The Cao family collapsed and the Han army made a lot of money. This incident greatly stimulated the Han army generals. Without waiting for Yuan Feng to issue orders, they went their own ways, set up private courts and began to take advantage of large households.
The quality of the Han army was uneven. The Shaanxi army was not good at all. In addition, the peasant rebels who joined later were not good at all. Many of them were good men who robbed homes and houses. With the example of the Cao family in front, the soldiers
They are self-taught and learn from others, and they also come up with some slogans to recite, then wave their hands and say that if they don't kill, the people will not be angry, and then they kill people, steal money and rob women, and they are very happy.
With them as an example, the local scoundrels in Henan also took action. They did not have the ability to take advantage of the big households, so they attacked the middle-income families and robbed them of money and food. In the name of doing justice for heaven, the Han army occupied the area for a while.
The area was smoky, wealthy families fled one after another, and ordinary people did not dare to go out. The good impression that the Han army had just established was almost destroyed in just a few days.\
Yuan Feng was busy planning the decisive battle with the Zhou army and was not very clear about the matter. Fortunately, he still had people who understood the matter. The current marching director was Li Shanchang's son Li Qi. This middle-aged man in his thirties was prudent and resourceful.
Du Duan has become Yuan Feng's right-hand man.
Li Qi led seven or eight counselors to find Yuan Feng, knelt down in the tunnel with a plop and said: "Lord, please save the people of Henan."
Yuan Feng saw the tragic look on Li Qi's face, and the others also looked indignant, and hurriedly asked: "Brother Li, why did you say this?"
Li Qi said: "The officers and soldiers in each battalion went to eat at the big families. If things go on like this, their appetites will grow bigger and bigger, and they will not want to make progress, and they will focus on looting. This will make the people resentful, the people will be displaced, and the world will turn against them. How can we compete in the Central Plains!"
Yuan Feng understood now. Several generals briefly mentioned this matter, but Yuan Feng didn't take it seriously. Land annexation in Henan was serious, and few of the big landowners had clean bodies. It might be unfair to behead them all.
, beheadings in odd and even numbers will slip through the net, but after hearing what Li Qi said was so alarmist, Yuan Feng couldn't help but take it seriously, and asked Li Qi to stand up and explain the matter in detail.
Li Qi has been an official in Chang'an for many years and is very clear about private land annexation. Those big landowners are often very powerful local families. For example, the largest landowner in Shaanxi is Lu Zhen, and the largest landowner in Henan is Cao Shaojie, as well as in other provinces.
In this way, these people are not only rich, but also powerful. They have various connections and amazing power, so even the local officials dare not touch them.
These people own a large amount of land but do not pay taxes, because they are part of the imperial court and a member of the ruling class. Although the world is named Zhang, it is only in name. The rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty depends on
It is maintained by these families.\
Yuan Feng entered the Central Plains under the banner of the former Han prince, which was very different from foreign invasion. He did not need to break the interest chain of those privileged classes, he only needed to win their support, and Yuan Feng was weak at this time.
, at this moment, going to war and attacking the wealthy families in Henan is clearly sending a signal to push those families that could have been won over to the court.
Li Qi spoke sincerely, and other counselors also expressed their opinions, saying that if they did not stop taking advantage of large households, the Han army would lose the support of the people and would be defeated without a fight.
Yuan Feng learned most of the martial arts from Chang Yuchun, including marching and horse arching, but didn't learn much about statecraft. Later he became the king of Xiliang and did not encounter similar problems. That was because of Xiliang's economy.
It was relatively simple, and the differentiation between rich and poor was not serious. When he suddenly faced these problems, he found it difficult to make a choice for a while.\
"Then according to your wishes, how should we deal with it?" Yuan Feng asked.
Li Qi said: "Immediately gather the three armies, severely punish the evildoers, grant amnesty to the world, and be tax-free for three years!"
At this moment, a loud shout came from outside: "Li, what do you mean!" A group of military generals broke in and accused Li Qi fiercely.
Genxian idiots, they also have their own strategies. The Han army has a weak foundation. It is too slow to collect taxes through conventional methods. It is better to plunder directly. Anyway, the world is as black as crows. Those rich gentlemen are all polite scum, and there is no good thing.
, just rob them. As for the poor people, they don’t have much money anyway, so it’s better to exempt them from money and food, so as to win the hearts and minds of the people.
The civil servants firmly opposed this proposal. They believed that except for a few local tyrants and evil gentry, most of the wealthy people were law-abiding, and many of them were civil servants, Jinshi scholars, and well-educated families. They pushed these people to the opposite side. For the big Han people,
The future is full of harm and no benefit.
Yuan Feng felt dizzy after listening to it. He felt that both sides of what he said were reasonable. Suddenly, a term that his uncle said when he was young jumped into his mind: "Class Struggle"
Yes, class struggle. The following two groups belong to two different classes. Li Qi and other civil servants are all well-known scholars. Although their family wealth is not huge, they still have some assets. And those military generals are joining
Before the Han army, most of them were extremely poor, and they did not know the Chinese character Douda, so they belonged to the standard proletariat.\
Class conflict is irreconcilable. What my uncle said still echoes in my heart. I was young at the time and didn’t understand what it meant. But now I finally understand.
In fact, regarding the lesson of class struggle, my uncle only followed the text, because he himself did not understand it very well, and the content of this section was not disclosed in Emperor Wu's suicide note. There was no written record, only oral transmission.
Yuan Feng tried hard to recall what his uncle said. Class struggle is a double-edged sword. If you use it well, you can be proud of the world. If you use it poorly, you will hurt yourself.
Judging from the current situation, I have used the magic weapon of class struggle without any teacher, but the method used is incorrect, which has brought some negative effects.\
There was still noisy below, Yuan Feng's mind was spinning countless times, and suddenly he slapped the table: "Okay, shut up!"
Suddenly there was a complete silence. Even though the King of Han was usually approachable and humble, he was very intimidating.
Yuan Fengdao: "Eighty percent of the land in Henan is in the hands of two governments. If this situation cannot be broken, the people will not be able to benefit regardless of taxation or not. So what does this change of dynasty mean to them? It is nothing more than a change of dynasties.
A man comes to power and becomes the emperor."
Li Qi opened his mouth to speak. Yuan Feng's words were very strange. Isn't it true? There is no essential difference between the Han Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty. Gentlemen are still gentlemen, and mud-legged people are still mud-legged people. Is it true?
Say Yuan Feng wanted to be the emperor of the mud-legged people? Facts have proved that the rulers of all dynasties relied on the gentry class, not the peasants who could not read a word.\
But Li Qi keenly sensed that Yuan Feng had something to say, so he didn't interrupt.
Sure enough, Yuan Feng said to the generals again: "You have done justice for heaven, but the gold, silver, money and land, besides being used for military expenses, have not gone into your pockets. In this way, you and
What’s the difference between those evil gentry who plunder and plunder?”
The generals all knelt down with a roar, and beads of sweat dripped from their foreheads. Yuan Feng was very strict in running the army. Even though he usually smiled and laughed, he was absolutely unambiguous when it was time to kill someone.
Yuan Fengdao: "The Zhou army is so weak. Why is this? Because their court has no money to equip the army. Why does the court have no money? It's because these big landowners don't pay taxes! In order to maintain his rule, Zhang Jiusi had to compromise.
But I don’t have to buy their fault, the unfair system must be broken!”
The generals' expressions softened when they heard that they were not punished, but the faces of Li Qi and others were ugly. If Yuan Feng insisted on making enemies of the gentry in the world, then the defeat of the Han army would be certain.\
Yuan Feng saw what Li Qi and others were thinking, smiled slightly and said: "Brother Li, don't worry too much. What I want to give to the world is just fairness."
Fairness, such a simple word, is something that many people dream of. The common people work hard at sunrise and rest at sunset, trying their best to save a few acres of thin farmland, but the landlords randomly find a way to occupy it.
In Nankai, if you have no reason or money, don't come in. It's harder to file a lawsuit than to go to heaven. This is the current living situation of the people in the Zhou Dynasty.\
What Yuan Feng had to do was to bring order to the chaos and reverse this situation. In fact, clear administration and judicial justice were not only the aspirations of ordinary people, but also the gentry class also longed for such a fair and equitable social situation.
Li Qi was a smart man and immediately understood what Yuan Feng meant, and his heart was relieved.
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With Yuan Feng's policy guidance, it was much easier for the counselors and staff to formulate methods. Yuan Feng wanted to compete for the world, and it was impossible to unite everyone. The big landowners at the top of the food chain themselves were the ruling class of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
, it is impossible to win over them, and these people are exactly the targets to be defeated, and the blow against them must be spared no effort, bloody and ferocious.
But for the general landowners and gentry, we need to win over and protect them. Being rich and educated is not wrong, but being rich and being unkind is a sin.
After the largest landowners were eliminated, a large amount of idle land sprang up. Luoyang alone had more than 10,000 hectares of land. The government divided these lands into high, middle and low grades. The low-grade land was listed for sale at a low price, and the medium-grade land was rented to tenants for cultivation.
Low rents are charged, and there are other ways to deal with the best land.
That’s a free gift!
Of course it’s not really free. The Han army posted a notice to recruit men who would eat food and serve as soldiers. The conditions were frightening. If they could be selected as soldiers, each man would be given ten acres of high-quality farmland! Oh dear, there is such a good thing in the world. Originally
Everyone still didn't believe it, but when the land deeds really got into the hands of the military relatives, everyone couldn't sit still anymore.
It is the old history that good iron cannot be nailed, and good men should not be soldiers. Nowadays, in the land of Zhongzhou, there is a craze for eating food and serving as soldiers. Old men as old as seventy or eighty years old, as young as eleven or two
Children aged 10 to 18 years all gathered under the recruiting banner.
But the Han army said that they would only recruit ten thousand people, and not one more would be needed.
I stayed up late to finish a chapter, but my desktop hardware failed and I'm afraid it can't be repaired.
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