Zhang Wen also looked embarrassed. In fact, he could be regarded as an accomplice. He was the one who planned to drive away Dong Zhuo, but this time they miscalculated the warrior's heart. Neither Huangfu Song nor Liu Bei stood on their side. Liu Bei even
Help Dong Zhuo attack them.
Of course, now only the Yuan family can take the blame. Who should let the Yuan brothers take the lead? Now that Zhang Wen has replaced Yuan Wei and become the spokesperson of the Guandong clan, he can only say against his will: "Such a big thing has happened.
, we always have to hand over a few people and let the court explain to the people of the world! Meng Zhuo sacrificed his life for the gentry of the world, and we will never forget Meng Zhuo's contribution! When Dong Zhuo steps down, we will vindicate Meng Zhuo and others!
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But Yuan Wei sighed and said: "Let Meng Zhuo and the others forget it, but what about Benchu and the highway? Shouldn't they do it the same way as Meng Zhuo and the others? Doesn't this mean to drive out all my Yuan family? I would rather Dong Zhuo kill me.
, and I don’t want him to touch the origin and the highway!"
Yuan Wei doesn't want to see anything happen to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. Now the army they hold tightly has become the Yuan family's only hope!
Zhang Wen said: "The Prime Minister will not be too difficult for Benchu and the road. The Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains and the Tengjia Army in Bingzhou both need large armies to encircle and suppress them. The Prime Minister now only dislikes the small number of troops, but not the large number of troops. Let Ben Chu and the Highway
Let them go to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains, I think the Prime Minister will agree!"
This can be regarded as a way out. With the army in hand, Dong Zhuo has some scruples and will not kill them all.
But Yuan Wei was unwilling to accept it and said: "Are we just going to watch Dong Zhuo, a warrior, stand over us and dominate us! Let all the plans we have worked hard for several years be nullified!
Zhang Wen said helplessly: "We were too greedy at the beginning. If we only wiped out the eunuchs, there wouldn't be so many things happening. Even if the general now is He Jin, he is much better than Dong Zhuo. At least He Jin has been there for many years.
We are officials in Luoyang City and are familiar with the ways of being an official in Luoyang. This is the most suitable battlefield for us.
And Dong Zhuo is just a Xiliang warrior. He doesn't understand the affairs of the government at all. When faced with problems, he only knows how to chop with a knife. But we have to admit that Dong Zhuo's knife is too sharp. He chopped everything in us.
Plan to make us lose completely!"
At first they wanted to use the power of General He Jun to deal with the eunuchs, but Yuan Kui was arrogant and wanted to make both the eunuchs and the foreign relatives lose in a fight, so that they could completely take over the political power of the Han Dynasty. As a result, they faced
A more ferocious Dong Zhuo!
"And if we lose, we have to admit defeat. We are defeated. Dong Zhuo is almost sixty this year. He still has a few years to live, not to mention that in the past few years, he still has to deal with the giant bandit Lei Gong. We are lurking
In the past few years, it will be the same for us after Dong Zhuo dies!"
Then Zhang Wen sighed: "Ciyang, whether you admit it or not, the world has entered troubled times. If we want to restore the world to its original state, we need capable warriors like Dong Zhuo. The future situation will be more and more difficult for us."
It's getting worse.
We are exhausted from the fierce battle with Dong Zhuo, but Thunder Lord of Bingzhou has been recuperating for two years. He is still using the Yellow Turban Army to consume our strength. When the Tengjia Army rushes out of the Taihang Mountains, I am afraid of all the nobles in the world.
They will all be hanged by him!"
Although the princes in Luoyang have been fighting Dong Zhuo, they have not forgotten the Duke of Thunder in Bingzhou. After all, the book of Datong has been circulating in the market of Luoyang City, and the scholars of Tengjia Army have been debating with the scholars in Taixue. The book of Datong has been
Confused more and more scholars.
Many scholars secretly hid the Datong Book and carefully read its contents.
The ideas of Datong Shu are not worth mentioning. They basically copy the ideas of Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism without any groundbreaking insights.
But the most important part of the book of Datong is the practical part, because the thoughts of the three schools of Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism only talk about establishing a peaceful and prosperous age, but there are no specific practical methods.
if.
But the Book of Datong is a part that supplements practice. The sages said that to realize the great harmony of the world, the book of Datong said that to achieve the great harmony of the world, we must defeat the local tyrants, divide the fields, and distribute the land of the Han Dynasty to the common people. This can achieve the great harmony of the world.
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The taxi men were stunned. The method made sense, but it was too cruel!
In addition to setting out to divide the fields, the Book of Datong also introduced what the Tengjia Army did when they arrived in Bingzhou, such as building waterwheels, constructing new water conservancy projects, and manufacturing various soil and chemical fertilizers to increase food production!
After reading the contents of the Datong Book, they can understand how the Tengjia Army grew from weak to strong, fought in the south and north, and developed and strengthened, and established Bingzhou to become more and more prosperous. Mayi has even become a city that is not inferior to Luoyang.
The city that never sleeps, this is the history of the construction of the Tengjia Army
It has to be said that except for the first attack on the local tyrants and the distribution of land, which was unacceptable to the noble gentry, the other actions of the Tengjia Army were in line with the three views of the Han Shilin.
But when the Tai students thought that the water conservancy project in Bingzhou was built with the flesh and blood of the entire noble family, everyone felt horrified!
Of course, the results achieved by the Tengjia Army also shocked them. In a barren Bingzhou land, by confiscating the land of wealthy nobles, opening up wasteland and building canals, cultivating fields, and developing agriculture, the Tengjia Army could produce more than 40 million shi of food a year.
tax.
This number shocked the entire Luoyang City Shilin, because neither the powerful previous Han Dynasty nor the current Han Dynasty had ever achieved this.
In one state, the Tengjia Army could actually get more taxes than the entire Han Dynasty, and it was several times more. This simply destroyed the Taoist spirit of Shilin in Luoyang City.
At the beginning, the Tengjia Army's 30% agricultural tax made the entire Shilin criticize. Yang Xiu even said proudly: "I, the Han Dynasty, give one out of every fifteen farm taxes. This kind of benevolent government has been maintained for four hundred years. Your Tengjia Army is like the former Qin Dynasty.
, taxation is three out of ten, the people of the world will not tolerate such tyranny forever, and the Tengjia Army will suffer the consequences sooner or later!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But Wang Guojun said calmly: "It is impossible to say that there is excessive taxation. Our Tengjia Army has no other miscellaneous taxes, and the taxes paid do not require corvee.
The tax system is simple and easy to collect, officials are not as corrupt as the big men, and the people can get 70% of the fruits of their labor."
Then he took out a picture and said: "This is a chart I made during this period of time after learning about the taxes paid by the people around Luoyang City. From this chart, you can see the current tax situation of the Han Dynasty!"
Yang Xiu said disdainfully: "You talk a lot, you really think you are the third prince of the imperial court, and you dare to say that you know the tax situation of the Han Dynasty!"
But other scholars still gathered around to look at the chart, but they couldn't understand the meaning of the chart!
At this time, Wang Guojun pointed to a chart with the highest taxes and said: "This represents the people in the Han Dynasty who do not have land. Although these people do not have land, they still have to pay miscellaneous taxes and perform corvee labor. Basically, their income is
Pay taxes."
"These people at the lowest level were suppressed by the Han's taxes and couldn't survive. They had to take refuge in the powerful clans as serfs. Otherwise, they would become refugees and starve to death in droves! Or they would take refuge in us, the Yellow Turban Army, and you guys.
The powerful nobles fight to the death to take back the fruits of their labor!"
Yang Xiu was startled by Wang Guojun's words and broke into a cold sweat!
But Wang Guojun continued: "These are poor farmers with thirty acres of land. Even though men farm and women weave, they are busy from morning to night, but the big men took away 70% of the fruits of their labor. They can barely survive, with a little bit of wind."
If they blow the grass, they will go bankrupt and become refugees!"
"Only people with fields of more than 100 acres can get 50% of the fruits of their labor, and these people barely escape the fate of bankruptcy at any time!"
"As for the small landowners with 300 acres of land, their taxes are the same as those of our Tengjia Army, about 30%. In other words, the tax system of our Tengjia Army allows each tribe to collect taxes according to the small landowners. Is this right?
Isn’t it a kind of benevolent government?”
Yang Xiu was really speechless. He was from the top noble family. To him, this was just something a petty official did. He usually dismissed it, but he didn't expect that Wang Guojun would actually take such a thing.
Debate, he didn't understand the situation of the people at the bottom, so he naturally didn't know whether what Wang Guojun said was true or false.
Wang Guojun continued: "The taxes of the small wealthy families in the Han Dynasty who have thousands of acres of land will be reduced to about 10% immediately. But even if the top nobles like you have 100,000 acres of land, it is impossible for the court to receive taxes! The Han Dynasty
Our tax system is certainly a benevolent government for you, but it is the greatest tyranny for the poor people in the world. Millions of refugees in the world are forced out by your tyranny!"
As Wang Guojun explained the situation of the chart one by one, the Tai students understood the meaning of the chart, especially when they saw that the taxes representing the noble families were zero, they all looked at Yang Xiu.
There are tens of thousands of scholars in the entire Taixue, among which only a small number are from the noble families. Most of them are small landowners with a family property of 300 to 1,000 acres, small tycoons! They are considered the middle class of the Han Dynasty.
They are the most sensitive to troubled times. The current world is becoming more and more unfriendly to them, and the oppression of the Han Dynasty on them is getting stronger and stronger. After all, the class of the Han Dynasty is not only solidified, but also reversed. In the past, they were still
You can become a county magistrate or a minor official. But with the increase in the population of wealthy noble families, they can no longer even get the position of minor official.
But after seeing this chart, they clearly discovered that the most serious oppression for them was the gentry. They occupied the most land in the Han Dynasty, but they didn't hand over a five-baht coin. No wonder the people in the world couldn't survive.
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Wang Guojun continued: "And because you nobles and nobles annexed land and did not pay taxes, the court could only continue to press taxes on the poor who only have thirty acres of land. They went bankrupt in large numbers, and the number of refugees in the world continued to increase. The more refugees there are, the greater the number."
The army was needed to suppress it, so the number of the Han army increased. The more the army, the more money and food were needed, which in turn oppressed more people in the world and became refugees."
"Isn't this the situation in the Han Dynasty in recent years? Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han army did not even have 100,000 people, but now the Han army has exceeded 500,000, but just to feed the 500,000 army, millions of Yellow Turban troops were forced out across the Central Plains.
This number is even greater than when Zhang Jiao revolted, and the big man is now embarking on the road of self-destruction!"
Wang Guojun's words made the scholars of Taixue fall into deep thought, because he said that it was the reality of the Han Dynasty. Since Zhang Jiao's uprising, the scale of the rebellion of the lower class people had become larger and larger. The Han Dynasty's counter-rebellion became bigger and bigger, even
The powerful families in Guandong are rebelling against the imperial court, and scholars all over the world feel that the Han Dynasty has entered the end of the dynasty!
Yang Xiu said angrily: "The reason why the Han Dynasty's taxes are so high is not because of you rebellious people. Once the Han Dynasty pacifies you rebellious people, the taxes will naturally be reduced!"
However, Wang Guojun mocked and said with a smile: "This tax system of robbing the poor and giving to the rich cannot be maintained even without us. Did we have the Tengjia Army before? The common people of the Han Dynasty would have been forced to rebel by you without us!"
"Because you don't collect taxes, and because you have a high position, you have enough money and power to buy the land in the world. When all the land in the world is in your hands, the court will not be able to collect taxes.
If the Han Dynasty is destroyed, the Han Dynasty will also perish. You nobles and nobles are the biggest worms in the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty will be eaten away by you like this!"
"But our Tengjia Army is not like this. We charge 30% of the tax without discrimination. The land is given to those who farm, and those who don't farm can farm it. There are no wealthy nobles like Mr. Yang to collect 50% of the tax.
The common people can naturally survive, and the Tengjia Army can also receive a lot of taxes."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The big man is a frivolous corvee and has a small amount of wealth. Taking one out of fifteen is really a benevolent government. It's a pity that with the 50% rent from your noble family, the common people still have enough to eat.
, the nobles and nobles have easily taken away the fruits of the common people’s labor, how could you noble nobles not like this kind of benevolent government!”
"Our Tengjia army can collect 40 million shi of grain just by occupying Bingzhou. If the entire Han Dynasty follows our approach, we can have a tax of 400 million shi of grain a year. With so much grain, nothing can be done in the world!
And why are you the opponent of our Tengjia Army? We can defeat you just by occupying a single state!"
For a while, all the students were silent! The tax system of the Tengjia Army was more than ten times stronger than that of the imperial court. The war was about money and food. Their money and food were not as much as the Tengjia Army, so how could they defeat the Tengjia Army!
Although everyone does not agree with the method used by the Tengjia Army to kill the gentry, they also agree that it is precisely because the powerful gentry in the world annexed the land that there are more and more refugees in the world, and the Yellow Turban Army has repeatedly defeated them.
They also recognized the need to restrict the land annexation of noble families, to integrate oral calculations and other miscellaneous taxes into the fields, to make the noble families pay more taxes, and to solve the world's refugees through land reclamation and border garrison.
These have become the most popular debate topics among the students in Luoyang City. Everyone took the content of the Datong Book and subtracted some too radical internal policies such as annihilating the noble families, and then transformed these policies into their own opinions.
Now it has become a trend in Luoyang City to increase the land tax. Everyone realizes that it is time for the Han Dynasty to change!
And Yuan Wei naturally knew all this, but now in Luoyang City, he could not accept even the most moderate policy. He thought that it was because Lei Gong messed up the people of Luoyang City that he did all this!
"Lei Gong! He is the culprit of all this! Dong Zhuo will suffer losses sooner or later if he trades with him!" Yuan Wei said fiercely.
If it weren't for the threat of Lei Gong in Bingzhou, Yang Biao and others would not be able to join forces with Dong Zhuo, and Dong Zhuo would not have enough food, grass, and troops to attack the Kwantung Allied Forces. Moreover, he also found out that Lei Gong helped Dong Zhuo make plans through Xiangkai, otherwise
With Dong Zhuo's irritable character, it is impossible to save King Hongnong's life. Without King Hongnong, they would not have been defeated so miserably. It can be said that all his plans failed because of this Thunder Lord!
And now Lei Gong is openly slandering the world's noble families in the Imperial Academy. Lei Gong is really a traitor that only appeared in the world for hundreds of years!
Not only Yuan Wei realized this, but other noble families in Luoyang City also realized this, so they wanted to beg Dong Zhuo for mercy, so Zhang Wen came here today!
Zhang Wen said helplessly: "Although we scholars are good at governing a party, we are not good at military affairs. Look at how these famous scholars have been defeated by these warriors since the war against Dong. Now they can't even deal with the yellow scarf thieves. Qingzhou Governor Jiao
He was unexpectedly defeated by Yu Du, and the Yellow Turban Army broke out across the Central Plains, and the governors everywhere could not suppress it."
"The world is in such a situation now. Whether you admit it or not, Ci Yang, even if we take power, we still have no ability to defeat the Yellow Turban Army and the Tengjia Army. We need Dong Zhuo to calm the world!"
"And we don't have much time. Lei Gong's disciples continue to use his ideal of great harmony in Luoyang City to deceive people's hearts. Although most scholars realize that what Lei Gong does is evil heretics, there are still many poor families.
The scholar wants to go to Bingzhou to have a look! Lei Gong is already amazingly powerful. If he gets help from the scholars again, I am afraid that Lei Gong will be unstoppable in the future!"
"Huangfu Yizhen has been constantly fighting with Lei Gong during this period, but he also admitted that the soldiers of the Tengjia Army are extremely elite. The Jizhou Army in his hands is no match for the Tengjia Army. If a full-scale war breaks out, he should be the one defeated! So!
We now have no time to waste with Dong Zhuo, but must unite the strength of the entire Han Dynasty to deal with Thunder Lord!"
Yuan Wei thought about Zhang Wen's words and had to admit that the celebrities they touted were no longer able to cope with today's situation. Even if they really removed Dong Zhuo, they would still have to rely on warriors like Huangfu Song and Liu Bei to pacify the world. Warriors
The step-by-step expansion of rights has become an unstoppable trend.
Yuan Wei thought for a while and said: "As long as the Prime Minister does not hold Benchu and Gongdao accountable for their crimes, I am willing to persuade Benchu and Gongdao to go to the Central Plains to quell the Yellow Turban Army! Even my Yuan family is willing to contribute to deal with Lei Gong later!"
Yuan Wei also realized that Lei Gong was the most dangerous enemy of their nobles, especially his Datong Book, which specifically used land to lure the people against their nobles. If ordinary princes opposed their nobles, he should
If there are not enough talents to govern the place, and it cannot receive enough money and food, it will eventually suffer financial bankruptcy and collapse.
But this Lei Gong is different. He has been cultivating his own talents since the beginning of the rebellion, and his subordinates are also able to read and write. Therefore, he uses his veterans who have retired from the army to govern the place. There are not enough officials, and Lei Gong has
Pick up the Litian system of the former Han Dynasty.
Yuan Wei was surprised that there was actually a place in the world where he could rule the place without relying on the nobles. If this model of the Tengjia Army was extended to the entire Han Dynasty, there would still be places for their nobles in the world!
Not only Yuan Wei was aware of this, but all the top noble families in the world had this awareness. Especially when Lei Gong spread the crowbars throughout the Han Dynasty, the noble families in the world realized that the Tengjia Army was their most dangerous force.
enemy!
So they are willing to join forces with Dong Zhuo, but they must deal with Thunder God first!
Zhang Wen laughed when he heard this: "Okay, okay, okay, as long as we unite together, this big man will still be our world!"
At this time, Yuan Wei's housekeeper handed over a letter to Yuan Wei, saying that it was from his hometown!
Yuan Wei opened the letter, and it seemed that he was completely devastated after that.
Zhang Wen glanced at it worriedly and was also shocked!
Yuan Shu, who had an army of 70,000, was defeated by Liu Bei! More than half of the 70,000 army was lost. Now Yuan Shu has fled to Yingchuan County!
This has something to do with Xu Wei. After Xu Wei spoiled a wave of Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army in the entire Central Plains was like a fire. In Yuzhou, due to Yuan Shu's continuous exploitation, many people went bankrupt! Everyone flocked to join the Yellow Turban Army.
Of course, because the number of Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou is very small, even if a large number of people join in, they don't think about Qingzhou. The Yellow Turbans in Jizhou can easily have millions of people. They only have tens of thousands, and those who can have hundreds of thousands of people are already the dominant ones in Yuzhou.
Yes! Relatively speaking, the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou is weaker!
Liu Pi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou, obeyed the instructions of the Tengjia Army supervisors sent by Xu Wei. If Yuzhou hadn't been too far away from Bingzhou, Liu Pi would have even wanted to lead his men to join Lei Gong. It can be said that Liu Pi was a heartless person.
The ambitious commander of the Yellow Turban Army!
And it is precisely because Liu Pi has no ambitions and talents that there is room for Zhu Min and other Tengjia military supervisors to display their talents!
Zhu Min first joined Xu Wei from Hukou Mountain. He saw clearly what Xu Wei did in Wei County, and what he came to Yuzhou to study was also what Xu Wei had done!
Zhu Min and others came to Liu Pi's territory to take command. They first captured a Wubao near Liu Pi's territory, and then publicly tried the owner of Wubao. They also distributed the land around Wubao to the local people and established a simple
base!
Then he used the food in Wubao to train Liu Pi's men, and the old, weak, women and children were assigned to carry out military logistics work. At the same time, he continued to send soldiers to capture the surrounding villages. Under the leadership of Zhu Min and others, Liu Pi's base area became increasingly prosperous.
After a month of military training, the soldiers became somewhat military-like.