Dong Zhao's so-called Qu Shuai Lei Lei's rage was just an exaggeration after the news was spread falsely. But Zhang Chong did have a dispute with Duman that day, and it was related to the foundation of the Taishan Army.
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"Who asked you to divide the fields on your own?"
At this time, Zhang Chong, who was still beaming at first, was filled with shock and dissatisfaction when he heard what Duman had just said.
He never expected that Duman would allocate land around Mount Tai again without informing him, and this time the land allocated would be the same to whom Zhang Chong had granted land four years ago.
After being apart for a year, Duman is darker and more mature.
When faced with Zhang Chong's doubts, he did not panic, but explained:
"Ah Chong, you may not understand the situation very well. Four years ago, we began to allocate land in the Taishan area. But now four years have passed, and the original land has begun to be concentrated in a small number of areas. In this way, tenant farming has begun to appear again.
, there is strength and weakness again. And doesn’t this go against our original intention of dividing the fields?”
When Zhang Chong heard this, he suddenly realized, so he said:
"So, you divided these people's land again?"
Duman nodded.
It turned out that after the land distribution in Taishan area, most people had their own land and began to live a good life that they had never thought of before.
But what followed was differentiation.
People are wise and foolish, and even if they are on the same starting line, they will make different choices.
After some people got the land, they worked hard to increase their harvests and became richer and richer as time went by. But even though some people got the land, their idle nature in the past has not changed, and they still left the land there without doing anything.
At the beginning, these people just rented the land to those who were hard-working. They did not do any work themselves and lived on the rented millet. But this kind of tight life cannot withstand any disturbance. Some people are married because of weddings and funerals.
For such expenses, they began to sell the land directly.
In this way, new land annexations began to appear slowly but surely. The earlier the area was divided, the more serious this annexation phenomenon would be.
After Duman, who had always implemented Zhang Chongjun's farmland thinking, learned about this trend, in order to prevent new powerful forces from emerging under his rule, he decisively began to redistribute farmland in several areas where annexation was serious.
Duman knew the consequences of this, which would inevitably greatly dampen the production enthusiasm of the people in the Taishan area. Because even in Duman's view, his behavior was to maintain absolute fairness, but in the eyes of the Guizhou leaders at the bottom, this
Just cut leeks regularly.
Since the result of hard farming is that the land is redivided, it is better to maintain food and clothing, neither better nor worse. Therefore, since the redistribution of fields, production in the Taishan area has stagnated, and there has been no more growth.
When Duman told this to Zhang Chong, he naturally felt that something was wrong. But he never thought that there was something wrong with equalizing the fields again. Instead, he was thinking about any way to increase the yield while maintaining a static average.
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Listening to Duman's words, Zhang Chong really had a headache.
He is not troubled by the degree, but by the conflict between ideal and reality.
In fact, Duman was right. When they allocated land to the poor, wasn't it for the sake of an era where everyone would have land and everyone could stay warm? This was also their righteousness and ideal.
But do you think Zhang Chong has full support? No!
It's not that Zhang Chong has lost his ideals, but that he understands the reality at this stage.
With the confrontation between the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, Taishan's army had an excellent period of external development. As the two imperial courts of the East and the West could not decide the winner, no one would waste their own strength to conquer him.
This is the same as when the transportation captain fought in the Central Plains war in the future and had no time to take care of Jiangxi.
Therefore, Zhang Chong must vigorously develop farming during this excellent development period. Since he wants to encourage people to farm, in addition to maintaining external security, he must also give everyone hope.
But now, if the land is once again divided equally for the sake of ideals after completing one's studies, then who can still produce with peace of mind? After all, those who do not have permanent property have no perseverance.
Zhang Chong thought very clearly that at this stage, the development of farming should still be the first priority, and dividing the land is only a means rather than an end.
But Zhang Chong was thinking about how to persuade Duman, because after all, this matter involves great justice.
After thinking about it, Zhang Chong said:
"Aman, do you think that without us, the ideal of everyone having land to farm would still be realized?"
Duman shook his head, of course not.
In fact, this is where Duman is proud. After gaining a complete understanding of the present world and the future, Duman has a growing sense of mission, that is, we, the Taishan Army, are the ones promised by God to bring a peaceful and prosperous world to the human world.
This kind of idea of who should give up to me has always been to ensure that no matter what dangerous situation happens in the future, they can survive it.
So Zhang Chong continued to ask:
"But at this stage, what we need is food. Without food, we are not stable. Without food, our Taishan Army cannot survive, let alone fight it out. And when we allocate fields to everyone, we just want them to pay us food."
This statement was a bit different from what Duman thought. He frowned and questioned:
"So, we don't care whether we get this food from the head of Guizhou or from powerful people?"
Zhang Chong looked at Duman and couldn't understand it.
I don’t know how Duman, who used to be a little conservative after not seeing each other for more than a year, became more radical than him? And what I just said, was he questioning me?
Trying to put away some bad emotions, Zhang Chong explained:
"The matter of dividing land is not a simple matter, it involves all aspects. How to divide and how to divide is not static, it must serve us at different stages."
"For example, in the early days of the Taishan area or the earlier Xue family, why did we divide the fields? In addition to practicing our ideals, the more important thing was to break up the local control of the Han Dynasty."
"Destroy the powerful and divide the land. Use this method to change local relations. The powerful and powerful who relied on the Han Dynasty were knocked down, and the children who supported our Taishan Army stood up. In this way, we can become stronger and stronger as we fight, and fight more and more
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Having said this, Zhang Chong also criticized Duman:
"And if you do this in the Taishan area, who will follow us? In the end, even those who originally supported us will oppose us, and even turn to the side of the Han Dynasty."
Duman snorted:
"So all this is just the emperor's trick? A way for you to conquer the world?"
Zhang Chong frowned and said angrily:
"Duman, what's wrong with you? Why do you think of me like this? Do you think all this is my trick?"
Duman also felt that he was a little speechless. He was about to apologize, but was stopped by Zhang Chong. He only heard Zhang Chong continue:
"This is not a matter of means, but any ideal that is divorced from reality will fail. Since you are trying to transform reality, but you don't care about the development of reality, how can this transformation be successful?"
"Let me tell you clearly. Our land policy is not consistent, but serves the whole purpose. At this stage, we must be inclusive, and in the process of dividing the land, we will fight against the evil powerful and seek benefits for the poor.
Get the land. Then let everyone work hard to produce it.”
"All of this is because we defeated the Han Dynasty and won the world. Without these, your so-called ideal is just a castle in the air."
Zhang Chong's words were harsh, but Duman heard a different tone.
He raised his head and looked at Zhang Chong:
"So this is all before you win the world, what about after you win the world?"
Zhang Chong laughed and said inexplicably:
"Then let's wait until the world is over."
So the conversation between Zhang Chong and Du Man ended like this, and their dispute became what Dong Zhao called a thunderous rage.
The aftermath of this incident is this.
The new transfer of Doman was quickly made, and he was transferred from the Taishan area to all government affairs of the shogunate president. There was also a resolution.
That is, many people in various base areas have an absolute concept of wealth and poverty when presiding over the work of dividing land. They think that whoever is richer will have more surplus food at home, which is a big deal. But at the current stage, the goal is to let the leaders of Guizhou in the base areas work hard to produce.
Let them all live a good life.
As soon as this decision came out, many people naturally understood it when comparing it with the previous arrangements for Duman, and knew what Qu Shuai valued most now.
As the leader of an army and several places, Zhang Chong could no longer be as arbitrary as in the past. In addition to meeting with Duman, other staff of the shogunate also sought rulings on different matters.
In his position, the solution to the problem is not to solve this one problem, but to formulate rules for a class of problems.
For example, this time on Zhengdan, both Cai Yong, the governor of Taishan, and Zhuge Gui, the county magistrate, came. Not only did they come by themselves, they also came with their respective families.
With the visible decline of the Han Dynasty, the Taishan Army became stronger as the war progressed, and all policies were in line with the people's wishes. Zhuge Gui's attitude became more and more relaxed, and now he almost regarded himself as a member of the Taishan Army.
This time Zhuge Gui brought his family to Yecheng because he was most optimistic about the Taishan Army.
This time, Zhuge Gui also came with a piece of advice. This was also a piece of advice that he and Cai Yong had big differences with, so Zhang Chong needed to rule here.
Zhuge Gui said that there was a man named Lu San in Ying County who had been idle and working as tenants. Later, the Taishan Army came and began to divide the land on a large scale in Ying County.
Not only Lu San himself, but also his father and uncle received a share of the land.
But later, Lu Sancheng became obsessed with gambling and not only sold his share of the land early, he even sold his father's land while his father was critically ill. Later, Lu San's uncle rebuked Lu San for being unfilial, and later Lu San made a mistake.
He stabbed his uncle to death.
The person in charge at that time was Cai Yong.
With a pragmatic attitude, Cai Yong made a mistake after investigating the case, which can be forgiven according to the law. In other words, Lu San should be punished accordingly.
However, Zhuge Gui, the county magistrate at that time, did not agree with this sentence. He believed that the murderer killed his uncle and violated ethics and principles, so he should be dealt with severely and should be executed.
After hearing Zhuge Gui's remarks, Zhang Chong thought silently:
"I wonder where Zhuge Liang's later art of conquering Han came from. It turns out that this is the tradition of your Zhuge family."
Of course he knew why Zhuge Gui made this judgment, which was to safeguard the patriarchal system of family relations, which is the core of regional stability.
Because in ancient times, it was difficult to maintain a large-scale bureaucratic team because of the difficulty in tax collection and the single tax source. So many local affairs had to be delegated. Except for some necessary cases, most lawsuits were settled by the local chief.
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Therefore, this is equivalent to a certain degree of administrative outsourcing. The local clan chief manages and restrains the clan members, reducing the government management burden.
The clan chiefs rely on the patriarchal system to adjudicate lawsuits. Therefore, maintaining the patriarchal system means maintaining local stability.
At this time, Zhang Chong was in trouble again.
In addition to dividing fields, he also divided households in the Yecheng area. This was because he knew that the powerful local families were these powerful clans.
If we don't attack these people, the Taishan Army's land division is just a paper effort, and the local clan chief can take it back to them with just one word.
But Zhang Chong had to admit that the current Taishan Army was unable to manage such a large situation. To put it bluntly, Zhang Chong didn't even know how many fields and dings he had under his control.
It’s not that no one is doing it, it’s that there are not enough planners.
There are many brave men in the Taishan Army, but if you want to find someone who can count to a hundred, you may not be able to find a hundred. It's not like Zhang Chong cultivated some literacy skills through the collision team.
Believe it or not, no matter how much the Taishan Army fights in the front, those wealthy children in the back can break into the house with a rudimentary arithmetic, and then use their skills to plunder.
Therefore, Zhang Chong could only acquiesce to the status quo, that is, he did not intend to make a fat man, and did not expect that with one move, the world would change.
Just like what he and Duman said, he divided the land distribution into several steps. Zhang Chong also divided each base area into different levels and managed them differently.
Currently, under Zhang Chong's rule, there are areas in the upper reaches of the Zhang River, the Heji area, as well as the Taishan area, the central and southern Shandong area, Laiwu Valley, and some scattered corners.
In terms of power radiation and importance, the Zhangshui, Heji and Taishan areas are the most important. The first two areas have large armies stationed and can implement established policies well, while the latter is the basic base of the Taishan army and must be dealt with well.
, because this is the military spirit.
This is also the reason why Zhang Chong is dissatisfied with Duman. Most of the soldiers in the army are descendants of Mount Tai. If Duman divides the fields in the Mount Tai area, it will inevitably greatly affect the morale of the old brothers in the army.
For these three areas, Zhang Chong regarded them as the top priority, whether it was the division of fields, households, or grassroots management. But for other areas, Zhang Chong only needed to maintain the situation and recruit troops and collect grain.
This is not Zhang Chong's appeasement, but the result of rational consideration. Although swallowing a whale is heroic, it can also choke to death. Instead, it can eat away step by step, step by step, and it can reach the sky.
Therefore, Zhang Chong nodded in agreement with Zhuge Gui's judgment.
In this way, Lu San's fate was decided.
After the matter was over, Zhuge Gui said another thing, that is, he had been entrusted by Zhang Chong to sort out a detailed classification of various forms of land with Taishan County as the target, and now he was the one to hand over the results to Zhang Chong.
It's time.
Looking at the stack of books that were carried up, Zhang Chong sighed that Zhuge Gui was indeed a capable official and someone who could get things done.
Then Zhang Chong asked Zhuge Gui to go back and rest while he wanted to read the book.