After listening to Liu Bei, "Under the heavy reward, there will be a brave man." Gao Zhicai, Xi Zhicai smiled bitterly and said: "Lord, if this is the case, of course, the soldiers can be killed, but I am afraid that the treasury will be empty and there will be no money available in the state." ”

"This ......" Liu Bei was silent for a moment when he heard this, and said to Xi Zhicai: "It seems that Mr. Xi, do you still think that my method of 'adding ding into acres' is inappropriate, but if you don't use this method, I'm afraid that the treasury will really be empty, and there will be no money available in the state." ”

Hearing Liu Bei say this, Xi Zhicai made a big salute and said: "Lord, Xi Mou is just a student of Yingchuan Yihan. The lord will not give up, use it as a military general, undress and push food, obey his words, and receive so much grace, how dare he not think about the lord. If you really use this method, although it may be possible to solve a momentary urgent need in a short period of time, but the legacy is not shallow, and the lord thinks twice before acting. ”

On the way back to Qingzhou from Luoyang, Liu Bei and Xi Zhicai and others calculated an account, Qingzhou's cultivated land is about 50 or 60 million mu, of course, this is the cultivated land in the account books, if it is considered to be the land concealed by the family Haoqiang, it is estimated that there are about 10,000 mu, in fact, according to Liu Bei's speculation, if the arable land in Qingzhou is developed, there are 20,000 or 30,000 mu.

And every time Liu Bei fights, he will give a part of the land to the meritorious ministers. Although Liu Bei is under the banner of Shang Jun's "ploughing war", in fact, in his bones, he still uses the same set of Western feudal lords, but this feudal lord is very small, in fact, Liu Bei's real purpose is to create a group of military nobles similar to Junker.

For the emperor, he also said that Junker is a good thing, whether he can fight or not, he is still a hardcore royalist. Therefore, although Liu Bei claims to use the method of "ploughing and warfare", what is "no food unless farming, no war". However, Liu Bei is not like Shang Jun, who plays with the squeeze of the soldiers, just to make people poor and scum.

The so-called "farming war" means that there is no food unless it is cultivated, and it is not possible to be honored if it is not for military merits. Concentrate all your strength on farming and fighting. Shang Jun's set of things, if you can't understand it, just take a look at the North Bangzi Country, that is, let everyone be poor and don't want it, so they will work hard for a little benefit, such as eating rice, in order to drink broth, and don't even have to eat meat, then they will be happy as if they went to heaven and saw a big fat.

The strongest country in the eyes of Shang Jun should be like the North Stick Country, in fact, if it is a poor ghost country with strong mobilization ability in the Cold Weapon Era, it is really difficult to deal with.

In the classical era, in an agrarian society, the most important property was land, and if all the land was rewarded to the soldiers, then Liu Bei's Qingzhou Mansion income would be reduced.

And Liu Bei understands very well that the consequences of an emperor having no money, not to mention the rest, Chongzhen's unlucky child, will look at you after a thousand years. Therefore, Liu Bei thought about it, and remembered that this originated in the Ming Dynasty and was completed in the Qing Dynasty The policy of "adding Ding into mu" was collected, so that taxes were collected directly from the land, rather than collecting a poll tax, and a handful of wool could be collected from the strong and large households.

Whether it is the strategy of ploughing and warfare, or the system of tuntian, it is not too new, Qin Shihuang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty have done it separately, so Liu Bei implemented it, and the resistance is not very great.

Although the advantage of this is obvious, taxes can be collected directly from the land, instead of collecting poll tax, thus reducing the disadvantages of the decline in tax revenue caused by the local tyrant hiding the population.

But the problem is that doing this is really snatching food from the mouths of powerful landlords, Qingzhou is okay, the strength of local heroes is relatively small, if you go to other states and counties, I am afraid that everyone will oppose it, and Liu Bei will inevitably end up with Wang Mang.

For this idea, Liu Bei also knew that he was the enemy of the powerful landlords in the entire Qingzhou. It's just that Qingzhou's Haoqiang was first swept away by the Yellow Turban, followed by the Yellow Turban, and then swept away by Liu Bei, and the Haoqiang force was already very weak. Even so, Liu Bei didn't dare to directly take out the "Add Ding into the mu", but first discussed with his confidant and No. 1 think tank.

Sure enough, after listening to it, Xi Zhicai directly expressed his opposition, and Xi Zhicai thought that if Liu Bei did this, once there was a reputation for treating the family harshly and being strong, it would inevitably lose the hearts of the people. And the people's will is not attached, which is very unfavorable to the future domination of the world.

The so-called winning the hearts of the people is actually the heart of being strong and strong. Since the beginning of Guangwu Zhongxing, this rule is not popular for lone rangers, and few people go to take refuge alone, just with their own clan. Historically, after Liu Bei was taken away by Lu Bu, he was once poor, and his master Mi Zhu sacrificed his family's 2,000 child servants to recover quickly. Mi Zhu has 10,000 child servants in his family, which shows how powerful the power of this era is.

When Liu Bei heard this, he was silent for a moment, he also knew that Xi Zhicai's words were all for his own sake, and finally just said: "I have more than 100,000 troops, do I still have to be subject to the power of the mere heroes." ”

Xi Zhicai smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that Liu Bei has always been old, why did he suddenly become angry at this time, but this is okay, Liu Bei has always given Xi Zhicai the feeling that it is too perfect, no matter what the situation, it seems to be exactly like it...... After rigorous calculations, the emotional control is perfect, and there is some mood at the moment, which cannot be said to be a bad thing.

In the end, he just said: "Lord, the original Qingzhou Yellow Turban was swept away by the lord, and so many vacant land were vacated at once, and all the powerful clans were eyeing it there, and they all wanted to take the opportunity to annex the land and eat a bite of fat. And the lord did not share the profits to the powerful family in Qingzhou at all, this is to offend all the families up and down in Qingzhou! If this 'adding to the acre' is taxing them, I am afraid that these people will immediately rebel, and it may not be possible. ”

Liu Bei was still hesitating, but after listening to Xi Zhicai's words, he made up his mind and said: "If it weren't for what Mr. said, I wouldn't have woken up, and this method of 'adding ding into acres' seems to be imperative." ”

Xi Zhicai was shocked when he heard this, and said in his heart that I had persuaded for a long time, why did I still come, so I listened to Liu Bei and said: "Since the families up and down in Qingzhou have offended me all, then why bother to please them again, it is better to clean them up all at once, so as not to catch fire in the backyard in the future, but it is not beautiful." ”

Historically, Liu Bei failed to settle the wealthy family in Xuzhou, and as a result, when Liu Bei went to fight Yuan Shu, he was attacked by Lu Bu. Today's Liu Bei, once before, how could he make such a mistake again.

Liu Bei asked: "Mr. Xi, do you know why Qin Shi Huang died after he was in the world." ”

Xi Zhicai said: "Without him, benevolence and righteousness are not applied and the offensive and defensive forces are different." ”

Liu Bei laughed and said, "This Jia Changsha has passed Qin's words." If Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms after he punished the nobles, took the mansions and land of his generation, sealed them all to the meritorious ministers, and distributed all the old and young of the Six Kingdoms to the places of Longxi, Lingnan, and Liaodong, dare to ask Mr., will this Great Qin die in the second generation? ”

"This ......" Xi Zhicai was speechless.

Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms and destroyed their communities, but he did not make any changes to the original land ownership of the Six Kingdoms. However, military merit is supported by land. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Wang Jian destroyed the battle of Chu, which was a full army of 600,000 people, even if one person was promoted to a knighthood, 60 million acres of land would be out at once. What's more, if the six countries are destroyed in a row, how many people will be promoted to the title for meritorious service, and how much land will be needed to reward them, so that the land originally owned by the Qin State is actually not enough.

Because the land of the six countries was not moved, Qin Shi Huang even needed to assign the Qin army to Lingnan, Longxi and other frontiers to open up wasteland, although everyone was promoted to a first-class title and gave an extra hundred acres of land, but who was willing to leave the capital and go to the frontier to open up wasteland.

In Liu Bei's view, Qin Shi Huang's decision can be called brain-dead, in fact, it is the most critical factor in the death of the second Qin Empire, as for the rest, it can only be said to be secondary.

First of all, the basic plate of the Qin State, the old Qin army was unhappy, and he cooperated with Lao Tzu to fight for life and death to give you Yingzheng to fight the world, and finally sent Lao Tzu to the frontier, how can there be this reason. Moreover, the nobles of the Six Kingdoms are not happy, although they still have money, but they were originally all high-ranking nobles, and all of a sudden, in the legal sense, they have become the same as ordinary people, who suffers from this gap. In the end, the common people are not happy, how strict Qin Fa is, if they destroy the magnates of the six countries and distribute their land to the people of the six countries for mercy, it will be enough, but they have not gained anything, but they have a lot more burden.

When Qin Shi Huang, a strongman who can suppress the world, dies, don't blame Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and shout in his voice, "Princes and generals, would you rather have a kind?" ", immediately followed by "Chu people are a torch, poor scorched earth." "That's it.

Xi Zhicai is also a smart person, and after a little thought, he understood that this is either not to do it, but to do it thoroughly. Anyway, Liu Bei has already offended these heroes, so it is better to simply offend them to the end, and even exterminate these heroes, which is called cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.

At that moment, Xi Zhicai said: "Lord, I have a plan, I need to be so, so, ”

Liu Bei said: "Mr. is really loyal to the minister," thought about it, and said: "Mr. is born Zhicai, you might as well use Zhicai as the word, how about using 'loyalty' as the name?" ”

Xi Zhicai paused for a moment and said, "Zhong, thank you for the name." ”