Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2391 Disobedience!Do not follow?
In February of the sixth year of Taixing.

General Hussars Feiqian arrived at Yangcheng, Yuzhou.

Accompanying them were not only a large number of Western Qiang prisoners of war, captured Qiang flags and weapons, but also some exotic artifacts brought from the Western Regions, as well as cloth, paper, green grass, etc. that Fei Qian presented to Emperor Liu Xie... …

The Shangshu ordered Xun Yu to send people to Yangcheng to receive him, while he himself entered the Chongde Hall and met with the emperor Liu Xie.

"Your Majesty's lesson..." Xun Yu's face was stern and his voice was steady, "The spring plowing is busy now, and officials of all counties and counties, big and small, are promoting farming and mulberry crops, so don't relax... Therefore, General Hussar's so-called offering of captives from the Western Qiang should be taken seriously. It can be extended...」

Is this reason valid?
For good reason.

Is there anything wrong with this reason?

No problem either.

In the spring season, these months must be the heaviest time for farming. For the Han Dynasty, which focuses on farming, and areas such as Yuzhou and Jizhou with more flat land and denser population, can they do a good job in the present? Farming matters almost determine the income of the next year, and will also affect the next strategic deployment and many other complicated matters.

But the question is, does the celebration require all the farmers in Yuzhou to put down their hoes?

Obviously not needed.

At most, it was just the farmers from around Xu County who came to watch the fun, and maybe because of the heavy farm work at home, these farmers would not come to join in the fun at all, and most of the people watching the ceremony were the children of the noble family.

So do the sons of the gentry need to farm?
Maybe there are some who do the farming themselves, but there must also be those who don't touch the spring water with their fingers.

"Postponed? ’Liu Xie didn’t directly reprimand or express any opinion, but asked rhetorically, ‘It took more than [-] years and cost [-] million yuan to recover from the time of the first emperor... Now Huqi has pacified the Western Qiang, and it took quite a short time... Xun Aiqing, I don't know what's going on... Is there something strange? 』

Xun Yu raised his head and glanced at Liu Xie quickly.

When the emperor grows up, he will ask questions to dig a hole.

Xun Yu is obviously not stupid, "Your Majesty... I have not personally come to the Xiqiang battle, so I don't know the truth. If your majesty has doubts, you can order the hussars to report the passing..."

"Hehe..." Liu Xie smiled slightly, "The victory of the Western Qiang and the reunification of the Western Regions, these are the immortal achievements of the great Han, and a grand ceremony should be held to celebrate them... Regardless of other things, it is only the land of the Western Qiang who died in battle." Soldiers... should also be comforted... Xun Aiqing, could it be that the court has no money to spend? 』

This is obviously another pit.

Xun Yu lowered his head and said, "Nowadays the world is not in peace, disasters occur frequently in various places, and local counties and states do not pay taxes... The imperial court's wealth is really tight... What's more, the chaos in the east of the Yangtze River will encroach on Xuzhou. We should also prepare for it. The speed is a bit stretched...』

Liu Xie didn't pay attention to the topic of specific prefectures not paying taxes, but brought back to the celebration, "Now that the victory of the Western Qiang is great, it is a good way to promote the power of the great man!"If the thieves in the frontier know that the west is flat, how dare they compete with the big men?If there is no celebration, firstly, the court will think it is not true, and secondly, the thieves will become more rampant, which will definitely consume more money and food, and it will take a long time to suppress the rebellion... Xun Aiqing, the importance of this, love Qing Minhui, you should know it. 』

Xun Yu's eyes moved slightly.

This question is very interesting...

"If you take this opportunity to announce to the world that the great man is already in power, the four directions will be settled, and the thieves will surely feel palpitations, and the court will be able to breathe. There is no need to conquest from all directions, and the common people will be able to give birth..." Liu Xie said slowly, "There is a big The general sits in Qingxu, and the Jiangdong thieves dare not act rashly... The celebration of the sacrifice of the captives of the Western Qiang should be done!Not only to do, but also grand!Only in this way can we show the majesty of the Han Dynasty and deter rebellion!If this celebration can shake his mind, even if he is still stubborn, he can win it by fighting, which can be said to be half the effort and twice the result! 』

Xun Yu lowered his head and sighed slightly, "Your Majesty...the imperial court's financial resources are in dire straits, and it is already unable to organize such celebrations..."

"Um?The Great Han Dynasty Hall...is it really so poor? A gleam of anger flashed across Liu Xie's face, "Although I live in the palace, I also know that the city's [-] jars of drunk wine are in short supply!"Now Ai Qing said, no money to hold a celebration? ! 』

How dare you use the lack of money as an excuse!

This made it difficult for Liu Xie to control the anger in his heart, and it rose a little bit.

A few times before, Liu Xie also wanted to do something, and then persuaded a large group of ministers, saying that the country's affairs were difficult, the society was in turmoil, the people were in dire straits, and the common people had no food. Why do you have the nerve to spend money? This money, you have to spend that money, you are the son of a big man, how can you ignore the life and death of the people and so on.

At the beginning, Liu Xie thought it was indeed such an embarrassment.

After all, Liu Xie also had a hard time before, knowing that the hard life is not easy to endure, and also understands what it is like when the embarrassment reaches the extreme, so every time the minister said this, Liu Xie felt that he was going too far up?Too much to ask?How about saving a little more?
But after several times in a row, Liu Xie naturally felt that something was wrong.

During the New Year, didn't Liu Xie send Xiao Huangmen out of the palace to buy some supplies, and rewarded them to people big and small in the palace?So Liu Xie naturally took this opportunity to learn about the current situation in Xu County.

Damn, I really dare to say it!
Liu Xie's hair exploded, and old and new hatred surged up in his heart.

"..." Xun Yu bowed his head slightly, "Your Majesty...may have misunderstood... this year, there are many shortcomings..."

""Lack"?What does this mean? Liu Xie's cheeks were flushed, and he asked loudly, "There were many disasters in the last year, and the autumn harvest last year, didn't you get a lot of harvest?"Where is the lack of words? 』

Although Liu Xie did not manage matters related to planning, at the end of the year, Jiuqing, Taichang, and the memorials of Dasinong all mentioned some related matters more or less, although they did not There is no specific value involved, and there will be no specific value, but at least they all mentioned the same thing, that is, last year's harvest was generally good, and it should be regarded as a bumper year.

Since the weather can be regarded as good weather everywhere, how can there be a "lack" in wealth and harvest?

In this year of disasters, there was a lack of wealth in terms of wealth, but now that the harvest is bumper, it is also "deficit". This kind of thing really shouldn't be thought about too much, and it will inevitably make people feel a little shuddering.

Xun Yu bowed his head and said, "Since Your Majesty moved eastward, the government has been peaceful and peaceful, the county has been peaceful, the generals have conquered the east and the west, and fought south and north, and they have to expand the territory, control the seven states, and the wealth of each place is also year by year Slight increase, frequent good news, the prosperity of the Han Dynasty in the past...』

Liu Xie reached out and patted the table, interrupting Xun Yu's words, "I ask Ai Qing, what is the "deficiency"?" ! 』

"Your Majesty..." Xun Yu still lowered his head, "In a bad year... Gu Shao, but this is a good year, Gu is cheap..."

"Gu...gu cheap? ” Liu Xie tilted his head, full of disbelief, “This... the low grain price, isn’t it a good thing? 』

Liu Xie stared at Xun Yu in disbelief, "Xun Aiqing, back then Dong Thief burned Luoyang, and there was no one living in it for a hundred miles. I and a hundred officials huddled under the ruined walls, looking for food in the wilderness and forest. A bucket of grain and millet was worth a thousand dollars. Then there is no price!As a last resort, the three lords and the nine ministers all collected firewood in the wild, and in the stone cauldron of tiles and stones, they used the roots of wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger! 』

"Since we moved to Xu County, I have ordered several times to reduce or exempt the land tax, relieve the victims of disasters, open canals for reclamation, encourage farming and mulberry, and help the plows...and a general set up a garrison station to recruit refugees to cultivate...and so on. , in order not to repeat the same old mistakes, and to save Jiuqing from suffering!It will also avoid the humiliation of my... my... ox bones..." Liu Xie gritted his teeth and said, "Now... now it is a bumper harvest, but what is "lack"?What is missing?And how is it lacking?Xun Aiqing, why not talk about it in detail! 』

Since Xun Yu mentioned the reason of "lack", of course he thought about how to answer, and immediately said calmly: "Your Majesty doesn't know... the price of grain is too cheap, and it hurts farmers... 』

Xun Yu sighed slightly, "I originally entered the palace to ask to see His Majesty, and it was for this reason..."

In Liu Xie's point of view, no matter what the Han Lingdi told him before, or what these ministers talked about every day, they all said that the foundation of the country's founding and power is farming!
Farming is everything!
Farming above all else!
If the farmers are seriously injured, the day of national chaos is not far away.

Therefore, when he heard that the low grain price had seriously hurt the farmers, Liu Xie's expression immediately became extremely solemn.

Xun Yu raised his head slightly, looked at Liu Xie, then lowered his head again, and explained softly. "Once upon a time, Mr. Chao said, "A farmer's family of five has at least two servants, and the man who can till it is no more than a hundred mu, and the harvest of a hundred mu is no more than a hundred stones..." Nowadays, the method of water conservancy to irrigate the fields has been obtained by canals. , then the brine is wetted, filled with silt and fertilized, so you can get five times the high field and ten times the lower field...』

In the perception of most people in the Han Dynasty, generally speaking, the harvest of one mu of land was about two to three stones.The average number of people in a household is about five. If one hundred mu of land is cultivated, and other additional income is not included, the annual grain harvest is about two to three hundred shi.

With the new composting and irrigation methods, the production can be increased, especially the fields that originally suffered from food failure due to lack of water can achieve high yields, from two to three stones to nine to ten stones, which is what Xun Yu said later. Takata five times, Shimoda ten times."Of course, Xun Yu's Gaotian here is calculated according to two stones, and Xiatian is calculated according to one stone.

Among these harvests, due to the lack of fat in the food system of the Han Dynasty, carbohydrates became the most important consumables, resulting in a large amount of food for everyone, especially generals...

Therefore, for farmers, they not only have to provide food for their own families, but also use these crops to pay land rent and calculate taxes, and they have to hire people to serve on behalf of them.There are more or less types of labor in various counties and counties. Some farmers are short of manpower. In order not to miss the cultivation, they have to hire someone to do it for a certain amount of money per person.

As a result, there is little or no surplus left for the farmer's annual harvest.

Then, the more critical point comes. Except for the Zhuanghe in the cultivated field, all other commodities, including but not limited to seeds, livestock, agricultural tools, clothes, salt and iron, etc., are owned by the manor owner, or It is the children of other noble families, controlled by local tyrants, and these items, sometimes even farmers and women can't save them.

In addition, Cao Cao has been fighting for the past few years...

Materials such as cattle, horses, ironware, cloth, and salt are in short supply, so they are naturally very expensive.And this kind of expensive, often sees the wind as the rain, sees the rain as the knife!With a little bit of wind and rain, these things will turn into knives and stab the peasant women!This is what the children of the gentry, the local tyrants have been clamoring for, don't want the imperial court to guide the economy, but need the market to be fully opened!
For an ordinary farmer and peasant woman, they only have some surplus grain in exchange for other materials when Zhuanghe harvests, and the extremely unreasonable price between Zhuanghe and other materials often makes Farmers had to sell grain at low prices and buy seeds, farm implements, and other necessities at high prices, and lost a lot of money back and forth.

When Xun Yu spoke here, he stopped.

"Therefore, if the grain is cheap at the moment, it will hurt the peasants..." Xun Yu said slowly, "I know that your Majesty is sympathetic to the people and worried about the people, so I ordered Changping, Liangping, and Changding Sancang to pay slightly higher than the market price. , buy food and grass in the hands of the common people, and protect their income...Therefore, there is really not much money in the public treasury...』

"This..." Liu Xie was taken aback for a moment, then swallowed a mouthful of saliva, not knowing what to say.

In the process of Xun Yu's explanation, it seems that such a truth is indeed true, and there seems to be nothing wrong with Xun Yu's actions.

But in Liu Xie's heart, there was always something wrong...

But what is it that is wrong?

Naturally, Xun Yu hid it and didn't tell those things.It's not that Xun Yu doesn't know about these hidden things, but that he can't talk about them.

During the disaster year, the relief materials are all in the hands of the gentry and the tyrants, and the tax reduction and exemption will not go to the farmers. Although the price of grain is high, there is not much grain harvest in the field. The scissors are poor, and they will harvest a lot of farmers' flesh and blood...

Farmers' income comes from the grain and millet obtained from cultivating the land. If the price of grain and millet is low, their income will be low, and they will be very poor.Although he would not starve to death, he was very poor, unable to make ends meet, and could not withstand any blows.But how can people not get sick if they eat whole grains?When people live in this world, whether they are born or die, or come and go, they all need money.

What's even more frightening is that the gentry tyrants still advocate "filial piety" every day!

Not ordinary filial piety, but "filial piety" carried out to the extreme!
After the death of the parents, one must never abandon them and observe filial piety by the side of the grave for three years!And there is a grand burial, if you don't invite people from all over the world to have a meal, and if you don't sing a five-day and ten-day drama, it is unfilial!

If you don't do one thing, you are not filial, and you will be directed by these guys standing on the high ground, and a large group of idlers with malicious intentions and idlers with no malicious intentions will be attracted to enjoy the cheap and free "moral feast" together!
As long as you insult these "unfilial" people, those who can't give their parents a generous burial, and those who can't keep their filial piety and don't work for three years, you can get spiritual nobility and physical pleasure!
What should I do if I have no money?
The grinning squire stepped forward, patted his thick breasts, and said, "Young son!You are right!To be buried!How can you be worthy of your ancestors without a generous burial!How can you be worthy of your ancestors!It doesn't matter if you don't have money!I will lend you money!See if you want to mortgage your land to me, or mortgage your wife and daughter to me, it doesn't matter!You decide!I don't dislike it! 』

A group of onlookers didn't think it was a big deal, and shouted loudly, "filial son!Big filial son!Bet!Bet on it all! 』

It's like seeing poor people selling girls in Lao She's teahouse, and other tea drinkers have smiles on their faces.After all, it is other people's wives and children who are on the ground, and I can still live well. Not only do I not have to mortgage my wife, but I can also eat meat for a meal, beautiful!

The government is anxious and tyrannical, and even some officials know the law and break the law, corrupt the law, extort money, and ask the farmers to be conscientious and respect filial piety, so the farmers have no way to survive. Some people have to borrow at high interest rates, and have to sell their children and daughters , had to sell the land and houses at a low price to fulfill the "conscience" and "filial piety" of these high-ranking gentlemen!
Jiaohua County!
Xiaoti County!
People's education, Damei county government, outstanding achievements!

These are only on the surface, but the deep-seated land annexation and embezzlement of the population are the usual methods of the local gentry tyrants, and it is even more taboo. They cannot be talked about or touched.

Farmers want to survive, eat, and support their parents, wives, and children. When the land is sold, there is only one way to do it, and that is to attach themselves to the buyers of the land, that is, the rich and powerful from all over the world.

The Han Dynasty once stated that it was prohibited to buy and sell land, but in fact, the rich and powerful of the aristocratic families were rich and powerful, and they were inextricably linked with local officials. Farmers did not understand the law, and officials did not report.

Even if it is found, the farmer dare not admit it in order to survive, so what can the investigator do?
In the past, because Boss Cao needed the Yuzhou gentry to provide a lot of material and financial resources and manpower to conquer the world, he gave a lot of good policy preferential treatment, such as lower taxes, more business incentives, and the full liberalization of salt and iron operations, etc., After experiencing the initial difficulties, the big gentry families in Yuzhou became rich quickly...

This is of course the reason why the [-] yuan jar of Zuixian wine is still sold out.

Of course, Xun Yu couldn't say anything about this matter. After all, everyone knew who the largest spice importing firm in Yuzhou and Jizhou belonged to.

Cao Cao's battles in the four directions also brought the population and wealth of the four directions, which gathered in the land of Yuzhou, forming an unprecedented prosperity. These people who became rich during the war included princes and nobles, powerful families, and bureaucrats. , In addition to merchants and rich men, there are also military class.

But there are no farmers and women who were originally in Yuzhou.

Today, under the rule of Cao Cao, officials, scholars, merchants, "Trinity" can be found everywhere, and some of them have far exceeded the imagination of the imperial court.

The richer these people are, the less money the central court will naturally have.So what Xun Yu said about the lack of taxes and the lack of money in the public treasury was not a lie, it was true that there was no money.

"Xun Aiqing..." Liu Xie frowned and pondered for a long time before asking, "Since this is the case, how about using the method of hussars to solve the current situation?" 』

Xun Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said in a deep voice: "This is the reason why I came to see Your Majesty... The general is now in Qingxu, and the rebellion is over, and it will be settled soon... Your Majesty can wait a little bit, There will be good news...we will hold a celebration at that time, especially not too late...』

Liu Xie stared at Xun Yu, pondered for a while, and finally nodded slowly, "I will rely on Aiqing..."

Do not follow?

What if I don't follow?

No money, no one, no power, what can you do?
(End of this chapter)