After all, unlike other military systems that are controlled by family martial arts, in Zhang Yan's armies, the grassroots officers are almost all selected from within.

That is the result of what Zhang Yan ordered when he was in Luoyang to "train ordinary soldiers in the manner of ten commanders, and train ten commanders in the manner of centurions".

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Among these soldiers and officers, there may be some scholars from local aristocratic families who joined the army, but most of them came up from the bottom bit by bit.

Compared with airborne officials, these people naturally have a deeper understanding of the psychology of front-line soldiers.

They are also really one of the few people who can be rich and not prostitute in this era.

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"Well, in this way, the first step in the gradual nationalization of land has been completed."

On the other side, Zhang Yan walked slowly while showing a gentle smile in front of these soldiers.

Although it seemed that he was warmly greeting those people, in fact, in secret, Zhang Yan was constantly thinking about the impact of his actions today on the subsequent development of Lujiang.

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As we all know, before modern times, land, as a means of production, has always been directly in the hands of the people.

No matter which dynasty or generation it is, as long as the people reclaim a piece of unowned wasteland and register the location and use of the wasteland with the government, then the ownership of this piece of land belongs to the corresponding people.

This is also the most basic and bottom-level system for the operation of feudal society and early capitalist society-private ownership of means of production.

There were undoubtedly many benefits in doing so in that era, such as mediating market pressure through the flow of production materials, and encouraging people to reclaim land and so on.

But it has to be admitted that while private ownership of the means of production increases productivity, it also triggers a series of social crises.

The most serious, and at the same time the most well-known, is naturally the "land annexation" that successively destroyed the two world-class powerful empires of Rome and the Han Dynasty.

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Land annexation.

Heh, that doesn't sound like a good thing.

The "big landlords", the predecessors of the capitalist class, such as aristocratic families and wealthy families, used various means to continuously concentrate the means of production in the hands of ordinary people into their own hands.

Until the end, the common people were deprived of food and were forced to raise an anti-banner to overthrow the government. In the process of overthrowing the government, the rights of the aristocratic family were re-divided to realize the return of part of the means of production, that is, the land.

If Zhang Yan did not appear, or if Zhang Yan did not take any action, such a thing should have been the end of the big man.

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Closer to home, to solve the evil consequences of land annexation has been something that Zhang Yan has been thinking about since he came to this era.

Or in other words, as long as he is somewhat self-motivated, land mergers will be a hurdle that Zhang Yan cannot avoid in the future development process.

If you want to solve the 400-year-old problem of the Han Dynasty, you must stop... at least slow down the process of land annexation.

Whether it is to "strike local tyrants" and "divide the land" like the Yellow Turban Uprising and the Huangchao Uprising, or to publicize the means of production like the scientific society of later generations...

From the point of view, these two ideas are actually to solve the problems caused by land mergers.

The difference is just an indicator, another root cause.

As a Chinese, especially a Chinese who was born and raised in the new century, Zhang Yan still prefers the latter in his heart.

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In terms of love, he has an old relationship with the family, and an overly cruel and bloody massacre is not what he wants to see.

Yu Li, simply attacking the local tyrants and dividing the land, the result is that everything will return to 400 years ago, and the progress of land annexation will return to zero, but it will still reappear.

After the next 400 years, land annexation has reached its peak again. Is it time to kill another batch?

Honestly, it's kind of silly.

It even seemed that Zhang Yan was a little incompetent.

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The reason why Zhang Yanming distributed the previously developed land to the people in this way today is to motivate these soldiers on the surface, but in fact, in the final analysis, he wants to use this opportunity to show the system of public ownership first. To Lujiang, to show to the people of the Han Dynasty.

Let them know that this land is not limited to self-cultivation and tenants, and it can also be contracted to them as it is now.

For the 40 mu of land reclaimed before, Zhang Yan wrote clearly on the land deed that these people only have the right to use it for a hundred years, but not ownership.

In other words, the ownership of these fields is still firmly in the hands of the government.

That being the case, no matter what happens in the next hundred years, the common people are not eligible to mortgage or sell the ownership of the land to the aristocratic family, which fundamentally eliminates the basic condition for the existence of land mergers-the means of production can be bought and sold freely.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Yan does not need to criticize those landlords vigorously at all. As long as he buys a part of the listed land ownership back to Lujiang through capital means in the annual market, he can slowly and gently transform the complete private ownership of the land into Common ownership and private ownership go hand in hand, and the system of ownership of means of production is completely corrected when the proportion of private land is extremely low in the end.

Perhaps compared with the short, flat and fast method of beating local tyrants, this method is slow to take effect, and will encounter various difficulties and obstacles in the process of implementation... But at least it can be achieved, isn't it?

Through the means of capital trade, the means of production in the market are re-centralized-this is the method used by the big bourgeoisie in capitalist society to bully feudal landlords.

Simple and incredibly useful.

And something like a system... itself needs to be adapted to local conditions, and it is impossible to apply it mechanically.

In Zhang Yan's view, this is a socialist road that conforms to the social status quo of the Han Empire.

In other words, it is an excess in the process of running towards socialism.

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Walking slowly among the crowd, looking at the soldiers of the first soldier Masi, Zhang Yan could clearly feel their joy.

And the soldiers of the remaining two soldiers and horses were not too depressed:

What Zhang Yan said is very clear, as long as he has two years of service and military exploits, he can get the land, and only needs to serve for ten years, and the term of this land will be extended to a hundred years.

In other words, the "reward" received by the first soldier and horse this time is not unique.

As long as they have the opportunity to fight and win in the future, they may also get a piece of land of their own from the Lujiang government.

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However, everyone did not expect that such an opportunity would come so quickly...

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Just when Zhang Yan was still in the "fantasy time" of how to eliminate class oppression, a slight commotion came from the crowd of citizens watching.

Immediately afterwards, a thin and wizened figure with somewhat ragged, even dirty clothes suddenly emerged from the crowd.

And as soon as he got out of the crowd, he immediately rushed towards Zhang Yan.

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"Protect... protect the lord!"

"There are assassins!"

After seeing a person rushing in the direction of Zhang Yan, Lu Su was the first one among the people present to react.

He strode towards Zhang Yan, and at the same time pushed Zhang Yan behind his body without thinking, and blocked Zhang Yan firmly with his 1.9-meter-high body.

In such a public place, a person suddenly emerges from the chaotic crowd and rushes towards his own eunuch... To be honest, as long as he is an individual, he will subconsciously think that the other party is probably an assassin, or he is here to cause trouble for Zhang Yan.

This kind of situation is not uncommon in the officialdom of the big man.

It's not just Zhang Yan, but those prefects and county magistrates sent by big men to remote areas such as Jiaozhou and Yangzhou, who are not assassinated and stabbed to death every year, seem to have something wrong.

But at the moment when the army formation surged and surrounded the figure in unison, Zhang Yan seemed to recognize something, jumped out from behind Lu Su, and stopped the soldiers present at the same time.

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"and many more!"

"Leave people under the knife!"

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Just a few seconds later, before Pei Yuanshao's sword fell on the opponent, Zhang Yan's voice finally came, which also made the soldiers present stop their movements.

But they still surrounded the figure in the center nervously one by one.

But at this time, the figure seemed to be frightened, standing there tremblingly——

Everyone raised their eyes, only to realize that this figure was an assassin, but a skinny and pitiful girl of eleven or twelve years old.

The girl didn't say anything, just stood trembling in the middle of the crowd, her eyes fixed on Zhang Yan's direction.

Afterwards, as if she recognized the other party, the girl fell to her knees with a plop, and two lines of tears burst out instantly.

Chapter 6 Surprise

"Uncle... Uncle help!"

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As soon as the little girl opened her mouth, not only everyone present was stunned, but even Zhang Yan was also stunned.

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uncle?

She calls me uncle?

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In the memory of living in the big man for more than two years and almost three years, Zhang Yan has never found such a girl who can be related to him.

Logically speaking, as the adopted son of Zhongchang, it is impossible for me to have such a niece...

I just don't know why, after seeing the girl, Zhang Yan subconsciously felt a little familiar.

It's like seeing each other somewhere.

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"You...call me uncle?"

"Who are you, we met before?"

Without even thinking about it, Zhang Yan asked subconsciously.

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"I'm living my life, and I hope my uncle will be kind. For the sake of my husband's family and uncle's relationship, send troops to rescue my husband!"

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