Needless to say, the chief officials in these areas in southern Jizhou actually wanted to have a good talk about this matter with the local powerful families and strive for a peaceful solution.
Although many of the current officials in the Third Reich were trained by Liu Bei himself, after all, the time was relatively short. Despite a series of political purges and "nepotism", almost half of the officials in the entire ruling group of the Third Reich were still from the Third Reich. Old officials from the Second Empire.
In a broad sense, these people can belong to the old official faction, which is quite different in thinking mode from the new official faction cultivated by Liu Bei himself.
The people brought out by Liu Bei are naturally branded with the indelible mark of Liu Bei. That means that no one in the world is afraid of him. Even the King of Heaven will spit on him when he comes.
But for old-school officials, they are definitely more accustomed to negotiating to solve problems than fighting.
We can talk about anything. Are there any issues that we cannot talk about?
Just talk and the problem will be solved.
Don't fight and kill each other. If you fight and kill each other, your face will be broken all of a sudden. Which of us will benefit?
Don’t engage in a zero-sum game, let’s talk about win-win cooperation.
For example, Cai Yong, who served as the governor of Bohai County, and Fu Qian, who served as the prime minister of Zhao State, were both veteran scholars. Liu Hong had been in the local official position for five years not long after Liu Hong's death, and his relationship with the local government was also good.
Liu Bei felt that they were doing well, so he left them alone this time because he wanted to test these old scholars to see if they had some ability to do things and whether they could adapt to the struggle situation of the Third Reich.
They learned about the Dutian Order relatively early. During the government affairs meeting, Liu Bei informed them thoroughly and made them prepare. Moreover, because of the special status of the southern counties of Jizhou, Liu Bei also gave them earlier. They deployed a full force of county soldiers.
Even the commander-in-chief who arranged the trip was a relatively experienced veteran officer in the army, the kind who could definitely lead thousands of people to fight.
It's the kind of person who says that the emperor will support you and fill up the queue.
Cai Yong and Fu Qian probably felt that they had a good job and were emboldened, so they felt that they should be able to talk to the local forces to peacefully solve the problem.
Pay taxes, just pay taxes. It's nothing more than an extra amount of money. From now on, hello, me, everyone, how to live your life is better than to fight and kill. Look at the slave restriction order back then, everyone who resisted died. Yes, those who obeyed survived.
In any case, the Cai family and the Fu family have decided to obey the land tax order under the guidance of the two of them. Anyway, their family property is not large, and they are not considered to be the first echelon players in the official team. They pay taxes as long as they pay taxes. Still do some.
But the local forces in Jizhou don't see the problem that way.
They felt that they had given Liu Bei a lot of face in various previous incidents and had given Liu Bei enough benefits, but they themselves had lost a lot of benefits.
For example, during the slave restriction period, in order to meet Liu Bei's needs, they united and handed over a large number of slaves to the court. That was a real loss of a lot of benefits. Isn't this benefit nothing?
As a result, Liu Bei now wants them to cut their flesh, and actually makes them pay taxes?
You have to pay taxes before you get rich, and you have to pay more taxes after you get rich. So didn’t I get rich in vain?
When Cai Yong went to negotiate, the negotiator settled a score with Cai Yong.
Considering that his family has more than 100,000 acres of land, as well as the current average harvest, plus the current expenditures on various agricultural production, storage costs, transportation costs, etc., if the tax rate prescribed by Liu Bei is followed, his family cannot farm. Make money.
Gotta pay!
Farming still costs money!
I put so much effort into farming just to grow food, but in the end I was still asked to pay for it!
Is there any such truth in the world?
Cai Yong shook his head repeatedly and advised them to calculate the accounts carefully.
Don't even think about retaining so much land. Why do you need so much land? Isn't it good to sell part of the land to the government at market price, so that you can earn money from selling the land, and the remaining land can still be profitable?
If the land size is smaller, the income obtained will be higher than before, and the taxes to be paid will be less than before!
Although you earn less than before, you are already rich, so what else do you have to worry about?
So the other party's negotiator asked Cai Yong to leave with a dark face.
I have never paid taxes. Who pays taxes these days? You still have the nerve to say that I pay less than before?
The negotiations reached a deadlock. Cai Yong and Fu Qian used their old faces as great Confucian scholars and celebrities in the country to negotiate. The response they received was - the emperor has changed the law and Confucianism can no longer dominate, so your old faces are worthless!
Who can bear this?
Cai Yong had a good temper, so he just walked away and reported the matter to the court, asking the court to understand a little bit about what was going on and see what to do next.
Fu Qian broke up with a "ten-year old friend" on the spot and broke up with him.
Despite this, Cai Yong and Fu Qian still did not want to take the lead. Although various sources showed that many families in their jurisdiction were ready to take action, they still did not think that these wealthy families really dared to go against Liu Bei's invincible army.
So they didn't take action in advance.
When the wealthy families mobilized their own manpower and material resources to formally raise the flag of rebellion, formed a coalition to capture the city, and strongly resisted the Dutian order, Cai Yong and Fu Qian were shocked to realize that there were still people in the world who were not afraid of Liu Bei.
But it was too late. They could only lead the county troops to defend the city to protect their respective county offices, and then immediately asked Xu Huang, the head of the Central Plains Military Region, for help.
Xu Huang was actually not very well-off, because during this period there were rebellions in various places, and there were fierce riots in Qingzhou and Xuzhou. Moreover, the number of soldiers in these two states was small, making it more difficult to deal with the rebels on their own, so he only Xu Huang can be made to send troops.
Xu Huang then arranged for Cao Ren to lead the Yingyang Army and the 22nd Army of the New Army to Qingzhou and Xuzhou to launch a counter-insurgency war.
Fortunately, Xu Huang's elite Huben Army has not been mobilized. This is the reserve force of the Central Plains Military Region. Xu Huang believes that it is enough to leave the general rebellion to three recruits. They can control the place and prevent trouble.
Unless there are some particularly powerful "big thieves" who can threaten the stability of the place, Xu Huang will dispatch the elite Tiger Army.
Xu Huang has always believed that although the Huben Army is no longer the only elite synonym in history, as a symbol of glory in the past, the Huben Army must have its own reputation.
If ordinary thieves don't take action, even if it's a mob, it would have to be a large-scale rebel army of more than 30,000 people to be worthy of elites like the Tiger Army.
Then he realized that it was time for the Tiger Army to move out.
Tens of thousands of rebels rebelled in Ganling, Zhao, Anping, Wei and other areas of Jizhou. The scale of the rebellion was very large. The rebels were so powerful that they attacked cities and territory, and several county towns have been lost.
Xu Huang was furious. The loss of the county town not only meant that local officials failed to defend the territory, but he, as the head of the Central Plains Military Region, also had a certain joint responsibility.
How could he tolerate this?
So Xu Huang left his lieutenant to take charge of the base camp in his place, and personally raised 10,000 troops to go north to Jizhou, preparing to let these rebels feel the power of the Han army's thousands of troops.
According to wartime rules, when the war started, Xu Huang automatically gained the power to command all military armed forces in the Central Plains Theater. All official armed forces, including county and state soldiers, were under Xu Huang's command. His power during this period Very huge.
Because of this, his responsibility is also very important. If he is not careful, he will lose everything.
While leading the troops north, Xu Huang learned that the scale of the Jizhou rebellion was indeed very large, and in a sense it could even be regarded as a serious, large-scale and organized rebellion.
The largest rebellion in the Ganling Kingdom has reached 40,000 rebels. Even in the smallest Anping Kingdom, the number of rebels has exceeded 10,000, and the number of participants is still increasing, becoming more and more powerful. , more and more people want to join.
Although the land transfer order was only aimed at officials at this time, the powerful landlords were encouraged by the officials who were unwilling to accept the reality. When they thought that their future would be worse than those of these officials, there was nothing to say. .
If we don’t participate in the struggle now, are we going to wait for the emperor’s butcher’s knife to hit our head before we prepare to fight?
The experience of the slave restriction order tells everyone that the emperor's greed has no limits, and blindly giving in will only make the emperor push forward.
So, fight!
We must take advantage of the moment when some officials cannot stand it anymore and want to launch a resistance. Only by gathering everyone's strength can we have the greatest possibility of forcing the emperor to compromise.
The events of this dynasty's expedition to the fields were also passed down orally among the families. When it was mentioned that Emperor Guangwu initiated the expedition and everyone resisted together, everyone remembered how thrilling it was.
When Liu Xiu wanted to transfer the land, how many people resisted, how many people launched a fierce struggle, and how many people died because of it. In the end, the court was forced to compromise with everyone to a certain extent, and in exchange for more than a hundred years of happy life .
But now, the emperor has started farming again.
The weather cleared up, the rain stopped, and he was able to do it again!
Not only do the powerful landowners want to use their land, but even their own officials want to use it. How can the government and the people pay taxes together? Isn't this kind of thing going to cause outrage and resentment?
Although there seems to be no movement at the imperial court, and high-ranking officials and dignitaries are rushing to send tax revenue to the imperial court, local officials like them do not have such "lofty ambitions".
What’s ours is ours, there’s no such thing as taxation!
With such a determined will, local officials first set off a wave of boycotts. The person with the highest participation in this boycott was Biejia, the governor of Jizhou, Qiao Mao, and Tian Yong, a native of Jizhou, who was a distant relative of Tian Feng, the famous counselor around Yuan Shao. relative.
Because he had always had a high reputation, he was asked by Qiao Mao to serve as Jizhou's chariot, and he had been doing his duty very responsibly over the years. However, this time the court's Tiandu Order clearly touched his bottom line, so that Qiao Mao wanted to I tried to persuade him, but he fooled me.
That is, when the rebellion was launched, the captain of Weijun's army received the intelligence in advance, so he hurriedly mobilized Weijun's army to surround Yecheng, successfully curbed the rebels' raid on Yecheng, and saved Yecheng. The impact of the wave on Jizhou is really not small.
Having said that, Yecheng was saved, and the administrative offices of each county were also saved due to the fierce fighting of the county soldiers, but many county towns were lost.
Under the leadership of some official personnel, such as Tian Yong's request, the rebels maintained the bottom line, such as only killing tax collectors and not killing local officials who were unwilling to cooperate with them, in order to demonstrate to the court, and by the way, they also thought Keep the possibility of final negotiation.
But the troops they controlled were definitely better than nothing in terms of military discipline, so the places they captured were basically destroyed.
When Xu Huang arrived at the Yellow River, five or six county towns in the southern counties of Jizhou had been conquered, and some surrounding agricultural villages had also been devastated. However, the collective farms set up in various places performed relatively well. Eye.
The collective farms in the mainland are different from the collective farms Liu Bei set up in outlying counties. Liu Bei's earliest collective farms set up in places like Liangzhou, Youzhou and Bingzhou had military threats, so they also arranged for military instructors to compare the young men in the farms. Rigorous military training.
During the off-farm period, strong men and even strong women had to take time to participate in military training, practicing the use of weapons and the formation of military formations.
However, in the inland states and counties, because they are relatively peaceful and have heavier agricultural production tasks, the training time and content are relatively less. Young and strong women do not participate in military training. Therefore, the martial ethics of the inland residents is obviously not as good as that in the outlying states and counties. The martial virtues of the residents.
But despite this, due to organizational reasons, when the rebels started to attack everywhere and the number of officers and soldiers in the county could not be contained, the collective farms organized themselves urgently and launched self-defense operations.
The main force of the rebels must be to besiege county offices, county towns and other places. Only a few scattered teams led by fringe figures have the time to attack places where the poor in their eyes live.
After all, the richest people must live in the city. If you want money, it is definitely most cost-effective to attack the city. However, the poor people have little oil and water. People who have pursuits will not attack and kill the poor people, but those who do not have pursuits will not. That’s for sure.
You will definitely not be able to rob the powerful people if you rob the city, so you can only find another way to bring trouble to the poor. You can make some money. No matter how small a mosquito's legs are, they are still meat, right?
Therefore, the yeoman villages in various counties suffered. They lacked defense and organizational strength. When groups of rebels arrived, few could successfully defend themselves and suffered heavy losses.
But the collective farm is different. After hearing the news of the unrest, the strong men in the farm quickly organize themselves. A farm can often organize two to three hundred strong men who have received certain military training. Some large farms can even organize five or six hundred people. The team launched a defense.
There is usually a small arsenal inside the collective farm that is managed by the court representatives. There are some weapons and equipment that have been eliminated by the army, such as the first and second generation weapons and equipment of the Han army.
Although the number is not large, and it is not as sophisticated as the main equipment and weapons currently used by the Han army, it is enough to fight the rebels.
Some ring-headed knives, some spears, some crossbows, shields, and a few light armors.
The number of rebels who dispersed to cause harm to the people is not large, and because of the general discrimination against old farmers with force, generally speaking, the number of people acting together is not large. Thirty or fifty people are considered a relatively large group, and more A small group of twenty, thirty or even a dozen people, armed with a few steel knives, feels invincible and can run rampant in the countryside.
Facts have proved that in ordinary rural areas, there is really nothing they can do against them, but collective farms are different.
With a little rectification, the collective farm can pull out a combat team, with hand-to-hand combat, defense, and crossbows, to occupy the traffic arteries around the farm and set up defenses. Not to mention anything else, just get started. Fierce blow.
These scattered teams often think they can get some good things.
Because they have also heard that collective farms are generally relatively wealthy and have a lot of food reserves. The people inside are relatively wealthy and their lives are better than before.
So after meeting some poor people who were even poorer than them, they were very eager to get enough money and food from the collective farms to subsidize their families.
After all, the way the masters in the family encouraged them to rebel was to give them money and food. What they grabbed belonged to them. It was up to them to grab as much as they could. The more they grabbed, the more they earned.
(End of chapter)
