It is true that the city had lamented Qi Hou's youth early on, but when Yan Rou saw Cai Ji himself, he was still stunned by his too young appearance. But this loss of consciousness is only fleeting, Yan Rou knows that she must not be deceived by the other party's seemingly weak appearance, otherwise Yuan Benchu will be his end. With a cautious attitude, Yan Rou stepped forward and saluted Cai Ji respectfully, "Captain Wuhuan Yan Rou will see the Marquis of Qi. Rou ruled Wuhuan more than 10,000 falls, willing to serve the Marquis of Qi as the main, and move to China. ＂

"Captain Yan doesn't have to be polite. Cai Ji raised his right hand to help Yan Judao, "Today, I can get the help of the school captain, and I am as lonely as a tiger." ＂

Yan Rou couldn't help but feel a little fluttering when she saw Cai Ji treating her so politely. Don't look at Yan Rou's appearance as a middle-aged man in his forties, but in fact, he is only thirty-six or seventeen years old, so it can only be said that the strong wind outside the plug is really urging people to grow old. However, before Yan Rou could get up and thank him, he heard Cai Ji's question floating in his ears again, "I don't know if your ministry has a picture book?" so that the government can be compiled in the same household. ＂

Cai Ji asked lightly, but Yan Rou's eyelids jumped when she heard it, thinking that the woman in front of her was really not simple. It should be noted that the "same arrangement in the household" means that the surrendered Wuhuan people will give up the tribal system under the rule of adults, and instead enter the household registration and accept the jurisdiction of the government like the Han people. Although Yan Rou is Han in blood, she has lived outside the Saiwai for decades, and after all, she has been contaminated with a lot of Hu habits. suddenly asked him to give up the people under his account, and he was really reluctant for a while. So Yan Rou immediately cautiously smiled at Cai Ji and said, "Qi Hou Mingjian, Senehu has always followed the customs of his own clan and is not compiled with the Han people. ”

Facing Yan Rou who was playing haha, Cai Ji didn't pull down his face. In fact, she doesn't plan to make a large number of attached hutongs into her household. It must be known that many barbarians outside the Saiwai are still in a primitive tribal society, and even the Xiongnu and Wuhuan tribes who have entered the slave society are also living in a crowded and loosely organized manner. It is difficult to adapt to the institutionalized household registration management model in the Central Plains. In addition, the nomadic tribes outside the Sai were not as productive as the Han people who farmed in the Sai Nei, and they could not afford the heavy and complicated taxes of the Central Plains Dynasty. Rashly co-opting the barbarians will only outweigh the losses.

In fact, the rulers at the end of the Three Kingdoms in history did not fail to notice these differences, and the Western Jin Dynasty once promulgated a tax law stipulating: "Those who are far away from the field lose righteous rice, the household is three, the far one is five buckets, and the farthest one loses money, and the person is twenty-eight Wen." Compared with the tax quota of the Han people in the mainland, who "collected three horses of silk, three catties of cotton and rented four hundreds", the burden of the Hu people under the rule of the Western Jin Dynasty was undoubtedly much lighter. But even so, the barbarians who belonged to them still felt that the Han court had deceived them, and they could not afford such a heavy tax. The rulers of the Western Jin Dynasty felt that the imperial court had treated the Hu people very favorably. These barbarians have repeatedly made trouble, which is really "bearable, but unbearable"! In addition, the missettlement of ethnic groups will inevitably lead to economic and customary disputes; the plundering and enslavement of ethnic minorities by princes and nobles; The extrajudicial extortion of internal migrants by local administration, and many other factors, all caused the ethnic contradictions in the Wei and Jin dynasties to intensify and rise. Until the outbreak of the Five Chaos China.

Therefore, in Cai Ji's view, although there are external causes of the global climate, it is also the bitter fruit of the great joy of the rulers of the late Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin dynasties. According to the Chinese tradition. The arrival of foreign races from afar is a symbol of the king's rule to "turn the world into harmony". So from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms. Successive princes have devoted themselves to recruiting barbarians to annex. At the end of Wei Cao, the ruler Sima Zhaojin was named the Duke of Jin, and one of his self-proclaimed exploits was the attachment of Siyi Huaide. It is said that during the reign of the Sima clan, a total of 8.7 million Hu people were absorbed into the Central Plains, and the population of the whole country after the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty was only 16.16 million.

With the productivity of the late Han Dynasty, it was simply impossible to assimilate such a large number of barbarians in a short period of time, but the Sima family released twice the total population of the barbarians to immigrate to the Central Plains in one go. With such a large-scale immigration plan, I am afraid that even a superpower in 1,800 years will have to bow down when it sees it. Therefore, as a later person, Cai Ji saw the two numbers. Instead of being proud of "making the world", I felt a shudder from the bottom of my heart.

Fortunately, now that the Sima clan is not in power, Cai Ji still has enough time to correct the deformed internal relocation policy of the late Han Dynasty. So in the face of Yan Rou's shirk, Cai Ji just smiled slightly and said frankly. "Don't hide it from the school captain, Lone has ordered the monopoly of salt and iron in all counties of Youzhou, if your ministry is not assigned to the household, the government may be difficult to manage the people. However, your ministry can also stay outside the Saiwai, and the orphan club will set up a market with your department. ”

The first step in Caiji's correction was to replace the simple and crude taxation with the mutual market. Unlike Sima Zhao, who was very happy, most of the princes in the late Han Dynasty recruited barbarians to join mainly to increase taxes. In the eyes of many princes, even if it is worth 28 Wen from the natives every year, it is better than nothing. Ma Teng of Liangzhou directly sent troops to plunder the tribesmen of weak tribes and sell them to the Central Plains as slaves. However, Cai Ji, who is familiar with history, knows that there is a way that does not need to move the barbarians from within, and can also draw taxes from the barbarians outside the Saiwai, that is, the mutual market.

As the name suggests, "mutual market" refers to the trade between the Central Plains Dynasty and the surrounding ethnic groups in history. As early as the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty set up a customs market at the border pass to trade with the Wuhuan, Xianbei, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups. By the Tang and Song dynasties, the mutual market had changed from a simple foreign trade to a financial measure implemented by the Central Plains Dynasty when the nomads were not yet in a position to collect taxes, the most famous example being the "Tea and Horse Market" in the southwestern border.

Of course, compared with directly recruiting barbarians to attach to the poll tax, the initial investment in the mutual market is large, and the effect is slow. However, Cai Ji neither has the vanity of "making the world", nor does he care about the head tax of the barbarians, and he is more willing to invest. Because what she pursues is the control of zhì, the control of the lifeblood of the grassland.

Sure enough, hearing that Cai Ji was going to implement a salt and iron monopoly in Youzhou, Yan Rou's expression suddenly changed. Regardless of ironware, a salt monopoly alone has caught the sore feet of all parts of the outside of the plug. What's more, in recent years, the climate outside the Seychelles has been cold for a year, and the grasslands have been dry for a year, and many tribes are thinking about whether to make trouble at the border pass, so as to attract the government to recruit peace. However, although there was no smooth talk of "being an official, killing people and setting fires to be recruited" in these years, all the departments outside the Seychelles were well versed in this. However, Yan Rou could see that the female prince in front of her and her retainers were all characters who ate soft rather than hard, and the tribes who dared to invade the border pass would not only not be recruited, but they were afraid that they would not even be able to eat next year's wheat rice. However, if you can use the mutual market to sell materials to various ministries outside the country, it will also be a way to make a fortune.

So Yan Rou lowered her posture again and bowed to Cai Ji and asked, "Thank you Qi Hou for your kindness, I don't know if the supply of salt and iron to Bao Saihu is different from that of Senehu?" ＂

"Of course there will be a difference between the inside and the outside. Salt and iron, grain and grass, and cloth and silk are all supplied first inside and then outside. Cai Ji deliberately lengthened his voice. Seeing a trace of anxiety flashing in Yan Rou's eyes, she changed her words and said, "Captain Yan is a Miao descendant of the Han family, not a barbarian. If the lieutenant is interested in going out of the way, Gu will also fully support your department. ＂

With Cai Ji's promise, Yan Rou still hesitated, and immediately clasped his fists and said loudly, "Rou is willing to plug the border for Qi Hou." ＂

Cai Ji listened to what Yan Rou said, and a knowing smile appeared on his face. That's right, Cai Ji didn't plan to let Yan Rou lead his troops to move inward from the beginning. In her opinion, the proportion of the Senehu population in Youzhou is high enough. It's best to move out a batch. Of course, Cai Ji is just thinking about it, and forcibly expelling the internal relocation departments from Senei will inevitably lead to large-scale riots, which is really worth the loss. What Cai Ji can do now is to stop the loss, that is, to stop the large-scale internal migration of different races, and at the same time encourage the Han people in Youzhou to have children in policy. However, this does not mean that Cai Ji is not optimistic about Yan Rou. Otherwise, she would not have promised to support Yan Roubu in public. In fact, Cai Ji wanted to build Yan Roubu into a benchmark. A benchmark for the toast system.

It is said that the Tusi system was born from the "fetters system" of the Han and Tang dynasties. It was a form of compromise in which the central and local ruling classes of various nationalities in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties united and struggled with each other. Under the rule of Tusi, the land and people were hereditary owned by Tusi, and Tusi formed their own spheres of influence, resulting in a state of division and separation, so as to facilitate the balance and control of the Central Plains Dynasty. At the same time, the Tusi system also transferred the originally acute contradictions between the government and the people from the government to the Tusi.

However, for the Central Plains Dynasty, the "Tusi system" was only a transition. Its real goal is to "change the land and return it to the stream", that is, to change the Tusi system of "local officials governing the local people" to a system of rogue officials appointed by the central government. Whenever some local officials have no heirs, no successors, or clans fight. and sent a rogue officer to take over; The local officials fought against each other, and after they were pacified, they sent the officials to take over; Some local officials committed crimes, or after the anti-dynasty was suppressed, they were dismissed for their crimes and replaced by liuguan", and some of them applied to the feudal dynasty to "change the land and return to the stream", the dynasty dismissed the hereditary local officials with the so-called intention of serving the people, and changed them to liuguan. In short, as soon as the Central Plains Dynasty has the opportunity, it will hurry up to change the land and return to the stream.

However, historically, the Tusi system and the return of land to the river were mainly implemented in the southwest region and Qinghai-Tibet. And it takes several generations of hard work to evolve from the toast system to the transformation of the land and return to the stream. The final effect will not be visible for at least Cai Ji's lifetime. However, she will not give up her attempt because of this, because it is impossible to solve the long-standing and complex national problems once and for all in one generation.

Some people may ask Cai Ji, a question that the traverser can see, and the tricks that come to mind, can't the heroes in the same space see it, can't they think of it? The answer, of course, is no, Cao Cao can see the problems that Cai Ji can see, and the solutions that Cai Ji can think of can also be thought of by the talents of this era. From the imperial examination system and the Juntian system that have already been implemented to the mutual market and the Tusi system that are being planned, each of the future systems proposed by Cai Ji can find a corresponding original version in this era. The biggest difference between the two is the accumulation of experience.

No matter how good an idea is, if it has not been tested in practice, it is just a piece of paper. In particular, institutional innovation involving politics and the economy involves a wide range of issues, and it often takes decades or even hundreds of years of exploration and practice from the germination of ideas to their final maturity. Just like the changes that have always been slandered, they may have failed from the standpoint of the dynasty at that time, but from another perspective of the overall situation of Chinese history, those changes that seem to have failed will often return in a more mature posture in the next dynasty.

Cai Ji took advantage of the traverser to replace the concept that was still being explored in this era with a mature system, so that Huaxia would not have to take detours, at least not have to pay the price of Wuhu Chaohua to achieve evolution. Of course, the system that Cai Ji borrowed from later generations is not perfect, and there are also such and such shortcomings. But if you don't try, you won't accumulate, Cai Ji stands on the shoulders of "descendants" today to achieve hegemony, and one day latecomers will also stand on her shoulders to start a new poem. Every pioneer stands on the long river of Chinese history and is a relay hand that inherits the past and the future. This is the evolutionary history of China's spiral climbing.

Therefore, at this moment, Cai Ji is determined to take the second step of correction, that is, relying on the mutual market and the Tusi system, to establish a set of similar fan-shaped fetters outside the Great Wall. The so-called restraint means to control it with military and political pressure, and "restraint" is to comfort it with economic and material interests. The fetters of the Eastern Han Dynasty were mainly based on political appeasement, that is, to the tribal leaders to promise high-ranking officials and generous lukes. And Cai Ji's fetters are mainly economic, that is, with Yan Roubu and others as the benchmark, encouraging the barbarians outside the Saiwai to take the initiative to sinicize. When the conditions are ripe, the soil will be changed and returned to the stream, and gradually encroached on the outside of the plug.

Yan Rou didn't know that he had been included in a massive national assimilation project by the woman in front of him. At this time, out of reciprocation, and also to show loyalty to the new master, I saw him hugging his fists and asking Cai Ji to fight, "The three thieves of Gao Gan, Yuan Tan, and Budugen are about to commit crimes, and I am willing to lead my troops to follow Qi Hou to conquer Xiaoxiao. ”

Cai Ji waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, don't worry." It's rare for Captain Yan to come to Daijun once, why don't you go with a lonely tour and plug in the scenery first? ”

Yan Rou saw that Cai Ji was moving north under the banner of respecting the king for a while, and invited him to play in the plug for a while, and couldn't help but be confused on the spot. At the same time, Cai Ji no longer paid attention to Yan Rou, and instead looked around at the generals present, and shouted loudly, "Zhao Zilong! ”

"The end will be." Zhao Yun stepped forward with an arrow step and hugged his fist.

Cai Ji's expression was pale, and he suddenly ordered, "Lonely you are the vanguard, send troops to Yanmen!" ”

"Whoa." Zhao Yun bowed down and took the first token issued by Qi Hou after he arrived in Youzhou.

Of course, the battle must be fought, not only to fight, but also to show the momentum of the Qi army and the courage of the Qi army. Therefore, Cai Ji decided to use only the Qi army under her command to conquer Gao Gan, Yuan Tan and others this time, and she wanted to let Yan Rou and the barbarians in the two states show the strength of the Qi army. The so-called prosperity and decline are in this battle. If you lose, all your previous assumptions will come to naught. won the battle, and from then on, her Cai Ji's words were the holy decree on the grassland! (To be continued......)