In the beginning of spring in the eleventh year of Luhou Song, the weather became warmer, and the ice melted and the snow melted.

In this precious agricultural time, the farmers have to work hard, and there is no idle land in the country of Lu, but they are hungry and tired every year, and they want to starve to death. The grain harvested last autumn was consumed in the civil strife called "Fallen Four Capitals", and in the end, two of the three Qings in Qufu died, one was destroyed, and only three of the four capitals fell. The vulgar peasants were bitter and laughed: "The rulers don't know how to count, and they can't even tell the difference between three and four. ”

On the contrary, the nobles only had to pretend to follow the king down to the cadastral fields, and they would not even sweat a drop.

However, this year, the monarch said that he was unwell, and authorized the new Zhengqing Zhao Wuxian to do all the sacrifices, home fields and other matters, so the scholars and doctors did not dare to slack off at all, and they all came early.

On the day of the beginning of spring, General Zhao personally led Dr. Qing to the eastern suburbs of Qufu to hold a spring festival. After returning to the court, he gave wine on behalf of the monarch to reward the Qingqing, doctors, and scholars in the court, and then praised and gave favors to the meritorious retainers who had "made outstanding contributions to the stability of the Lu country" in the past few years at home.

"Euppy? Military merit awarded? When Han Hu, who was waiting for a lot of boredom in Lu State, heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, especially for the latter, he touched his bearded chin and speculated: "Is Zhao Zitai going to emulate Jin Huigong's move to conquer the fields?" ”

General Zhao's every move was in the spotlight, and he couldn't hide it at all, and he didn't want to hide it in order to make the Lu people look warm, and it didn't take long for the news to come out.

High-ranking military officials such as Yang Tongue Rong, Hu Hui, Yu Xi, Tian Ben, Mu Xia, etc., received a variety of food and euphemism according to their military exploits. Most of them are designated as a hundred small towns, or townships, pavilions, and li. The population may be in the hundreds, or in the dozens. Declare them lords here.

But don't be too happy, the general said again: "You wait as a martial artist." He can fight on horses and chariots, but he can't govern the people when he gets off the chariots and horses, and he is probably too lazy to deal with tedious affairs, so the food and food are still managed by the general's palace sent by small officials, and the grain and cloth collected every year can be delivered. "Not only that, if you die in battle, you can pass on the food to your descendants, and if you don't have the merit to receive it, you will return it to the lord after death.

Although there are many limitations. However, most of the Jin military officials were born at the bottom of the society, and they were naturally overjoyed when they suddenly got the food, and they didn't care whether it was a real seal or a false seal. There is a precedent for Zhang Mengtan to be there, and they are embarrassed to ask too much, anyway, Zhao Wuxian has already painted the pie to the Jin Kingdom. "Wealth does not return to the hometown, such as brocade clothes at night", this sentence is said well! The country of Lu is too small, and it is just a springboard for the general to return to Jin for revenge.

Then there are the junior officers and ordinary non-commissioned officers. The military soldiers now have a division, and each brigade has a sergeant division who can read and write to record the rewards and punishments of merit and demerits. The merits of the soldiers in all the wars are recorded, and the drink is a salute after each war. According to their performance, they will be awarded third-class medals, and third-class merit will be mulberry medals. The second-class merit is bronze, and the first-class merit is bronze. The special merit is even a shiny silver medal!

Soldiers who have no meritorious service can naturally only eat in a big pot of rice in the barracks. Leaders pay or receive annual rewards for a living. But those who have meritorious service will be granted some land and live a good life of eating fields.

Sang Muxun can change ten acres of land and one house; Bronze Xun can be exchanged for 100 acres of land, five houses, three ministers, and a promotion; Brass Xun can be exchanged for ten hectares of land, ten houses, ten subordinates, and promoted to one level. As for the silver medal, it was only obtained by high-ranking military officials, and it could be directly exchanged for food and a knighthood!

Most of the military veterans have a few mulberry medals in their hands, and many people hold bronze medals, but there are very few bronze medals. Therefore, the result of the reward was that there were many rich peasants who could barely support themselves and their families, and few landlords with more than 10 hectares of land.

In total, however, nearly 100,000 acres of land have been allocated, mainly around Onozawa, which has been newly reclaimed in the past few years. As for the attached vassals, their main sources were those guards and rebels captured in the Song civil strife, as well as some Shusun soldiers who were captured in the Battle of Jishui. They were promised that they would regain their freedom after five years of obedient work, so they all put on shackles and helped their new masters work and plough the land with a bitter face.

It's not that Zhao Wuxian doesn't want to abolish all evil slavery, it's really limited by the times. After all, this was the primitive accumulation stage of centralized politics, and he himself was a big slave owner, and if he wanted to make the people in the territory better, in addition to developing the productive forces, he could only exploit the prisoners of war. They will replace the labor of the off-duty soldiers, and atone for their sins with blood and sweat.

Because failure is a sin!

In fact, until the Warring States Period, the iron-blooded Qin State, which was praised by later generations as "replacing the decaying slavery with an advanced feudal system", was actually an old slave country. As evidenced by the Book of Shang Jun and the Law of Qin, the number of slaves was not only the largest in the Seven Kingdoms, but also the proportion of the population exceeded that of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period. By distributing prisoners of war slaves to military landlords to produce food, Qin was able to maintain expansion......

The awarding of military merits will be extended to the entire Right Army, and more than 10,000 grassroots soldiers will have a way to become a rank.

These measures can be described as innovative, but they failed to cause much shock in the Lu country, because they were limited to Zhao Wuxian's territory, and they could only be regarded as Zhao Qing's family affairs.

All of the above measures to reward food and military merits and confer fields, Zhao Wuxian was entrusted to the head of the family, Zhang Mengtan and a group of retainers, and others were difficult to beak. What's more, even in the eyes of the most intelligent people such as Zigong, Han Hu and others, this is just imitating the Jin State's "state soldiers" and "field system", they don't see Zhao Wuxian's attempt to cultivate a military landlord class in the Lu State, as well as the strong malice towards the old aristocracy......

What made the doctors of Lu directly uneasy was that at the subsequent court meeting, Zhao Wuxian openly announced that the county system would be tried out in Lu State!

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"The county system? Is it a county of Qin, a county of Chu, or a county of Jin? ”

"The general is a native of Jin, so he is naturally the county ...... of the Jin Kingdom"

The county system is not an invention of Zhao Wuxian, it has long existed in the Spring and Autumn Period, as early as two hundred years ago, King Wu of Chu destroyed the state of Quan and rebuilt it into a county of Quan. Subsequently, Qin Wugong also crossed Longshan, pointed directly at Ji Rong, and after pacification, Ji County was established in the name of the clan. The Jin State was not willing to lag behind, and had already set up counties on the border when he arrived at the late Jin Wengong and Jin Xianggong, what "Xianmao County" and "Guayan County", and so on.

County. Hanging also, this is a special city on the border. The main function is the garrison. With the passage of time, the administrative unit of the county has long been not limited to the border. The county system has been fully promoted within the Jin Kingdom. Generally more than 10,000 households can be counties, the original Jin State 49 counties, later increased to more than 50 counties, respectively under the monarch, Liuqing rule, most of the county doctors have been no longer hereditary, they became early bureaucrats, the monarch can be removed at any time to replace.

General Zhao, as a Jin man, intends to implement the system of the Jin State in the Lu State, which seems reasonable.

But it is not necessarily courteous.

But the doctors of Lu were a little reluctant. Meng Sun said that he didn't come in Yiyi, and Ji Sunfei, who could only be Zhao Wuxian's foil, muttered secretly: "I want to toss ...... again."

But he didn't let people hear it, he hoped that Zhao Wuxian would offend the doctors in the East as much as possible, so that when there was a war after the spring ploughing, once Zhao Wuxian was defeated, he would be able to make an appointment with the doctors to take matters into account!

Compared with the enterprising Jin people, the Lu people are conservative and timid, and they are very reluctant to make changes, especially Liu Xiaji, who has become a representative of the conservative faction, is strongly opposed during the public discussion.

He argued: "Lu has its own national conditions. Unlike the Jin Kingdom, Lu ruled the country with doctors, and doctors were based on Yi, so it was enough to follow the Duyi system. I know that the general is a Jin person. Maybe you think it's good to do anything, but remember one sentence, follow the local customs. Hugh wants to copy everything in the Jin Kingdom to the Lu Kingdom! I think it's good to govern the country and herdsmen with the capital! ”

Liu Xiaji's rhetoric won the agreement of Dongdi and even Xilu doctors. But Zhao Wuxian didn't think so, he gave him a look. Kan Zhi and Liu Xiaji had a debate in the court.

"The Duyi doctor system is very good? Why did I only see the rebellion of Zhao Zhaobo, the rebellion of Nankuai, the rebellion of Yanghu, the rebellion of Gongruo, and the rebellion of Gongshan? The doctor has repeatedly rebelled against the monarch and the secretary, and the retainers have repeatedly rebelled against the monarch and the secretary. ”

After belittleing the Duyi system, he praised the county system again: "On the other hand, in the Jin Kingdom, have you ever heard of a county that rebelled against the monarch? ”

In the face of the facts, Liu Xiaji was speechless for a while, the rebellion and civil strife in Lu State in recent years, there are indeed many things that are inferior and disgraced.

Zhao Wuxian's determination to implement the county system was very resolute, and he said to everyone: "The benefits of the county are not only that, but after having a county, it is easier to levy soldiers, unify taxes, and defend against enemy invasions. Nowadays in the country of Lu, all kinds of small towns with thousands and hundreds of households are uneven and difficult to govern. ”

When it comes to their own interests, it is rare for the doctors of Lu Guo to be shrewd and set up a county, which means that there will be an extra county official sent by Zhao Wuxian on their heads? Their faces were uneasy and dissatisfied.

Lu Hou is still "sick" today, the king's couch is empty, there is a lack of the monarch as a buffer, and there is a deathly silence in the main hall.

Zhao Wuxian has already regarded the imperial court as a hall of words, even if the decision can't be passed, he can use the shogunate to bypass the imperial court and force it through! This is the power of an authoritarian ruler!

But he has to pay attention to proportion, pay attention to the means, he wants to use a soft knife to slowly cut the flesh of the old nobles of the Lu country, instead of hitting the blood with one knife and causing panic.

Centralization of power cannot be completed in a day or two, and the eastern land, which still maintains an independent state, accounts for one-third of the population of Lu, and can also form a left army, providing more than 10,000 combat power. Directly killing the past, more than 20 cities are not captured just after they are captured, which will make the chaos continue for several years, which is not conducive to Zhao Wuxian's goal. If these local snakes secretly resist the county system, I am afraid that the county officials who have been parachuted in the past will be like the county magistrates who arrived in the Three Kingdoms of the Eastern Han Dynasty but were overturned by the powerful and the scholars, and they would not be able to govern.

In that case, it would take at least ten years to use the county system to control the eastern region and cut off the deep-rooted power of doctors. But Zhao Wuxian has not been in power for ten years now, and his domination of the Lu State has already made many people red-eyed, and the balance of the six secretaries of the Jin State is gradually out of control, and war may break out at any time. If the foreign enemy who is eyeing him can give him two chances to harvest in autumn, he will have to thank God Haotian.

Seeing that the doctors in the east were dissatisfied, he had a plan in his heart, and added: "Of course, the county system is only a trial implementation, starting with the territory of this general, and then gradually extending to the territory of the office, as for the east land, I don't plan to implement ......it for the time being."

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January and February was the season for new things to sprout, and General Zhao's administration also injected vitality into the Lu State. Screaming silently waiting to see the lively Han Hu was dazzled.

The state of Lu officially carried out institutional reform, following the example of the overlord Jin State to implement the county system. Zhao Wuxian's fiefdom accounted for one-third of the territory of the Lu State. Nineteen thousand chamber eups, nearly 100 hundred hundred chamber eups were merged into 50,000 thousand counties.

The capital of the Great General was set up in Jixi County. This county is located in the west of Jishui, including the original Yuncheng, Xuju, Fan, Yi several places, as well as Tieshan Taoqiu, the governance of Yuncheng.

The second is Juye County, which is located in the south of Pushui and Dayozawa, and its jurisdiction is Chengpu, Vertical Hill, Xianqiu, and Juye Jiyi, and the people are mostly defenders. Punan was originally a land of defense, but later became the occupied area of Jin and Lu, and its ownership is undecided. Now Zhao Wuxian has directly ignored the defense of the country and blatantly annexed it!

Reason? Anyway, the reason for submitting it to the Jin State is that Punan has been the god of the Lu State since ancient times, and it was not until the Wei Kingdom moved its capital that it was slowly occupied.

There is also Juancheng County, which is located in the westernmost part of the Lu State, composed of the original Weiguo Zhencheng, Qingqiu, Qi Guoxiaoqiu, and Qinyi, stationed a division of Liu Xiajiao, both to guard against Qi people. And it can threaten the defense of the country.

The above three are roughly the old sites known as "Xilu", and the other two counties are newly acquired. Wenxian County is located on both sides of the Wenshui River, including Wenxi Zhitian, Yunyi, and Zhongdu. Kanyi has a special status because it is the location of the Tomb of the Duke of Lu. Therefore, it is independent of Zhao Wuxian's territory, and it is an enclave directly under the office, but in fact, Doctor Kan is because of his son. has long been a diehard loyalist of Zhao Wuxian.

Finally, there is Rencheng County, which is on the verge of the state of Yi, including Rencheng, Qian, and Negative Flaws. There is also Zhao Wuxian's plan to build the dangerous Kangfu Pass of the Southern Fortress, where the Song State can be communicated. It is also possible to enter the small states of Sishang, such as Yi, Xue, and Teng.

"After razing the big and small cities into a county system, it looks much easier to govern." Zhao Wuxian was very satisfied with this, he had a headache to memorize the names of all nineteen yi, but now there are only five counties left, which is clear at a glance, and the county officials can also be dispatched at any time.

The magistrate of the county is the county magistrate, who pays taxes and household registration; followed by the county lieutenant, the main soldier; Again as a county judge, the main lawsuit prison. These three county officials have a lot of power, they are in charge of thousands of people, more than 1,000 soldiers, and even the doctors in the county, but their titles are not high, and they are temporarily held by Zhao Wuxian's retainers, who are directly responsible to the generals, and belong to Zhengqing's personal ministers.

"Those doctors in Xilu are going to be uncomfortable, and they haven't been running to their subordinates lately......"

Zhang Meng laughed and said nothing, everything was under their planning, and the doctors who had supported Zhao Wuxian in the civil war woke up, only to find that there were three more county officials in charge of the affairs above their heads, all of whom were confidants of the general. Because the military power has long been collected, they have no way to object, so they can only run to the red-faced head Zhang Mengtan to complain and complain, and the Lu people have also speculated, is General Zhao going to cross the river and demolish the bridge?

"I'm not an ungrateful person, I'll give these doctors an explanation......" Zhao Wuxian's gaze shifted to the east.

Many of the doctors in the east were either killed in battle, or were cut down because of their rebellion against Zhao Wuxian, and those few ownerless cities had long been coveted by the doctors, yi zai, and patriarchs of Xilu.

Want? Okay, it's just for you, just give the original territory to the general.

"The doctor of Xilu can make a choice, one is to continue to stay in the original yi as a doctor, but the army, government, and people must be handed over to the county temple, and they only have the right to eat the yi. The second is to move the city, I will find a bigger city for them in the east than the original, and move the family temple there. ”

As soon as this policy came out, the doctors of Xilu were silenced, except for the Zai Yiyi who unexpectedly handed over the city in exchange for the position of a county official, the rest of the doctors chose to move to the east, and they were scrambling to be the first, lest they would not be able to divide the good yi if they were behind.

There are no counties in the east, and there are still more than 20 cities and towns. There, Dr. Yi can be free, and his own territory has the final say, who wants to stay in Xilu and be the bird of the county officials?

There was dissatisfaction, but when the relocation was completed a few months later, the Xilu doctors found themselves sandwiched between the many doctors from the East, surrounded by hostile eyes. In order to compete for the land, the people, and even a mulberry garden at the junction, the contradiction between the east and the west will become the main contradiction, and it is too late for them to confront the general......

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"The five counties in the west are only the first batch, and there will be a new batch after the spring ploughing is over."

Zhao Wuxian planned to wait for a year and a half to turn the surrounding area of Qufu into Lu County, the northern area around Yangguan into Taishan County, and the surrounding area of Feiyi into Fei County, which would be included in his own pocket. They are nominally not Zhao Wuxian's territory, but directly under Lu Hou, and General Zhao is waving the banner of "serving the monarch to please the subordinate", so he has to do some superficial work.

Fortunately, Lu Hou understood that he was elevated, and he never went to court due to illness, and he didn't even participate in the sacrifices, and drank and had fun in the palace every day.

In addition, Meng's territory, Yunyi, can also be used as a county, but Wuxian there does not want to interfere for the time being, so as not to stimulate the Meng family, so he will digest the territory in his hand first.

He roughly calculated that if he divided the eastern land into zero, he could make up four counties, that is to say, Lu Guo could probably be turned into thirteen counties! With a population of nearly one million, it is equivalent to Zhao Qing of the Jin Kingdom, or a large county of the Qin and Han dynasties......

The situation looks very good, but the long-term Zhang Mengtan has hidden worries.

"Lord, the country of Lu is now like a state with two systems, the west is the county system, and the east is the doctor leading the yi system, I'm afraid that in the long run, things will be disconnected. There must also be a system that can encompass the whole of Lu, which not only allows the western region to centralize power in the hands of the sovereign, but also allows the doctors in the eastern region to bow down to their ears......"

"That's right, I need a system to coerce the monarch to lead the ministers, let the authority of the general legally override the court, let the foreign court become an ornament, and let my private retainers take over the state affairs." Zhao Wuxian thought for a moment, and revealed all the thoughts that had been hidden in his heart for a long time.

"I'm going to set up a curtain in Yuncheng!"

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(To be continued.) )

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