The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Xuzhou's agricultural system can now be roughly divided into three categories.

One is the household Qimin, that is, the natives of Xuzhou; the other is Mintun, and the other is Juntun.

The main source of labor in Mintun is the migrants who migrated to Xu from other states. The main sources of labor in the military camps include refugees, as well as prisoners and soldiers who were successively obtained in previous wars.

Whether it is Mintun or Juntun, under the careful creation and management of wise men such as Xun Yu, Chen Qun, and Zaozhi, a relatively mature system has been formed, and all of them have reached a considerable scale.

In terms of system, both Mintun and Juntun are five miles and one tun, with 60 people in each, and Sima. Above all the tuntian districts, the mintun is dominated by Diannong school captains, and the military villages are dominated by high yield middle-ranking officers and tuntian school captains.

——Just like a disciplined unit like the army, it still needs military law to be strictly restrained, and a semi-militarized management organization such as the field must also have strict discipline, otherwise so many refugees and soldiers will gather in one place. , sooner or later there will be troubles, so, there is a "Guangji" setting. Mintuns, especially military villages, were all selected from the army, and their subordinates each had subordinate officials, and these subordinate officials were mostly from the army. counties to maintain order.

In terms of scale, Xuzhou has a total of five counties, Langya, Donghai, Pengcheng, Xiapi, and Guangling. The counties under the jurisdiction of each county together make up about forty or fifty counties. Among these dozens of counties today, more than one-fifth of the counties are under the jurisdiction. There are already civilian or military villages in the county.

According to Chen Qun's prediction, according to the current scale of farmed fields in military and civilian villages, at least two million large stones of grain can be obtained after deducting the part that should be distributed to the field servants in the harvest season. Today's weight units are divided into large and small stones. A small stone is equal to 60% of a large stone. According to the calculation of large stones, there are four standards for a soldier's monthly rations, depending on the tasks he undertakes. The lower one is eighty per stone. The taller is two shi, and the taller is two shi and six dou, and the maximum is nearly three shi. If the middle number is two shi and six dou, the annual ration is over forty shi. If you can get 2 million shi of grain a year in military and civilian villages, you can support 50,000 soldiers.

This is already a very good result.

After leaving Tanxian County, everyone went west, more than ten miles away, to the east bank of Yishui, which flows from north to south.

A water runs through, and the land on both sides is fertile.

Looking at it from a distance, Xun Zhen saw that on the banks of the east and west banks, the fertile fields and fields, along the river to the south and north, seemed to be endless. Every four or five miles, on the edge of the field, there is a small settlement, separated by a fence. The situation inside the wall cannot be seen, but it is not necessary to see it. It must be a thatched hut. . Outside the wall of the settlement area, facing the wall, most of them have been cultivated with vegetable plots; occasionally fruit trees stick their heads out from the walls of a few settlements.

These settlements are dotted and scattered all over the fields on both sides of the Yishui River.

This is the place where the laborers living here in the field.

It was just after noon at this time, the sky was just right, the settlement was empty, and the laborers were all working in the fields under the supervision of Sima Tuntian.

Xun Zhen didn't like to ride a car, he would ride a horse when he could, and he was riding out of the city today.

The horse stopped, Xun Zhen waited for Xun Yu's car to approach, and asked, "Wen Ruo, where is the Tuntian District where the Yellow Turbans descended?"

Xun Yu was riding in a light limousine without a cover. He pointed to a position directly in front of the north and said, "That's right there."

Xun Zhen looked at the place where Xun Yu pointed. He had been out to patrol the city before, and he had been there several times. He remembered that it had been the site of a slaughterhouse earlier, and asked, "Isn't that place originally a place where people slaughtered?"

"Yes."

"Where have the refugees in Mintun gone?"

Xun Yu replied: "Prefect Wang built embankments and opened ponds in Guangling County, and gained thousands of hectares of fertile land, but there are not enough people in the county, because they are going to book the prefecture, requesting to send displaced people into the county. Before, the people in the East China Sea were also insufficient. If the refugees were allocated to him, the farmland in Tanxian and other places would not have enough manpower to cultivate them, so I have not been able to develop the people with him. Now that I have obtained so many Yellow Turban soldiers, and the labor is sufficient, I will put the people who have cultivated here before. The village servants have given them all to him."

Xun Zhen nodded and said, "So it is."

However, the refugees who farmed here before worked hard to reclaim the land, but the peaches were picked up by the Yellow Turban soldiers, and they went south to Guangling and had to continue to reclaim new land, so they would have no complaints. ?

The answer is: no.

This is because, according to Xuzhou's policy on refugees and mintons, as long as they work for a certain period of time, the refugees will no longer be members of the mintons, but can be converted into households and have their own land; And if the work is done very well, the harvest of Mintun is particularly good, and this period can be shortened.

Those refugees who had settled fields here before did a good job. Xun Yu sent them to Guangling, not to let them continue to work in the village, but to transfer them from Mintun to Qimin, and to open Wang Langxin. The ten thousand hectares of fertile land that came out were distributed to them.

There are fields to be divided, and the status is no longer a refugee, but a normal household. How can those refugees complain? Not only did they not complain, they were all elated when they went.

Don't look at them in high spirits at this time, in fact, there were quite a lot of refugees who escaped from the villages as early as when the villages were set up! There were even riots.

At that time, some officials of the prefecture proposed that they should be violently suppressed. Fortunately, Xun Yu fought against the public opinion, and together with Zhang Zhao, Xun Zhen suggested that "the refugees are worried, it is better to show mercy, and those who are happy should be taken, not Don't be strong if you want." Xun Zhen accepted their opinions and opened up to the refugees who didn't want to settle in the fields, and let them go. Only then did the cause of the villages go smoothly to the present.

Xun Zhen galloped his horse and arrived at the area where the Yellow Turbans descended and settled the fields.

The elites of the old strokes of the Yellow Turbans were all picked out. Although there were still some strong people who survived in the fields, most of them were old and weak women and children.

On the black and yellow fields, adults drove oxen to pull ploughs, and children ran and played, or pushed ploughs to help each other, all sweating like rain. Hearing the sound of chickens and dogs from a distance, emanating from the wall of the settlement area near and far, is really a rural atmosphere.

The only thing that didn't quite match the weather was that there were always three or five rows of Xuzhou soldiers, patrolling vigilantly among the soldiers.

Xun Zhen asked, "It's been more than a month since these Yellow Turban soldiers were sent to Tan County?"

Xun Yu replied, "Yes."

"Nothing happened, right?"

"According to Brother A's instructions, as soon as these soldiers arrived, the prefectural government gave them food and clothing, and there was no ill-treatment. After they were relocated here, they also declared to them in great detail that we were in Xuzhou's military colony. Although the daily management is strict, the rations and other items are all given. I have selected more than ten honest government officials from the prefecture, and cooperated with the subordinate officials of the military camp. Sima and patrolling soldiers who had surrendered to the army were all given heavy punishments. Because of this, although the mood of the army was still a little panicky, the overall situation in this military colony area was relatively stable.”

Xun Zhen nodded in satisfaction, and said, "With the power of a gentleman, managing this small military colony can be described as a small test."

When he was watching a lot, he laughed and said to Xun Yu, Chen Qun and others, "With time, we will also open up fields in Yanzhou, and after three years and five years, our army's military rations will basically no longer need to take local supplies. Tun Tian, ​​that is, you can spend half of Thailand!"

Everyone said, "Yes."

Xun Yu said: "The people have been suffering for a long time. If the miscellaneous taxes for the supply of military supplies can be saved, or most of them can be saved, then the people will be much more relaxed! This will also be a great good governance by Brother Ah. "

When Xun Yu mentioned good governance, it reminded Xun Zhen of something.

On the way back to Xuzhou, he and Xun Yue walked together for a while. Xun Yue took this opportunity to point out a problem and put forward a suggestion to him.

Xun Yue pointed out the problem first and said: "The Qing and Yan wars are endless, and Xuzhou alone protects peace. Because of this, more and more refugees from various places pour into Xuzhou. The public land controlled by the state government is limited. The problem is the livelihood of the middle-class people; and the rich and powerful, who occupy a lot of land, take advantage of the previous chaos in Xuzhou, and then seize and annex more people's land, which leads to the refugees who come to our state and have no land to grow. Either they will become tyrannical apprentices, and the civilian power cannot be used by the state government, or they will gather into thieves and disrupt the local public order. This problem is not yet obvious, but it will become more and more serious with the passage of time. It is best to be able to resolve it early."

Xun Zhen asked him at the time, "How to solve it?"

Xun Yue then gave a suggestion for a solution: "Dong Zhongshu said, 'Limiting people's well-known fields, in order to avoid shortages, block the road of mergers'. With the current situation, the only feasible strategy is this! Set a limit for each household, the officials and venerables can occupy a little more, and the fields of each household are only allowed to be cultivated and not allowed to buy or sell.

In fact, Xun Yue is not the first to point out the contradiction between the increasing number of migrants entering Xu and the fewer and fewer unowned fields. Someone has pointed out this problem before.

However, the solutions proposed by those who pointed out this problem before are different from those proposed by Xun Yue. Some advocated the restoration of the well-field system and the merger of the powerful and powerful, while some advocated that the poor people who could not be self-employed should open up the land. Nitta.

Well field system, certainly not.

Relocating the poor to wide land and opening new fields from it seems a good strategy, but it is not feasible in practice. There are two reasons for this failure. One is that he is already a poor person. He is destitute. He has no cattle, no farming tools, no seeds, and nothing. How can he be able to open up new land? The two, even if they have the ability, how can there be so many "wide fields" suitable for reclamation, so that they can open up new fields? It is opened up, and I am afraid that it will eventually fall into the hands of neighboring tyrants. This approach, in fact, protects and favors the interests of the powerful.

Neither of these two strategies is feasible.

This method proposed by Xun Yue, although Xun Zhen is not very familiar with the details of the current historical stage, but he also studied history when he was in school, so he also heard it. resemblance.

This is indeed the case. Xun Yue's method is the theoretical basis of the system of occupying classrooms.

However, this strategy will cause damage and blow to the interests of the powerful surnames.

When this dispute with Cao Cao is still not over, and it needs the full support of Xuzhou's right and Guan clan, can this strategy work?

Xun Zhen was inclined to be unfeasible. He retracted his gaze from the distance, thought for a while, and said in his heart: "Let's go back to the prefecture, I will occupy the land and talk to Wen Ruo. Let's see what he thinks."

After inspecting the Juntun District where the Yellow Turbans surrendered, they returned to the prefecture.

But before Xun Zhen mentioned the strategy of occupying the land, he asked Xun Yu for his opinion. Xun Yu first told him something and asked him for his opinion.

Xun Yu said: "Yu heard that the Yellow Turbans from the north of Yan, although they were defeated by General Le, Zilong, etc., and captured many, some still escaped into Qingzhou. Qingzhou already has a lot of yellow turbans, and now with the addition of this stream of people who have entered Qingzhou. The Yellow Turban is going to get bigger and bigger. Not to mention other counties in Qingzhou, Kong Gong is now shepherding Beihai. Kong Gong has an old family with me and is also named Dong Hai Nei. Brother, do you want to send a letter and ask him if he can assistance?"

Xun Zhen said in his heart: "I heard that I captured Licheng and attacked Yanzhou~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Kong Wenju sent me a letter, stern words, and scolded me. I wrote to him again and asked him if he needed it. My assistance? Isn’t it because I don’t think I’ve been scolded enough, so I have to ask myself to be scolded again?” I thought so, but what Xun Yu said made sense, no matter how Kong Rong would treat his letter, at least he could In this way, to invite some honorable and respectful reputation, he nodded and replied, "What Qing said is very true, I will write to him!"

...

Ten days later, the letter arrived in Beihai.

After Confucius finished watching, he passed the letter to his subordinate officials, and said angrily: "Xun Zhen has already invaded most of Yanzhou on the grounds of destroying the Yellow Turbans! Now, do you want to use this as an excuse to swallow my Beihai? If you are loyal and upright, look at it today, and you will actually be a thief!"

The officials who were seated read Xun Zhen's letter.

One person twisted his beard and said, "Duke Ming, this letter from Zhendong is hard to listen to, but now there is a lot of turmoil in the sea. My Qingzhou is adjacent to Xunzhendong in the south, and Yuanbenchu ​​in the west. Xuzhou and Jizhou are both powerful countries. For my Qingzhou plan, Ming Why don't you choose one of them? You can keep Qingzhou safe, and you can trust yourself to survive."

The person who spoke was named Zuo Qi, whose courtesy name was Chengzu.

When Kong Rong heard this, he was furious, and called the officials outside the room to come in, pointed his halberd at Zuo Qi, and said sharply, "Take this desire from the thief and kill him!"

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