Above the main hall of Deyang Palace, Cao Pi honestly accepted the diagnosis and treatment from the imperial doctor.
The affairs of the farmers are no longer a matter of one or two days. Even if Cao Pi knocks down the beams and pillars of Deyang Palace, these farmers will not be able to come back for a while.
On the other hand, Cao Pi's illness may cause serious problems if it is not treated in time.
The emperor's disease is the disease in the world.
Fortunately, after the diagnosis by the imperial doctor, Cao Pi just had some blood surge after being angry for a while, causing blood vessels to be blocked and anger to attack his heart.
This disease, to put it bluntly, is a bit of high blood pressure, which can be a major or minor condition.
Take care of yourself and exercise more. At Cao Pi's age, you can still adjust. However, in this era, the imperial doctor is making a diagnosis. He will not tell Cao Pi so much. He will just let Cao Pi rest in peace and recuperate, and then prescribe some medicine to soothe his nerves and replenish his energy.
If you don't make mistakes, you must be right. This is the way of survival for medical doctors.
But Cao Pi really couldn't rest, and he didn't have the intention.
The farming system is much more serious than Cao Pi imagined.
The inventor of the farming system was not Cao Cao, but the person who used it on a large scale and carried forward this system was undoubtedly Cao Cao.
The farming system cannot be seen from the perspective of future generations. If you look at this system from the perspective of future generations, farmers have toiled for a year and half of their output needs to be handed over. This field is not theirs yet.
Really, it would be unreasonable not to rebel.
But in this war-torn era, the farming system is the most effective way to stabilize the refugees and enrich the treasury without touching the interests of the aristocratic families.
In these days, if you want to farm land with peace of mind, there will be land for you. Whether to be a farmer or a refugee, I believe that people who have experienced war will have their own set of choices.
What Cao Cao did really go too far was probably forcibly moving some people from places like Jingzhou and Hanzhong to Guanzhong and the Central Plains, turning these people from landless farmers into farmers.
But no matter what, this system has more advantages than disadvantages in this era, and it can also be said to be the foundation for Cao Wei's rapid rise.
But now, this foundation is being eroded by aristocratic families. It's not just eating away at it, it's swallowing it up.
In a place like Luoyang, an important place in the Western Capital and a place with strict rule of law, local aristocratic families can embezzle more than 30,000 farmers. How can you let Cao Pi rest in peace? This is digging into the foundation of the Wei Dynasty.
At this time, Sun Zi and Liu Fang wanted to say something, but they didn't dare to speak at all, and Liu Ye... Well, the floor pattern of Deyang Hall is really beautiful.
Now Cao Pi finally understood why Liu Ye would describe such a good strategy as a bad one. To move the people to farm, he simply wanted to grab food from the mouths of the wealthy families. Even if this "food" originally belonged to Cao Pi, the family As long as the rich people take it into their mouths, if you try to get them to spit it out, they will become anxious with you.
With the current status of the aristocratic family in the Wei Dynasty, this matter is actually being investigated from another angle.
What made Cao Pi most angry was that the culprit of all this was himself.
In order to shut up these aristocratic families on the issue of abdication to Han Dynasty and to give the Wei Dynasty to Han Dynasty legal legitimacy, Cao Pi made some unspeakable deals with the aristocratic families - Cao Pi allowed these aristocratic families to remain hidden to a certain extent. Land Dingkou, in exchange for the support of these aristocratic families for him to become emperor.
This is not a serious matter. Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu of the Later Han Dynasty was also forced to do this by his aristocratic family, which led to the "Dutian Incident" going unsolved. Although Emperor Guangwu played a role in dividing the country, this necessity was also Compromise is also a means.
But Cao Pi really didn't expect that this group of aristocratic families would be so greedy. In just five years, they had eaten up 30% of the farmers. This was still in Luoyang. If it were in other places, Cao Pi would not dare to think about farming. How has the system been broken?
As for colluding with the garrison, arbitrarily changing the proportion of grain and grass payment, and changing the ratio of 50 to 50 cents set by Cao Cao to six public and four civilians, or even seven public and three civilians. Compared with the matter of embezzling the Dingkou of the garrison, it is actually Seems less important.
This has greatly exceeded Cao Pi's expectations. Really, sometimes, Cao Pi even thought about how to just turn his back and punish these unscrupulous wealthy families. Unfortunately, the reality did not allow it.
If Cao Pi can really conquer Jiangdong in the east and destroy the Shu thieves in the west, and truly unify the world, then Cao Pi really has the ambition to rectify the problems of the aristocratic family. Cao Pi is not the kind of short-sighted person. Even if the things that oppose the royal family cannot be completely eliminated, they will certainly not be able to make things easier for them.
But it's a pity that the current situation, let alone Cao Pi, is the Wei Dynasty. If you don't respond well, your country will be unstable. If you get angry again, it is your own sin, and you must endure it.
The only thing Cao Pi can comfort himself now is that he is still young, only in his thirties. There is still time.
But no matter what happens in the future, the current difficulties will still have to be overcome.
We can't ignore the affairs of the farmers, but we can't fall out with the aristocratic families at this juncture.
so.
"Mr. Ziyang, as you just said, you are discussing with the aristocratic families to jointly fight against the Shu thieves. Is there a plan?!"
Cao Pi is the one who feels aggrieved.
There is obviously a better way, but it's strange that now I have to use this strategy of asking for help to not feel aggrieved.
Liu Ye also looked up in surprise. The pattern on the floor tiles finally couldn't attract Liu Ye's attention.
To be honest, Liu Ye really didn't expect that Cao Pi would choose this nominally middle strategy, but actually the worst strategy.
If you go to discuss "borrowing troops" with those aristocratic families, you might as well give in and form an alliance with Sun Quan. Although it will lose face, if Sun Quan really backstabs Jingzhou again, the siege of Nanyang will be easily solved, and at the same time, Liu Bei can Sun Quan's alliance collapsed, and the world returned to a three-legged situation. Instead of being like now, the Wei Dynasty will always have to fight one against two, and be attacked from both sides.
If Xu Huang and others lead the imperial army to return for reinforcements, the Third Auxiliary Army in Chang'an will have enough troops, and Liu Bei will naturally not be able to advance to the Third Auxiliary Army.
And if Liu Bei's army cannot conquer Chang'an, even if he occupies Mei County, Sanguan and other places, it will not last long. Instead, he will have to disperse his troops to garrison, and at the same time waste food and grass. When the world changes, it will be easy for the Wei Dynasty to take back these places. things.
It can be said that this is the method with the least loss. Except that you, Cao Pi, have lost face.
Of course, even so, such a strategy was just the middle strategy in Liu Ye's plan. After all, the foundation of the Wei Dynasty was to abdicate and replace the Han Dynasty. How could he allow another emperor to be alongside him?
Among Liu Ye's strategies, the real best strategy was actually Liu Ye's inferior strategy to Cao Pi--recruiting farmers as soldiers.
Although Cao Pi had acquiesced to some privileges of the aristocratic families due to some previous political transactions, this is an imperial society after all. The emperor acquiesced, you can do it, if the emperor really wants to fall out, the aristocratic families may not have such great courage. You have to go against the emperor.
Especially for farming, if aristocratic families want to profit from it, there are many ways. Cao Pi does not want to imitate Emperor Guangwu to rectify the aristocratic families and confiscate the land that the aristocratic families have embezzled. These aristocratic families will not easily quarrel with the emperor because of some interests that do not involve their foundation. Angry.
Therefore, in Liu Ye's strategy, Cao Pi could completely take advantage of the pressure of the current situation and use the excuse of conscripting the peasants to regain control of the peasants under the peasant system. He might have to pay some price for this, and he would have to It will bear a certain amount of turbulence, but in Liu Ye's opinion, it is acceptable.
After all, compared with Liu Bei's fish scale album system that has been tried for almost ten years, some of the systems in the Wei Dynasty are more in line with the interests of these aristocratic families. It is impossible for the aristocratic families to really follow the situation because of the farming people. Cao Pi turned against Liu Bei and went to meet Liu Bei.
But Liu Ye really didn't expect that Cao Pi didn't have such courage. He didn't even have the courage to risk a chess game with the aristocratic family on the matter of the villagers. Instead, he chose the real last resort.
If you really want to ask for help from an aristocratic family, then you may lose other rights, not to mention the farmers. In order to protect Nanyang and Guanzhong, is this price really worth it? !
For a moment, Liu Ye really didn't know how he should answer Cao Pi.
He never thought that Cao Pi would have this choice.
In fact, Liu Ye talked so much nonsense and listed the affairs of the farmers as a bad idea, just because he was thinking about the rest of his life.
In Liu Ye's opinion, Cao Pi should choose to recruit farmers to solve the current shortage of troops. At that time, the person who came up with this idea will definitely be hated by the family. Liu Ye said that this was a bad idea, but it was just a bad idea. Just to put aside the relationship.
Anyway, I, Liu Ye, said it was a bad idea, it was the Emperor Qiangang who made the arbitrary decision. You aristocratic families are capable of defying the Emperor! ! !
Liu Ye had already thought of all the excuses, but Cao Pi actually came up with one for himself. What is this? !
Really, from Wei Chen's point of view, Liu Ye really should persuade Cao Pi. He must hear some flattering words. If you don't choose the best policy, do you have to choose the worst policy? !
But from the standpoint of one's own family, and from the standpoint of the rest of one's life, do we really want to secede from the world's famous families? !
Liu Ye didn't have the courage.
Just when Liu Ye was entangled, the servant suddenly entered Deyang Palace and reported to Cao Pi. Taiwei Jia Xu asked for an audience.
When Cao Pi heard that Jia Xu had arrived, he immediately stopped asking Liu Ye for his opinion and stood up to greet him at the door.
On the one hand, Jia Xu has a very high status. As one of the three princes, he is also a Taiwei. At the same time, he is benevolent to Cao Pi. It is natural for Cao Pi to come to greet him.
On the other hand, Cao Pi still believed in Jia Xu more than Liu Ye.
This old fox must have other ways to deal with the current situation.
(End of chapter)
