Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 120
"Ah Hui is going to take care of the horse for my father?"

Gao Huan's eyes looking at Gao Cheng became darker and darker, with no clear meaning.

"Father, the child is not delusional about meddling in the dispatch of warhorses. He just recalls the prosperity of animal husbandry in the Great Wei Dynasty in the past, and compares it with the current situation. It is inevitable that he will be embarrassed, so he speaks to the father."

Gao Cheng said calmly.

Only then did Gao Huan feel relieved.

He also knew about the prosperous animal husbandry in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, it was known as a million horses. After the unification of the north, it fought against Rouran. He also robbed a wave of Gaocheguo along the way, and seized more than 429 million horses, cattle, and sheep in total.

Of course, making a fortune does not depend solely on robbing. The state-run ranches in Monan, Hexi, Shanxi, and Hebei also provided a steady stream of war horses for the Northern Wei army.

However, as the dynasty came to an end, no matter how good the horse administration was, it was about to collapse, resulting in a shortage of war horses in the last years of the Northern Wei Dynasty. This was why Gao Huan robbed Er Zhurong's widow of [-] war horses. Zhu turned his face in advance.

After occupying Hebei, the original horse-producing land, Gao Huan only collected [-] horses for the decisive battle in Hanling.

It wasn't until Jinyang was captured and horses were collected from Bingzhou pastures that there were enough horses to support Dou Tai's [-]-mile raid in one day and night.

After capturing Xiurongchuan, after Gao Huan buried Er Zhuzhao and comforted his family members, he immediately inspected the Xiurongchuan Ranch run by the Erzhu family for several generations, which is also the largest source of Gao's war horses.

"What's Ah Hui's plan?"

After getting rid of the doubts in his heart, Gao Huan asked Gao Cheng in detail about his thoughts on restructuring Ma Zheng.

"Boy, please transfer the excellent horse breeds from Xiurongchuan, set up pastures in Henan and Hebei, and breed war horses."

Gao Cheng suggested.

"Henan."

Gao Huan pondered for a moment, then asked:

"But you want to reset the Henan pastures west of Shiji (Hua County, Henan) and east of Hanoi (Qinyang, Henan)?"

"It was the old site where Emperor Xiaowen operated."

When Emperor Xiaowen moved south to Luoyang, he chose to set up a horse farm between Shiji and Hanoi to breed war horses in preparation for the future reunification of the north and the south.

Gao Huan thought for a long time after hearing this, but still refused:

"Reconstructing the horse administration will cost a lot, but the effect will take a long time. Kansai Yuwentai is no match for me. I am afraid that Henan and Hebei pastures have not produced. Yuwentai has already been destroyed by me, and the water network in the south of the Yangtze River is dense. If we want to According to the picture, the navy should be built mainly to build ships."

Gao Huan's confident appearance greatly shocked Gao Cheng.

But he still boasted:
"Yuwentai and Xiao Yan are just people waiting to die. What the father has to do is to lead 30 horsemen, attack Rouran in the north, shock the desert, make all the tribes subdue, and achieve the name of the Supreme Khan."

Gao Huan's eyes lit up:
"What Khan!"

"The Heavenly Khan respected by all races in the desert!"

Gao Cheng said solemnly.

Gao Huan laughed loudly:

"Hahaha! God Khan! What a God Khan!"

But after laughing, he was troubled by expenses:

"It's not because the father doesn't think about attacking the Hulu in the north. Whether he can postpone the matter of horse administration and spend money and food on the urgent task."

Everyone knows the advantages of re-establishing the horse administration. Gao Huan used to be jealous of the three hundred war horses, but now he puts the horse administration on the back burner.

Gao Cheng also knew that money and food were the key, so he proposed:
"Now that the world is in full swing, my father and the royal party are out of the town, why not take this opportunity to search the household registration and increase the number of taxpayers."

Gao Huan caressed for a moment, then asked:
"Who does Ah Hui think can preside over this matter?"

"The child is willing to take on this important task for the father."

Gao Huan laughed and said:

"Why does Ah Hui need to do this in person, let Gao Longzhi preside over it."

I gave Gao Longzhi a good job and made great achievements. He should be promoted and entrusted with important positions. This offending job was handed over to him.

Gao Cheng did have a different opinion:

"Father loves and cares, and Cheng Ming feels deeply about it, but Gao Longzhi was afraid of the difficulty and backed away from the incident of the officials' inspection before, and my child thought it would be difficult for him to take on the big responsibility, so please let me take care of it."

"Aren't Ah Hui worried about being resented by others?"

Gao Huan was surprised.

Gao Cheng showed no sign of flinching:
"A child is only afraid of losing love to his father, as long as his father loves and trusts him, even if the words of others are like knives, why should he be afraid!"

Gao Huan was deeply moved, and he promised:
"If this can be done, my father will hand over the reconstruction of horse administration to you to preside over it."

The previous suspicion was just worried that Gao Cheng would take the opportunity to get involved in the war horse dispatch, but if it takes a long time to restructure the horse administration, I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to see it when the harvest comes.

"Serving the father and king is a child's duty, and I dare not ask for anything else."

Faced with Gao Cheng's refusal, Gao Huan said seriously:

"If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, and if you have done something wrong, you will be punished. If even Ah Hui has meritorious service, I will be stingy with awarding rewards. How can I convince the world? Ah Hui, you have made great contributions to rescuing Dou Tai this time, and you have done a good job. I will ask the imperial court for you Do you know what I expect from the post of Minister of the Ministry of Officials?"

"My child understands."

"Let's talk about it."

"Father Wang gave Cheng the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, not to let Cheng'an insert party members, but to rectify the administration of officials."

Gao Huan laughed loudly:

"Give birth to a father like a father! Give birth to a son like a father! My son is talented and intelligent, and he should inherit the family business."

Gao Cheng felt that he was a donkey, and hung a carrot in front of him, with the words 'When the family business' was written on it.

After laughing, Gao Huan patiently told Gao Cheng about the long-standing abuses of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

When it comes to the long-standing abuses of the Northern Wei Dynasty, one person cannot bypass it, and that is Emperor Xiaowen.

Emperor Xiaowen set the family name and elevated the Han family. Even if he sacrificed the Daibei Wu people, the official position of the court still could not meet the needs of the Xianbei nobles who went south and the growing Han family.

In 499 A.D., Emperor Xiaowen died. Twenty years later, in 20 A.D., Zhang Zhongyu asked to revise the regulations on the selection of officials, prohibiting generals from being transferred to civilian positions and being listed as high-ranking officials in the Qing Dynasty. Gao Huan was an eyewitness to the Luoyang Mutiny triggered by this incident .

On the surface, Zhang Zhongyu was confused and killed his father and brother.

But the essence is a power confrontation between the powerful scholars and the warriors. For the scholars, the position can not even meet their own internal needs, so how can they be willing to give the warriors a share of the pie.

After the Luoyang mutiny, in order to appease the warriors, Empress Dowager Hu promised that the warriors could still switch to civilian jobs and get promoted.

However, the two positions vacated by the imperial army killing the father and son of the Zhang family could not solve the situation of too many monks and too little food.

During this period, Cui Liang, a native of Qinghe, was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and was pushed out by everyone to solve this problem.

Cui Liang thought of a way to redefine the official selection system, which is called stopping years.

The so-called stop age, the gist is just one sentence, the selection of officials does not ask about talent, whoever has been nominated for a long time will win.

The method of stopping the age seems fair, but in essence it is the suppression of the warriors by the elites.

They have to get ahead in the military position first, and then switch to civilian positions to continue to survive. How can their time to candidate for civilian positions be compared with that of scholars.

Precisely because it was in line with the interests of the elites, Cui Liang successively served as Minister of the Ministry of Officials successively adopted the stop-year system in the system of official selection.

This system has continued to this day.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as Erzhu's party members, Gao's party members, and Yu Wentai's party members in Kansai.

These days, the most important thing is to have a strong army and a strong horse. Otherwise, at the age of 14, Gao Cheng, who was the governor of the capital and minister of the capital, would really have to follow the stipulation that the seniority should not be asked about ability, but only seniority.

But not everyone is qualified to be a partisan of the Gao Clan. When the Gao Clan's cronies leave the town, they are appointed as governors, and other officials are selected according to the stipulations of the age limit.

Promotion depends entirely on seniority, which is also the root cause of the corruption of officials in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Except for Jane, who is lucky in the hearts of Gao's father and son, and a person of high moral character, who has the energy to manage with heart.

Without brutality and abuse of the people, mediocrity is already a conscience, and corruption is even less a crime in this era.

Gao Huan patiently told Gao Cheng about the corruption of today's officials. Gao Cheng actually knew it very well but still pretended to be educated.

"Ahui, after you take office in the Ministry of Officials, you must work diligently and discuss with Sima Ziru, Li Yuanzhong, Gao Longzhi and others when you encounter problems."

Gao Huan taught earnestly.

"The boy knows."

Gao Huan was silent for a long time, and said again:
"Suo Kuo's household registration and rectification of officials are your own priorities. If you really don't have time to separate yourself, you will hand over the Suo Kuo household registration to Gao Long. As a father, you still allow you to be abbot of Ma Zheng."

Gao Cheng nodded in response.

The two father and son chatted for a long time. When Gao Cheng parted, he hesitated to speak.

Gao Huan asked:

"What else is there, Ah Hui?"

Gao Cheng bit his lip, but still let go and asked:
"Cheng heard that the father had allowed Zhu Hunyuan to join the governor of the state, why didn't the father confer this post on him?"

"Bingzhou is important, and you can't do anything without your confidant."

"My father's enemy is Yuwentai in Guanxi, but Zhu Hunyuan would rather abandon Qin and Wei prefectures than attach himself to Yuwentai, and lead the people across the desert to vote. The child can guarantee his loyalty with his life."

"This"

Gao Huan hesitated.

Gao Cheng continued:
"In the future, if the king uses profit to lure people from Kansai to surrender, and he asks the king, 'But Zhu Hunyuan can get the governor of Bingzhou', what should the king say? Cheng thinks it is better to temporarily serve him as the governor of Bingzhou to block the world. If he is reassigned to another place, others will not be able to accuse the father of not keeping his old promise."

Hearing what Gao Cheng said, Gao Huan immediately knew what this kid was up to, and was waiting for him here.

As Gao Huan said, the governor of Bingzhou is important and dignified, and the Guandong Prefecture can only be compared with Sizhou where Luoyang is located.

This is Gao Cheng playing Zhu Hunyuan's idea again.

"If you want Zhu Hunyuan to say it directly, it's a pleasure to go around and go around."

Gao Huan said angrily.

Gao Cheng scratched his head in embarrassment and laughed, children are like fathers.

Gao Huan still agreed to Gao Cheng's request, and only asked him to make it clear to Ke Zhu Hunyuan, lest he stay too long and refuse to be transferred.

For Gao Huan, although Zhu Hunyuan is from Huaishuo, he is not a direct descendant, and there are only 3000 people under his command. According to Gao Cheng's words, he was awarded the governor of Bingzhou, and then promoted to the governor of Sizhou. In addition to helping, it can indeed block the tongues of people in the world.

　I couldn’t hold on to sleep for a while after writing until 04 o’clock in the morning, and got up to write again at 30:[-]. Well, I will go to sleep for a while, and I will write more when I leave get out of class.

　　Thanks to book friend Zhu Shangbing's Qin Guo and book friend 20220616091024778 for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)