The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 309 The Jin court after the war

After Tao Kan arrived in Yangzhou, he did not rush into Xuzhou rashly, but calmly defended and controlled Yangzhou south of the Yangtze River.

Although it seems that Liu Tai will be satisfied if he captures Xuzhou, if Liu Tai suddenly attacks south of the Yangtze River, he will have to deal with it to some extent.

However, after Tao Kan completed the convenient deployment of Yangzhou, Liu Tai showed no intention to continue the attack. Instead, he carried out the transformation of the land and grassroots political system in Xuzhou with great enthusiasm.

On the contrary, many powerful families in Xuzhou chose to flee to the south of the Yangtze River because their land servants and even their wives and daughters would be taken away by Liu Tai.

This allowed Tao Kan to receive many aristocratic families north of the Yangtze River, and he became more aware of Liu Tai's policies in Xuzhou. Of course, his resistance to Liu Tai became stronger.

There is no way, Tao Kan is a typical Jiangnan powerful man. Even though he is almost one of the top talents of this era, he has not broken away from his own class, so he will naturally be more determined to fight against Liu Tai.

"The false king Liu Tai seemed to be aggressive in his aggression, but in fact he was very organized. After seizing Yanyu and Xu several states, he chose to surrender as soon as possible. He focused on reforming the administration of officials, cultivating the fields, and restoring people's production.

Instead of having to go to Longwang to continue southward, Wei Wu would be more difficult to deal with than Wei Wu at the time, and would not give us any chance at all! "Tao Kan said solemnly to Mao Bao.

Mao Bao is a man who knows soldiers, so he naturally knows what so-called ingenious strategies are pursued by ordinary generals, and what incredible and wonderful operations he wants to perform.

But for everyone in the real martial art, the competition is to minimize their own mistakes and discover the other party's mistakes as much as possible.

And if Liu Tai didn't take the initiative to call, he would naturally not be able to expose any problems.

Think about it, if Liu Tai was replaced by Cao Cao, Liu Tai would probably have already begun to organize the Yangtze River to unite the world.

How can it be like now? Your sister is satisfied with the land north of the Yangtze River, but it is not as good as the Yangtze River.

Mao Bao, like Tao Kan, felt that if Liu Tai came to fight, Wang Dun would definitely risk his life to fight Liu Tai, the Sima family would continue to cooperate with Wang Dun, and the Jin Dynasty families would definitely be willing to unite under the king and Ma to share the world. in the mix.

Unlike now, although the Jin court seems to be a complete country, in fact it is Wang Dun who is in charge of the power of the Jin court. The Sima Langya Wang family regards it as a mortal enemy, while other aristocratic families are mainly responsible for watching the show.

Yes, the current Jin court is torn apart. If Liu Tai expresses his willingness to accept the aristocratic family system, then now that Liu Tai has conquered the Yangtze River, the Jin court is afraid that it will be directly divided. The aristocratic family took the initiative like Soochow surrendered to Cao and Shu Han surrendered to Jin.

But the problem is that Liu Tai does not accept the aristocratic family. All the aristocratic families in the world know that Liu Tai believes that the reason for the demise of the Han Dynasty is because the aristocratic family occupied a large amount of fertile land and monopolized the channels for growth, which led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty.

This makes the aristocratic family unable to speak out even if they are suffering. After all, it is Zhang Jiao who caused the chaos in the world, Dong Zhuo who caused the cholera court, and the Cao family who changed the dynasty. What does it have to do with our aristocratic family?

It was obvious that the family had already gone to great lengths to protect Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty!

But Liu Tai is so unreasonable, the family must either accept the taxes imposed on the family, or wait for Liu Tai's destruction.

And Liu Tai was not simply destroyed, because although Liu Tai did not use the aristocratic family system, in the process of rebuilding the Han Dynasty, Liu Tai would rather create his own military history system and imperial examination system than reuse the aristocratic family system like Liu Xiu did .

So, what can the family do? Either defeat Liu Tai, or die in the Jin court and resign yourself to fate.

Wang Dun was somewhat relieved when he heard that Liu Tai had captured Xuzhou and then stopped north of the Yangtze River.

This time, Wang Dun finally experienced a war firsthand, instead of relying entirely on his own men to fight for him.

Precisely because he had experienced the war, Wang Dun had a very intuitive sense of the intensity of Liu Tai, a fierce man who had been fighting all the way from the Changping Battle of the Han and Jin Dynasties to the present.

I had made so many mistakes during this crusade against Sima Rui. It was my destiny to win, but Liu Tai pushed him all the way. That was his real ability.

Although his hometown of Langya County was easily captured by Liu Tai, think about Gou Xi, who was almost the number one general in the Jin Dynasty. He was beaten violently by Liu Tai and lost three times in three battles. Now he is even more... He died in the battle without even holding on for two months.

It would be unrealistic to say that I don’t have more or less fear in my heart when it comes to engaging with such a strong man!

Therefore, if Tao Kan's first letter showed that Liu Tai defeated Gou Xi, Wang Dun couldn't help but feel frightened, but the second letter showed that Liu Tai had no intention of forcing the Yangtze River to fight with him, but Wang Dun was relieved. tone.

Wang Dun even began to issue orders to move his administrative office in Wuchang to Gushu, stationed in Yuhu in the east of the city, and took charge of Yangzhou Mu, directly controlling the Gyeonggi area. All political orders were for the purpose of controlling the court. Lord.

As for Liu Tai's Northern Expedition, no one in the entire court mentioned it.

For Wang Dun, the most important thing was to grasp his own power and make himself a powerful official in the court.

For Sima, finding a way to kill Wang Dun is the most important thing.

As for other aristocratic families, it depends on who provides better benefits, Wang Dun or the Sima family, and you will side with them.

Compared to history, there were civilians who had fled from the North, and more or less they still thought about conquering the barbarians in the north and restoring the old capital.

Now, due to the surrender of the exiled Qu Shuai and the people in the North, Liu Tai even raided the aristocratic families, took back the fields, and used the military system of the government to settle the vast majority of the exiled people in the North.

For those who really want to go home, Liu Tai also arranges for them to go home. However, it is impossible to get the land after returning, but they will be given land reclamation quotas for reclamation.

And even though there will be some benevolent people among the nobles who want to conquer their homeland, without the support of the grassroots people's organizations, no one will respond to the cries of these benevolent people, even if they come from the heart, as if they are in a wasteland.

Because the system of the Jin Dynasty retained the tribal system of Jiangdong, for the people at the bottom, they could survive as long as they relied on the powerful and powerful families of Jiangdong.

Without the guarantee of the system, even if the people at the bottom worked hard for the Northern Expedition, the credit goes to their superiors, and the benefits belong to the households concerned. Only the pain and life are their own, so why should they support the Northern Expedition?

The powerful family in Jiangdong is even more famous for doing great things without sacrificing their own lives, and forgetting their righteousness at the sight of small gains.

For them, if they can obtain land without any effort, then they are still happy to go to the Northern Expedition.

But if it is necessary to throw the troops that he has cultivated with great difficulty here, then few Jiangdong powerful men are willing to do so.

If Liu Tai comes, and Liu Tai's law prohibits them from raising arms privately, it will deprive them of their land and take away their wealth. They will naturally fight against Liu Tai, but the problem is that Liu Tai has not come. We can't expect the Jiangdong rats, who have only focused on the one-third of an acre south of the Yangtze River since ancient times, to suddenly become magnanimous and lofty-sighted.

Even if there is such a weird thing here, Jiangdong Qianghao's overall vision is really not lofty.

Therefore, for the current Jin court, it is very good to be able to rely on the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers to defend the current Jin court.

No one wanted to launch the Northern Expedition. To be more precise, no political group with a decent reputation could support the Northern Expedition.

No one from top to bottom has proposed to recover the Central Plains area. It would be good to just muddle along.

Naturally, Liu Tai would not want to attack the Jin court. After all, all the Jin court families had gathered south of the Yangtze River.

Although Liu Tai didn't want to admit it, he had to say that they were the group of people with the highest productivity in this era.

Now these people are entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River. Whether they are willing or not, they will inevitably develop the land south of the Yangtze River for their own survival, objectively promoting the development of the area south of the Yangtze River.

For Liu Tai at this time, the most important thing was to completely incorporate the newly captured Central Plains region north of the Yangtze River and south of the Yellow River into his political management.

The replacement of the grassroots management system, the suppression of local powerful families, and the re-division of land are all inevitable policies for Liu Tai.

And it was also time for Gou Chun to dispatch a large-scale inspection to this area to educate the local aristocratic families on how to survive under the new Han Dynasty system.

Of course, the most important thing is to restore production in the Central Plains area and reclaim the land so that all the people here can at least have their own land, so that these people can completely feel at ease and truly belong to Liu Tai.

Liu Tai did not stay in Xuzhou forever. Basically, after Xuzhou successfully established a grassroots operational organization, Liu Tai appointed Yang Yu as the governor of Xuzhou and Bian Hu as the governor of Xuzhou, along with Zhou Ping and Zhao An. The two troops returned to Yecheng.

However, Wang Sang and Xi Jian still stayed, and Zhang Song was responsible for clearing out the deserters and defeated troops in these three states.

After all, after the war, the work of cleaning up deserters can be said to be the most tedious and unavoidable.

Xi Jian, on the other hand, was responsible for encouraging teachers to farm mulberry trees and open fields, especially finding ways to attract deserters and defeated soldiers to enter the collective farms to open up fields, so as to find a way to survive for the local people who could not survive.

As the war gradually comes to an end, the time has arrived in late autumn unknowingly. Although the Yellow River has not yet frozen, it has begun to snow in some places in the north.

Under such circumstances, it is not easy for most deserters to survive in this white winter day.

And the collective farms supported by food transported from the north will at least organize corvees to work and provide some food.

It is a good home for the people of the Central Plains in this era, and it can help the people survive this cold winter as much as possible, so that more people can survive in this troubled world.

At the same time, Liu Tai sent Cui Yue as an envoy to the Jin court, and expressed to the Jin court that the Yangtze River would be used as the boundary, and the two sides would temporarily truce and trade with each other.

At the court, Cui Yue said that even all the water from the Luo River could not wash away the Sima family's broken promises. Therefore, even if I signed an armistice agreement, I would sign it with the Langya Wang family instead of Sima. The people signed the contract.

All in all, what stands out about Cui Yue is that our Han people side with the Langya Wang family and not with the Sima family. This makes Wang Dun quite proud, and Sima Rui's already gray face adds a bit of depression.

For Liu Tai, the stronger Wang Dun gets, the more chaotic the Jin court becomes. Even if Wang Dun really wants to usurp the throne in the future, he can take advantage of the situation. How can the contract he signed with an unfaithful and unfilial person count? Lost.

If Wang Dun does not usurp the throne, no matter how old Wang Dun is now or how old I am, I can totally afford it.

When Wang Dun dies, he will just not renew the contract. After all, the Jin court now has no political group for the Northern Expedition, and he can completely manipulate them.

Cui Yue took the initiative to support Wang Dun. Although Wang Dun knew that there must be a problem, the problem was that Wang Dun also needed Liu Tai's support now.

At least accept Liu Tai's goodwill, then Liu Tai will not fight, this is too important, this is the victory of diplomacy, victory over the imperial court!

Regardless of whether you believe it or not, the fact that it can at least bring peace is enough to make Wang Dun's position more stable.

For Liu Tai, as long as he made good friends with Wang Dun, he would be able to smoothly enter the Jin court by selling his various products.

At the same time, Liu Tai also asked Cui Yue to reveal to the Jin court that the big man likes sugar cane very much, and how much sugar cane is produced, the big man will collect it.

This makes some Jiangnan families eager to try it. After all, the price of sugar cane is much higher than that of grain.

The most important thing is that there is a big customer like Dahan who can cover unlimited amounts of money. How could this not make these aristocratic families excited?

Of course, some knowledgeable people in the Jin court, such as Deng You and Zhuge Hui, said that Liu Tai was implementing Guan Zhong's policy. If a large amount of fertile land was converted to sugar cane, when Liu Tai came to attack, we would There is no food!

But the current court doesn't say that Wang Dun controls the sky with one hand. Even under normal circumstances, when will the emperor of the Sima family be able to take charge of the family's affairs?

For many Jiangdong powerful people or aristocratic families from the north, if there is a shortage of food, it is everyone's problem. But if you grow sugar cane yourself with Liu Tai's backing, then the money and food you earn are yours. It is natural to think about what you will choose. Know.

As for Wang Dun, when he saw Liu Tai supporting him so much, all he wanted was to collect some sugar cane from the Jin court. What kind of thing was this? Of course, he had given the green light, so how could he stop it.

For Liu Tai, although he killed the group with the greatest potential for the Northern Expedition in the Jin Dynasty, he gave up the expedition against the Jin Dynasty because he did not have enough management talents to assist him in managing the grassroots.

But this does not mean that he has let the Jin court go. On the contrary, this truce is just to buy time for the next war.

If in the process, he can easily weaken the opponent's war potential and enrich his own war heritage, Liu Tai will not refuse such a policy anyway.

At the moment, the most convenient thing is to let Jin Ting plant sugar cane, harvest it himself to make cane sugar, and then resell it to Jin Ting.

After all, in any era, apart from salt, sugar is the most marketable material.

(End of this chapter)