The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 60 White Lotus

The soldiers slept quietly on Fenggao Street.

Of course, it cannot be said that after a short sleep, the local people brainwashed them collectively, and then expressed gratitude to the soldiers, and the soldiers and civilians kissed each other. This is unrealistic.

At most, compared with other warlords in this era, such an army that did not plunder the people after breaking through the city made the local people more or less curious and more favorable.

But it is just a good impression. If we want to truly realize that the military and civilians are one, we must not only have the same stance, but also have the same interests.

If the army and the government are just trying to squeeze the people, then the people will naturally not support you.

But with this night as a foreshadowing, Liu Tai began to send troops to go from house to house, beating gongs and drums, and said to the people in Fenggao,

"You were bullied before our Han army came. If you are still bullied after our Han army came, then our Han army's arrival was in vain.

Our Han army is an army that makes decisions for the people. Now, if there is any powerful man in Fenggao City who is rich and unkind, any aristocratic family who bullies men and women, or any aristocratic family who embezzles land, please report their names to our Tiger Army, and we will definitely give them to you. Return justice. "

To be honest, the soldiers worked very hard.

After all, they also want to have extra income, and the target cannot be the common people, so they naturally choose these black-hearted wealthy families. The soldiers are even more anxious than the local people. At this time, they are full of justice and justice, and want to rob the rich. Help the poor.

Liu Tai looked at the anxiety on the faces of his soldiers and had to say that he still had a long way to go to educate the soldiers.

But Liu Tai did not want to directly transform the soldiers into the people's army right away. He could only say that he would do it step by step. At least now their interests are on the same line as the people's interests. This is at least on the right path.

Naturally, no one came at first. After all, people are always cautious. As long as they are not forced into a hurry, they will basically not resist.

In this regard, Liu Taihuai thought that if no one came today, he would throw a dice at random to select a few local aristocratic families, and then find someone to perform a show of asking for life for the people, and then find one to kill first.

It doesn't matter who he kills. What matters is that the soldiers under his command need wealth, and he needs land to use his political methods.

But in fact, how could there be so few people persecuted by aristocratic families in this era? Seeing Mount Tai captured by Liu Tai's army with his own eyes, and seeing Liu Tai's army so amiable, some people in Fenggao really felt that the Lord Qingtian had come and bit him. He gritted his teeth and came over.

Therefore, soon some people started crying and shouting to report which family in Taishan had robbed their fields.

This cry made Liu Tai look a little happy, at least he didn't need to arrange for support.

For a mature regime, they definitely need evidence, especially when it comes to local wealthy families, and they need to be cautious.

After all, no one can guarantee that the head of the family here has any relatives or even relatives who can even reach heaven to hear.

But for Liu Tai's people who rebelled against the Jin Dynasty and restored the Han Dynasty, after they have determined who are their friends and who are their enemies, they don't need evidence, they just need a list.

So when the people at the bottom gave a list, Liu Tai immediately roped in the complaining people to break through this powerful Wubao in the shortest possible time. He killed the family, liberated the slaves, occupied the granary and arsenal, and most importantly, he collected a large amount of goods. wealth.

Not only did he return the land to the people who complained, but he also rewarded him with 10 gold coins, which was regarded as a reward for his first complaint.

If there were more, it would be unnecessary in the first place, and if the rewards were too many, it might not be safe in such a war-torn era.

Especially for myself, it doesn’t actually cost too much for those at the bottom who can enjoy the discount. On the contrary, more resources are invested in publicity. This may be a bit counterintuitive, but the reality is often like this.

People who have been in game operations may know that companies often deduct rewards for retaining players in the game, but they are often very generous in spending money on publicity channels.

A very important reason is that retained players will be retained without rewards, but new players who have been promoted will become the new players of this game. You can imagine which aspect is important, so the resources within the company are naturally There will be a tendency.

Now Liu Tai's reasoning is the same. It's enough to reward the people. What's more important is to let more people know through publicity that he is making decisions for the people, and naturally more people will be willing to come and complain.

To be honest, there must have been a lot of people grabbing and biting here during this process, maybe just for these 10 golds. Many local wealthy families are doing good things, and there are only one or two scum in the family.

But the people remembered them, they were characterized because of this, and then they were destroyed by Liu Tai and his army. There is really no reason to argue.

But the fact is that it makes no sense.

For Liu Tai, he now wants to use Taishan County as the basis for his confrontation with Gou Xi. If he wants to take root in Taishan County, then the fact that they have a large amount of land in their hands is the biggest sin.

You must have a reasonable reason to take back the land in their hands. As a political figure, you can't directly say that you want to "fight the local tyrants and divide the fields", so that you will recruit illiterate scholars in the future.

Now that he is using this banner, even if his military commanders defect first, Chu Hui will go home without looking back.

The next second, Gou Xi, with the support of the wealthy family, decisively attacked Fenggao, hoping to destroy himself.

Therefore, before you get a large amount of land in your hands, you must disguise yourself to a certain extent. You are asking for life for the people!
When the first powerful family was massacred, the proud wealthy people thought that this was just Liu Tai's army venting its anger.

The second wealthy family was slaughtered, and the wealthy family who held high positions only vaguely felt that something was wrong.

But the third family, the fourth family...the hearts of the local aristocratic families were extremely tense.

They were not fools. They originally thought that they were just changing owners. They were still the local aristocratic family and lived a domineering life. They never expected that someone would be so ruthless!

There are actually people who really want to kill the local wealthy families.

What does Liu Tai want, what does he want to do!
Some of the powerful families in the aristocratic families decided to build their forts more firmly and have more manpower. For example, Xu Gong of the Xu family in Taishan recruited soldiers and united with the local aristocratic families to raise the banner of resistance, which suddenly became quite powerful. !
But the family that originally wanted to flee to Donghai County or Qingzhou stopped.

They wanted to see what Xu Kuan was capable of, and either supported Xu Kuan financially or supported Xu Kuan with manpower.

No matter what, I really don't want to leave if I can. If I can drive away Liu Tai's army, I will take the initiative to ask for an official position from the Jin court.

"The local wealthy families in Taishan have united?!" Liu Tai quickly received the news.

Chu Hui couldn't help but earnestly persuaded: "Should we send envoys to appease the local wealthy families.

After all, several wealthy local families in Taishan have been massacred. If they continue to be killed, the people of the world will be in uproar!

Next, we must appease them, otherwise we won’t be able to stay in this Taishan! "

In Chu Hui's opinion, Liu Tai has achieved this level. If he continues like this, Liu Tai will have enemies all over the world!After all, even if Liu Tai attacks the wealthy and aristocratic families, he cannot beat up all the wealthy and aristocratic families in the entire county. What are you trying to do? Do you really think that the wealthy and aristocratic families in the world are blind!

And without the support of aristocratic families, why should you stay in Taishan? Even the Jin court needs help from aristocratic families!

"Next, let's add fuel to the fire!" Liu Tai thought for a moment and said to Chu Hui, "It's time to issue a military field order!"

"An order to equalize the land?" Chu Hui couldn't help being shocked when he heard Liu Tai's words, and said loudly, "You want the equalization of the land!"

"It's the army of the army, the military field order!" Liu Tai said calmly,

“Didn’t we take over so many fields from the aristocratic families, why should we put them all into our own hands?

A notice was issued to inform the people of the entire Taishan County that we were selling the land use rights and granting each household fifty acres of land.

We collect five levels of taxes per mu on the grain we grow, and there will be no other miscellaneous taxes.

In addition, one person from each family is required to join the army, and from now on, they do not need to serve in other chores.

As long as Taishan County is still in the hands of our Han army, the right to use these fifty acres of land will be passed down from father to son, and from brother to brother. "

Liu Tai wanted to bring out the land equalization system and the military system.

After all, this system ultimately built the prosperous age of the Tang Dynasty in this era. Therefore, this system is the best system that meets the productivity of this era. No matter what problems this system has in the future, at least in this era, it is definitely a good solution to the problem.

"General, are you ready to grant land?!" Chu Hui's hands were trembling a little as he listened to Liu Tai's words.

Because he didn't understand at all, wouldn't it be better for Liu Tai to compromise with the local wealthy family at this time? Why do it need to be like this!

"Mr. Chu, I didn't want to offend all the local aristocratic families. I just wanted to kill them until they didn't dare to be angry with me!" Liu Tai said sincerely, "I only killed a few families. I didn't expect that Xu Gong would raise an army to resist. As expected, the Taishan family is difficult to deal with!"

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he couldn't help but feel the domineering nature of Liu Tai's words.

I would have known that I would have fought hard no matter what, instead of allowing Liu Tai to actually carry out this order.

I originally thought that Liu Tai had killed too many members of the family and had too many benefits, so he couldn't hold back.

Therefore, I came here this time to persuade Liu Tai, and I also prepared my family's reputation as a guarantee to be an envoy.

But looking at Liu Tai taking out the military field order, the language was clear and the logic was clear. Who would believe that Liu Tai was unprepared?
"How long have you been thinking about the general's military field order..." Chu Hui suddenly felt a little powerless.

"A few months..." Liu Tai said this and looked at Chu Hui again. Chu Hui also looked at him. Liu Tai retreated and said, "Okay...

I just want to force the local noble families to rebel, and I want to wipe them out in one battle, so that the local people can get the land according to the military land order, and become a natural ally with our army.

Tai may have hidden something from Mr. Chu, but he had no intention of deceiving! "

"Does the general hate the noble family and the county commander so much?" Chu Hui felt a little helpless.

"The Han Dynasty was first usurped by Cao Wei and then by the Sima clan. Isn't it because Emperor Guangwu relied on aristocratic families to raise troops. Although he restored the Han Dynasty, he also lost a lot of grassroots foundation. The aristocratic families have since gained a lot of land.

Especially after the Sima family promulgated the land occupation system, the wealthy families almost controlled the land in the world, leaving the common people with no place to stand! "

Liu Tai said, "So family and land are issues that must be solved for the unification of the Han Dynasty. If it is not solved, even if the Han Dynasty is unified, it will only be a hundred years later and it will inevitably collapse due to land annexation!"

When Chu Hui heard Liu Tai's words, he was shocked by Liu Tai's novel views and even more surprised by Liu Tai's knowledge.

But in the end, Chu Hui only turned into a bitter smile and said, "So the aristocratic family is destined not to be tolerated by you, general?"

"That's not true!" Liu Tai said, took out a document and handed it to Chu Hui, gritted his teeth and said, "Take a look!"

After listening to Liu Tai's words, Chu Hui couldn't help but take it from Liu Tai's hand.

I found that there were densely written words about the aristocratic families that were reported by ordinary people.

To be honest, those who can be on this list must have at least [-] acres of fertile land at home. If they don’t even have this, then most of them will choose not to see Liu Tai unless they are really too many to list.

After all, the cost of sending out an army is also very important. If the benefits of wiping out the local wealthy families are too little, it is not cost-effective to send troops by yourself!
However, Chu Hui looked left and right at the list above, but in the end he couldn't see anything!

Suddenly, Chu Hui swept from above to the end and said, "Taiyangshi, Taiyangshi is not up there!"

"Yes, all the wealthy families up and down Mount Tai have been reported by the common people, but there is no Taiyang family!" Liu Taidao said helplessly,
"Are there really any nobles in this world who don't bully the common people?"

Liu Tai really didn't understand. Did the aristocratic family of the Western Jin Dynasty really have a white lotus?
Of course, this does not mean that Taiyangshi did not make any mistakes, but when Taiyangshi made a mistake, he himself took the person who made the mistake back to teach him a lesson.

Those who were bullied were compensated. At least the people felt that Taiyangshi handled it appropriately, and in the end there was not even a single complaint.

It’s impossible for the plaintiff to be satisfied and the defendant to be satisfied, but then I, a passerby, suddenly jumps out and says this is not okay!

In the final analysis, Liu Tai is reasonable, but the truth Liu Tai talks about is really not very adaptable to people of this era.

But Liu Tai, who had always disliked aristocratic families, suddenly saw such a moral family in Mount Tai. He couldn't lift the butcher's knife in his hand for a while, so he handed the Taiyang clan's information to Chu Hui and said,
“I really don’t want to slaughter the aristocratic family, I just hope that the aristocratic family can follow the rules.

For example, for the Taiyang family, after the military field order is promulgated, Master Chu will try to win over him, or at least try to make him neutral.

I can promise that this turmoil will ensure that the Taiyang clan is safe. If any of the clan members are willing to join the army by my side and work with me to fight against the Jin Dynasty and restore the Han Dynasty, I would be even more happy. "

Liu Tai said seriously.

Chu Hui looked at the list and listened to Liu Tai's words, and breathed a big sigh of relief unconsciously.

Taiyangshi... is really good.

(End of this chapter)