Qin Official

Cao Shen was ordered to escort the criminal Tian Gu back to Jimo for detention. He also brought the thousand soldiers to guard the county and guard against the Jimo Tian family who would become sad after hearing about the incident in Yeyi and behave badly. But after all, Jimo Tian is no more weak and hesitant than Yeyi Tian. The Tian Jiao brothers have just stayed away from home in the past few days and haven't done much.

So Cao Shen hurriedly sent Tian Gu to prison, then packed his bags and went back to Yeyi immediately.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, but it was Xiao He.

"Brother Cao is leaving now?" Xiao He bowed to Cao Shen and said, "How fast."

"There's no need to hurry."

Cao Shen invited Xiao He to sit inside and smiled as if casually: "The county guard transferred me to the Bingcao and served as the right historian of the Bingcao. I assisted Gong Ao, the false captain of Yeyi, and together we managed the recruitment of troops to farm the fields."

"The Soldier Cao is more important than the Thief Cao, and the Right Shi is half a rank higher than the Zuo Shi. This is a high promotion, which is a good thing." Xiao He looked very happy for Cao Shen. It was unclear whether he had other thoughts in his heart.

Then, the two inevitably talked about the decree issued by Heifu in Yeyi County to recruit troops for farming.

"Is the county governor imitating Wu Qi's method of recruiting soldiers?" Xiao He pondered.

Although most of the soldiers of the princes were conscripted conscripts, who worked in farming in peacetime and served in wartime, there were also many conscripted soldiers in Guandong.

The most famous one is Wei Wuzu of Wei State. The selection of Wei Wuzu is very strict, but as long as they can pass the physical and combat skills test, they can get a land and house without having to pay taxes, and the benefits they enjoy are very superior.

"otherwise."

Cao Shen thought it was not the case, and said, "I heard people say that Wei Wuzu recruits either good family members or light knights who are proficient in martial arts. But who are the people recruited by the county guard this time?"

He counted on his fingers: "Leaves, farmhands, sons-in-law, traders, craftsmen, mediocre people, these people can be soldiers! And the assessment is very relaxed, as long as there are no injuries or disabilities, they can pass."

This group of people has one common characteristic, that is, they are poor and mostly farmers who have lost their fields due to the oppression of merchants and nobles. They are the real "proletariat" and do not own the means of production at all. Since there is no land to farm, I have to find other ways out, do some small business in the market, or sell my labor in exchange for compensation.

Cao Shen knew something about military affairs, and told Xiao He what he had heard in Xue County: "In those days, Qi Guolong's martial arts, in addition to the soldiers of the five capitals, whenever there was a war, he would recruit young knights in the shops to be martial arts. Bao is an assistant. During the war, if the martial arts reaches the first level, they will be given money in ransom. These martial arts assistants are equivalent to being hired. It is okay to fight with a favorable wind, but if the battle goes unfavorably, they can run faster than anyone else. quick."

"This is the army of the nation's subjugation. Those who have no permanent property have no perseverance. These people have neither extraordinary courage nor advantageous martial arts. They fight with the help of market servants. There is no weak soldier like this."

Therefore, they also recruited soldiers, but Qi's martial arts were not as good as Wei's soldiers, and Wei's soldiers were not as good as Qin's Rui soldiers, who were all soldiers.

The Qin Dynasty also realized that these people were not a good source of soldiers, so when they were recruited, they only made them do hard labor and did not join the army. Even when recruiting troops to garrison in distant places, in principle, Lu Zuo is not recruited.

Among the villages, the rich live on the right, and the poor live on the left. The left refers to the poor class composed of farm laborers, tenant farmers, etc. They have no land to produce, no food to eat, and no financial resources to support distant garrison.

Because he was too poor, he couldn't even get enough food on the road, which made even the government look down upon him.

In short, this group of people is absolutely useless, they are the superfluous people at the bottom.

"The county governor is now gathering a lot of landless people. What's the use except to build up momentum?" Cao Shen was a little puzzled.

After hearing this, Xiao He raised his palm and praised: "The governor's strategy is brilliant!"

"Oh?" Cao Shen glanced at his friend: "Where is Gao Ming?"

Xiao He said: "As soon as Tian Gu and his son fell, a large amount of his family's fields became vacant."

"And the county guard in Jiaodong has completely offended the fields. The local people in Yeyi who have been favored by Anping Jun and his son for generations also hate him to the core. Although the county guard has eliminated the Tian family, he lacks people who can support him in controlling Yeyi. , I’m afraid it won’t be enough just to rely on a thousand soldiers from Linzi.”

“What’s left is land, and what’s lacking is people. Isn’t it normal to find ways to use land to benefit people?”

But Cao Shen was happy: "If you want Lai to be a descendant of Lai Liang's family, what's the use of having a bunch of left-wing and mediocre people?"

"Because the county guard can only recruit them..."

Xiao He sighed: "Qin entered Jiaodong and established the county for more than five years. The farmers in the fields and in the head of Guizhou were all very dissatisfied because Qin seized the property of the fields and increased the rent of the fields in the head of Guizhou. The soldiers and the people hated it. Looking at the entire Jiaodong, The ones who suffer the least are the poor and mediocre people."

Because this group of people has no oil and water to exploit.

In the same way, after Heifu killed Tian Dan and his son, the ordinary Guizhou chiefs in Yeyi would not applaud, but would sympathize with Tian Dan's descendants. In this mood, Heifu tempted him with the small profit of the land and house, and simply deceived him. Don't come to them.

Only those slave laborers, farm laborers, and mediocre men who live a difficult life and do heavy labor every day will be greedy for the benefits offered by the black man. This is an excellent opportunity to change their status!

Xiao He said: "The fifty acres of land and one acre of house that are about to be harvested will be rent-free for one year. I can also get a new place of residence and get rid of the humble place of the past. If I am a son-in-law, a son-in-law, or a mediocre husband, no matter what the people around me say, Everyone is rushing to sign up!”

“Seventy thousand acres of land and fifty acres of manpower can raise at least a thousand young men and a thousand households.

Xiao He calculated this amount. It seemed like a small amount, but these more than a thousand households would become a key point for Heifu to gain a foothold in Jiaodong.

"As long as they accept this land and house, these gangsters and farm laborers must follow the county guard and obey the government's orders. They will even take up arms and target the former villagers."

"Because this farm house is not stable. If one day Tiandu comes back with his retainers, and if one day the government collapses, they will lose everything!"

Xiao He analyzed Heifu's sinister intention. Doing so was equivalent to tying more than a thousand families to the government. Any attempt to subvert the government would no longer be easy.

"I see."

Cao Shen also understood that the emotional black husband recruited these people not to serve as soldiers or fight against bandits, but to strengthen himself.

After understanding this, he began to agree with Heifu's move: "Although he is a weak soldier who can only work in the fields now, if he trains diligently and educates his children, in ten or twenty years, these more than a thousand families may become Another group of Wei soldiers..."

"Ten or twenty years?"

Xiao He smiled. He used to feel that Qin's rule in Guandong was not stable and might be crumbling at any time, but now that he saw Hei Fu's methods, he had doubts again.

But he did not think that if the world copied Heifu's policies, long-term peace and stability would be achieved. Instead, he thought that if the Qin Dynasty used Heifu's laws to govern counties and counties, there would probably be even greater turmoil in various places!

He stroked his beard and said: "The county guard is really brave. This move is no less than poking a honeycomb. Once word spreads, not only will the farmland be harmed, but other rich households and powerful people will also have to weigh it. I am afraid that all the scholar-bureaucrats in the world will... I will also scold you endlessly about this matter!”

Cao Shen was puzzled: "Why scold?"

Xiao He said: "Because to put it bluntly, the government is robbing the rich and giving to the poor!"

"Although it was Tian Yu who caused the chaos first and was then blamed for it, how did you know that this incident would not become normal."

"Will there be a day in the future when the imperial court suddenly, without any reason, takes over the fields and houses of the Xiao family and the Cao family and distributes them to the Luzuo family in Peixian County?"

Cao Shen's face darkened: "That's not the case."

Xiao He sighed: "Yes, I don't think this is the case, but I also hope that the county guard can stop in time and never play with fire and burn himself! I really think of myself as Wu Qi and Shang Yang! Faced with the anger of the powerful nobles of the country, Wu and Shang, He died miserably, not to mention using his own efforts to offend the nobles of the six countries and become the enemy of the world!?"

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Xiao He believed that Heifu's decree was too reckless and should never be repeated. But he was just a priest in charge of education and had no qualifications to interfere. Chen Ping should have realized this and admonished Heifu. Ten disciples went to publicize this matter and encouraged the people of Luzuo Yongbao to sign up enthusiastically.

Looking at the surprised students, Xiao He thought to himself:

"If the county governor doesn't stop, if nothing else, the children and scholars of local wealthy families will also alienate him."

At the same time, in Yeyi City, after hearing that the decree was promulgated, five or six hundred Zuo Yongfu from the local area came to apply, and Hei Fu was very satisfied.

"After the whole county spread the word, by the end of June, it was easy to recruit more than a thousand people. They and their families were resettled in Yeyi. After the autumn harvest, they would be able to get the promised food and settle down. From then on, other generations He is no longer a 'useless' lüzuo, mediocre man, or farmhand, but has become my help in maintaining governance..."

This group of people will be regarded as traitors. Those light knights who value loyalty and the heads of Guizhou who have been favored by the Tian family will call them "ungrateful". However, this group of people have never benefited from the Tian family. They just want to live and live a good life. Just a good day.

In the next few years, in order to protect the interests of the land they received, this group of people could only unite under the banner of the government.

"If you govern with good people, you will be in chaos and weakened; if you govern with traitorous people, you will be strong."

Heifu now understood the meaning of this sentence in Shang Jun's book. He needed to cultivate a class of "treacherous people" in Jiaodong.

The high bank is the valley, and the deep valley is the mausoleum. The hierarchy in Jiaodong will undergo a major change that has never happened in hundreds of years. This is what Heifu said.

"But this fire can only burn little by little, and it can never expand indefinitely..."

He was not worried that the fire would get too big and get out of control, but he was afraid that once it got too big, it would be hit by strong winds and rain and extinguished instantly.

Heifu has no doubt that the low-level people who are forced to live no longer will indeed be instigated by thoughtful people and cry out, "Princes and generals should rather live together!"

But to encourage them to take the initiative to stand up and fight against the local tyrants to divide their land? It's nothing more than idiotic talk. Compared with the property owners, this class is still too weak, and the land annexation in this era is far from making it impossible for people to live.

At most, the government would forcibly remove powerful people for various reasons and then use the surplus land for resettlement.

For Heifu, this is enough. Agrarian revolution and class struggle are scourges. Once Heifu dares to start this, he will definitely become the enemy of the rich and powerful in the world, including his friends and subordinates, Zhang Han, Zhang Cang, Xiao He, Cao Shen, whose family is not a big landowner connected with each other? Those Nanjun Township Party members, with the support of Heifu, also became part of this class.

Everyone worked together and took advantage of Qin's military merit system to climb up from the bottom bit by bit and become officials of Qin, trampling on the nobles of the six countries under their feet. This sounds very inspiring and heroic.

However, sooner or later, the dragon-slaying boy will grow scales and turn into a dragon.

"So, I am not mobilizing the masses..."

Standing at the top of Yeyi City, looking at the Luzuo Yongfus wearing brown clothes, waiting in line for the test, full of expectations for their new life, Heifu thought to himself:

"I'm just kidnapping them! Force them to do their bidding!"