The smooth progress of military reform enabled Liu Wei to have strong support from the army. But if you want to sweep the world and revive the heroism of the Han Dynasty, the support of the army alone is not enough.

As the saying goes, there is food in the storehouse, and there is no panic in the heart. In the huge court, not only the army had to eat, but the courtiers also had to pay their money. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wars broke out frequently, on the one hand, a large amount of land was barren, and on the other hand, a large number of displaced people had no land to cultivate. In order to resume production more quickly and increase food and taxes, Liu Wei began to implement tuntian in Sili Prefecture and the surrounding areas covered by the imperial court.

Tuntian has been around since ancient times, and the first to start Tuntian in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was Xuzhou Mu Taoqian, and the best one was Cao Cao. Therefore, when Liu Wei wanted to find someone to be responsible for various matters in Tuntian, the first thing that came to mind was Cao Cao.

At the beginning of April of the second year of Guangxi, Liu Wei issued an edict to worship Cao Cao as the general of the farmer, and was in charge of the tuntian work in the territory of Sizhou, and carried out the tuntian work on the ownerless and barren fields in the whole territory of Sizhou.

Cao Cao really did not lose being a famous minister who ruled the world, and he quickly got a complete method of tuntian.

Cao Cao divided the work of Tuntian into two types: military tun and min tun. Juntun is the use of soldiers to carry out tuntian work. The soldiers ploughed in peacetime and fought wartime, neither delaying production nor abandoning the war, thus providing strong support for the full supply of military rations.

The military cantonment work of each county is mainly responsible for the military governor of each county, and the cantonment is carried out in hundreds. However, the accounting and storage of money and grain, and the supply and issuance of military rations were jointly responsible for the Tuntian Commander and the county Taishou sent by the imperial court. In this way, the mutiny or secession of the local army with military rations was prevented.

Of all the armies under Liu Wei's command, there were only two armies that could not be exempted from participating in Tuntian, and that was the Xiyuan Army and the Northern Army. They are paid by the state and trained in full-time combat. Liu Wei needed one or two full-time armies to maintain combat effectiveness.

And Mintun is to recruit ordinary people to tuntian, one tun for every 100 people, and one tun chief. There is a tuntian order on the tun chief, a tun sima, and then a pawn farmer zhonglang general. Each tun is independently established and is not subordinate to the county. The income of Tuntian is divided between the people and the state: those who use official cattle, the official 6 people 4, and those who use private cattle, the government and the people divide equally.

Mintun is the top priority of Tuntian, which is personally managed and executed by Cao Cao. Han Hao, a native of Hanoi, and Zao, a native of Yangzhai in Yingchuan, only heard that the imperial court implemented Tuntian, and they were very interested in this, so they went to Cao Cao.

After Cao Cao talked with them, he felt that they were all talents, so he wrote to Liu Wei to recommend Han Hao, Zao Yi and others.

Liu Wei, who is familiar with history, naturally knew that Han Hao and Zao Yi were the initiators and executors of the Tuntian system in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and immediately issued an edict to levy Zao Yi as Tun Sima and Han Hao as Tun Tian to assist Cao Cao in developing Tuntian.

In the early days of the development of tuntian, the people were afraid that they would not get benefits, and they did not want to be bound by the militarized establishment, so many people fled. Later, Cao Cao listened to the advice of Zao Yi and Han Hao, and wrote to Liu Wei to change the forced forced tuntian of national policy to free recruitment. At the same time, Liu Wei also issued an edict stating that the people of Tuntian could automatically own the land if they had been cultivating the land for ten years and paid the grain on time. And the court also said that in order to protect the interests of the people, it was willing to make a contract with the people.

The introduction of this measure has greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the people in Tuntian. The number of people willing to join Tuntian has increased, which not only has the problem of resettlement of displaced people in this state, but also attracted many displaced people from other states and counties, which has caused a huge increase in the population of Sizhou.

However, the most significant thing is that the act of signing a contract between the government and the people began the formation of the contract society of the Han Empire, which gradually changed the original mode of relying on morality to restrain people's behavior, and the spirit of contract gradually took root in the hearts of the people.

At the same time as the Tuntian was gradually unfolding, Liu Wei originally wanted to dig out some modern agricultural knowledge, but it is a pity that he had never worked in agriculture in his previous life when he lived in a big city, and he could be said to be blind to agricultural activities.

Although Liu Wei could not use any modern agricultural knowledge to help farmers in this era improve agricultural production, the people of the Han Dynasty at this time had summed up the agricultural planting experience of previous dynasties and had their own set of planting wisdom.

Xun Yu recommended an agricultural book to Liu Wei in an early court - "The Eighteen Chapters of Bi Sheng".

This book was written by Yan Shengzhi in the late Western Han Dynasty, and is an agricultural science book about summarizing the planting experience and operation techniques of the Yellow River Basin in the north. The book consists of 18 chapters, which mainly describe the basic principles of farming, the selection of sowing dates, the treatment of seeds, the cultivation of individual crops, and other agricultural knowledge. In particular, in the cultivation of various crops, the book describes in detail the planting methods of 13 kinds of crops, including grass, millet, wheat, rice, barnyard grass, soybean, adzuki bean, fir fir, hemp, melon, gourd, taro, and mulberry, enriching the diversity of agricultural planting.

Zheng Xuan, a scholar of scripture, once quoted it in his own works, and Cui Wei, a famous political commentator in the Huan Ling period, also used the "Eighteen Articles of Victory" as the basis in his "Four People's Moon Order".

Although "The Eighteen Chapters of Bi Sheng" has been written for a long time and has been widely circulated, it has only been circulated among readers. First, the ability to disseminate culture at that time was limited, and secondly, most of the peasants at that time were illiterate, and farming basically relied on experience passed down from generation to generation, and it was impossible to read any books.

But these problems were well solved for the Han Empire after Liu Wei's rebirth, and the invention of paper and printing made it easy and fast to spread culture. Liu Wei ordered Wei Yi's printing house not only to print the Eighteen Chapters of Bi Sheng, but also to publish the main content of the book in each issue of the Luoyang Times. In response to the problem of illiteracy among many peasants, Liu Wei sent a literary team composed of Ren Hongchang as the head of the Hongdu Gate School, and went to the countryside every day to promote the content of the book in the form of quyi. Even in each of the Tuntian bases, Liu Wei set up a working group to promote the "Eighteen Chapters of Bi Sheng" among the people and exchange experiences with local farmers.

At the same time, Liu Wei also ordered the Imperial Research Institute led by Zheng Hun and Shi Ziyi to step up the development of the quyuan plough and improve the existing dump cart to improve the existing agricultural tools.

In Qu Yuanli's previous life, Liu Wei had checked the information in this area, so he could give Zheng Hun a lot of help in the development, and it should be completed soon. However, because Liu Wei did not pay much attention to the overturned car for irrigation and water intake in his previous life, there were great difficulties in the development.

At this time, the Han Empire already had a new type of overturn, and its maker turned out to be Bi Lan, one of the ten permanent servants. In the third year of Zhongping, Bi Lan led some people to create a kind of overturned car to get water and sprinkle the road, because it had just been invented for a short time, and there were many changes in the imperial court at that time, so it was too late to spread widely.

Liu Wei couldn't invent some new rollovers in a hurry, so he had to temporarily let people promote the rollovers developed by Bi Lan. However, in Liu Wei's impression, there is always a kind of overturned car like a big wheel in the costume films of the previous life, which seems to be very practical. And it seems that there was an irrigation tool called keel waterwheel during the Three Kingdoms period.

Liu Wei couldn't help but think of Ma Jun, the inventor of the keel waterwheel, who was a great inventor in the Three Kingdoms period, and had major inventions in military and agriculture. It's just that the year of birth and death of Ma Jun in the information I read in my previous life is unknown, and I don't know where he is now, and he was born in haunts.

The promulgation of this series of pro-agricultural policies has greatly improved the grain production in Sizhou, and the types of planting have become rich and diverse, which not only meets the daily needs of the people, but also solves the food problem of the army, and some of the planting products are also produced in other prefectures and counties.

The implementation of the tuntian system enabled the imperial court to survive locust plagues and droughts in the future, and still had sufficient grain and grass when the princes were short of grain, providing a solid foundation for Liu Wei to sweep the world.

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After Liu Wei came to power, the Han Empire had become devastated due to repeated wars and natural disasters. The country is in ruins, and the hidden danger of splitting the empire still exists.

Under such circumstances, if Liu Wei wants to realize his political ideal, the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, and establish an indestructible foundation, he must get rid of the old and replace the new, and be determined to reform. However, this requires Liu to first strengthen the strength of the central government, convince the Quartet, and establish a stable environment, so that reform can be promoted.

Now, through military reform and the implementation of the tuntian system, Liu Wei has soldiers and food, and his waist is naturally much stiffer than in the past. Although the princes of the Quartet still have a wait-and-see attitude towards the imperial court, Liu Wei understands that if you want to listen to you more than others in the chaos, your fists must be hard.

The army and food are only the first step for Liu Bian, and if he wants to pacify the world and promote reform, Liu Bian knows that he must lay a solid foundation now, which requires the help of a large number of talents.

Although there are also hidden dragons and crouching tigers in the court now, these people are all former ministers and scholars in the Huan Ling era, and many of them may become the biggest obstacle to Liu Wei's future reforms.

If Liu Wei wants the reform to proceed smoothly, he must have his own lineage and team, and it is not enough to rely on Wei Yi, Jiang Qi, and Lu Zhi, he must absorb a large number of talents.

In the Han Dynasty, there were three main ways to recruit talents and select officials: the probation system, the levy system, and the appointment system.

As the name suggests, the appointment system is to select the children of officials to serve in official positions. Since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court has stipulated that all officials with more than 2,000 stone can be selected from the general selection of the children of the clan to serve as Langzhong after serving for three years. The Renzi system was a product of the feudal clan society of the Han Dynasty, which directly led to the situation of the imperial gate lords in the future. Because of this, Liu Wei will not be stupid enough to choose this method to select talents.

The probation system was a relatively advanced system for selecting officials during this period. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it began to be widely implemented, mainly through the inspection of ministers, princes and local officials, and recommended talents with high moral character and outstanding talents to the imperial court, and then after the imperial court assessment, the quantity was applied.

The inspection system was the predecessor of the imperial examination in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and its emergence directly broke the hereditary system of feudal aristocracy and had very high historical significance.

However, although the probation system is of great significance, it is not suitable for the current Liu Debate.

First, the perception system emphasizes too much on Confucian ethics and morality, putting people's moral behavior in the first place, and talent second. This is not conducive to Liu Wei's reform and the concept of meritocracy.

Second, because the probationary system mainly relies on the recommendation of others to select talents for the state, nepotism is easy to form between the recommender and the person being recommended, and forming friends with each other is not conducive to the rule of the state. The protégés of the Yuan family are all over the world, which is an example. Moreover, now that the four prefectures and county guards are all accumulating strength, in order to compete with the imperial court, if there are talents, they will naturally stay by themselves, and they will not recommend them to the imperial court at all.

With these two things, Liu Wei had no choice but to abandon the probation system and use the last type of official election system - the requisition system.

The conquest system also arose during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and was a top-down system of electing officials. It mainly includes two ways: the recruitment of the emperor and the elimination of the governors of the government and prefectures and counties. The emperor's conscription is called "levy", and the official conscription is called "pi".

Although it was rare to recruit and enter the court as officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty, especially the way of eliminating the government was also easy to form a partisan relationship with the bureaucracy, for today's Liu Bian, this way of the emperor directly promoting talents not only reflects the policy of meritocracy, but also ensures the loyalty of the selected officials to the emperor, which is very suitable for the current Liu Bian.

As a result, Liu Wei issued an edict to conquer the Quartet, and if any of the courtiers knew who was virtuous and virtuous, they could also recommend it to the emperor, and the largest expedition in the Guangxi era was vigorously launched.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter)