Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 308 Three years of recuperation, 19 years of Jian'an
Since Liu Bei settled Xichuan in the 14th year of Jian'an, and now at the end of the 15th year of Jian'an, the situation in the south has stabilized.

Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong, Xu Shu, Fazheng, Zhang Song, and Jia Xu are carrying out local governance in full swing and implementing the reform measures made before.

Liu Bei sealed off all his officials, and the treasury was almost empty.

Zhuge Liang started to build economic measures, and he did not use the suggestion of "a hundred dollars worth of money" from General Zuo Xicao and Liu Ba, but heeded Shen Chen's suggestion - to borrow money.

Of course it's not really asking someone to borrow it.

Instead, tax.

Isn't this the beginning of measuring the land?
Jingzhou and Yizhou are very rich. With the new policy, the government used its political status and low prices to buy back nearly half of the land.

For example, it turns out that a certain county is powerful and powerful, and the clan has hundreds of people. Counting the slaves, apprentices, maidservants, and children, there are thousands of people. The land is [-] mu, the family wealth is countless, and the money is countless.

The government will call this tyrant over and give him a choice.

One is to conscript and become an official, liberate the land slaves, and check his fields and population. At least half of the slaves and land properties will be taken away by the government, but they will be traded at a lower price and given a certain political status , and exempt part of the tax.

Although Liu Ning is not a great talent, but he is well-educated, well-educated, and has good moral character. He is not a willful person, so in the end, Shen's mother sent someone to Jiangzhou Zuo Jiangjun's residence to propose marriage.

Among them, nearly half of the main force has used the steel ring head knife, and the rest are still slowly iterating.

Although the Sun family was still able to stick to the southeast of the Yangtze River, after being flooded and burned, their vitality was seriously injured.

But this is undoubtedly a powerful force, which will play a big role in competing with Cao Cao in the future.

Even if you give birth, you have to find a way to hide it and be a hermit.

After getting married in February, Shen Chen handed over the military affairs of Nanyang to Gan Ning Wenpin and Zhang Xiu, and he stayed at home with his wife every day.

Then Liu Bei has sixty-seven million, or even 700 million people who help him farm and pay taxes, and the income is enough for Liu Bei to support an army of 800, which is more than four times that of Sun Quan.

The size gap between Sun Quan and Liu Bei is too large, so that no matter how developed Sun Quan is, his overall strength cannot compare with Liu Bei.

Under such circumstances, the breeding industry gradually emerged. In just two or three years, the people in Jingzhou and Yizhou had enough food and clothing, fewer and fewer people could not afford to eat, and people's lives were getting better and better. The taste of Wenjingzhi.

Moreover, Shen Chen built fields around lakes in Jiangxia, Changsha and other places, and built the Jianghan Plain. He used Champa rice and native rice of the Han Dynasty to form double-cropping rice. With the addition of transplanting techniques and retting techniques, the grain production increased greatly, and Sun Quan sent people to secretly learn from it. go.

You must know that each of these wealthy families is extremely rich.

Before Yongzheng, all dynasties collected two taxes, population tax and land tax.Population tax, to some extent, limits population growth.

During this period, Cao Cao issued the "Decree of Seeking Talents", which focused on talents and recruited northern heroes, so that many talents joined and expanded the prime minister's shogunate.

It's not all good news, though.

Although such a policy led to opposition from powerful families in Jingyi and Yizhou, the policy of being an official in a different place made even officials from powerful families beyond their reach, so they could only choose to write to Liu Bei to persuade them.

Therefore, when Zhuge Liang and the others carried out the reform of the internal affairs system, they were obviously using a knife against the powerful landlords, just like fattening pigs and starting to slaughter them during the New Year.

Liu Bei was naturally very happy and readily agreed.

No matter how distressed Sun Quan was, at least he had a piece of territory in name, and he could slowly recuperate through internal affairs and gradually grow stronger.

In this way, the finances of Yizhou and Jingzhou were filled up again in an instant.

In addition, there is no need to pay population tax, and it is meaningless to be a hidden household, which caused a huge increase in population in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

During this period, the Liu Bei Group was also actively developing military technology. For example, the steel irrigation method was spread all over Sichuan and Shu, and the steel production capacity was greatly increased, which brought changes to the Liu Bei Group's weapons and equipment.

However, it cannot be ignored that Yongzheng's allocation of land into acres also provided protection for population growth.

And while Liu Bei Group was developing with peace of mind, Cao Cao Group was also recuperating.

This has resulted in a substantial increase in hidden users.

What Sun Quan didn't know was that he was secretly happy, thinking that this would bring him great help, but he didn't know that Shen Chen had no intention of hiding these technologies in the south at all, and it would be better if they could be popularized.

Not to be outdone, Liu Bei issued the "Examination Order". As long as he passes the assessment, he can serve as an official. pioneer.

It's just that there is only so much room for development, and their headquarters are relatively small. For example, Han Sui only has 10 to [-] troops, and Ma Chao has only [-] to [-] troops. It is strong.

Now it has finally stabilized. Several disastrous defeats against the south made Cao Cao unable to invade the south on a large scale, although he had more than [-] soldiers and horses. He could only choose to stabilize the rear.

Although these technologies can bring innovation to food, the size of Jiangdong and Jingzhou and Yizhou is here.

Under the strong hands of Zhuge Liang and Fazheng, these powerful landlords can't make any waves.

But Shen Chen thought again and again, but still didn't do it.

The forest area on the mountain often extends to the flat plains below the mountain.These dense forests are interspersed with farmland and grasslands, showing a green everywhere, covering the vast Loess Plateau.

Moreover, the local water resources are abundant. Chaonaqiu in Anding County of Han Dynasty is [-] miles away. It does not stop flowing, does not increase or decrease in winter and summer, and does not grow vegetation.

The former of these two technologies can increase the speed of the ship, and the latter can prevent the ship from sinking if the cabin is damaged.

Shen Chen even considered abolishing the small tax and dividing it into mu, so as to greatly increase the population.

The number of cavalry is not many, only [-].

In stark contrast to Cao Cao and Liu Bei is Jiangdong.

When Liu Bei entrusted his daughter to Shen Chen, he had just reached the age of Ji.

By the beginning of the 16th year of Jian'an, there were some civil strife, which were all put down.

Because Yongzheng dared to do that because the early Qing Dynasty reached the peak of the feudal period in terms of science and technology, military, economy, and productivity, and forced the distribution of people into the mu to implement policies.

The second advantage is that it is meaningless to make hidden households, and the common people will not conceal the fact of the birth population, and the registered household population will also greatly increase.

While that's certainly not the case in reality, that's probably what it means.

While Jingzhou and Yizhou are undergoing reforms, more and more land and population will be liberated, and more and more people will be actually controlled by Liu Bei.

Mr. Shi Nianhai, a famous historical geographer of later generations, once studied it. He believed that the mountains of Gansu in the Han Dynasty were lush and covered with forests everywhere.

Liu Ning is seven years younger than Shen Chen. In the 16th year of Jian'an, which is 211 AD, Shen Chen was 24 years old and Liu Ning was 17 years old.

It was not until last September, when Liu Bei returned to Jiangzhou from Jingzhou, that he went to Bashu with his family.

We must know that most of the Huanshou knives in the Han Dynasty were made of wrought iron, but compared with the northern nomads who were still in the pig iron or bone, wood, and bronze ages, the wrought iron Huanshou knives were already rolled by all aspects of technology.

The second is to continue to retain the cultivated land and population, and the government must conduct an inventory in all aspects.Then carry out a comprehensive tax collection according to the land tax and the small tax, and pay the tax for three years. If you dare to resist or take a negative attitude, you will ransack your family and exterminate your family.

By the 18th year of Jian'an, Liu Bei's main front-line troops had reached 18, and the second-line county troops had 12.

The people are already poor, and if they have one more child, they will pay an extra tax, which makes everyone unwilling to have more children.

At this time in history, there are [-] to [-] troops, and they once led [-] troops to confront Liu Bei and Guan Yu's [-] troops in Yiyang, Gong'an and other places because of the Jingzhou issue.

Therefore, the advantage of allocating a piece of land to the mu is that it can encourage fertility.

So haste makes waste, and finally Shen Chen gave up on this idea.

As a result, they have little room for development and can only be content with the status quo.

The population of the two places was largely liberated, which indirectly promoted the prosperity of the handicraft industry and the economy, and the commerce and trade became more and more active.

Historically, the population of Yangzhou reached 440 million, and now with Jiaozhou, the total population has exceeded 500 million.

Most of them are aristocratic families and ethnic minorities who do not obey discipline, and the population actually controlled by Sun Quan is only more than 100 million.

Now the four major powers are basically in the truce period.

Sun Quan's boat technology has been innovated. After the fire burned Hongkou, Sun Quan got some of Shen Chen's boats, restored them through technology, and owned a paddle steamer and eight-slot watertight compartments.

Some experts and scholars believe that the population of the Song and Ming Dynasties exceeded [-] million because of the double-cropping rice in the south, and the invention of the retting technology in the Song Dynasty, which greatly increased grain production and the population exceeded [-] million.

Everyone in the world knows that the population of our country has fluctuated around 6000 million in the past dynasties, but the population soared after the Song Dynasty. The peak population of the Song and Ming Dynasties exceeded [-] million, and it reached [-] million in the Qing Dynasty.

Hanzhong is increasing its troops.

Because Xiliang is barren and has a population but not rich.The land in Guanzhong is fertile, but there is almost no population.

Liu Bei sent people to Xiliang to buy horses and train cavalry in Hanzhong.

In this way, even considering the rear defense problem, at least 20 people must be stationed in Yizhou and Jingzhou, and Liu Bei can mobilize 15 troops for the Northern Expedition, which is comparable to Cao Cao's strength during the Battle of Chibi.

Therefore, in terms of future development space, Liu Bei is similar to Cao Cao, followed by Sun Quan, and Han Sui and Ma Chao are at the bottom. It may not be a few years, and even Sun Quan has many more troops than them.

Then Jingzhou also expanded its troops by [-] troops, mainly the Jiangxia Navy.

Fortunately, the soil erosion in Gansu was not so serious during the Han Dynasty.

However, his progress was far behind at this time. Although there was no Chibi fiasco, he lost the Nanyang Basin, and there was no bridgehead to restrain the southern forces, so that he had to garrison Yingchuan Runan to guard against Liu Bei.

However, at this time, with the power of Qingjiangdong, only 8 horses have been recovered in two years. If it were not for filling the shortfall by continuously attacking Shanyue and Jiaozhou, and slowly recruiting and training troops, I am afraid that there are fewer soldiers and horses now, far inferior to Liu Beihe. Cao Cao.

The memorial flew to Jiangzhou like snowflakes, Liu Bei simply handed it over to Zhuge Liang, and went to Jiangling to get married by himself.

It is enough to see the gap between the landlords and the poor.

But now this era is still too backward, even if the wool is squeezed from the mouths of aristocratic families, it is only worthless to squeeze out less than half of it.

According to the "Book of the Later Han Zhongchang Tongzhuan" records: "There are hundreds of buildings in the houses of the rich, the fields are full of ointment, thousands of servants and maidservants, and they are attached to thousands of money. Qi bribes treasures, and the rich house cannot accommodate; horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs , the valley cannot bear it."

So Shen Chen didn't care about Sun Quan's promotion of the technology he invented at all, and even hoped that he would help to promote it.

Moreover, Sun Quan suffered several disastrous defeats, making him compromise with the aristocratic family, unable to obtain the population and land of the aristocratic family, and the income from farming of the aristocratic family will not give your Sun family a dime, nor will it pay taxes, and will not help Sun Quan bring How many benefits.

By February, Shen Chen got married to Liu Bei's daughter Liu Ning.

In order to prevent the large-scale rebellion of the aristocratic families, Liu Bei could only choose a big stick and carrots. While squeezing their wool, he had to find a way to appease them. He dared not take away all the hidden households and hidden properties of all the aristocratic families.

The humidity in the south is too heavy, and it is too easy to get damp and moldy. Even in the high-tech era of later generations, it usually takes three to six years.Therefore, even if there is no shortage of food in the south, the food in the two places must be operated. Even if it is fed to pigs, it is better than moldy in the warehouse.

However, after sharing the income into the mu and not having to pay the household tax, as long as there is a stutter, they can raise their children and they can have children. A family can often have seven or eight children, or even more than ten.

It is also impossible for the two to relocate Xiliang people to Guanzhong.

For a while, the north and the south were thriving, and everyone was carrying out internal rectification.

Corresponding to Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan is Han Sui and Ma Chao.

It is estimated that by the 20th year of Jian'an, the total force of the Liu Bei Group will reach about 35.

The explosive population growth in the Qing Dynasty was due to the introduction of high-yielding crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, which greatly improved productivity.

There are countless cargo ships on the Yangtze River every day. Jingzhou’s rich rice is shipped to Yizhou, and Yizhou’s rich Shu brocade tea well salt is sent to Jingzhou, and sometimes sold to Jiangdong. Although there is a lot of food, it can be kept for one or two years at most.

Because you are developing, others are also developing.You get 10 points of experience for development, and others get 100 points. The gap is getting bigger and bigger invisibly. This is reality.

With relatively good resources, the Han people under Han Sui and Ma Chao’s rule cultivated wheat and millet, while the Hu people grazed cattle and sheep, and built a relatively complete ecology, which would not make them difficult.

When Jiangdong is wiped out in the future, these technologies will have taken root in Jiangdong, and there is no need for the government to waste time and effort to spread new technologies.

The situation of Han Sui and Ma Chao is much worse.

At its peak, the Jiangxia navy had 7 to 5 people, but it was disabled in several battles, and now it has slowly expanded to [-] people.

By the 17th year of Jian'an, the strength of the Liu Bei Group had also broken through to 30.

Including ethnic minorities, the total population under the rule is more than 1000 million, and the actual control of half of them is almost the limit. If it is spread out, the aristocratic family will have to blow up the pot.

Make a rough analogy.

After 16 years of Jian'an, there was a short period of peace in the world. No one took the initiative to provoke wars, and no one chose to conquer the Quartet. Everyone was developing with peace of mind.

For the past year, Liu Ning lived in Xiangyang and socialized with Shen Chen a lot. They also went out of the city to hunt together, and sat together to discuss scriptures.

the reason is simple.

Since the 16th year of Jian'an, the Taihu Lake Basin in Yangzhou has also begun to fully promote double-cropping rice and transplanting and retting methods, which will play a vital role in the food problem in Jiangdong.

In the 16th year of Jian'an in history, after the defeat in the Battle of Chibi, Cao Cao recuperated for three years to stabilize the internal situation, and only then began to use troops against Guanzhong.

For example, when Mi Zhu himself was in Xuzhou, he was not from a wealthy family, and his ancestors had never been a high-ranking official. He could have tens of thousands of servants entirely by doing business, let alone those nobles whose ancestors had been a high-ranking official.

Counting Sun Quan's 200 million people to help him farm and pay taxes, with technological innovation, the income is enough for him to support 20 troops.

The year before last, Cao Cao pacified Wuhuan, and last year he conquered Gao Gan himself. Now the entire north, except for Gongsun Kang in Liaodong, is in Cao Cao's hands, and the territory has reached the state it was before the Battle of Chibi.

Even if they were able to mobilize the Hu Qiang, and they had a crowd of 30 to [-] at once, they were all Hu Qiang troops, not their headquarters.Once the troops in the headquarters are damaged, those Hu Qiang kings who sent troops to help them may be the first to defect.

In this way, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu so that they could not find the north.

Now that weapons have changed from the age of pig iron to the age of steel knives, the equipment technology of the Han Dynasty has been developed again, and future changes in technological progress will further make up for the power gap caused by the population gap between the north and the south.

And in such a time, from the end of Jian'an 15th year, it entered a period of peaceful development, to the end of Jian'an 18th year, three years of recuperation, and the north and the south have changed.

In the 19th year of Jian'an, a new war is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)