As soon as Liu Jiexuan heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "The Taoist still has a way." Well, the Taoist chief said, what do we have to do to be able to stand and eat at the same time? ”

Xuan Yi smiled and said: "Mr. Niu said a good thing just now, without the support of the gentry, or in other words, the gentry must stand opposite us, which is a huge trouble for us to govern the place." But what General Liu said is also good, no matter how good we are to these gentry, can we be better for them than the Jokhang court? The Jokhang Dynasty has done the ultimate in raising the gentry. The number of scholars selected by the national imperial examination is dozens of times that of the Tang and Song dynasties, which is also one of them; Once an official, although the salary is limited, there are various exemptions. Large tracts of land, large piles of buying and selling can be bought and sold without paying taxes. As a result, the court could not collect all kinds of taxes, so it could only be pressed on the people, and finally the people all over the world rebelled. How could we be nicer to the gentry than Dazhao? Isn't that a repeat of the past? Therefore, it is not enough to treat them well and give them preferential treatment. There has to be another way to get them to their hearts. ”

"Dao Chief, don't go around the bend, just say it!" Shang Xiuying saw that Xuan Yi said so much, but he didn't say anything, so he couldn't help it.

"Sister-in-law, don't worry." Xuan Yi arched his hand and smiled, "Since ancient times, to make people return to their hearts, it is nothing more than Enwei. There is no grace in vain, that is, as the saying goes, 'Raise Mien, fight Mi Hatred', if you don't do it well, you will feed a white-eyed wolf out in vain. If there is only coercion, then there must be resistance. How do you do it together? ”

Speaking of this, Xuan Yi suddenly smiled and said: "Marshal, for example, there is a farmer who grows crops who has a good harvest, so he takes out a lot of grain and sells it, thinking that according to last year's price, he can buy five or six taels of silver, so that he can have a little surplus after paying taxes." Who knows, but the price of this grain has dropped to three stones and one tael of silver. But if the rice is not sold, there will be no money to pay the tax, and he will be taken to the county and put in a wooden cage for public display. At this time, I suddenly learned a news, saying that there was a family that collected rice, two stones and five taels of silver, wouldn't this person want to run away quickly, and sell the grain for two stones and five pounds, and was afraid that people would not accept it? When people accept it, he gets less money, but he still has to thank others in his heart.

If there is a kind of power that 'treats people as no people', not only is it not a human being, but it is not as good as cattle and horses, and it is nothing, and when they envy the cattle and horses, and sigh that "they are not as good as the peaceful dogs", and then give them a price slightly equal to that of cattle and horses, then they must be convinced and praise the prosperity of the peace. Why? For though he is not a man, he is equal to a cow or a horse. Actually, this is just a small trick, but this little trick has been working for thousands of years. Now, in this world, there is a lot of power that can treat those gentry as people. If the gentry have any biggest dissatisfaction with the Jokhang court, the biggest dissatisfaction now is that they can't protect them. For example, when Zhang Bingzhong came, wouldn't the gentry who fell into his hands even be as good as dogs? For example, when the guest army of the imperial court came, the gentry - except for the kind of people who really had big officials in the imperial court - met the officers and soldiers of the guest army of the imperial court, wouldn't it be worse than falling into the hands of Zhang Bingzhong? Not even to say that it was the guest army, it was Zuo Liangyu, when he retreated, didn't he also snatch them with his hand, and by the way, he borrowed some heads to receive military merits? This 'treating people as non-human' things has already been done for us. What we need to do now is, first, to let them know that someone is going to mistreat them as human beings. The second is that if they follow us, they will be cattle and horses. It suddenly occurred to Poor Dao that now that Luo Mengde has come to us, it is not necessarily a bad thing......"

As soon as Xuan Yi finished saying this, everyone burst out laughing. Liu Jiexuan patted the arm of the chair with one hand and pointed at Xuan Yi with the other, wanting to say something, but he couldn't say it with a smile. Shang Xiuying couldn't help but pat her thigh and smiled: "On weekdays, when I see the Taoist, I look gentle and elegant, but today's words are so mean, I am really playing those gentry like monkeys!" ”

"That's what my sister-in-law said! The Taoist must have been a monkey trickster before. Liu Erhu also laughed.

Only Huang Zide and Niu Juming both looked thoughtful.

After everyone was quiet, Xuan Yi continued, "We can do it in a few steps. First of all, it is to establish a military cantonment. Nowadays, there are no less than one million displaced people from Henan to Huguang. These people are helpless, unorganized, and landless, so we will distribute those borderless lands, let them farm, organize them to build Zhuangzi and the people's army, and send our people to them as village chiefs, so that they can be our reserve army. In the process, they will definitely have conflicts with the local squires, and at this time, they will have no way to survive except relying on us. So fundamentally, they are the most loyal to us, the strength we can rely on the most. As long as they succeed in cultivating the fields, we will have a source of food, and our strength will go deep into the countryside. With such conditions, the squires naturally knew that their importance had decreased, and when they bargained with us, they could ask for a lower price.

The second is to divide the gentry. Marshal, the gentry of the world are not an iron plate, and there are contradictions between them. It is not uncommon for those more powerful gentry to bully those small gentry. Mr. Niu should also be very clear about this. ”

Hearing this, everyone turned their eyes to Niu Juming.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Niu Juming replied: "What the Taoist chief said is that some big families will not only oppress the people, but also those gentry from small families. ”

Xuan Yi waited for Niu Juming to finish this sentence, and then continued: "The marshal wants to change the mandate of heaven, and the mandate of heaven is a big change, who does he want to change in this world?" Generally speaking, people who have had a good life in the past, want to be retro; People who are living a good life today want to maintain the status quo; Only people who have never been bold and want to be broad very much want to change the destiny of heaven the most. Ordinary people, although they have never been wide, but they do not want to be rich and rich. But those poor gentry, which of them doesn't want to be rich and noble? It's just that someone is blocking their way up and stomping them down. Can they not hate? As long as we, on the one hand, prove to them that we have enough strength against the imperial court, and there is not much danger for them to follow us; On the other hand, give them a chance to join us. They will definitely fall to us. Then we just have to deal with the big families. It's a lot easier that way. ”

Niu Juming himself was born as a small landlord, and he was admitted to a juren, and he can be regarded as a gentry. For the gentry class, he naturally had a sense of belonging. Since joining the Huang Zide Group, he has been speaking for the gentry when he can. But at this time, when he heard what Xuan Yi said, to unite the little gentry and defeat the big gentry, he couldn't help but feel a kind of pleasure. Indeed, those big families are really motherly, and the world will be reduced to this, and they are all harmed. Defeating them, even Niu Juming, felt that it was a very happy thing. In fact, if you want to ask Niu Juming, who are the most hateful people in the world, Niu Juming will most likely think that they are those guys from the big family.

But this pleasure also made Niu Juming more vigilant to Xuanyi Daoist - this person's control over the situation and people's hearts has reached such a point, how can it not make people alert and afraid?

"The Taoist Chief's method, everyone has heard it. What do you think? Huang Zide said.

Everyone quieted down, and after a while, it was Liu Jiexuan who spoke first: "Anyway, I can't hear any problems, I think it should be okay." But that Tuntian or something, you have to carefully get a drill code out. ”

"I think it will definitely work. If the marshal can trust me, the marshal can entrust me with this matter of dealing with the gentry. Niu Juming also took the initiative to ask.

Since they expressed their position, others also expressed their support, and the general principle of the matter was thus determined.

After everyone dispersed, Niu Juming returned to his residence. His wife, Lu Shi, and son, Niu, all greeted him. Entering the hall, Niu Juming sat down, and his son asked about today's political affairs. Niu Juming told Lu and Niu Quan all these things in detail. Then he sighed and said: "At the beginning, after I was lifted, I was not ranked in the rank of Jinshi many times, but I didn't think that I was inferior to those who were examined, but I felt that the examiner was blind and couldn't see my talent." At that time, I felt that I was a great talent for the stability of the country, and there were few people in the world who could compare with me. But I didn't want to meet a character like Xuanyi Daoren in this army now. This person is better than me in everything whether it is the big picture or the small picture, I used to underestimate the heroes of the world. It's a pity that this person is not a Confucian student! ”

Niu Quan listened to his father's story, but shook his head and said, "Although this Taoist priest is smart, he is too smart and exposed. Father, you see, the ideas he came up with show how clear this man is about the world and the hearts of people. Isn't the marshal afraid of such a person? Now that it is the time to employ people, the marshal is naturally inseparable from him, but the marshal will not guard against him. In this case, he may not end well in the future. ”

Who knew that Niu Juming heard this, but shook his head and said, "It's not like this, you're still too young and naïve." What you think you can easily think of, Xuanyi Daoist can't think of? You, underestimate Xuanyi Daoist too much, and underestimate Marshal Huang too much. If Xuanyi Daoist has the intention to hide his selfishness, then Marshal Huang will be full of doubts about him. But now, Xuanyi Daoist has shown his knife in front of everyone, and Marshal Huang will trust his honesty instead. Quan'er, do you see who is the least suspicious among the three heroes of the early Han Dynasty? Look at the actions of Xuanyi Daoist again, you, you have to think more, you have to think more. ”