Xuande

Chapter 799 The sky cleared, the rain stopped, and he did it again
Needless to say, the chief officials in these areas in southern Jizhou actually wanted to have a good talk with the local powerful families about this matter and strive for a peaceful solution.

Although many of the current officials in the Third Reich were trained by Liu Bei himself, after all, the time is relatively short. Despite a series of political purges and "cronyism", almost half of the officials in the ruling group of the entire Third Reich are still the first. The old officials of the Second Empire.

These people can belong to the old official faction in a broad sense, and there is a big difference in thinking mode from the new official faction cultivated by Liu Bei himself.

The people brought out by Liu Bei are naturally branded with Liu Bei's brand that cannot be erased, that is, no one is afraid of fighting against the sky, and the king of heaven and I can spit at him when he comes.

But for old-school officials, they are more used to negotiating than fighting.

Talk, you can talk about anything, what issues can't be talked about?
Just talking can solve the problem.

Don't fight, kill, kill, kill and tear your face all at once, who is good for everyone?
Don't engage in zero-sum games, let's talk about win-win cooperation.

For example, Cai Yong, who served as the governor of Bohai County, and Fu Qian, who served as Zhao Guoxiang, were both veteran Confucians. Liu Hong took up the local official position not long after his death, and it has been five years since his death, and the relationship with the local government is also good.

Liu Bei felt that what they were doing was okay, so he didn't touch them for the time being. This time, he wanted to test these old scholars to see if they had the ability to do things and whether they could adapt to the struggle situation of the Third Reich.

They learned the news of Du Tian Ling earlier. During the government affairs meeting, Liu Bei had a thorough discussion with them, so that they could be prepared. Moreover, because of the special status of these counties in the south of Jizhou, Liu Bei also gave them the order earlier. They deployed a full force of county soldiers.

Even the captain of the county soldiers who arranged to go there is a relatively experienced veteran officer in the army, the kind who can definitely lead thousands of people to fight.

It belongs to the kind that says that the emperor will support you as a backer and fill up the rows.

Cai Yong and Fuqian probably felt that they had a full lineup and had confidence, so they felt that they should be able to talk to the local forces about a peaceful solution to the problem.

If you pay taxes, you pay taxes. It’s nothing more than an extra sum of money. After that, hello, me, hello everyone, how to live or how to live, it’s better than fighting and killing. Look at the slavery limit back then, and everyone who resisted died. and the obedient ones survived.

Anyway, under the management of the two of them, the Cai family and the Fu family have decided to obey the Dutian Order. Anyway, their family property is not large, and they are not considered first-tier players in the official team. There are still some to do.

But local forces in Jizhou don't see things that way.

They feel that they have given Liu Bei a lot of face in the previous incidents, and have given Liu Bei enough benefits, and they have lost a lot of benefits themselves.

For example, during the period of the slave restriction order, in order to meet Liu Bei's needs, they united and handed over a large number of slaves to the court for business affairs. That was a real loss of a large amount of benefits. Isn't this benefit nothing?
As a result, Liu Bei now wants them to cut their flesh, and actually asks them to pay taxes?

I have to pay taxes before I get rich, and I have to pay more taxes after I get rich, so am I not getting rich for nothing?
When Cai Yong went to negotiate, the negotiating partner settled a deal with Cai Yong.

Based on his family's total land quota of more than [-] mu, as well as the current average harvest, plus the current expenditures for various agricultural production, storage costs, transportation costs, etc., if the tax rate stipulated by Liu Bei is followed, his family can't farm. Earn money.

I have to lose money!
Farming has to lose money!

I put so much effort into farming, but in order to grow food, I ended up losing money!
Is there such a reason in the world?

Cai Yong shook his head again and again, urging them to do a careful calculation.

Don't think about keeping so much land, why do you need so much land?Sell ​​part of the land to the government at the market price, so that you can earn money from the sale of the land, and the remaining land can still be profitable. Isn't that good?
If the land scale is smaller, the income obtained will be higher than before, and the tax to be paid will be less than before!
Although you earn less than before, you are already rich, so what else is there to worry about?
So the other party's negotiator asked Cai Yong to leave with a dark face.

I have never paid taxes before, so who pays taxes these days?Do you still have the face to say that I paid less than before?
The negotiation was deadlocked, Cai Yong and Fuqian used their old faces of great Confucians and famous scholars in the country to negotiate, and the response they got was-the emperor has reformed, and Confucianism can no longer be the only one, so your old faces are worthless!
Who can bear this?
Cai Yong has a good temper, but he just walked away and reported the matter to the court, asking the court to understand what happened here and see what to do next.

Fu Qian broke up with a "ten-year old friend" on the spot and broke up.

Even so, Cai Yong and Fuqian still didn't want to take the lead. Although various sources showed that many families in their jurisdiction had already begun to make moves, they still didn't think that these wealthy families really dared to fight against Liu Bei's invincible army.

So they didn't start early.

When the powerful clans mobilized their manpower and material resources to formally raise the anti-flag, formed a coalition army to attack the city and conquer the territory, and strongly resisted the order of the system, Cai Yong and Fuqian were shocked to realize that there are still people in the world who are not afraid of Liu Bei.

But it was too late, they could only take the county soldiers to defend the city to keep their respective county offices from being lost, and then immediately asked Xu Huang, the head of the Central Plains Military Region, for help.

Xu Huang's side is actually not very rich, because during this period of time there were rebels everywhere, Qingzhou and Xuzhou also had a lot of trouble, and the number of county soldiers in these two prefectures was small, and it was even more difficult to solve the rebels by themselves, so we just Can make Xu Huang send troops.

Xu Huang then arranged for Cao Ren to lead the Yingyang Army and the No.20 Second Army of the Recruit Army to Qingzhou and Xuzhou to start the counter-insurgency war.

Fortunately, the elite Huben Army of Xu Huang's headquarters has not been mobilized. This is the reserve force of the Central Plains Military Region. Xu Huang believes that it is enough to hand over the general rebellion to three recruits.

Unless there are some particularly powerful "big thieves" who can threaten the stability of the place, Xu Huang will dispatch the elite Tiger Army.

Xu Huang has always believed that although the Huben Army is no longer the only synonym for elites in history, as a symbol of glory, the Huben Army must have a little bit of its own face.

Ordinary thieves don't take action, even if it is a mob, it will take a large-scale rebel army of more than 3 people, which is worthy of an elite attack like the Huben Army.

Then he realized that it was time for the Huben Army to dispatch.

In Jizhou Ganling State, Zhao State, Anping State, Wei County and other areas, tens of thousands of rebels rebelled. The scale of the rebellion was very large.

Xu Huang was furious. The loss of the county seat not only meant that the local officials failed to defend the soil, but also had certain joint and several responsibilities for him, the head of the Central Plains Military Region.

How can he tolerate this?
So Xu Huang left the lieutenant general to take his place in the base camp, and personally raised [-] troops to go north to Jizhou, preparing to let these rebels feel the power of the Han army's thousands of soldiers.

According to the wartime rules, when the war started, Xu Huang automatically obtained the power to command all the military armed forces in the Central Plains Theater, and all official armed forces including the county soldiers must accept Xu Huang's command. His power during this period very large.

It is precisely because of this that his responsibility is also very heavy. If he is a little careless, he will lose everything.

While leading the troops to the north, Xu Huang learned that the scale of the Jizhou rebellion was indeed very large, and it could even be regarded as a serious, large-scale and organized rebellion in a certain sense.

In Ganling Kingdom, the largest rebellion, the number of rebels has surpassed [-]. Even in the smallest Anping Kingdom, the number of rebel soldiers has exceeded [-], and the number of participants is still increasing. , more and more people want to join.

Although at this time the land-duty order is only aimed at officials, but the landlords and tyrants are encouraged by the officials who are unwilling to accept the reality, thinking that their future will be worse than these officials, then there is nothing to say .

If you don't participate in the struggle now, do you have to wait for the emperor's butcher's knife to hit your head before preparing to fight?

The experience of the slave restriction order tells everyone that the emperor's greed has no limits, and blindly giving in will only make the emperor gain an inch.

So fight!

We must take advantage of the time when some officials can't stand it and want to fight hard, and gather everyone's strength to force the emperor to compromise.

The matter of saving fields in this dynasty is also passed on by word of mouth. When it comes to the event that Emperor Guangwu launched Dutian and everyone resisted together, everyone remembers how thrilling it was.

When Liu Xiu wanted to go to the fields, how many people rebelled, how many people launched a strong resistance, and how many people died because of it. In the end, the court was forced to compromise with everyone to a certain extent, in exchange for a happy life for more than a hundred years .

But now, the emperor's old man started again, and he was going to save the fields again.

The sky cleared, the rain stopped, and he was doing it again!

Not only the tyrannical people mainly spend the land, but even the officials of his mother have to spend the land. What kind of government and people pay taxes together? Isn't this kind of thing going to cause anger and resentment?

Although there seems to be no movement in the imperial court, and the high-ranking officials and dignitaries are rushing to send taxes to the imperial court one by one, local officials like them don't have such "proud and ambitious".

What is ours is ours, there is no such thing as taxation!
With such a firm will, the local officials first set off a wave of boycotts. The person who participated in the highest status in this boycott was Jizhou Governor Qiao Mao's Biejia, and Jizhou native Tian Yong was the distant wife of Tian Feng, a famous adviser to Yuan Shao. relative.

Because he has always had a high reputation, he was asked by Qiao Mao not to drive Jizhou. He has been very conscientious all these years, but this time the imperial court's Dutian order obviously touched his bottom line, so that Qiao Mao thought If you want to persuade him, you are fooled by him.

That is, when the rebellion was launched, the captain of the state soldiers of Wei County was notified in advance, so he hurriedly mobilized the state soldiers of Wei County to surround Yecheng, successfully curbed the rebels' surprise attack on Yecheng, and saved Yecheng. Bo's impact on Jizhou is really not small.

Having said that, the city of Ye was saved, and the governing places of the counties and states were also saved under the fighting of the soldiers of the counties and states, but many counties were lost.

Under the command of some officials, such as Tian Yong's request, the rebels maintained the bottom line, such as killing tax collectors and not local officials who were unwilling to cooperate with them, so as to demonstrate to the court. By the way, they also thought about The possibility of final negotiation is reserved.

However, the troops they controlled were definitely better than nothing in terms of military discipline, so the places they captured were basically ruined by disasters.

When Xu Huang arrived at the bank of the Yellow River, five or six counties in the southern counties of Jizhou had already been breached, and some agricultural villages in the surrounding area were almost destroyed, but the performance of the collective farms set up in various places was relatively bright. Eye.

The collective farms in the interior are different from the collective farms that Liu Bei set up in remote states and counties. The collective farms that Liu Bei first set up in Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou were military threats, so military instructors were arranged to compare the strength of the young men in the farms. Strict military training.

During the slack period, strong men and even strong women have to take time to come to participate in military training, practice the use of weapons and the arrangement of the army formation.

However, in the inland states and counties, because of the relative peace and heavier agricultural production tasks, the training time and training content are relatively less, and young and strong women do not participate in military training, so the martial arts of inland residents is obviously not as good as that in remote states and counties The martial virtues of the residents.

But despite this, due to organizational reasons, when the rebels attacked everywhere and the number of officers and soldiers in the county was insufficient to contain them, the collective farms were urgently organized and launched self-defense operations.

The main force of the rebel army must be to besiege the county government, county towns and other places, and only a few scattered teams led by marginal figures have the leisure to attack the places where the poor in their eyes live.

After all, the richest people must live in the city. If you want money, it is definitely the most cost-effective to attack the city, but the poor have nothing to do with it. Sure.

To rob a city is definitely not enough to rob a powerful person, so you can only find another way to harm the poor, and you can make some money, no matter how small a mosquito's legs are, it's still meat, isn't it?

Therefore, the self-cultivating peasant villages in the various counties suffered disasters, lacking defensive and organizational strength. When hordes of rebels arrived, few of them could successfully defend and suffered heavy losses.

But collective farms are different. When they hear the news of the turmoil, the strong men of the farms quickly organize. A farm can often organize two to three hundred strong men who have received certain military training, and some large farms can even organize five to six hundred people. The team goes on the defensive.

Collective farms generally have small arsenals managed by representatives of the imperial court, which contain some weapons and equipment that have been eliminated by the army, such as the first and second generation weapons and equipment of the Han army.

Although the number is not large, and it is not as sophisticated as the main equipment and weapons currently used by the Han army, it is enough to fight the rebels.

Some ring swords, some spears, some crossbows, shields, and a few light armors.

The number of rebels scattered to cause harm to the people is not large, and because of the widespread discrimination against the old peasants by force, generally speaking, the number of people who act together is not large. Three to fifty people is considered a relatively large group, and more It is a small group of 50 to 30 people or even a dozen people. With a few steel knives, they feel invincible and can run rampant in the countryside.

Facts have proved that there is really nothing to do with them in ordinary rural areas, but collective farms are different.

With a little rectification, the collective farm can pull out a combat team, fighting hand to hand, defending, and using bows and crossbows, occupying the traffic arteries around the farm and setting up defenses, let alone these invading enemies. Ferocious blow.

These scattered teams often think they can get some good things.

Because they also heard that the collective farms are generally richer and have a lot of food reserves, and the people in them are richer and their lives are better than they used to be.

So after meeting some poor ghosts who were poorer than them, I was very eager to get enough money and food from the collective farm to go back to subsidize the family.

After all, the way the lords in the family encouraged them to rebel was to give them money and food, and what they robbed belonged to them. How much they could rob was their ability, and the more they robbed, the more they earned.

(End of this chapter)