Under the operation of the officials brought by Yuan Xi from Jizhou, Beixin City began to break away from the previous image of a grass-roots team and began to take the form of a county government.
In the first days, various departments were not familiar with each other and seemed a bit confused. However, the people of Beixin City were surprisingly cooperative, which surprised the Jizhou officials who were accustomed to the world.
You must know that when implementing administrative orders locally, especially when farming involves extremely sensitive matters such as labor and land reclamation, without the cooperation of prestigious local nobles, there will be great resistance, and many things will often be delayed for several years without any improvement.
However, the people of Beixin City had great trust in Yuan Xi, and they actively participated in the work of opening up wasteland around Beixin City, digging canals, and other tasks that required the work of the people, and soon large-scale land reclamation began.
Rongcheng and Fan Yang were still in business for a short period of time, and relatively few people responded. However, after Yuan Xi adopted another measure, more and more people assisted the soldiers in farming.
Settlement remuneration on the same day.
Regardless of the objections of some officials, Yuan Xi not only managed two meals a day for the people who participated in the reclamation, but also opened a private treasury, and paid several extra cents a day, which was settled on the same day. After hearing this, the people came in droves.
Some officials advised that if we continue to make ends meet, it is not a long-term solution. We are afraid that in more than a year, the private treasury will be exhausted.
Yuan Xi has his own ideas. If he doesn't invest in the early stage of construction, the progress will be slowed down later. Now everything is difficult at the beginning. As long as he stays on the right track and invests more, he will get more benefits later.
What's more, as long as you survive the first half year of spring plowing, there will be a good opportunity to make a fortune later.
Defeat Yi Jing!
There are millions of stones in the food alone, and I don’t know how much other good stuff there is. How much you can get at that time depends on the military merits of each person in the battle formation.
But what he needs to deal with first is the enemies who may come to harass and attack.
He gathered Quyi, Zhaoyun and Taishici together, and now the three of them are responsible for defending one city, and they change defenses every once in a while, which is just enough.
He said: "This is what I think about the next plan."
"Now the wasteland around the three cities has begun to be reclaimed, and there are two main problems we face."
"First, we need to build corresponding water conservancy facilities and dig ditches. However, it is currently freezing and it is difficult to dig ditches. However, if spring plowing is missed, the crop harvest will not be good."
Qu Yi spoke up: "I don't understand internal affairs. Why don't you find a nobleman who is familiar with this?"
Of course I know, Yuan Xi thought to himself, the key is that there is no one in hand!
The civil engineering knowledge of the past life is almost completely unable to be used in today's small-scale peasant economy and society. Only people of this era can improve the technology suitable for this era.
Yuan Xi now hopes very much that it would be great if there were people like Chen Deng who are proficient in agriculture around him!
He said: "If I have a way, I won't look for you anymore."
"I decided to let some of the sergeants build the canals and pay them at the same time."
This is how the recruitment system works. If you don’t pay for labor, the soldiers will be dissatisfied.
Zhao Yun said: "We don't have enough money and food."
Yuan Xi nodded and said: "So we need to find another way to make money. Let's think about it carefully first and we will meet tomorrow to discuss it."
"The second problem is that the Huns, Gongsun Zan's army and Montenegro army may come to harass us at any time."
"Especially Yufuluo of the Southern Xiongnu, who once attached himself to Dong Zhuo and was an enemy of my father. This Liangzi cannot get rid of."
"The three thousand soldiers brought, plus the original fifteen hundred people, equal to one thousand and fifty per city, which is a group."
"But the problem is that if we all go farming, we won't have time to respond when the enemy comes."
"So I want to use a round-robin method. Each of the three will lead hundreds of veteran soldiers, plus some new recruits, to fight on a monthly basis. The others will farm the fields. When the time is up, another batch of rounds will be fought."
Taishi Ci heard this and agreed: "Young master knows the military. Using the old to lead the new can also play a role in training troops."
"It's just that in order to actually do it, you need to change according to the times. It seems that I will have to train the soldiers as soon as possible after I return."
Qu Yi spoke up: "Although the Southern Xiongnu are harassed by rogue bandits these days, their numbers are not large, but sooner or later there will be a big wave."
"The good news is that Gongsun Zan is not dealing with them either, so it is unlikely that the two sides will join forces."
Zhao Yun said in a deep voice: "Although we will not join forces, if we attack the three cities in turn or at the same time, we will be stretched thin."
"Leave aside the Huns, Tian Yu's hundreds of white horse followers are also a huge trouble."
Yuan Xi nodded and said: "So regardless of anything else, Tian Yu is a troublesome person. Even if he can't be used by me, I can't let him stay in Gongsun Zan's army."
"We need to find an opportunity to lure him out."
"It's up to you after that."
When Zhao Yun and the others left, they couldn't help but shake their heads. The three forces around Beixin City were all quite troublesome. The young master really found a good place.
But it is precisely because of this that the people of Beixin City have suffered so much over the years, so they are so grateful to Yuan Xi for protecting them.
Now Yuan Xi's reputation has spread throughout Zhuo County. The reason why the people of Fan Yang and Rongcheng did not have a big commotion is also due to this influence.
Yuan Xi deeply felt the benefits of fame. As long as he had a wide reputation among the people and had fewer supporting nobles, he would not necessarily be unable to achieve success.
But on the other hand, reputation among the public is also very easily affected.
Such as the Yellow Turban Army.
Yuan Xi thought of that saying, if you don't occupy the position, the enemy will.
He called Wu Zhao and Cao Xian and said, "What do you think of Taoism?"
When Cao Xian saw Wu Zhao indicating that he should speak first, he thought for a while and said, "There are many nobles in Yanzhou who believe in Huang Lao's ways and even sympathize with the Yellow Turbans."
"When they talk, they often compare Taoism and Confucianism to weigh the pros and cons. Some of their words are actually quite disrespectful."
Yuan Xi was quite surprised: "If you don't believe in Confucianism and believe in Taoism, are there many such nobles?"
Cao Xian thought for a while, "According to my impression, there are quite a few of them, at least three or four out of ten."
Yuan Xi said: "Do you think this is caused by the great chaos in the world and the decline of the Han Dynasty, or does it already exist?"
After hearing this, Cao Xian was puzzled: "Master, this question is too difficult. I'm just a child."
These words made both Yuan Xi and Wu Zhao laugh. Wu Zhao turned to Yuan Xi and said with a smile, "I'll do the talking."
However, Yuan Xi saw Cao Xian take advantage of Wu Zhao's turning around, stick out his tongue at him with a wicked smile, lick the corners of his mouth, and almost lost his composure on the spot.
Wu Zhao did not notice it, but said: "This matter is very complicated to talk about."
"My father studied Confucian classics, but discovered some truths in it that are difficult to explain to outsiders."
"If Taoism has evolved from Taoism, which was composed of hundreds of schools of thought in ancient times, into a sect, in fact, Confucianism has also undergone similar changes."
This was the first time Yuan Xi heard this statement, and he immediately said: "I would like to hear the details."
Wu Zhao said: "Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the practice of deposing hundreds of schools of thought and only respecting Confucianism is the connection between heaven and man proposed by the great Confucian Dong Zhongshu. It is not the same as Confucius's pre-Qin Confucianism, and even runs counter to it."
"You don't talk about the strange power that confuses the gods, but the communication between heaven and man is based on the way of humans, gods and ghosts."
These words were like a thunderbolt, which suddenly widened Yuan Xi's horizons and made him understand many things that were vague and unenlightenable before.
The sanctity of imperial power.
Although Qin Shihuang unified the world, he failed to secure it. Although there were many reasons for this, he actually did not have good control over the nominal thing like destiny.
The Confucianism of the pre-Qin Dynasty advocated governing the country with virtue and morality, but it could not give a good explanation for the emperor's orders from heaven.
So after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the prophecy theory became popular and reached its peak during the reign of Liu Xiu.
The theory of prophecy can predict future events by attributing Confucius' words and deeds to heaven's prophecies, thereby adding the sacredness of religion.
Dong Zhongshu was inspired by this and proposed the theory of induction between heaven and man.
To be fair, this is a helpless act of compromise, because there is heaven above the emperor, and there is undoubtedly an extra yoke.
Therefore, Dong Zhongshu’s Three Strategies of Heaven and Man are also restricting the imperial power, because according to this view, earthquakes, droughts, floods, insect plagues and other human phenomena are warnings from God to the emperor. If the emperor’s rule is stable, so-called
Auspicious.
God treats the imperial power just as a father treats his children, and Dong Zhongshu himself also does the work of praying for rain, just like the ancient wizard who worshiped the heaven, making people feel like he has returned to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
It is difficult to say how many things Dong Zhongshu incorporated into it, but what is certain is that, combined with the later actions of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu's Confucianism is completely different from the core of pre-Qin Confucianism, and many religious factors have been added.
The symbol of the official formation of Taoism is the Five Pecks of Rice Road created by Zhang Daoling, the heavenly master in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Dong Zhongshu's Confucianism was separated by hundreds of years, and the birth process was very similar to the principles involved. It drew on the evolution from Confucianism to Confucianism, integrated the will of heaven, ghosts and gods into itself, and combined it with the Buddhist missionary model, so Taoism was born.
Wu Zhao talked about the cause-and-effect relationships of Confucianism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism sentence by sentence, in a clear and coherent manner, and even Cao Xian was amazed and nodded repeatedly.
Wu Zhao finally said: "It was precisely because of Dong Zhongshu's proposal of divine induction and the deification of Confucius that Confucianism became Confucianism, which added supreme authority to the imperial power, but also brought an inescapable chain."
"Heaven is always above man, and the emperor is always ordered by heaven and controlled by ghosts and gods, the incarnation of heaven. Therefore, the imperial power must worship ghosts and gods."
"Taoism took advantage of the situation, occupied the position of ghosts and gods, and shook the imperial power. This was one of the important reasons for the Yellow Turban Rebellion."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi said aloud: "Is this all what Cai Zhonglang thought about? It's really remarkable."
Wu Zhao's face turned red: "No, how could my father say such a treasonous thing so straightforwardly? Many of them were thought up by me after I followed the young master."
"Do you still remember when I first met the young master, I said that the Han system is not necessarily correct?"
"It was this sentence that alerted me, and made me start to think about the unreasonableness of it, and came up with ideas that were different from my father's."
Yuan Xi thought that things in the world were really wonderful. Confucianism gave birth to Taoism, but his unintentional words gave birth to Wu Zhaoxin's ideas.
He said: "The nobles respect Confucianism, and the common people believe in Taoism. If I want to win the hearts and minds of the people, I must build momentum through Taoism."
"The word-of-mouth of the people in Beixin City spreads too slowly to Zhuojun and even Youzhou, and it is easily distorted by rumors."
Wu Zhao nodded and said: "I know what the young master wants to do. It is taboo to dig into the foundation of Confucianism, but it is still possible to dig into the corners of Taoism and let it use it."
"From now on, Young Master's identity in Taoism will be passed down through rumors. As long as it continues and cooperates with Young Master's achievements, Young Master will be able to occupy a place in Taoism."
"What a good idea, sir. Cao Mengde did the same thing. If you want to fight him, you can only fight fire with fire."
Yuan Xi nodded. Although spreading rumors is a bit disgraceful, who didn't start their career by spreading rumors in the beginning?