Fantasy Three Kingdoms: The beginning of Taoyuan four sworn brothers

No matter what Cai Maocun's thoughts are, what Cai Maocun said is right.

Chen Yuan nodded: "What De Gui said is true, can you teach me?"

Cai Mao said: "If the people don't follow you, your benevolence is insufficient; if you follow them but don't govern, your righteousness is insufficient. If you practice benevolence and righteousness, the people will return like water, so why worry about not raising troops and strategies?"

What Cai Mao means is that as long as those in power can practice benevolence and righteousness, the people will naturally be happy to join them, and conscription will no longer be a problem.

After hearing this, Chen Yuan felt a little curled up in his heart.

This is just nonsense, anyone can say it, and it is theoretically correct.

However, the practicality is too poor, so I give it a bad review.

However, he still praised it: "De Gui's words are also Yong Ji's theory."

Kuai Yue was listening on the sidelines and couldn't help but interrupt.

"To control peace, benevolence and righteousness are the first priority; to control chaos, power and strategy are the first priority. It's not about having too many soldiers, it's about winning people. Many traitors and commanders in a clan are greedy and violent, which brings disaster to their subordinates. The more educated those are, the more they can be shown to their benefit, and the crowd will come.

The king punishes his dishonest people and uses them to his advantage. If the people of a state are willing to live happily and hear that the king is virtuous, they will surely come to him. The troops will gather together and attach themselves to Jiangling in the south, Xiangyang in the north, and the seven counties of Jingzhou.

It can be determined by sending a message."

After hearing what Kuai Yue said, Chen Yuan nodded repeatedly.

Look at Kuai Yue, this is called strategy.

One sentence clarifies the gist.

Those who control peace must first be benevolent and righteous, and those who control chaos must be resourceful first.

In times of peace, you can first use the way of benevolence and righteousness, but if you want to control chaos, you must use the way of strategy.

The Kuai family is worthy of inheriting the knowledge of the political strategists, and the word "strategy" is enough to explain everything.

Therefore, Chen Yuan praised: "The plan of alienation is also the plan of the old criminal."

Good guy, Chen Yuan is indeed a master of Duanshui. He can handle it so well that it can be wetted by both rain and dew.

Cai Mao seemed a little offended by comparing himself to Kuai Yue.

However, this guy still has a bit of a fortress, and doesn't reveal anything on the surface.

Instead, he asked: "I wonder if the Prefectural Mufu has a plan to get rid of the clan traitors?"

Chen Yuan nodded: "Degui's plan and Yidu's plan are both excellent strategies. You two are worthy of being resourceful men, but there are still shortcomings."

"What's missing?"

Chen Yuandao: "With the strategy of the two of us, we only remove its superficial appearance but not its roots."

Cai Mao continued to ask: "How to get rid of the root cause?"

Chen Yuan did not answer Cai Hao's question, but instead asked Cai Hao: "Does De Gui know the root cause of the prevalence of clan thieves?"

Cai Mao didn't even think about it: "The leader of the thieves is greedy and cruel, and the thieves are uneasy."

"The leader of the thieves is not worried. His subordinates are also worried about them. Why are the thieves worried about them?"

These words stunned Cai Mao.

However, Cai Mao was also a learned man, so he had naturally read Mencius.

"The uneasiness in his heart may be due to his lack of permanent wealth."

This is correct.

"It has no permanent property, why?"

These words immediately stopped Cai Mao.

Because the reason is that these powerful powerful men unscrupulously annexed land and turned a large number of homesteaders into tenants, that is, slaves of the powerful powerful people.

If a slave cannot bear the oppression, he will naturally become a so-called clan traitor under the instigation of his fellow clan members.

Therefore, these clan thieves initially hated the powerful, but after a period of time, they changed.

The leader among them was corrupted, began to collude with the powerful, became more and more cruel and greedy, and naturally did not treat his subordinates well.

This is the story of a dragon slayer who turns into an evil dragon.

Moreover, although this leader colludes with the powerful, he does not completely listen to the powerful. At most, he is a collaborator, and his appetite is getting bigger and bigger.

Therefore, both Cai Mao and Kuai Yue actually hoped that someone would get rid of these clan thieves.

It's not that they don't want to take action, they don't have a name.

I have to talk about a system of the Han Dynasty. If you are powerful, you can have slaves, you can even have many, but there is one thing, that is, you cannot have soldiers.

At least, there can't be troops in name only.

This rule was abolished not long ago.

Because of the Yellow Turban Uprising, the imperial court had insufficient military strength. You must know that the Central Army of the Han Dynasty only had tens of thousands of soldiers, not to mention the local counties and counties, which were pitifully few.

Except for some border counties that have official positions such as the so-called Zhonglang General to protect the Qiang and the Zhonglang General to protect the Huns, and there are a large number of border troops, other counties and counties basically do not have much troops.

When the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, the court suddenly found that it did not have enough troops. What should we do?

Then let the localities recruit their own troops.

Once this hole is opened, it will be a big deal.

This was also one of the reasons that accelerated the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Because of the support of local powerful people, the power of local officials has expanded rapidly.

Prefects, governors, governors, and other governors could raise tens of thousands of troops in a short period of time, which directly created conditions for the feudal structure.

Speaking of which, the Kuai family and the Cai family actually recruited some soldiers, but without any training, they might not be able to deal with the clan thieves.

And if the loss is too much, it will be even more distressing.

Therefore, this is also the reason why they support the state pastoral government in suppressing the rebel clan traitors.

However, if they do what they want, the state pastoral office will become a powerful gatekeeper.

It is absolutely impossible for Chen Yuan to do this.

The clan traitors must be pacified, but not so pacified, they must be pacified fundamentally.

These clan thieves are the natural allies of the Prefectural Mufu, because they are landless people. As long as they can be given land to give them a foundation to live and settle down, they will definitely become the most loyal subjects of the Prefectural Mufu.

Of course, the leader of the thieves still needs to be killed. These people are already bad and have no value in saving them. Kill them to eliminate future troubles.

To allocate land to these people, the first step must be to seize part of the land from the powerful.

When Chen Yuan saw that Cai Mao was silent, he continued: "It is not difficult to deal with these clan thieves. If you lure the thieves' heads and kill them, and divide the thieves with land, the common people can be leveled in a matter of seconds, and there will be no worries about future troubles."

, do you two think so?"

Kuai Yue suddenly realized.

This is to take meat from their mouths.

Land is meat.

Fortunately, Kuai Yue had made preparations early. Although he felt distressed, it was not unacceptable.

Cai Mao is different.

Just kidding, they actually snatched the meat from my Cai family’s head.

You, Chen Zichu, think too highly of yourself.

Cai Mao asked with an ugly face: "Is this the intention to leave the country, or is it the intention of the state pastor?"

Cai Mao wanted to find out whether this was Chen Yuan's own intention or whether it represented Liu Bei's attitude.

Chen Yuan looked at Cai Mao's ugly face and didn't take it seriously: "This is the plan of the Mufu of our state. Does De Gui have any doubts?"

When Cai Mao heard that it was the plan decided by the Prefectural Mufu, he immediately understood that this was what Liu Bei meant.

OK, Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, who weave mats and sell shoes, really thought that by becoming the prefecture shepherds, they could command Jingzhou.

Then you are thinking too simply.

Cai Mao's face returned to calm: "There is no doubt. Although this strategy is good, our Cai family is unable to help. Please forgive me."