Chapter 2060 Process Dafa, Xiangyang Advances and Retreats
The aristocratic family system developed during the Eastern Han Dynasty and took shape during the Wei and Jin Dynasties. During this period, the situation changed and the political power was ups and downs. However, most of the first-class families originating from the Han Dynasty remained standing and continued the family's prominent political reputation until the Tang Dynasty.
Even to the Northern Song Dynasty.
Although there is some luck involved, the person at the helm of the family has more thinking and long-term planning than ordinary people, which is undoubtedly a very important factor.
For example, the Xun family of Yingchuan, the Wang family of Langya, the Wang family of Taiyuan, the Zheng family of Xingyang, the Xi family of Gaoping, the Yang family of Hongnong, the Cui family of Qinghe, the Lu family of Fanyang, etc. were all aristocratic families that extended into the Tang Dynasty. Hedong Pei family
Naturally, the family name is also included.
These aristocratic families that have dominated upper-level politics for many years must meet three conditions: first, in terms of culture, their ancestors had famous Confucian scholars who educated their children with Confucian classics for generations, and their families had a large collection of books, and even had a single school of thought; second, in terms of politics,
First, every generation has produced high-ranking officials of more than two thousand dan, and it is best to have someone who can serve as a minister or prime minister; thirdly, economically, the family is prosperous, the population is large, the land is vast, the streets are crisscrossed, and the country dominates...
In fact, speaking of it, these three items are unified with each other and are prerequisites for each other. If you don't understand it, you will not get the chance to serve as a high-ranking official; if you don't get a high-ranking official, it will be difficult to annex a huge amount of land; without a sufficient economic foundation, it will be difficult to acquire a high-ranking official.
There is no guarantee that his children will study the classics for generations and then serve as officials in successive dynasties. And because he basically monopolizes the right to study and interpret the classics, and is rich and powerful, he can allow the political turmoil and the change of dynasties to maintain the family's momentum.
But now, the "small-scale peasant economy" reform promoted by General Fei Qian has improved the pattern and set the threshold. The original recommendation system, which was like a joke, cannot directly obtain "filial and honest talents" in one step.
Because of their high status, these noble families were forced to look down and start from the grassroots level.
Officially because they lowered their stature, these new gentry who were influenced by Fei Qian will reduce their rhetorical style that is divorced from reality in the future. This will also allow these politicians who have risen from the grassroots to formulate policies in the future.
When doing this, I will more or less consider some practical issues.
Today's Han Dynasty, according to the aristocratic families, is divided into East and West, and the Han Dynasty in the future is true. In the minds of these people, most people have not yet had the concept of changing dynasties. They just think that Fei Qian or Cao Cao, like Huo Guang, will lead the way.
As for whether the trend of the Han Dynasty will become Wang Mang, some people have actually thought about it...
As for Koto?
Although Jiangdong is indeed a huge territory, most of the Han gentry families are serious. Is Jiangdong considered a hammer? His hair is exposed, his clothes are not well worn, and his face is so ugly?
Under such circumstances, Fei Qian's every move attracted the attention of people all over the world. Although Sun Quan on the other side was also jumping up and down and acting strangely, there were still many people in Xu County who didn't pay much attention and didn't even pay attention to him.
Sun Quan included it in his family's consideration of seeking to conquer the world.
For Cao Cao, if Fei Qian is destroyed, Sun Quan will naturally be able to attack. If Fei Qian is not destroyed, even if he defeats Sun Quan at this stage, he will still have to face Fei Qian in the future?
Therefore, Fei Qian's threat came first, while Sun Quan stood aside first.
After this period of adjustment, Cao Cao's rule in Jizhou has become relatively more stable. It's not that Cao Cao has controlled the hearts of Jizhou's nobles in just half a year, but because Cao Cao has slightly relaxed some taxes in Jizhou.
At the cost of reducing expenses, he gained recognition from the Jizhou gentry.
Because of the Qinghe County Magistrate's incident, Cao Cao ordered all states and counties to check the actual households and collect rent. In theory, each household should produce two pieces of silk and pay two huks of rent...
Well, yes, the taxation during the Han Dynasty was so extensive. Of course, this extensive feature did not change much in the feudal dynasties of later generations. Taxation calculated on a household basis naturally allowed those large households to take advantage and small households to be oppressed.
It's like the value-added tax in later generations. Anyone who knows a little bit about taxation knows that value-added tax is the most unfair type of tax, but why does the country insist on using it?
Simple and easy to use, vested benefits.
Many times in the feudal dynasty, land and household registration were in the hands of local aristocratic families. Just like now, although some rural tycoons have experienced chaos and chaos, and some of their families were wiped out, their fields and people were released, but
Since the two major political groups in the East and West became relatively stable, many wealthy families who fled have returned one after another, holding a large number of land deeds in their hands, demanding the restoration of their family properties...
The Guanzhong area was also okay. Fei Qian refused to acknowledge the properties of the fleeing nobles. At the same time, Fei Qian also checked the land very early, pretended to burn the stubs, and cleaned up the place where Haoyou was jumping up and down. He immediately let
These nobles became much more honest, and at the same time started farming and letting the refugees fill these acres, which was equivalent to Fei Qian depriving these fleeing nobles of their property and making it the direct property of the Shanxi political group. Naturally, the tax revenue was huge.
At the beginning, Cao Cao also wanted to win over and suppress the local wealthy families in Youzhou, Jizhou, but it was obvious that the backlash of the Jizhou gentry was beyond Cao Cao's control, so he had to cut expenses and even incurred more debts...
The major part of spending cuts is naturally the reduction of infrastructure.
Of course, this is also in line with the habits of most feudal dynasties.
In the minds of many upper-class feudal dynasties, especially the rulers, they generally had no idea about the infrastructure construction of private agriculture and industry. These rulers just stared at the total taxes paid by local officials every year and believed that as long as the general policies of the court were
If the corvee is light and the tax is light, so that the people can take advantage of the time, the productivity of the people can be restored and developed.
As for farmland water conservancy projects, that is a matter for local officials. If they have spare money, conscientious officials will do it. If they don’t have spare money or have no conscience, they will leave it alone. As long as the amount of taxes collected can satisfy the superiors, don’t plunder it.
If it is too powerful and causes the people to resent and rebel, then he is considered a generally qualified local official.
On the whole, although the population under Fei Qian's jurisdiction is only half of Cao Cao's, if compared to the expenses, it is almost double that of Cao Cao.
First, Fei Qian invested a lot of money and materials in the field of production, such as building roads, building bridges, digging canals, mining, etc., and even subsidized farmers and merchants and provided a certain amount of low-interest loans, so that productivity not only increased
It can be restored and improved to a certain extent. At the same time, when the villagers become farmers in the future, they will not be impoverished quickly due to the burden of taxes and be forced to lose their land again and become dependent on wealthy families.
The second aspect is the army. The three armies under General Hussars are the best in the world in terms of daily supplies and weapons and armor. This alone accounts for nearly 40% of all taxes.
In this regard, both Cao Cao and Sun Quan only had high-ranking generals and a small number of elite troops, and their daily supply could be on par with soldiers like Fei Qian.
After all, according to the customs of the Han Dynasty for many years, it is normal for ordinary soldiers to not have enough to eat and not to wear warm clothes. Only full military pay and food grains are issued during wartime, and cut in half during normal times. This is normal operation. Even so.
, sometimes we can’t send out all the weapons during the war, for fear that the big soldiers will run away after taking them...
So what should you do if you don’t have enough to eat?
Juntun.
If you include the military garrison, the number of troops that Cao Cao can directly pull out to fight is close to 200,000, which is almost three times that of Fei Qian. Even with this number of soldiers, the military expenditure is still not as high as that of Fei Qian. You can know
In fact, what is the specific treatment...
But for Cao Cao, basic agricultural and industrial construction, water conservancy construction, and the supply of soldiers and soldiers are not problems. The problem that needs to be solved is Taishi Ci, the new problem brought by Taishi Ci, and how to face and arrange Liu Qi.
Guy!
Cao Cao's core politicians all knew that Jingzhou must be captured, otherwise they would not be able to make up for the shortfall. Only by capturing Jingzhou could the overall operation be maintained and have the opportunity to enter the world. Therefore, no one had any objections to Cao Cao's invasion of Jingzhou, but
Now Fei Qian sent Tai Shici to escort Liu Qi, which really gave Cao Cao a headache.
"This is the eldest son of Liu Jing..." Liu Ye sat calmly and spoke first, "If the emperor refuses, there may be something wrong..."
The elders and younger ones are in order, in other words, they are kings and ministers. If Cao Cao wants Liu Xie to refuse Liu Qi to inherit Liu Biao's inheritance, it is tantamount to rejecting the political foundation that has been maintained for a long time. Only even can use "disloyalty"
Deposing an heir and choosing someone else for the crime of "unfilial piety" will inevitably leave hidden dangers. What's more, Liu Qi still has the scepter given by Liu Biao. If Liu Biao thinks Liu Qi is unfaithful and unjust, then how can he give Liu Qi the scepter?
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Man Chong frowned and said, "If I keep him in the court..."
Xun Yu shook his head, "That's inappropriate."
In the name of the emperor, detaining Liu Qi, of course, can be said to be "retention" or other euphemistic words. Keeping Liu Qi in Xu County is also a solution. Recognize and give Liu Qi a name, but not
Let Liu Qi go to Jingzhou, and then delay it for a few years, and naturally it will be settled.
But the problem is that Cao Cao and Cai Mao have already reached an agreement before. The basis for their cooperation is to use Liu Cong as the mascot...
Gentlemen have no shame, but they need whitewash applied to their skin.
The fact that Cai Shi rebelled against Liu Biao naturally required Liu Cong to be covered with it as a decoration. As long as Cai Shi could support Liu Cong and move on it during the handover, it can be said that Cai Shi was forced, innocent, and obeyed.
Despite Liu Cong's instructions and arrangements, Ms. Cai is still a clean, neat, simple and cute little fairy. As for any dark history, there is none, no, don't talk nonsense.
Therefore, if Cao Cao keeps Liu Qi in the court, it would be tantamount to reneging on the terms he had negotiated with Cai. After all, it doesn't matter what arrangements Liu Qi and Liu Cong make in the future. What matters now is whether the Jingzhou gentry can return as soon as possible.
Cao Cao unilaterally changed the negotiated treaty at his request. Does anyone still believe the word "integrity" painted on Cao Cao's face?
It’s not that you can’t break a contract, but all contracts are meant to be broken. This is also common sense. But breaking the contract before you get the benefits of Jingzhou is the same as the suffocation operation of cheating money on WeChat and blocking people before you click to receive the red envelope.
What?
What did Cao Cao and the Cai family rely on to fight for control of Jingzhou? Is it relying on favors? Of course it relies on the so-called "court justice". It is not unknown to Cao Cao and others that the Cai family wants to control Jingzhou. If this is the case now
If you do it, wouldn't it be tantamount to playing into the Cai family's will, giving up Jingzhou and recreating the Qinghe scene in Jizhou? So how can Cao Cao realize the significance of attacking Jingzhou?
So in the end, we could only use the most powerful weapon of the Chinese Dynasty and "follow the process".
But everyone present, including Cao Cao, knew clearly that those who could be dealt with by "following the process" were ordinary people, privileged people like Hussar...
Will "following the process" really work?
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After experiencing another attack by Cao Jun, Xiangyang City regained a short period of peace.
Due to battle damage and disease, the demand for labor in Xiangyang City has further increased, which has also led to an increasing number of refugees being recruited to the south of the city...
I walk along the river a lot and go up the mountain for a long time. If my shoes get wet, I will encounter snakes.
At the beginning, the soldiers pointed their swords and guns at the hanging basket. They came up one by one and escorted them to one side. They searched, inspected, and gave confessions. They were released only if there were no problems. However, as time went on, they became more lax, and they even asked the laborers to go.
After all, soldiers have to use up their physical strength to carry out labor. The newcomers who were carried up also did a brief interrogation and then they were able to deal with the matter.
Xiangyang City was surrounded by Cao's army for a long time, which made Jingzhou soldiers nervous. However, the tight string cannot last too long, and relaxation will inevitably occur.
When they were hoisting the labor labor refugees below the city, many of the Jingzhou soldiers at the south gate of Xiangyang were a little listless. Only the low-level non-commissioned officers on duty were somewhat alert. When they saw a new refugee being hoisted up, they took a second look.
Suddenly I felt familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it before...
"That one over there! Check it out!" The officer on duty pointed and came forward with two soldiers, "Where are you from?"
One Jingzhou soldier pointed a long gun in vain, and another Jingzhou soldier casually touched the new refugees twice. No dangerous items were found. Anyway, they were only wearing a layer of tattered robes, and everything was visible.
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"Little one... haha, little one... was in Yicheng before..." the new refugee replied with a smile.
The officer on duty stood in front of the newly arrived refugees, frowning, "Yicheng? Why do you look familiar?"
The new refugee rolled his eyes twice.
Seeing that the new refugees remained silent, the officer on duty couldn't help but take a step back and his face became serious. Just when he was about to say or do something more, he suddenly heard a subordinate on the other side shouting: "What are you doing!?"
The officer on duty felt a sudden strong wind behind him. He turned around and saw a flash of cold light. Another laborer who was originally on the city to help carry equipment suddenly appeared behind him and was already holding a fistful of iron in his hands.
Bone-tip knife, stab him straight through!
The officer on duty screamed, and he didn't even have time to pull out his sword. He could only block it with the scabbard, but he still got a cut. Blood dripped suddenly and he screamed in pain. The man beside the officer on duty screamed in pain.
One of the two soldiers turned his spear head to prepare for stabbing, while the other stretched out his hand to draw his sword...
But at this moment, the new refugee, who had been so obedient just now, reached out and strangled the neck of the Jingzhou soldier next to him, and then pulled out the sword from his body. With the flash of the sword, blood suddenly spattered.
Starting, he first chopped down the officer on duty, then chopped down the soldier holding the gun with one knife, and finally turned the blade and struck the neck of the Jingzhou soldier who was choking him!
Beside him, the spies and laborers who entered the city shouted one after another, or took out short blades from their bodies, or grabbed the weapons dropped by the Jingzhou soldiers, and rushed forward, killing the unsuspecting Jingzhou soldiers in the blink of an eye.
The soldiers threw them down and chopped them down, while the ordinary people around them were at a loss and dumbfounded. It was only when the spies howled and chopped, and blood was everywhere, that they screamed in fear, held their heads and ran away!
The refugee who chopped down the officer on duty had already raised his blood-stained sword and shouted: "I am Cai Jiu! Liu Laogou is plotting rebellion without any reason! The imperial army has arrived at the city. Only the chief culprit will be killed. Those who offer the city will be spared death!"
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Behind him, dozens of Cao Jun spies and Cai family spies who had sneaked in one after another shouted together, and the sound exploded in the south city of Xiangyang: "Only kill the culprit, and those who sacrifice the city will be spared death!"
In the market square near the south gate of Xiangyang, someone also had an attack at the same time. Dozens of selected masters drew their weapons and rushed towards the city gate!
Near the bottom of the city, some civilian laborers were carrying supplies. As for the Jingzhou soldiers in the city, even those who had been replaced were exhausted due to Cao's repeated attacks. This gave Cai and Cao's soldiers the best opportunity to seize the city.
There was an opportunity to open the door. Cao Jun's spies who had taken off their armor and Cao's secret agents who had been ambushing in the city mingled with the laboring refugees. They waited until the Jingzhou soldiers relaxed and suddenly broke out, causing the south gate of Xiangyang to collapse.
The soldiers on duty were completely unable to react!
Cai Jiu's roar was like thunder, and he took the lead in slashing. With the flash of his sword, he had already chopped down two Jingzhou soldiers who were coming. However, he was not equipped with armor. In the blink of an eye, he inevitably suffered some injuries, but he
But his body did not slow down, and he still rushed forward crazily. While splashing blood all over the sky, he shouted: "Open the city gate! Grab the winch and open the city gate!"
Amidst the screams and bloodshed, the south gate of Xiangyang was gradually opened. Outside the city gate, there were many people who drew their weapons from under their bodies or from the bushes, chanted, and crowded forward. And this was not more.
A terrible thing happened. As the black smoke ignited under the city, black smoke also rose from the mountains south of Xiangyang City. I don’t know how many people rushed out from the mountains and rushed toward the south gate of Xiangyang City that was gradually opening!