The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 275 Chu Hui’s stance

Because although Dai Yuan has a little vanity, he still understands the seriousness of the matter.

Therefore, the news of Zu Ti's illness was directly blocked by Dai Yuan, and Liu Tai did not know about it.

And with the arrival of the autumn harvest season, Liu Tai didn't have much thought to care about Zu Ti. After all, only when he became strong could he have time to conquer the Central Plains.

In the land of Hebei, in order to allow the people to cultivate the land as soon as possible, normal corn is still cultivated, unlike the winter wheat promoted in Youzhou and Qingzhou areas.

Therefore, the harvest time is the same as the normal autumn harvest time. Unlike winter wheat cultivation, sowing in autumn can be harvested in summer.

Even so, Liu Tai began to build waterwheels managed by the government at some canal tributaries when building the canal.

Of course, it is nominally under the management of the county, but in fact it is managed by its own collective farm.

Because Liu Tai planned to let the collective farms in Hebei area cultivate wheat first, and then promote it.

If you want to promote wheat, the first step you need to solve is the unpalatable taste.

It can only be said that there is a certain reason why wheat, a crop that can make the north more efficient, did not become popular before the water mill, a device for grinding wheat into powder, came out.

Of course, if you want to slowly change the crops cultivated in the north from corn to wheat, when the order is relatively perfect, it is a process of slow work and careful work.

If the world was in chaos, with locust plagues, droughts, and all kinds of disasters, it would be natural to pay attention to efficiency, and now that the Hebei regime is gradually stabilized, it is natural that we cannot be as chaotic as before.

This is like an aristocratic family. In the prosperous times, the aristocratic family relied on the rules to be extremely powerful. If you touch the aristocratic family, it is basically equivalent to touching the entire court, and it will naturally be hit in all directions.

But in troubled times, no matter how powerful the aristocratic families seem to be, as long as they are not the warlords of the aristocratic family, they can basically easily control the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family can only exist by relying on the warlords, unless it itself becomes a warlord.

The most typical one is Huang Chao. He is a guy who does not rely on the power of the family at all, and even directly pushes the power of the family against himself.

Therefore, Huang Chao died the most tragically, but it also made the warriors in the late Tang Dynasty suddenly understand that these five counties and seven looks that had been passed down by word of mouth did not seem to be very powerful, so naturally they did not hold back when they attacked one by one.

To put it simply, Huang Chao "burned the inner treasury to beautiful ashes and trampled all the bones of the princes in the sky" just set an example for the warriors in the world. Tearing apart aristocratic families in troubled times is just a paper tiger. As long as you have soldiers and food in your hands, they will not even give a shit. no!
  The same goes for Liu Tai's various policies now. If it were in a normal dynasty, it would be impossible for his policies for the aristocratic family to be promulgated smoothly, and he might be thrown into the water or something.

But now, he has become the largest warlord in Hebei and his base is not an aristocratic family, so the aristocratic family is naturally the target of being ruled.

At least until the group of veterans reunited around Liu Tai and the army built by Liu Tai collapsed, the family had nothing to do with Liu Tai. Needless to say, Liu Tai now allowed them to join the competition of military history. By.

Therefore, in the land of Hebei, the aristocratic family lived very uncomfortable, especially when faced with the decrees issued by Liu Tai to restrict the aristocratic family, they could only choose to accept it, because resisting would mean death. At most, they would find ways to hide it, rather than confrontation.

Because concealing Liu Tai still requires Gou Xi to find the evidence they concealed. If there is a confrontation, he can directly send troops to eliminate it.

Under Liu Tai's continuous blows, Liu Tai occasionally showed some benefits to these aristocratic families through his fingers. These aristocratic families were naturally grateful. I felt that Liu Tai was still very reasonable, at least better than my completely unreasonable Jie clan. Be reasonable.

With such complicated thoughts, the aristocratic families in Hebei Province still cooperated with Liu Tai in his work.

Of course, even if they don't want to work, Liu Tai, whether a retired soldier or a military historian, can take their place.

This makes these aristocratic families feel a bit more urgent, at least they can't stand upright when facing Liu Tai.

"Your Majesty." Seeing Liu Tai holding a detailed report on this year's income, Chu Hui handed it to Liu Tai and said, "This is this year's income. Please take a look at it!"

Liu Tai took the memorial from Chu Hui, looked at the data on it carefully, and then said, "Build a granary and store it.

The number of fertile fields cultivated by the common people is not very large. It seems that relying solely on retired soldiers and military history to manage the grassroots level is not efficient! "

"The common people have tried their best to cultivate the land. After all, as long as they are common people, who doesn't want to own their own land.

The grain harvest is relatively small, but the land has been abandoned for a few years, and now that it has just been reclaimed, the fertility is not improving.

It will naturally be fine by next year! "Chu Hui couldn't help but said to Liu Tai.

"Have the grassroots wealthy families caused trouble for these common people?" Liu Tai asked thoughtfully after hearing Chu Hui's words.

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he smiled without embarrassment and said, "With the king here, the rich and powerful families don't dare to mess around!"

"In other words, some obvious things will not happen, but there will be many secret things that cause trouble." Liu Tai shook his head and said,

"They have strong roots at the grassroots level. Unless I directly kill the wealthy families, the wealthy families will naturally exist!

Hey, I originally thought that the family had performed well recently and planned to implement the three-by-three system, but now it seems that I’d better give them a try! "

"What is the three-three system?!" Chu Hui suddenly reacted after hearing Liu Tai's words.

Liu Tai said calmly, "It's nothing. It's just that after we get a batch of Jinshi, I plan to let these high school students go to the grassroots level, or become county magistrates, or county magistrates. Of course, no matter what they are, they will always go to the grassroots level." Once.

As for the structure at the grassroots level, I originally wanted to divide it into three, representing the retired soldiers of the military who could control the soldiers, and representing the military history recorded by the eyes of the imperial court. As for the other position, it would be nominated by the local government and approved by the county magistrate. Can be a local representative. "

"What if the representatives of this place use the strong to bully the weak?" Chu Hui couldn't help but worry.

"That means he is not worthy of use!" Liu Tai said, "Passing the examination system and becoming an official from a humble family is only the first step.

What follows is a three-year assessment, and the records in the hands of military history will determine their results in this assessment.

No matter what, what I want to find is someone who can do the job.

If they can't even control their own area, then I won't believe them no matter how much they claim to be talented people from all over the world. Are you right? "

"The king wants to use powerful men from lower-class families as whetstones for these students?!" Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words and said with some understanding, "But what if the scholars among them are originally from the noble family!" "The system of circumventing the status of officials such as the Three Guardians will naturally be implemented. People at the state level cannot find one to remove because of the marriage between aristocratic families, but it is impossible to have it in every pass, village or county. It's a kinship relationship! If that's the case, then that person is really awesome!" Liu Tai couldn't help but sigh.

Chu Hui also smiled when he heard Liu Tai's words, feeling that he had indeed overthought things. At this moment, in Chu Hui's view, this was a sign that Liu Tai wanted to delegate power to the family.

To be honest, Liu Tai planned to untie the family a little and further integrate internal forces. This seemed to Chu Hui to be normal.

After all, since the Han Dynasty, there has been no way to govern a country without relying on aristocratic families.

It's just that every time the family does something, Liu Tai has a slight affection for the family, but there will always be some bad guys who come out to cause trouble, which makes it impossible for Liu Tai to implement good policies.

And since this is the case, then naturally you need to find a way to get rid of the black sheep in the family!

Chu Hui saluted Liu Tai at this moment and said, "Your Majesty, why don't I go and discuss with Chen Yuanda to see if there are any laws that can curb the family's lawlessness and disorder at the grassroots level? Even if it can't be cured, at least carry out rectification actions and get rid of it. A bunch of bad apples!”

In Chu Hui's view, if Liu Taizhen opens the grassroots to aristocratic families, then aristocratic family politics will inevitably rise.

Under such circumstances, it is naturally a good thing for the aristocratic family, and the most important thing is, in Chu Hui's view, with the implementation of the electoral system, it will inevitably be the competition between poor families and aristocratic families for these management positions.

In fact, the poor family is the aristocratic family. No matter who controls the inheritance, it indicates the smooth counterattack of the powerful political power of the aristocratic family. At this moment, Chu Hui is still quite excited.

After all, Chu Hui was indeed loyal to Liu Tai, but Chu Hui was also truly from a family background.

Moreover, he has a big family behind him, so he naturally tends to favor aristocratic families in his thinking.

Of course, there is nothing that can be done about it. After all, the Jin court has promoted for so long that the Jin Dynasty rules the world with filial piety and makes profits for one's own family. It has almost become the instinct of the sons of aristocratic families.

And Liu Tai watched Chu Hui easily accept his "three-three system" idea. It was obvious that although Chu Hui was favored by him, he still instinctively wanted to expand the proportion of the family in his political power.

Liu Tai can understand this. After all, even if Chu Hui accepted his nationalist ideas, it would not change that his class belonged to the gentry.

After all, class attributes have always been greater than national attributes since ancient times.

But for Liu Tai, he just wanted Chu Hui to think that he wanted to use the inspection system to collect talents from poor families and then fight against aristocratic families. In this world, poor families will always have their treasures, and aristocratic families will also have opponents. As long as the aristocratic family is contained, then using the aristocratic family yourself is not a problem.

But his real purpose is that when the electoral system emerges, the aristocratic families and the imperial examination talents will eventually become two different forces as the proportion of the two changes.

What he wants is not a poor family from the same lineage as the aristocratic family, but the common people at a lower level, so that they can have a ladder to the sky.

The retired soldiers he arranged for his sons to control the imperial army, the military history writers who wrote the history of the Qing Dynasty, and the aristocratic families with roots in the grassroots.

If they can use the power of one party to suppress the other two groups and allow the decree to pass, then they are talented people.

If you can suppress these three forces by yourself, you will be overestimating the Raptors, and you need to focus on cultivating them.

If the three forces cannot be borrowed and are finally made to leave in embarrassment, it means that this kind of person is incapable of being used.

The grassroots level is always the most training for people. This sentence is not a lie, because the evolution of China's system over the past millennium is that "a strong general must emerge from the army, and a wise prime minister must start from the county!".

A person who can fight all the way from the grassroots to the top, regardless of whether he has any background behind him, is an extraordinary person, because such a person has never lost, and if he loses once, he will definitely be stuck. .

After all, this world is a world of interests. The bigger the family, the more they value the distribution of interests.

Unless there is only one person left in the whole family, even if the eldest son makes many mistakes, he will lose his support and no one will follow him.

As powerful as Napoleon, he couldn't bear two defeats.

In the same way, the same is true for the Yuan family of the fourth and third generations of the late Han Dynasty. If Yuan Ji makes a mistake once, the Yuan family and the court line will be eradicated. If Yuan Shu makes a mistake once, the Yuan family of Nanyang will be completely in despair. If Yuan Shao makes a mistake once, the Yuan family of the fourth generation and the third Duke will be Completely annihilated into ashes.

The reason why Liu Tai scares the people around him is because Liu Tai has never lost.

If Liu Tai had lost, without this layer of golden light protection, then others would look at Liu Tai completely differently.

Because even if it is a god, as long as the blood bar is displayed, he has basically entered the life countdown.

Now, Liu Tai does not expect to completely change the family in one generation, or to physically destroy the family.

Because Liu Tai knew very well that even if he did this, as time goes by and under the influence of social inertia, aristocratic families will still be born, and they will be more viable after they are broken and reestablished.

Therefore, Liu Tai wants to create the three-three system this time, just to give those military historians who are not even from poor families, or other civilians, a relatively fair platform for them to receive training.

After all, who can let others, who have gone through ten years of hard study and have rich experience from their ancestors, be able to reduce the dimensionality of ordinary people?
  If you don't set up such a relatively fair environment, it will seem like aristocratic families are taking advantage. Then when these county magistrates and county magistrates reach the grassroots level, how can they ensure that they will not be ignored and how can they show their abilities?

I want to make these wealthy families strong, to temper those scholars with no background, and then, step by step, much slower than others, but much more practical, I will build a political group that can truly fight against the wealthy families. Cultivate it.

And if they want to fight against the aristocratic families, they must either rely on retired soldiers or recorded military history. The more the aristocratic families resist them, the closer this class will be to the imperial power.

As long as future generations are not too stupid and do not expect them to expand their territory, but just grasp the balance of several forces and act as checks and balances on each other, this should not be difficult!

Liu Tai composed himself and made a decision in his heart, "In any case, my idea of ​​the three-three system has been informed to Chu Hui. After Chu Hui spreads the news, his resistance at the grassroots level should be greatly reduced.

This can increase administrative efficiency and save more food in preparation for the expedition to the Central Plains.

After all, the canal should be generally open to navigation next year, and the remaining minor repairs and repairs will not require too many manpower. If it is repaired for another year next year, it should be able to be started the year after! "

Liu Tai had some distant thoughts in his heart, and then he recruited Liu Ming, Zhou Ping and Zhao An to discuss military matters.

(End of this chapter)