There were a lot of troubles in Qingzhou, but Liu Xiang was no longer alone. He transferred Liu Yu, the shepherd of Jizhou, to take charge of clan affairs, with only one request: to take back the fiefdom.
He doesn't care whether the princes or marquises of those clans die or whether they can keep their titles. As long as the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes can be abolished, the land can be divided among the people, and the government can also receive the taxes, then there will be no problem. They can keep the titles except
Other family properties other than land can also retain the title.
Otherwise, die!
Liu Yu was very embarrassed.
"Yicheng, if you do this, I am afraid that you will lose the popularity of the clan. The feudal princes and princes, as well as the marquises of their branches, will definitely hate you and may join the enemy and join forces to attack you."
"I have never been afraid of war." If we fight, we will fight. Who is afraid of whom? Will Liu Xiang be afraid of those rice bugs?
Liu Yu continued to persuade: "Now that the world is in chaos, the ban on recruiting troops is no longer able to restrain them. That Chen King Liu Chong is said to have tens of thousands of troops. I am afraid that other princes and kings will follow suit. Why can't we control the world and then slowly move forward?"
Cutting off the vassal?"
Liu Xiang sighed: "With these burdens on my back, I can't get to that point. Bo'an Gong, haven't you seen it yet? The world has been completely chaotic. Warlords have risen and the Han Dynasty will be extinct. I am not with the clan."
To compete for that little bit of food is to compete with the world’s heroes for power!”
Seeing that Liu Yu was still hesitating, he continued: "If I lose, the Liu family will definitely be in jeopardy. If we don't rise up, how can we count on the ten-year-old boy who fell into the hands of thieves? If Gu Nian was not a descendant of the Miao ancestors, we would have
I have already chopped off their heads and asked Mr. Bo'an to take action, but I was afraid that I could not hold back and kill them all."
As soon as these words came out, Liu Yu could no longer shirk and had to agree to handle the clan's fiefdom issue himself.
"Those who want to obtain a real title can do meritorious service, be it in the military or in politics." Liu Xiang left an opening, but he was not optimistic about those pampered rice bugs.
The clan issues were handed over to Liu Yu, and Xun Yu was appointed concurrently as the governor of Qingzhou and in charge of the civil affairs of Qingzhou.
The main task is to take back the land from the wealthy family.
"Wen Ruo, tell them that they must hand over their fields obediently, or I will kill them all and then divide the fields among the people."
"Ming Gong should not be too impatient. This matter needs to be discussed in the long run." Xun Yu looked worried and advised: "If you persecute too much, you will inevitably start war again, which will go against the original intention of stabilizing the people. It is better to issue an edict and exchange the land for the title, and it will surely be possible.
Attract a group of people, and with these people as role models, the matter of reclaiming the land will be easier to handle."
Liu Xiang pondered for a moment and asked Zhou Cang: "How many soldiers are there in the recruitment?"
"Twenty-three thousand people."
"How many surrendered Yellow Turbans are there?"
"More than a hundred thousand."
"We eliminated the old and the weak, and together with the 20,000 Jizhou legions who went to war, they were organized into the Qingzhou garrison. Those who were related to the local nobles were singled out and detained separately."
"The general will obey the order."
Xun Yu frowned slightly: "Dong Ming wants to force them to rebel?"
"Wen Ruo, you can redeem your land with money or exchange it with property, but you can't use your title. Only by meritorious service can you be awarded a title. This cannot be destroyed. Otherwise, how can you be worthy of those hard-working officials and those soldiers who fight for their lives on the battlefield?" Liu Xiang.
He turned to look at Xun Yu and said firmly:
"The system of twenty military titles must be implemented to the end. I made an agreement with the soldiers on the day I started the army, and I will never break my promise!"
He did not answer the question directly, but his meaning was very clear. He could make concessions and exchange benefits. If he still refused, he would have to hand it over to the army.
Xun Yu understood the bottom line and advised worriedly: "I will handle the matter of dividing the land, but please don't be impatient. If all the scholars in Qingzhou rebel, Ming will become the public enemy of the world."
"Complete allocating the fields before spring plowing." Liu Xiang set a deadline.
It was late October now, and spring plowing could be postponed until April at the latest. Xun Yu had more than five months to communicate with the nobles in Qingzhou.
There is no need to worry about the rebellion in Qingzhou in the past few months. Yuan Shu is marching south to Lujiang County in Yangzhou. Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou, is defeated. Yuan Shao has sent troops to Yuzhou and is stationing troops in Pei State to threaten Runan's flank. Cao Cao is also moving south to Yingchuan to contain Yuan Shu's troops.
The three major princes in Henan were hampered. Don't worry about the miscellaneous small warlords, they just took the opportunity to solve the hidden dangers in Qingzhou.
Liu Xiang was actually still waiting for Yuan Shu to ask for help so that he could have an excuse to capture Mount Tai and Langya.
After taking Qingzhou, his territory was bordered by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. In line with the principle of distant friendship and close attack, he had to favor Yuan Shu's camp and let the drama of the two Yuan's fight for hegemony continue properly to prevent them from reacting and uniting to fight against him.
I don’t know how long they will fight against each other, and I don’t know when these three people will suddenly wake up. Anyway, the longer the better.
The first to complete the task was Zhoucang, who eliminated 70,000 old and weak people and detained more than 10,000 people in six places. The Qingzhou garrison was reorganized, with a total of 63,000 people.
For the sake of the 80,000-strong army, the three kings of Qingzhou gave up their fiefdoms and returned to Jizhou with Liu Yu.
They didn't even want their own palace. Instead, they took their gold and silver treasures and planned to find a beautiful place in Jizhou to build a manor for their retirement. Liu Xiang liked this decision very much and sent Tiqi to protect them.
Xun Yu also completed his task in early February. Except for Kong Rong, the prime minister of Beihai, who insisted on a few words out of righteous indignation, the other nobles and powerful men obediently handed over their fields.
Liu Xiang, who was fully prepared to suppress the rebellion, was very disappointed and did not pay attention to Kong Rong's words.
This old man Kong was avenging injustice for others and had nothing to do with his own interests. His family was from the State of Lu. He came to Beihai to take office not long ago and he had no assets in Qingzhou.
The Prime Minister of Beihai was also demoted. When Dong Zhuo wanted to depose the emperor, he quarreled with Fatty Dong and was promoted from Tiger Guard General to Yilang. Dong Zhuo was still angry and assigned him to the place where the Yellow Turbans were most rampant.
When Beihai became the Prime Minister, he wanted to kill him with the help of the Yellow Turban Army.
Liu Xiang ignored him and directly expelled Beihai Kingdom. Kong Rong immediately became white.
The old man ran away "happily". He heard that he was going straight to the bookstore to debate the scriptures with others.
Or is it more appropriate to call it spraying?
The bookstore has been built, and the books are being sorted and transported to the city, and they are taking the opportunity to make books.
All the students from the academy also went south, and Zhuoxian Academy was transformed into an institution of higher learning under Youzhou. Teaching was divided into specialized subjects, mainly training planners, arithmetic in Cangcao, articles and classics to train scribes, laws and regulations to train meritorious officers, and
The Agricultural Science of Dian Nong Zuo Shi.
It's just that the papermaking workshop is not satisfactory and cannot produce good paper that is conducive to writing. The craftsmen are studying it.
Let's research slowly. Liu Xiang doesn't know much about papermaking. He has probably heard of the process, which is to soak the material until soft or steam it, then pound it into fiber, and then put it into the pool to fish out the paper.
Others' eyes were completely black.
The process told the craftsman to let the papermaking workshop in the book city experiment with bamboo and rattan. Paper is suitable for recording and dissemination, and it is an excellent thing, but what can he do if he doesn't know it? He can't hang himself, right?
He didn't have time to get angry in a hurry, he still had to study how to defeat Taishan County and Langya County.
Yuan Shu's messenger for help arrived a few days ago. After the beginning of spring, he was besieged by six forces and could not hold out.
I don’t know what price Yuan Shao paid. Liu Biao sent troops to Nanyang, Cao Cao went south from Yingchuan, Chen Wen entangled the invading soldiers and horses in Lujiang, Jiujiang Prefect Liu Miao and Danyang Prefect Zhou Xin sent troops to reinforce the Lujiang battlefield.
He himself led 40,000 troops and attacked Runan.
It's really ruthless, and it's a rhythm that wants to kill Yuan Shu in one battle.
This won't work. After killing Yuan Shu, he will have to form an alliance to fight against himself. Liu Xiang must send troops to draw the attention of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao and disrupt the situation in the four states of Yan, Yu, Xu, and Yang, so that they cannot join forces.
Needless to say, the reason for besieging Wei and rescuing Zhao is that sending troops to Yanzhou can bring back Cao Cao, and sending troops to Xuzhou can mobilize Yuan Shao.
But he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to capture Taishan and Langya counties in one fell swoop, and take the strategic initiative to attack Yanzhou and Xuzhou.
Then it's a matter of priority.
The first step was to remove more than 10,000 people who had been detained before. These people were related to the powerful nobles in Qingzhou. As for the depth of the relationship, he did not have the time to tell.
Divide them and their families into small teams and move them to various counties in Liaodong to divide the fields for farming. If they resist, they will be beheaded in public.
These people are the strength of the Qingzhou gentry in the military and the main force in the rebellion. To transfer them is to remove their bones, and to allocate land to the common people and form militia groups in the townships. Where can those gentry who want to rebel go?
How about looking for large quantities of manpower?
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Are you taking your family's nurse, cook, and gardener to rebel?
That's called death.
After one hidden danger has been settled, another one must be eliminated.
He ordered Zhou Cang to lead 40,000 troops to wipe out the remaining Yellow Turbans in various parts of Qingzhou. Liu Xiang gave the Yellow Turbans more than three months to consider, and more than 100,000 people chose to surrender and accept the reorganization.
Facts have proved that their choice was right. 70,000 old and weak people were divided into fields, and 30,000 people were incorporated into the army.
There were still hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the Juxiao Mountain Forest, and it would be difficult to clear them out one by one, but he believed that Zhou Cang could handle it. The hundreds of thousands of refugees scattered all over the place would not be a problem for this veteran who had been traversing the Taihang Mountains for many years.
He gave Zhou Cang the power to act expediently, and asked Xun Yu to cooperate in suppressing the bandits. The stability of Qingzhou would be just around the corner.
With Zhang Liao as the vanguard again, he attacked Taishan County in Yanzhou.
Liu Xiang thought about it for several days and finally decided to take Taishan first. Attacking Yanzhou first, Yuan Shao may not come back with reinforcements, but attacking Xuzhou first will definitely bring back both groups.