However, the poll tax in the Eastern Han Dynasty was very heavy, especially in the late period, each household needed to pay 200 yuan per year; Adult men also have to pay 300 yuan a year, and those who are disabled are not exempt; All children aged 1~14 years old, regardless of gender, have to pay 23 yuan per year; Adult poll tax is called calculation, 15~56 years old, regardless of men and women, each person pays 120 per year, merchants and slaves are doubled, 240 yuan per person per year, in order to encourage childbirth, women 15~30 years old who do not marry are divided into five classes, and each liter is levied and calculated; If a woman becomes pregnant, her husband is exempt from paying for one year; There are also indiscriminate apportionment of contributions, all adult men and women, each of whom has to give 63 yuan to the emperor every year for the court expenses, and there are many local indiscriminate fees, too many to mention.

In addition, the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty also had a heavy burden of forced labor, that is, every man who reached the age of 17 had to serve one month of unpaid labor in the place of household registration every year, engaged in civil engineering, building bridges and roads, treating rivers and canals, transferring Cao Valley and other infrastructure labor. It is said that the levy is limited to 30 days, but as long as the quality of the project is not up to standard and it needs to be reworked, it is not counted in the fixed service period, which shows that the levy is actually often more than one month, and because of the relationship between the emperor and the emperor, it is never new for local officials to issue levy labor indiscriminately. Many people are suffering from forced labor, so they simply pay people to pay for their own labor, which is another few hundred dollars out.

In this way, on average, a family of four pays at least 800 to 2,000 yuan a year to the government.

During that period of history, after Cao Cao conquered Yecheng, in view of the heavy poll tax in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he changed it to household modulation, and collected four buckets of land rent per mu from yeoman farmers and landlords, and each household produced two horses of silk and two catties of cotton.

In this comparison, Wei Yan's levy ratio of four buckets of grain per mu of land is not high, because those tenant farmers who are attached to the landlords of the family have to pay more than 50% of the grain to the landlords every year, which is equivalent to paying 20 buckets of grain per mu of land, and the exploitation is so heavy, why are they still willing to rely on the landlords of the family, first, they are forced by the landlords of the family, and second, because the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the imperial court and the local government are too many, which are far more than 50% of the land rent, and these tenant farmers are attached to the landlords of the family. Protected by the family's armed forces, the safety of life was guaranteed.

Careful calculations, originally the Eastern Han Dynasty's land tax was 30 taxes and 1, converted to the field endowment is an acre of land to collect one bucket and three liters, Wei Yan under the control of the government at all levels into the mu, more than two buckets and seven liters to deduct other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, a family of four, allocated to 40 acres of land, is an extra 10 stones, according to the market price of 200 yuan per stone of grain, about more than 2,000 yuan, calculated more than the government levy taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

As a matter of fact, yeoman farmers will not settle accounts in this way and feel that they are at a loss, because the current grain price is the wartime grain price, which is very vain, four or five times higher than the real grain price, and if the grain price returns to normal, the extra grain handed over by one of their families is only equivalent to more than 400 yuan, which is far less than what they paid before, and it is better to be stable.

Except for the landlords of the family who can settle accounts, no one complains about the free yeoman farmers, because the land they get is guaranteed by the Wei army, and they will no longer be forcibly seized and annexed by the landlords of the family as in the past, and the evenly divided fields they have allocated in their hands have followed them for generations, ten acres of land per person, two or three times more than before, as long as they are not lazy, they farm well, and there is no problem with abundant food and clothing, because the price of grain is very high now, four or five times that of the past, and they pay a hundred percent of the grain as a tax, and keep enough for themselves to eat, The rest was sold to the Wei army in exchange for coins to buy other necessities, no need to worry about other things, no need to worry about other things, no need to worry about being smashed in the middle of the night to pay other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and there is no need to worry about being forcibly conscripted, because Wuhou Wei Yan issued an order, and in the future, the people will take advantage of the agricultural slack season, and they will have a salary of 100 yuan every day.

Wei Yan levied taxes in kind, one is to hoard grain for the war, and the other is to avoid cheap grain and hurt the peasants, Wei Yan knows that the grassroots officials below have a very serious desire to harm the people and enrich themselves, if the people are allowed to pay taxes with copper money, those officials will unite with those businessmen to lower the price of grain, hurting the image of the government, hurting the common people, and fattening the small number of rats.

Under Wei Yan's deliberate management, many tenant farmers who were attached to the family landlords fled from the family estates and defected to the government at all levels under the control of the Wei army, and the Wei army intervened to help them break their leases with the family landlords and distribute them land according to the standards of yeoman farmers.

In fact, the tenant farmers of the Eastern Han Dynasty basically did not bind themselves to the fixed grange of a landlord for life, and had more personal freedom, theoretically there was the feasibility of changing jobs and changing careers, in addition to the condition that the land could be bought and sold and changed hands, a small number of tenant farmers could also rise to the space of self-cultivated farmers and even officials, such as Yang Zhen of the Eastern Han Dynasty's famous minister Hongnong Yang, who was a tenant farmer before his career, and the history of Yang Zhen was "less lonely and poor, living alone with his mother, planting and breeding in fake fields, in order to provide for support", but at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the nature of many family landlords has changed, They supported their own troops, and regarded those tenant farmers as their own source of soldiers, and even as their own slaves, and forbade the tenant farmers to escape from the manor without permission, and this generational slave system, which was called the tribal system, could have been extended to the Sui and Tang dynasties, but unfortunately met Wei Yan, who was born out of nowhere, and was doomed to the collapse of this so-called tribal system.

Wei Yan prepared to sweep the Hetao area this time, for which he used a lot of money, dispatching 100,000 horses, including 20,000 infantry and 80,000 cavalry, as well as Zhang Yan's 40,000 infantry, Southern Xiongnu's 40,000 cavalry, and 180,000 troops.

In addition, Wei Yan also requisitioned 100,000 county soldiers from Sizhou and Bingzhou, who assisted them in wartime, and as the war progressed, after the ten fortresses were built, these 100,000 county soldiers were stationed here to defend against the nomads in the north.

The more than 200,000 tenant farmers who came out of the family manor, those who escaped from the family manor one after another, and the displaced people who poured into Bingzhou from other war-torn areas, as well as the people of nearby Sili, Yongzhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Youzhou, were all attracted by the notices posted by the Wei army everywhere: "Do you want to make a fortune? Please come to the Loop! The Yellow River is nine meanders, plugged into the small south of the Yangtze River. Each person can get 20 acres of fertile land, and the Wei army will provide cattle, seeds, and farm tools, as long as you open up the wasteland and sow seeds, and only need to participate in the construction of canals and cities in the leisure time, you can be exempted from tax for three years. ”

Those tenant farmers who were squeezed by more than 50% of the landlords' land rents and frequent labor and labor, those yeoman farmers who were exploited by the excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the princes and local officials of the family, and those refugees who had given up hope of begging everywhere, every time they walked to a notice, they would be read out to them and told them in detail that the government had a major plan to develop the Hetao area, but only one million people were needed in the early stageand never again.

Hu Jia, the city guard of Puyang, was riding a horse to inspect the city, when he suddenly saw a notice posted on a high wall, and a person stood in front of the notice, explaining the notice to the people who gathered around.

Hu Jia dispersed the people, and Ce immediately stepped forward to see that it turned out to be a notice from the Wei army, recruiting the people to develop the Hetao.

Hu Jia has followed Cao Cao for many years and is loyal to Cao Cao, he is worried about the development of Wei Yan's power, Puyang is close to Bingzhou, and Wei Yan's clutches will sooner or later reach Puyang, so Hu Jia saw Wei Yan's people posting notices here, blatantly attracting the local people to develop the Hetao for Wei Yan, his fat and oily face couldn't help twitching, and he was furious, and ordered the people who read the notice to be killed, intimidating the local people not to follow Wei Yan's people to develop the Hetao.

The person who read the notice was a supernumerary member of the Wei army Fengyingwei in the local area, and the news that he was killed by Hu Jia quickly spread to Fengyingwei, and the commander of Fengyingwei made Wei Yu think that this was just a normal sacrifice of a supernumerary, and it was no big deal, so he was ready to ignore it, and it happened that Wei Yan went to the headquarters of Fengyingwei to ask how the situation was in mobilizing people to develop the Hetao in various places, and he noticed the news that the supernumerary was killed by Hu Jia, the guard of Puyang City.

Wei Yan was furious: "Hu Jia, Cao Cao's loyal dog, he killed the people sent by Benhou for the benefit of his master, he wanted to give Benhou a warning, if Benhou retreated, the loyal dogs in other places would follow suit, and those people who originally wanted to go to the Hetao would cower!" This kind of thing, Ben Hou doesn't want it to happen again, and the king is coming sooner and more! ”

In the past few months, Wang Yue has been teaching swordsmanship to a thousand special staff members, who are subordinate to the operations departments of the three major intelligence organizations and specialize in handling some tricky matters.

Wei Yan didn't want to send agents so early, but Hu Jia's actions angered him, so Wei Yan asked Wang Yue to send a few agents to infiltrate Puyang City, and a day later, Hu Jia's fat dog head hung high in Puyang City.

Cao Cao was angry and angry, and wanted to send troops to fight Wei Yan, but he was afraid that if he angered Wei Yan, his wife and concubines and sons in Yiyang New Town would die.

Moreover, he and Lu Bu were already entangled, and Lu Bu was much more difficult to deal with now than before, and he had no strength left to deal with Wei Yan at all.

He had to grit his teeth and say, "Pass the order, let those people post notices here, let them read the notices, and don't embarrass them." ”

One of the counselors asked, "Lord, shall we not stop the people below us from being instigated to leave by these men?" ”

Cao Cao said hatefully: "If we block it, Wei Yan will have other means at that time, since those untouchables have no intention of being my vassals, forcing them to stay here, it will only evolve into the Yellow Turban Remnants, it is better to let them go, so as not to harm the place." ”

At the same time, the loyal dogs of the princes of the family who had beheaded the people who read the notice were assassinated by agents sent by Wang Yue, and their heads were hung on the head of the city.

Wei Yan has analyzed with the strategists, among the three major forces in the Hetao area, Qianghu has been in decay and fragmentation after a hundred years of war with the Han court, and the momentum has not recovered, since Liu Bao was supported by Wei Yan to become the new Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu, half of the Southern Xiongnu cavalry is in the hands of Wei Yan, and those scattered Southern Xiongnu tribes are not to be afraid, and the rest are the Xianbei people who are entrenched in Yunzhong County, Wuyuan County, and Dai County, and Wei Yan's biggest opponent in the Hetao area is the Xianbei people.

It turned out that when Xianbei Laoshan was in Tanshihuai, he had defeated Fuyu in the east, attacked Wusun in the west, chased Ding Ling in the north, disturbed the Han border in the south, and had the hometown of the Xiongnu, more than 12,000 miles from east to west, more than 7,000 miles from north to south, covering mountains and rivers, water, and salt ponds, and established a strong Xianbei tribal alliance.

Tanshi Huai divided the territory into three parts, eastern, central, and west, about 60 eups, and each placed the lord as the leader and placed it under its control. In the east, from the east of the right Beiping to Liaodong, it borders with Fuyu and Haoqian, a total of more than 20 yi, and its adults are Mijia, Que Ji, Suli, Huaitou. In the middle, from the west of the right Beiping to the upper valley, more than 10 yi, its adults are Ke Shi, Que Ju, Murong, etc., all of whom are handsome. In the west, from the west of the upper valley to Dunhuang, the west is connected to Wusun, more than 20 yi, and its adults have the place of Luoluo, Tuoba Tuiyin, banquet Liyou, etc., all of them are handsome. The major people cut the land and ruled, each has its own boundary, all belong to Tanshi, with 100,000 soldiers, especially the Huns.

Cai Yong once analyzed the reason for the strong military alliance of Tanshi Huai: "Since the escape of the Xiongnu, Xianbei is strong, according to its hometown. Weigh 100,000 soldiers, talent and strength, and wisdom is beneficial. The customs are not tightly closed, the forbidden network is leaky, and the fine gold and iron are all thieves. The Han people fled to make a living for it, and the soldiers were more than the Huns. Cai Yong once wrote this analysis into a seal and presented it to Emperor Han Ling, who listened to it.

In 177 A.D., that is, the sixth year of Emperor Xiping of Han Ling, Tanshi Huai disturbed the three sides again, and the Han sent 30,000 troops, divided into three attacks, but was defeated by Tanshi Huai, and the Han soldiers died seven or eight out of ten.

This time, Wei Yan sent 200,000 troops, and he used his troops cautiously, step by step, and he should not repeat the mistakes of the past, because the current Xianbei has fallen into pieces.

Around the fourth year of Emperor Guanghe of the Han Dynasty (181 AD), Tanshi Huai died, and his son and Lian succeeded to the throne, and Lian had no talent, sex and greed, the law was uneven, and half of the people were traitors. In the last years of Emperor Ling, He Lian was shot dead when he was in Beidi County. His son Qian Man is young, and his brother is the head of the leader.

Now Xianbei is Kuitou, Kuitou does not have the prestige of Tanshi Huai, the Xianbei in the west of Daijun do not listen to his orders, only the Xianbei people in the east of Daijun still barely obey the orders of him and his younger brother Budugen, but the central and eastern Xianbei in the east of Daijun are also divided into three, one of which is Kuitou and Budugen brothers, whose subordinates are distributed in Yanmen and Yunzhong County, and the other is Kebineng, whose subordinates are distributed in Daijun and Shanggu in Youzhou; The third is Xianbei Suli, Mijia and Que Ji in the east, and the people are distributed in Liaoxi, Youbeiping, and Yuyang outside Youzhou.

Wei Yan is ready to sweep the Hetao, and now it is the Xianbei in the west that occupies the northern part of the Hetao, such as Zhiluoluo, Tuoba Tuiyin, and Yanliyou, etc., and these tribes have more than 200,000 people, although the sphere of influence is from the west of Shanggu to Dunhuang and Wusun to the west, but their core area is still the Hetao area with abundant water and grass.