I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 238, The Hostility of the Clan

Zhang Wen also looked embarrassed. In fact, he can be regarded as an accomplice. He was the one who planned to drive Dong Zhuo away, but this time they miscalculated the warrior's heart. Neither Huangfusong nor Liu Bei stood by them. Help Dong Zhuo attack them.

Of course, the Yuan family can only take the blame now, whoever makes the Yuan brothers stand out the most.Now that Zhang Wen has replaced Yuan Wei and became the spokesperson of the Kanto clan, he can only say against his will: "When such a big thing happens, I always have to hand over a few people and let the court explain to the world! Meng Zhuo They sacrificed for the gentry in the world, and we will never forget Meng Zhuo's contribution! When Dong Zhuo steps down, we will vindicate Meng Zhuo and the others!"

But Yuan Kai sighed and said: "Meng Zhuo and the others are fine, but what about Benchu ​​and Gonglu? Do they also follow Meng Zhuo's example? This is not to drive out my Yuan family. I would rather Dong Zhuo kill the old man." , and I don’t want him to move the origin and the highway!”

Yuan Kai didn't want to see something happen to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, and now the army in their hands has become the only hope for the Yuan family!

Zhang Wendao: "The Prime Minister will not be too difficult for Benchu ​​and the road. Both the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains and the Tengjia Army in Bingzhou need a large army to encircle and suppress. Now the Prime Minister only dislikes the small number of troops, not the large number of troops. Gonglu and the others went to encircle and suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains, I think the Prime Minister will agree!"

This can be regarded as a way out. With the army in hand, Dong Zhuo has some scruples and will not kill them all.

But Yuan Kai was not reconciled and said: "Could it be that we just watch Dong Zhuo, a martial artist, stand over us and do his best! Let all our hard-working plans for several years be abolished!
Zhang Wen said helplessly: "At the beginning we were too greedy. If we only wiped out the eunuchs, there wouldn't be so many things happening. Even if He Jin is the general now, he is much better than Dong Zhuo. At least He Jin has been around for many years. As an official in Luoyang City, and familiar with Luoyang's way of being an official, this is the most suitable battlefield for us.

And Dong Zhuo is just a Xiliang warrior, he doesn't understand the affairs of the government at all, and only knows how to kill with a knife when facing problems, but we also have to admit that Dong Zhuo's knife is too sharp, he chopped everything about us Plan, let us lose completely! "

At the beginning, they wanted to use the power of the general He Jun to deal with the eunuchs, but Yuan Kai was arrogant and wanted to let the eunuchs and foreign relatives fight for both sides, so that they could completely control the power of the big man. A more vicious Dong Zhuo!

"And if we lose, we have to admit defeat. We can lose. Dong Zhuo is almost sixty years old this year, and he still has a few years to live, not to mention that in these few years, he still has to deal with Lei Gong, a giant bandit. We lurk In the past few years, it will be the same when we come forward after Dong Zhuo's death!"

Then Zhang Wen sighed: "Ciyang, whether you admit it or not, the world has entered a chaotic world now. If we want to restore the world to its original state again, Dong Zhuo and the others who can fight are indispensable. The future situation will be more difficult for us." It's getting worse.

We are exhausted from the fierce battle with Dong Zhuo, but Lei Gong in Bingzhou has been recuperating for two years, and he is still using the Yellow Turban Army to consume our strength. They will all be hanged by him! "

Although the princes of Luoyang have been fighting with Dong Zhuo, they have not forgotten Lei Gong of Bingzhou. After all, the book of Datong has been circulating in the market in Luoyang City, and the scholars of the Tengjia Army have been debating with the scholars in the Taixue. Bewitched more and more scholars.

Many scholars secretly hid the book of Datong and carefully read its contents.

The thought of Datong Shu is not worth mentioning, basically copying the thought of Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism, without any groundbreaking insights.

But the most important part of Datong book is the practical part, because the thoughts of the three schools of Confucianism, Mohism and Taoism only talk about establishing a peaceful and prosperous world, but there are no specific practical methods. if.

But the Book of Great Harmony is a supplementary part of practice. The sages said that to achieve great harmony in the world, the Book of Great Harmony says that in order to achieve great harmony in the world, you must conquer the local tyrants, divide the land, and distribute the land of the great man to the common people. This will realize the great harmony of the world. .

The scholars who watched were stunned. The method made sense, but it was just too cruel!
In addition to setting out to divide the fields, the book of Datong also introduced what the Tengjia Army did when they came to Bingzhou, such as building waterwheels, new water conservancy, and making various soil and chemical fertilizers to increase food production!
After reading the contents of the Datong book, they can understand how the Tengjia Army, from weak to strong, developed from the south to the north, and made Bingzhou more and more prosperous. Mayi has even become a city that is not lost to Luoyang. The city that never sleeps, this is the history of the construction of the Rattan Army

I have to say that apart from beating the local tyrants first and distributing the land was unacceptable to the nobles and nobles, the actions of the other Tengjia troops are still in line with the three views of the Han Shilin.

It's just that when Tai students thought that the water conservancy project in Bingzhou was built with the flesh and blood of the entire aristocratic family, everyone shuddered!
Of course, the results achieved by the Tengjia Army also shocked them. In a barren land of Bingzhou, by confiscating the land of the nobles, opening up wasteland to build water canals, cultivating force fields, and developing agriculture, the Tengjia Army can produce more than 4000 million shi of grain a year. tax.

This number shocked the entire Luoyang City Shilin, because no matter whether it was the powerful former Han or the current Han, they had never done it.

The Tengjia Army can get more taxes than the entire Han Dynasty in the land of one state, and it is several times more. This has destroyed the Taoism of Luoyang City Shilin.

At the beginning, [-]% of the agricultural taxes of the Tengjia Army was criticized by the entire scholarly society. Yang Xiu even said triumphantly: "I am a big man, and I take one out of fifteen. This kind of benevolent government has been maintained for four hundred years. Your Tengjia Army is just like the former Qin Dynasty. The common people in the world will not tolerate this kind of tyranny, and the Tengjia army will suffer the consequences sooner or later!"

But Wang Guojun said indifferently: "Excessive taxation and excessive collection cannot be said. Our Tengjia Army has no other miscellaneous taxes, and the taxes paid do not require corvee. The one-tax system is simple and easy to collect. The officials are not as corrupt as the big men. The tribes can get them." Seventy percent of the fruits of labor."

Then he took out a picture and said: "This is a chart I made after learning about the taxes paid by the people around Luoyang City during this period of time. From this chart, you can see the current tax situation of the big man!"

Yang Xiu said disdainfully: "There are so many big words, I really think I am the third prince of the imperial court, and dare to say that I know the tax situation of the big man!"

But other scholars still gathered around to look at the chart, but they couldn't understand the meaning of the chart!
At this time, Wang Guojun pointed to a chart with the highest taxation and said: "This represents the people who have no land in the Han Dynasty. Pay taxes."

"These low-level people were suppressed by the big man's taxes and couldn't survive. They had to take refuge in the powerful clans as serfs, or they would become refugees and starve to death in groups! Or they would take refuge in us and the Yellow Turban Army, and you The nobles and nobles will fight desperately to regain the fruits of their labor!"

Yang Xiu broke into a cold sweat when he was shocked by Wang Guojun's words!
But Wang Guojun continued: "This is a poor farmer with [-] mu of land. Even if men farm and women weave, they are busy from morning to night, but the big man took away [-]% of their fruits of labor. They are barely alive, a little windy. Blow the grass, they must go bankrupt and become refugees!"

"Only people with more than [-] acres of land can get [-]% of the fruits of labor, and these people barely escape the fate of going bankrupt at any time!"

"As for the small landlords with [-] mu of land, their taxes are equivalent to those of our Fujia Army, about [-]%. That is to say, the tax system of our Fujia Army allows each tribe to collect according to the tax of small landlords. Is this true? Isn’t it a kind of benevolent government?”

Yang Xiu was really speechless. He came from the top family of nobles. To him, this was just something a small official did. He usually dismissed it, but he didn't think that since Wang Guojun would really take such a thing He didn't know the situation of the people at the bottom of the debate, so he naturally didn't know whether what Wang Guojun said was true or not.

Wang Guojun continued: "The big man has thousands of acres of land, and the tax is immediately reduced to about 10%. However, even if a top aristocratic family like you has [-] acres of land, it is impossible for the court to receive tax! Big man Your taxation system is of course a benevolent government for you, but it is the greatest tyranny for the poor people in the world, and the millions of refugees in the world are forced out by your tyranny!"

As Wang Guojun explained the situation of the chart one by one, the Tai students understood the meaning of the chart, especially when they saw that the taxes representing the noble families were zero, they looked at Yang Xiu one by one.

There are tens of thousands of scholars in the entire Taixue, and only a small number of them are from the nobles. Most of them are small landlords with property ranging from 300 to [-] acres, small tyrants!They are the middle class of big men.

They are the most sensitive to troubled times, and the current world is becoming less and less friendly to them, and the oppression of the big men is getting stronger and stronger. After all, the class of the big men is not only solidified, but even reversed. You can become a county magistrate, a small official.But with the increase in the population of the nobles, they can't even get the position of a small official.

But after seeing this chart, they realized clearly that it turns out that the most oppressive people are the nobles and nobles. They occupy the most land of the big men, but they don't hand over a single five baht. No wonder the people in the world can't survive. .

Wang Guojun continued: "Because you aristocrats annexed land and didn't pay taxes, the imperial court could only keep taxing poor people with only [-] acres of land. They went bankrupt in large numbers, and the number of refugees in the world continued to increase. The army is needed to suppress, and the number of the Han army will increase, and the more the army, the more money and food will be needed, and this will oppress more people in the world and become refugees."

"Isn't this the case with the Han in the past few years? Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, the Han army didn't even have 10 troops, but now the Han army has more than 50. But just to feed the 50 army, it forced out several million Yellow Turban troops in the entire Central Plains. This number is even greater than when Zhang Jiao started the incident, and the big man is now on the road to self-destruction!"

Wang Guojun's words made the scholars of Taixue fall into deep thought, because he said that it was the reality of the big man. Since Zhang Jiao's uprising, the scale of rebellion by the people at the bottom has become larger and larger. The clans of the Kanto clan are all rebelling against the imperial court, and scholars all over the world feel that the great man has entered the end of the dynasty!

Yang Xiu said angrily, "It's not because of your rebellious taxation that the big man's tax is so high. When the big man puts down your rebellious tax, the tax will naturally be reduced!"

However, Wang Guojun laughed mockingly: "This taxation system, which robs the poor and helps the rich, cannot be maintained even without us. Could it be that there was our Rattan Armor Army before? Without us, the people would not be forced to rebel by you!"

"Because you don't collect taxes, and you have high status and power, you have enough money and power to buy the land in the world. When all the land in the world is in your hands, the imperial court will not be able to collect taxes. If you die, the big man will perish, and you powerful and noble families are the biggest moths of the big man, and the big man is eaten by you like this!"

"But our Tengjia Army is not like this. We treat everyone equally and collect 5% of the tax. The land is given to those who farm, and those who don't farm can get the land. There is no gentry like Mr. Yang to collect [-]% of the rent. The common people can naturally live on, and the Tengjia Army can also get a lot of taxes."

"The big man is light on the corvee and the tax. One out of fifteen is indeed a benevolent government. It's a pity that with the addition of 5% of the rent from your aristocrats, the common people still can't eat enough, but the aristocrats easily seized the fruits of the people's labor. , how can you noble families not like such a benevolent government!"

"Our Tengjia army can collect 4000 million shi of grain just by occupying Bingzhou. If the whole big man follows our approach, we can have a tax of 4 million shi of grain a year. With so much grain, there is nothing in the world that cannot be done! And why are you the opponents of our Tengjia Army, we can defeat you just by occupying one Bingzhou!"

All the students were silent for a while!The tax system of the Tengjia Army is more than ten times stronger than that of the imperial court. To fight a war is to fight for money and food. Their money and food are not as much as the Tengjia Army, so how can they defeat the Tengjia Army!

Although everyone doesn't agree with the method of the Rattan Armor Army killing the gentry, it is also recognized that it is precisely because the world's powerful and noble clans annexed the land that there are more and more refugees in the world, and the Yellow Turban Army has repeatedly suppressed them.

They also agreed to restrict the annexation of the land of the nobles and nobles, to merge the oral calculations and other miscellaneous taxes into the fields, to make the nobles and nobles pay more taxes, and to solve the refugees all over the world with reclamation and border guards.

These have become the most popular debate topics among the students in Luoyang City. Everyone takes the contents of Datong book, subtracts some too radical interiors such as exterminating the nobles and clans, and then changes these policies into their own opinions. Now it has become a trend in Luoyang City to increase the land tax.Everyone realized that it was time for Dahan to change!

And Yuan Kai knew all this, but now in Luoyang City, he can't accept even the most moderate policy. He thinks that it is Lei Gong who messed up the hearts of Luoyang City to do all this!
"Lei Gong! He is the culprit of all this! Dong Zhuo will suffer a loss sooner or later if he trades with him!" Yuan Wei said viciously.

If it weren't for the threat of Lei Gong from Bingzhou, it would be impossible for Yang Biao and the others to join forces with Dong Zhuo, and it would be impossible for Dong Zhuo to have enough food and troops to attack the Kwantung Allied Forces, and he also found out that Lei Gong was helping Dong Zhuo with advice through Xiangkai, otherwise With Dong Zhuo's irritable character, it is impossible to save King Hongnong's life. If there is no King Hongnong, they would not have lost so badly at the beginning. It can be said that all his plans failed because of this thunder!
And now Lei Gong is blatantly slandering the world's nobles in the Taixue, Lei Gong is really a rebellion that only happened in the world for hundreds of years!
This is not only realized by Yuan Kai, but also by other aristocratic clans in Luoyang City, which is why they want to beg for mercy with Dong Zhuo, so Zhang Wen came here today!
Zhang Wen said helplessly: "Although we Shilin people are good at governing one side, we don't understand military affairs. Look at these famous men who have been defeated by these warriors since the appeal of Dong. Now they can't even deal with the yellow scarf bandits. The governor of Qingzhou Jiao Jiao He would be defeated by Yu Du, and the entire Central Plains Yellow Turban Army would break out, and the eunuchs from all over the country would not be able to suppress it."

"The world is in such a situation now, whether you admit it or not, even if we are in power, we will not be able to defeat the Yellow Turban Army and the Rattan Armor Army. We need Dong Zhuo to calm the world!"

"And we don't have much time. Lei Gong's disciples are constantly using his ideals of Datong to confuse people in Luoyang City. Although most scholars realize that Lei Gong's actions are demons and heretics, there are still many poor families. The scholars want to go to Bingzhou to have a look! Lei Gong is already amazing in force, if he gets the help of the scholars again, I am afraid that Lei Gong will be unstoppable in the future!"

"Huangfu Yizhen has been fighting with Lei Gong constantly during this period, but he also admits that the soldiers of the Fujijia Army are extremely elite. The Jizhou Army in his hand is not the opponent of the Fujijia Army. If a full-scale war breaks out, he should be the one who loses! So We don't have time to spend with Dong Zhuo now, but we have to unite the strength of the whole big man to deal with Lei Gong!"

Yuan Kai thought about Zhang Wen's words, and had to admit that the celebrities they touted were no longer able to cope with today's situation. Even if they really got rid of Dong Zhuo, they still had to rely on warriors like Huangfusong and Liu Bei to calm the world. The step-by-step expansion of China's rights has become an unstoppable trend.

Yuan Kai thought for a while and said, "As long as the Prime Minister doesn't hold Benchu ​​and Gaolu accountable, the old man is willing to persuade Benchu ​​and Gaolu to go to the Central Plains to put down the Yellow Turban Army! Even my Yuan family is willing to contribute to dealing with Lei Gong later!"

Yuan Kai also realized that Lei Gong was the most dangerous enemy of their nobles, especially his crooked Datong book, which specifically used land to lure the people to fight against their nobles. If there are not enough talents to govern the place, nor can they receive enough money and food, they will end up bankrupt and defeated due to financial failure.

But this Lei Gong is different. He has been cultivating his own talents since the beginning of the incident, and his followers can also read and write, so he uses his veterans who have retired from the army to govern the region. There are not enough officials. Pick up the Litian system of the former Han Dynasty.

Yuan Kai was surprised that there is really a place in the world that can rule the place without relying on the nobles and nobles. If the model of the Tengjia Army is extended to the entire Han Dynasty, there will still be their nobles and nobles in the world!

This is not only realized by Yuan Kai, but also by the entire family of the world's top aristocrats. In particular, Lei Gong spread the crowbars throughout the big man, which made the world's aristocrats realize that the Tengjia Army is their most dangerous enemy!
So they are willing to unite with Dong Zhuo, and they have to deal with Lei Gong first!
Hearing this, Zhang Wen laughed and said: "Okay, okay, okay, as long as we unite together, this big man will still be our world!"

At this time, Yuan Wei's housekeeper handed over a letter to Yuan Wei, saying that it was from his hometown!

Yuan Kai opened the letter, and it seemed that he lost his mind afterwards.

Zhang Wen glanced worriedly, and was also taken aback!
Yuan Shu, who had an army of [-] in his hands, was defeated by Liu Bei!More than half of the [-] army was lost, and now Yuan Shu has fled to Yingchuan County!
This has something to do with Xu Wei. After Xu Wei milked a wave of Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army in the entire Central Plains became so ignited, and because of Yuan Shu's continuous exploitation, many people in Yuzhou went bankrupt!Everyone flocked to join the Yellow Turban Army.

Of course, because the number of Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou is small, even if a large number of people joined, they did not think of Qingzhou, Jizhou Yellow Turban Army has millions of troops at every turn.There are only tens of thousands of them, and if there are [-] members, Yuzhou is already the top!Relatively speaking, the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou is weaker!
Liu Pi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army in Yuzhou, obeyed Xu Wei's dispatch of the Tengjia Army to supervise the army. If Yuzhou was not too far away from Bingzhou, Liu Pi would even lead his subordinates to join Lei Gong. It can be said that Liu Pi is a man with no ambitions Commander of the Yellow Turban Army!
And it is precisely because Liu Pi has no ambitions and talent, that there is room for Zhu Min and other rattan armored army supervisors to display their talents!
Zhu Min started to join Xu Wei from Hukou Mountain. He saw clearly what Xu Wei did in Wei County, and what he came to Yuzhou to study was also what Xu Wei did back then!
Zhu Min and the others came to Liu Pi's site to command, first conquered a Wubao close to Liu Pi's site, then publicly tried the owner of Wubao, and distributed the land around Wubao to the local people, establishing a simple village. base!
Then he began to train Liu Pi's subordinates using Wubao's food, while the old and weak, women and children were arranged for military logistics work. At the same time, he continued to send soldiers to capture the surrounding villages. The soldiers who have been training for a month now have the look of a soldier.

(End of this chapter)