Wang Lang said helplessly: "Everyone is lucky. They think that Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao have nearly one million troops. The combined power of the imperial court is so powerful that even Lei Gong from Hebei will not be able to invade the Central Plains."
Xuzhou can naturally stay out of the matter, and now they are taking advantage of Ming Gong's serious illness to collude with each other and want to unite to resist the forces outside Xuzhou!"
Although on the surface Tao Qian is Xuzhou Mu and is in charge of the entire Xuzhou, in fact he can only be regarded as an alliance leader of Xuzhou forces.
Before Tao Qian took over as the governor of Xuzhou, the entire Han Dynasty could be said to be in danger. Emperor Ling had no troops, money or food to support all parties. Therefore, when Tao Qian came to Xuzhou, he only had the name of an empty governor, and he had no soldiers at all!
The script he took was the same as Liu Biao's, and he entered Xuzhou single-handedly. (I have to say here that Emperor Ling is really indifferent. Even when his relative Liu Yan went to quell the rebellion in Yizhou, he didn't have a single soldier.
, If it weren’t for the strong local power in Yizhou, which directly defeated the rebellion in Yizhou, Liu Yan might not even be able to enter Yizhou!)
This situation determined that Tao Qian must unite with the powerful noble families in Xuzhou in order to gain a foothold in Xuzhou, otherwise he would not be able to continue as the governor of Xuzhou.
So as soon as Tao Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he united with the local noble families in Xuzhou and used their private soldiers to defeat the Yellow Turban Army.
Later, in order to maintain the stability of Xuzhou, Tao Qian appointed Mi Zhu, a wealthy businessman from Xuzhou, as his assistant to help him raise money and food to maintain the situation in Xuzhou.
In order to raise grain and grass and reduce the number of refugees in Xuzhou, he appointed Chen Deng, a native of Xiapi, as the Dian Nong Xiaowei to carry out farming in Xuzhou.
When Chen Deng took office, he "inspected the soil and fields and made the most of the benefits of irrigation." With the efforts of Tao Qian and Chen Deng, Xuzhou's agricultural production was restored and developed, and "japonica rice was abundant." Therefore, when the Yellow Turban Army was raging across the Central Plains,
, because Xuzhou restored land production, it became a rare paradise in the Central Plains. Several Yellow Turban uprisings did not invade Xuzhou.
In order to control the refugees in Xuzhou, Tao Qian appointed Xiapi Xiang Zuo Rong from the same county as him to supervise the transportation of grain to Guangling, Xiapi and Pengcheng. Zuo Rong used the grain in his hands to build the Great Buddha Temple, each temple could accommodate three people.
More than a thousand people read the Buddhist scriptures in class, and recruited refugees with the call to believe in Buddhism and be exempted from military service. "Every time the Buddha is bathed, more food and wine are set up, and mats are spread on the road. After dozens of miles, tens of thousands of people come to watch and eat.
People. Use Buddhism to control refugee riots!
It can be said that it was because Tao Qian used this method to unite all the noble families in Xuzhou that he was able to suppress the situation in Xuzhou.
But in this way, the power in Tao Qian's hands must be shared with the noble families of Xuzhou. He can only be regarded as a martial arts leader, and he is also the kind of leader without confidants. This caused Tao Qian to become seriously ill, and his subordinates immediately wanted to launch a Xuzhou
The reason for animal husbandry.
Tao Qian thought for a moment and said, "What conditions does the imperial court give us in Xuzhou?"
Wang Lang said: "The imperial court believes that Ming Gong has made outstanding contributions in guarding Xuzhou, so he can be granted the title of Duke of Duxiang. The title can be passed on to the eldest son, and the second son can also be named the Marquis of Guannei! The two sons can go to Xiangyang Taixue to study. Situ
Your Excellency has invited Mr. Shui Jing to teach the two young masters. As long as the two young masters succeed in their studies, they will be able to obtain the position of prefect within ten years!"
The pottery merchant was overjoyed when he heard this offer. At this time, the position of marquis has not depreciated, and it is still very precious in the Han Dynasty. Not to mention that he can have a famous person like Mr. Shui Jing as his teacher. This is even more precious than the position of marquis.
Mr. Shui Jing is a famous person in the world and has a high status in Jingzhou. As long as he worships Mr. Shui Jing as his teacher, he will have hundreds of classmates and friends in the official circles of the Han Dynasty. When they become the 2000-stone prefect, they can use this relationship to recruit a large number of disciples.
Therefore, the Tao family can also be called the world's 2000 stone family and become a noble family of the Han Dynasty!
Although Tao Qian has now become a Xuzhou pastor, he was born an ordinary person and had a very bad relationship with the celebrities in Xuzhou! Zhang Zhao, a celebrity in Xuzhou, looked down on Tao Qian. Tao Qian also had a bad temper and arrested Zhang Zhao directly and wanted to kill him.
, it was only with Zhao Yu’s persuasion that Tao Qian let Zhang Zhao go.
But because of this incident, all the famous scholars in Xuzhou looked down upon Tao Qian. This involved Tao Qian's two sons. Even though they were the sons of Zhou Mu, they could not learn from famous teachers. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Tao Qian was
If you don't study under a famous teacher, no one will recommend someone who is filial, honest and talented, and your official career will basically be cut off!
Tao Qian smiled and said: "The conditions are not bad. Our Tao family has not produced a marquis for hundreds of years. Now we have two. What conditions will it have for others? Xuzhou is not the Xuzhou of Tao Qian alone."
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Wang Lang said: "In three years, our official positions will not change, but all policies must be closer to the imperial court. We must learn from the policies of dividing the land into acres, equalizing the land, and strengthening the army! The imperial court also asked us to immigrate to Jiangdong and go to Jiangdong for reclamation! Go!
The powerful nobles can encircle the wasteland in Jiangdong at will, and no taxes will be levied for five years!"
Tao Qian said helplessly: "This policy cannot be implemented. No one in Xuzhou would want to do this! Although enclosure is good, I came from Jiangdong, and no one wants to go there!"
Tao Qian's Xuzhou is an enhanced version of the Eastern Han Dynasty government. When something goes wrong, everyone gathers some private soldiers to resist foreign enemies. When there is no trouble, they recruit the people to maintain the rule of Xuzhou. In short, it is a small government with a small country and few people.
But now what the Xiangyang court wants is a government of the former Han Dynasty that controls the sky and the earth. It also wants to immigrate from Xuzhou to Yangzhou. This is not poaching their flesh. As for the enclosure of Jiangdong, Xuzhou's noble families are even more
Disdainfully, Jiangdong at this time was a truly barbaric land. A hundred miles across the Yangtze River, it was difficult to see even a village. The current climate in Jiangdong was humid and smoky, and ordinary people did not go to Jiangdong to cultivate land.
The wealthy nobles in Xuzhou were even more unwilling to risk their lives to occupy some wasteland if they had to risk their lives. Therefore, to the wealthy nobles in Xuzhou, the land in Jiangdong was just a piece of cake to satisfy their hunger.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The important thing is that the wealthy nobles in Xuzhou look down upon the policies implemented by the court now. They are not even willing to implement the policies of the Eastern Han Dynasty government, let alone the policies of the former Han Dynasty.
Xuzhou has a population of more than 3 million, but even at the most dangerous time, the number of troops did not exceed 50,000. Rather than attacking, the most important thing Tao Qian did was to hold on and wait for help, or wait until the Yellow Turban Army's food was exhausted, and then automatically
The ability to withdraw from Xuzhou's territory and take the initiative to attack is not available in Xuzhou.
The Yellow Turban Army has arrived at home, and the nobles and nobles in Xuzhou are unwilling to expand their army, not to mention that Lei Gong is still thousands of miles away. As soon as Zhang Wen proposed this condition, he was very unpopular with the nobles and nobles in Xuzhou.
Zhao Yu said helplessly: "Everyone thinks that the imperial court has too many restrictions, so no one wants to join the imperial court!"
Tao Qian asked: "What conditions did Yuan Shao propose?"
Wang Lang said: "Everything in Xuzhou remains unchanged. Yuan Shao's only request is that we arm an army of 100,000 people. When Lei Gong attacks Yanzhou, the Xuzhou army will support Yanzhou! The two young masters, Yuan Shao, also promised to arrange for them to go to Yuzhou as governors!"
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Yuan Shao's conditions were better, and Tao Qian's two sons were directly made prefects with a salary of 2,000 shi.
But Tao Qian said: "My two sons are not capable of this! It is my highest expectation that they can survive this troubled world safely!"
Then Tao Qian said: "Yuan Shao's conditions are good for us, why don't we want to join Yuan Shao?"
Wang Lang smiled bitterly and said: "Although the conditions are good, the only trouble is in arming 100,000 troops. What Yuan Shao wants is not the ordinary national soldiers of 100,000 counties, but 100,000 elites like the northern and southern armies. It is best to have them all."
Equipped with armor, such an elite army would cost 3 billion a year to raise.
Our finances in Xuzhou simply cannot support such an army! And even if we can, we are not willing to waste such an elite force on the battlefield in the Central Plains. Lei Gong's army is basically a fully armored force, and there are still 100,000 iron cavalry.
Hand, if our Xuzhou Army goes to the Central Plains to fight, we are not seeking death, so no one is willing to become Yuan Shao's subordinates."
During the Ling Emperor's time, Xuzhou could get 300 million yuan in taxes, and the Ling Emperor would cry with joy. Now Yuan Shao can collect 10 times the fiscal revenue in one go. It's no wonder that the noble families in Xuzhou are not willing to join Yuan Shao no matter how optimistic they are.
Cao Cao didn't say anything anymore, because Cao Cao had no support from his disciples and old officials, and he didn't have the righteousness of the court. Qingzhou was also driven into military violence by Cao Cao and was exhausted. In the eyes of Xuzhou's civil and military officials, Cao Cao is now a poor man.
It is impossible for a tyrannical person to get any good terms, and no one is willing to provoke Cao Cao.