forced emigration caused public dissatisfaction, which Xu An did not want to see.

He managed to establish the image of the Yellow Turban Army protecting the environment and the people, but he didn't want to ruin it because of it.

Although the mountain is the ancestral land, the mountain people actually live in it. Wolves, tigers, leopards, insects, scorpions, snakes and rats are rampant, which brings them a lot of risks.

Although the thieves and bandits in the mountain were almost extinct because of the presence of the Yellow Turban Army, there were still many villains in the mountain, and safety was also a big problem. Therefore, under the persuasion of those more famous Fu Zhu, most of them chose to go out of the mountain.

The immigration plan is set after the mid-autumn harvest in the Taihang Mountains. After persuasion and temptation, more and more mountain people choose to give up their life in the mountains.

While planning immigration, Xu An was also preparing for disarmament and military settlements.

There is really not much time left for the Yellow Turban Army. It is now the middle of September in the fourth year of Zhongping, and it will be less than a year before Zhang Ju sends Wuhuan cavalry southward next year.

Fortunately, with the Fu Zhu cultivated by the Daotang and the assistance of the Eagle Wolf Guard, Xu An successfully collected most of the information in the army.

During the long-term combat, Xu An also had a good understanding of the combat effectiveness of various ministries and armies.

A series of transfer orders were issued from the government office, and a branch was transferred either to the border, or to Jinyang City, or to the interior.

After various considerations.

Xu An divided the Yellow Turban Army into three classes from the inside.

The first-class soldiers are the most elite trilogy. This part Xu An selected 2 people and belonged to him directly under his jurisdiction.

It consists of five parts.

These five parts are: Yellow Angels, Xiaoqi Battalion, Suppressed Battalion, Warrior Battalion, and Sharp Warrior Battalion.

Among them, the Xiaoqi Battalion, Xu An selected some soldiers and war horses with excellent riding skills. The Xiaoqi Battalion, which originally only had more than 6000 people, increased to two, with more than [-] people.

Gao Shun's training was also very effective, because Xu An was busy with other affairs, and did not pay too much attention to Gao Shun's training methods.

But when he saw the trapped camp trained by Gao Shun, he saw a completely different aura from the Yellow Turban Soldiers Camp, Sharp Warrior Camp, and Yellow Angels.

The Yellow Angel gives people the feeling of a tiger, with high morale and incomparable fanaticism.

But being trapped in the camp gives people the feeling that they are entangled with death, and the eyes of the soldiers trapped in the camp are extremely gloomy.

They are less like living people and more like numb machines.

When Gao Shun was selecting soldiers, he did not choose from the military soldier camp and sharp soldier camp, the more than [-] soldiers were all selected prisoners.

Whether it's platooning troops, or advancing and retreating with the sound of trumpet drums, the trapped camp seems to be quite silent.

There are only the orders of the generals and the sound of flags and drums.

However, after just three short months, the trapped camp trained by Gao Shun, under Gao Shun's command, behaved like an arm and a finger.

But Xu An was a little surprised that there were casualties during training in the camp.

In this short period of three months, hundreds of soldiers were eliminated due to casualties.

It was only then that Xu An understood why Gao Shun had to choose among prisoners in mines or prisons when selecting soldiers.

Seeing the performance of the trapped camp, Xu An thought that the trapped camp was almost ready for training.

But when Xu An asked Gao Shun about the training situation of the trapped camp.

However, Gao Shun said that he was not ready to fall into the camp, and it would take nearly a year of training to truly become an army.

The number of Yellow Angels has expanded to 1000.

The Warrior Battalion and the Elite Battalion of the Yellow Turban Army are each composed of two troops, with a total of 1 soldiers.

Xu An selected elites from various ministries to enrich the armed forces of the two battalions.

The best armed, the most diligently trained.

The second-class soldiers, selected as the standing army, are responsible for the defense of the borderlands.

The standing army has a total of more than [-] people, some of them are distributed in the south of Hedong County and the Taihang area to guard against the possible invasion of the Han Empire.

The other part is distributed in the three counties of Yanmen, Dingxiang and Xihe, relying on the Great Wall to defend against the attack of the Huns.

The second is military equipment, practice once every five days.

The third-class army soldiers are the reserve army, responsible for the security, defense, and hunting of thieves in the county.

There are nearly 7 people in the reserve army, including the trilogy brought by Yan Zhong from the northern part of the Taihang Mountains.

Armament is the last time, practice once every ten days.

In addition to being responsible for the defense, the military station that Xu An plans to implement is carried out in the reserve army.

Reclaim land as appropriate, plow and keep.

Chapter 299 Enlightenment

Zhongping four years, November.

Under the waves of immigration and disarmament with great fanfare by the Yellow Turban Army.

The Meng School, the County School, and the Guo School in Jinyang City have all been built.

County studies and Chinese studies are basically useless, and no one is enrolled.

At the beginning of Mengxue's establishment, there were not many students enrolled, but soon Xu An issued a decree.

Students who enter Mengxue do not need to pay any tuition fees, provide free meals, and even reduce half of the tax at home.

As soon as the decree came out, there was almost a crowd of people outside Mengxue, full of parents who wanted to send their children to Mengxue.

But correspondingly, Xu An also raised the admission standards for some novice students, choosing the best ones.

An elementary school can only accommodate more than a hundred boys.

There are now a total of 67 cities under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army. Among them, the nine cities in Hedong County have the most dense population. Therefore, three additional Mengxue schools were established in each city of Xu'an. The towns with large populations in Taiyuan and Shangdang counties also set up some Mengxue schools.

Therefore, under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army, there were a total of [-] Mongolian Schools.

In November, nearly [-] children attended the school.

[-] children are enrolled at the same time. Such a large-scale and concentrated enrollment of children can be said to be unprecedented.

In the past, there were only bamboo slips, which could only be handwritten. If a document had to be copied [-] times, the amount of work would simply be terrifying.

But with woodblock printing, and cheap, durable yellow sky paper, all this is no longer a problem.

The paper-making workshop has expanded day and night, and the engraving and printing workshop has also expanded several times, almost non-stop.

But on such a scale and at such a speed, it is also a difficult test to print [-] copies of the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic".

The children who entered the school this time, the Yellow Turban Army basically selected older ones.

Although he is older, he eats more and more, and the financial pressure is quite high.

However, there is a lack of civil servants in the Yellow Turban Army, and there is a lack of documents in the army. The selection of older children by elementary school is to fill the vacancies in these places quickly after being taught by elementary school.

Taoist halls in various places have finally reached seventy.

The school system of Daotang comes once a year, and there are now about 500 students in the first period, who are filled in the offices of Hedong County and Yinglangwei, which barely keeps the Yellow Turban Army alive.

As for the students in the second period, it is estimated that there will be nearly [-] students by next year.

As long as the second batch of students graduate, then Xu An's situation will be much better.

There is no need to add Daotang, when those students return to the army, they can directly start literacy classes in the army.

When the army is not training, those students can teach ordinary soldiers to read and write.

Although the results have been remarkable, the two educational institutions, Daotang and Xuetang, have further consumed the finances of the Yellow Turban Army.

The expansion of the workshop and the food and clothing expenses of the students all require financial support.

If he hadn't got half of the money from the wealthy and powerful in Hedong County, Xu An would not have made up his mind to promote Enlightenment.

According to the current consumption, the money accumulated by the Yellow Turban Army can last until June of next year at most.

Military training, Taoist halls, schools, as well as the construction of water conservancy, cattle administration, and horse administration, all consume the bulk of money and food.

But these can't be stopped at one place, and one can't be saved.

To break the situation, the Yellow Turban Army must maintain these sustainable developments.

"Ming Gong, [-] children are going to school, isn't that too much?"

Although Yan Zhong knew that the Yellow Turban Army lacked scholars and useful officials, 2 people enrolled.

This is also...too crazy.

"No, not much."

Xu An raised his hand to stop Yan Zhong's words, his expression was a little excited.

"Enlightenment education is the most important thing, [-] children are enrolled in school, military division, do you know what this means?!"

Yan Zhong smiled wryly and said, "It means that money and food flow out of the treasury like the water of the Yellow River."

Xu An stopped in his tracks and said with a smile: "Money and food is a small matter, but the merits of this matter are in the present age, and the benefits will be in the future!"

"Is Minggong's statement a bit exaggerated?"

In Yan Zhong's view, although there are more than 2 children enrolled in school, it is a bit exaggerated to say that the merits of the present age will benefit the future.

"Not an exaggeration."