I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 390, the conditions of the parties
Wang Lang said helplessly: "Everyone is lucky. They think that Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao have nearly a million soldiers. The combined forces of the imperial court are extremely powerful. Even the Thunder God in Hebei will have difficulty in invading the Central Plains.

Xuzhou can naturally stay out of the matter, and now they are taking advantage of Minggong's serious illness to collude everywhere and want to unite to resist forces outside Xuzhou! "

Although Tao Qian is Xuzhou Mu on the surface and is in charge of the entire Xuzhou, in fact he can only be regarded as the leader of the Xuzhou forces.

Before Tao Qian succeeded Xuzhou Governor, the entire Han Dynasty could be said to be in danger. Emperor Ling had no military strength and money to support all parties, so when Tao Qian came to Xuzhou, he only had the name of an empty governor, and he didn't have a single soldier in his hand!

The script he took was the same as that of Liu Biao, and he entered Xuzhou single-handedly. (Here I have to say that Emperor Ling really doesn’t care about personnel. Even when his relative Liu Yan went to quell the rebellion in Yizhou, he didn’t even have a single soldier. If it weren’t for the local tyrants in Yizhou, they would have defeated him directly. Yizhou's rebellion, Liu Yan is afraid that he will not even be able to enter Yizhou!)
And such a situation determined that Tao Qian had to unite with Xuzhou's aristocrats to gain a firm foothold in Xuzhou, otherwise he would not be able to continue as Xuzhou's governor.

Therefore, as soon as Tao Qian arrived in Xuzhou, he joined forces with the local aristocrats in Xuzhou to defeat the Yellow Turban Army with their private soldiers.

Later, in order to maintain the stability of Xuzhou, Tao Qian appointed Mi Zhu, a wealthy businessman in Xuzhou, as Bie Jia to help him raise money and food to maintain the situation in Xuzhou.

In order to raise food and grass and reduce the number of refugees in Xuzhou, he appointed Chen Deng, a native of Xiapi, as the lieutenant of Diannong, and practiced farming in Xuzhou.

When Chen Deng took office, it was "appropriate to patrol the soil and fields and make the most of the benefits of irrigation". With the efforts of Tao Qian and Chen Deng, Xuzhou's agricultural production was restored and developed, and "abundant japonica rice" was harvested.Therefore, when the Yellow Turban Army was raging all over the Central Plains, Xuzhou became a rare paradise in the Central Plains because of the restoration of land production. Several Yellow Turban Army uprisings did not enter Xuzhou.

In order to control the refugees in Xuzhou, Tao Qian appointed Xiapi Xiang Ruorong, who was in the same county as himself, to supervise the transportation of grain in Guangling, Xiapi, and Pengcheng.Ruo Rongqi used the food in his hands to build the Dafutu Temple. Each temple can accommodate more than [-] people. Spread mats on the road, after tens of miles, the people come to watch and eat, and there are tens of thousands of people. Use Buddhism to control the riots of refugees!
It can be said that it was because Tao Qian used this method to unite the entire Xuzhou aristocracy that he suppressed the situation in Xuzhou.

But in this way, the power in Tao Qian’s hands must be shared with the nobles in Xuzhou. He can only be regarded as the leader of the martial arts, and he is also the kind of leader who has no confidants. This caused Tao Qian to become seriously ill. reason for shepherding.

Tao Qian thought for a while and asked, "What conditions did the imperial court give us in Xuzhou?"

Wang Langdao: "The imperial court believes that Duke Ming has made outstanding achievements in guarding Xuzhou, so he can be granted the title of Marquis of Duxiang, the title of Marquis can be passed on to the eldest son, and the second son can also be granted the title of Marquis of Guannei! The two sons can go to Xiangyang Taixue to study, Lord Situ Mr. Shui Jing was invited to teach the two young masters, as long as the two young masters succeed in their studies, the position of prefect will be within ten years!"

The potter was overjoyed when he heard the conditions. At this time, the position of Marquis has not depreciated in value, and it is still very precious to the Marquis of the Han Dynasty, not to mention that a famous person like Mr. Shui Jing can be used as a teacher, which is even more precious than the position of Marquis.

Mr. Shui Jing is a famous person in the world and has a high status in Jingzhou. As long as he worships Mr. Shui Jing as his teacher, he will have hundreds of classmates and friends in the officialdom of the big man. When they become 2000 stone prefects, they can use this relationship to recruit a large number of students Old officials, their Tao family can also be called Shiwei 2000 stones, and they have become a family of the great Han!
Don't look at Tao Qian who has become a Xuzhou pastor now, but he was born in an ordinary way and has a very bad relationship with Xuzhou's celebrities!Zhang Zhao, a famous scholar in Xuzhou, looked down on Tao Qian. Tao Qian also had a violent temper. He immediately arrested Zhang Zhao and wanted to kill him. It was Zhao Yu's persuasion that Tao Qian let Zhang Zhao go.

But also because of this incident, the famous scholars in Xuzhou dismissed Tao Qian, and this implicated Tao Qian's two sons. Even if they were the sons of the state shepherd, they could not learn from famous teachers.But in the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty, if you can't learn from famous teachers, no one will recommend Xiaolian Maocai, basically cutting off your official career!

Tao Qian smiled and said: "The conditions are not bad. My Tao family has not produced a Marquis for hundreds of years. Now that I have produced two, what conditions does it have for others? Xuzhou is not my Tao Qian's Xuzhou alone. ?”

Wang Lang said: "Everyone's official position will not be changed within three years, but all policies must be closer to the imperial court. We must learn from the policies of dividing the land into acres, equalizing the land, and strengthening the army! The imperial court also asked us to immigrate to Jiangdong and go to Jiangdong for reclamation! The nobles and nobles can freely use the wasteland in the Jiangdong circle, and no tax will be levied within 5 years!"

Tao Qian said helplessly: "This policy cannot be implemented. No one in Xuzhou would want to do this! Enclosure is good, but I came from Jiangdong, and no one wants to go there!"

Tao Qian's Xuzhou is a strengthened version of the Eastern Han Dynasty government. When something goes wrong, everyone collects a few private soldiers to resist foreign enemies. When there is nothing to do, they collect the people to maintain the rule of Xuzhou. All in all, it is a small government with few people.

But now what the Xiangyang court wants is a former Han government that governs the sky, the land and the powerful, and wants to immigrate from Xuzhou to Yangzhou. This is not digging their flesh.As for enclosing land in Jiangdong, Xuzhou's wealthy and nobles even dismissed it. At this time, Jiangdong is a truly barren land. After a hundred miles of the Yangtze River, it is difficult to see even a village. The current climate in Jiangdong is humid and smoky. There is a lot of miasma, and ordinary people have to risk their lives to go to Jiangdong for reclamation. The elites in Xuzhou are even more unwilling to risk their lives to occupy some wasteland.Therefore, from the perspective of Xuzhou's aristocrats, the land in Jiangdong is nothing more than painting cakes to satisfy their hunger.

The important thing is that the nobles in Xuzhou look down on the current policies implemented by the imperial court. They are not even willing to implement the policies of the Eastern Han Dynasty, let alone the policies of the Former Han Dynasty.

Xuzhou has a population of more than 300 million, but even at the most dangerous time, the number of troops did not exceed 5. Compared with attacking, what Tao Qian did most was to stand by and wait for reinforcements, or wait until the food of the Yellow Turban Army was exhausted, and automatically Withdrawing from Xuzhou's territory, the ability to actively attack is not available in Xuzhou.

The Yellow Turban Army has reached the door of the house, and Xuzhou's elite and nobles are unwilling to expand the army, let alone Lei Gong is still thousands of miles away.As soon as Zhang Wen put forward this condition, he was not welcomed by the powerful and noble families in Xuzhou.

Zhao Yu said helplessly: "Everyone thinks that the imperial court has too many restrictions, so they don't want to join the imperial court!"

Tao Qian asked, "What conditions did Yuan Shao propose?"

Wang Lang said: "Everything in Xuzhou remains unchanged. Yuan Shao's only request is that we arm an army of 10. When Lei Gong attacks Yanzhou, the Xuzhou army will support Yanzhou! The two sons, Yuan Shao, also promised to arrange for them to go to Yuzhou as prefects! "

Yuan Shao's conditions were better, and Tao Qian's two sons were directly made the prefects of 2000 shi.

But Tao Qian said: "My two sons don't have this ability! It is my highest expectation that they can survive this troubled world safely!"

Then Tao Qian said: "Yuan Shao's conditions are good for us, why don't you want to join Yuan Shao?"

Wang Lang smiled wryly and said: "Although the conditions are good, the only trouble is in arming the 10 army. What Yuan Shao wants is not the ordinary national soldiers of the 10 counties, but 30 elite soldiers like the northern and southern armies. It is equipped with iron armor. Such an elite army will cost [-] billion yuan a year to raise.

Our finances in Xuzhou simply cannot afford to support such a large army!And even if they can be raised, everyone is unwilling to consume such an elite force on the battlefield in the Central Plains. Lei Gong's army is basically a full armored force, and there are still 10 cavalry in hand. Our Xuzhou army went to the Central Plains to fight, it is not suicidal Road, so everyone is unwilling to become Yuan Shao's subordinates. "

During the period of Emperor Ling, Xuzhou could get a tax of 10 million yuan, and Emperor Ling would cry happily. Now Yuan Shao collects [-] times the financial income at once.

Cao Cao didn't say anything, because Cao Cao didn't have the support of his disciples and old officials, and he didn't have the righteousness of the court. Qingzhou was also exhausted by Cao Cao's militarism. In the eyes of Xuzhou's civil and military officials, Cao Cao is now a poor man. It is impossible for a tyrannical person to offer any good conditions, and everyone is unwilling to provoke Cao Cao.

(End of this chapter)