I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 897 Ruling 3
But in this historical time and space, because of Zheng Xiaoming's relationship, Liu Biao failed to occupy Xiangyang, and entered the southern Jingzhou.

In the original historical time and space, Liu Biao had to wait until this year before being sent to Jingzhou by Dong Zhuo after Sun Jian killed Jingzhou governor Wang Rui.

And that Liu Biao also entered Jingzhou single-handedly. With the help of Jingzhou gentry, he suppressed those powerful sect thieves and became a prince.

In this historical time and space, because Zheng Xiaoming made his fortune in Nanyang, he has great support in Nanyang.Moreover, Sun Jian, the prefect of Changsha who also belongs to Jingzhou, has always been Zheng Xiaoming's younger brother.

Under the influence of one south and one north, the whole Jingzhou fell to Zheng Xiaoming early on.Naturally, there was no such thing as Wang Rui being killed.

Moreover, there would be no chance for Liu Biao to become the master, and now only Liu Yan is left to be difficult to solve.

After all, the situation in Sichuan is dangerous, and it is difficult for the army to go deep.Then Liu Yan sent troops early to occupy all the checkpoints entering Sichuan, blocking the traffic and making it difficult for imperial messengers to enter Sichuan.

However, to deal with this person, using force is not the best policy, it should be disintegrated by policy.

First of all, Liu Yan was dismissed from his position as Yizhou pastor, recalled to Luoyang, and appointed as one of the three princes, Sikong.

The edict was passed down, and people deliberately publicized it to all counties and countries in the world, and then Zheng Yun sent people to sneak into Sichuan to publicize the imperial court's edict.Let Liu Yan not be able to isolate the information.

At this time, Liu Yan had only two choices, either to be obedient and return to Luoyang, or to raise troops to rebel.

Then Liu Yan did not dare to rebel, and he was unwilling to go to Luoyang.Just keep saying sick procrastination.

It's a pity that Zheng Xiaoming didn't give him a chance to procrastinate. He had already sent Lu Zhi, the new governor of Yizhou, and removed Lu Zhi from the position of Shang Shuling by the way.

Moreover, Zheng Xiaoming also dispatched [-] troops to escort Lu Zhi. Unless Liu Yan directly raised his troops to rebel, it would be impossible to play tricks such as intercepting and killing bandits, using Hanzhong's five-dou rice bandits !

At this point, the people of Yizhou are in turmoil.Few people were willing to rebel with Liu Yan, and basically they all advised Liu Yan to obediently obey the court's orders.

Those big families in central Sichuan are even more threatening!

They didn't want to join Liu Yan on the pirate ship.

That Liu Yan was not a military strongman at all, but then the court authority barely separated one side.

At this point, under internal and external pressure, they can only accept their fate and leave Yizhou obediently for Luoyang.

In the next two or three years, Zheng Xiaoming made a series of dizzying personnel transfers, transferring governors from various places back and forth.

Those who are disobedient are transferred, and even those who are obedient but stay in one place for too long, more than three to five years, are all transferred.

Then carry out institutional reforms and officially appoint the governor as the chief executive of a state.

Since the history of the governor originally had the meaning of spying, censor and so on, the meaning of supervision is too strong, and some names are not right and wrong.Later, the governor was changed to the governor.

The governor has only administrative power and is not allowed to hold military power.In addition, a state lieutenant was set up to manage the military power of a state, but he was not allowed to manage administration, money and food.Completely separate the military from the government.

At the same time, all counties and prefectures are also in charge of the administration, and the prefects and county magistrates are in charge of the administration, and the county captains are in charge of the military.

Outside the Shangshutai in the center, the Zhongshutai is set up.Zhongshutai is also a secretarial team, but only in charge of military affairs.But Shangshutai is only in charge of government affairs, and separates the military and government from the central level.

Of course, this is only a preliminary reform, and Hiyori will continue to reform to further separate power.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small dish, so don't act too hastily.

For example, Wang Mang originally came to power with the support of the whole country.Then collapsed after a series of hasty and failed reforms, Zheng Xiaoming certainly cannot follow in his footsteps.

While the military and government are separated and personnel are transferred, what is more important is the reform of the military system.

The standing army system was established, and the state financed [-] standing troops.

Although the system established by Liu Xiu saved money for raising soldiers, it was because the standing army was not too small.Therefore, those who control the military power are prone to military coups.

And in case of emergency, special circumstances.This system of temporary recruitment of soldiers is too slow to respond.

For example, the sudden Yellow Turban Rebellion made the Luoyang court, which had no soldiers and horses in its hands, helpless. It could only delegate power to the local government to solve it, which then caused the expansion of local forces.

The establishment of the standing army system can effectively solve these problems, but it has brought new problems, that is, financial constraints.

The tax revenue of the Eastern Han Dynasty was very painful.

A large number of tyrants exist, and there are countless bankrupt farmers, which makes the foundation of the country, the tax-paying self-cultivating farmers increasingly scarce.

Therefore, expanding the group of self-cultivating farmers, that is, expanding the tax base, has become the most important thing.

And there are only two ways to do this.

One is to encourage land reclamation and resettle self-cultivating farmers.The other is to do something to the powerful and get the land from their hands.

The first is simple and relatively easy to do.But the effect is not very good, can not last too long.

Then Zheng Xiaoming naturally chose the second option, attacking Hao Qiang.

But this one is too dangerous and often leads to rebellion.

Therefore, Zheng Xiaoming has been procrastinating, until five years later, the rule is stable, and more than [-] elite soldiers have been prepared before starting to act.

He was originally planning to reform the tax system and convert the poll tax into a land tax.

Originally, Dahan's tax was no matter how much land your family had or how many people there were in your family.Everyone has to pay taxes, even children aged seven or eight have to pay half of the tax. These are called counting money.

It is also one of the big heads of taxes!

The so-called big man's tax is very little, one in thirty, that is to say, he only pays one-thirtieth of the output of an acre of land, which is simply a myth.

Because this land tax is only a small part of the tax revenue of the big man, it is used to support officials.The oral calculation is the big part, and the oral calculation is still paid every quarter.

Zheng Xiaoming's reform was originally to convert all the messy taxes into the land tax.Make a ratio that the people can afford.

But after actually understanding it, I found that the situation was not that simple.

Because in this era, population is more important than land.

In the original time and space, it was not until the middle and late Tang Dynasty, when the population was large and the land was scarce, that the reform of the two tax laws began.It changed the taxation system that was dominated by people since the Warring States Period, and made the ancient taxation system change from "shedi taxpayers" to "sheren tax land".

However, this also means that the imperial court's principle of controlling the family's private ownership of land has gradually changed to non-intervention or less intervention.

Everyone knows what will happen once the government does not interfere, or interferes less in the land private ownership process.That is land annexation!

This is also the reason why more and more peasant uprisings occurred after the Tang Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)