I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 356, Guo Jia Reform

Guo Jia restrained Cao Cao's subordinates with this hand, which finally gave him some prestige. Xiahou Dun and others did not dare to underestimate Guo Jia, and Kong Rong felt that he was shameless.I'm sorry to stay here any longer, and left in despair.

Finally, Xun Yu told Cao Cao's subordinates about the drought and asked them to do their best to ensure food production in the next six months!

Everyone promises to complete their tasks in various ways!
Cao Cao, Xun Yu, and Guo Jia were left in the hall!

Xun Yu smiled and said, "Feng Xiao has gradually learned more and more in recent years, and even my brother admires you with new admiration!"

Cao Cao also sighed: "Stones can float on the water, today is really an eye-opener for Cao Cao!"

Guo Jia said worriedly: "Even ordinary people in Youzhou know about this kind of thing, but in Qingzhou even famous people like Kong Rong have never heard of it, so they never thought about the problems. With a celebrity like Kong Rong, how can we defeat Lei Gong?"

Cao Cao said: "That's not the case. We just paid too much attention to Lei Gong's military strength and didn't collect this information. At worst, I'll ask the spies in Youzhou to pay more attention to anecdotes and strange things!"

But Guo Jia shook his head and said: "My lord, this is not a matter of knowledge, but the gap in national strength between the two countries. Even Kong Rong's knowledge is not as good as that of an ordinary person in Dagan. This is the gap between Dagan and Dahan." .

If you want to catch up with Lei Gong, you must start reforming now. If we don’t change, we will surely die. Only by reforming can we seize a chance, and copying Lei Gong’s policies is a way to quickly improve our strength, like Lei Gong’s land equalization system! "

Xun Yu said: "I can't learn this. If we dare to share the land, the nobles in Qingzhou will definitely rebel and drive us out!"

Cao Cao also nodded in agreement with Xun Yu's words. When he was young, Cao Cao was not afraid of tyrants. Back then, he killed many tyrants in Luoyang City with a five-color stick, but the tyrants soon taught Cao Cao to be a man. The better his political performance, the smaller the official position. In the end, he was dismissed. If his father, Cao Song, was also powerful, his life would be in danger.

Of course, Cao Cao is not afraid of them now, but just understands their strength and will not act rashly. The important thing is that now Cao Cao still needs them to support his army of [-], and it is difficult for Cao Cao to be tough when facing his own gold master!

But Guo Jia said with a smile: "I have a different view from Wen Ruo. Only now is the best time for Juntian. Now we are equalizing the land ourselves, and the initiative is in our hands. If we wait for Lei Gong to help us equalize the land I don't know how many families in Qingzhou can survive. As long as you tell them clearly, they will understand the Lord. They know the consequences of Lei Gong coming to Qingzhou!"

Cao Cao was overjoyed and said, "Second! Sure enough, now is the best time for the army to equalize the land!"

Xun Yu said: "I'm afraid that good fortune will be hard to give up!"

Guo Jia said solemnly: "Juntian is only the first step for us to catch up with Lei Gong. If we dare not take this step, then we should simply disband the army and flee to the wilderness!"

"According to my estimates, Dagan can produce about [-] million shi of grain every year, and Lei Gong collects [-]% of the land tax, which means that the annual harvest of grain alone is nearly [-] million shi, and the income from grain alone is more than ten times that of the first emperor's time! Now Lei Gong won Jizhou again, and within three years, Dagan's grain output would exceed [-] million shi, and grain would no longer be Lei Gong's defect.

Lei Gong collects more than 10 million shi in land taxes every year. This grain is the guarantee for Lei Gong's hundreds of thousands of troops to fight. I don't know how much grain Qingzhou can collect, enough for [-] troops to fight for several months? "

Xun Yu was at a loss for words. Qingzhou collected 100 million shi in grain taxes last year, and there are tens of millions in other taxes!However, the soldiers in reclamation received millions of shi of grain. These grains and taxes have exceeded the peak period of Qingzhou. If every state in the Han Dynasty in the period of Emperor Ling was like Qingzhou, Emperor Ling would not gather a 10 army to suppress it. Rebellion is not enough.

Xun Yu was also somewhat complacent, thinking that he could restore Qingzhou to its vitality within a year, but now that the tax was relatively high, he was really ashamed to the extreme, the gap was too big, no wonder Feng Xiao didn't want to stay in Qingzhou at first!

Cao Cao gritted his teeth and said: "No matter how difficult it is to equalize the land, we must continue to promote it, so that Lei Gong can't continue to widen the gap with us!"

Guo Jiadao: "Qingzhou has about [-] million mu of land. If these fields can produce [-] million shi of grain, we can harvest [-] to [-] million shi of grain. Although this is not as good as Lei Gong, but at least Not as desperate as before!"

"It's going to be 20 times more taxable!" Xun Yu felt dizzy for a while. Even under the pressure of Lei Gong, he knew that it would be impossible to collect so much food from the powerful and wealthy!
Guo Jia said: "That's why we need to find a way to get them to take out these grains. We must do what Lei Gong can do. If we can't do it, we will die!"

Xun Yu worried: "This is too radical!"

Cao Cao said: "There is not much time left for us. If we are not radical, we will die, but if we are radical, we will be close to death! Now we can only rely on Fengxiao's method to fight!"

Guo Jiadao: "The purpose of harvesting these grains is to organize an army to resist Lei Gong, and it will still be spent on them in the end. In the future, Qingzhou and even the entire Han family will have to change, and they will become like the nobles and powerful during the Warring States period. For farming and war inheritance! Spend food and money on themselves, so that they will not object!"

"Now Lei Gong may invade the Central Plains at any time. If the Lord cannot accumulate strength in the past few years and resist Lei Gong's attack, everything we have done will be in vain."

Although Guo Jia did not convince Xun Yu, he did convince Cao Cao. The data provided by Guo Jia made Cao Cao realize that the gap between himself and Lei Gong was too great, and if he did not change, he would really die.

Guo Jia continued: "In addition to food, in industry and commerce, we mainly do salt and iron official operations. I found that the salt in Qingzhou has been completely occupied by Jizhou salt. This is not a good thing? Every catty of Jizhou salt we eat, Lei Gong's strength Just increase by one point!"

Cao Cao was embarrassed. He was responsible for the flood of private salt in Qingzhou, not because he didn't work hard, but because Jizhou salt was too cheap, three yuan per catty. In Cao Cao's view, this was already free, so why not take it when it was so cheap, so Cao Cao went to Jizhou to buy salt, and then sold it backhand to Qingzhou and other places in Dahan. In less than a year, his small treasury made more than 3000 million yuan, which made him put a lot of money on hand.

Guo Jia didn't know this, and continued: "Lei Gong has wool cloth, which can earn tens of billions of dollars every year! We don't have wool in Qingzhou, but we have a special product of the salt industry. The reason why Jizhou salt is cheap is because it uses sun-dried salt. Technology, this technology is not difficult to learn, as long as we use cement to make some watertight salt fields, the sun will help us to dry out the salt later, it can be said that the cost is close to nothing, this is Lei Gong, why can it be sold in Jizhou for three yuan per catty Salt, our coastline in Qingzhou is longer than Jizhou, and we also have a tradition of salt industry, if we can monopolize the salt industry in Dahan, we should be able to earn billions of dollars a year!"

After talking, Guo Jia gave Cao Cao and Xun Yu a picture, which was a picture of the salt field in Jizhou.

With this painting, Cao Cao finally understood why Jizhou salt is so cheap!And now this deal belongs to them in Qingzhou

When Cao Cao heard this, he said excitedly, "Feng Xiao, you are truly unparalleled in the country!"

But Guo Jia shook his head and said: "What kind of unparalleled national scholar is this, I am just picking up people's teeth!"

Guo Jia continued: "We still have a state-run iron factory. Now almost all of Lei Gong's subordinates are equipped with iron armor. Without the iron factory, we can't be Lei Gong's opponent at all!"

Cao Cao and Xun Yu agreed with the establishment of the ironworks. The last time they fought Lei Gong, they were beaten and returned. Equipment was one of the most important reasons.

(End of this chapter)