Chapter 177: The Art of Tuntian

"Needless to say, natural Ping'er is the most suitable," Cao Hong said with a smile.

These Cao clan relatives had previously boycotted Liu Ping, a traitor, but what happened later made them ashamed, and no one dared to criticize Liu Ping for welcoming the Son of Heaven at the beginning.

Everyone usually saw Liu Ping, and they all felt embarrassed, so they naturally wanted to sell it at this time.

"Ping'er is a general in the middle of the farmer, and he has written agricultural books, from any point of view, he is the most suitable person to lead the tuntian," Cao Hong said seriously.

Cao Cao nodded and said, "Suitable is suitable, but Ping'er has enough errands on him now, do you want to exhaust him to death?"

His main task now is to escort, as for Tuntian, don't let him participate.

Then, Cao Cao glanced at Liu Ping, who was sitting next to him, and half-jokingly said: "Ping'er is now a high-ranking official in Jiuqing, unless the Son of Heaven, who can mobilize him?" ”

Liu Ping smiled and said: "No matter what position I hold in the official position, I am the son-in-law of my father-in-law, but if I am sent, how dare my son-in-law disobey?"

However, Tuntian is not a trivial matter, and the son-in-law has indeed lacked skills recently, so the father-in-law should appoint others. ”

In fact, Cao Cao had communicated with him before, and his most important duty now was to control the Son of Heaven and the courtiers quietly, so that the Son of Heaven could be used by the Cao family, and he could not let the Son of Heaven share the power of the Cao family.

This point is much more important than Tuntian.

Besides, Liu Ping can't take all the limelight, and he still understands the truth that Mu Xiu will be destroyed by Lin Feng.

Since Cao Cao denied Liu Ping, everyone stopped talking, and everyone understood that Cao Cao probably already had a candidate in mind.

Sure enough, Cao Cao glanced at everyone and said in a deep voice: "The first person to tell me about Tuntian was Zaoyi, when he fought with the Golden Army, he was interested in the Yellow Turban thieves' method of fighting and cultivating, and asked in many ways, I am afraid that he will benefit a lot."

It seems to me that no one here is more proficient in farming than him, and I think he is the most suitable. ”

In fact, in history, it was Zao Yi and Han Hao who first advocated Tuntian to Cao Cao, but Han Hao in this life was led astray by Liu Ping, and he had already become a Yulin general, so only Zao Yi was left who proposed the Tuntian policy.

Zao Yi has followed Cao Cao Chen since he started his army, and he is also a trusted person.

As soon as everyone heard Cao Cao's proposal to let Zao Yi take the lead, no one raised any objections, it was indeed a suitable candidate.

"Thank you for the trust of the general, you dare not die!"

At this time, Zao Yi was in the lobby, and he hurriedly stood up and took his life with his fists.

Although he is also a native of Yingchuan, but Yingchuan celebrities are either strategic, or full of wealth, but he is different, but obsessed with farming.

In the past few years, he has studied a lot of the art of Tuntian, and he himself feels that he is the only one who leads Tuntian.

"Now there are more and more people pouring into Xudu, and there are a lot of barren places in eastern Henan, I don't know how you plan to Tuntian?" Cao Cao asked.

Zao Yi obviously had a fixed opinion, coughed lightly twice, and said loudly: "I plan to return all the cultivated land to the imperial court, and then select the young and strong displaced people according to the military establishment, every fifty people are a tun, and the Sima is placed to monitor the cultivation of the displaced people.

It is placed on the Diannong Captain, Diannong School Captain, and Diannong Zhonglang General, and these official positions are not affiliated with the county or county.

In the future, the harvest will be divided with the imperial court, and the officials will be six and the people will be four. ”

As soon as they heard the words "official six people four", everyone gasped.

Although they don't understand agricultural affairs, they also know that during the period of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jingdi, at that time, they were lightly taxed and achieved "thirty taxes and one", and later emperors achieved "fifteen taxes and one tax", which was already considered a harsh government.

Unexpectedly, this jujube is so ruthless that he wants to collect most of the harvest, so that Cao's food is too much, but the people are afraid that they will starve to death.

Hearing Zao Yi say this, Liu Ping couldn't help frowning, this is really ruthless.

However, he knew that this was exactly what the jujube in history did, and there was no lack of praise in the history books: Cao's tuntian played an important role in the resettlement of displaced people, the reclamation of wasteland, and the restoration of agricultural production, creating material conditions for the unification of the north.

Thinking that at this time, the world's displaced people have been displaced, and there are not a few who starve to death, and suddenly there is Cao's territory to cultivate, although the exploitation is so ruthless, but there is finally food to eat, so there are still many people who come.

In the later period of Cao Wei, the exploitation of Tuntian became increasingly serious, and even the distribution ratio reached the level of eight officials and two people, and the people of Tuntian really could not survive, which caused flight and rebellion.

However, Cao Cao is naturally not so kind, he can bring him military food at this time, no matter if the people are full of food or not, he doesn't want to be a saint.

"Okay, according to your words, from now on, all the affairs of Tuntian will be led by you," Cao Cao said firmly.

"Thank you for your trust," Zao only bowed down and swore an oath: "I dare not say that under my hands, each mu of cultivated land can produce three stones of corn, and the imperial court will collect two stones, and if there are 100,000 mu of cultivated land in a county, there will be a surplus of 200,000 stone grain." ”

Cao Cao was overjoyed when he heard this, one county can have a surplus of 200,000 stone grain, and there are more than 20 counties in the East Henan Plain plus Yanzhou, so isn't it to collect astronomical amounts of grain?

He stood up, walked up to Zaoyi, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "The matter of Tuntian is entrusted to you with carte blanche and requires manpower, and you can call it at will."

However, on that day, I promised the Son of Heaven that all cultivated land in Xu County would be regarded as home land, and all cultivated land except for Xu County could be arranged at will. ”

Cao Cao, the cultivated land of Xu County, had been promised to the Son of Heaven in order to support the royal family, and at that time, the Son of Heaven also named Liu Ping as his hometown.

Cao Cao turned back to Liu Ping and said: "Ping'er can play tomorrow's son in the future, if the home field is not cultivated, you can let the jujube only take care of it, and the royal family will only need to sit and collect the income in the future." ”

"Tomorrow's son-in-law will play tomorrow's son," Liu Ping hesitated: "However, the Son of Heaven once passed down an edict that he wanted to follow Emperor Xiaowen and choose a field to cultivate himself, so he must have already arranged it." ”

As soon as he heard that the jujube was so exploited, Liu Ping didn't want to hand over his homeland.

First of all, Zao only uses the military establishment to combine the displaced people to farm, which will inevitably hit everyone's initiative, and then it will become a big pot of rice, and the efficiency may not be very high.

Secondly, the jujube is only squeezed too hard, if you do that, it would be good if the young and strong homeless people who cultivated would not starve to death, how could they still have the ability to feed the family?

Compared with Zaoyi's practice, Liu Ping wanted to try, directly distribute the land to the displaced people according to households, and let them cultivate freely, and the court did not ask anything, and only agreed on a sharing ratio at that time.

As for the effect, Liu Ping is not sure, no matter how bad it is, it is just that the harvest of the Son of Heaven is less.

"Since that's the case, I won't just ask about the farm," Cao Cao didn't care, anyway, he had already handed it over to the Son of Heaven, and how to cultivate it was his business.

After the deliberations were over, Liu Ping returned to the mansion, but met Xiao Cheng, who was smiling and smiling, and Qin Luoshi, who bowed his head and was shy.

"Childe, you're back," Xiao Cheng said mysteriously, "Sister Luo Shi wants to give you a gift." ”