Chapter 336: This is a great opportunity to deal with the Zhi clan
The Zhi family has been expanding continuously for fifteen years, and there has not been much trouble during the expansion process. To maintain stability after annexing the Zhongshan Kingdom and the Wei Kingdom, there is only one key step, which is the military merit system released by Zhi Yao.
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What does it mean? It means that when someone makes meritorious service, no matter how small the merit is, the merit is merit, and he will get the material reward he deserves. Once the merit is enough, he will have his own land.
The first priority is to ensure internal warlike enthusiasm, and the second step is to guide the warlikeness in the right direction. It can be a meritorious service to fight externally, and it can also be a meritorious service to exterminate unruly people at home.
In such a large environment, there is an environment of mutual supervision. Whoever wants to cause trouble will not get support. On the contrary, there are countless people who want to take their heads off in exchange for rewards. Small chaos may occur.
It is impossible for a major chaos to break out.
Zhiyao allocates the land obtained by those who have performed meritorious services to a place. Only under the rule of the Zhi family, the land deeds in the hands of these people will be considered legal and valid. If a ruler is changed, the land deeds will become one.
piece of waste paper.
Because of the existence of that "contractual relationship", people with permanent property are naturally Zhishi's supporters. They will become Zhishi's eyes wherever they go, and they will also be helpers in maintaining Zhishi's rule.
Once these people are entrusted to the newly occupied areas, they will not only become natural members of the garrison, but they will also be less prepared than anyone else for the enemy to successfully counterattack and take away the land they have obtained.
Zhiyao will then send village chiefs, township chiefs, township chiefs, village chiefs and related officials, plus the old Homo sapiens who have obtained the land to form a chain of governance, to jointly control the new Homo sapiens in the occupied area.
Homo sapiens? The name sounds weird. It is just like the name, similar to Qin people, Zhao people, Wei people, Han people, Qi people, Chu people...etc.
"Cui Jianke is a family official, and his son is appointed as the governor of the city of Tan." Zhiyao knows what it means to buy a horse bone with a thousand gold.
From the perspective of Qi State, Cui Jian is undoubtedly a traitor and a villain.
But from the Zhi family's perspective, Cui Jian immediately became a meritorious person.
Becoming a family official of the Zhi family means that you can have your own city and enjoy the rights of "I am the master of my land".
There is a difference between a family doctor and other nobles with a title of doctor. The only difference is that the title is not recognized at the national level. Once the family he works for falls, everything will be lost.
Of course, those were the rules a long time ago, and the situation is changing all the time.
For example, the Fan family and the Zhonghang family were expelled from the Jin State one after another. Some of the family officials of the two families retained their fiefdoms and cities after the surrender, but they only changed the people they served.
The direct consequence of the change in the rules is that the vassals of the nobles (family officials) no longer resist to the death when encountering an invasion. At the beginning of the war, there was no one who took the lead in directly revolting. The war entered a disadvantageous stage, and there was a change of attitude.
It is relatively common. Naturally, there are still vassals that live and die with the master family, but compared with before, the phenomenon of all vassals stubbornly resisting to the end really does not exist.
Why do some people always say that etiquette has broken down and music has broken down? Not only did Emperor Zhou’s words sound like farts, it also reflected in the fact that other original rules were broken!…
Zhiyao is also breaking the rules, but what he does is to benefit more people from a very high-end cause, making it more common.
Originally, owning land was a privilege reserved for human beings.
Nowadays, owning land is still a symbol of being a superior person.
What has changed is that the land that was previously acquired was at least a few miles in circumference, and now the number of people owning more than ten acres, dozens of acres, or hundreds of acres has increased rapidly. Suddenly, the master's original ability has dropped too much.
Too much.
This is something that Zhiyao has to keep. If the land is equalized regardless of origin, even if the Zhi family's land is divided, I am afraid that all nobles will become enemies in an instant.
As for whether what Zhiyao did was right or not, even though he was the first person to do so in this version of history, from a modern perspective, he was undoubtedly looking at what has been proven correct by history.
There is no need to make it too complicated, just a statement of "increasing enthusiasm for production" is enough.
If the writing was more streamlined, switching the character's vision, and describing the plot of a person who was in an era of change and acquired land, it would basically be enough for four or five chapters.
One day, the news of Gao Wupi's suicide reached Zhiyao's ears.
At that moment, the scene of Gongsun Qing leaping on the city wall appeared in Zhiyao's mind, and she thought with emotion: "It's not a bad thing that the Jiang family is Lu."
At the end of a dynasty, there were some clear-minded people. They saw the end of the world coming, felt unable to save it, and chose to commit suicide for burial. This somewhat shows that this dynasty has not completely and completely lost people's hearts.
In just three short months, Zhiyao heard that the number of people who committed suicide exceeded 30. Without exception, they were all nobles, some were heads of families, and more were members of a certain family. But those families did not
He was trying to do something like a mantis, but on the contrary, he actively responded to Zhishi's treatment of Qiguo.
The peak period for those people to commit suicide was after the funeral of Qi Junren. However, the Zhi family did not withdraw from the army that controlled "Linzi". News came from the south that the Wu State had sent troops to capture Qi State's cities. Afterwards, they felt deep despair and committed suicide.
Yes, Wu State sent people to attend Qi Junren's funeral, but did not prevent them from occupying Qi State's land.
The Wu army teamed up with the Ju State to launch an attack on the Qi State. Some of the Wu troops took advantage of the Lu State, and more Wu troops took the Ju State's army with them, and then invaded the Qi State from the direction of the Ju State.
In this regard, the Zhi family had no comment. Faced with the entreaties of the Qi princes, they chose to provide funding for arms and food, and then encouraged the Qi people to go south to defend the country.
At the same time, Tian Shi, who was hiding in the east, issued an appeal, suggesting that the people of Qi temporarily put aside their disputes and unite to resist Wu's invasion.
Donglai is not the name of a city, it generally refers to the territory of the country from which it originally came, probably with Weishui as the boundary, and going east is the territory of the country from which it originally came.
At present, the Tian family, together with their loyal allies, controls most of the cities in the east, and they are constantly fighting with the princes loyal to the Qi government and nobles with different surnames.
Zhishi was busy controlling Qi's capital circle and the upper reaches of the Jishui River, and not a single soldier crossed the Weishui River.
In addition, Zhi Yao’s hint to Tian Qi made Tian suddenly unsure of what Zhi would do. Tian took up the banner of uniting all parties in the Qi Kingdom again. Is this supposed to be a test?…
Sima Ranju wanted to beat Tian to death immediately, but Zhiyao was more willing to leave Tian to stir up trouble.
In the new correspondence, Sima Ranju gave a warning, believing that given Tian's ability to confuse people's minds, and given enough time and stage to Tian, Tian might cause a lot of trouble to Zhi in the future.
Sima Ranju's concerns are right.
But Zhiyao knows her own suffering.
Wu State sent troops to invade Qi State, which made Zhiyao relieved. Wu State's intention to take action was equivalent to being exposed, which was less of a threat than if it was not launched.
The Wei family was the one who experienced the abnormality. They stopped fighting Zheng Guo and shrank their troops back to the "Hulao" side.
The Wei family communicated with the Zhi family, saying that a Chu army numbering about 100,000 entered the territory of the Song Dynasty close to the Zheng State to station. Because they could not figure out the intention of the Chu army, they stopped and continued to invade Zheng.
country’s actions.
And that was an event predicated on a linkage nature. For example, Zheng Guo did frequently contact Chu State. Considering that Bai Gongsheng was dismissed from his post due to the defeat of the "Battle of the Weishui River", it is difficult to say that Chu State will not accept Zheng Guo.
Bai Gongsheng's end was pretty good. He didn't end up committing suicide after defeating him. He was just demoted to a commoner, with the possibility of changing his identity and regaining his position at any time.
However, Bai Gong's victory and defeat also means that the forces of Chu that rejected Zheng were severely damaged, and the forces that were willing to accept Zheng will rise again.
If the State of Chu is willing to accept the State of Zheng, it means that the State of Chu will be at odds with the Wei family. Then the Wei family will not only face the State of Zheng, which has no worries, but also the State of Chu, an established power.
The Wei family stopped invading the Zheng State and issued a new recruitment order. It seemed to be responding to the threat of the possible alliance between the Chu State and the Zheng State. Isn't it a threat to the Zhi family? Under this change in the situation, the Zhi family
We need to be prepared to deal with emergencies, and there will definitely be fewer troops able to march into Qi to fight.
Just the new changes in the Wei family did not make Zhiyao feel bitter, the main reason was that the Han family was also gathering troops.
The theory given by the Han family is that they plan to carry out the second Western Expedition. This year, the target of the attack has become Bai Zhai. Once Qin intervenes, they will also beat the Qin army.
It's enough for Zhiyao to attract only one Wei family, and the Han family is also taking action. God knows whether they are telling the truth or lies. Maybe they think that the Zhi family is going to swallow up Qi State, and there is a kind of time that waits for me.
Awakened and determined to unite to deal with Zhishi.
It's not impossible, and the possibility is quite small.
"If the Wei family and the Han family form an alliance, it can indeed pose a threat to my family. Plus Chu, Zheng, and Wu, our family will definitely not be able to withstand it!" Zhiyao determined that even if there was only one in 10,000 chance, she would
We must not relax. We must not only make relevant preparations, but also take concrete actions.
A large number of Zhishi's envoys and agents have already set off, and their mission is to find out the war preparations of all parties, such as the status of material reserves/mobilization and the gathering locations of soldiers.
Why not take the route of spying on high-level officials? We also want people from the Zhi family to be able to enter the social circles of high-level officials in various countries!
In today's time, if you don't have enough identity, you can't enter relevant circles at all. Planting spies or something like that is just a joke.
Therefore, those people from Zhishi can only spy on the transfer of materials and personnel, and forget about contacting the top management of all parties. Even thinking about it would be in vain.
"Even if I am overly sensitive again, there is only a one in 10,000 possibility. How can I not treat it with 10,000 percent vigilance?"
After all, Zhi's military action against Qi State really gave all parties a good opportunity. If they miss this opportunity, they don't know how long they will have to wait.
Besides, Zhiyao decided that it would be okay even if he was working blindly, and it would never be a mistake to be prepared!