Chapter 847: Fengxiao

The houses in Tuhe City were originally brick and wood structures, but most of them were dilapidated. In the past few years, all the houses in the city have been renovated, and there is a youth engineering team that is very professional in building *kang* and fire walls for the houses. There are stoves, and there are furnaces. Although there is no heating, the fire walls replace heating to a certain extent. In winter, burning coal at home, smoke comes out of the chimney, and there are large double-layered glass windows, making it quite warm and comfortable to stay at home.

Guo Jia entered the courtyard and entered the room to look at the furnishings. Tables, chairs, benches, pots, bowls, basins, everything was there. There was also a desk in the room, with pens, ink, paper, and inkstones on the table, and a wooden shelf made on the side, which was for books and ornaments.

The sun shone into the room from the outside, and the room was very bright. If it was night, there were also candles for lighting here. The room was not clean, and it was still covered with dust, so sweeping, washing, and cleaning had to be done by himself. There was also a new blue quilt on the *kang*, wrapped in linen, which looked like it had just been sent over.

More people came to join, and the handling of employment also had a set of procedures.

The official walked over, picked up a hard paper envelope on the table, pulled out a stack of General's money from it: "Sir, this is the salary paid in advance, which can be used for purchasing and settling down. Later, the people from the post house will send all your belongings. Sir, please settle down first today. After the *Chen* hour tomorrow, someone will come to find you to arrange your position, and you will also be given a horse, which is convenient for you to come and go."

After saying this, he took Guo Jia around the courtyard, turned around the warehouse, latrine, and the like, cupped his hands and bowed, and left.

Guo Jia looked inside and out several times, looked at the travel documents back and forth, and regardless of whether it was dirty or not, sat on the stone steps in front of the door, feeling quite emotional.

Although he had great ambitions and wanted to choose a wise master to help accomplish great things, he never thought that he would be poor all his life, and he never thought that his ambitions would not be realized. But when everything really started, looking back at the past, it was hard not to sigh.

After staying like this for a while, the people in the post house led his donkey and took his luggage over, helped tie it to the stable, and politely retreated.

Guo Jia had already learned that there were no slaves or servants under Liaodong. Even if they were military officers and had reached the position of titled Battalion Commander, there were no servants, just five hundred personal guards when fighting, and a group of close guards when not fighting. As for civil officials, don't even think about it; there was nothing.

If you want others to help you work, you can only spend money to hire them. If you dare to bully others, it might be difficult to report it for a while, but once the incident is exposed, no matter how big the official is, the end will be quite miserable, and it will be hard to die.

In fact, under the rule of Liaodong, the common people are quite fierce. In the future, there might be people who swallow their anger and dare not report, or have nowhere to complain, but now, whoever dares to bully others by relying on their power will be tied up directly by the common people.

Men have all been trained, and there are armor and weapons in their homes. Even if there is no armor, in the case of bare hands, three or five people forming a battle formation together also have quite a bit of combat power. And once they go home, put on armor, and take weapons, a shout from the village will directly lead to dozens or hundreds of men forming a formation to go out. All levels of military officers are equipped, and they can fight as soon as they are pulled out.

This is quite terrifying, and it is precisely this fierce folk custom that suppresses the greedy desires of officials.

In fact, in ancient times, crossbows and armor were strictly controlled. The reason is very simple, which is the same consideration as two thousand years later. Crossbows can accumulate power and be fired, without the need for years of training like bows and arrows, and can have powerful lethality. Armor is because once it is worn, it greatly enhances defense, and combat power rises by several floors.

After all, as long as you ensure your own safety, regardless of whether you know martial arts or have martial skills, as long as the enemy cannot easily break your defense, you just have to swing your knife and hack.

This is also a special method for a special period. In the future, Wang Yan will definitely confiscate armor and crossbows. Now it is for self-defense. In the future, there will be no great enemies inside, only a portion of bad people, so it will not be a big problem...

Guo Jia naturally had no servants. He was alone, drawing water from the well, wiping the dust in the room, sweeping and cleaning the courtyard, and was busy until night, which was considered to be settled.

Touching his empty stomach, he took out the General's money from the room, packed the travel documents, and swayed out of Tuhe City to eat at the wine and food shop next to the post house.

Unsurprisingly, he saw several familiar faces who went to see the Grand General together today, all of whom were poor scholars with empty pockets and gluttonous worms. The first thing they did after getting the salary paid in advance was to come to the wine and food shop to consume. The wine there was strong wine, and the whole person relaxed, which was really common.

After eating a meal full of meat and drinking a pot of wine, Guo Jia returned home dizzy, took off his clothes messily, lay down on the soft cotton quilt, and fell asleep, turning over from time to time because of the heat, smacking his lips, sleeping sweetly...

The next day, before he was fully awake, Guo Jia was awakened by someone outside the window.

Opening his eyes in a daze, yawning, Guo Jia looked at the young man in a green shirt standing outside the open window with a smile.

Guo Jia felt that his body was particularly soft and had no strength at all, so he didn't bother with too much etiquette, sat up, smoothed his hair to the back of his head, cupped his hands casually: "Drunk last night, so I slept soundly. Sir, where are you from?"

The person outside the window was obviously well-informed and didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Guo Jia, returning the salute.

He was responsible for bringing people to handle work problems. Except for winter, scholars who came to Liaodong in warm weather were mostly in the same state as Guo Jia, and there was nothing strange. After all, they traveled long distances, came to Liaodong from afar, saw the Grand General and were arranged to go, and settled down in Liaodong. Most of them would go to the wine and food shop near the post house to eat and drink. The wine there was strong wine, and the whole person relaxed. This appearance was really common.

He said: "I am just a small official in the Government of Governance, and I dare not be called 'Sir'. I came here for your official business. Please dress and wash, follow me to the Government of Governance to receive the seal and ribbon, official clothes, and then go out of the city to choose a good horse, and take a trip to the place where you will govern in the future. Two days later, you will go to take up your post."

"Please wait a moment."

Guo Jia cupped his hands, stood up with his body's weakness, put on his clothes, combed his hair, fetched water in the courtyard, found toothpaste made of wood ash, found the toothbrush of this time, brushed his teeth, and then ran to the toilet to clear his bowels, and then followed the official away with a comfortable body.

Going out, he went to the Government of Governance not far away, received the seal and ribbon, four sets of green shirts, two sets for spring, summer, and autumn, two sets of cotton clothes for winter, three pairs of official boots, two pairs of cloth single boots, and one pair of animal skin cotton boots. This was the standard uniform for Liaodong civil officials. In addition, there were four jade belts, which were belts, and they were the same set as the clothes.

The seal and ribbon were separated. The seal was the seal, and the ribbon was the silk ribbon hanging the seal. In Liaodong, the seal and ribbon were one. The seal was divided by material, and the ribbon was divided by color and material, which, together with the belt, were used to distinguish official positions.

For example, the pavilion chief was a blue stone seal, linen ribbon, and linen belt. The next step was the township chief, which was a white jade seal, silk ribbon, and silk belt. In turn, the material of the seal became better and better, and the ribbon and belt became more and more beautiful.

There were two seals, one was the personal grade identity seal, and the other was the position official seal, such as pavilion, township, county, etc., all had a separate seal. This was a local seal and did not follow the chief.

Clothes and shoes were the same regardless of the size of the official position. The officials who handled affairs were also dressed the same, which belonged to the unified image of the government.

Guo Jia took the clothes home and changed into them. Although the new clothes were also made of linen, they were better than the clothes he had washed white before. After changing into the clothes and matching the seal and ribbon, he followed the official out of the city, chose a horse at the horse farm, and then rode east, arriving at the Wangjun Pavilion of Tian'en Township under the jurisdiction of Tuhe.

Many place names in Liaodong were named by the common people themselves. The Grand General named the county, but the names of the townships and pavilions below were all taken by the common people. At the beginning, the townships and pavilions had no scholar civil officials, and they were all managed by elderly people who barely managed.

"The Wangjun Pavilion governs two hundred and thirty households, with one thousand five hundred and sixty-three people, including eight hundred and twenty-nine males and seven hundred and thirty-four females. Under seventeen years old, male and female..."

The office of the Wangjun Pavilion was a building without walls, composed of several large houses. After meeting each other, the deputy hall chief of the Wangxiang Pavilion introduced the overall situation to Guo Jia and also introduced the responsibilities of the pavilion chief.

Guo Jia listened very carefully, because the work of the pavilion chief was really a lot. Farming, pregnant women, newborns, hygiene, fire prevention, children's schooling, neighborhood disputes, real estate income, statistics of remaining grain and fields in the people's homes, registration of the living, cancellation of the dead, marriage, household division, militia training, etc., etc.

Within ten *li* of the Wangjun Pavilion, all big and small things had to be coordinated and solved by the pavilion chief. There were also reports, various statistical data, and the implementation of various decrees of the General's Mansion and the Government of Governance. Everything was messy, and everything had to be grasped. Basically, it could be said that within these ten *li*, the pavilion chief was like a local emperor.

It's just that they didn't have the power to judge cases. If there was any illegal or criminal behavior under their rule, the police could arrest them, but they had to go to the township to judge, and there would be more investigation procedures. This power was something that local officials could not hold onto no matter what. Otherwise, there would inevitably be people who would treat human life like grass, and it would also truly make local officials local emperors who held the power of life and death.

As long as someone died, the superior police would come to visit the scene to confirm the cause. In this way, coupled with the fierce folk customs, people dared to speak out if they had something to say, which could largely avoid mistakes and omissions.

This is the basic means of Grand General Wang's governance of the people's livelihood, making the common people under his rule maintain a fighting spirit, which can largely guarantee the benign operation of government agencies.

Of course, the ultimate reason for all this lies in Wang Yan, the ruler, who is not afraid of civil unrest and trusts the common people under his rule...

And a pavilion's staff only had four people, the positive and deputy pavilion chiefs and two police officers. The police officers were local, and the positive and deputy pavilion chiefs were from other places.

Four people managing all the affairs of over a thousand people in a pavilion, the workload is quite huge, Guo Jia thought about it and felt his scalp numb, it was life-threatening...

This is of course not the complete body of the grassroots government. In the future, a medical practitioner will be allocated, and when the students grow up, the students of the village will also be used. They are all free labor, just use them, which will greatly reduce the pressure on formal officials and can also give students some grassroots experience. Coming from the grassroots and governing the grassroots are two different things...

In the afternoon, Guo Jia first went to the medical center to get the medicine and drank a bowl. Afterwards, he ran out of the city to the medical school to learn health-preserving methods from Hua Tuo. He had to learn it, otherwise, he was afraid that the pavilion chief's terrifying workload would exhaust him to death.

The medical school was built for more than two years. Although it was not as tall and gorgeous as the Wenchang Pavilion, it occupied a wide area.

Because the training system of the medical school is different, students have to be screened to study in the medical school at the age of ten after learning basic cultural knowledge. This requires the medical school to have many classrooms and dormitories for the graded learning of students and the accommodation of students studying from other places. There must also be research places for medical practitioners, living places for medical practitioners and their families, and their own library to collect medical books and provide some other books for students.

Furthermore, the Grand General requires that female children can also enter school, dormitories must be separated by gender, and toilets must be separated by gender. On the other hand, under the policy of Liaodong's national martial arts, medical students must also practice martial arts, military formation tactics, etc., and must have a large drill ground. With so many people eating, there must be a canteen. To reflect the respect and preferential treatment for physicians, there must be small canteens, and so on.

Most importantly, as the most high-end medical school in the world, there must be the best medical conditions. Therefore, the medical school also includes a quite large medical center, where all the difficult and complicated diseases and critically ill patients under the General's Mansion are treated, with wards and special personnel to care for them...

According to the saying two thousand years later, the medical school is a comprehensive medical specialty university from ten to twenty years old, with food, accommodation, learning, and sports venues, all available.

Not only that, because Hua Tuo is both the Great Medical Order and the Medical School Libation, the medical school is not only an educational place, but also the office of the Medical Affairs Mansion under the General's Mansion, managing the highest unit of all medical and health affairs under the General's Mansion...

In the medical center attached to the medical school, Guo Jia found Hua Tuo, who was sitting and seeing patients with a group of apprentices. He didn't disturb him, just stood on the side and looked at the situation in the field, thinking about the government structure of the Grand General and the great ambition in his mind.

Seeing a leopard can see the whole picture. After listening to the deputy pavilion chief in the Wangjun Pavilion talk about the responsibilities of the grassroots, he could see what the General's Mansion wanted to do. Although there was still no detailed understanding, he could roughly see the political system different from the current Han Dynasty. After roughly reading a few statistical data, he could know the approximate wealth of Liaodong.

Now there is such a large medical school, cultivating a large number of doctors. He also went to the Wenchang Pavilion to take a look and went to the school to take a look, feeling the unprecedented ideal of the Grand General and the strong determination and motivation.

After a long time, after seeing several patients, Hua Tuo looked at Guo Jia, glanced at the seal and ribbon on Guo Jia's waist, and asked: "Why did you come?"

"I am Guo Jia, courtesy name Fengxiao, from Yingchuan. I have newly joined the Grand General, and the General appointed me as the pavilion chief of the Wangjun Pavilion in Tian'en Township." Guo Jia bowed and saluted, saying, "The Grand General said that my energy is weak and my body is weak, so he treated me and opened a prescription, and also ordered me to come and learn health-preserving methods from the divine physician to strengthen my body. Please, divine physician, do not hesitate to teach me."

"I cannot be called a divine physician. The Grand General's medical skills are even better than mine." Hua Tuo waved his hand, "The General must be lazy. The Five-Animal Guidance Technique I created was perfected after asking the Grand General for advice. He insists on you coming to ask for advice, it must be laziness. I don't want to work, okay?"

Hua Tuo angrily condemned the Grand General's behavior, sighed at the life of a hard worker, looked at Guo Jia, "How is your memory?"

"Quite good."

"Follow me. It's getting late, so we should eat dinner. After digesting, I will teach you the Five-Animal Guidance Technique." Hua Tuo waved his hand and turned to leave. Guo Jia hurriedly followed.

The Five-Animal Play was created by Hua Tuo. He knew that Wang Yan had superb medical skills and was also a fierce general. Although he had not seen Wang Yan's slaughter scene, he secretly asked Zhen Sheng if he had bragged too much for Wang Yan. Zhen Sheng gave a negative answer and detailed the Grand General's combat power.

So Hua Tuo took it to heart and found Wang Yan to see if there were any problems with his Five-Animal Play.

Wang Yan took a look and saw the original version of the Five-Animal Play. This is a guidance technique that combines internal and external, using movements to guide qi, and there is also a method of visualization. However, there is no combat power.

At this time, Wang Yan took out his strength-building exercises that he didn't know how many times he had improved. However, his strength-building exercises emphasize external training, which is for the purpose of promotion. Relatively speaking, internal training has more thresholds and is not easy to promote. Taking the strength-building exercises, he modified Hua Tuo's Five-Animal Play, making it both capable of guiding qi and capable of exercising muscles, joints, and bones.

This technique was not promoted for two reasons. First, practicing too much makes the appetite open, grain is not enough to eat, meat is not enough to supplement, and it is easy to lose the body. Second, there is no combat power. It is a pure health-preserving method. Now is not the time to promote this set.

If it weren't for this, there would be no need for Hua Tuo to teach.

Guo Jia had just arrived and found everything novel, looking around all the way, and followed Hua Tuo to the small canteen. The food here was a bit better than that of the students, and the apprentice of the fat chef in the General's Mansion was in charge of the spoon.

However, compared to the restaurants near the post house, it was far worse. There, as long as there was money, one could have four dishes and one soup for every meal.

So Guo Jia, who had enjoyed a meal yesterday, felt that it was quite lacking.

Hua Tuo naturally knew the habits of the newly arrived scholars. Most of them were like this, but he didn't pay attention to it and ate on his own.

Guo Jia asked curiously: "The Grand General calls you a divine physician, so your medical skills must be superb. Since this is the case, why did you come to Liaodong?"

Every time someone asked, Old Hua would sigh: "I am from Qiao County, Pei State. My medical skills were successful, and I was traveling to treat diseases and save people. When I arrived in Nanyang, I met Huang Zhong, Huang Hansheng. His son suffered from blood disease, and neither I nor Zhang Zhongjing of Nanyang could cure it. It happened that the Zhen clan of Wuji was doing business in various places, and for the Grand General, they made a name for him, saying that he could bring the dead back to life. Hansheng could not bear his son, so he asked me to protect him and came here to seek medical treatment.

The Grand General could not cure it either, but he could make Hansheng's son live for ten more years. Therefore, Hansheng stayed here to repay his kindness and is now the Xuanwu Battalion Commander, stationed in Linyu. His son is a small official in the General's Mansion, which is convenient for the Grand General to take care of from time to time.

I exchanged medical skills with the Grand General, and he said he had the ambition to make the people of the world have medical treatment, so he invited me to help him accomplish great things. I hadn't made up my mind, but the Grand General persuaded me with the old affairs of Cai Gong..."

"Oh~~" Guo Jia's voice was drawn very long, nodding repeatedly, with a look of "I understand everything."

Cai Yong's matter is not a secret. Everyone in the world knows that the thief Wang is shameless, mobilized three thousand troops to go south, and forcibly abducted Cai Yong north. Even Dong Zhuo issued an edict to Liaodong to recruit Cai Yong, scolded Wang Yan, and asked Wang Yan to release him quickly.

Wang Yan naturally ignored Dong Zhuo. After all, he had been beaten by a group, and he was about to be killed by Lu Bu.

Hua Tuo shook his head with a smile: "At that time, I did have resentment, but now I have no regrets..."

It was another sigh. What a great thing, Zhongjing, when will you come... ===== CHAPTER 848 =====