After repeated attempts to persuade him to no avail, Liu Yu finally understood what stubbornness meant.
These Qingzhou tycoons all thought that they jointly sent troops to help Liu Yu kill Gou Chun and occupy Qingzhou. As for Liu Yu's previous promises to the soldiers to create households and tax-free land distribution, it was just the superiors who fooled or encouraged the soldiers to work hard. Just words.
This is the disadvantage of rising too fast with the support of a group of powerful people. Many things are subject to these original allies and supporters.
However, as a person who knew the future, Liu Yu knew that if Qingzhou's strength could not be organized to change the scattered situation, then there would be no way to deal with the coming chaos of war between all kinds of barbarians.
At that time, the Xiongnu, Di, Qiang, and Xianbei tribes who have united their efforts can crush these powerful people in Zhanzhou and County. When the Central Plains land sinks and Ji Han's homeland is overrun with barbarians, they will want to integrate all forces to resist. Hu people will find that it is completely too late.
In order to quickly resolve this situation, Liu Yu implemented two actions. On the one hand, against the powerful forces in Qidi and Le'an, although Liu Yu restrained them from continuing to absorb refugees and expand, he would no longer split their forces.
Regarding the geographically important Jinan County and Beihai County, Liu Yu did not compromise at all, and he did not hesitate to use an iron fist to force these powerful forces to split up their tribes, and even did not allow them to protect themselves. Although this resulted in frequent rebellions in these two counties.
However, Liu Yu did not hesitate to kill the most arrogant powerful men and wipe out all three clans in order to complete his complete control of the two places. Until November, after more than twenty battles, the powerful powerful men who dared to resist They all suffered a disastrous defeat. Even if they were still dissatisfied, the remaining powerful people did not dare to express their objections anymore. They happily released most of the shadows and became tax-paying households and military households directly under the government.
In order to control and manage the new military households in the two places and monitor and guard the powerful families, Liu Yu established the Twelve Soldiers and Weifu in the two counties and twelve counties to directly manage and mobilize these newly promoted soldiers in each county to prevent dissatisfaction. A powerful counterattack.
Regarding this kind of military system that copied the military system of later generations, Liu Yu certainly knew that this kind of military system would have good combat effectiveness in the early stage. Although it was not as good as the military meritorious titles of Qin and Han Dynasties, it was not far behind, but as time went by , this military system based on land property rights will definitely gradually collapse due to the development of population and supervision.
But judging from the historical process after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, this military system, which could not last for a hundred years, was enough to cope with the upcoming Wuhu Rebellion.
After all, just as the powerful northern states and counties in history did nothing during the Five Husties, they could be ruled by waves of brutal barbarians. The dogs came to Guanlong and the Hu and Han merged, and the dogs came to the Sui and Tang Dynasties to rise again.
In this case, turning a few powerful states and counties into tens of thousands of military households will definitely not be worse than the performance in history. The worst-case scenario is just a rapid collapse and the return to powerful Wubao. system.
During the French Revolution, under the call of revolutionary propaganda, as soon as they heard that their motherland was in trouble, all French men picked up their rifles and went to the battlefield without hesitation to resist enemies that were several or even ten times their size.
Although it is far from comparable to this kind of spiritual plug-in of nationalism in modern society, Liu envisioned that more Han people would have fields, food, and weapons, so that they could have some food, clothing, happiness, and something worth protecting. people.
When the barbarians came to kill them, they would not follow behind the powerful Wubao masters and watch indifferently, because after the barbarians came, they may have thought that even under the rule of the barbarian Shanyu or the King of Heaven, their lives would be difficult. You may not live a hard life in the hands of powerful people. In this case, why is there any need to resist? !
When all this was implemented, Liu Yu finally understood why during the Qin and Han Empires, those "good men" with a little wealth were the backbone of the army. Not only did these people have been trained in swords, guns, riding and archery since childhood, compared to those who Soldiers who are forced to join the army are more enterprising for fame, and have the protection and desire for some families and reputations.
This may be the so-called people who have perseverance have perseverance. You can't let slaves who are oppressed every day resist the invaders and defend the slave owners when the world is in crisis. Even if the slaves are soldiers, their combat effectiveness will probably not be the least bit worse. .
Liu Yu believed that with a little time, these newly recruited soldiers who supported him would be able to serve as the most stable force to fight against the barbarians who had begun to ravage the Central Plains.
In November of the second year of Yongjia.
Just when the miserable reign of Yongjia was about to pass its second year, a piece of breaking news reached Qingzhou. Because of Wang Mi and Shi Le's intrusion in Hebei, it took a full month for the news to reach Qingzhou.
Just a month ago, in October of the second year of Yongjia, in Puzi, Bingzhou, Liu Yuan, the king of the Han Dynasty of the Huns, announced that he would be the emperor, grant amnesty to the world, and change his name to Yongfeng.
This is different from Liu Yuan's previous claim to be a descendant of the Han Empire, claiming to be the King of Han and the Great Chanyu.
Liu Yuan directly proclaimed himself emperor.
In Bingzhou, a trusted place since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Liu Yuanhai, a Hu man and barbarian, claimed to be the emperor. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, there can only be one emperor in the world.
Now there are two emperors in the world, one is the Xiongnu Emperor in Puzi, Bingzhou, and the other is the Sima Emperor in Luoyang City.
After Liu Yuan became emperor, the barbarians who were originally scattered in Hebei, Guanzhong, Xihe and other places responded to Liu Yuan one after another, allowing the people and officials in these prefectures and counties to fully experience what it means to lead a wolf into a house, and what it means to be someone other than our own race. His heart must be different.
Of course, unlike these Hu people who moved inland to the Central Plains, the Xianbei people outside the Great Wall, such as Tuoba, Duanbu, Yuwen, Murong and other tribes, all came to the Jin court to express their willingness to fight and kill these abominable Huns bandits for the Jin emperor. .
But by the time the emperor received the vote of loyalty from the barbarians outside the Great Wall, he had no time to care about it.
Because it’s December of the second year of Yongjia.
The Xiongnu and Han generals Shi Le, Liu Ling, and Wang Mi had just conquered Weijun, Jijun, and Dunqiu, and had surrendered more than fifty strong men from Wubao. They also selected more than fifty thousand strong men from the surrendered Han people to expand the army. troops.
This bandit group of Xiongnu, Zahu, and Han people instantly expanded to more than 50,000 people.
Suddenly, Luoyang, the imperial capital across the river, was in crisis again.
Seeing that the situation in Jizhou was getting worse and worse, the huge team of the married daughter of Youzhou Governor Wang Jun, escorted by Duan Xianbei cavalry, crossed the Jishui River in a mighty manner, carrying a large amount of money and belongings, and arrived. To Qingzhou.
The second year of Yongjia is coming to an end with mixed blessings in Liu Yu's opinion.
