For empires, dominance is basically synonymous with military strength.
When the military is strong, the ruling power is strong. Whether it is a dragon or a tiger, they all lie down and dare not breathe. Everyone pays taxes honestly, works hard and does not dare to say anything.
But once the military strength begins to stretch, everything will be difficult to say.
If you can't kill me, why should I listen to you?
This is the situation the Luoyang court is facing now.
After the Han army retreated, its power was greatly reduced. Zhang Yan supported the Southern Xiongnu rebels to return and seize the throne. The morale of the Southern Xiongnu rebels was greatly boosted, and they followed the trend and launched a counterattack against the Qiang Canal.
Qiangqu, who relied on the support of the Han army to secure his position as Chanyu, did not have enough appeal. Now that the father of the Han army had been defeated, he was defeated by the Southern Huns rebels and internal rebels. He himself was killed by his cronies and beheaded. The head was given to the rebels.
After that, the rebels were very particular about supporting Qiangqu's son Yu Fuluo to ascend the throne and become the new Chanyu of the Southern Huns.
Yu Fuluo was also a filial son who was very filial. He ascended the throne in front of his father's head, and then he obeyed everyone's wishes very wholeheartedly, leading everyone to fully cooperate with Zhang Yan and Guo Tai's rebels and rejoin the rebels. Among the major leagues.
So in the mountains north of the Yellow River, the Iron Triangle of Rebels was born.
Together, they have the potential to mobilize an armed force of 100,000 people. Hedong County can hardly act as a barrier to prevent the rebels from moving south, making the rebels a huge military threat to the Luoyang court on the south bank of the Yellow River, anytime and anywhere. They can all threaten Luoyang City.
The Hedong crisis broke out in full force.
Such a crisis made Liu Hong worried and made the meat-eaters in Luoyang City unwilling to eat.
Liu Hong had never missed Liu Bei as much as he did now. He thought that if Liu Bei was by his side, he would appoint Liu Bei as the general to conquer the rebel army, and maybe he would be able to sit back and relax.
But Liu Bei is far away in Liangzhou...
It is a coincidence that Liu Hui came to Luoyang again to meet Liu Hong in order to spread Liangzhou fine salt in the land of Sanfu and Sanhe, and told Liu the good news about the sales situation of fine salt in Liangzhou. Macro.
The grand occasion in Liangzhou proves the popularity of fine salt. As long as it can be rolled out smoothly, making money every day will be child's play.
Liu Hong still needs to worry about not having enough money?
Liu Hong wanted to laugh, but the current situation really couldn't make Liu Hong laugh.
So Liu Hong complained to Liu Hui.
"Xuande is loyal to the emperor and the country, and is unstoppable, but not everyone is Xuande. Now Luoyang is in danger, and hundreds of thousands of rebels are wreaking havoc in Hebei. I really want to be happy, but I can't be happy!"
Liu Hong told Liu Hui what happened in Luoyang City and asked Liu Hui to go back and tell Liu Bei. By the way, he asked Liu Bei if he had any solution to the problem.
Liu Hui hurried back to Liangzhou and told Liu Bei about the incident.
At that time, Liu Bei was fully preparing to promote Liangzhou fine salt as a leading product to the land of Sanhe and Sanfu. When he heard about this, he was surprised by the abilities of Zhang Yan, Guo Tai and others, and also lamented the bad things done by the Luoyang court. ability.
At the same time, I felt very unhappy.
The Land of Sanhe and the Land of Sanfu are the basic foundations he planned to stabilize the world. If this is destroyed by Zhang Yan and others, it will be difficult to carry out future plans.
So Liu Bei thought about the current situation and wrote a memorial to Liu Hong. The general meaning was that attacking is not a good strategy, but holding on and dividing and disintegrating is a good strategy.
He told Liu Hong that the victory and strength of the rebels were just appearances, temporary and not permanent.
Don't be intimidated by the rebels' posturing.
The rebels are based in the mountainous area of Bingzhou and some counties. They can barely feed 100,000 armed personnel. From time to time, they have to go down the mountain to catch the autumn wind. It is wishful thinking to promote a 100,000-strong army to launch a strategic offensive.
The amount of food required to stay at home and launch military operations is not the same order of magnitude.
Bingzhou is not a major food-producing area. The rebels may rely more on plundering rather than self-sufficiency. Rebels without the ability to be self-sufficient cannot mobilize 100,000 people to attack. At most, it would be interesting to let the court know that they cannot Easy to deal with.
They show their teeth and claws to cover up their weakness. Their foundation determines that they cannot compete with the imperial court for a long time, otherwise famine will destroy them.
Therefore, what the imperial court has to do is not to confront them head-on, but to stick to the city, fortress, and Yellow River, not to fight with them in the field, and to delay the time. Soon, the rebels will retreat instead of continuing to advance.
After that, the imperial army can slowly advance and conquer the lost territory, then the war situation will return to the original state, and the rebels will gain nothing.
If the court still wants to make a difference, it can assign various official positions and titles to the rebel leaders, creating discord among them, and they will naturally fight among themselves.
If you don't want to do anything and just want to settle the matter, then give the rebel leader Zhang Yan an official position. Liu Bei has reason to believe that after seeing the military dynamics of the Luoyang court, Zhang Yan will retreat.
After the rebels retreated after realizing the difficulty, and the imperial court regained its strength, it would be possible to put down the rebels if they continued to plan slowly.
After writing the memorial, Liu Bei asked Liu Hui to arrange for someone to send the memorial to Luoyang as quickly as possible and hand it over to Liu Hong. He continued to work overtime to meet with Meng Tuo and put Liangzhou Fine Salt in Sanfu. The plan to spread the land continues.
As the scale of his wealth expanded, Liu Bei took more and more actions, faster and faster, and he was no longer secretive about promoting the construction of collective farms in Liangzhou.
He expressed his attitude that if the agricultural pattern in Liangzhou is to be dominated by collective farms and supplemented by private farms, he needs to organize more people in the form of collective farms and be directly responsible to the government.
Liangzhou has a vast territory and is sparsely populated. If he wants to embark on the road of great development, it is inevitable to concentrate manpower on big things. He will never allow anyone to interfere with this route.
He also made it clear to his subordinates who basically have a lot of land and property, I will not pursue your existing land, but after that, you can't expand it casually, and your interests can be turned to other directions. The land in Liangzhou, 伱They can't touch each other anymore.
If you touch me again, I won't be polite.
Regardless of whether they have land property in Liangzhou or not, the subordinates who are completely bound to him can only choose to accept Liu Bei's request.
Some people with high consciousness even took the initiative to dedicate part of their land to Liu Bei, and the tenants bound to it were also willing to hand it over to Liu Bei in exchange for Liu Bei's favor.
Such as Gai Xun, such as Yan Zhong, such as Jia Xu.
They are all people with great political acumen and political awareness, and they also own extensive land and property locally. After learning about Liu Bei's goal, they immediately stated that they would never engage in land expansion in Liangzhou, and were willing to dedicate part of their land to Liu Bei for use. Build collective farms.
What is enlightenment?
This is called enlightenment!
Liu Bei accepted their donation, praised them in public, and then classified the land and population they donated into the government household registration, preparing to build a new collective farm.
With these three people taking the lead, people who wanted to please Liu Bei in order to obtain greater benefits could not help but began to pay attention to their own industries, hoping to use the land that could be found elsewhere in exchange for more from Liu Bei's attention.
What you pay now is to get more in the future. The more you give, the more you earn!
The upper class in Liangzhou began to release part of the land and population in accordance with Liu Bei's needs. The promotion of collective farms in Hanyang County, Longxi County, Wuwei County and other counties went further, and the construction of more than 100 collective farms was planned. among.
At this moment, as Liu Bei's previous policy of encouraging childbirth gradually spread across the land of Liangzhou, this policy also began to show its powerful power.
At the beginning, the promotion of this policy relied on administrative power and government initiative.
Under Liu Bei's order, all counties and counties were asked to take the lead in action and set an example for the counties under each county. The officers sent by Liu Bei personally led the teams and took the initiative to go to the countryside to provide warmth to the farmers.
Fellow! We are here to bring warmth! Open the door quickly!
As a result, this sudden action of sending warmth frightened many people.
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PS: I clearly wrote yesterday’s PS, why didn’t anyone see it? It’s so strange. People with looks above 90% can obviously see it, but the people who read my book should be pretty boys and pretty girls. How could it be?
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