Chapter 117: Three Decrees
Written as said: "Because after the release of that chapter "Chapter 117 Nong Cao + Private Soldier" yesterday, more than a dozen collections were dropped, so I deleted it, and the content of the first half of Nong Cao was merged into "Chapter 116 Nong Cao", and the content of the private soldier in the second half is not wanted, rewritten today, the content does not affect reading, please rest assured. β
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Changing an existing model can be divided into three forms in terms of priority: reform; Reform; As well as revolutions.
What Yuan Yao asked Lu Su to do was in the reform stage, but it was only a change made for a certain industry or class, and it did not involve cultural customs and the like, and it was not as thorough as the Qin State Shang Ying, so it was not enough to talk about changing the law, and the backlash was relatively small.
After several days of discussion between Yuan Yao, Lu Su and Erzhang, in the end, under mutual compromise, Lu Su's reform plan was finally decided.
Because of the rebellion of the concubine and the surrender of the pottery merchants, the reform of Wanling County can be said to have no obstacles, so this reform officially began in Wanling.
First of all, Lu Su promulgated the "Grain Order" in the name of the general's palace in the east of the country, the reason was to prevent the enemy from financing the enemy, and to implement centralized management of grain in wartime.
The potter, who had just taken office as Wanlingling, responded to the call and took out 200,000 pieces of grain and stored them in the grain bank for three years.
After three years, he will not only get back 200,000 grains of grain, but also get an annual interest rate of three cents, that is, 18,000 grains.
Ignoring the family's need to use grain to control tenants, the fact that the grain can be stored without damage and can still eat interest is a big surprise good governance in this era, so if someone wants to criticize the "Grain Order", they have to find another way.
The pottery merchant did not just take refuge on behalf of the Tao family, because since most of the fields were robbed by the concubine, the Tao family could not take out so much grain at one time, and they all relied on Tao Qian's legacy to be seconded to the family that had a relationship or had the same interests as the concubine's persecution, and the people of these families were also appointed by Yuan Yao at the same time in the county government or agricultural cao and grain stores, so it can be regarded as taking refuge with Yuan Yao through the pottery merchants.
Then Lu Su issued a second decree - the "Nong Cao Order".
The content is to prevent government officials from abusing their power for personal gain and embezzling private land, and those who hold positions in the government must register their family land and hand it over to the "agricultural cao" for unified cultivation in the form of tenant rent, and the tenant rent is five floors. Private property can also participate in this decree.
Nominally, the decree did not oblige private land to be contracted to farmers, and it was enacted in the name of preventing officials from using their power for personal gain.
But if you really believe it, it's a bit too naΓ―ve, the officials have handed over their fields, and the others still want to be alone?
If there is an official who would rather dismiss the official than hand over the property, then Yuan Yao will not be polite, he has no right and still wants to keep the corresponding property, it is wishful thinking.
Anyone who does not respond to the "Nong Cao Order" will face a legal investigation, and any crimes such as abuse of lynching, forcing good people to become prostitutes, hurting people's lives, and abduction and so on will be exposed.
In these years, the family is powerful, the family has a large business and a large population, and if the hands are clean, it is a miracle, and it can be called a saint.
The exposed families will face trial, and the property will be confiscated, and then rewarded to those who whistleblow, and finally handed over to the management of Nongcao.
To put it bluntly, obedient people can become officials, and then they can "legally" use their power for personal gain, and the disobedient family property will be contracted to Nong Cao.
Therefore, those who can understand the meaning of this decree, except for the violent resistance of the concubines, the rest can only obey orders, and it is more difficult to find trouble with Yuan Yao from the rituals, because the annexation of their family property, as well as the exposure and trial of them are all wealthy families in the same county, including the grain store, agricultural cao and other departments, all of which are under the management of the family that took refuge, and Yuan Yao only authorized the appointment of them as officials, and the others did not participate.
Yuan Yao is just using their rules and playing their games, which is what the families usually do, but the feng shui turns and the trader is changed.
However, in order to prevent accidents, Yuan Yao still ordered each army to send a soldier and horse from each county to take over the city defense of the remaining 15 counties in Danyang until the reform was completed.
Finally, Lu Su promulgated a third decree - the "Militia Order".
The decree stipulates that families who have lost their private military units due to the contracting of land and property to Nongcao are allowed to recruit their families to work on a full-time basis for military training, and are included in the militia system of each county to defend the locality.
When local security is threatened, each family, that is, the militia, has the responsibility to be under the unified command of the generals appointed by the Zhengdong General's Office, and in order to defend the country and fight, the government will open some restrictions on its military weapons and armor.
This decree was regarded as a compensation for the first two decrees to the family, that is, the result of political compromise, and the uncontrollable private army was turned into a controllable militia, and at the same time the number was reduced.
The reform of such three laws together can be said to not only did not make the family that took refuge in Yuan Yao suffer any losses, but even took the opportunity to merge some fields and properties to make a lot of money, and also got official positions and rights, but it was just a different way of survival, which was much milder than Shang Ying's changes, so if the family still had no face, then Yuan Yao could only be ruthless.
Reform must be carried out, according to the intelligence of the Central Plains, Cao Cao has already begun to cultivate land as in history, this policy will allow him to collect five layers of high land rent directly from the peasant households like the landlord, which means that he will no longer be short of grain in the future.
And Yuan Shu's father and son, who are in Yangzhou, want to compete with him, and it is definitely not possible to pick up people's teeth and wisdom and then play Tuntian, so they must find another shortcut.
Yuan Shu's Huainan plus Jiangdong, which has not yet been fully won, that is, the entire Huaiyang region, is no smaller than the Yan, Henan, Qing, Xu, Sili and other regions in the Central Plains.
However, the Central Plains is a plain terrain, densely populated, and full of land suitable for farming.
The Huaiyang area is mostly mountainous terrain and sparsely populated, so it would be good to have two layers of the Central Plains, so if the two sides adopt the same development model, then the Yuan father and son will definitely lose.
Otherwise, how could the historical Eastern Wu not be able to enter the Central Plains, and in the end they were forced to have no choice but to bite off a piece of meat from their ally Liu Bei's Jingzhou to develop themselves, which led to an irreparable rift in Wu Shu's diplomacy, and was finally destroyed by Wei and Jin.
If Yuan Yao didn't want to learn from Eastern Wu, he would have to find another way, especially in terms of agricultural vitality, he had to defeat the princes of the Central Plains, not to mention that the opponent was Cao Cao.
Agriculture is an industry that requires a large number of people, and although the clones of the system are all technical elites, they are now too small to help for the time being, so they can only start with industry and commerce.
Then the improvement of agricultural productivity can only start from the system, so agricultural reform is imperative, otherwise the competition will not be Cao Cao.
In addition to agriculture, there is also the problem of the family that needs to be reformed and solved.
Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and Lu Su began to win over the family for Sun Ce's independent layout in Jiangdong two years ago, and now although the original plan was disrupted by Yuan Yao, the results of their two-year layout cannot be ignored.
It is estimated that there are many Jiangdong families secretly waiting for Sun Ce to take action, expecting him to take the lead in driving Yuan Yao, an outsider, out of Jiangdong.
Lu Su once said that no Jiangdong family wanted the Yuan family to enter Jiangdong and encroach on their living space.
In other words, Yuan Yao's popularity in Jiangdong is in a weaker position than Sun Ce's.
If this form is not changed, then Yuan Yao will never be able to gain a foothold in Jiangdong, especially Zhou Yu, the mastermind who helped Sun Ce enter Jiangdong, is still missing, and neither Yuan Yao nor Lu Su can know what he is doing, but it is certain that he must be planning something in the shadows.
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are one in the light and the other in the dark, and the pressure on Yuan Yao is still very great, so through the reform, some families are forced to tie him together, and the rest of those who are dead-eyed would rather be beaten down than left to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu to use, so that it is possible to get a stable Jiangdong, otherwise it is very likely that Sun Ce will be made a wedding dress in the end.
If there is no reform, Yuan Yao's popular will in Jiangdong may be 0, don't look at his current occupation of Danyang is smooth, but as long as there is something, 100% of the families everywhere will be against the water.
After the reform, at least some of the families will take refuge, then the people's will may rise to 50, regardless of whether they are voluntary or forced, at least the interests have begun to be tied to Yuan Yao, so that before facing the choice of anti-water, he will consider the gains and losses since he was young, if Yuan Yao can give them some more benefits, maybe he will stand firmly with him.
For example, increasing their holdings of fields; give them the right to sell rice paper; the right to distribute salt and iron exclusively by the government; In the future, the distribution rights of goods such as silk, tea, porcelain, etc., etc., etc., ......etc.,
With systematic help, Yuan Yao didn't believe that he couldn't buy these ancient people!
As Yuan Yao once said, he wants to turn Jiangdong into his Five Finger Mountain, so that Sun Ce will honestly learn from him.
Finally, there is the most serious problem, Yuan Shu was proclaimed emperor in 197 in history, that is, two years later.
As Yuan Yao's son-in-law, his interests are no longer able to choose to be tied to Yuan Shu, if he doesn't build a stable Jiangdong before Yuan Shu makes a mistake, then Yuan Yao, a traverser, may have to come to an early curtain call.
So he didn't have time to develop slowly after pacifying Jiangdong as Er Zhang said, neither Cao Cao, nor Zhou Yu, nor his cheap dad would give him this time!
He has to race against the clock, even if he has a system......