The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 150 Gou Chun’s mission
Chen Yuanda is diligently memorizing the provisions and past cases so that he can smoothly integrate into Liu Tai's circle.

After all, only by successfully integrating into Liu Tai's circle can he be nailed here as a nail.

Gou Chun, who did not know that his position as a legal officer had been taken away, went to Xuzhou as an envoy on behalf of Liu Tai.

Gou Chun couldn't help but look back. At this moment, he was still a little unbelievable.

Liu Tai, not only the Duke of Donglai County, actually sent himself as an envoy to appease Gou Xi and exchange business with Gou Xi.

From Gou Chun's point of view, isn't Liu Tai afraid that he will never come back?

You have to know that you are staying with Liu Tai as a proton. Proton, doesn't Liu Tai know the meaning of proton?

Of course, Gou Chun also understood that although he was a proton, Liu Tai actually valued him very much.

Leave the two matters of Qianda tax and slave tax to yourself, and there will be almost no restrictions on what methods you can use to deal with families that violate these two taxes.

Gou Chun had never expected this kind of tax that was almost entirely targeted at aristocratic families, and he was even more excited to do it.

When Liu Tai proposed this kind of tax, it even triggered a rebellion of aristocratic families that spread throughout Qingzhou.

But Liu Tai simply used the army to massacre or drive away these tax-resistant families, and enforced this system.

Even Liu Tai was very aware of the illegal character of these aristocratic families, so he made himself responsible for the subsequent recovery and investigation work.

Gou Chun couldn't help but take a deep breath. He had to say that he was still very excited when he saw those wealthy families who looked down on him at the beginning, turning into puddles of flesh in his hands.

Liu Taigen would organize the soldiers who had received the awarded land to come and thank him, saying that it was his efforts that allowed the soldiers to have mature land.

Looking at the soldiers who were awarded honors, he said: "Thank you, comrades, thank you comrades."

Amidst the thanks one after another, this sense of accomplishment made Gou Chun even more excited.

Because he was personally responsible for executing this matter, Gou Chun vaguely understood Liu Tai's purpose, which was to obtain a large number of mature acres and a large number of mature people from the wealthy families.

And for any princes competing for the world, these are the things that can be transformed into war potential as quickly as possible.

Last year, winter wheat was harvested smoothly from the sowing of winter wheat.

Gou Chun understood that these fields and people were constantly being released, and with the harvest of winter wheat, Liu Tai completed the digestion silently.

How many people does Liu Tai have now, 100 million, 200 million, or even more... Gou Chun doesn't know.

The only thing Gou Chun knew was that the population he had obtained from the aristocratic family had exceeded 30.

But Liu Tai never disliked the large population, and even asked Zhang Song to purchase the population, especially those women who could not survive in troubled times, and use them to change the social problem of too many male bachelors in Qingzhou.

Gou Chun knew what his abilities were. He led his troops and was beaten by Liu Tai, Gou Xi, Ge Xin, and...

Therefore, Gou Chun originally thought that he and Gou Xi were from the same family, and Gou Xi could become a general, so there was no problem in being a forward himself.

But the cruel reality taught Gou Chun that Gou Xi was invincible in his own eyes only because he had not met Liu Tai.

As for himself, he can only serve as a forward under Gou Xi.

Gou Chun originally thought that he would be used as a hostage and then die of depression, but he did not expect that Liu Tai would let him specifically capture wealthy families.

To be honest, Gou Chun, who was originally a cruel official, did his job very well in this position. The only thing Gou Chun felt when the wealthy family cursed him was that his kind was useful again. Gou Chun felt that he was alive again.

However, Gou Chun did not expect that despite his good work, a wealthy family would sue Chu Hui, the traitor.

Relying on the fact that he and Liu Tai had been getting along for a long time, he actually suggested that he should be sent as an envoy to Gou Xi to seek mutual trade.

Gou Chun knew very well that Chu Hui, the treacherous minister, was determined that Gou Xi would never let him come back after he went on a mission.

But Gou Chun didn't expect that Liu Tai actually agreed to this. At that moment, Gou Chun really wanted to shake Liu Tai. "My lord, you have to wake up. I am a proton. Do you know what proton means? You don't want to." I was deceived by this treacherous minister Chu Hui!
Liu Tai patted Gou Chun on the shoulder with a smile on his face and said, "Go back quickly, I believe you can complete the mission smoothly!"

Gou Chun was moved by this and felt that he would come back no matter what.

Such a broad-minded person is the lord worth pursuing.

In this chaotic world, isn't it possible that such a virtuous but law-abiding person is the enlightened master that good officials like me are pursuing?

But Liu Tai's real thought was that if Gou Xi really wanted to fight him, Gou Chun would definitely be detained by Gou Xi.

There is no other reason, because Gou Xi cannot have children.

When Gou Xi was captured by him, he asked Meng Dong, Wang Rujing and others to check Gou Xi's body. Their judgment was that Gou Xi was infertile. This was one of the reasons why Liu Tai generously released Gou Xi.

Therefore, Liu Tai was sure that if Gou Xi really wanted to dominate the world, Gou Chun would definitely be detained by Gou Xi.

Otherwise, even if Gou Xi really finds a chance to defeat himself, if he has no future, who is Gou Xi working so hard to make a wedding dress for? After all, this is ancient times and not modern times. For people of this era, inheritance is Represents survival.

In ancient feudal society, no matter who they were fighting against, they had a specific target, but now due to the ruthless exploitation of capital, the rebels can't even find a target to resist, so they can only choose to fight alone, physically unable to find a target. Exploiters.

Therefore, for modern people, the prevalence of non-marriage is to fight against the invisible exploitation of capital.

Unless anyone is born at the top of the pyramid, he or she is destined to be exploited and will resist this world.

But in the feudal era, everything was tangible. Even if you were exploited, you could be specific about which landlord exploited you.

As the saying goes, every wrong has its owner, and every debt has its owner. As long as there are descendants, it is not too late to take revenge in 20 years.

Under such circumstances, if Gou Xi wanted to take revenge on herself, Liu Tai would still believe it.

But returning Gou Chun to him, and then raising troops to retaliate against him, Liu Tai really didn't believe that Gou Xi could do this.

If Gou Xi can do this, Liu Tai believes that Gou Xi will never be unknown in history.

After all, if this kind of person does not achieve the goal of unifying Hebei, it would be a disgrace to Gou Xi's own military standards.

No matter what Gou Chun's thoughts were, he finally came to Xuzhou and met Gou Xi.

Gou Xi was extremely happy to see Gou Chun and came over to hug her brother.Originally Gou Xi thought she would never see Gou Chun again in this life, but she didn't expect that Gou Chun would come back just like that.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back!" Gou Xi held Gou Chun's shoulders and sighed to Gou Chun,

"I didn't expect that this guy Liu Tai actually released you. From now on, you will follow your brother and settle down in Qingzhou City!"

"Brother, this time I am here as the envoy of Donglai County. When the mission is over, I will return to Qingzhou!"

Gou Chun looked at Gou Xi's serious expression and said, Gou Chun showed his position from the beginning.

"You...are you like this in Qingzhou?!" Gou Xi said with a bit of gravity after hearing Gou Chun's words.

"Brother, you yourself have worked in Qingzhou!" Gou Chun looked at Gou Xi and said,
"Those jobs may not be considered preferential treatment for us, but if they were replaced by civilians, those prisoners quickly adapted to life in Qingzhou and became Qingzhou people.

For them, the current Qingzhou is simply the life they have never imagined, a peaceful world without war.

As the Duke of Donglai County in power, he works harder to let the people enjoy the benefits brought by the land and realize land for the tiller.

That is really a very dynamic force, and I am even more proud of myself for being able to contribute to such a force! "

Gou Xi couldn't help but fell silent after hearing Gou Chun's words. He could feel Gou Chun's current state. It was as if he thought that when he met Sima Yue, the master of his life, at that time he was completely a confidant. state of death.

No words of persuasion or rational things could enter his mind. Some of them just wanted to burn out Sima Yue's victory in the Eight Kings Rebellion. But the cruel reality was that when the spoils were divided in the end, Sima Yue Abandoned myself.

If he becomes the governor of Yanzhou, if he goes to attack Liu Yuan, he will never let Liu Tai grow up to what he is now, and the Huns and Han will never have a time when horses drink Luo water.

"I understand. Anyway, our brothers haven't seen each other for a long time. You should stay here and have a good rest!"

Gou Xi looked at Gou Chun and said, "As for business matters, it won't be too late to chat again after you have rested!"

"Chun understands!" When Gou Chun heard Gou Xi's words, he saluted Gou Xi to express that he understood.

Gou Xi couldn't help but sigh. To be honest, Gou Xi had a headache now because she didn't know how to deal with Liu Tai.

After all, Gou Xi naturally knows what the composition of his army is.

After the experience of brushing Xu Kong and brushing again, the quality of the army has more or less returned to the level it used to deal with Liu Tai.

After all, Liu Tai returned a bunch of soldiers and prisoners to himself. With these veterans as his backing, he recovered very quickly.

But what bothered Gou Xi was that he was really unsure about using this group of veterans to deal with Liu Tai.

After all, this group of people were more or less favored by Liu Tai, and they knew more clearly about Liu Tai's surrender policy.

Therefore, if they fight against other people, these soldiers will definitely be able to maintain sufficient fighting spirit. However, if they fight against Liu Tai's army, especially when Liu Tai personally leads the team, Gou Xi is really not sure whether they will switch sides or not. There will be no fighting spirit.

But it's not okay if I don't promote them. I can't just not promote them just because they were captured by Liu Tai.

You must know that even though you were captured by Liu Tai, it was not Liu Tai who released you and returned these prisoners who originally belonged to his army to you.

If I was afraid of my subordinates because of this now, I'm afraid they would have alienated themselves long ago.

And for some reason, Xu Gong caught the eye of Sima Rui again. Under the instructions of Sima Rui and Director Wang, the local families in Xuzhou kept giving Xu Gong people or supplies.

He defeated Xu Gong again and again, but Xu Gong was always a good skater, and he always quickly regrouped his troops and came to fight with him again.

Gou Xi also understood to some extent that Sima Rui was the heir to Sima Yue's legacy, and before Gou Xi was defeated by Liu Tai, he directly opposed Sima Yue. The two sides were more or less natural enemies.

At the same time, Director Wang had not completely settled Jiangnan at this time and could not make any move to deal with Gou Xi.

Therefore, he asked Xu Gong to contain Gou Xi through support. As long as Xu Gong could continue to consume Gou Xi, it would be enough. He would then deal with Gou Xi when he was free.

At this time, Sima Rui did have a lot of chores on his hands, mainly focusing on the balance of power and various rebellions in Jiangdong.

For example, his boss, Bo Xiongyuan, established an orderly system for Sima Rui to avoid the situation where various government offices competed to make their own decisions and changed their orders day and night, causing those in charge to dare not take responsibility.

However, Sima Rui thought twice and felt that at this time, it was most important to win the recognition of the local aristocratic families, balance the interests of the aristocratic families under his command, and especially respect Director Wang's decision.

Therefore, Sima Rui did not agree with Xiong Yuan's suggestion.

Of course, we can't say that Sima Rui did something wrong, because Sima Rui was introduced by Director Wang.

He has an identity, Director Wang has the ability, and the cooperation between the two parties has resulted in the stability of Jiangdong Sima Rui's regime. Sima Rui naturally has to be careful about anything that may touch Director Wang's interests.

In addition to Xiong Xing's suggestion to amend the system, Zu Ti followed him after crossing the river. After receiving the military counselor's offer of wine for him to be appointed or dismissed by Sima Rui, Zu Ti began to gather brave and strong men to advise Sima Rui. :

“The troubles in the Jin Dynasty were not caused by resentment and rebellion among the ministers due to the ruler’s immorality, but because the royal family members fought for power and killed each other, allowing the people of Rong and Di to take advantage of the loopholes and causing harm to the entire Central Plains.

Now that the survivors of the Jin Dynasty have been destroyed and harmed, everyone is thinking about self-improvement.

Your Majesty, you send generals and troops out, and people like me lead the army to regain the Central Plains. Heroes from all over the country will definitely respond to the news! "

At least in Zu Ti's view, no matter what, Sima Rui, as the flag bearer of the Sima royal family, had to show his will to the Northern Expedition to some extent.

After all, only this kind of will can gather people's hearts and restore China.

Just like Zhuge Liang's slogan is to conquer the Central Plains in the north and restore the Han Dynasty to stabilize the Shu Han Dynasty. Without this common belief, how to govern the country is purely based on interests. Just look at the fate of Cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty.

Sima Rui had some thoughts of the Northern Expedition. No matter how bad Sima Rui was, he was still much more reliable than a certain Laojiu named Zhao in later generations.

So he appointed Zu Ti as the governor of Yuzhou, General Fenwei, and gave him [-] rations and [-] pieces of cloth, but unfortunately he had no weapons.

Then he said to Zu Ti, you are already a mature officer and you must learn to recruit soldiers for the Northern Expedition by yourself.

No one knows whether Zu Ti wanted to curse people or not, but he decided to cross the Yangtze River with his personal servant, struck his sword as he passed, and swore:
"The ancestors who can't clear the Central Plains and recover are like a great river!"

Zu Ti then stationed in Huaiyin to smelt troops and recruited more than [-] people to prepare for the stage of this troubled world.

　No more waiting today

　　
　
(End of this chapter)