Chapter 36 Worse Matters
It's a tough choice! To tell the truth, Zhang Xiu knew that adopting a soft policy towards the family gate valve was actually more conducive to his own conquest of the world.
As mentioned earlier, the Three Kingdoms period was the golden age of the rise of the Maison's gate valves. Specifically, during this period, the influence of the family throughout the world was infiltrating all aspects of society, and this influence is increasing day by day!
The most practical impact is that the competition between the three kingdoms is essentially a battle for talents! And the vast majority of today's talents, especially Wenchen strategists, are from the big families!
But Zhang Xiu's move is tantamount to announcing to the whole world: I, Zhang Xiu, value the common people and ignore the world!
This will attract the resistance of the whole world to Zhang Xiu, and it will also lead to the disgust of people from all over the world to Zhang Xiu in the first impression.
This will directly lead to Zhang Xiu's future if he wants to conquer other places, the local clan will definitely resist together. And like when Zhang Xiu attacked Lujiang before, Liu Ye could be used as an internal response, which basically would not happen in the future.
Although there is a saying that whoever wins hearts and minds wins the world. But in the Three Kingdoms, what is the human heart? The heart of the family is the heart of the human heart in the true sense.
Because the influence of the family is too great. In China's thousands of years of history, in towns and villages below the county level, the control of the grassroots is often not the government yamen, but the local clans!
In feudal society, each place had its own feudal customs and habits. For example, in most parts of Sichuan in ancient times, widows or adulterers were locked up in pig pens or even immersed in the river. However, the local government turns a blind eye to this kind of disregard for human life, and never asks!
It's not that they can't manage it, it's that they can't! Because in ancient times, the urbanization rate was very low, and if a country had a population of 10 million, there were 9.5 million peasants who were mostly uneducated. Reasoning with this group of people who don't understand the law at all is tantamount to playing the harp to a cow.
At most, they only understand the simple and direct law that kills people with their lives, but if you dare to break the customs and habits of their ancestors who have been worshiped for generations, these people who regard their ancestors as gods will definitely have a red eye on you.
And that's just clan power! In addition, there are famous families from all over the world, and these are the big ones! Most of these families have produced prominent or influential figures, and they have been multiplied and developed from generation to generation. The large can affect the wind direction of a county, and the small can affect the local clan.
Take Zhang Xiu's subordinates to talk about things, Yan Xiang, Yang Hong, and Yuan Lian are all from the family, no matter how loyal they are to their lord, they have to consider the life and death of their own family.
If it is the life and death of their own family and the life and death of Zhang Xiu to make a choice, these Wenchen may also choose Zhang Xiu. But in fact, this crisis is not enough to shake Zhang Xiu's foundation, because even if more than a million hungry people die, the heritage of Huainan is still richer than that of Xuzhou. Therefore, these Wenchen still have to consider their own families.
Especially Zhang Xiu's confiscation of all the grain, it is simply going to touch the bottom line of the family! In this era, copper coins were actually worthless, and grain was actually hard currency.
You don't see the officials and the officials have been distributing grain since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period were recorded. For example, what 800 stone officials, 2,000 stone officials, even official positions are measured by grain, what can be stronger than grain?
Therefore, most of the wealth hoarded by the big families is grain, not copper coins.
Zhang Xiu's move is to directly ask for the lifeblood of the family, which family can agree?
Therefore, this time, Zhang Xiu's desire to implement a temporary comprehensive and thorough planned economy is by no means something that he can carry out by acting arbitrarily and arbitrarily. And there must be the support of the vast majority of civil servants and military generals, otherwise, Zhang Xiu, who was already lacking in cronies, would definitely not be able to suppress a mutiny.
If you want the support of your subordinates, you have to use a little means. That's why Zhang Xiu used a little psychological tactics accumulated in his previous life. In the face of absolute misery, I am not afraid that these people will not be touched at all. Even if he wasn't touched, he couldn't open his mouth to stop Zhang Xiu's first step plan.
Then it is necessary to launch a psychological offensive against ordinary soldiers according to the first step plan. Most of these people, especially the junior officers, came from poor families and peasant families, and they didn't need to say anything, just let them turn around a few times to win their support.
After the support of the army has increased, Zhang Xiu's determination has been revealed. Now these people such as Yang Hong have to weigh it carefully, Zhang Xiu will gather all the civil and military forces with a thunderous force at this time, and announce the planned economy to everyone!
At the same time, Chen talked about the interests and used certain special interests to win the support of a part of the family represented by these people. For example, when the planned economy was being fully implemented, although some families cooperated, they were completely beaten to death by people who turned out the old accounts of bullying men and women and forcibly occupying fertile land! However, some families later got the executed family's property and mansions!
Since it is impossible to get the support of all the big families, it is better to divide and win over some enlightened gentry and fight another part of the diehards. On the one hand, we can implement the planned economy, and at least we can avoid the economic crisis and chaos in Huainan where a stone of grain can be sold for 10,000 yuan; On the other hand, it is also a move to consolidate the foundation of Zhang Xiu and cut down those families who are disobedient and can't see the situation clearly.
After some means, Zhang Xiu's name completely resounded throughout Huainan. There are women and children who burst into tears to show their gratitude, or there are those who have been punished with different levels of crimes, such as being demoted to commoners, being sent to the army, and so on.
At the same time, Zhang Xiu's "heroic deeds" of "robbing the rich and helping the poor" in Huainan and the big families spread all over the world, and the more they spread, the more outrageous they became.
At first, it spread in the Central Plains, but it was not much different from the facts. It only spread to Jingzhou, Hebei, and Jiangdong, and it evolved into a version of "Zhang Xiu, who had a weak foundation, ruled Huainan, killed all the clans, and cultivated his cronies as new nobles". When he arrived in the land of Yongliang and Bashu, it was even more outrageous: "In order to ensure that he could have the capital to conquer the Central Plains, Zhang Xiu took the money and grain of all the families in Huainan for his own use, and even killed civilians to take their meat to feed the army."
In a word, Zhang Xiu's reputation in the world quickly turned unfavorable, even if there was a righteous act of Qin Wangshi to destroy the rebellion, the public opinion of the people turned to the unfavorable side.
This is also a good explanation that public opinion has long been controlled by the big families in various places at this time. However, the vast masses of the people, who were simple and simple in ancient times, only believed what the patriarch of their village said at this time. What are the so-called bright eyes, only those eyes that are extremely trusting and respectful to the patriarch of the clan.
Perhaps, only the hungry people in Huainan who have really benefited know how to be grateful to Zhang Xiu.
This is also to blame Zhang Xiu, he could have sat back and watched the past without raising a butcher's knife to the family. Because he had already reached the limit of what all the princes of this era could do: encouraging farming, cultivating fields, transporting grain, and even asking his neighbors Cao Cao, Jiangdong Sun Ce, and Jingzhou Liu Biao to borrow grain. But each family has its own abacus, and only gives back some symbolic grain. However, only Yuzhang Taishou Huayun, who was appointed by Liu Xuan, took the initiative to send half of the county's grain to Zhang Xiu.
Anyway, the hard *** is considered to have survived. Huainan is like the phenomenon of starvation in history, and finally disappears. This is also thanks to those big families, most of the grain and grass in the Yuan Shu warehouse that were detained and privately swallowed actually went into their pockets. Coupled with their decades and hundreds of years of accumulation, they can use their cash to buy grain around. Yan Xiang and others have calculated that these can just survive the increasingly severe drought in the second half of this year and support until next year's spring planting.
Of course, the premise is that Zhang Xiu will no longer use troops for more than half a year and consume additional grain and grass.
After all, in ancient times, if you used 100,000 troops to fight a war, you had to recruit at least 100,000 people to be responsible for escorting grain and grass, and the longer the road, the more people were used! And these temporary requisitions also have to eat, plus the loss of grain and grass on the way, at least five times the usual loss of grain and grass of these 100,000 people.
Hundreds of years ago, Sun Bin calculated that the food eaten by the soldiers on the expedition was only one-twentieth of the actual food used. Of course, with the progress of the times, the roads are no longer dirt roads like the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the current official roads of the imperial court are all stoned roadbeds or stone roads, which are very convenient for contemporary wooden wheels to drive.
cough cough, let's insert the Dahan news broadcast, in fact, Zhang Xiu is listening to the scout's spy report:
In May, Sun Ce, the tiger of Jiangdong, captured Wu County, and Yan Baihu defected to Wang Lang, the Taishou of Huiji, like a lost dog.
In August, after Cao Cao captured Pengcheng and Xiapi, he waved his army to attack Zang Ba, who had been attached to Lü Bu in the north. Zang Ba withdrew from Donghai County, which had not yet been hot, and returned to his old territory in Taishan County.
Cao Cao marched into Taishan County, and Zang Ba led his subordinates to hide in the precipitous terrain of Taishan, the old nest. Cao Cao saw that Mount Tai was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he could not take it in a short time, and the loss of the strong attack was too great, so he decided to retreat.
After Cao Cao retreated, Zang Ba reoccupied the county seat of Taishan. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao's plan was hit, and Cao's army suddenly returned to the division and surrounded the Zang Ba army in various counties. Zang Ba knew that he was invincible to Cao Cao, and in order to protect all his subordinates, he decided to surrender.
Cao Cao's bearing was revealed at this moment, and he immediately appointed Zang Ba as the commander-in-chief of Xuzhou and the northern border defense affairs of Yanzhou, defended Yuan Tan, the assassin of Qingzhou appointed by Yuan Shao of Qingzhou in the north, and continued to command his original subordinates.
After Cao Jun returned to the division, he still didn't even need to take a break, as the previous text said, and directly waved his army to attack Zhang Yang, who dared to sneak attack the Sili area behind his back. In fact, Zhang Yang can only be regarded as harassment at most, because his strength is too weak!
I heard that Cao Cao defeated Lü Bu and took Xuzhou. However, the old friend Lu Bu was successfully "taken away" by Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief and was about to cross the Yellow River back to Hanoi. It's just that it's easy to come and it's hard to go, and his subordinate Yang Chou heard that Cao Cao personally led the army to fight Zhang Yang, and he heard that if he didn't capture Hanoi, he wouldn't collect his troops. decisively rebelled and assassinated Zhang Yang, and he wanted to take refuge in Cao Cao.
Just halfway through, Yang Chou was robbed and killed by another Zhang Yang's general. Zheng Gu avenged Zhang Yang, and immediately left the Sili area and returned to Hanoi.
Cao Cao, who chased to Luoyang, could not withdraw to Xuchang in vain, and immediately decided to wave his army to attack Zhenggu. Although the soldiers under his command were exhausted after a long period of war, none of them dissuaded Cao Cao from resting temporarily. Even Guo Jia and others strongly persuaded Cao Cao to quickly cross the river to pursue.
Cao Cao immediately followed the plan and led his elite troops to cross the Yellow River. Relying on the exhaustion of Cao Cao's soldiers and horses, he led his army to meet Cao Cao at the Yellow River Beach. According to the art of war, he attacked it halfway, but unexpectedly, it was in Guo Jia's 'last battle' plan, and the front army of Cao's army was even more elite, all of them were one as ten, and the stubborn army was defeated!
It's just that fortunately, the soldiers of Cao Jun were indeed too tired, and they escaped the fate of being killed in history, and were able to save their lives and defect to Yuan Shao.
At this point, part of Hanoi County and Hedong County were officially placed under Cao Cao's rule, and the entire Sili area can be said to have fallen into Cao Cao's hands. Since then, Cao Cao has sat on the land of Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, and Sizhou, dominating the Central Plains! He also controls the Son of Heaven and the imperial court, the soldiers are full of food, the fierce generals are like rain, the strategists are like clouds, and the name moves Kyushu!
His personal prestige is growing, the name of seeking talent and talent is spread all over the world, there are countless heroes from all over the world, and the talents who live in seclusion all over the world are all admired!
In contrast, Zhang Xiu, who has recently suffered man-made disasters and natural disasters one after another, and is not the heart of the world's scholars.
Such a political opportunity will not be missed by every outstanding politician.
In November, Cao Cao suddenly issued several charges against Zhang Xiu in a proverbial text, officially declaring war on Zhang Xiu!
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