Zhang Fei left. Looking at the excited look on his face, Chen Xi knew that there was a high probability that this guy would have a big fight in Mount Tai before coming back.
Liu Bei came again the next day. He looked helpless when he saw Chen Xi drinking tea leisurely in the Government Affairs Office. After such a long time, Liu Bei no longer worried that Chen Xi would be exhausted. He finally understood how much trouble there was.
The guy only had time to frown, so he believed what Chen Xi said on the road, that political strategy was what he was good at.
"Zichuan is bored again." Liu Bei asked with a smile. He almost does not deal with government affairs now. Except for the right to promote or punish his subordinates, Chen Xi basically leaves everything else to his own discretion.
, he spends more time selecting people with good physical fitness among the refugees and training them, and now he has some form, but these tens of thousands of recruits are really just the same.
"Canals, wells, roads are being dug everywhere, and the city walls have been renovated. It's not easy to have hundreds of thousands of people at their disposal. Doing everything at once will save a lot of trouble in the future." Chen Xi pretended to take out a scroll of letters.
While watching, he said that although he also knew that Liu Bei knew his character, he was still used to showing off in front of his superiors and couldn't go too far.
Jian Yong snickered on the sidelines, snickering at Chen Xi's pretending to read the letter. He even held the letter upside down and was still reading.
"How is Zilong's farming done? It may meet Zichuan's requirements." Liu Bei asked. He was still not confident about Zhao Yun's ability. After all, it was not easy for a person with such high martial arts skills to hope to contribute to political strategy.
"Probably there is only one person in the world who can compete with him on the farm." Chen Xi said proudly, "And there is basically no one who can definitely beat him."
This is not Chen Xi's bragging. After all, farming is a new thing at this time. Although some people have done it before, after Zaozhi's renovation, it is basically different from the previous farming. Now Chen Xi will know about Zaozhi's farming
After Ling informed Zhao Yun, he asked Zhao Yun to review the modifications by himself.
Zhao Yun's intelligence is not bad. Although he has never seen this new model of military settlements, he can see the good and the bad. Naturally, he will analyze this settlement order with his own eyes. According to Zhao Yun's own words, this
The farming order is indeed a way to quickly accumulate national power, but isn't it a bit excessive? The 50-50 split is a bit harsh on the people.
Chen Xi was too lazy to explain to Zhao Yun that after the 50-50 split, the people would live better than before. After all, the middle class was directly eliminated. The land tax was 30%, the land rent was 50%, and only 20% of what was grown in a year could fall into his hands. This is why
It is clear that the Han Dynasty did not lack land, so it was still necessary to starve to death.
As for the 50-50 split that Chen Xi mentioned, it was still based on the average of the randomly checked output. Without private taxes, Chen Xi guaranteed that even if the sixty acres were split in half in a small disaster year, they would at least survive starvation. As a result, Zhao Yun insisted on marrying Chen Xi
He was stubborn, and he himself couldn't argue with Chen Xi, so he angrily took a group of men to collect information, and he came back a few days ago.
I have to say that on-the-spot investigation is indeed extremely necessary. After more than half a month of research, Zhao Yun found that what Chen Xi said was actually true. The five-to-five pairs were able to survive even the disaster years. Is there any natural reason for this? Then in the past
Why did the Yellow Turban Rebellion occur?
When Zhao Yun came back, he held a gun and had a gloomy look on his face. He looked like he couldn't argue with Chen Xi this time, so he opened two holes for Chen Xi. He held a gun and argued with Chen Xi again, from the tax system to farming, from the yield per acre to the disaster years.
After arguing for an entire hour, even Jian Yong was shocked. He had never realized that Zhao Yun could speak so well.
In the end, Chen Xi shrugged and said that the farming matter was left to Zhao Yun, and there was no need to show him the laws and regulations. If there was any need, he could read the book himself, go on field inspections, and if there were any problems, he could just take care of them himself.
Just like that, Chen Xi sent Zhao Yun away. Although he could find many loopholes in Zhao Yun's farming orders, Chen Xi was more willing to believe that Zhao Yun would notice those things himself. Of course, that would be with the passage of time and on-site inspections.
He can only realize it, but it is undeniable that he has already taken his own steps.
Listening to Jian Yong talking about what happened before, Liu Bei sighed, "The Han Dynasty's decrees were not wrong. What was wrong was that there were always people taking advantage of loopholes. The powerful families had many talents, but they used them in the wrong direction."
"Every government order will have loopholes. It's just a matter of how many. After all, the law changes at any time. It's normal that the golden laws and regulations of the past are not in line with the present. What's important is to keep pace with the times." Chen Xi said helplessly.
Chen Xi found that he had to instill something new in Liu Bei. If he kept clinging to his old ways, even if he unified the world in the end, he would still be Emperor Guangwu. What he wanted was the courage of Emperor Qin and Han Wu to pursue death and the north, and what he wanted was the kind of courage that could overwhelm the entire era.
The ambition to point his sword at the world would rather be like Han Wu who finally resorted to military violence to the point of being alone and begging for defeat, than Liu Bei was like Guangwu who was tied down between aristocratic families and relatives.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty went on a military rampage, and in the end the Liu family was still in charge of the world. For four hundred years, even in the Three Kingdoms era, the Western Regions and outside the Pass were still the Han Dynasty who were kings and ministers from all directions. The momentum of seeking defeat alone made it difficult for all parties to raise their heads.
If the Han Dynasty was in decline, which foreigner would dare to reach out?
The rise of Guangwu represents the gradual dissipation of the martial spirit that would rather bend than bend. He bowed his head to the aristocratic family, lowering and lowering again and again until he finally got used to it. He had forgotten the original spirit of "how can we be home if the Huns are not destroyed?" and the spirit of enduring humiliation and bearing heavy burdens.
Determination to avenge shame.
To be honest, Chen Xi is not afraid of the emergence of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Even if he fights against the Xiongnu and destabilizes the domestic people, or even a civil commotion, what will happen? At least after that battle, he has more than a hundred years of rest time, a hundred years,
If one generation is exchanged for one hundred years of cultivation time, what is there to worry about?
In the late Han Dynasty, people's hearts were unstable, but the Xiongnu were basically abolished. If you say you want to cultivate your health, you should cultivate your health. When Emperor Jing was released, you still had to see if the Huns were willing to cultivate their health. During the Emperor Wu period,
He didn't worry about the Kou border at all. After that, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty continued to cultivate his health and reached a prosperous age. In other words, the trouble caused by Emperor Wu was not big, and he could still be stable if he wanted to.
And to put it too much, if after Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, another ruthless man of Hanwu level would appear and the cycle would repeat, it would basically be equivalent to a global sheep-gathering operation. The Han Dynasty could eat up all of Asia...
Let’s look at Guangwu again. After Guangwu, relatives of the aristocratic family came to power. There was no super ruthless person to suppress the family and the relatives. For more than a hundred years, the aristocratic family became more and more powerful, until they peeked at the throne and finally killed the Han Dynasty. It was not stable.
Live, the whole tragedy.
Precisely because he understands this, Chen Xi would rather create a militaristic Uncle Liu than let him follow Guangwu's old path. At least Hanwu's old path can be passed as long as the money and food people can withstand it, while Guangwu's old path is a dead end.
In the end, even if it is not "the upper-class family has no poor family, the lower-class family has no noble family", it probably won't be much better. After all, the essence of the aristocratic family lies there, and without strong suppression, problems will sooner or later arise.
With this idea in mind, when Chen Xi meets Liu Bei when he has something to do, he will instill in him some ideas of domineering, kingly, and heavenly ways.
