Mi Han

Chapter 378
As a time traveler, what Mi Yang has done in the past few years has changed the general trend of the world, and at the same time, it has also profoundly affected the trajectory of those who have left a lot of fame in history.

As for the good and bad times of those influences, I will not list them for the time being.

Anyway, in the world at present, there are many talented people who want to use Mi Yang as a touchstone, and Jiang Wei is not far behind.

What deserves Mi Yang's attention is where Liangzhou should continue to go next.

More than half a month has passed since Mi Yang sent an army to clean up the local tyrants in Liangzhou that day.

In the past half a month or so, due to Mi Yang's unexpected tactics and Liang Jun's powerful combat power, the local wealthy families in Liangzhou who were capable of fighting against Mi Yang have basically been wiped out.

But this can be achieved, apart from Mi Yang's proper arrangement, it is also because Liangzhou actually only governs two counties today.

The place in Hanxing County is powerful, and it was almost cleaned up by Mi Yang when the Shen brothers made a rebellion.

So what Mi Yang is facing now is mostly the local tyrants in Hanzhong County.

While Mi Yang led the army to clean up the moths in the territory, he also left some troops to defend two important positions in Hanzhong.

After all, the guard general of Cao Wei in Guanzhong is not Xia Houmao, but the famous general Cao Zhen in history.

One location is of course Yangping Pass, considered the throat of Hanzhong.

Regarding the defense arrangement of Yangping Pass, Mi Yang asked Wu Yi to lead the army to garrison beyond everyone's expectations.

It's just that although this point is somewhat incomprehensible to others, after all, Mi Yang has just lifted Wu Yi's military power.

But from Mi Yang's point of view, he has multiple considerations in doing so.

Ever since Liu Bei captured Hanzhong, Wu Yi had been guarding Yangping Pass. Wu Yi probably knew more about the terrain of Yangping Pass than Wei Yan did.

Moreover, Wu Yi himself is also a general with general talent, so asking Wu Yi to guard Yangping Pass is enough to ensure the safety of Yangping Pass.

Secondly, Mi Yang lifted Wu Yi's military power in the first place for the purpose of better centralization, not to exclude dissidents.

Besides, on the high platform that day, Wu Yi had already publicly stood in line, so he had no real need to abandon Wu Yi.

As for whether Mi Yang would be worried that Wu Yi would take advantage of the opportunity to seize the military power again and threaten him with restraint, Mi Yang was not worried at all.

Because although most of Liang Jun's low-level soldiers are still tens of thousands of those at the beginning, only the middle-level generals have become his direct descendants.

Under such circumstances, Wu Yi had no way to use his large army to harm Mi Yang.

After arranging Wu Yi to lead the army to guard Yangping Pass, Mi Yang asked Wei Yan to lead his troops to station at the Ziwu Valley Pass to prevent Wei Junbing from making strange moves and sneaking into Ziwu Valley.

Meridian Valley Strange Story is very famous in later generations, and it has also caused great controversy.

Later, many history buffs went to Ziwu Valley for on-the-spot investigations, and thus came up with the answer that Wei Yan's Ziwu Valley conspiracy would not work because of the rugged roads in Ziwu Valley.

It is a fact that the Ziwu Valley road is rugged and steep, but Zhuge Liang's refutation of Wei Yan's Ziwu Valley conspiracy in history is not entirely because of this.

Rugged and steep roads in the Han Dynasty did not mean that they were completely impassable to large armies.

It is said that during the Hanzhong War, Liu Bei moved to Qianli Mountain Road at Fazheng's suggestion and attacked Dingjun Mountain by surprise.

To be honest, the environment faced by Liu Bei's tens of thousands of troops at that time was not much better than Ziwu Valley.

Also in history, when Cao Zhenli led the southern expedition, the main force of the Wei army also took the Meridian Road, and this was decided by the courtiers of Cao Wei.

It can be seen from these two cases that if there is a well-known general commanding properly, the steep terrain can also pass through the army, which of course includes the Meridian Road.

After all, Liu Bei, Fazheng, Cao Zhen, Cao Wei and other famous officials are not fools.

It's just that if you want to drive a large army in the steep terrain, it is very important to have a strong national power to support it.

Building stacks on every mountain, and building bridges when encountering water, what these short words represent is the inexhaustible consumption of money and food.

The Battle of Hanzhong lasted for more than a year, and what really exhausted Yizhou's national power was actually Liu Bei's surprise attack on Dingjun Mountain.

This is why the saying "Men fight, women win" comes from this.

And Cao Zhen has the courage to dare to march from Ziwu Valley in history, it is entirely because he has the entire national power of Cao Wei behind him.

Therefore, the key to Zhuge Liang's veto of Ziwu Valley's conspiracy is not to mention whether Wei Yan can walk out of Ziwu Valley smoothly, but to say that it is useless to attack Chang'an with a small number of soldiers and siege equipment.

But if there were too many people, Ji Han's national power at that time would not allow it.

At that time, if Ji Han really wanted to have that national power, Zhuge Liang would have directly pacified A, so what kind of conspiracy did he do?

Marching in Ziwu Valley is a feasible method for Cao Wei, but for Ji Han, it is completely a castle in the air.

Knowing this, Mi Yang specially arranged defenses in Ziwu Valley.

Marching in Ziwu Valley is not exclusive to Ji Han's attack. If Cao Zhen attacks Hanzhong, it is entirely possible for him to attack from Ziwu Valley.

The main reason why Cao Zhen failed in history was that he happened to meet the continuous rainy season, which caused the already difficult Ziwu Valley road to completely collapse.

It's just that Mi Yang, who is the shepherd of Liangzhou, can't pin the safety of Hanzhong on the illusory blessings of the weather.

After arranging these two points to ensure that Hanzhong's external environment is worry-free, Mi Yang began to speed up and discuss with his ministers the specific implementation steps of the land equalization system.

Although the main crop of the Chinese nation at that time was corn, and the crop of corn was a great addition to the military in troubled times.

However, Liangzhou's geographical conditions are not suitable for the widespread cultivation of corn.

Because Liangzhou is close to Guanzhong, coupled with its own geographical factors, the main crop in Liangzhou is winter wheat.

Winter wheat, as the name suggests, is a type of wheat sown in autumn and winter.

Now that the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, it will soon be the planting date of winter wheat.

Before that, Mi Yang must first implement the corresponding land improvement system.

No breaking, no building, Mi Yang has been doing the breaking thing for half a month, now it's time for him to do the building thing.

In Mi Yang's State Shepherd's Mansion, there are hundreds of small officials running in and out with documents in their hands.

From the anxious expressions on their faces, it can be seen that the documents in their hands are all crucial.

Such a busy scene has been staged every day in the past half a month.

With the destruction of many local wealthy families, the Three Chiefs System has begun to thrive in Liangzhou.

Under the careful investigation and sorting out of the three chiefs who were completely loyal to Mi Yang, a large number of sheltered population and embezzled fertile land began to be sent to Mi Yang's state court quickly in a series of documents.

Even due to the large number of people being sheltered, the number reported daily in a county is always updated in real time.

Even Lu Yi, who is proficient in government affairs, could not help sighing subconsciously after seeing those shocking concealed data:

"In the old days, there were no three elders. Each family deceived its superiors and its inferiors, and many people concealed their falsehoods. It turns out that ten or twenty families are one household."

What Lu Yi meant was that if Mianyang County had a reported population of only 20 in the past, its actual population was between [-] and [-].

Of course, this is just taking Mianyang County as an example. It does not mean that Mianyang County alone has a population of 10.

In the past, Lu Yi thought that the local wealthy families would shelter many people, but he never thought that they would be so courageous, and the number of people they sheltered would reach such a frenzied level.

People in later generations may not understand this point very much, and think it is very exaggerated, but this is a true portrayal of local politics in the Han Dynasty.

Just like the specific household registration statistics of the Three Kingdoms that were widely circulated in history, it has aroused open doubts by many scholars in later generations.

Because from various arguments, the three household registration statistics are all big sponges full of water.

The biggest reason for this phenomenon is that in the Han Dynasty, the local tyrants almost had no scruples in sheltering the population, making the government's census inaccurate at all.

Due to the fast data update speed and the large population sheltered by wealthy families in Liangzhou in the past, Mi Yang and his subordinates have been busy during this period of time.

Mi Yang has suffered from severe lack of sleep in the past two weeks.

Because they were worried about Mi Yang's physical safety, Fa Miao and others also suggested that Mi Yang could take a good rest.

After all, Mi Yang, the shepherd of Liangzhou, as long as he has a good grasp of the general direction, the specific government affairs can be handled by trusted ministers.

It's not that Mi Yang doesn't know this, and Mi Yang also knows that he doesn't have the extraordinary ability to handle specific government affairs.

It's just that time doesn't wait. Now that he has taken this step, at least at the beginning, there is no reason to leave the busy officials to rest alone.

Mi Yang, with dark circles in his eyes, looked at the confidants who had just gained some space, and he first looked at Fa Miao and asked: "How is the drafting of the detailed rules of the land equalization system?"

The land equalization system that Mi Yang wanted to implement in Liangzhou was a land system in the Sui and Tang dynasties in history.

The reason why Mi Yang would like to implement the land equalization system in the present age is because any system must conform to the political background and productivity of the present age.

Just like Mi Yang would not set up a military academy in Liangzhou, and even set up platoon leaders and squad leaders. The separation of military and government is a reform that is completely incomprehensible in today's world.

One step forward is called reform, and ten steps forward is called rebirth. The stakes are completely different.

The land system of land equalization has not only proved his success in history, but also the political background of his implementation is very similar to that of the current world.

There are two key points in the background of the implementation of the land equalization system. One is that people are displaced, and the other is that a large number of fields are barren.

And these two points are the biggest social problems that objectively exist in Liangzhou, and even in the world.

Just like Cao Wei's farming system, it was also based on this social background that Cao Cao promoted it to the entire north.

The equal-field system recognizes that all land is state-owned.

On this basis, the government will start arranging fields for the people.

Of course, to achieve this, the government must clearly grasp the population and the number of acres of land in various places.

That's why Mi Yang planned to implement the land equalization system in Liangzhou after implementing the three-head system.

Reforms come step by step.

The specific content of the land equalization system is not short, but the most important points are two points:

The first point is:

For men over the age of 16 in Liangzhou, the state court will grant them 40 mu of open fields for planting grains, and 20 mu for women.

Each man is granted another 20 mu of mulberry fields, which are used to grow mulberry, jujube, elm and other agricultural and sideline products.

As long as the corresponding amount of taxes is paid within three years, the mulberry field can be used as a world estate, which will not be returned for life and passed on from generation to generation, but trading is strictly prohibited.

Of course, because there is a huge gap between the rich and the poor in today's world, and everyone's specific situation is also different, so any system must know how to adapt to stimulate productivity.

Therefore, in the land equalization system, it is also stipulated that those who own servants and cattle can obtain additional land accordingly, but correspondingly, the taxes paid by these people will also be higher.

Mi Yang's move is aimed at those surviving local tyrants.

Although under Mi Yang's three-head system, the local tyrants could not continue to shelter the population and embezzle fertile land.

But lean camels are bigger than horses, and their economic strength must be better than ordinary civilians.

That being the case, of course, their subjective initiative must be fully stimulated, which is also beneficial to the overall income of the country.

Besides, this is also a way for Mi Yang to appease them.

Blind pressure will only be counterproductive in the end. A big stick and a sweet date are the best means to subdue the local wealthy.

Originally, this point did not exist in the content of the land equalization system in history. This point was specially added by Mi Yang, who was a time traveler.

He acknowledged the current gap between rich and poor, and then used flexible reforms to prevent this gap from turning into social conflicts. This is a dynamic reform mechanism.

As for the second key point in the equal-field system:

All the land granted by the government is distributed according to the actual population, and slaves and maidservants are not within the scope of land grants.

This can prevent local tyrants from receiving more fertile land indirectly by raising slaves and maidservants.

And if you want to receive more fertile land, that's not impossible.

As long as you can make great contributions to the country and obtain the corresponding title, then you can increase the corresponding number of fields received.

This is because the basic land system in the Han Dynasty was originally the famous land system.

Corresponding titles and corresponding land acres are not only the foundation of the establishment of the Han Dynasty, but also a necessary guarantee for a dynasty to maintain prosperity.

If it is really egalitarianism, then the future development of Liangzhou will definitely become a stagnant water, which Mi Yang does not want to see.

Of course, the content of the land equalization system is more than that. As a systematic land system, its content is very complicated.

However, these two points are Mi Yang's own improved content, so Mi Yang pays special attention to whether these two points can be truly implemented.

Faced with Mi Yang's inquiry, Fa Miao knew what Mi Yang was really asking about the land equalization system, so he told Mi Yang:

"All the contents have been discussed with the ministers, and a detailed rule has been drawn up, which Uncle Mu can read at any time."

Seeing what Fa Miao said, Mi Yang showed a satisfied smile on his face.

This is the benefit of having a confidant, even if he didn't ask clearly, but Fa Miao was able to grasp the key point of his inquiry.

All the content has been discussed, and the two points that Mi Yang improved are naturally included.

Now that Fa Miao, Lu Yi and other politicians believe that these two points can be implemented, the last trace of worry in Mi Yang's heart has disappeared.

　Influenza, what a pain.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)