"The Taihang Mountain people have finally moved out, and they are like thunder."
Cao Cao looked at a very vivid and realistic map and sighed.
The opponent has cavalry, food, and talents, and the situation is set.
Although it has also developed for several years, how can Yizhou be compared with Hebei?
Incomparable.
Hebei has a large population, a lot of talents, and horses.
Several years have passed and he has just consolidated the entire state and county, and is not yet able to expand externally.
And now the Taihang Mountain people have begun to take action.
Cui Cheng persuaded him: "My lord, don't worry. The many measures taken by the Taihang Mountain people will definitely attract strong opposition. As long as they are instigated carefully, they will definitely make their rear unstable."
"Then go ahead and instigate him." Cao Cao sighed, "Why come out of this mountain if you live with Cao?"
Cui Cheng looked helpless.
Then he asked people to incite it.
But it couldn't be incited at all.
The local powerful said this:
"The Taihang Mountain people don't take our land or our food, and they let our children go to school. Why should we risk being beheaded to rebel against them?"
"But he is rebelling against the big man."
"The Han Dynasty should have died long ago. Someone has long predicted that the person who will replace the Han Dynasty will be Tu Gaoye."
The reason why everyone turned against Yuan Shu during his rebellion was mainly because he failed to manage the local area well, hired bandits, and offended the powerful and everyone around him.
Otherwise, there may not be any basis for him to claim the title of emperor.
"You, you..."
Cui Cheng failed.
Can't be incited.
The main reason is that Wen Rensheng took the economic route and used the logic of the bottom economic level to draw the blood of powerful people.
This is something that powerful people cannot fight against.
In short, Wen Rensheng quickly established a foothold.
Not only that.
And continue to attack south.
It only took two years.
Yan, Xu, Yang, and Jing were all occupied.
Continue to implement new economic strategies.
Then it just doesn't pass.
As long as the land of Kanto.
"Master, why don't you go straight to Guanzhong, capture Luoyang and Chang'an, and change the dynasty in one fell swoop?" Xun You was a little confused.
He couldn't wait to be a king again.
You must know that he has accomplished the feat of organizing people to go to sea.
We no longer have to worry about too many people and not enough land.
"Without comparison, people won't know how good the new dynasty is."
"Human happiness comes from contrast."
"We need to build our own land well, and then attract people from the west. Through comparison, they will gradually strengthen their new beliefs and understand the importance of the new system."
Wenren spoke confidently.
Everyone praised him one after another.
"That's what Master said."
"Yes, people are like this. No matter how nice you are to them, they will not be satisfied. But if they see that others are terrible, they will be satisfied."
indeed so.
…………
A town somewhere in Kansai.
Opposite is the land of Kanto.
Although there is a barrier between Kansai and Kanto.
But it was a thoroughfare that could carry horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, and there were still many small roads connecting each other.
"Dad, let's go to the east to work. They give you 5 kilograms of rice for a day's work."
"Yeah, it's no better than farming. The owner here works hard for a year and still takes 50% of the rent."
"Go, go, let's go together."
Situations like this occur all over the town.
Going to work in Kanto has become the most popular word nowadays.
No one wants to stay in the local area and rent land for farming.
It's tiring and hard work, and you have to pay a capitation tax and various rents. What's even worse is the free expropriation of all kinds of manpower.
This last item was the main reason why people fled.
Once encountered, it is a sign of family ruin.
In a tavern, several wealthy families were also sighing.
"Master Wang, how many people are there in your field?"
"More than half of them are now tenant farmers. Why do these damn Guandong Han people pay these people such high wages? Five kilograms of rice a day, which is 2,000 kilograms a year. It is more profitable than farming."
"Yes, and 5 kilograms of rice can be exchanged for 15 kilograms of whole grains, which can feed a family of five."
"Yes, and an 8-year-old child can work with us and have two kilograms of rice."
"Damn it, the people of Guandong are so rich, where does their rice come from?"
"I heard that it is a kind of collective planting, with unified use of cattle, unified use of water, and unified use of fertilizers. In short, it is thousands of acres of land, cultivated together. The efficiency is high, the output is average, but only one-third of the original manpower is needed."
"Then what are the extra people doing?"
"Brew wine, weave cloth, paper, and porcelain, and then go to sea and farm overseas..."
"This is impossible. There is no place overseas. It is very dangerous."
Several wealthy families thought about it but couldn't figure out why the people of Guandong have money and food.
In fact, the entire Kanto region has enough food to eat, but it has not been put into the exchange market.
Wen Rensheng broke through their manor economy through wine, cloth, paper, and porcelain, and then exchanged it for the food they produced.
At the same time, more efficient official land cultivation and farm-based grain cultivation were used to overcome the cost of growing grain in manors, forcing them to sell at low prices.
Otherwise, just wait until it rots and no one will buy it.
Moreover, land has been obtained overseas to grow rice.
This two-pronged approach can greatly enrich supplies.
State-owned farms produce commercial grain and ensure that the maximum price of grain does not exceed people's consumption levels. Management issues must also be considered. In short, efficiency must be improved through the assessment of various managers.
How could these old bosses from the feudal era understand these complex economic details?
What they can understand is everything they see with their naked eyes.
People fled.
No more sharecroppers.
The rent had to be lowered.
Others said: "We need the government to issue a decree that fleeing is a crime and they must be captured."
Yes, this is also what most powerful people think and do.
They themselves organized servants to prevent the tenant farmers from escaping.
But you can stop it for a while, but not forever.
The more they are stopped, the more everyone wants to escape.
Many people went on the road overnight.
Escaped overnight.
And there were people in Kanto helping them escape.
In this way, a large number of people in Guanzhong and Guanxi were lost.
It does solve the bandit problem.
The land was vacated.
As a last resort, many powerful people had to lower land rents.
At the same time, the employment price will be increased.
This is the regulation of the market.
But the premise of market regulation is that labor can move at will and there are laws to ensure the personal safety of labor.
However, those powerful tyrants can forcibly prevent the people from fleeing.
In fact, it turned the common people into serfs.
This is a problem that the market cannot solve.
It cannot fight violence.
The common people can only rely on their own feet to fight.
Wenrensheng naturally wanted to break this pattern.
"People have the right to live the life they want."
"If people have feet, they have the right to go where they want to go."
Then he sent out troops to attack the powerful people in Kansai.
