Although the robbery was very pleasant, it also solved the urgent need for Cao Cao to appease the troops and further expand the army. However, the counterattack was definitely very serious.

Yang Xiu, who represented the surrender of all officials in Yecheng, has been recently requested by countless colleagues, asking him to speak up for his righteousness and ask for his orders to the people, so that Cao Cao can restrain himself a little.

After all, in addition to the several families who sacrificed the city with Yang Xiu to arrest Shen Pei, many other officials in the court who were loyal to the Yuan family were implicated.

Officials from Jizhou even looked at their household registration books and lined up to kill them according to their hometowns. Cao Cao was going to take the Jizhou family to uproot the roots.

A family that is not from Jizhou was also killed by excuses, which shows how panic people are.

Those who were cleansed only realized a problem when they died:

Before Cao Cao turned against Yuan Shao, he had already established his own stable ruling system in Xuzhou, Yanzhou and some Yuzhou, and took the route of talent-only promotion. Cao Cao did not lack people to be an official at all.

If Cao Cao only focused on the killing of the big family in Jizhou and appeased talents from other regions, the situation could be controlled.

Yang Xiu tried several times to persuade Cao Cao to restrain himself, but he did not dare to say it too clearly. He was also very sad and angry, thinking that the plan he had arranged for the final death was not very effective.

However, the army and the poor support Cao Cao very much. At present, there are heavy troops in Yecheng, and more than 100,000 regular combat troops are guarding more than 800,000 people. That is impossible to make trouble no matter what.

In the end, Yang Biao, the only one who was still alive and the oldest qualified Grand Marshal in Yecheng, couldn't help but become angry. He came forward to criticize Cao Cao for killing innocent people in an argument and implicated him in order to accuse and eliminate dissidents.

Cao Cao was naturally furious, and like the original inertia of history, he almost killed Yang Biao. As for the charge, of course, he was framed by Yang Biao and colluded with the clerks.

Finally, many officials from Cao Cao's direct camp also dissuaded him. In addition, it was half a month after the war ended, and even Cao Cao's chief civil officer Xun Yu rushed to Yecheng.

When Xun Yu saw the tragic situation of the rich people and aristocratic families in Yecheng, he was a little reluctant and unsupported. He urged Cao Cao:

"Prime Minister! Grand Marshal Yang has several senior dynasties! During the reign of Emperor Huai, he was the pillar of the court. If he was killed, which three important ministers and old ministers left in the reign of Emperor Huai? This will only give Liu Bei more excuses to call on scholars in the world!

The Prime Minister was worried that Taiwei Yang would be bad, so he would take his post first and isolate his traffic. Then he would be comforted by the idea of ​​Taiwei Yang, so that others would not act in his name, and they would never commit random killings!"

Under the persuasion of Xun Yu, Cao Cao finally stopped the butcher knife. He decided to kill Yang Biao and Yang Xiu and his son in another year or two, waiting for some excuses!

...

After the robbery and massacre was completed, Cao Cao had to fulfill his promise and follow the route he had already set, and walked one road to the black, and began to register and divide the land for all the poor in Yecheng.

Because the population has become smaller, the powerful families who occupy more land in Yecheng have also been taken over. Therefore, the government can pay enough 100 acres of land for the poor people in Jizhou who own less than 100 acres of land and then farm.

One hundred acres of Han Dynasty were equivalent to less than one thirty acres in later generations. There were four million people left in Jizhou, which was equivalent to about one and a half million strong men.

In other words, only 150 million Chinese mu or more than 40 million modern mu of farmland is enough for all people to farm.

The North China Plain has been a place where agricultural development has been thorough since ancient times. In ancient times, the area of ​​arable land was even higher than that in modern times (modern urban and industrial land increased, occupying arable land). In later generations, Henan Province had 120 million mu of arable land, and Hebei Province also had 100 million mu of arable land.

Of course, Jizhou, which Cao Cao controlled now, cannot be simply equated with Hebei in later generations, because Youzhou and Zhongshan, Changshan were both seized by Liu Bei.

But even half of Hebei, and the half of it is pure plain, fallow and rotation are enough for four million people, and everyone has the same land.

The remaining half of the powerful people who were not taken away were still protected, but because of the decrease in population, there were no many tenants to plant their land. The poor would rather belong to the imperial court to farm.

Those who do not serve in the army have to pay half of the harvest and pay taxes. Those who serve in the army have to farm and eat by themselves, and they don’t have to pay them, but they have to fight in war.

The administrative bureaucratic system under Cao Cao began to operate at full speed, frantically checking the population and allocating fields.

The military system under Cao Cao's command must also protect the administrative system and kill all kinds of thorns of resistance in this process. Anyway, the people are not busy in winter, and the army is also idle, which is just right for such things.

The distribution of land around Yecheng and even the entire Wei County ended before the end of November, and would then affect the entire Jizhou.

Cao Cao planned to further promote it to other states in the future, mainly Qingzhou and Yuzhou, which had just been ruled, and made excuses to confiscate land and distribute it to the poor, so as to expand the source of ruling taxes.

As for Yanzhou and Xuzhou, it doesn’t take much trouble. Because Yanzhou is Cao Cao’s old nest, the foundation is better after years of farming, and no powerful family dares to cause trouble at Cao Cao’s feet. (The Li Dian family in Shanyang County is considered to be the largest powerful in Yanzhou, but it doesn’t matter if they have become Cao Cao’s thugs in another way.)

Xuzhou was repeatedly slaughtered by Cao Cao in his early years, and the wealthy families no longer existed. Now the population has not recovered. There are few people and many fields, which is definitely enough for all laborers to farm with full load.

In order to deepen the division of land and to better consolidate the rule, Cao Cao also made some small moves in this process—

After implementing the work of dividing land in Jizhou, he immediately made the excuse that Yecheng was too close to the border area bordering Liu Bei, and at the same time, the Taihang Mountains were snatched by Liu Bei before.

In addition, the damage was too great and too broken during the siege of Yecheng, so it was not suitable to be the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty.

Cao Cao ordered the emperor to be moved to the south bank of the Yellow River, but Juancheng, which is not far from Jizhou.

Historically, after Cao Cao took the emperor to Xuchang, Yuan Shao offered to serve as the temporary site for the emperor and opposed the establishment of the capital of Xuchang.

Yuan Shao thought so at that time, considering that Juancheng is not far from the bank of the Yellow River, it is a relatively close point in Yanzhou to Hebei, which makes it easier for the Yuan family to share their control over the emperor.

Nowadays, Cao Cao moved to Juancheng, which is obviously similar geopolitical considerations. He hopes that the temporary new capital will be in his old nest Yanzhou, and at the same time, he will also take into account the control of Jizhou, which has just been taken down, so he tries to get close to the Yellow River and build a capital on the southern bank of the Yellow River.

Moreover, building the capital of Juancheng can also achieve maximum military security.

Because Liu Bei had seized Youzhou, and even captured the Zhongshan and Changshan counties of Jizhou, and the dangers of Yanshan Yishui were all under Liu Bei's hands.

Liu Bei also had horse farming land in the grasslands of various states and Liang. Now, in terms of the benefits of cavalry, he has formed an absolute advantage.

The capital of the Kanto Puppet Dynasty stayed north of the Yellow River and was swept across by an iron cavalry, and then there was no strategic depth at all. It was only when it was placed in Henan that it felt a little safe.

These military security considerations are very real. It cannot be said that Cao Cao was for his own selfish interests, so Liu and the remaining ministers in the court could only admit it and the public agreed to move.

However, Cao Cao lived a tight life and would not spend money on Liu He to build a palace.

He just slightly decorated the mansion of Juancheng Hou and directly used it as a palace. Anyway, at this critical moment, the "morning court" cannot afford to pay attention to it.

...

During the process of moving the capital to Juancheng, Cao Cao also gathered ideas with a group of Cao officials from the Prime Minister's Mansion every day to figure out the landing strategy of comprehensively dividing the land and military farming.

After all his efforts, Cao Cao really figured out some tricks.

He first realized that after all, he did not represent the peasants' rise, but also represented the interests of the landlord class, so his land division must be famous.

The solution Cao Cao himself thought of was to restore the Legalist farming and war system. Official farming and warfare were a just class, so both civil and military towns must be protected.

But at the same time, we can legitimately crack down on "industrial and commercial evil people", especially the "industrial and commercial evil people" who are suspected of colluding with enemies and colluding with Liu Bei, and collect all the land of those guys.

Yuzhou, which has relatively dense populations, and even Qingzhou, which has many mountains and few plains, has enough fields for everyone to plant.

(Note: According to the original historical process, Cao Cao didn't have to spend so much trouble, because in history, there were more wars in Yuzhou and Qingzhou, and lasted longer. He killed less people and had enough fields to grow.

But in this world, the time for the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou is much shorter, and the time for Yuzhou to be harmed by Yuan Shu has been shortened by two years. Overall, there are fewer plagues in the war, and the number of people who survived is several hundred percent, so the landlords' fields are enough to plant them.)

However, Cao Cao's idea was just come up with a slap in his head. He was more or less ill and he was tempted to seek medical treatment. He didn't understand many details, and rashly implementing it will cause a lot of chaos.

In response to this, the main internal affairs staff around him all jumped out to oppose it, or at least persuaded Cao Cao to pay attention to the standards and not act recklessly.

Now, Guo Jia, the three major strategists around Cao Cao, only ask about military and diplomatic strategies, and will not involve civil affairs and personnel. In addition, Guo Jia has been on the front line of Yancheng, so he did not participate in the discussion.

The remaining two major strategists, Xun Yu, focused on internal affairs, but focused on personnel and civil affairs. Moreover, as Cao Cao became the prime minister and controlled the court, his civil servants finally received a surge in their rise, and Xun Yu was also promoted to the Shangshu Ling.

Cheng Yu takes into account both military strategy and internal affairs. After all, Cheng Yu raised military rations for Cao Cao back then, which shows that Cheng Yu has great experience in exploring the potential of logistics consolidation and war.

After Cao Cao took the imperial court hostage, Cheng Yujin became the nine ministers and was appointed as the Weiwei.

One day in early December, Cao Cao was still discussing the new economic reorganization order in the prime minister's shogunate in Juancheng, but was jointly dissuaded by Xun Yu and Cheng Yu.

Xun Yu pointed out Cao Cao's mistakes in operation:

"Prime Minister! I heard that you ordered a strict investigation into the collusion between industrial and commercial tyrants and Liu Bei, selling land and abscond. Anyone who encounters this situation will confiscate their homes and seize land. My subordinates think this move is extremely inappropriate! It will only cause panic and it will be even more difficult to resist Liu Bei's invasion in the future!

The convenience of selling land and land was started by Shang Yang's "aborting well fields, opening fields, and the people were able to buy and sell". It has been more than 700 years since then. People have to buy and buy, and in the long run, the people will voluntarily develop and reclaim land, reproduce and expand, which will benefit the country.

If the people are forced to not be traded, wouldn’t it be a step back to Wang Mang’s retrospective, “The world is changed to the king’s land, and no one can be traded”? What happened to Wang Mang, the Prime Minister must investigate!”

Xun Yu's words were earnest and fierce, and even Cheng Yu, who was relatively flexible, was a little scared when he heard this, fearing that Cao Cao would be furious.

He quickly helped the center to explain: "Prime Minister, don't get angry! Wen Ruo is also for the long-term plan. Wen Ruo, what you said just now! How can you compare with the Prime Minister with Wang Mang's method!

When Wang Mang traveled to the king's fields, he took over all the land in the world. If the land exceeds 900 acres and the number of people is less than eight, the court will collect the remaining land and divide it into common people.

The Prime Minister's law today is to prohibit the sale of land. If he does not sell it, he will not commit other taboos. No matter how many land there are, it will always belong to the original family and will not be transferred to state-owned.

Moreover, the Book of Han says: 'When it comes to Qin, the law of Shang Yang is not the case, and the system of emperors is changed, and the well fields are eliminated, and the people are able to trade. The rich are all over the fields, and the poor are lost to set up a place of cones.' It can be seen that the disadvantages of Shang Yang's method are also known to the ancients, that is, every time in the last days, the poor are not set up a place of cones. Now we should promote their advantages and avoid their disadvantages."

Cheng Yu's words first made Cao Cao angry, and in the middle half turned to debate with Xun Yu, and finally turned back to Cao Cao: "However, please feel free to see that Wenruo is out of public interest and listen to his subsequent analysis after hearing his subsequent analysis."
Chapter completed!