Chapter 893: The Hundred Thousand Villages Attached to the Yellow Turbans
As mentioned before, the aristocratic families in the Han Dynasty controlled too many resources. Among them, the land resources were almost monopolized by the aristocratic families. The common people had almost no place to stand. Coupled with the continuous natural and man-made disasters, this was the root cause of the complete collapse of the Han Empire.
The reason is that the Yellow Turban chaos was just an introduction.
Qingzhou has experienced wars and suffered heavy casualties among the people. The most important thing is that frequent wars have completely destroyed the ruling order of the local aristocratic families. A large amount of land in their hands has been abandoned and turned into an ownerless land. Computer version::/
But even so, the people who were wandering around begging to avoid the war still did not dare to cultivate these ownerless fields.
In addition to worrying about the settlement of accounts by aristocratic families, it is also because the situation is turbulent and there is no stable farming environment. No matter how well you plant, you may end up taking advantage of the bandits.
The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans occupy hundreds of thousands of miles of land in two counties. They have taken root here and developed rapidly. Not to mention the people who took the initiative to defect, just by surrounding the villages on the edge of the Yellow Turbans and directly cultivating the nearby unowned land, even without the Yellow Turbans, they have completely
With popular planting technology, it is not difficult to barely solve the problem of food and clothing.
These villages are basically inhabited by one clan. They have strong cohesion and are so-called poor families. They are not interested in the Yellow Turban concept and are naturally unwilling to completely integrate into the Yellow Turban order.
You must know that the Yellow Turbans have their own resettlement methods. Members of a clan will be dispersed and resettled, and so-called clan forces will not appear under their rule. This is something that the clan leaders and elders absolutely cannot accept.
They were unwilling to accept the Yellow Turban management and wanted to rely on the powerful Yellow Turban collar to achieve a stable life, so they could only hesitantly build their own villages on the fringes of the Yellow Turban collar to make a living.
After discovering that the Yellow Turban collars were not disgusted, or that they were prevented from doing so, nearly 100,000 such villages suddenly appeared in just three years!
In fact, the Yellow Turban leaders are quite unhappy with these free clan forces who want to take advantage but are unwilling to accept management. According to their past temperament and behavior, they would have broken them all and turned them into Yellow Turban cannon fodder.
But now, they are living a normal, prosperous and peaceful life, and the hostility and cruelty in their hearts are not that serious. In addition, the big leader Lei Hu refuses to let them go, so they just turn a blind eye, otherwise there would be no such thing.
Even the Yellow Turban Army dared to take advantage of the good days of rural clans!
Lei Hu had other reasons for this. At the high-level meeting, he bluntly stated: "It's not sweet to be stubborn. Since these guys would rather be independent outside than be managed by us, then let them be!"
"Don't think that they will take advantage of us. I believe that it won't be long before these isolated villages will be integrated into our territory. By then, it will be a good thing for us to use the established villages to expand outward.
Son!"
"A certain family does not want to resort to violence. Don't get me wrong. With the affluence of our territory, is it difficult to attract those villagers who live outside the country and have to rely on themselves to earn a mediocre harvest?"
"Don't be fooled by the so-called clan name. Those who live the best and enjoy the best welfare in the village will always be just a small number of the so-called senior clan elders. The clan members below will not be able to live without food and clothing.
It’s easy, how can it be compared with the people in our area?”
"As time goes by, and as exchanges increase, those villagers who are living in difficult circumstances will always take the initiative to join our Yellow Turban Leaders. Just wait and see!"
There are some things that Lei Hu didn't explain very clearly. The reason why powerful and even poor families are great is not only that they have a large amount of production and living materials, but also that their quality of life is generally much better than that of the people at the bottom.
Even if the clan members are the worst off, at least they can have enough food and clothing.
But that was in peacetime, and now it's a chaotic time. At least here in Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the situation is completely reversed.
After three years of development, the Yellow Turban collar has undergone tremendous changes. The people's lives have completely broken away from the food and clothing line, and have entered a moderately prosperous level. The living standards of any ordinary people are compared with those of the so-called poor family masters before the collapse of the Han Empire.
Life will be much better.
No matter what world we are in, people will always yearn for a better life, and the current peripheral villages of the Yellow Turban collar are no exception.
As exchanges increase, villagers in the village will definitely be attracted by the better life in the Yellow Turban collar. Mobile version::
There is no need for the Yellow Turban leaders to resort to any means. The villagers scattered on the edge of the territory will naturally take the initiative to defect, which is difficult to control even with the so-called clan rules.
You know, if you find a hard labor job in the Yellow Turban collar, your annual harvest will definitely far exceed the income of a year of farming in a village controlled by the clan. Who can endure the hard life in the village over time, at least
The influx of young people in the village to the Yellow Turban collar is an unstoppable trend.
Just like the urbanization changes in the industrial era, the living standards and incomes in cities are much higher than those in rural areas, which will naturally attract a large number of young and strong farmers to work in cities and settle down. The current situation in yellow scarf collars and marginal villages is even more exaggerated.
The productivity of the Yellow Turban collars has almost reached the early stage of the second industrial revolution, while the productivity of the marginal villages is still at the level of the Han Dynasty. The gap between the periods cannot be justified.
When all the young people from the villages on the edge of the Yellow Turban collar are attracted, these villages will naturally be included in the management of the Yellow Turban collar. This is also an irreversible trend. No matter how stubborn the clan leaders and elders are, it will be useless.
Some of the Qingzhuang people have rebelled, and it is a question of how much voice and power they have left.
Of course, Lei Hu didn't mind showing his goodwill before that and sent out elite patrols to maintain security in the fringe areas of the Yellow Turban Territory, that is, in the outlying villages, so that they could have a peaceful living environment.
Obviously, the Yellow Turban leaders' such responsible behavior made the nearly 100,000 surrounding villages inexplicably grateful. They were all fed up with the dangers brought by the war and their displaced lives.
No, when Taishi Ci led hundreds of fine cavalry on patrol, he met people from outlying villages from time to time. They all took the initiative to say hello warmly, without showing any signs of grudges.
"General, these people are really enthusiastic!"
When passing by a village, the group was almost pulled away by the enthusiastic villagers. It was not until Tai Shici and his group agreed to come to the village as guests when they were free that they let go. When they left, everyone had some specialties from the village in their horse bags.
The passion for eating is beyond description.
"Haha, it seems that a girl from the village has taken a fancy to us, right?"
"I'm just interested in the general, but you kid is nothing. I heard that the clan leader in that village is from a wealthy family. No matter how miserable he is, he won't fancy you kid!"
"Hey, what are you talking about? That village is also evil. I heard that 80% of the children born in the past two years are girls. Suddenly the male-to-female ratio in the village is completely out of balance. It seems that there is no problem now, but wait until fifteen
In the next few years, when these babies grow up, this village will become a country of girls!"
"The daughter country is great. It just so happens that all of them will marry into our Yellow Turban Army. This village will be directly under the control of our Yellow Turban Army. This will prevent the imbalance between men and women here and end up being bullied by others!"
"Speaking of which, this village established three years ago is also weird. Not to mention that most of the babies born recently are girls, but the male-to-female ratio in their village itself is also very problematic. I just took a casual look in the village and drank,
Most of them are women!”
"Tsk, if you don't remind me, I haven't reacted yet. The smell in my nose was a little different when I entered the village just now. No wonder those old guys are so enthusiastic. I'm afraid they have some ideas!"
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Taishi Ci smiled and listened to the chatter and slaps of his soldiers, and completed today's patrol mission by the way. Patrolling thousands of miles in a day was not boring, but when passing by these villages on the edge of the territory, the enthusiasm of the villagers was a bit too much.
Of course, as his soldiers said in their casual chat, these villagers did not have any bad intentions, they just wanted to show goodwill through this behavior for various reasons.
As a high-ranking member of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Territory, Taishi Ci knew a lot of secret information. Most of the nearly 100,000 uncontrolled villages on the edge of the territory were not having an easy time.
Especially in these villages, because a village is a clan, there are often some strange situations that make people feel quite weird.
Just like the village we passed just now, the ratio of men to women in the village is seriously imbalanced. The entire village or the entire clan does not know what is wrong. The ratio of male to female clan members has reached an astonishing three to seven, which simply makes the elders in the village despair.
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At a time when productivity is low and a large number of mature people are needed to make a living and protect their homes, having too many female tribesmen in the village is not only not a good thing, but also a source of trouble.
This is not a time of peace, but what if the patriarch comes from a branch of a large clan?
It is unrealistic to expect the female members of your clan to marry into a well-matched family. Even though the surrounding villages are all from poor clans at the very least, everyone’s background is far from the common people, and their current situation is even more similar. The eldest brother does not need to laugh at the fact that the second brother is also a mess.
It's going to be a complete mess.
But it is natural for people to go to high places and water to flow to low places. There are so many young people in the Qingzhou Yellow Turban collar who are living a good life. If you don't choose, you have to choose the same people who are struggling to eat in the soil. Only if you have a bad brain, you will do this.
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In the Yellow Turban Territory, the status of lieutenants in the army is not low. Not only can they learn literature and martial arts in the military camp, but they also have rich family resources, making them ideal marriage partners. It is no wonder that the elite cavalry who were patrolling just now can't stand the villagers.
Enthusiastic.
The only people who have the qualifications, arrogance and unwillingness to bow to the Yellow Turban leaders are the village’s senior leaders, clan leaders and clan elders. The ordinary tribesmen below are not so arrogant. They are living a tight life. How can they have the confidence to look down on the Yellow Turbans?