Bingzhou, Jinyang, this is the largest city in Bingzhou. But the city is not prosperous at all, some are dilapidated, declining, and relentlessly miserable. Perhaps only those compounds can see prosperity, but unfortunately, that kind of prosperity is a luxury.

Stone make-up became a walking coachman, and his wheelbarrow was the most broken. But it allowed him to see the world in its truest light.

There are more and more displaced people in Jinyang City, and the problem is that this is already the beginning of spring. This is the most important time for farming, but the number of displaced people in Jinyang City continues to increase, and this is only inside the city, and there are more outside the city. Stone didn't understand that these outcasts were created, and that there might be other intelligence agents who had sent such information. But this is definitely not a normal good phenomenon.

In fact, this comes from smuggling, as the scale of smuggling grows larger, the landlords have accelerated the speed of annexation, and the smuggling trade has brought them several times the profits of trade, and these profits have greatly stimulated their land nerves, and they have not invested these funds in some areas of production, such as looking for minerals, or opening factories, or expanding the scale of trade, they have not done this, on the contrary, they have invested more of their profits in the land, and they continue to annex the land. A lot of usury, in this way, many peasants went bankrupt.

The high degree of land annexation brought great trouble, and the peasants who lost their land could only come to Jinyang to beg for a living. Because they don't have much to survive at all.

Some of the displaced people joined the White Polish Army because there was food, and some would enter the Republican Army through smuggling channels, so they could find a way to live.

But more people entered Jinyang City. They spend their days in a state of confusion, they don't know what they want to do, they don't know what they want to do, and in short, their situation is so unfavorable. They didn't know what else to do, but a lot of things were better than they had expected.

Stone looked at the people who had fallen into the streets, some of whom were dead. The yamen would hire some homeless people to do such things, and they would collect all these people and transport them outside the city to be burned. Or bury it.

According to rumors. Some hungry people will dig up the bodies of these people, and what they will do for it, many people know. There is no way to do it, and the state lacks a lot of food, and food becomes an extremely valuable resource.

More resources were concentrated in the military field, because fighting a war required the consumption of more food, and not only that, but the landlords took the opportunity to raise the price of food. The high price of food is ruthlessly harvesting more people's lives, and food is a weapon to kill. Stone suddenly felt that the IRA was very lucky, and if there was no IRA, they would have become such people.

Numb, without any hope, the stone looked up at the sky, gray, and the color of the outcasts in the city.

In fact, the situation in the state is far worse than what the stone seems. He just didn't see the darkest side, because a large number of displaced people entered, all kinds of illegal acts began to gather, they mainly targeted these displaced people, these vulnerable groups, human trafficking became the most rampant effect, they knew that these populations were needed there. The traffickers are much more agile than ever, they have no idea why this is happening, and even, in more cases, they are controlling the lives of these displaced people.

The impact of land annexation is not only on displaced people, but also on fiscal and tax losses. Ding Yuan was having a headache about these things.

Fighting a war with the Republican Army was extremely expensive and food-consuming, and there was not much land to cultivate in the state, and after the land was annexed. A lot of land is in the hands of the landlords, and if they cannot get the support of the landlords, any military action will fail. Moreover, the fiscal and tax revenues have been reduced to the point where they can no longer meet military needs at all.

The landlords have a lot of resources, they have a great background, and no one who is not open-minded will offend them. They don't have to pay taxes and taxes, on the contrary, they get more benefits, for example, the more land they annex, the less taxes they have. They are eating up the fields where they pay taxes, and the local government of the state, they are losing more and more of their land and tax sources, which puts them in a situation of complete disadvantage, which is extremely unfair to all people.

Landlords have more and more resources at their disposal, but they don't pay taxes. More and more peasants are losing their land and having to pay heavy taxes. The squeezing on both sides has suddenly crushed the economic foundation of the state, and the state has entered a state of chaos.

Ding Yuan needed more military spending, food, and money, but these taxes could not be met, only the landlord Haoqiang could meet their needs, but the landlord Haoqiang did not lend money to Ding Yuan in vain, they lent it to Ding Yuan with usury.

Faced with the aggressive Republican Army posture, Ding Yuan could only accept such a situation.

This is a terrible situation. The merging state armies, which have lost their financial and tax economic resources, have already lost their head start in the economic war, and it is unlikely that they will be able to win a large-scale victory. Because they simply can't do that.

Land annexation is becoming more and more serious, and the economic collapse is becoming more and more severe. It is really difficult to continue the war under such circumstances to a favorable point.

Luoyang, Beijing. Cao Cao was also thinking about these questions.

He saw the biggest predicament of the imperial army at present from the "Xindao Daily".

"The biggest problem for the court is not the threat of the Republican Army, which still exists even without the threat of the Republican Army. Land annexation. The victory of the Republican Army was not accidental, as Shang Wu said in the newspapers. Land annexation has become an acute issue. A large amount of land resources are concentrated in the hands of a few. In such a situation, more people can not meet their basic survival needs, the Yellow Turban rebellion, and all kinds of rebellions, why, is that most of the land resources are concentrated in the hands of a few people, we can see what a few people do, they have a lot of land, and their lives are becoming more and more luxurious. But there are more people, and there is not a single piece of land. The peasants went bankrupt, and where did the taxes come from? These are the biggest problems, and these biggest problems are causing us a lot of trouble. If this were not the case, we would not have been able to achieve such an outcome. Cao Cao said to Xi Zhicai. Cao Cao realized the problem.

As the IRA said, their military victory was not accidental, but inevitable, because they had the support of more people, and they had a way to live. Although some warlords can achieve some short-term military victories, in the long run, they are detached from the support of the general population and naturally cannot achieve long-term victories. This is a comment written by Shang Wu on the incident of the partial defeat of the Republican Army in the annexation of the state. This article was treasured by Cao Cao because it was very well written.

A military victory is a political victory. And the political victory, in fact, is the economic victory. And economic victories come from many. For example, land policy, economic and industrial development, employment issues, and monetary issues. Shang Wu has explained it in detail. The IRA did a very good job.

At present, the situation of the imperial court is very unfavorable, the land annexation is very serious, and the land policy has not been changed, the imperial court is concerned about the change of the imperial throne, and the officials are concerned about their own selfish interests. They simply can't change anything else, and in such a situation, they will lose more and more. Cao Cao was very worried about this, very anxious, he hoped that the imperial court could carry out reforms in a timely manner, and even, he also submitted some views to the general, and he talked about reforms more than once.

But the general didn't care about this at all, and he thought that none of these things had anything to do with him. This made Cao Cao very worried, and even, he himself felt that it was difficult to believe such a thing.

"This kind of thing is not easy to do." Xi Zhicai said.

The content of the Republican Army newspaper was very impactful. It's a pity that it is difficult for the current imperial court to change such a situation, for the simple reason that they simply can't take care of these things. Land annexation, land more and more concentrated in the hands of the big landlords, the social resources they grasp will become larger and larger. The capacity is also getting bigger. But such a situation does not take into account the other situations at all.

For example, they don't have any awareness of the social responsibility they should have, because they don't want to do it at all, and for them, they just need to take care of their own interests. As for the rest, it's not something they can take care of.

In this way, the vital interests of a large number of people have been neglected. This was one of the reasons for the constant occurrence of the uprising, because the landlords could not take care of it, and naturally allowed it to develop, and this situation could not be changed. Because no one cares about that.

"Hmm." Cao Cao nodded. He also knew that such a situation was unfavorable, but helplessly, the situation was like this, and in many cases, they themselves could not change it, let alone change the imperial court. This is a helpless, extremely helpless move.

It's just that how long such a desperate approach can last, or how long such a situation will be maintained, is something they can't think of.

Cao Cao's strength is still very weak, he can't reach a certain height yet, without a height, everything is in vain.