The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 64 Policy Framework

"As most of the local wealthy families in Taishan County have been wiped out by us, I think we urgently need to deal with our three current problems now!" Liu Tai looked at Chu Hui coming over and said straight to the point.

"General Liu, please elaborate!" Chu Hui said respectfully.

Liu Tai said at this moment: "First of all, there is the contradiction between limited land resources and a large number of meritorious soldiers.

Secondly, there is the contradiction between the idea of ​​slave soldiers and our idea of ​​reviving the Han Dynasty.

And the contradiction between the Xuzhou soldiers who own land and the old soldiers who do not have land.

How about it, what do you think? "

Chu Hui was called over by Liu Tai. He was still thinking about why Liu Tai was looking for him.

But he didn't expect Liu Tai to ask such three questions as soon as he opened his mouth. Chu Hui was stunned when he asked, and he didn't even think about it.

Liu Tai waited patiently for a while, and Chu Hui said one by one:

"Reporting back to the general, the conflict between the land-owning Xuzhou people and the landless old soldiers can be easily resolved.

Because it’s not that they don’t want land, it’s that they have no family to cultivate the land.

Therefore, the female slaves obtained from these wealthy families can be allocated to the soldiers. After they get married, their land will be cultivated by healthy women, and they will naturally have a greater sense of belonging to us. "

"This is a way to help soldiers get married..." Liu Tai nodded thoughtfully after hearing Chu Hui's words!

"As for the slave soldiers you mentioned, I don't think they have any idea at all about restoring the Han Dynasty or defending the Jin Dynasty.

They work as slaves for other wealthy families, and they are also slaves when they follow us. There will be no disloyalty! "

Chu Hui didn't understand Liu Tai's words and said, to be honest, he didn't think there was any problem in using these people.

When Liu Tai heard this, he looked deeply at Chu Hui, feeling a little helpless.

This guy came from a high-class family in the Jin Dynasty. He would not object to the use of slaves at all, and even took it as a matter of course.

Chu Hui looked at Liu Tai's helpless expression and clearly understood that he had lost points in his answer.

But after all, Chu Hui is a person who can really work, especially when he encounters problems, he can always find a solution.

At this moment, Chu Hui said: "Actually, you can manage them through military training.

Although they were born as slaves, it is impossible to say that they did not live a happy life with enough food and clothing.

Even if they don't seem to be suitable warriors in your opinion, just manage them in a legion's way.

After all, when Emperor Wu of Wei came to manage the Qingzhou soldiers, didn't he always manage them in the way of military camps? "

Cao Cao's farming system was not implemented for a long time. For Chu Hui, although he didn't know what Liu Tai expected from these slave soldiers, if he just wanted to manage them, he could eventually find a solution by looking for cases!

This is the benefit of having a long history. You can always find some plausible solutions if you search in history.

At most, it would be nice to tinker a little bit and transform this system into a system suitable for the appropriate environment.

To be honest, any policy ultimately depends on the resources in the hands of politicians and the intensity of policy implementation. In the final analysis, any system is just a way to effectively allocate resources.

"The farming system..." Liu Tai thought thoughtfully after hearing Chu Hui's words. In Liu Tai's view, the farming system was a wartime system created by Cao Cao to expand the tax base and plunder the people's wealth.

When this kind of system is at war everywhere, the people will naturally be able to endure any suffering in order to survive.

After all, living itself is the most important and greatest thing.

But when the environment is relatively peaceful, government exploitation is serious, and people feel that there is no hope for continuing to work, so they naturally resist this system.

Of course, the biggest reason why the farming system was resisted by the gentry was that the farming system itself attracted many people who were not originally registered in the household registration, and allowed them to be re-registered in the local household registration.

To some extent, Cao Cao not only occupied the land of the nobles, but also absorbed the hidden population of the nobles.

This system would naturally be abandoned by the gentry that gradually grew in Cao Wei. Then the Jin court, the gentry dynasty, proposed the land occupation system, a new system that helped the gentry occupy land and hide the population.

Under the land occupation system, it is probably a confusing question how much land and population were occupied by the gentry.

"As for the contradiction between limited land resources and the sudden increase in population that you mentioned, it's really hard to explain~" Chu Hui complained, and then said,
"In fact, it is the easiest. To conquer Gou Xi in Qingzhou, it will definitely be enough to conquer the land as big as Qingzhou.

If you lose...Liu Huben, you will definitely not lose! "

Liu Tai couldn't help but press his temples when he heard Chu Hui's words. He had to say, don't ask if Chu Hui's solutions are in line with his own wishes, but they are definitely solutions to the problem!

It is undeniable that these also gave me considerable reference significance. Originally, I was more or less in the dark when dealing with this matter.

In my head, there are modern thoughts of attacking the local tycoons, dividing the fields, and then continuing to fight against the local tyrants, and continuing to divide the fields, and the cycle continues endlessly until the world is completely divided.

"We need to establish an institutional framework to solve this series of problems!" Liu Tai patted his head and said seriously,
"How about I combine it with your thoughts to supplement it, and then you can take it back and refine it, and then I'll leave it to you to handle it."

"My thoughts..." Chu Hui looked at Liu Tai suspiciously, but still nodded and said, "General Liu, please tell me."

Liu Tai said decisively: "First of all, because the land in our hands is limited, or I think giving all the land to Xuzhou soldiers is an irresponsible act in itself.

So this time we will give two thousand soldiers, no!A thousand Xuzhou soldiers divided the land.

It means that only those who have military merit can obtain land. "

"Fifty thousand acres of land..." Chu Hui calculated the number of land and suddenly understood Liu Tai's stringent attitude towards land.

It is really easy to use land to motivate people to join the army, but cultivated land is not available everywhere.

What's more important is that if too much cultivated land is given, I am afraid that the internal shortage of cultivated land will soon force Liu Tai to continue fighting.

"Then, as you said, arrange marriages for the soldiers who have been following you and solve their major life issues.

Especially for people over 30 years old, we can even arrange for him to settle down in Taishan County and be granted land.

I can also take advantage of the situation and arrange for them to do simple work in maintaining public order in the local area. Liu Tai said calmly.

"Huh? Your Excellency, are you going to lay off your soldiers?" Chu Hui couldn't help but wonder after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"The soldiers are not being laid off. We are just letting these retired veterans help train the soldiers who have farmland in Taishan County. Then the best among the soldiers will be selected to join our official Tiger Army when we go out to fight." Liu Tai slowly said road.

"You can give this a try?!" Chu Hui nodded thoughtfully after hearing Liu Tai's words.

"Speaking of which, we will also classify the soldiers a little bit. Soldiers who have land in Xuzhou will be arranged to become government soldiers and local county soldiers. Their main responsibility is to maintain local security, defend the city and other original tasks of the county soldiers.

Because they have local industry, and those with permanent property have perseverance, and at least they are more willing to maintain local order than others! "

Liu Tai thought thoughtfully and continued, "The soldiers who did not obtain the land will continue to be integrated into the regular order of our army.

They will enjoy military benefits, such as three meals a day, clothing, and learning knowledge. More importantly, soldiers need to start receiving food as their salary.

Let these people regard being a soldier as a job and encourage them to study military skills!
And when the local land is captured in the future, part of the captured land can be granted to outstanding warriors. "

"How similar is this to the soldiers of the Wei Dynasty?" Chu Hui said thoughtfully after hearing Liu Tai's words, "However, although the recruitment system can train soldiers who are quite elite, I don't think so. It’s quite difficult to feed them!”

Liu Tai nodded. The most troublesome thing about the recruitment system is often giving money to be invincible. If you don't give money, you can fire three shots, which means you can be worthy of the emperor.

But at least in the early stage, as long as the rewards are enough, the recruitment system itself is not a problem. After all, they are professional soldiers.

"I'll figure out how to raise the troops. At least we won this war and captured a large amount of food and materials from the wealthy families in Taishan County. We don't need to worry about these problems in the short term!" Liu Tai said.

If it weren't for such a large amount of income, Liu Tai wouldn't dare to design like this.

As for what to do in the future, Liu Tai feels that he can always think of a way after he has his own territory.

Chu Hui could only nod, but felt that after he went back, he needed to think carefully about what to do.

Liu Tai continued, "We conduct military camps, but our military camps are different from those in the past.

We use the best of the slave soldiers to work in the fields, and the fruits of the work belong to the entire military camp. After enough food and clothing are left for the slaves, everything else is handed over to us.

At least in this military camp, we need to keep them alive, but only alive! "

"This..." Chu Hui was a little unbelievable when he heard Liu Tai's words. This was completely different from his attitude towards other people.

"Of course, because it is a unified military camp, it is easier for us to manage.

In the future, whether they are military veterans or veterans after retiring from the army, they will be gradually placed in these military camps.

Let them know that they can either study hard to become a court official and assist us in grassroots management.

Either join the army, be selected to become a soldier in the army, and then get your own land, or even be knighted! "

Chu Hui was a little confused when he listened to Liu Tai's words, because he didn't understand what Liu Tai wanted to do.

If you want to treat these slaves better, there is no need to let them live in such a cruel collective farm system.

If you don't want to treat them as human beings at all, but simply as slaves, then why give them hope and a channel for their advancement.

This kind of system design is full of incredible things!
And Liu Tai knew that because of the establishment of the gentry dynasty, many gentry basically regarded the lower class people as human beings, let alone their slaves.

Look at the so-called Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the noble and beautiful aristocratic families basically killed their servants at the drop of a hat.

The most typical one is Shi Chong's persuasion to drink and kill beauties. For the sons of aristocratic families, they really don't regard the people at the bottom as human beings.

Because in their opinion, they are two completely different species, and maybe the alien race is better than them.

Similarly, the people at the bottom, or those who serve the aristocratic families, do not regard themselves as human beings.

It's like many people in modern times who have liberated their minds look at Wang Sicong's daily consumption of dogs and wish they could replace them with their own bodies.

In this era, many slaves and people do not feel ashamed that they can be slaves of top families. On the contrary, they feel more honored and even go to the environment where they live to show off.

Therefore, many people really only hate why they cannot be slaves, and even hate those who do not allow them to be slaves!

Liu Tai was not a great revolutionary leader, let alone a great ideological mentor. He was incapable and unable to achieve the personal liberation of the Han people. Even the productivity of this era did not allow for the so-called liberation.

Therefore, all Liu Tai can do is give up his willingness to help others and respect the lives of others.

Since you want to be slaves, then be your own slaves. If you take over the world one day, then you will be the slaves of the people in the world.

But if you can awaken your mind and even want to climb out of the slave class, then Liu Tai has given them two ways.

One is to study and serve as an official, and the other is to practice martial arts and study.

As for the rest, there don’t need to be many roads for the bottom layer, just two are enough.

Even those who work in small towns have at least left the town, and even some who are more ambitious may be able to give back to the town in the future.

And these children who come out of collective rural areas will also follow the same path in the future.

Chu Hui listened to Liu Tai's words, and after a while he picked up Liu Tai's pen and paper and began to record in detail.

Finally, Liu Tai finished speaking and continued, "At first, it was just an idea and framework, but if I want to implement it further, I need you to help me fill in and perfect the entire framework.

To put it simply, we must have public land in our hands, and the people must have private land in their hands, so as to increase the people's enthusiasm for work as much as possible and let them support our rule in Taishan County.

As for the aristocratic family, if they are willing to cherish the feather moral heirloom, I will naturally not touch them, and I will even be willing to accept them.

But if they are unwilling to obey my ideas, then they can only say they are different and do not want to work together! "

"I'll take it back and add more." Chu Hui looked at the framework Liu Tai gave and couldn't help but look at it carefully and replied.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Mr. Chu." Liu Tai couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Chu Hui had agreed to this matter.

As for government affairs, basically after Liu Tai and Chu Hui completed their discussions, they began to tentatively spread them out.

The rewards for military exploits, the disposal of prisoners, and the arrangements for local people all began to be processed one by one under the framework formulated by Liu Tai.

It can be said that Liu Tai and Chu Hui have almost become the busiest people in the entire Taishan County.

Taishan County, which had just experienced the war, gradually became prosperous and lively under the busy schedule of the two people.

(End of this chapter)