Supervising Postal and Patrol Counties

Author: Yang's Liangjiazi

Supervising Postal and Patrol Counties

Zhu Zhi suddenly proposed to collect troops from Wu County, which made Sun Ce immediately think of Qin Shihuang recruiting troops from all over the world, gathering them in Xianyang, selling Feng Dy, and casting them into the Twelve Golden Figures.

These twelve golden men are still in Chang'an today, but a few were melted into small coins by Dong Zhuo.

But if you want to collect the troops from Wu Commandery, you will inevitably be reminded of the previous saying: "A famous city must kill its heroes."

This is "On the Passage of Qin" written by Jia Yi. The heroes of Wujun were no strangers to this famous chapter.

Therefore, if he wanted to implement it, Sun Ce was also very cautious and asked: "Why did Duke Zhu suddenly think of recruiting troops from Wu County?"

Zhu Zhi pointed to the furnace in front and asked: "General, does he know how my Saber Anguo was made?"

"Appreciate further details."

Zhu Zhi said: "Since the Fang Rebellion, I have gone on several expeditions and obtained a halberd and two knives on the battlefield. Later, I entered the county government, where I also obtained three long swords and a crossbow."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Zhi turned to Sun Ce and said solemnly: "I thought I didn't deliberately collect weapons, but only one person still has nine sharp blades! I melted the sharp edge of it and recast the handle of the ring-headed long sword.

After forging the knife, there is especially an ingot of fine iron left."

Sun Ce immediately realized what Zhu Zhi wanted to say today.

Recruiting the soldiers of the world is not necessarily to weaken the people of the world, but more likely to develop production.

Sure enough, Zhu Zhi then said: "I have served as the captain of Wu County for a long time, and I know that the people of Wu County are fierce. Powerful and powerful families often use iron drums to cast iron drums, and the family gathers together, or even a thousand people. The other people build their own camps and build forts.

Watch towers and raise private soldiers. In times of war, in order to arm these private soldiers, they did not hesitate to forge a large number of weapons. As a result, local powerful people often expelled the chief officials. Even if they submitted to the imperial court, they often controlled local officials. County officials, county officials

There are more than a thousand guests in the official's house, but they refuse to respond."

"Therefore, I think that since the general has stabilized Wu County, he should collect all the troops from Wu County and use them to melt the blades and cast them into grass, plows, and coins to facilitate the people's livelihood."

Sun Ce's face was solemn, he really wanted to kill the hero.

The powerful forces of the Eastern Han Dynasty came together, and the court was helpless. It was not an easy task to recruit all the heroes.

Of course, it is not impossible to force this kind of thing with prestige. For example, Qin Shihuang, if Sun Ce had the prestige of Qin Shihuang, it would not be impossible to gather powerful troops in the thirteen counties of Wujun.

With the tens of thousands of troops in the county now and the great prestige that had just returned from the victory in the south, Sun Ce felt that it was possible to forcefully levy the troops of Wu Commandery. At most, the cost would be higher, just like the history of the Little Overlord, who committed many killings.

But it would be too reckless to do so, and it would lose the noble spirit of unifying the world.

In addition to the powerful people in history who disappeared into thin air and became the manor officials of the Song Dynasty, the landowners of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty did not rely on killing, but on the system.

In fact, before Zhu Zhi discussed this matter with Sun Ce today, Sun Ce had already almost dismembered the powerful tribe.

Of course, instead of directly attacking the powerful, we took a roundabout way and gave the powerful tribes more choices, allowing them to agree on their own farming contracts like free customers and tenant farmers. In particular, the poll tax was eliminated.

, greatly reducing the dependence of tribes, guests, and private soldiers on the powerful.

This system actually fundamentally dismantled the tribal private military system of Jiangdong heroes. No matter how powerful the heroes were, they could not start a rebellion.

But this process is completely like boiling a frog in warm water.

The foundations of the powerful are shaken. Although the upper building is full of cracks and is crumbling, if there is no strong external intervention and a strong big foot to push it up, this cracked and crumbling building may still exist for a long time.

Zhu Zhi's decree was obviously a landmark decree to expedite the end of Jiangdong's private armies.

Zhu Zhi then said: "Most of the officials in the county are heroes in the county. I would like to be the first to disband my own troops and subordinates in the county to set an example for the heroes in the county. I will prepare all the weapons and equipment."

Turn over and forge swords into plowshares to benefit the people's livelihood."

The troops and horses of this headquarters are the guests of Jiangdong heroes. Even Lu Fan has hundreds of guests. Zhu Zhi also has hundreds of troops under his command. What's more important is that he always has a military force of about three thousand.

soldiers.

Now they are all disbanded and converted from soldiers to households. These thousands of young men alone have changed from military consumption to wealth production, which can bring about a very considerable improvement in people's livelihood.

More importantly, collecting their weapons and forging swords into plows can provide Wu County with a large number of iron farm tools.

Sun Ce praised him and said: "Zhu Gong is selfless and is actually the humerus of Jiangdong. If all the officials in Wu County are like Zhu Gong, why worry about the poor livelihood of the people? Why worry about the famine in Jiangdong?"

But the problem is that it is impossible for everyone to be like Zhu Zhi. He can clearly see that by supporting Sun Ce and as Sun Ce's power grows, his entire family will rise.

But other officials, chief officials, and heroes did not have this awareness.

Therefore, Sun Ce immediately asked: "How does Zhu Gong plan to carry out this policy, successfully collect the troops of the entire county, and make the heroes obey?"

Zhu Zhi's attitude was strong and he said: "Who dares to disobey an order from the county government and is forced by authority? Handing in your weapons is the right thing to do. But the law is strict and all those who privately prohibit weapons will serve for one year."

Half. One crossbow, plus second class. A has one collar and three crossbows, and will be sentenced to five years in prison. A has three collars and five crossbows, and will be hanged!"

This should be regarded as a very famous law in Zhuxia, which is also the famous crime of concealing armor. There are some details in it, such as prohibited weapons such as long spears, heavy halberds, side cards, flags, etc., all of which are prohibited for private possession.

Hidden. Of course, swords, longbows and the like are not included.

Sun Ce seriously thought about the feasibility of enforcing this law. Throughout the dynasties, as long as the order was stable, these prohibited items should have been collected.

But Sun Ce was still thinking, but Zhu Zhi took the initiative to change the topic and said: "But I think that the key to the implementation of this law and to collect troops from Wu County is not to collect the number of prohibited weapons, but to facilitate people's livelihood. So how many can be collected?

Weapons are not enough."

Sun Ce raised his eyebrows in surprise and collected the troops from Wu County, but he didn't care how many weapons he collected?

"What do you mean by Mr. Zhu's words?"

Zhu Zhi said calmly and confidently: "When I hear the law, I can only get it from those who are above. The law is from those who are below, and I can only get it from those below. The county government has issued an order to recruit all the troops in the county. A hero will not be willing to hand over so many fine gold men easily.

Iron, this is human nature."

"In order to find a way to escape, heroes must melt their weapons and make them into instruments. Wouldn't having so many instruments be convenient for people's livelihood and increase production?"

"But if the government asks powerful men to turn swords into plowshares, I'm afraid they will resist and hide their weapons."

Sun Ce laughed, okay, you know how to negotiate.

Indeed, as Zhu Zhi said, powerful and powerful families are the most likely to resist the government system. It is normal to have policies from above and countermeasures from below.

But Zhu Zhi’s wave belongs to me who predicted your prediction!

He nominally pursued the policy of "receiving troops from Wu County".

Once government orders are issued, powerful people will naturally resist and distort the policies in this area.

But little did they know that the method of their confrontation was exactly what Zhu Zhi expected. He was trying to improve people's livelihood in the name of recruiting troops from Wu County.

He didn't care whether the powerful men handed over their weapons to the counties. What he expected was that the powerful men would take the initiative to smelt the fine gold and fine iron and cast them into agricultural tools.

When the time comes, there will be thousands of powerful men, the swords and halberds in their hands will be replaced by grass, and the armor will be forged into plows. How can Wu County's production not be improved?

Of course, this law must be strictly enforced. This can ensure that the powerful men of Wu County can no longer arm a large number of subordinates. The powerful Han men who also own manors will gradually transform into the manor members of the Song Dynasty.

Sun Ce immediately replied: "Since Duke Zhu has perfected the law, we will implement it according to Duke Zhu's words. The county government will issue an order to inform the people and collect all prohibited weapons."

Zhu Zhi immediately handed over his hand and said: "I will send a postal inspector to inspect the north and south of the county to supervise the county magistrates and heroes to collect all prohibited weapons."

Sun Ce asked with great interest: "Supervisor of postal services? Who does Duke Zhu intend to appoint as postal supervisor?"

The postal inspector is a position with great power. He holds a light position and is responsible for conveying religious orders, supervising subordinate officials, inspecting cases and prisons, and checking illegality, etc.

To put it more vividly, he also has a light-weight position, similar to that of a governor. The only difference is that the governor of each state is appointed by the emperor, while the postal governor is appointed by the county governor. Therefore, these officials will also directly call the prefect the chief prince or the governor.

Don't think that because Liu Bei was whipped more than a hundred times as a postal supervisor, this position seems unworthy.

Another allusion has just now truly demonstrated the authority and dignity of the governor.

Later generations will all know an allusion about not giving up for five buckets of rice.

The formation of this allusion is due to the postal supervisor. At that time, Tao Yuanming was the order of Pengze. A postal supervisor from the county came to Pengze for inspection. The official asked him to greet him with a belt to show respect. Tao Yuanming said angrily: "I don't want to bend my waist for five measures of rice."

I am a country boy!" He hung up his hat and left his post that day, and wrote a poem "Come back and come back" to clarify his aspirations.

It can be said that Sun Ce and Zhu Zhi were not out in Wu County, and these two governors could best represent their will and coerce the county magistrates and heroes.

Whether these two people can serve will directly determine whether the decree to disband the heroic military power can be implemented smoothly.

This should be Sun Ce's first overall confrontation with the heroes of Wu County, and these two governors are his sharpest swords.

Zhu Zhi said: "I plan to appoint Xu Yi as the postal governor of the north, and lead his subordinates to drive around the northern part of the county. I will appoint Lu Dai as the southern captain, and lead the troops to frighten the heroes."

"Good." Sun Ce said with a smile: "Now we can see that there are many talented people in Wu County! The civil and military personnel used are all outstanding in the world."

To be fair, Wu County now has an incredible amount of talented people in this county. Especially when scholars from the north moved south, the area was filled with wise men. Within ten cities, there must be some outstanding talents.

These talents alone can not only support the skeleton of a force, but can even flesh out its wings.

To be honest, military generals like Liu Bei and Lu Bu in the north can barely compete with Sun Ce. But if they are civil servants, even if they are called Zhou Mu, they cannot compare with Sun Ce.

After Sun Ce and Zhu Zhi made their decision, the two police inspectors drove around the counties the next day, announcing the county government's orders, and even personally supervised the surrender of prohibited weapons by powerful households.

In just three days, they confiscated thousands of spears, spears, halberds, beryllium, halberds, etc. from Wu County and Youquan County respectively.

There are also dozens of flags and more than thirty crossbows!

Especially the latter items are absolutely prohibited no matter how you look at them. Which serious person would hide dozens of flags at home? Are you ready to rise up and raise an army at any time?

But soon, Sun Ce lost news about these two postal supervisors.

It's not that they were killed by a hero, but that the rainy season is here! The roads are muddy and it's inconvenient for them to convey news.
To be continued...