The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 103 Xi Jian’s decision

Xi Jian looked at the recruitment order handed to him by the refugees, and took it with both hands seriously. Looking at the note on the recruitment order that said "only ask for talent, not family background", he couldn't help but sneered, and thought to himself:

"I thought Liu Tai only wanted to be Li Ling loyal to the Huns, but he didn't expect that as soon as Wang Mi died, he couldn't help but want to learn to be Wei Wu."

However, Xi Jian also admitted that Liu Tai's fighting ability was really strong, and even Gou Xi was defeated by Liu Tai's hands, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead for a while.

Looking at the broken mountains and rivers, but the scenery remains the same, I can't help but feel pain in my heart, not knowing what to do.

Xi Jian looked outside in a daze. After a while, a big man came in with a few coarse grain steamed buns in his hands.

Xi Jian looked at these steaming coarse-grain steamed buns with a bit of surprise in his eyes and said, "This is it?"

"Mr. Xi, these coarse-grain steamed buns are made by locals who came back from Taishan County. They taste very delicious."

As the big man said this, he placed the pottery dishes with steamed buns in front of Xi Jian.

Xi Jian was about to take it, but when he saw that the big man was hesitant to speak, he said, "Do you have something to say?"

"Sir, several villagers have discussed it, and we are going to go to Taishan County to make a living..." the big man said,

"So, these steamed buns are not only for you, Mr. Xi, but also for the two children. We are afraid that we will have to say goodbye to Mr. Xi in the future."

Xi Jian couldn't help but be startled when he heard this, but he didn't expect that the villagers were actually going to Taishan County.

Because Chen Wu met Shi Le and Wang Mi and were beaten almost to death, Xi Jian found the opportunity to escape back to his hometown.

During this period, the place suffered first from a drought and then from a locust plague. Now it has survived thanks to the help of the villagers.

But the problem is that food is very precious at this time. Just like this, the villagers told Xi Jian: "Everyone is hungry and sleepy. Because of your virtue, we must help you together. If you add two more children, I'm afraid we won't be able to feed you together." ”

From then on, Xi Jian went to eat alone, holding the rice in his cheeks, and when he came back, he vomited it to the two children, and they survived together.
But now that everyone in Ruoxiang has left, Xi Jian feels that he and his children are afraid of starving to death here.

Xi Jian took the matter seriously at this moment and said, "Could it be that all of you folks are going to gamble and seek wise orders!?"

Hearing Xi Jian's words, the big man shook his head and said, "The people I seek are all virtuous and talented people like you, sir. It has nothing to do with us ordinary people. It's just that we went to Mount Tai. We all have a way to survive!"

"Can you ask those people who have been to Taishan County to come over and tell me about Taishan in detail?" Xi Jian said seriously.

Xi Jian quickly realized that things like seeking talents actually had little to do with the people at the bottom.

Even if you are seeking talents, you must at least be able to read the words on the order seeking talents, but the vast majority of the people are illiterate.

Under such circumstances, the people who came back from Taishan County could actually encourage the villagers to go to Taishan. This is wrong.

Because the people are ignorant, but if there are no tangible benefits, it is not easy to deceive them.

After hearing what Xi Jian said, the big man quickly called for the big man who had returned from Luoyang and asked him to answer Xi Jian's doubts.

Xi Jian said kindly, "This brave man, can you tell me some of his deeds in Taishan County? I am also eager to do so."

"Replying to Mr. Xi, the common people could no longer survive in the area during the locust plague last year. I heard from the merchants that a new governor has come to Mount Tai. He will take care of the food as long as he works. The soldiers still have land, so I will take him with him. We followed a few villagers to flee there." The big man told Xi Jian in detail.

"It's just like the legend there. As long as you work, you will be given food?" Xi Jian couldn't help but wonder when he heard the big man's words.

"Here!" The big man nodded fiercely, "In the first year, the government built a house for us to give us a place to stay.

After working for a year and maintaining their health, some people were selected as soldiers and assigned fields. "

"Oh..." Xi Jian couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this. This is farmland. He couldn't help but ask: "All soldiers have farmland!"

"Of course not!" The big man shook his head and said.

When Xi Jian heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. He already felt a bit cold from it.

Because Liu Tai's operation is so similar to the military system implemented by Cao Cao, Liu Tai didn't have the ambition to be heroic only after Wang Mi died. He already had this idea before the decisive battle with Gou Xi. This guy is 16 this year. Are you old? You have been a rebel since you were a kid!
"Only soldiers who have families at home can receive the fields. If there is no woman in the family to take care of these fields, then if you go to serve as a soldier, these fields will naturally be abandoned!" The big man shook his head.

Xi Jian couldn't help but frown when he heard this. He always felt that there was something wrong here, but he couldn't explain it.

"Since you already have fields and business in Taishan, why do you want to come back? It's not far from here to Taishan County, but it's not close at all. It's a hundred miles away at least. Even if you walk, you have to walk for seven or eight days. This road is not safe!" Xi Jian said.

"Mr. Xi is right. If it weren't for wealth, how could we have made up our minds to come back here!"

“Because of Mount Tai, and even because Liu Qingzhou conquered Qingzhou, he was extremely generous in distributing land.

As long as you join the army, you will be given fifty acres of land, and you will pay one stone per acre per year, and the rest will belong to you.

If the land is cultivated and planted with the help of Han tools, one stone and two stones per mu will be collected every year for five years.

Therefore, all the people are proud to be soldiers, because soldiers give them fields. "

Xi Jian couldn't help but frown when he heard this. No matter how you put it, this kind of operation is not just Cao Cao's farming system.

He could even see the shadow of Wei Wuzu inside. Even this kind of quantitative tax collection, rather than collecting it according to a few percent, Xi Jian also knew that under such circumstances, the common people would probably be more diligent in farming. positive.

"But what does this have to do with the so-called great wealth?" Xi Jian couldn't help but wonder.

"It's because Liu Qingzhou stipulated that soldiers must get married, whether it is to marry a wife or take a concubine, single soldiers are not allowed to receive acres of land, only soldiers with families can be allocated fields!"

When the big man said this, he couldn't help but sigh, "In the past few years, there have been wars, droughts, and locust plagues not long after.

This disaster is coming day after day, not to mention that Qingzhou has been plundered by the beggar army. It is not easy for women to survive!

Therefore, privately, there were often soldiers who wanted land and paid a lot of money to beg girls.

After all, as long as you buy a girl as a concubine, you can start a family, and with fifty acres of land, this is a very good deal.

This kind of thing is more likely to happen first and not later. If time goes on, even if you can get some land in the future, the good land will have been snatched by others, and you will not get your turn.So I went back to my hometown to have a look. If there were still girls alive, I could sort of find a home for them.

Even if some men cannot survive, they can even be pawned as wives and concubines! "

"Is it okay to pawn wives and concubines over there?" Xi Jian was a little surprised when he heard this.

The big man replied to Xi Jian: "I don't know, the government doesn't care anyway, but when you are allocated land, you have to pay food.

If the pawnbroker ran back to her hometown and couldn't deliver the food, all she had to do was check her military status and find the person to take back the land! "

Xi Jian understood that the land occupation system was different from the Sima family's land occupation system.

This system is actually linked to the military system. It is really not an easy task for the court to go down and inquire about the land. At least if the aristocratic family deliberately conceals it, then the aristocratic family can completely dominate the local area.

Even Liu Xiu, who was as strong as the Chosen One, could only give up his land in the face of the alliance between the aristocratic families. He could only resign himself to his fate and gradually let the aristocratic family start to grow stronger and bigger.

But Liu Tai is different, because these are troubled times, military generals must have priority, and now under Liu Tai's arrangement, the farmland has been assigned to the hands of these soldiers and generals.

If their fields were occupied by a local aristocratic family, then Liu Tai would be able to know about it through the army. It would become difficult for the aristocratic family to occupy the land as before.

Because compared with the original unarmed people, these people who own fields have now become veterans who are as meaty as a hob.

They may indeed seem to be unnoble, and even in terms of power, nothing can compare to aristocratic families.

But these guys will really kill people if they are pushed into a hurry, and to the aristocratic family, the most annoying thing is these guys who risk their lives at every turn.

After all, your life is so valuable, how can you risk your life casually with these people!

Xi Jian just thought about it briefly, but he didn't see anything wrong with this system of tying soldiers to their fields.

More importantly, this system has really actively increased people's enthusiasm to join the army.

Especially in this environment of natural and man-made disasters, for ordinary people, this system is really wonderful.

As long as he enters Taishan County, it only takes one year of hard work to establish himself. Then as long as he successfully joins the army, he will have the land and even his status.

For the common people, it is not necessary to have a high status. A seventh-grade official who is looked down upon by the nobles, and a village chief who is despised by powerful men. For many common people, this is the ultimate goal of their lifelong struggle.

Therefore, in fact, Liu Tai's order to seek talents had little influence on the people around him.

They were illiterate and knew that they were not talented people, so they brought a letter of seeking talent to the wise people in their hometown, and that was it.

But Liu Taifu's new system that combined the military system and the land equalization system was really very attractive to the people around him in this chaotic era when order collapsed and the imperial court collapsed.

Even if they don't come here for this system, just to work in Taishan County during this time of food shortage, the people are willing to go to Qingzhou in order to survive.

At the same time, for the common people, there is actually a rather hidden reason here, that is, Liu Tai can fight!

That's right. With a very simple mind, the common people feel that Liu Tai can win anyone he fights along the way. The policies he has introduced now can help him survive in these troubled times. Why don't they go to Qingzhou? Taishan County.

In this troubled world, being able to fight is the last word.

Otherwise, no matter how good the policy is, it will not bring the slightest sense of security if you are facing a guy who is ready to massacre the city and capture Qian's city.

But Liu Tai was the commander-in-chief of the Huns and Han Kingdom. He had just defeated Gou Xi, and his political policies could allow the people to survive.

The most important thing is that he is still a Han in the Xiongnu Han Kingdom. For many people, they dare not get too close to the Huns and other foreigners, but there is no problem in getting close to Liu Tai, a Han.

Under such circumstances, these people from Taishan County came forward and said that they were planning to move to Taishan County in Yishan soon.

Xi Jian couldn't help but ponder when he saw the scene in front of him. In the end, he decided to follow the large army and run towards Mount Tai for refuge.

He didn't necessarily say that he wanted to stay, but Xi Mai and Zhou Yi around him needed to survive after all, and the people all ran to Taishan County.

There is no one to help him, and he has two children. How can he survive in this chaotic situation?

As for whether he should follow Liu Tai, Xi Jian said that he would rely on his own labor to earn a living from Liu Tai. He did not want to flatter Liu Tai and seek an official position. He wanted to have food and clothing for the time being and see what happened in the future. There is no chance to escape to the south!

Xi Jian made the decision and left for Taishan County. At this time, in Taishan County, Yang Man watched Chu Hui visit him again, and this time he brought Liu Tai's order to seek talents, and he couldn't help but ponder.

Wang Mi is not dead, so Yang Man naturally has no possibility of choosing Liu Tai.

After all, although Yang Man ignored Liu Tai's love, he did not fall behind when Liu Tai needed to do things by himself.

So Yangman wanted to wait for Wang Mi to come over and see what choice Wang Mi would make.

If Wang Mi is really a talented person in the world, it is not that he cannot help him. When the time comes to bring money to join the group, his status will not be much lower than that of Liu Tai.

But Wang Mi died immediately, which made all Yangman's plans come to nothing.

Yang Man was still somewhat hesitant about whether to work for Liu Tai according to the purpose of Liu Tai's recruitment order.

After all, Yangman is one of the very few families who have been staying in Taishan County. He understands that Liu Tai is really reasonable and does not embarrass himself because he is from an aristocratic family. However, Liu Tai also really hates aristocratic families.

So as a son of an aristocratic family, can he really develop the family by working under him? !
After all, Liu Tai now has his own basic base. Even if he wants to bring money into the group, the right to speak he can get is really pitiful.

Under such circumstances, even if Chu Hui came with Liu Tai's request for talents, Yang Man had to think deeply.

After all, as Luoyang was conquered by the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty, too many things really changed!
"In these troubled times, even Flying Leopard Wang Mi is not immune to dangers. Can a young man like Liu Tai really be able to carry Qingzhou?!" Yang Man finally found it difficult to make up his mind, "Brother Mouyuan, you really brought this to me. What a big problem!”

But at this time, Chu Hui led the army and ran towards the next destination!

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(End of this chapter)