Julu County has fifteen counties under its jurisdiction, with ten rivers passing through it. Within one marsh, there is a dense network of rivers, 90,000 hectares of fertile land, and 700,000 residents.
The yellow book records that there are only 540,000 people, and there are 160,000 hermit households in each family. This is the result of Liu Xiang's robbery, and most of the hermit households fled to Youzhou.
It was shocking yet commonplace that every time he occupied a territory, he would find many hidden shelters from powerful families.
As Jizhou is a major grain-producing state, there are particularly many hidden farmers, several times more than Youzhou.
Most of the land is in the hands of various families, and homesteaders are extremely rare.
Liu Xiang wanted to kill someone.
By killing these rats and crickets, he would not have to pay an excessive price, and he would be able to let the people live a peaceful and peaceful life by dividing their fields.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
The Julu nobles are still alive, and there are still many young people working as officials. How can you let those former hermits and tenants live in peace?
He used this question to ask Guo Dian, Jushou, and Tian Feng.
The result was three different answers.
Guo Dian swore that he could show his loyalty to Liu Xiang every day, and nothing else. He was not telling the truth, but the answer was already obvious, and it was just a trick to deceive the superiors and hide the truth from the subordinates.
Jushou told Liu Xiang that he needed to be patient. The lord and the scholars lacked trust and they needed to get along more. He was a good minister and a distant man, but he did not give an answer in the end. This was because he had not returned home yet, let alone wanted to.
Come up with ideas to deal with your own camp.
Only Tian Feng answered directly.
Tian Yuanhao, who was appointed as the supervisory censor, said: "Make laws clear, enable supervision, and purge officials."
The method is a good one, but it is macroscopic and is a direction for future efforts. It cannot solve the current problem for the time being.
How could Tian Feng's eyes be able to watch so many hands? He needed to establish a supervision system from the central to the local governments. This could not be completed in a day or two.
Liu Xiang was going to transfer some Tiqi and scribes, but first he would set up a framework to supervise the censors.
Now we still have to do something special.
It was necessary not only to appease the fearful mentality of local scholars, but also to allow the people to farm with peace of mind.
What a hassle.
I really want to kill someone!
The Han Dynasty had three mutual laws. Except for border counties where locals were appointed because no one was willing to take office, officials above the county magistrate were appointed in other places, but all minor officials were local.
Interest groups in Julu County have long been formed.
If you can't kill people, you can only transfer them.
Liu Xiang ordered that local officials be transferred to Bingzhou to serve as assistant envoys. They would be put on probation for three years to observe their conduct. After the evaluation period, they would be appointed as appropriate.
Transfer officials from Youzhou to serve in Julu County.
All the fields in Julu County were designated as official holdings and used as spare tribute fields. The common people were temporarily arranged to live in military camps. Farmers could exchange their fields elsewhere. Those who were willing to go to Liaodong could double their land.
Julu left many nobles behind and took back the fields that originally belonged to them. No one would be willing to take it back and would definitely want to take it back. Therefore, Liu Xiang wanted to reward these fields to the proud soldiers and generals in the army.
He wanted to see who dared to reach out?
The nobles under his rule can have money, but no one can have food. These are two concepts.
The affairs of Julu County cost Liu Xiang a lot of effort, because he wanted to set Julu as an example. There are two things in this world. When his own power and reputation reach a certain level, the nobles will take refuge in such things.
There will be more in the future, and Julu County is a model.
This move was a bit big, and many scholars were dissatisfied. Rumors made the people noisy, and he was very irritated.
I want to kill people even more.
Guo Dian came to inquire about Liu Xiang's attitude under the pretense of pleading guilty, and Ju Shou also tactfully advised him that the lord should be lenient and trust his scholars, as this would be detrimental to internal unity.
Tian Feng didn't think there was anything wrong. His family didn't have much land anyway. His master also gave him a share of the cloth business. He actually didn't want it. His salary was enough to support his family. Asking for so much money was a recipe for death.
He sneered again and again, "My lord has taken away all your private soldiers, and you are still hiding money at home. Why hide so much money? It's all small if it is stolen by thieves."
What do you do when robbers come to your door?
When the master is short of money, it will be easy for you too.
"My lord, please send someone to verify the truth. Anyone who spreads rumors will be punished." He spoke directly, not afraid of offending anyone.
"Give them a chance to change." Liu Xiang tapped the case with his index finger, thought for a moment and said, "Dian Wei, send someone to give each big family a standard sword."
After speaking, he emphasized: "Send the Suwei to the heads of each family."
It's just four or fifty knives, he can afford them.
I just don’t know, can those families afford the money?
Liu Xiang doesn't care how each family implements the family laws in the future, since the rumors have stopped anyway.
Civil affairs are more complicated, but the military affairs are much simpler.
Julu County has 16,000 defenders and more than 27,000 private soldiers.
If the old and the weak, the only son in the family, and the brothers join the army together are eliminated, one of them will be dismissed and return home.
Most of the people were eliminated, leaving 20,000 generals. Liu Xiang thought that these people were still a bunch of crooked people, so he selected 10,000 people who dared to fight among them, scattered them and organized them into the Jizhou garrison, and the rest served as civilian husbands.
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With such actions, Zhao Yun led 30,000 troops in Wei County, Liu Xiang led 20,000 Jizhou troops in Julu County, the Chinese army had more than 30,000 infantry and cavalry, and there were more than 20,000 civilians.
Zhou Cang, the actual commander of the Jizhou Army, only had more than a hundred personal guards around him, and this guy did something wrong again. He led his troops to the east county of Yanzhou. The report said that the Yanzhou Yellow Turban invited him to go over to resist the official army, and now
It has recruited more than 80,000 people, including more than 30,000 young people.
Yanzhou Dongjun is located to the south of Weijun in Jizhou and Qinghe State, across the Yellow River, with territory on both sides of the river, and Zhou Cang crossed the river while it was frozen.
But how can he come back now?
The Yellow River has been unsealed!
The report was placed in front of Jushou, who was now worshiped as a military advisor by Liu Xiang. After reading this report, which was similar to a battle report, and the recent knowledge of the military system of the Anping Army, Jushou was extremely frightened.
He carefully calculated that the lord entered Jizhou with 80,000 soldiers and horses, and there were 40,000 garrison troops in Bingzhou, 20,000 people from the four armies at the front, left and right, 13,000 people from Liaodong Changshi Mansion, and 5,000 people from Du Liao Camp.
, the Great Wall defense line consisted of 10,000 people.
Not counting the 80,000 Yellow Turbans temporarily recruited, the Lord already has an army of 168,000 people.
Those sailors in the Navy are not included.
A few days ago, I was still planning how to resist this army? Sure enough, the ignorant are fearless!
I'm glad, I'm afraid, it's a mixed bag of emotions.
Then I thought about it, there are eleven counties in Youzhou, three counties in Bingzhou, and five counties in Jizhou, with a population of more than seven million. Is it too heavy a burden to raise so many soldiers and horses? But under the rule of my lord, the taxes are very light, and the head of Guizhou can live and work in peace and contentment, and there is still money left.
Improve life.
How?
"How did your lord do it?" He upheld the virtue of being studious and would ask if he didn't understand.
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Liu Xiang is confused and asks you to look at the Yellow Turbans that Zhou Cang has attracted and think about the potential dangers in the future. Should you take them back? What kind of question are you asking?
"How can my lord support so many soldiers without increasing the burden on the people?"
"Search the house!"
Liu Xiang explained: "The powerful and wealthy families in the family just use it to raise troops. After the army becomes stronger, it can raid more homes and build a stronger army. In this cycle, the army will naturally become stronger, and the head of Guizhou can also divide the fields for farming.
Not only can we live and work in peace and contentment, but we can also provide food and grass.”
After saying that, he couldn't help but praise: "The powerful people from aristocratic families are all good people!"
Then he looked at Jushu meaningfully and said, "It's a pity that Julu has such a smart man as Gonghe."
Jushou didn't even know how to answer. This model of military expansion looked like a plague of locusts passing through the country, but something didn't feel right.
He needs to think carefully to grasp the military situation of this army and to command the troops like an arm and a finger.
You, Bing, Qing, Ji, you can expect hegemony, you must rise from the dragon and show your ambition!