Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 572 Chapter 569 Classical Military Empire or Sand Sculpture Military Empire
Bai Congxin was about to cross the river, so what was Zhang Zhao doing?

Zhang Shengren is still in Chuzhou, and he doesn't pay attention to the battle in Yangzhou at all.

Because he knew that even if he couldn't beat him, with the abilities of Bai Congxin, Murong Xinchang, Li Cunhui, Gao Huaide, Zhao Kuangyin, Yao Yuanfu, etc., they couldn't be defeated by Nantang.

At most, it can't eat Nantang, but it is easy to bring the army back.

So Zhang Zhao took advantage of this rare free time to fight local tyrants to divide the land in the areas of Chuzhou (Huai'an), Haizhou (Lianyungang) and Lianshui, which had been controlled by Zhou State.

Many people think that the matter of beating local tyrants and dividing land must be the patent of New China.

But in fact it is not. China has had this rule since ancient times, and the equalization of land has always been started in the Han Dynasty. It is something that must be done in the initial stage of each imperial court.

Moreover, the suppression of mergers in the history books, in fact, in many cases, does not suppress the mergers of almost impoverished peasant households who have only one or two acres of land and rely on renting and planting the land of the landlord.

It is to suppress the wealthy and powerful households and annex those self-cultivating farmers who have more than ten or twenty acres of land, master farming techniques, and can live a relatively affluent life.

Zhang Zhao didn't know that farming was a highly skilled job, because although he grew up in the countryside, his father was a cotton maker.

Therefore, the family does not need to farm land at all, it is all contracted out, so he has no idea about farming.

In this era, agriculture is the root of everything. Zhang Zhao discovered after in-depth understanding that farming is a highly skilled labor.

At this time, there is no chemical fertilizer, no good seed company, no more accurate weather forecast, and many farmers don't even know the day.

So how to select and breed?When to sow?How to control pests and diseases?

Where and what crops?When to irrigate?When should I water less or even not water?
Even the composting of human and animal manure, the selection of burning ash, etc., are all a technology.

At this time, those who can proficiently master three or four of these items are capable people in the countryside, and they are well-known in ten miles and eight villages.

Those who can master and use all of them can even go to the government to find a position.

Since there are people who can get a position in the government by relying on agricultural skills, there must be a large number of people who cannot master these agricultural production skills at all.

Even if you give these people a few pieces of land, if there is not a smart person who is good at farming in one or two generations, they will basically go bankrupt and become tenants, and even the tenants will look down on them.

Therefore, the main force of rural production in ancient times was self-cultivating farmers who knew certain agricultural techniques and had an average of ten acres of land per family.

They were the sons of good families in the Han Dynasty, and they were the kind of soldiers who could prepare their own weapons and armor in the Tang Dynasty.

These talents are the foundation of the entire feudal country, and they all depend on them to pay taxes, serve in the army, and defend the country.

And because these self-cultivating farmers have good skills, the fields will be more fertile because of careful care, so land mergers are usually mergers with them.

If the local tycoons absorb them, they will have advanced production technology and high-yielding and good land.

It is also possible to block these production technologies and pass them on from generation to generation, forming the kind of powerful Eastern Han Dynasty who monopolizes most of the local resources and can also build Wubao.

On the contrary, if such a large number of self-cultivating farmers are not annexed by powerful landlords, then the government can rely on them and organize these people through government power to form a check on local tyrants.

Reach the point where even if there is no tyranny, it can fully control and mobilize the local area.

While counting the data from various newspapers, Zhang Zhao compared the current situation with the early stages of various dynasties in history.

He suddenly discovered an important factor in the lack of force in the Song Dynasty.

That is, in all dynasties, except for the Song Dynasty, the unified dynasties have carried out the reform of land equalization.

Even the Qing Dynasty also carried out land equalization. Of course, since they are a bandit military group, the land equalization will only be equalized within the group.

Only the Song Dynasty did not carry out land equalization. Since Zhao Da established the Song Dynasty, the land in the Song Dynasty has always been in a state of high concentration.

Uh!wrong!Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, considered Mao's unified dynasty!

Zhang Shengren rubbed his head, he always felt that there was something wrong with Song Dynasty, but he couldn't tell what was wrong, so the problem was here.

The foundation of the Song Dynasty was completely lame.

This Zhao Da took over the chaos of the Five Dynasties, and he himself relied on mutiny to rise to power, and the target of his mutiny, Guo Rong, was his benefactor among his benefactors!
Guo Rong's love for Zhao Daen is higher than the sky, and his righteousness is deeper than the sea, so much so that even a counselor like Fan Zhi dared to question Zhao Kuangyin in grief and indignation.

"The first emperor raised the Taiwei like a son, and he is not cold now, so why is this so?" '

From Fan Zhi's point of view, once Guo Rong left, even Li Chongjin and Zhang Yongde would have reasons to oppose him, but Zhao Kuangyin was the only one who was so well-benefited and absolutely shouldn't be.

Zhao Da was already crooked to this point, and Zhao Er was even more outrageous.

Not to mention the uncertain matter of candlelight and ax shadow, that is, the alliance of the golden chamber, the problem is very big.

He also made the Northern Expedition to regain Youyun, but was beaten and left in the donkey cart of the army to drift away.

Said to be the master of the Central Plains, firstly, there is no Youyun, secondly, there is no Heshuo, thirdly, there is no Hexi, fourthly, there is no Anxi, fifthly, there is no Jiaozhi, and sixthly, there is no Liaoxi.

Then how can such two founding masters not fall into the vicious circle of the Five Dynasties?
Relying on bribery, the unification war carried out by the Northern Song Dynasty, because the opponent was too bad, did not actually have a fierce battle. Only the local tyrants and local tyrants were defeated, and they were not damaged.

So Zhao Da and Zhao Er shared the political power with these local big families, guiding them to abandon martial arts and turn to literature, and ensure their interests by not restraining them.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the grassroots structure of the country was changed from local tyrants with military force to school lords who occupied a large number of fields.

By giving up the ability to mobilize at the grassroots level and spending more than [-]% of fiscal revenue on military expenditures, they bought a Taiping throne.

Ha ha!Military expenditure accounts for [-]% to [-]% of the budget, and the soldiers are raised as waste, oh no!Maybe it should be called raising trash as soldiers, and it really is a sand sculpture military empire.

This is an evil way!
Zhang Shengren immediately made up his mind that he could not follow the path of the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Zhao would rather follow the old path of the Han Dynasty, where the country was full of power, but full of martial virtues.Don't follow the evil path of the Song Dynasty, which abolished martial arts and scattered money at home and abroad.

Now that he has decided to try the old way, Zhang Shengren, who holds righteousness in his hands and has elite soldiers under his command, immediately started his strategy of equalizing the land.

However, equalizing the land is not so easy to do, because the land is not evenly distributed, so it is called equalizing the land.

You must know that after 200 years of war since Anshi, many fields have been deserted, and the wasteland that has been lost to the farmers cannot immediately generate value. All wasteland is meaningless.

The only favorable condition is that in today's world, the Central Plains has gone through several wars, there are many people and few lands, and there is no shortage of fields.

Since Jun wasteland has no value, Zhang Zhao is going to link the land with military merit. The specific method is to convert the rewards, military salaries and even official positions that should be given to soldiers in the army into land money.

Let the government spend money to hire people to clean up the abandoned land, and then let the soldiers use the land money to buy these reclaimed land.

It can also be sold cheaply and in large quantities, turning the soldiers who fought against Zhang Zhao into the backbone of the country, self-cultivating farmers.

In places like Mengshu, Nantang, and Nanping, where the politics are stable, the population is large, but the land annexation is serious, the land of the common people who was seized and swallowed by the royal families, corrupt officials, and tyrants was returned, and their land was directly divided.

This can not only create a large number of people loyal to the new dynasty, but also push the resources they occupy to the market to revitalize the economy.

Just do what you say, Zhang Zhao is now piloting in Chuzhou, Haizhou and Lianshui.

Among these three lands, Zhang Zhao took half of the million mu of cultivated land occupied by the Southern Tang court as military land, and then took out one million mu of land occupied by the Southern Tang royal family, corrupt officials, and tyrants.

Later, in these three states, he planned to start the agricultural science examination directly. At least hundreds of doctorates in agriculture must be admitted, and then the doctorates in agriculture will be distributed to various places, and the land will be shared among them first.

But for these fields, only half of them will be given first, and then let them teach their farming skills.

In whichever area the farmers learn to meet the standards, the other half of the field will be given to the doctor of agriculture.As for the common people, the fields are shared according to the actual situation of the local area.

The last move is that General Zhang Zhao's army is too old, physically disabled, seriously injured once, and lightly injured three times to wait for the soldiers to arrange on the spot.

According to the official position and meritorious service in the army, the big one is the patrol inspector, who is in charge of a township, and the small one is the Lizheng, who is in charge of a mile.

In this way, at the local level, doctors of agronomy are formed to teach agricultural technology, organize farming technology sharing, and coordinate the use of important agricultural production tools such as cattle.

The inspectors and Lizheng, composed of retired soldiers, are responsible for the basic structure of the village's public security and taxation.

Of course, will Zhang Zhao's experiment succeed?I am afraid it will take two or three years or even longer to be verified.

But he had time to wait, and the distribution of the land was not Zhang Zhao's, it was all stolen, so he didn't feel bad at all.

Undoubtedly, in the past few years, there will be turmoil in Chuzhou and other places because of these new policies. That is also part of the experiment, isn't it?

. . . .

In mid-May, when the Yangzhou Battle Report was delivered to Zhang Zhao's desk, Chuzhou City erupted in joy instantly.

In addition to the big defeat in Mengzhuze last time, the loss of the Imperial Army in the Southern Tang Dynasty alone was as high as [-], and the higher-strength state and county soldiers and Jiezhen tooth soldiers also lost [-] to [-].

At least [-]% of the elites of the Southern Tang Dynasty have been reimbursed. With the current situation of the Southern Tang Dynasty, they are almost on the verge of extinction.

So in the end is to keep a lingering Southern Tang Dynasty?Whether to completely wipe out and plunge the entire Jiangnan into chaos requires Zhang Zhao to make a decision.

Bai Congxin and Murong Xinchang jointly wrote a letter, that is to ask Zhang Zhao to make a decision on this matter.

At the end of May, Gao Huaide wiped out all the Southern Tang forces on both sides of Hangou. Xinghua, Yancheng and other places either abandoned their cities and fled, or surrendered their cities.

On the surface, Zhou Jun has gained a firm foothold in Jiangbei.

So Zhang Zhaoliu and Feng Hui led an army of [-] to guard Chuzhou, led [-] cavalry and [-] fine cavalry brought back by Gao Huaide, and went to Yangzhou along Hangou to decide Li Jing's plan. fate.

(End of this chapter)