The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 258 Merger
Taiyuan County, Jinyang City Government Office.

Xu An wrote the textbooks used by the military academy on the bamboo slips.

The quality of the officers in the Yellow Turban Army is mostly inferior to that of the Han Army. Except for the elite trilogy such as the Wuzu Battalion and the Ruishi Battalion, the abilities of the middle and upper-level officers in the rest of the army are all worrying.

The Yellow Turban Army is really short of generals who command the troops, and now many generals at the Quchang level are actually unqualified.

Daotang is only a place where people who can read and write, and who can cure diseases and save lives are cultivated. Most of these talismans are cultivated to serve as civil servants in various places.

So Xu An wanted to set up a special military academy to train qualified officers.

However, the plan is only in the preliminary stage, and if it is to be implemented, it may only be realized after Bingzhou settles down.

What Xu An is writing now is the precautions when marching and camping.

There are differences between senior officers and mid-level officers. Originally, Xu An wanted to write regulations and regulations for junior officers, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up. Now under his command, the number of junior officers is indeed too large.

If a military academy is established to recruit these junior officers, not to mention the trouble of dispatching, it will cost a lot of money and food.

It is better to teach those middle and upper-level officers directly, and then let them train the lower-level officers by themselves after returning.

Taoist halls, military academies, and civil affairs are really in vain.

Although Xu An has studied history and knows some good governance in history, he can't follow the scriptures and move here directly.

You must know that if some good governance is implemented rashly without combining reality, it may even turn into tyrannical governance.

It was already late at night, Xu An put down the brush after writing the last note.

Chen Wu's words during the day were deeply remembered in his mind. The Shen An who was wearing a visor in the Yellow Turban camp before was actually Xu An.

It has been nearly four years since Xu An led Liu Pi, Gong Du and his party to escape into Taihang Mountain in the first year of Zhongping, and now in July of the fourth year of Zhongping.

In the past four years, the battles have hardly stopped for a long time, and wars, large and small, have always existed.

Xu An knew that such a high-intensity battle, as well as the large number of casualties caused by the battle between Kuicheng and Hedong County, would affect the psychology of the soldiers under his command.

Although they won more than they lost, since they invaded Shangdang County, they have benefited from the severe situation of the Han Empire. They have made great strides along the way and won successive victories.

Fu Zhu, a subordinate of the Wolf Guard, also reported that the morale of the soldiers had not declined too much, but Xu An was still not at ease, so during the day, after checking the documents at the Eagle Wolf Guard's office, he took a few The eagle wolf guard went to the camp outside the city to investigate in person.

It was there that I met Chen Wu.

Later, Xu An also met different soldiers. The soldiers in the army had different emotions, some were low, some were high, some were sad, but without exception, his soldiers always believed in him.

But it is also true that the successive battles have indeed caused more and more sadness and depression among the soldiers, and it has begun to spread.

Although it was not obvious now, Xu An also saw signs of danger.

Moreover, what Chen Wu said made Xu An understand how much ordinary people value their fields and their families.

The Han Dynasty ruled the world with filial piety, not only affecting high-ranking officials and nobles, but also affecting the selection of officials and officials, promoting filial piety and honesty, and also affecting ordinary ordinary people.

And there is another point, which also makes Xu An vigilant.

Even if the way of peace can win people's hearts, these too ideal and illusory wishes cannot always maintain people's hearts.

Except for a small number of those who are as pious as the Yellow Angels, there are still a few after all. When the danger of death temporarily recedes, and when they can eat and drink enough, more ideas will emerge.

Fortunately, Xu An had also considered that such things might happen, so he had been preaching the threat of the Han army and the threat of the northern nomads in the army.

Let most of the soldiers keep one thought, although they have already occupied a large amount of territory, but they have not yet won the victory, if they abandon Huang Tian and stop fighting for Huang Tian, ​​they may fall into a place of eternal doom again, Back to the time when I was bullied and exploited again.

Although we have to fight the Han army now, at least we can fill our stomachs and have a way to survive. We can not be bullied and exploited, and we will not be treated like pigs and dogs in the city, but this is not a long time after all.

"Boom, boom, boom."

There were a few knocks on the door, and a wolf guard in purple wolf uniform walked in.

This person is Wei Lu, the governor of the Eagle Wolf Guard and the governor of the Wolf Guard.

Wei Lu approached Xu An slowly, and put the bamboo slips in his arms on a desk on the right side of Xu An.

"Ming Gong, the information on the Haoqiang in Hedong has been collected, and they are all on the bamboo slips. In addition to the Lu family in Jiangyi, three other families have been found to be in collusion with the Han army. Now they have been uprooted by our wolf guards. All their shops, fields, and wealth The goods have all been seized."

With a thought in his mind, Xu An turned his head to Wei Lu and asked, "How many lands are owned by Haoqiang in Hedong County? Have you checked them out?"

Wei Lu thought for a moment, then replied: "This has not been investigated yet, but in the areas controlled by our army now, the land occupied by the powerful is definitely more than half of the arable land, and most of them are fertile land."

"more than half."

Xu An read it softly, saying that land annexation was serious in the last years of the dynasty. Unexpectedly, in a place as rich as Hedong County, more than half of the land annexation reached.

Then in those areas where the famine is severe, the powerful landlords can buy land at a low price, and even the sky is so high that the emperor is far away, and no one knows how terrifying the land annexation will be.

Those tyrants and rich merchants are powerful, their houses are located in the prefectures and counties, their fields are connected to Fangguo, and they have tens of thousands of slaves and apprentices.

A large number of small people are struggling on the verge of death. If there is a slight famine, they will go bankrupt and leave the valley. It is common for them to marry wives and sell children.

In the end, most of them will become dependent farmers of powerful landlords. In addition to paying high land rent and serving corvee, their personal freedom is also dominated by powerful landlords.

The Mi family in Xuzhou was a well-known wealthy businessman in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is recorded in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: Mizhu, whose character is Zizhong, is also a native of Qu in the East China Sea.The ancestral family breeds goods, with tens of thousands of children and customers, and a fortune of hundreds of millions.

"Supplements of Relics", although not credible in official history, can also be used as a reference. It is also recorded in Volume [-]: Mi Zhu used Tao Zhu's tricks to gain hundreds of millions of profits, imitating the royal family, and having thousands of treasure houses.

At that time, when the Three Kingdoms clashed, the military used it ten thousand times, but they lost their treasures and car clothes to help the former master: [-] million catties of gold, beautiful embroidered felts piled up like mounds, and thousands of horses.After Shu was broken, there was nothing left, and he died of hatred.

All these are enough to see the wealth of giant businessmen and tyrants.

Just one Mi family has tens of thousands of children and guests, one must know that there are only more than [-] private households in the entire Xihe County of Bingzhou.

Even when Mi Zhu married his sister to Liu Bei, there were two thousand slaves.

"Bingzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and there are thousands of miles of fertile fields and thousands of hectares of fertile land in Hedong County, but they are concentrated in the hands of powerful landlords..."

The candlelight in the house kept dancing in Xu An's eyes.

(End of this chapter)