Chapter 2, Wind and Rain?
(Cat flutter Chinese) Pei Cai planned to go to Chang'an and resigned
The appointment of "General Long Xiang, Xuzhou Thorn History, Du Duqing, and Xu Erzhou Soldiers and Horses" is really not intended to do anything
The officialdom of "three resignations and three concessions" is purely because he must say hello to Jian Ye first. Watermark Advertising Test Watermark Advertising Test - Oh, by the way, the small court of Chang'an has issued an edict to rename Yecheng to Linzhang and Jianye to Jiankang from this year on.
Now that Pei Gai has not really gained a firm foothold in Xuzhou, Wang Dao and they may stab him in the back at any time, making him unable to take care of himself.
Although it is much more difficult to cross the river than to cross the Huai, the Jiankang separatist regime has hundreds of warships in its hands, such as Mengchong, fighting ships and even three-story ships.
Not to mention the armies controlled by the Langya Wang clan, even if the private soldiers of several big families in Jiangdong pull out casually, it is enough for Pei to drink a pot, and the grain route is smooth, it is impossible to be like Zhiqu Liu, and he will be withdrawn in a hurry after staying for two days.
If you really annoy Sima Rui or the Wang brothers, Pei Gai's small Huainan base will be trampled to the ground in an instant.
So although he knew very well that Sima Rui had accepted the appointment of the left prime minister of the small court of Chang'an, and nominally served Emperor Chu of Jin as the king, and he would wait for the fall of Chang'an and the surrender of Emperor Chu before he would create a regime in the Eastern Jin Dynasty with the support of Wang Dao and others, but he had to pretend not to know, and first write a letter with respectful words and send it to Jiankang, asking Sima Rui: Do you plan to serve Guanzhong as orthodox?
At the same time, please instruct: Where do I accept the appointment from Chang'an? Sima Rui estimated that it was indispensable, and he might even want to support Pei Gai, protect the Yangtze River with the Huai River, and restrain the Wang family with Pei's family.
The problem is that the Wang brothers are in trouble, even if Sima Rui becomes the emperor in the future, he is just hanging the arch, even if he can not bird Sima Rui, after all, his foothold is not stable, and he must still look at the faces of the Wang brothers for the time being.
However, fortunately, the Wang brothers are not completely of one mind, Pei Gai has specially prepared a large number of salt, iron, and Huaishan and other specialties, and transported them to Jiangzhou to sell them at a low price, which can be regarded as a secret tribute to Wang Dun.
The two sides exchanged letters, and Wang Chuzhong's words seemed to be quite polite. Wang Dun is brutal and arrogant, but he is not a tiger, in Pei Gai's opinion, he is just a fat cat.
When you are weak and weak, you must brush your hair along the way, lest it stretch out its claws to scratch you; When the power grows, you can directly give it a kick and let it stay away honestly.
At present, it is still in the stage of brushing hair. While writing a letter to Jiankang for instructions, Pei Gai also wrote a resignation form, but Pei Tong refused to help him bring him back to Chang'an.
Pei Gai didn't have a good impression of this cousin at first, but after talking, he felt that although this little brother seemed to be a little frivolous, his vision was not very bad, and he might be able to pull him over as a helper.
In these years, the people of Yue Yue were generally indifferent to the national consciousness and had a strong sense of family, so it is true that Pei Gai's soul came from two thousand years later, for
"Clan power" is completely scoffed, but it has to be admitted that using blood or in-laws as a bond is a method that is relatively easy for monarchs and ministers to marry.
As long as Pei Tong has no advanced consciousness and his thinking is not different, he is very likely to be dragged into his own small broken boat.
Before crossing to the north, Pei Gai had persuaded Pei Si and Pei Chang father and son, but unfortunately those two goods were gutless rats, and they would rather nest in the south to be landowners than go north with them.
In comparison, Pei Tong may not be more ambitious than those two, the problem is that his starting point is too low, he is not only a concubine, but also a hostage in Chang'an, I can also see that the small court of Chang'an is difficult to last long, so even if it is for the sake of his life, it will be more stable to come to Xuzhou.
It's just that Pei should make a suggestion to solicit, but Pei Tong politely declined. But it seems that Pei Xingzhi's attitude is not very resolute, and he says no, but his body is honest, and he refuses to return to Chang'an easily, and it seems that he plans to have a few days of idle dinner with his cousin.
Pei should have written the resignation form and asked him to take it back to Guanzhong, Pei Tong waved his hand and said: "The Son of Heaven relies on his brother very strongly, even if he is on the resignation form, he will still issue an edict." A thousand miles away, why should my brother return it uselessly? It's better to wait for the elder brother to change his mind and gladly accept the order. It seems that Pei Gai will finally agree.
Then Pei Tong took two entourages and wandered around in and out of Huaiyin City. Pei is a politician, and he doesn't have time to deal with him anymore.
ββββββββββ Pei Cai's plan to completely control a county in Huaiyin was considered to have completed the first step, and after more than half a month, either forced to surrender or attack, the eleven dock forts had all been taken and destroyed one by one.
He sacrificed
The "public trial conference", a sharp weapon of later generations, tied up the owner of the dock fort and his henchmen to the common people, and induced the people to complain about their grievances - what landowner is completely clean?
And in the troubled times, the authority of the government is lost, the law is like a void, and who of the dock castle owners has not had innocent blood on their hands?
As long as it is amplified in a planned and strategic way, everyone is naturally a shameless villain who will not be able to redeem his or her own death.
Immediately, taking advantage of the surging emotions of the crowd, he successfully beheaded all those guys and showed them to the public, and sent their families to Handong Tunken - this is a threat.
Pei Gai did not restore the old land deeds, but re-checked the household registration and distributed the fields to the people free of charge: 80 acres for Ding men, 60 acres for Ding women, 20 acres for the old and weak, and promised to borrow farm tools and seeds from the government free of charge in the future.
The number of fields divided is not very large, but for the vast majority of farmers in these years, it is already a blessing from the sky.
Since the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, the number of household registrations in various places has dropped sharply, and even the short-term unification of the Western Jin Dynasty has not been restored, and then it has been ushered in
"Rebellion of the Eight Kings" and
"The Change of Yongjia". Although the soldiers suffered by Huaiyin County are not very serious, there are still few people, and it is completely enough for Pei to divide the fields to households and even people.
This is not his originality, generally after the chaos, the beginning of the dynasty, the government will often implement a similar policy, with vigorous support for yeoman farmers to protect the state tax revenue, because only when even the Central Plains are vast and sparsely populated, this hand can be played.
Not only that, Pei Gai also directly collected the remaining large amount of land into official ownership, and planned to go to the bank of the Yangtze River to collect another group of displaced people when the time was ripe, and pull them all over to reclaim.
These political affairs are very simple to say, but they are complicated and extremely cumbersome to do, and Guang Bian Yan, Zhou Zhu and others are definitely not enough, and Pei Wenyue was forced to roll up his sleeves and go into battle in person.
In addition, since Zu Ti has left, Pei Gai must also shoulder the heavy responsibility of military affairs. Previously, Qu Qu came to attack, Jiang Jigang was defeated, and 300 people were lost, but fortunately, he could do it
Among the people of the "liberated" Wubao, as well as the displaced people who fled south, they were re-recruited, and the number of four battalions was quickly replenished.
Ding Zhuang of the eleven dock forts, if all of them were recruited as soldiers, the number would be no less than 5,000, Zhen Sui once excitedly suggested to Pei Gai, saying that we should expand the army, but Pei Gai categorically vetoed it.
One has not yet reached the autumn harvest period, this year depends on the sky to eat, how much grain can be harvested in the end, no one can say, in case there are too many soldiers, resulting in a shortage of grain, once something happens, how can you fight hungry?
Although the looting of the floating wealth of the dock forts actually amounted to 150,000 yuan, which was five times the tax revenue of the previous year, it was only a year's ration for more than 10,000 people.
Previously, in order to appease the people of Wubao and ensure that they could live safely until the autumn harvest, Pei Gai was forced to scatter 50,000 grains, and he had to raise more than 4,000 soldiers for the rest of the grain - including the 2,000 people of Zu Ti, Zu Shizhi had only just entered Yuzhou, and he had not yet gained a firm foothold, and the grain still needed to be supplied by Huaiyin - it may not be very rich.
If this autumn's disaster leads to a poor harvest or even a bad harvest, it will inevitably be stretched thin again. Moreover, Pei Gai also planned to take advantage of the victory to advance southward and completely control several counties in the south.
The first is Sheyang, as the guarantee of Handong's reclamation land, he is not at ease if he doesn't pinch it in his hands; The second is salt desecration, which has the benefit of fishing salt.
As for Gaoyou, Guangling and other counties in the south, they are too close to Jiangfang, and if they stretch out their hands rashly, I am afraid that they will conflict with the Jiankang regime, so it is better for them to be autonomous for the time being.
Therefore, Pei Gai finally decided that it was better to release those Wubao peasants and soldiers to the fields for the time being. As long as you save enough food, are you afraid that you won't be able to recruit soldiers in the future?
Struggling on the line of death, the guy who is willing to kill for you if he stutters, is everywhere in the world.
Second, the people who can fight the most in each dock fort are often treated favorably by the lord of the dock fort, killing his master and reusing his pawns, the danger factor is not small, once the army is confused, it will be difficult to clean up - I am afraid that before I can clean up, there will be a mutiny.
And even if he didn't recruit them as soldiers, Pei Gai still didn't worry about leaving them in the county, so he simply gathered them all, touched about seven or eight hundred people, and ordered Gao Le to lead the troops to escort them and rush to the western front to hand them over to Zu Ti.
When people leave their homeland, everything is difficult, and their families are under Pei Gai's control, so it is even more difficult to make up their minds if they want to make a difference.
Besides, the hero of Zu Shizhi I, can't he clean up these guys? Therefore, Pei Gai kicked the ball to Zu Ti, I believe that Zu Ti will not only not be annoyed, but will put the ball next - I happen to be short of soldiers.
Although he was busy at work, Pei Gai was almost forced to change his habit of going to bed late and getting up late, sleeping in the middle of the night, and waking up naturally at sunrise, full of thoughts about how much work he still had to do today...... Even people are almost tired and thin.
But his mood was much lighter than before, for according to the report from spies from the north to Qingzhou, Shile had crossed the Yellow River and headed straight for Yecheng, oh, now Linzhang.
As soon as Shi Le left, there was no strong enemy around Pei Gai. The Jiankang regime in the south has not torn its skin for the time being, and will not send troops to attack; As for Cao Wei in Qingzhou, what is there to be afraid of?
As long as the general trend of the world does not change much from his impression - he can still afford changes such as the advance of Zu's Northern Expedition, the postponement of Shile's foundation, and the capture of Xi Daohui - then he has at least two to three years of safe time, and he can farm with Huainan frankly.
Once nearly one million grains are accumulated, when the time comes, you will inevitably look at the scenery, and tens of thousands of troops can be exploded in the blink of an eye.
Even if it is only three or five months of hasty training, these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are enough to run amok. At least they don't have to look at the faces of the Wang brothers, and maybe on the other hand, they have to rush over to slap themselves in order to prevent themselves from crossing the south.
ββββββββββ blink of an eye, a few months passed in a hurry, Pei Gai finally received Jiankang's reply, Sima Rui in the letter - the draft should not be prepared by Wang Dao, or Yu Liang - kind words comforting, saying that Pei Wen asked you to accept the edict of the Son of Heaven and protect Huaishang for the Son of Heaven.
Of course, there is another meaning vaguely revealed between the lines, that is, now the king of Langya is worshiped as the prime minister of Zuo, and the military governor of eastern Shaanxi is the governor of the capital, so the text asks you, the governor of Qingxu, to be controlled by the king of Langya, and be careful not to get too close to the court.
If something really goes wrong, Jiangdong will definitely send a division to save you, and Chang'an is 108,000 miles away, what can help you?
Pei Gai informed Pei Tong and asked Pei Tong to read the decree again, and he officially took over the edict. Since then, he has been the rightful lord of Xuzhou, and no more
The "tabula rasa official" has naturally risen to a new level in the local prestige. So he tore up the resignation form, rewrote a thanksgiving table, and asked Pei Tong to take it back to Chang'an.
But Pei Tong still refused to leave, saying that when the green and yellow were not accepted, there would be many hungry people on the way, and thieves would inevitably arise, brother, you drive me away now, didn't that let me go to death?
I'd better wait for the autumn harvest before I leave. Pei Gai squinted at Pei Tong, and said in his heart that this little guy has been relying on Huaiyin, but he refuses to get on my thief ship, what is he going to do?
That's it, I don't care about him for now, and I don't lack him a bite to eat anyway, so I'll go on the last inspection before the autumn harvest according to the original plan.
Pei Gai has great hopes for this harvest, because in general, since the spring sowing, the climate for most of the year is not bad, as long as the autumn harvest does not rain continuously, delaying the harvest and drying of grain, it should be able to get a good year.
He took dozens of entourage, naturally went to the reclamation land in Handong to inspect first, Tian Cao engaged in the concubine Sheng pointed to the golden ears of wheat that could not be seen at a glance, and said with a happy face: "When the ridges were opened in the last year, the last official Zeng Yun could get 4 or 50,000 grains this year, which is in ordinary years. Now the monarch governs the state in a good way, the heart of heaven should be followed, the will of the people will be obeyed, the natural sky is blessed, the wind and rain are smooth, and the harvest can be expected. In addition, the thousands of people who fled south of Yishan were also settled here, and an additional 30,000 acres of wasteland were cultivated, and there was no shortage of farm tools and cattle, so that Junxin's Quyuan plough and cocoon cart were even more ingenious, and they were very effective in use......" Pei Gai smiled and waved his hand, interrupting him: "Bo Qian, there is no need to add so many eulogies, Qing only needs to tell me how the harvest is expected this autumn." β
"According to the calculations of the last officials, if the time is right when the sickle is opened, the grain can be harvested at more than 130,000 hundred."
"Harvest it all, or throw away the rations, the taxes after growing the grain?"
"It's taxes." Pei Gai was overjoyed when he heard this, and he couldn't help lifting the placket of his clothes, and ignoring the mud on the ground, he walked to the field in a few steps, and stroked the ears of wheat that had just changed colorβthe twist was not full enough, but he couldn't ask for more in these years.
Calculate it, just the tun reclamation land can collect 130,000 hu, he has already knocked out those dock forts in the county, he can directly tax the yeoman farmers, not to mention 100,000, plus the tribute of the southern counties, 300,000 hu grain can be easily obtained!
There's no need to plant land for two or three years, just in the first year, Lao Tzu can start exploding troops! Just as he was complacent, suddenly some small insect flew towards him, Pei Cai raised his sleeve and waved it, and swept it to the ground.
When he lowered his head to take a look, he couldn't help but change color slightly, and then he looked up again, and saw that on the ridges of the fields and in the wheat fields, there were those terrible blue-gray insects everywhere...... Just as Pei Caibu's face turned miserable, he couldn't help blurting out: "Locust! Although it was only one word, there was boundless fear and even despair in his voice...... Cat flutter Chinese