Royal road

The sun is hot and hangs on the zenith, even if you nest in the city gate, you will be sweating all over your body.But even so, Li Lv'er didn't dare to leave his post without authorization.As the city gate guard of Xudu, if he dared to steal and play tricks, he would be beaten with a military stick, and his head might be lost.Now that there are endless wars in Yuzhou, this place can be regarded as the front line, how can we ignore it?

What's more, there are so many fugitive slaves outside the city.

Anyway, he is also a soldier defending the city, and Li Luer is very well informed about the news.Since the new emperor ascended the throne in Luoyang last year, the territory of Yuzhou has changed its appearance.Not only did he fight several battles with the remnants of the former dynasty in the south, but recently there have been rumors that those people who were plundered by thieves were encouraged to flee back to the state of Zhao.

A few years ago, there was great chaos in the Central Plains. First, the Xiongnu plundered, and then the chaos crossed the border.Whether it is Sizhou or Yuzhou, it is the same as plowing.The common people are displaced, and there are more disasters, so how can they survive?Either he was taken away by someone, or he was cast into a big family and attached as a slave.

In troubled times, there are so many such poor people.Even Li Lv'er himself has changed the mountain top several times.First the King of the East China Sea, and then General Gou.Flying Leopard Wang Mi attacked, and the generals quickly surrendered, and not long after, they surrendered to the stone thief again.Up to now, the officers above have been changed several times, but he has survived and entered the new dynasty safely.Only then did I see such a scene.

As long as the people return to Zhao State, they can settle down in Sizhou, and even the nearby Yuzhou and Yanzhou.Adult males can get [-] mu of land, and women can get half of the land.The tax paid is only half of that of the previous dynasty!If you are poor and have nothing to live on, you can also enter the army, and the state government will provide food and farming tools.The harvest is divided into four or six with the government.As long as you farm in the military village for five years, you can get [-] acres of Yongye farmland!This Yongyetian can be passed on to future generations!

When an order to secure the people came down, there was a rush of people around Xudu.After several battles, Da Zhao drove the soldiers and horses of the Jin State to Runan. Maybe after a while, the north of the Huai River will be pure land!The Son of Heaven of Dazhao is known as the son of Buddha, he has always loved the people, and he is the destiny.Wouldn't it be far better than the previous dynasty to be attached to the State of Zhao?

Among other things, at least this reduction of taxation to Tian is far better than the countless officials and bandits who have ravaged before!

Li Lv'er was also a mud-legged person who planed food in the soil in his early years, so how could he not know the meaning of this order?Looking at the provocative heads, it is not known how many of them are ordinary people who have been coerced, and how many are hermits who escaped from the masters of Yuzhou.If everyone can live in peace, maybe they can reproduce the Taikang scene... No, it should be an enlightened scene now!

Seeing the officials not far away, they kept arranging the people.This scorching sun is not so hard to bear.Li Lu'er wiped the sweat from his forehead, leaned on his wooden spear, and stood motionless in front of the city.

Such a scene is not limited to Xuchang.From Yanzhou, where half of the wall was defeated, to Yongzhou, which was still in the hands of thieves, the flow of people began to run in reverse.The land of the Central Plains, which was withered by the flames of war, finally had vitality and people.The most dynamic among them is naturally the capital of Zhao State, Luoyang.

Since ancient times, only Chang'an and Luoyang have been able to bear the word "king city".Chang'an is bordered by the Weishui River in the north and the Qinling Mountains in the south, surrounded by eight waters, and sits in the middle of Guanzhong for thousands of miles of fertile fields.As long as you occupy this place, you will be able to strangle the main road of things, and you can overlook the world.As for Luoyang, although there is the danger of the Yellow River and the capital of the Eight Passes, the Central Plains is the place where the Four Wars were fought, and the chaos in Sizhou and Yuzhou is unstoppable and the population is sparse.Setting Luoyang as the capital in troubled times seems more like an expedient measure that had to be done.

Many people with ulterior motives hoped that the thief who claimed to be emperor would be defeated.Unexpectedly, in just one year, the former capital city would regain its brilliance.

At the Mengjin Ferry, the masts are densely packed, and the boats are one after another.Ships, large and small, came in groups along the river.The hard work of tens of thousands of refugees finally allowed the main trunk of the Northland to penetrate.From Jizhou Xingang all the way to the west, you can go straight to Luoyang by boat!

On the Qianjin Wall, several huge water pestles are driven by the river day and night.Not only pounding rice and grinding noodles, but also making pulp and smelting iron.On both sides of the river, there are many workshops.The output is like flowing water, so that all the caravans who come to Luoyang can return with a full load.

The unimpeded trade routes brought money and popularity.But the lifeline of the country is not in Shang.

"...Since the first month, there have been more than [-] newly attached Dingkou in Henan and Yanzhou. Among them, there are no less than [-] escaped slaves from Yongzhou. If there are more than one attached, ten thousand hectares of land will be added next year! "

Next to the Shigan hall, a new hall was built, called "Chui Gong".It is the place where the new emperor handles government affairs and summons his ministers.In the vertical arch hall, Duan Qin, the upstart minister of the dynasty, spoke eloquently.

This number is quite astonishing.You know, now Yanzhou is only tentatively determined, and the war in Yuzhou has not stopped.Such a "dangerous place" is not a place where the ordinary people in Guizhou are willing to go.It happened that there was a command to change the situation of being stretched.

The new emperor has an order to calm the people!

Reduce taxes, equalize the number of acres, and change the village system.For a country, the most important thing is always its people.After several slaughters in the Central Plains, the people were displaced.The once fertile fields were barren and the villages were dead.If you want to solidify the foundation of the country, you can only restore the cultivated land and allow the country's taxation to recover.And this requires a population, a large population!

Therefore, the Anmin Juntian Order became the first established political event after the new emperor ascended the throne.Although the land allocated to the common people seems to be less than the land occupation order of the previous dynasty.But the taxes that need to be paid have also been cut by more than half, which has relieved the pressure on the contrary.In addition, most of the forced labor is now refugees and convicts, and there are fewer corvees.In this way, isn't it what people want?

Not to mention those people who were coerced by the Jin army or the Xiongnu, even the surviving families in Henan and Yanzhou, many servants from hidden households fled, re-registered, and became citizens.

As long as the government doesn't criticize the people harshly, who wouldn't want to be upright and be a good family member?And this also solved the emptiness of the Central Plains.A large number of unowned wasteland was redistributed, and those aristocratic families who fled to the south lost countless acres of land.

Such good news, however, was not appreciated.On the throne, the emperor frowned slightly: "Are the castles in Yuzhou still occupying land?"

The Son of Heaven is now in his thirties, but he has not grown a beard.The chin is smooth, the eyebrows are handsome, and he looks extremely young.But when he spoke, no one dared to ignore it.Those pitch-black eyes are sharp and deep, piercing people's hearts.Tianwei is so mighty, one cannot stare at him closely, but people forget his appearance.

Duan Qin's voice paused: "Return to Your Majesty, someone secretly invaded the field. It's just that Yuzhou's canines are crossed, and it will take time to cure it..."

If Yongzhou is still in the hands of the enemy, there will be [-] fugitive slaves.In comparison, the new population in Yuzhou is too small.And the fundamental reason lies in the countless Wubao in the territory.Those aristocratic families living together in the castle can survive the turmoil for more than ten years, relying on their ability to fight!Almost every family has thousands of soldiers, more than tens of thousands, enough to form an army!Those big families, at least there are four or five Wubao, tens of thousands of customers.The soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, and they are extremely cunning.Even the mighty generals such as Shi Lena can only be surrendered, and they cannot capture them all.

Now Zhao Guo occupies several counties in Yuzhou, and those Wubao have become their own troubles.Because of their meritorious service in suppressing bandits, many people even rewarded them with official positions, which made Yuzhou a mud pit with nowhere to go.

Now that a large number of people are attached, how can these wealthy families in troubled times be indifferent.Yuzhou is not like Bingzhou, which was dragged and beaten by Liang Feng and sifted through.It is precisely because of this that after the founding of the country, Henan Yin Zuti was promoted to the governor of Yuzhou, and followed the army to clean up the situation.

Naturally, Liang Feng also knew the key points.Wrestling with aristocratic families is also one of the major problems he has to face.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the aristocratic families have risen, and the power of the imperial court has been broken down one by one, allowing others to devour them.Until the Yuan family of the fourth generation and the third father raised his troops to rebel and completely smashed the world. "The country perishes with weakness, but the Han alone perishes with strength." This sounds nice, but in essence it is nothing more than corruption of the central government, local separatism reached its peak, and finally collapsed.

Cao Wei failed to clean up this mess, and the Sima family indulged blindly. Today, it is simply a mess.If the aristocratic family is a giant, if it is not handled properly, it will immediately cause endless civil strife and it will be difficult to deal with it.Not to mention conquest by force, even a slight damage to the interests may lead to a rebound.

Juntian Order is one of them, and it is not so easy for those aristocratic families to swallow it obediently.

It's just that it's not easy, but you have to do it.

"They've swallowed enough, aren't they satisfied?" With a cold snort, Liang Feng said, "Let Patriarch Shizhi increase his manpower and spread the government order widely. Without the farmers, even occupying more land is useless. If anyone disregards the will, Find out if they have anything to do with the Xiongnu or the Sima family."

Even if there is commercial trade, what is needed to feed such a large population is still extremely abundant food production.If the population of the Central Plains cannot be restored as soon as possible, in the event of a natural disaster, the consequences will be disastrous.Just after the founding of the country, many aristocratic families are still huddled in the south. If you don't take this opportunity to speed up the progress, it will definitely be more troublesome in a few years.

The last sentence is simply murderous.

Xi Jian immediately said: "Yuzhou has been in chaos for several years, and there are no longer a few people at both ends of the rat head. Now that the army is out, rashly attack, fear of accidents."

Although Yuzhou fought several battles, it was not a strategic point.Youzhou, thousands of miles away, is the key.Duan Bu had no intention of surrendering at all, and Cui Wu of Pingzhou also insisted on honoring the Southern Dynasty as Zhengshuo.Cui Weike has a lot to do with the Qinghe Cui family. If a wealthy family like Qinghe Cui has evil intentions, Jizhou will also be in trouble.Therefore, after the summer harvest, [-] troops moved together to attack Youzhou together with the Tuoba and Murong tribes.The purpose is to wipe out the remaining evils in one fell swoop and pacify northern Xinjiang.

This battle is particularly critical, even the chariot general Yi Yan led his troops to the battle.If the Yuzhou aristocratic family took the opportunity to make trouble, it would cause big trouble.

Before Xi Jian finished speaking, Zhongshu ordered Zhang Bin to take a step forward: "Xi Shizhong's words are not bad. The affairs of Yuzhou are complicated, so we should draw them slowly. The ancestor governor is loyal to the king's affairs and never slackens. You might as well order him to play the book and do it again." Intend."

This suggestion is not so much an agreement as a guarantee for Xi Jian's words.Xi Jian was also from a noble family, how could Zhang Bin not understand the emperor's attitude towards the noble family?The pressure of the Northern Expedition was not small, and someone was away again.If the emperor is self-willed in a fit of anger, it will be troublesome.

Liang Feng glanced at Zhang Bin, and finally nodded: "Forget it. Let Yuzhou focus on appeasing the people for the time being."

Zu Ti was a man of strategy, and with Xin Ling's assistance, he was able to temporarily boil the frog in warm water.Wait until Youzhou is attached, and then free up your hands to clean up the mess.

Seeing that the remonstrance was effective, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and continued to report other matters.After another hour of busy work, it has just come to an end.

All the ministers resigned, and Liang Feng left Zhang Bin alone.Among the three provinces, Zhongshu Province is the most relied on by the emperor.Zhang Bin's Zhongshuling is also in the body of the holy family.However, Zhang Mengsun was His Majesty's confidant when he was in the mansion, so although others were envious, they did not dare to speak too much.

In the huge vertical arch hall, only the monarch and his ministers are left.After lightly tapping on the case table twice, Liang Feng suddenly said: "How many people in the Ming Dynasty have linked up with the rich clan of Yuzhou?"