Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 194 Cai Zhen's Tragedy

The so-called centralization of power in ancient China is essentially just empty talk on paper.In fact, it is a "share" contract system. The emperor is only the chairman of the company, and the minister Xungui is a small shareholder and executive.In essence, the so-called "feudal rule" in ancient China was the joint rule of imperial power and bureaucracy. Confucian children entered the court as officials and returned home as gentry.If the imperial power conflicts with the interests of the bureaucratic group, the bureaucratic group will fight back and change the chairman.

After Gao Jingzong figured this out, he suddenly found that he could not get the support of the gentry class anyway.Because what he is doing is precisely digging the root of the bureaucracy, acting as the gravedigger of the elite of the gentry.The emperors who wanted to make these epoch-making changes in history were all nailed to the pillar of shame in history by the bureaucratic group with the pen of the historian.

Emperor Xin (Shang Zhou) of the Shang Dynasty wanted to consolidate the royal power and take back the theocratic power that was above the royal power from the hands of the Unitarian religion, so the stubborn nobles represented by the Unitarian religion launched a group rebellion and united with Xiqi to overthrow the Shang Dynasty.When Qin Shihuang arrived, Qin Shihuang wanted to strengthen the centralization of power and take back the power of rule from the princes, lords, uncles, sons, and male feudal states. As a result, these powerful bureaucratic groups adopted the same method and overthrew the Qin Dynasty.Of course, there is also an ideal emperor Wang Mang. This "tyrant" wants to establish a socialist democratic country in the feudal era. Crude means nailed Wang Mang to the pillar of shame in history.

Of course, the more tragic ones are Yang Guang, Chongzhen and so on.

What makes it easier for Gao Jingzong now is that because of the indiscriminate massacre of Han people by the Xianbei people in Yan State, the gentry and bureaucratic class in the Xiongdo area were either killed or fled with their families, leaving almost a blank space.

Cui Zhi thought about it for a long time, and then raised an objection: "Captain, Yan's army can be as short as ten days, as long as half a month, and it will definitely attack in a big way. If you grant military merits at this time, will it be possible to implement the law of reform... ...too inappropriate?"

Gao Jingzong shook his head and said: "Cui Canjun, the governor said, you write it!"

Cui Cheng hurriedly prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

"The First Beifu Army Gao Jingzong made an appointment with all the people, but all the people who recognize their own Gao Jingzong's rule must obey Gao Jingzong's rule."

"Second, Gao Jingzong protects the lives and property of the people under his rule."

"Third, Gao Jingzong has the right to collect reasonable taxes from the people under his rule. The land tax shall not exceed one bucket per mu, and the commercial tax shall not exceed [-]%."

"Fourth, the Beifu Army is an army that protects the people under Gao Jingzong's rule, but the army's duties are limited to resisting foreign aggression and maintaining law and order. It is not allowed to seize residents' property or restrict residents' freedom by force."

"Fifth, the contract is established, the stone is carved as evidence, and the world shares lessons."

Cui Yi quickly recorded the words dictated by Gao Jingzong, and then stamped the seal of Gao Jingzong's governor, and distributed them all over the place for people to sign.Of course, the common people in this era are almost illiterate, and adopt a compromise style of fingerprinting.Gao Jingzong stipulated that as long as the fingerprint is pressed, each citizen will be issued a wasteland reclamation permit assigned by the government at all levels. With the wasteland reclamation permit, he can go to the designated area to open up wasteland and buy land, and enjoy tax exemption for three years, tax for five and a half years, and full tax for ten years. policy treatment.

People in this era are naive and ignorant. They don't know what Gao Jingzong wants to do, but they are used to the changes in the regime of this era. Sima is in charge today, Liu becomes Liu tomorrow, and Shi, or Murong the day after tomorrow .The people are very happy and very excited.

They pressed their handprints one after another, and then excitedly took the distributed "land reclamation permit" to start land reclamation.However, the people are not stupid, and then they discovered the problem.In addition to the land specified in the "reclamation license", the families of the soldiers of the Beifu Army also have more permanent tax-free land than ordinary people, such as "Military Merit Field" and "Military Pension Field", and there is also a "Military Dependent Field" with a fixed term field.

"Military Dependent Land" is available to all members of the Beifu Army, only [-] mu per person. This land will be taken back by the government. Once the soldiers of the Beifu Army retire, flee, surrender, etc., the military Dependent Land will be taken back.If a soldier is killed in battle, the property belonging to the disabled army will also be taken back, and the field of compensation for the army will be permanently owned by the military property, and it will be permanently tax-free.

"Military pension land" is a statute, [-] acres of disabled soldiers, permanent tax-free land.The fallen soldiers are [-] acres of tax-free land.

At the same time, under the rule of Gao Jingzong, there was a new wave of joining the army.Of course, Gao Jingzong did not refuse the common people to join the army. All the new commoners who joined the army were assigned to Feng Lei for basic military training, and let them serve as a supplementary source of troops.

A village in the West Yellow Ruins of Ningling, this village should not be small from the outside, covering an area of ​​five or six hundred acres.However, after entering this village, I discovered that Ruoda Village actually has only 24 or five families with more than a hundred people, and all of them are too poor to live happily.

Zhang Tu saw these families from a distance, and they looked at Zhang Tu's team numbly.Until Zhang Tu walked in front of them, a skinny villager said weakly: "Master Jun, don't waste your energy, the village has nothing left, no money, no food, no women."

Another old man with vicissitudes on his face suddenly threw a clod the size of an egg at the helmet of a Beifu soldier like a demon.He muttered in his mouth: "God damn Hu Gou, come and chop off the little old man's head, I've had enough, come and kill me!"

The soldiers of the Beifu army were furious, and were about to draw their swords to face each other, but Zhang Tu stopped him with a sharp look.

……

Zhang Tu asked the soldiers to distribute the fried noodles they carried with them to the crowd.After eating fried noodles from the soldiers of the Beifu Army, these common people dare not be hostile to the soldiers of the Beifu Army.Zhang Tuzheng asked the old man softly, "Old man, how many days have you not seen Xianbei Bailu?"

The old man drank the fried batter and muttered: "It's been a while? It's almost half a month old!"

Zhang Tu said again: "Do you know why the Xianbei people don't come?"

The old man asked, "You know?"

"Of course I know that Dudu Gao killed more than 1 Xianbei people in Feng County, and more than [-] Xianbei people in Sui County. How many Xianbei people in the whole of Henan? They were almost killed by Dudu Gao."

"really?"

"really!"

All the people suddenly cried.

Ghosts, exiled outside the Immortal Valley.[-] to [-] beggars joined forces for tens of miles.Hundreds of beggars gathered together, and someone said, "Do you know where the commander-in-chief is taking us?"

Everyone shook their heads.

"Marshal, take us to a treasure land where the harvest can be guaranteed in drought and flood, where there can be a bumper harvest in any year!"

"Is there such a place?"

"Of course! The commander-in-chief will take us there!"

"Follow Dudu Gao, Dudu Gao distributes fields to his soldiers, and I'm afraid all the good land will be divided up later."

"Go together, go together..."

Cai Zhen wanted to cry without tears. Over 8000 of his [-]-odd songs went to more than [-] audiences overnight, and the rest were all relatives of the Cai family. Otherwise, Cai Zhen would be a lonely family.

(End of this chapter)