Chapter 371 The princes are involved in internal affairs
Guo Jia said angrily: "Don't they understand that without enough soldiers to resist Lei Gong, no matter how much property they have, they will be wiped out. The fate of the noble families in Jizhou, can't they be alerted? The family has been wiped out.
, how can they possibly hold on to their land? Only if Qingzhou is still in our hands can they continue to be masters!"
Xun Yu smiled bitterly and said: "It's hard to give up good wealth, let alone give away something that is the foundation of the family like land!"
"If Thunder God hadn't been eyeing him, our thoughts like this would have been enough for them to kill us! Back then, even Emperor Shizu couldn't even manage to equalize the land, let alone us!"
Cao Cao said coldly: "We can enforce it if necessary. Let Kong Rong and others see the knife in my hand. It's not much worse than Lei Gong!"
Cao Cao was an impatient man, but also extremely stubborn and bold. At that time, Cao Cao was promoted as Xiaolian and entered Luoyang, the capital, as a prince. Soon, he was appointed as the Northern Wei of Luoyang. Luoyang was the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty and he was a relative of the emperor.
Inhabited areas are difficult to govern.
As soon as Cao Cao took office, he declared the ban and strictly enforced the law. He made more than ten sticks of five colors and hung them around the yamen. "Anyone who violates the ban will be killed with a stick." The emperor's favored eunuch Jian Shuo's uncle violated the ban and walked at night, but Cao Cao did not do anything.
Showing mercy, Jian Shuo's uncle was executed with a five-color stick. So, "The capital gathered all traces, and no one dared to offend."
Cao Cao also offended some powerful people in the dynasty. Due to his father Cao Song's relationship, he was promoted openly and secretly. Cao Cao was transferred to Dunqiu Ling and Prime Minister of Jinan. He vigorously attacked powerful and corrupt officials and banned obscene sacrifices. It can be said that Cao Cao was an official.
, has always been very tough.
If it weren't for the troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty, he would have been one of the cruel officials of the Han Dynasty. Now that the nobles and nobles in Qingzhou are so ignorant of promotion, Cao Cao simply decided to take a tough approach and kill hundreds of noble nobles, so they would not dare to stop him from doing things.
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Xun Yu was shocked when he heard this and said: "Absolutely not. Now not only Kong Rong and others are afraid of Lei Gong, but we are also afraid. If we force equalization of land, Qingzhou will be in chaos. Even if Lei Gong has no idea of taking Qingzhou, he will
Lead the army to kill us!"
Cao Cao sneered and said: "That's better. If they dare to rebel, let Lei Gong teach them how to behave. Anyway, my family is not in Qingzhou. If I die, they will die first."
Xun Yu was helpless. Cao Cao clearly wanted to intimidate Kong Rong and others and ask them to give in.
Guo Jiadao said: "If we don't equalize the land, we can survive for a few years at most. When Lei Gong accumulates enough food and grass, hundreds of thousands of troops will swarm southward, and we will undoubtedly be defeated. Jizhou had more than 200,000 troops last year. It stands to reason that we should still fight defensively."
It is possible that such a war could last for a year or two.
But why did the people of Jizhou not support them for even half a year? It was because Lei Gong offered 30 acres of land to seduce the people. The people of Jizhou betrayed the Han Dynasty for these 30 acres of land. Wen Ruo, if Lei Gong has been doing this since he was in Qingzhou, you
Do you think our soldiers will immediately turn their swords on us? No matter how many soldiers we recruit, it will be of no use. They will only help Lei Gong recruit an army to deal with me."
"Those who have perseverance have perseverance. These 100 acres of land are the way to stop Thunder God from tempting our soldiers! It is our best way to deal with Thunder God. If we are not willing to take it out, Thunder God will take it out!"
Xun Yu also understood the process of the Battle of Jizhou, and naturally knew that the battle could not be fought if the land was not evenly distributed.
Fighting for hegemony these days also requires involution. When Xu Wei offered 30 acres of land to seduce his soldiers, other princes in the world did not want their soldiers to be bribed by Xu Wei, so they had to offer up the same land, even more than Lei Gong.
Only in this way can the temptation of Lei Gong to the soldiers be cut off! So Xun Yu knew that it was imperative to equalize the land!
But now the key to the matter is not even the equalization of land. Lei Gong is equalizing land in the three states, which makes Lei Gong's subordinates invincible. Even Kong Rong and others know that equalizing land is the general trend and cannot stop it.
The key is who will command the soldiers in the army, and who is Kong Rong's greatest concern?
It is impossible for them to provide money, food, and fields, and finally create an army of Cao's family. Cao Cao did not have such a big face to ask Kong Rong and others to support him, so Kong Rong and others' opinions were very simple. They created it by equalizing the land.
The soldiers must be under their command.
This is equivalent to ousting Cao Cao. In the era when the Sima family was in power, such things would have been commonplace.
But now that he was a big man after all, it would be difficult for Cao Cao to accept his role as just the leader of a powerful gentry. He might even be kicked out if he didn't do well.
But it was obvious that Kong Rong and the others were not going to give in.
Cao Cao said angrily: "The equalization of fields must be carried out. Anyone who dares to stop me will be destroyed by me. I would rather fight with Lei Gong and be defeated by him than be eliminated by the enemy because of instability in the rear!"
The lesson from Jizhou's fiasco is too profound. Recruiting soldiers without improving their treatment is just helping Lei Gong recruit soldiers.
Cao Cao continued: "Since they are reluctant to part with their own fields, let them send out their own men to deal with Lei Gong. I will recruit troops according to the fields they have in their families. As long as they have 100 acres of fields, they will provide me with a soldier."
Soldiers, 100,000 acres of land will provide me with 1,000 soldiers. If I can’t get soldiers, I will confiscate their fields.”
Although Cao Cao was angry, he still took a step back and allowed Kong Rong and others to equalize the land. At least these lands were still in the hands of the noble clans. The consequence of this would be the emergence of military clans in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and any family could easily take over.
With an elite army of ten to twenty thousand, the royal family is just the most powerful military family to them. As long as the royal family shows signs of decline, another military clan will immediately replace it. This is a kind of rule that requires extremely high talents from the ruler.
high military system.
Xun Yu thought about it and felt that this was the only way. Now is the war in troubled times, and wealth must be concentrated on the military. Otherwise, they will not be able to protect everything. Now the wealthy nobles in Qingzhou spend their own money to strengthen their military strength.
So Xun Yu went to discuss with Kong Rong and others with this condition.
People were recruited according to their fields, the soldiers in the army belonged to their families, and the commanders also belonged to their families. It seemed that nothing was lost by converting the family's wealth into military power.
Now facing the oppression of Lei Gong, it has become the consensus of everyone to strengthen the military strength, so Cao Cao let them divide their own fields, and it soon became the consensus of the Qingzhou clan!
Kong Rong and other gentry began to transform into military clans one by one. They recruited their own clansmen to become soldiers, and distributed their family's fields to their own clansmen. Then the core family members became the team leaders, camp commanders, and military princes of the army.
Even great Confucians like Kong Rong no longer read the Six Classics of Confucianism, but instead read military works such as the Six Taoist Teachings and Sun Tzu's Art of War.
In this way, the children of a family are officers, and the tribesmen are soldiers and private soldiers. Although their combat effectiveness is still very low, their morale is extremely high. Many people regard the elimination of Lei Gong as their daily slogan and chant it every day, and do not care about Lei Gong at all.
The power!
The land equalization system was finally rolled out in Qingzhou, but Cao Cao smiled bitterly and said: "I'm a little envious of Liu Bei. He has the righteousness of the court and everything he does is easier than me."