The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 17 The wealth hidden in Yecheng
When Tian Zhen came out of the county government office, the beggar army boy at the door immediately came up to him and said to Tian Zhen:
"Boss, you've come out. We saw that all the clans and families have come out, but you haven't come out yet and you're worried to death!"

"Nothing!" Tian Zhen shook his head and looked back at the county office behind him, "Let's go back and talk!"

To be honest, Tian Tian has experienced too many things today, and there are too many things to digest.

Especially Liu Tai's performance, although it was a little rough in handling, he cut through the mess quickly and achieved his goal in the end.

No matter what, by walking around in the county government affairs, I could count on settling in Yecheng with the help of Liu Tai's majesty and the rules he established as a victor.

Even if he kills someone by himself, the local aristocratic family will probably not care about it and will slowly accept him.

But the grudge between them will take time to smooth over, and there is really nothing anyone can do about it.

However, Tian Tian did not expect that Liu Tai's method of driving these aristocratic families would take away the land of the aristocratic families who did not come to the aristocratic clans and bought them in one sentence.

Tian Tian understood that those clans and families who did not come would be full of regrets for not coming today.

After all, a foreign Liu Tai is not scary, but it is scary that a Liu Tai like a dragon crossing the river can actually drive the local clans and families to serve. The power of rules brought by the integration of upper and lower is almost impossible for the local clans to resist. .

Because as long as the local clan wants to survive, it must rely on the existing rule system.

If they are not accepted by the existing system, they will inevitably be annihilated by the existing system. However, if they enter the existing system, they will naturally be inferior to Liu Tai.

And if the people below join forces to evade Liu Tai, then there is nothing Liu Tai can do about it, even if he has super powers.

But now Liu Tai used the topic to directly throw out the big killer weapon of land. There were at least forty clans and aristocratic families present, and he was afraid that most of them would be tempted.

And as long as they are moved, this policy will inevitably be implemented.

Yes, even the beggars like myself were driven by Liu Tai just for the sake of land, so why would the local aristocratic families resist?

Tian Tian couldn't help but shake his head and stop thinking about this. At least before he led the begging army to settle in Yecheng, he was afraid that he would have to obey Liu Tai's orders, because he could rely on Liu Tai to settle in Yecheng. Brought new rules.

No matter how you put it, after coming here all the way from Bingzhou, I don’t know how many brothers have died. Now that I can settle down in Yecheng, what is there for me to be dissatisfied with? It’s just that Tian Tian saw that Liu Tai was a little envious of the clan’s policies. .

Yes, Tian Tian was more or less envious of his clan's policies.

This is not just land. In Tian Tian's view, at least in Liu Tai's heart, these Yecheng clans deserve more attention than his begging army, so Liu Tai proposed to exchange the fields for the men of the aristocratic clans.

Of course, Tian Tian, ​​who is a son of a noble family, understands this truth.

I understand, but when I realize this, I still feel a little bit envious. After all, people always crave for more.

Although Tian Zhen was quite resistant to Liu Tai at the beginning, when he found out that Liu Tai was so open in his work, Tian Zhen felt that it was not so difficult to accept working for Liu Tai. After all, Liu Tai was not the queen of King Jing!
Tian Tian has already taken the initiative to find reasons to convince himself.

Naturally, there could be no confidentiality measures in a meeting held by so many people. Almost that night, the faces of the clan elders and elders who did not come had extremely painful expressions on their faces.

This is land, this is land!
Because in the Han Dynasty, land was not cultivated to the extent that one could support a family on just a dozen acres of land.Nowadays, it is very good to be able to support a family with almost one hundred acres of farmland. Even the agricultural book "Essentials for Elevating the People" has not yet been published!

Therefore, for local clans, especially aristocratic families, one family can still afford two to three hundred acres of land.

At least after the Song family and several other particularly wealthy villages have made a stand with their lives, these surviving villages will have to actively consider either handing over their land, choosing to admit defeat and lie dormant, or directly raise the flag of rebellion and confront Liu Tai head-on.

As for being within the system, it is unrealistic to confront Liu Tai, at least in a short period of time.

Because Liu Tai knew that if Wang Mi arrived, then Wang Mi would be the top of the system.

Their relationship with Wang Mila may be able to solve Liu Tai, but the problem is that now they have the soldiers and the power. They only need the troops to defeat Lin Li. If you cooperate obediently, then this matter will end here, but if If you don't cooperate, the military strategist is unreasonable.

Therefore, a large part of these people stayed up all night, and the next day with dark circles under their eyes, they grabbed the deeds of their fields and ran to the Yecheng County Government.

Isn't it just two or three hundred acres of fields? I closed my eyes and endured it, just as if I had been bitten by a dog.

The person who received them was naturally Chu Hui. After all, Chu Hui came from a family that was hereditary as the Marquis of Guannei. He was naturally much better at dealing with people than Liu Tai.

He gave good advice to every clan leader who came to visit him, analyzing the pros and cons. On the surface, he would try his best to get discounts, but he had to take over the land first before he could fight for it!
Chu Hui understands much better than Liu Tai, and is much more mature in dealing with people. Compared with Liu Tai's straightforward giving, it is better to accept their land deeds first, let them go back and worry for a few days, and then Tell them that they can exchange people for part of their fields.

To be honest, if Liu Tai hadn't been in such a hurry, he would have gathered the people on the fourth day at the latest. In fact, taking it slowly would have improved the memory of this group of local aristocratic families.

As for now, everything is for Liu Tai to recruit and buy horses, and then prepare to deal with the city of Lin Lu.

Compared with Tian Tian, ​​because Chu Hui knew Liu Tai's purpose, he understood better why Liu Tai wanted to handle the relationship between the aristocratic families here.

At that time, the relevant people will be able to persuade Linli's generals. After all, in a few days, the people in Linli City should also understand the changes in Yecheng.

By then, he would have to face Wang Mishile's army in front, and his retreat, Yecheng, had already been captured.

In the final analysis, Linli is just a gateway city. If it is attacked from both sides, it is a place of death.

When the time comes, it will depend on whether Lin Li's generals are prepared to choose a good place to roost, or whether they choose to die heroically.

Of course, if you are unlucky and the leading general happens to be the same family whose entire village was slaughtered by Liu Tai, then you have no choice but to attack by force, and this will require a stable Yecheng.

After Liu Tai took control of Yecheng, he basically handed over all internal affairs to Gong Shi Yu and Chu Hui.

He returned to his own job, continued to train his soldiers, and strengthened his army building.

Liu Tai approached Meng Dong and asked, "Is there any famous doctor in Yecheng?" There was no way. As his army expanded, the logistics personnel would naturally also need to expand. The first thing to expand was the medical personnel.

Meng Dong really didn't object to the expansion of manpower, because even though the doctors and craftsmen in the military camp usually had nothing to do, after the war, Meng Dong wished that one person could be used as ten people. In the past few days, it can be said that He is the busiest.

"Some, some..." Meng Dong nodded repeatedly,

"There is a famous doctor named Wang Rujing, who is a famous local doctor. His ancestor has a doctor named Wang Shuhe who served as the imperial physician of Cao Wei.

However, because the Jin Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang, the main lineage moved to Luoyang. His lineage stayed and passed down the medical skills in Yecheng.

Does the captain want to recruit him? "

"Oh?" Liu Tai couldn't help but narrowed his eyes when he heard this and said, "Is it difficult to recruit someone from such a background?"

"Doctors are not considered to be of the highest quality, and they are just a side branch." Meng Dong shook his head and said.

"Go and invite him over!" Liu Tai came back to his senses and said to Meng Dong.

Meng Dong saluted Liu Tai and left first. To be honest, he was quite interested in recruiting this man Meng Dong.

"Yecheng is Cao Wei's Yecheng!" Liu Tai suddenly realized!
Although Yecheng at this time was much weaker than that of Cao Wei, it was still Yecheng where Cao Cao built the Tongque Tower. It was almost one of the largest cities in the north, at least larger than the current Youzhou.

The Sima family made Luoyang their capital, and they must have moved the essence of Cao Wei from Yecheng to Luoyang, but Yecheng itself will definitely leave a lot of treasures. After all, it has not been more than 50 years since Cao Wei was destroyed.

Like the Wang family in Yecheng mentioned by Meng Dong now, the main line is definitely not him, because the main line must have followed him to Luoyang.

But as a branch, he has the capital to establish himself in Yecheng, so he must have inherited part of his family knowledge.

For aristocratic families, there may be some differences in resource allocation and training methods between legitimate sons and concubines, but in terms of knowledge itself, legitimate sons and concubines are similar.

Even the remaining lineage must have mastered a part of the inheritance that can establish itself before it can become a branch lineage. Otherwise, if the branch lineage cannot even survive, then it is still a shitty branch lineage.

"So, this is why I always feel that there are so many clans and aristocratic families in Yecheng that it's a bit weird..."

Because the clans and aristocratic families here in Yecheng are the original aristocratic families in Yecheng, rather they are branches left over from the original Cao Wei aristocratic family. Maybe they are still a lineage that is friendly to Cao Wei and resists the Sima family.

Liu Tai scratched his head, "In other words, I really can't use some special family members as cannon fodder!"

Liu Tai understood that in this era, Chen Qun proposed the "Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System", which allowed Cao Wei and even the Sima family to gain strong support from the aristocratic families, as if the "Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System" existed for the Lalong family.

But in fact, the "Nine Ranks Zhongzheng System", a system that can last for two to three hundred years, and was still greatly affected even in the Tang Dynasty, is really not just for the purpose of attracting aristocratic families.

At least within a certain period of time, it reduces the cost of selection to a certain extent and further optimizes the social division of labor.

Especially for some families who specialize in technical research, the existence of the "Nine-grade Zhongzheng System" allows their families to practice the skills passed down by their ancestors without any distractions, and pass them on forever, and this position will be reserved for you. .

Therefore, despite the chaos of the Three Kingdoms, Two Jins and Southern Periods, various productivity technologies are still developing.

Because professional people do professional things under the "Nine-grade Zhongzheng System", it is even more obvious that the whole family takes the initiative to promote it.

But it happened that the Wu Huan Dynasty occurred in this era, which made all the aristocratic families focusing on their respective fields suddenly find that their own aristocratic families were so fragile without the protection of the country, and the family knowledge they inherited could not protect them at all.

Therefore, from the beginning of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, intellectuals who concentrated on scientific inventions were not as important as fighting for power and profit.

After all, only if you can survive can you be qualified to develop hobbies. In other words, fighting for power and profit will be your hobby from now on.

Because only if you master the rights of the country can you protect your family!
Then, apart from martial arts and various classics, basically no aristocratic family pursues other medical skills or craftsmanship.

Of course, we can't blame the aristocratic families of this era. At least before the Yi Guan crossing to the south actually happened, they didn't take the foreigners seriously. At least for the top leaders of the country, they really didn't take the foreigners seriously.

After all, during the Three Kingdoms period, all the princes along the way would attack the foreign tribes. Who knew that the foreign tribes would suddenly become so powerful.

And now Liu Tai's time is almost the time when Jin Tingyang's soup has stopped boiling.

But for these aristocratic families that have been inherited for thousands of years, they are still playing their own games. It is not that these aristocratic families have never experienced such things as princes fighting for hegemony. They can just go and join the Han family princes and mix. After all, this kind of thing happens in every family. Record the operation method.

But these aristocratic families did not expect that the most powerful people in this era were not the Han princes, but the foreign leaders.

What about traveling south in clothes, what about Wuhu chaos in China, or even the birth of Xie An in history, which made Fu Jian lose the war that he was almost certain to win. I am afraid that even the Eastern Jin Dynasty may not be able to save it.

Therefore, these aristocratic families are still covering their heads to study various technologies passed down by their ancestors and apply them in reality.

It's like a science sage like Mr. Qian proposed an idea of ​​electrification of automobiles. However, science sage's theory is not supported by the state, but his descendants uphold filial piety. Since the ancestors mentioned it, then even if the whole family is involved, they must do it. Let’s build electric cars—and then burn them to our ancestors to show that we have achieved this and that our ancestors can feel at ease.

Of course, Liu Tai didn't think so comprehensively for a moment, but after he suddenly discovered that many of the Yecheng aristocratic families seemed to be branches of the Luoyang aristocratic families, because of his instinctive respect for science, he instinctively wanted to search here. Similar talents.

Even if he is just a small captain, it is not too much to support a few doctors, and it is not too much to support a few craftsmen.

Of course, if possible, what Liu Tai wants most is to raise a few scholars to teach "Han Shu"!
But it is undeniable that after Liu Tai figured this out, he looked at Yecheng differently.

Decisively setting out to find Chu Hui, Liu Tai suspected that if he missed this village, he might not be able to find this shop!

(End of this chapter)