The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 86 One is stationing grain and the other is stationing guns.

Yu Yao looked at his county soldiers, who had gradually become familiar with dredging canals over the past month, and couldn't help but reveal a smile on his face.

He never thought that the soldiers he trained could still do this job.

At first, the county soldiers under his command were very resistant to doing this work.

After all, he was a soldier in the government, and his family was assigned some land. He wanted to be a regular soldier under Liu Tai, not just a soldier in the county.

Because the regular army not only divides the land, but also divides the women, slaves, and even the wealth of the wealthy families after conquering the place.

In short, ambitious soldiers want to use this opportunity to climb into the regular army.

But my commander-in-chief actually took over the job of dredging canals from General Liu. Isn't this a job for corvees? Why are we county soldiers doing this?

However, Yu Yao said that the purpose of dredging the canals was to solve the locust plague problem, especially for brothers who had fields at home. When the canals were dredged this time, they could also solve the water problem of their own fields. These soldiers gradually became active.

At the same time, Liu Tai also began to suggest that Yu Yao use some management techniques, such as mutual competition and progress announcements.

Military historians even carried out ideological reform on these county soldiers, making them understand that dredging the canals was to fight locusts and to ensure this year's food harvest, so the morale of the county soldiers was getting higher and higher.

But what really made the county soldiers become more active in their work was that the local people knew that they could get food by dredging the canals. More and more people participated, which made them feel valuable.

During this process, the common people were firstly afraid of the officials, and secondly, they hoped to eat the food provided as work-for-relief, so they naturally admired or flattered the county soldiers who dredged the canals, and they were somewhat flattering. said.

After all, the people need to eat and want to stay here for a long time. Even if they just want to move bricks here, if you don't have a good relationship with the soldiers here, how can you move here.

After all, you are a temporary worker, and these county soldiers are more or less considered career workers, and things like happiness naturally become a comparative level.

The arrival of the common people somewhat demonstrated their status to the county soldiers, which naturally increased their enthusiasm for work.

The people who worked for Liu Tai this time were mainly divided into two categories, one was those with land and the other was landless.

People who have land at home are naturally those who want to leave the land for a year and then look at it again the next year.

Those without land are mainly divided into two groups. One is the original tenants in Taishan County, and the other is the refugees who came to Taishan.

Yes, there are still tenants in Taishan County.

Not to mention that Liu Tai himself gathered a large part of the tenants to establish collective estates, and Liu Tai only drove away the aristocratic families in Taishan County who resisted him, such as the Yang family, or some rich peasants, there were also of the tenants.

After all, Liu Tai is not implementing twentieth-century policies, he just wants to control the population and land resources of Taishan County as much as possible.

For these people, the locust plague really destroyed the foundation of their existence.

For a good family with farmland and food storage, they can still do it if they persist for another year and see how things go.

But for the tenants who had no fields and no food to store, or some ancient gangsters, the locust plague destroyed a large number of crops in Taishan County. Especially as the crops died, many fields no longer needed tenants to maintain, and they suddenly lost their jobs to survive. .

The better ones among them were bought by aristocratic families to serve as a hidden population, but some of them still had to fend for themselves.

Liu Tai's current project of clearing the canals and allowing them to eat that day is life-saving for them.

To be honest, Liu Tai originally wanted to give money.

After all, Liu Tai comes from modern times and clearly understands the role of leaving some money in the hands of the people.

It is not purely to allow people to trade and prepare for the circulation of goods, but to give people more hope.

Yes, it is to allow the people who have nothing to have a little hope for the future, just like a flame in the darkness.

For the vast majority of people at the bottom, their needs are really not much, and they only need the most basic food, clothing, housing and transportation.

Only when the people solve these four things can they have higher pursuits. If they cannot even solve the basic guarantee of survival, then any other hope will be an illusory illusion. As long as some big disaster comes, the people will be defeated. Return to prototype.

Liu Taizheng thought of this, so he did not pay these people.

Because when they took the money, they found that whatever they wanted to buy in Taishan County would go up, so the coins they gave them would become a factor of instability.

If you want to circulate currency and establish your own commodity system, you must first have your own commodities.

This kind of commodity is not the crude barter trade of surplus products under the self-sufficient system of the small farmer era.

It's about products that can really meet the daily needs of the people. But the problem is that Liu Tai can't even let the people spend money to buy the simplest food, such as steamed buns.

Liu Tai himself cannot provide enough goods, so it is more practical to pay the so-called wages to the people than to let them eat directly.

Of course, after these refugee tenants were registered in Chu Hui and became people under Liu Tai's command, Liu Tai began to select places for them to build houses and help them settle down.

But these things all require money. Since you have nothing, then work for the government, build canals, or do other corvee services. After working for two years, the house will be yours. During your stay, we will provide you with two meals.

When the tenants who came here heard this condition, they all had to kneel down to thank Liu Tai for his kindness!
It's not that Liu Tai never thought of giving them land or letting them reclaim the land, but he ultimately rejected it.

One is because Liu Tai wanted some farmers to develop into corvees and later become engineering teams.

In addition, he has implemented a land equalization system. Either local people will receive certain subsidies for joining the army, or they will receive acres of land for military merit.

In short, it is impossible to allocate fields to just any refugee who comes over.

Now that the rules have been established, they cannot be easily overturned, because there are countless stakeholders up and down this rule, and any change in the rules will be resisted by everyone in the chain of interests.

As for letting them reclaim the land, this sounds simple, but the question is what about the reclamation tools?What about crop seeds?What about the food consumption during this process?

Reclaiming fields has never been easy, especially for the vast majority of refugees. Reclaiming fields seems simple, but this is a challenge that requires a generation of refugees to complete. Those who can complete it are basically human beings. Winning the dragon and the phoenix.Because in essence, this is tantamount to completing a class leap, from a gangster with no land and house to a good family man.

Therefore, with the construction of water conservancy projects, the lowest level gangsters and tenant farmers received not only the food for survival, but also houses for themselves to live in.

Farmers who resisted cultivating wheat received food, and some even established relationships with soldiers.

As for the soldiers who were responsible for the work at the beginning, they felt that working here was not that bad. After all, building canals was beneficial to them who owned the fields, and at the same time, they could gain respect from the people.

For Liu Tai, this project was used in exchange for the comfort of Mount Tai and the initial shaping of the engineering team.

But Liu Tai also knew very well that this was not enough. After all, more literate people needed to join the engineering team, so that it would be more convenient for him to build water conservancy projects in the future.

Of course, in this win-win system where everyone benefits, we have to thank the original aristocratic families in Taishan County.

It was their wealth and food that revitalized the lifeless Taishan County and allowed Liu Tai to survive the most critical moment.

However, Gou Xi did not live as calmly as Liu Tai, not to mention that as the sequelae of the locust plague gradually arrived, victims from the north began to attack the territory of Qingzhou under his jurisdiction.

As for his territory, although it is not enough to provide disaster relief to the people of Qingzhou, it is still enough to ensure food for his own army.

After all, when people let go of their inner morality, they will find that the world is vast and the sky is wide for them to swim freely.

However, if Gou Xi wanted to defeat Liu Tai in one go, he would have to expand his army, but this would lead to insufficient food, so Gou Xi began to run towards the large and small aristocratic families in Qingzhou.

Since Gou Xi was relegated and came to Qingzhou, Gou Xi has enforced strict laws in Qingzhou. Enforcing the laws was more or less because he wanted to vent his inner anger of being reprimanded, which inevitably caused considerable persecution to the local aristocratic families. .

After all, punishment was not enough for the scholar-bureaucrats, and any wealthy family would always resist punishment, not to mention that Gou Xi was from a poor family. Now it was Gou Xi's turn to punish them, so they naturally took advantage of it.

However, Gou Xi is not Liu Tai, and he can completely sweep away the wealthy families without any care.

After all, he is an official and a member of the Jin court system, so at this time, he can only reason with the aristocratic families. They don't ask for help, at least they visit, but they also want to get some food.

Of course, this is okay, after all, they are a noble family, but if the local wealthy families are not discerning, they will just kill them.

After all, Gou Xi couldn't afford to offend a noble family, so why couldn't he afford to offend a wealthy family?

The resources Gou Xi obtained from Qingzhou were enough for him to recruit and train new soldiers. Not only had the original battle losses been replenished, but with the help of the locust plague, the number of soldiers recruited reached 5.

As for the armistice agreement between Liu Tai and Gou Xi, in Gou Xi's opinion, it should be torn up.

However, Gou Xi did not immediately drive the newly recruited soldiers towards Liu Tai. After all, he also had to train a little, which would take at least half a year, to at least make these people obey orders and fight the enemy.

Of course, Gou Xi's strategy inevitably depletes Qingzhou to some extent.

But in Gou Xi's view, if he could defeat Liu Tai, his strategy would be worthwhile. After all, Liu Tai's elite Gou Xi was also impressed.

So to a certain extent, the relationship between Liu Tai and Gou Xi is that Liu Tai is stationing grain and Gou Xi is stationing troops. No one knows whether Mount Tai will become a granary when the next battle breaks out.

However, just as Liu Tai was preparing for the next war, Yuan Yan came over with Liu Cong's imperial edict.

Yuan Yan came all the way to Mount Tai and found that there was only one county between them. Taishan County was full of excitement and vitality, but the surrounding counties and cities were in ruins due to the locust plague, but they had to admire Chu Hui's governance talent.

Yuan Yan did not delay, and immediately went to the governor's house to find Chu Hui, and then went to Liu Tai to read the imperial edict.

After Yuan Yan read out Liu Cong's decree to grant Liu Tai the governor of Qingzhou, Yuan Yan laughed and said, "Now I want to call the general the governor of Qingzhou!"

"The whole territory of Qingzhou is under Gou Xi, and I, the governor of Qingzhou, am just a name." Liu Tai sighed.

"As long as the general captures Qingzhou, then the name of Qingzhou's governor will naturally be well-deserved!" Yuan Yan said.

"Do you have any strategies to teach me?" Liu Tai couldn't help but smile after hearing what Yuan Yan said.

"I don't have a strategy, but I do have a letter from Duke Donglai here. It was Duke Donglai who knew I was coming to Mount Tai and entrusted it to me." Yuan Yan said to Liu Tai and took out a letter. .

"Oh?" Liu Tai took the letter from Yuan Yan's hand and opened it generously. He saw that these words were indeed written by Wang Mi. In addition, there was a list of names on it. A list of large and small aristocratic families in Qingzhou.

Liu Tai understood that Wang Mi really believed what he said about the shortage of major generals and lack of food and grass.

Wang Mishan naturally couldn't produce food because of the high mountain and long distances, so he took out this list and asked himself to borrow food from the Qingzhou family.

But although Wang Mi gave himself the list of these aristocratic families, it does not mean that these aristocratic families will definitely be used by him.

But relatively speaking, these aristocratic families have had a relationship with Wang Mi's Donglai Wang family, so they are the ones that can be fought for.

You can even ask them to switch sides first, and then ask them to support you with some food. I believe they will give it to some extent.

"However, it doesn't look like these wallflowers are used like this!" Liu Tai thought for a moment and saluted Yuan Yan solemnly, "Thank you Angel for sending me the information to break the enemy's secrets. I'm afraid this thing can be worth a hundred thousand troops. !”

"Oh~ Na Yan is wishing the general victory!" Yuan Yan congratulated Liu Tai.

Liu Tai also smiled and said to Yuan Yan, "I would also like to ask the angel to stay here for a few days, so that I can fulfill my duty as a landlord."

Yuan Yan nodded. He planned to rest here for a few days, but he also took a look at Taishan County along the way.

After all, in such a troubled place, such a paradise suddenly appeared. To be honest, Yuan Yan was quite rare.

After Liu Tai arranged for the manpower to be dispatched by Yuan Yan, he immediately called several of his lieutenants over to plan against Gou Xi.

(End of this chapter)