The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 322 Death of Sima Rui

Liu Tai, Chu Hui, Wen Qiao and others had discussed and decided, and Chu Hui began to arrange relevant decrees.

First of all, he went to Qingzhou and Yecheng to find out the news that after Liu Tai captured Luoyang, he began to plan to move the capital to Luoyang.

Of course, it is just a simple spread of news and registration of people who want to go to Luoyang.

As for why the people of Qingzhou and Yecheng were selected first, especially the people of Qingzhou, the most important thing was that the people had a high degree of recognition for Liu Tai.

Needless to say, the people of Qingzhou have settled down immediately since Liu Tai arrived in Qingzhou. Moreover, Liu Tai attaches great importance to the development of economy and productivity. It can be said that he has brought earth-shaking changes to Qingzhou. The people of Qingzhou naturally have high recognition for Liu Tai. .

As for the people of Yecheng, following Liu Tai's conquests, they enjoyed the location advantages of being a political seat.

Not to mention, with the smooth construction of Yongji Canal, the ships coming and going will bring massive benefits to the people of Yecheng.

For example, he would free up his spare room for the use of traveling merchants. For example, he would use his spare oxcarts and carriages to carry goods to business travelers passing through Luoyang. The location was advantageous and he could not lose money.

Now, Liu Tai actually has the idea of ​​​​moving the capital. Although Liu Tai said that the people can move to Luoyang together, but really speaking, now that the people are making a lot of money locally, how many people are willing to sign up to go to Luoyang? !

And this is just hearsay, at least the imperial court has not given an actual order, and who dares to put all the resources into it. It can only be said that compared to the ordinary people who are getting by, the aristocratic families in Yecheng have begun to make arrangements.

First of all, the Lu family of Fanyang, the Cui family of Qinghe, the Gao family of Bohai, etc. began to come frequently to explore the news, and hoped that Liu Tai would not move the capital and let Liu Tai stay in Yecheng. This was naturally the best.

For these aristocratic families, although Liu Tai treats them harshly, they are not without gains from Liu Tai.

After all, Liu Tai has restrictions on the family in terms of power, but if the family develops business or thinks of ways to increase wealth, Liu Tai will not stop it.

If you just see that they make too much, then just write down the tax and let Gou Chun check it accordingly.

Therefore, as these aristocratic families develop with the overall productivity of society and the entire north moves from chaos to unity, their size and wealth are constantly accumulating, but this accumulation of wealth cannot give them any sense of security.

After all, this era is not an era where capital is king, but an era of feudal autocracy.

For aristocratic families, if there is no one in the court, no matter how much they earn, they cannot have any sense of security.

But it is not easy for the family to enter the institutional system created by Liu Tai.

To the world, even if they don't occupy a key position, as long as they enter the middle class and have the right to protect their family's wealth, it's good.

But the problem is that the rules are what the family relies on. What the family is good at is using the rules, penetrating the rules, mastering the rules, and even formulating the rules themselves. This takes a long time to penetrate, at least it is measured in years.

But in a chaotic situation that requires a head-on confrontation and a decisive battle with hard power, no matter how big the family is, it cannot play the role that its physical strength should have.

These are troubled times after all, and Liu Tai's control over military power is unbelievable. Being from an aristocratic family, he sounds very majestic, but there is no way he can affect the strategy formulated by Liu Tai.

Even if he really affects Liu Tai's strategy, then the head of the aristocratic family will have to consider hanging himself that night, and will Liu Tai let his family go?

After all, although Liu Tai was a reasonable guy, if Liu Tai became cruel, all ten clans of Shi Le were killed.

Not to mention Shi Le's own relatives, even the adopted son recognized by Shi Le was considered the tenth clan, and the whole family was killed.

Therefore, these Hebei aristocratic families did not dare to protest directly. After all, Liu Tai was a guy who was killed from a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​​​blood. How could he pay attention to your weak protest? He might even think you are making noise and kill the guy who protested directly. .

But they began to run toward the civil servants under Liu Tai's command and immediately started running diligently.

After all, as long as these aristocratic families want to find relatives, they can always find them. Not to mention, Liu Tai's top officials are basically all from aristocratic families.

Even Liu Tai couldn't avoid this, because intellectuals in this era were either from aristocratic families or poor families, and there was no other possibility.

For Chu Hui and others, it was naturally impossible to tell them the answer directly, but it still more or less showed their decision to support their move to Luoyang.

For the aristocratic family, as long as Liu Tai's civil servants show this gesture of support, they feel that they have spent money.

There is no way, the most important thing for the family is money and food. I have so much of these stinky things that I don't know how to use them.

Therefore, those who are more ruthless will directly move their entire family to Luoyang. Of course, those who are more soft-minded will choose one of their sons to move directly to a branch and bet on the future of their family.

Because for the aristocratic family, as long as they have the consciousness, spending hundreds of years to penetrate the rules formulated by Liu Tai is nothing.

This is the biggest difference between wealthy families and ordinary people. The wealth and heritage accumulated by wealthy families are indeed rich, but the most precious thing is the vision that knowledge brings them.

Because they knew that if Liu Tai really had a chance to unify the world, it would be almost inevitable to move the capital to Luoyang or Chang'an.

After all, the phrase "remaining in the old capital" has almost unparalleled appeal to the Han Dynasty. A Han Dynasty descended from Liu Bang reappeared in the northern land, even though it has been in decline for a hundred years, compared with the Jin Dynasty, The Han's appeal to the common people can be said to be terrifyingly strong, especially for a family that has been bullied by foreign races.

Therefore, these wealthy families know that as long as Liu Tai wins sooner or later, Liu Tai will inevitably move to Chang'an or Luoyang. All they can do is to take advantage of the policy.

Don't look down on such first movers. This is how the so-called aristocratic families slowly grow or accumulate through the accumulation of first moves in the rules.

Every decision he makes may not be absolutely correct, but the choices made by the family will at least be the second best choice.

This little bit of accumulation is difficult to match for the people at the bottom who have worked their way up completely on their own.

Because for the people at the bottom, the accumulation in this life is often only the cost of one trial and error. This is something that the people at the bottom cannot compare to the aristocratic families.

In troubled times, if you can win, win, win all the way, you can use the family as a dog, because the family is a creature of rules, and you are the one who makes the rules.

However, for Liu Tai, the turmoil of the family was left to Yangman to solve. Whether he chose to go to Luoyang or stay in Yecheng was not important to him. Because what he wants is to mobilize his resources in Hebei to Luoyang. As for other things, Liu Tai is just a detail.

As Cao Yi left, Liu Tai immediately approached Wang Bo. After Wang Bo saluted, Liu Tai said, "Have you heard about the fact that the imperial court is moving its capital to Luoyang these days?"

Wang Bo heard what Liu Tai said, but he quickly saluted and said, "I have heard a little bit about it!"

"The imperial court has not yet come to a conclusion on the matter of moving the capital, so they just spread the word to see which direction the public will take!" Liu Tai shook his head, and then said, "And I summoned you recently because it is related to this matter!"

"Please give me your Majesty's orders!" Wang Bo saluted Liu Tai immediately after hearing what Liu Tai said.

Liu Tai was not polite and said directly to Wang Bo, "Cao Changshi is good at engineering, but now he can't get away from building roads in the Central Plains, and you are the best at repairing rivers under him, so you need to open up Luoyang to Xingyang waterway canal between.

To put it simply, it was to divert Luoshui eastward into the Yellow River, and then divert the water from the Yellow River to Xingyang today. "

Wang Bo was thoughtful when he heard Liu Tai's words, and then said to Liu Tai seriously, "Please allow me to go to Zhengzhou for on-site assessment in Luoyang, and then I can give you an answer."

"This is exactly the attitude to do things!" Liu Tai heard Wang Bo's words and said: "But please remember, if you want to dredge the canal, you should mostly use the old water channels, such as the Kaiyang Canal opened by Zhang Chun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, or the existing river channels such as Gushui, Luoshui.

All in all, try to find ways to connect the water conservancy facilities from Luoyang to Xingyang. "

Wang Bo understood what Liu Tai said, and then went down to start preparations.

To be honest, Liu Tai was as careful as possible in building these canals. He gave the people money and food without squeezing them hard, thereby reducing the people's complaints about the canal construction.

After all, he is not like Yang Guang, who has the accumulation left by Yang Jian and can toss hard. From the level of almost the prosperous Kaiyuan era to the destruction of the country, Yang Guang is also considered to be unique in the prodigal son. The person who can surpass Yang Guang in the past is probably Very little.

And as Liu Tai continued to instruct these things intermittently, it was basically the time for spring plowing.

Spring plowing is around the corner, and areas north of the Yellow River are starting to get busier, especially in the Central Plains south of the Yellow River.

However, this time the people north of the Yellow River soon discovered the benefits of Liu Tai's rule, that is, the military history and government soldiers were all working, and they also brought a new farming model north of the Yellow River.

The steel forged in the coal and steel fields became various iron farm tools and were loaned to these people. Liu Tai also distributed a batch of cattle provided by Youzhou Animal Husbandry to the newly conquered states so that the people could use them during spring plowing. Cultivate more fields to survive.

The most lively thing in the entire Central Plains at the moment is actually not the people who are reclaiming land.

Relatively speaking, the road maintenance that has been started continues to attract the surrounding ordinary people who have no houses or property and only have physical strength, allowing them to focus on moving bricks, thus continuously absorbing the strength of the surrounding people.

Especially those beggars who were not selected by the government soldiers and did not return to the north after being screened.

After all, even Liu Tai's Fubing system has age restrictions.

Generally speaking, after the age of thirty, the physical fitness of soldiers is no longer at its peak, and they basically start to retire. There are basically no soldiers who are less than a long-term player by the age of thirty-five.

After all, what I want is the elites selected at all levels, not the old veterans.

Not to mention that after entering the Fubing system, you have to study history and mathematics. This is really not something that older veterans with no foundation can easily adapt to.

However, these soldiers after the age of thirty are not valued by Liu Tai, but some of them do have considerable killing experience and can be regarded as pure veterans.

It was impossible for Liu Tai to ignore all of them, and even deny them the right to have a full meal. Then they might go to the Jin court again.

But they were not selected by the military system, but his long-term experience told Liu Tai that each of these guys were born with civil engineering bodies. They were the most hard-working, did the most work, and had the simple desire to save money to buy a house and get a wife. , all of them worked hard under Cao Yi without complaint, even if they were carrying bricks, their faces were full of smiles at this moment.

After all, they knew that after starting to work here, their living rations would be secured.

They have expectations for their own bright future, which has caused the riots caused by war and military disasters in the Central Plains to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye.

For the vast majority of people, as long as they can survive, they don't care who they hang out with.

Moreover, after they were defeated, whether they occupied the mountain as kings or harmed one party, the grassroots soldiers were able to quickly organize a response, making it difficult for them to plunder small villages, which made them very painful. .

After all, bandits and bandits also need to eat. Have you ever seen how desperate Song Jiang was to join the establishment and get an iron rice bowl?

When they couldn't get food and couldn't survive, they basically smeared their faces with ashes and decisively took refuge with Cao Yi to move bricks.

Because moving bricks here comes with food and accommodation included, and those who move bricks diligently can even re-edit their records and change their jobs from homeless refugees to innocent civilians. This is better than going back to the mountains to go hungry and have a full meal.

Therefore, only the opening of such large-scale projects can quickly absorb the surrounding local labor force, and allow the several states in the Central Plains region that were just captured by Liu Tai to begin to return to stability at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And this kind of recovery speed was only in the north of the Yellow River. When the world was in chaos, no one felt anything.

But now, the turmoil caused by the Wangdun Rebellion last year has reached a certain degree of balance at the top, which has made the political situation of the Jin court relatively stable. However, the chaos at the bottom caused by the war has not been eliminated to this day.

After all, weapons were used in the first place. The defeated troops fled in all directions. They basically occupied the mountain and became kings, becoming bandits and bandits. Most of the people were waiting for Sima Rui to die.

Because after Sima Rui's death and the new emperor ascended the throne, there would basically be a general amnesty for the whole country. By then, deserters and bandits would basically be able to go home.

And Sima Rui was just as everyone expected. Just after the New Year, his body couldn't support it anymore and he died of sorrow and anger.

(End of this chapter)