Chapter 897: Zhu Biao becomes king and divides the feudal system
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Everybody, forgive me, forgive me!
In peace, time always passes so fast. In people's inadvertent way: in the blink of an eye, spring comes from the east; in the blink of an eye, the ice and snow melt.
It is already March of the twelfth year of Yuanwu.
The 300,000 Qi Allied Forces are rushing towards Zhongpu County, the prefecture of Puzhou. Zhu Biaotun's 80,000 troops east of the river are here, and it seems that they are going to have a showdown with the Allied Forces.
But in fact, when the main force of the coalition forces arrived at the gate of Zhongpu County, 80,000 Han troops turned around and marched northward, entering Taoqiu City. The coalition forces continued to pursue, but Zhu Biao did not continue to retreat, and 80,000 Han troops stood firm in the city. At the same time, Cizhou
In the direction of Yunzhou, the coalition forces of Ciwen and Wen Prefectures sent 100,000 troops to Suizhou and entered Tian Wu's territory. At the same time, in the direction of Langzhou and Yunzhou, the coalition forces of Langzhou and Yunzhou also sent 100,000 troops to Jeju.
Entered the Zibo East Wing.
The two armies were led separately by Wang Shao and Feng Lei. If they had two sharp knives, they could stab the vital points of the coalition forces.
"General, Suizhou cannot make any mistakes."
In the coalition army, Tian Wu's generals listened to the proposal to join the army. Their brows were furrowed, and they seemed to be extremely conflicted.
Retreating? Easier said than done. It would be a grave sin to cause chaos among the troops. But if we don't retreat, will we be watching Suizhou lose and become a rootless duckweed?
Besides, most of the soldiers under his command are from Suizhou. He has lost his hometown and his relatives, so how can he still have the ambition to fight abroad?
If you don’t retreat, your troops will lose their morale.
Inside Suizhou City.
Tian Wu looked at the counselors in front of him with a pale face. What should he do? Do you want the 50,000 elites from the coalition to withdraw? Are the coalition willing?
Everyone knows that this is the last chance for the local faction in Qi. If the grand alliance fails this time, Qi will no longer have the power to resist Zhu Biao. All the people in Qi will just linger and breathe, sitting and waiting to die!
If you don't let those 50,000 elite soldiers retreat, what can you do to resist the 100,000 soldiers and horses you killed?
If we want to resist the attack of 100,000 Ciwen troops, we must have 50,000 people.
This is an unsolvable problem. We have to make a choice between public interests and private interests!
Which one did Tian Wu choose? He was not a selfless great man of the first generation of the Red Party. In terms of class division, he was an out-and-out feudalist. The choice was naturally related to his own selfish interests.
During the same period, after the Jeju and Langyun Allied Forces entered this area, Feng Lei's name brought great benefits to the advance of the army. Especially in the Yimeng area south of Jeju, the third rebel force in Qi State. More than 80% of the 'good people'
The camp's rebels came out of the Yimeng Mountains and joined the Langyun Allied Forces. Feng Lei almost fought his way to the gates of Jiyang County without losing any blood.
The number of men and horses also expanded to 1340000. The army surrounded three and one was missing, and attacked on three sides. In five days, more than 10000 casualties were paid. To the east of Zibo, Jiyang, the largest city in Qi State, was attacked.
At Feng Lei's feet.
The army continued to advance westward, threatening Zibo. For this reason, they even abandoned the four counties in the south-central part of Jeju, giving it to the bandits who emerged from the Yimeng Mountains.
Part of the local garrison was transferred to the coalition forces. The other part was wiped out in Jiyang. Both counties and counties were very empty, with only a small number of county soldiers still there. The main maintenance force was the local rural militia. In order to protect their homeland.
Wives, children, and relatives, these village warriors fiercely resisted those mountain kings who took advantage of the opportunity to pick up the slack and make a profit.
To put it more gloomily, such a place is in chaos. If I wish Biao's army to come and stabilize the countryside in the future, it will also be a better way to compete for the hearts and minds of the people, right?
The 300,000 allied troops outside Taoqiu City were routed and defeated.
Feng Lei's troops pointed directly at Zibo, and suddenly the main body of the coalition forces - the main body of the 150,000 imperial troops - the 50,000 Zibo Forbidden Army were confused and frightened.
The Zibo Forbidden Army soldiers with bright swords and outstanding combat power have all turned into melancholy men looking at the sky and sighing, worrying about their relatives at home. How can they still think about fighting on the front line?
So under the influence of the Zibo Forbidden Army, the remaining 100,000 state and county soldiers also became worried. The troops of the Langyun Allied Forces reached Zibo, and they were all states and counties to the south and west. They were getting into the belly of Qi State.
Now. Another example is the Jeju soldiers whose hometown was occupied. They were not even as good as Zhu Biao's Northeastern Army in his previous life. Their morale was low and the army was in a mess.
At this time, news came from Suizhou that Suijun had been defeated, and soon after, news that Tian Wu had been killed also spread. The 50,000 Suizhou troops could no longer hold back and returned.
Naturally, the upper echelons of the coalition forces disagreed. They all knew that at this juncture, letting the Suizhou Army go would be tantamount to letting the entire coalition go. This head must not be allowed to lead.
Zhu Biao sat firmly in Taoqiu City and watched the 300,000 troops in front of him come to an end.
At the end of March, news came from the south that the city of Zibo had been destroyed. The Zibo Forbidden Army, which was about to move, could no longer calm down. Under the leadership of several captain-level officers, the Zibo Forbidden Army, which had been suppressed by the coalition forces for a while, suddenly rebounded and hijacked the city.
The deputy governor of the Forbidden Army, who actually commanded the army, made a lot of noise, blew flags and trumpets, and marched the army southward.
The sudden move of the Forbidden Army was like a bomb that exploded the entire coalition army. The Suizhou Army and the Jeju Army followed closely and declared their followers, and the 300,000-strong army fell apart.
"Commander, don't we... attack now?"
Taking advantage of the fire and adding insult to injury. These eight words flashed through the minds of all the generals in the army around Zhu Biao.
"There is no rush. Although the coalition forces are in chaos, they are not in chaos yet. If we attack at this time, although we may defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, we may also allow the scattered enemy forces to unite again.
Wait a little longer——”
Zhu Biao on the top of the city looked indifferent. He had been waiting for a month, so these few days were nothing.
In his eyes, the state of Qi was already a meal on the plate and in the mouth. A cooked duck with two arms and two legs removed could neither fly nor run away.
Now he is already thinking about how to take the throne of Qi.
King Qi!
It cannot be said that it is not a huge temptation. If things have developed to this point, if you don't take it, God will thunder. Zhu Biao himself will be even more distressed and can't bear it.
With the Zhu family's strength, how can they swallow up such a huge country? This is Qi State, which is larger than the Northern Han Dynasty.
Eastern Qi and Western Qin, the two countries are far more powerful in the world than Northern Han and Southern Chu. Moreover, there are many talented people and famous families. If Zhu Biao wins the title of King of Qi, he will want to seize the state affairs in a short time.
For Sheji, we must compromise with the local gentry class in Qi State.
But in Zhu Biao's eyes, the aristocratic families in Qilu and Lu were not much different from those in the Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties in Chinese history.
Even if Zhu Biao wins another victory by force and is the king of Qi as a Han, he can't expect the people and nobles below to bow their heads and obey orders. With the overall situation of the Central Plains at stake, those people would not dare to rebel openly. Behind the scenes, they would not dare to rebel.
It is necessary and affirmative to put your hands and feet on the ground.
If Zhu Biao wants to establish an absolute centralized dynasty, and the interests of these people are harmed, they can at least confuse the government and local governments and cause suffering among the people. At worst, they can disrupt the country and the country, harm the people, and cause the people to rise up.
Can be put on Zhu Biao's head.
The shortcomings of Zhu Biaowu's emphasis on literature over literature are too big, his status is special, and he is too controlled by others.
Zhu Biao was unwilling to give up the throne of King Qi, so the situation forced him to compromise with the Qi gentry.
Then, how to compromise is another art.
The time has entered June. Zhu Biao's Heaven-Elysing Sword can be regarded as flattening all the rebel princes, rough dragons and snakes in Qi.
The army under his command reached 500,000.
However, the government agencies in various places are still retained. As long as the county magistrate and the prefect have no obvious evidence of crimes against the people and great public anger, they will return to their original positions. Each of them will retain their respective positions.
At the same time, the various objects being liquidated should also be killed and imprisoned.
According to reports from Wang Renqing and others, after this disaster, at least 20% of the nobles in Qi were destroyed. And if we include the earliest rebellion of the King of Qi, and the invasion of Goryeo, the number of nobles in Qi was reduced to five out of ten!
But its strength is still huge. Just like Zhu Biao's Confucianism in China in his previous life, it has been deeply rooted in every inch of land since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed hundreds of schools of thought to only respect Confucianism. It has been unshakable despite the changes of successive dynasties. Before modern times.
This is the case for the aristocratic families of Qi State at present. The remaining people are either connected with the officialdom or have a huge reputation in the countryside. They still tenaciously inherit the old strength of Qi State.
What can be done to solve this big problem?
Zhu Biao made two plans. The first was to recruit virtuous people. Whether they were from Dongyu of Qilu, Yanchenzhao of the Northern Han Dynasty, Beiyu, or Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains, as long as they were willing to become officials, they would be given fifty taels of silver first.
Travel expenses.
Use outsider trends to impact Qidi’s local market.
The second is migration and enfeoffment.
Using Laizhou and other lands at the southern end of Qi State, they used naked interests to "tempt" many famous families in the central and northern areas to move to the south, search for famous people, and divide the land.
Once there are famous scholars, virtuous people, and clear figures, each one will be famous based on his family's power, and the lowest one will be awarded the title of doctor, and those above will be awarded the three titles of brother-in-law and son-in-law.
The doctor lives in the pavilion, the baron lives in the countryside, the viscount lives in the county, and the earl lives in the county.
There is one viscount in each county and three to five barons, and the remaining area is the viscounty. After all, no matter how large the county is, the land is only ten villages. In the same way, one baron can also have three to five doctors.
Because of the system of the Central Plains: there is one pavilion in ten miles, and one township is ten pavilions. Therefore, the area of a township is not small for a private family. Counting the county-governed city, no matter how large the county is, it does not have the land of ten townships.
Aren't the aristocratic families in Qi State already on the threshold of becoming a powerful family? Zhu Biao pushed over and gave up the southern end of Qi State to completely eliminate these people.
It's just that I don't feel bad for him. He has too little sense of belonging to the Qi State, his own political and political skills are too poor, and the Qi State is so stubborn in this regard.
Rather than entangled in the quarrels and quarrels, making it difficult for Zhu Biao to escape, it is better to push him back to the beginning!
The material provided an irresistible temptation. In Zhu Biao's previous life, although the clans in China during the Jin Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties were powerful, they were not as powerful as the enfeoffment system in Europe. But now, it is in one step, and the feudal system is in place. Each family has set up Ming soldiers and established Ming yamen.
Building Wubao, collecting grain and collecting taxes are all allowed. It can be said to be a small private country.
Not many families can resist such benefits.
And even if they can resist it, Zhu Biao can always find out something illegal if he digs through their family background and searches eight generations of their ancestors.
Qi State has become so weak. It would be ridiculous to say that all the noble families, famous families and powerful people all over the country are good-natured and abide by the law and care for the people's livelihood. Zhu Biao has 10,000 unbelievers. A weak country means a weak people.
The people are suffering, the people are sad!
And what is the most direct reason for the weakness of the people, the suffering of the people, and the sorrow of the people?
The corruption of official administration and the darkness of government.
But how many of the officials in ** are from poor families? Even if they were originally from poor families, after becoming an official, their family will no longer be from a poor family.
The darkness of the government focuses on exploitation and justice.
The former may not be clear to the common people. The taxes payable by each county are not collected from the rich and powerful, but passed on to the common people. The common people are not clear about this. They can best see whether the justice is fair or not.
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Master Qingtian is what the people in this world long for.
It is precisely because of the support of the dark government that those lawless wealthy children act so unscrupulously.
From Zhu Biao's series of actions, the famous families in Qi had vaguely guessed Zhu Biao's next plan. There were really some stubborn guys who gave Zhu Biao trouble and refused to move. As a result, Zhu Biao
I went to investigate and found that within half a month, there were hundreds of decapitated ghosts in front of the Yama Hall. All of them immediately understood!
Tian Yan, who was captured in Laizhou, seemed to have aged twenty years in the past few months. He is now working every minute and every second to serve Zhu Biao. Because Zhu Biao promised him that the Tian family would not be eliminated and the Qi family would be sealed.
The king, Tian Sheng's son, was named Gongshunhou.
Although this is a title with a derogatory connotation and only enjoys the land of one county, it is a complete county. Tian Wu, Tian Cheng, and Tianzhuang, the object of his allegiance, are all three.
There is a complete county. Regarding the Tian family, Zhu Biao's treatment was absolutely magnanimous.
So he asked Tian Yan to help him sort out the genealogy of the famous families in the prefectures and counties of Qi. This would also be convenient for Zhu Biao, who wanted to show his sincerity completely by dividing all these families into one place.
Tian Yan dared to disobey orders. Zhu Biao rewarded him by granting him a title. [Earl in the usual sense.]
A series of adjustments were made until October 1st, when Zhu Biao officially ascended the throne of Qi. Because he had the will of the King of Tang and he was a revolutionary king, he came to the throne in a legitimate way. Of course, more importantly, he used
The entire three states have bought peace in the world.
Moreover, he also handed over Zibo, the largest city in the east, to the control of Jixia Academy. The annual business tax was his tribute to Jixia Academy.
Zhu Biao has not forgotten the various martial arts sects in the martial arts world in Qi State. There are four first-class sects, each with a land of a hundred miles, a second-class land of fifty miles, a third-class land of thirty miles, and the remaining ten miles. National statistics
Next. There are nearly a hundred martial arts sects, big and small, and Zhu Biao has divided up almost a county's territory. But the world of martial arts has suddenly stabilized.
Compared with the price paid, the benefits are far out of proportion.
Not only did Zhu Biao's new regime lose a lot of worries, it also received a boost. At the same time, it also gave martial arts a real foundation and injected a different kind of vitality into Dongyu, which is full of culture.
It's like putting a snakehead fish in a fish pond. This snakehead fish is still weak, but as time goes by, it will grow up and disrupt the fish pond one day.
Zhu Biao became king in Langzhou. This was not because he was too close to the three states in the south. The territory of Qi was in the shape of an inverted trapezoid, with the sixteen states arranged in five rows: 4-4-3-3-2.
The three states that were enfeoffed were still far away from Zibo.
It was not because of this that Zhu Biao gave Zibo to Jixia Academy. Although there was a master in Jixia Academy, the Zhu family, not counting Zhu Biao, could directly crush him with force.
It was because of Zhu Biao's strategies and national policies for the Zhu family of Qi.
——Go north to open up the old territory of Goryeo.
Just as Yanchen of the Northern Han Dynasty included thousands of miles of grassland outside the Great Wall, part of the Goryeo Kingdom was also assigned to the Qi Kingdom.
It's just that the Qi land is rich, and the Central Plains human race despises the foreign lands, so few people go there. Part of the land has already been occupied by the Lieshui Kingdom. This is something Zhu Biao will never allow.
The north wanted to open up frontiers, so Zhu Biao set the country in Langxiang, which was renamed Dongdu.
The first is to change the old name with a new trend. The second is that the name of Langxiang County is the same as the name of a county in Jiazhou in the Central Plains. If Langxiang is not the capital, then it is. But now it has become the most beautiful place in the country.
The name must be changed.
Zhu Biao changed his name to Dongdu, which also revealed his ambition. In fact, if he were not afraid of violating the taboo, he would have changed his name to Tokyo.
By the way, Yunzhou was also renamed Liaozhou by Zhu Biao. Ninghe was renamed Lelang.
This move actually frightened the country that kept making small moves to flood the country. They were howling and rowing the river before, but in fact, they were the leaders of the change. It was not the leader of Qi State.
Coupled with Zhu Biao's great reputation, although Lieshui was already a country, it was vulnerable to the Hedong Army.
He immediately stopped scratching, retracted his claws, and cautiously looked at the movement in the south. This will be discussed later.
The current text is that Zhu Biao became king in Dongdu on October 1, but the relocation of most families in Qi State was still in progress. Moreover, a large number of officials left their posts, leaving many important political positions vacant.
Fortunately, a large number of poor scholars recruited from the Northern Central Plains arrived one after another and gradually filled up the ranks.
At the same time, the relocation of the Hedong Army system from the Northern Han Dynasty to the Qi State was the first step in the Long March.
Peiping was very shocked and surprised that a Han like Zhu Biao was suddenly granted the title of King of Qi.
Shock is inevitable, and surprise is that a big problem that has been hard for them to solve, like a big problem stuck in their throats, is suddenly solved. The pressure on the shoulders of the entire court is lightened, and Ji Yun, the Yun family, etc. feel even more sudden.
I am open-minded, the sky is blue, and I feel refreshed.
What if Zhu Biao arrived at the Qi State Council? Jealousy is jealousy. The big problem of the Hedong Army disappeared, and the "sovereignty" that had been incomplete for many years in the Northern Han Dynasty was finally complete. For the Han Dynasty, what better result could there be than this?
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For Zhu Biao and his Hedong Army, Ji Yun didn't know how many times he was worried and couldn't sleep at night.
Although Zhu Biao used his promise of "one man has one hundred acres of land" and his strong prestige, he pulled countless people from the four counties of Hedong to move thousands of miles to Qi State...
This was an extremely huge project. Zhu Biao spent millions of taels of silver on this project, which lasted for two years and reduced the population of the Northern Han Dynasty by one million.
The population of the entire four counties of Hedong dropped sharply to 60%.
However, the court in Peiping was wise and did not rush to take Hedong into state ownership until the fifteenth year of Yuanwu... During this period, Zhu Biao and Peiping had a tacit understanding and a tacit understanding of each other!
