The twenty-fifth year of Jian'an was an easy and complete year, and it seemed that there was nothing noteworthy except for the great war that almost broke out and ended up only in a tiger's end. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In this year, after Li Sheng built a country with a different foundation, and in this way, he rejuvenated the strength that almost surpassed the sum of Cao Cao and Sun Quan, Cao Cao and Sun Quan finally recognized the fact that Li Sheng was "stronger" than himself through the battle in the first half of the twenty-fifth year, and began to learn from Li Sheng's experience to change the law in their own country.

This is a change at the time of war, and it seems to be somewhat similar to the Warring States reform that swept China 600 years ago. Although the final result of this reform was not as great as that of the Warring States period, its far-reaching impact was by no means under the former Warring States reform.

How to enrich the country and how to strengthen the army are the two most critical points in the turbulent times. No matter who presides over such a change, the most fundamental purpose is to achieve the goal of enriching the country and strengthening the army. Because it is a troubled world, people don't have much time or experience to care about the process of changing the Fa, they care about the result. As long as this result is achieved, the means used in the process and the process of changing the law in the meantime will become less important.

The monarch's own desire to support the change of law is now insignificant. Because at this time, even if the monarch himself is unwilling to carry out the change, he has to choose to support the change because the whole situation is like this. No monarch wants power to be removed from his hands. A courtier can choose to surrender, but a monarch cannot choose to surrender. Since if you don't change the law, you will fall behind, and you will be defeated, then there is only one way to choose to change the law.

And so, the change began. Cao Cao took advantage of the prestige of the Han court in his control to announce to the whole world their plan to change the law and become strong: first, to reorganize the army, complete the equipment, and declare that all those who can refine excellent weapons for the army and meet the needs of the military will not be stingy with money and titles, after all, a strong army is the basis for the whole reform to be guaranteed; Second, a new tax law will be introduced. The new tax law is linked to each person's title and official position. Establish a system of tax-exempt reserved land, starting from the first-class title owning 10 acres of reserved land to the 20th rank owning 200 acres of reserved land, establishing a hierarchical division, and ensuring that the reserved land is completely tax-exempt, while uniformly taxing the fields of the family except for the reserved land. The basis of taxation is not to be levied on the basis of the head of the household as before, but on the basis of the number of fields owned by the head and the quality of the composition; Third, the establishment of customs. set up seaports in Yandu, Qucheng, Buqi, Muping, Gancheng and other places to open up sea markets; Fourth, the people were encouraged to go to sea to trade, and all those who owned more than three ocean-going ships were given the first rank; Fifth, set up a coastal defense fleet and train the navy to prepare for a future naval confrontation with Li Sheng; Sixth, in Yanmen, Youbeiping, Liaodong and other places to open border markets, set up a border trade superintendent post to specialize in this thing, and the northern Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuhuan and other ethnic groups to communicate with each other; Ninth, innovate the talent registration mechanism, and establish an employment mechanism based on recommendation, assessment as the deputy, and the rest as the side, so as to ensure that every person with an official position has a good understanding of his own work; Tenth, it reorganizes the central organs, subdivides responsibilities in imitation of Li Sheng's setup, distinguishes the military from the government, and separates the administration from the judiciary and taxation, strengthens investment in the government and schools in various prefectures and counties, and encourages private schools.

This is about ten points, and there are naturally many more rules for these ten points. Cao Cao briefly announced the above ten points at the court meeting, but what was really handed over to everyone was a hundred catties of bamboo slips. For a while, everyone in the court was frightened by Cao Cao's throwing out such a weighty thing, and for a while they all had a feeling of numbness in their scalps. "This is a great change that has never been seen in a lifetime." They sighed, but they were somewhat unimpressed by this, "Is it really necessary?" "There may be some of them, but the change is far greater than they expected. Naturally, they wanted to raise their own objections, but in the end they kept their mouths shut - the whole Wei region was under martial law, and all the officials and the troops of the subordinate cities were sent out, and Cao Cao had already made up his mind to carry out the reform, and he was afraid that someone would oppose him, so he took the army as a guarantee to maintain the success of his reform.

Of course, all of this was done under the condition that the Cao family and the Xiahou family, together with those under Cao Cao, were approved. After all, Cao Cao's development was made through the efforts of him and those under him, and Cao Cao's strength came from the unity of those people. Although Cao Cao is the head, those people are also body and siblings. Now that I want to move, I can't get the cooperation of my body and siblings.

“…… That's compromise, a whole compromise. After reading such terms with Kong Ming, Fa Zheng, and Xu Shu, Li Sheng came up with such a sentence: "Compared with our change, Cao Cao's change seems to be thorough." He only changed some superficial things, and for the deeper ones, he didn't touch at all. ”

"So what's going on? There are many things that they know we can get the most out of this, but they just don't dare to do what we do. Basically abolishing the family members of the big family and disbanding the private soldiers of the big family is the most beneficial to the country, but what about those big families? This is completely unacceptable. The power of those big clans in the north is very strong. If there is no compromise, I am afraid that the northern families will unite against Cao Cao. Although Cao Cao was not afraid of this kind of opposition, he was also a headache. After listening to Li Sheng's words, Xu Shu on the side said this. He has traveled all over the world, and although he has never experienced these doors and ways in the north, he has heard and seen them with his own ears. He knew that the center of the whole world was still in the north, and the civilization in the north was stronger than in the south, so it was natural that the power of their families was also greater than that in the south. Generally speaking, the South has few developed fields, a small population, and a general basis for merchants to earn money, while the North has no such basis at all. In such a situation with completely different foundations, it is only natural that such a compromise will arise in the north.

"That's right. However, Cao Cao is also making changes to some extent. He also understands where the biggest source of economy is why our side can develop at the moment, and he has also developed shipping as we did at the beginning, and I think the development of Cao Cao's side should be greatly improved. But how far can Cao Cao go with this promotion? How many years will it take them to reach our level? Will their development have an impact on our future unification? These are all questions that we need to consider. "Before winning, first defeat, this is Kong Ming's consistent cautious approach. It was precisely because he was sometimes too cautious that Li Sheng did not give him the position of the staff order, but appointed him as the commander of the army. However, although joining the army and staff are two things, because Kong Ming is still a general, Li Sheng still attaches great importance to his opinion. In Li Sheng's view, excessive caution is not advisable, but it is not okay to be completely cautious. After all, everything has the potential to fail.

"I don't think there's much chance of catching up." Fa Zheng thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "The trade that makes the most money...... I mean, the trade and not the plundering that was done in Han and the Wa kingdom had the greatest profits: tea, silk, and ceramics. Tea and silk are mostly in Yizhou and Jingzhou, and Cao Cao's side is not comparable to us at all, and he can only compete with us in the porcelain trade. However, even if he completely took over the porcelain, it seems that he is still a little short of using porcelain to deal with our tea and silk like porcelain. If they can't compare with us in trade, their profits won't be high. In this way, they are developing and we are developing, but they are definitely not developing as fast as us, and the gap between the two will only get bigger and bigger, not narrower and narrower. ”

"That's right!" Li Sheng nodded with a smile, but there was a malicious look on his face: "Actually, I don't want Cao Cao to go down so easily?" The strength of the northern family is very strong, although they have formed a certain compromise with Cao Cao, but this compromise is a very unreliable compromise before Cao Cao has not completely brought their benefits. In this unreliable situation, I think the stability of Cao Cao's side will be weakened a lot because of this, and those troublesome things must be much more because of this. Don't look at Cao Cao's calm appearance now, he even sent out the army. In such a situation, he was nervous, and so were those big families. Since neither side trusts each other, and Cao Cao's side has not completely shocked the strength of these families, I am afraid that as long as there is a little spark, everything will become as I wish. ”

"The king is ready to do something to Cao Cao again?" The crowd was amazed.

"Of course, Cao Cao is the biggest obstacle to our domination of the world, if we don't weaken it and weaken it again, how can we dominate the world at a relatively small cost?" Li Sheng smiled and nodded, and said very treacherously.

"But we just signed an agreement with Cao Cao." Xu Shu seemed to have something wrong with this, so he whispered. Although he has been an official for so many years, he still has some of the righteousness of a ranger in his temperament, and he feels that it is somewhat wrong to sign an agreement with others here, and to harm others over there.

"What if it's signed. We're dealing with them in the shadows right now, using only Haoyue's men. If we succeed, that's good, but if we fail, we don't have anything to lose. Those people were dead, and this time they had made up their minds. Li Sheng laughed as he spoke. Obviously, he was smiling happily. However, happiness is his own business, because his smile is so treacherous in the eyes of everyone.

In this way, Li Sheng laughed for a while, and several people began to talk about the next problem. This time, the target was not on Cao Cao, but turned their attention to the east, and they began to discuss the matter of Sun Quan's side. There is no official article on Sun Quan's side about the change so far, but Li Sheng can be sure that Sun Quan's side has indeed prepared for change. Through Bai Yi's investigation, some clues about Sun Quan were found. Li Sheng just got an important news: Sun Quan's side had quietly recalled several important ministers he had originally sent to other places to Jianye, and it seemed that he had a plan.

"Changing the law to become strong, that is what every monarch does, and Sun Quan is naturally no exception. With both Cao Cao and us making their own changes, Sun Quan didn't want to be defeated, so he had to choose to follow us in the end. Li Sheng said such a call, paused slightly, but asked the people here: "What kind of arrangements will you make for the changes on their side with Sun Quan's personality?" ”

"Is Sun Quan over there? I'm afraid they won't make any changes in their actions. Xu Shu thought for a while, shook his head and said.

"Do you think so too? Kong Ming!? Li Sheng listened to Xu Shu's answer noncommittally, and turned his head to ask Zhuge Liang on the other side.

"Change is certain, but the pace of change on Sun Quan's side will be smaller than Cao Cao's." Zhuge Liang replied.

"Why?" Li Sheng was very puzzled by this.

"Has the king forgotten the true situation in Jiangdong?" Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and reminded Li Sheng softly.

"The real situation in Koto?" When Kong Ming said this, Li Sheng suddenly got up: Compared with himself, who had already suppressed the family family, Cao Cao's family was certainly powerful, but such a strong family was never as strong as Jiangdong's. There is a saying that there are six families in Jiangdong in Jiangdong. The so-called six Jiangdong families refer to the six Jiangdong families, namely the Wu family, the Lu family, the Zhu family, the Gu family, the Zhou family, and the Zhang family, which does not include the Sun family to which Sun Quan belongs. In fact, the key to the fact that the Sun family was able to become the lord of Jiangdong was to obtain the support of these six families. Strictly speaking, it was the Sun family recognized by the six families in Jiangdong, and the Sun family was able to exist in Jiangdong. If these six families have any opinion of the Sun family, then the rule of the Sun family will be very bad. If Cao Cao's rule is that Cao Cao, the head of the family, united many large and small families to rule, and Cao Cao himself can still speak among the family, then the rule of the Sun family in Jiangdong is the rule of the six families in Jiangdong united to support the Sun family. On the surface, the two seem to be somewhat similar, but in fact, Cao Cao himself still has a certain suppression ability for the He family, while the Sun family has completely lost such suppression, on the contrary, no matter what they do, they need to compromise with the six major families. This is a difference in quantity, but it is this difference in quantity that causes Jiangdong itself to be different from Cao Cao in dealing with change.

“…… If Cao Cao would support the change of law for seven points, and eventually achieve five points; So on the Jiangdong side, Sun Quan supported five points, and in the end he could only achieve three points. Although Sun Quan was younger than Cao Cao and did what he did, it was the same. Looking at the pensive Li Sheng, Kong Ming said slowly.

"In other words, we don't have any hope for Sun Quan at all?" Li Sheng looked at Kong Ming and said a little lonely. He seemed disappointed that Sun Quan did not make changes.

"Of course not." Kong Ming shook his head heavily: "The six major families in Jiangdong, although the family has some maintenance of the privileges of the family, there is no shortage of people with long-term vision among them. For the current situation, they naturally understand it. They also clearly knew that if Jiangdong did not carry out reform and development, it would fall behind in the process of fighting for hegemony, and even be defeated in the end. Originally, such a defeat was nothing to them, but now that we and Cao Cao are making changes, if Jiangdong is defeated again under such circumstances, it will undoubtedly be a loser and bear the rules after our change. This is unbearable in the eyes of those people in Jiangdong. It is because they will be more supportive of Sun Quan and guide the change on Sun Quan's side. In their view, rather than accepting the rules set by others, it is better to make the rules themselves. Of course, such a rule will not lose much for them. Kong Ming pondered this and came to this conclusion.

"That means they're going to make some changes, but they won't be going to touch on anything deeper?" Li Sheng guessed what Kong Ming meant by that, and asked, "Can you explain this in detail?" ”

"Okay!" Kong Ming nodded seriously, and while thinking, he explained: "The lord fought such a battle with the naval army in Xuzhou and Qingzhou, but he has opened a new door to the naval army. Even Cao Cao realized the importance of the navy from this, not to mention Jiangdong, who has always attached great importance to the navy and regarded the navy as the cornerstone of his security? Further strengthening the development of the naval army is something that Jiangdong will definitely do. At the same time, like Cao Cao in the north, they will attach importance to the development of maritime trade while attaching importance to the development of naval forces. They don't have too much money, so knowing that they can make a lot of money by engaging in overseas trade, the people of Jiangdong will definitely develop their own ocean-going fleet. These are probably the two main aspects of the changes they are making. As for the reform of taxation and the reform of employing people, they will not carry it out. After all, reforming taxes is to make the money of their families suffer a great loss, and reforming and employing people is to weaken their interests in the political regime, which is a very unfavorable thing for them, and they will never do it. ”

"Is that so? They only carry out the development of the navy and the sea, and do not further carry out the reform of the system and taxation, right? Li Sheng asked in confirmation.

"Exactly." Kong Ming nodded: "This is the most conducive to the stability of Jiangdong." ”

"Conducive to the stability of Koto? Maybe! But the changes made on the Jiangdong side are so at least, aren't they afraid that their own people will flee quickly after comparing them with ours or Cao Cao's system? I remember that the highest tax payer among the three of us was the Sun family. Li Sheng thought for a moment and asked.

"The average person doesn't know much about these things, they don't know much about it. As long as the Jiangdong side controls this more properly and kills a few people who dare to move away as an example, I am afraid that there will be no turmoil on the Jiangdong side because of this. Moreover, there has always been a habit of plundering the population in Koto. Now that maritime affairs are about to open, there are people overseas, and I am afraid that sooner or later they will be known by the people of Jiangdong. At that time, I am afraid that Jiangdong will plunder the overseas people back. ”

"Hah...... It's not out of the question. Li Sheng smiled and nodded, listening to Kong Ming's words, he remembered an incident he had seen in his later life: there is such a saying, that the reason why Jiangdong sent people to Yizhou was actually to plunder the population of Yizhou. I don't know where Sun Quan heard that Yizhou has a population of tens of thousands and its strength is not strong, so he sent a guy named Wei Wen to drive more than a dozen large ships and bring tens of thousands of people to Yizhou. They were very bold and thought they would get a lot of benefits, but they didn't want to go to sea and soon encountered a storm. Although they finally arrived at their destination, they lost a lot of manpower, but the mountain people of Yizhou did not see much. The original activities carried out in order to plunder the population on a large scale turned into a loss of population, and only more than 5,000 of the tens of thousands of armor soldiers eventually returned, while the population they plundered Yizhou was only two or three thousand, which can be regarded as not enough to make ends meet. There is a legend that Sun Quan vomited three liters of blood in this regard.

After thinking about such a question for a while, Li Sheng was surprised to find that the people on Sun Quan's side seemed to have some European potential in later generations. Although they speak very high-sounding on the surface, they are all talking about benevolence, righteousness, morality, Confucian classics and the like, but it seems that in fact they are not opposed to recruiting slaves, and even have the consciousness to do such things. "Hmm...... If that's the case, then can we let go of some rules and guide Sun Quan to do something we can't do? It's always a bit far away to go to Europe to trade black slaves, but there are still a large number of people in places close to us, such as Poison, Yueshi, Sanhan, and Wakoku. If we can snatch these people and make slaves for us, then ...... Isn't it great? Thinking like this, Li Sheng couldn't help but show a treacherous smile on his face.

"Your Majesty? What are you thinking about again? How can there be such an expression? It always makes people feel a little flustered. Seeing Li Sheng smile like this, everyone suddenly felt that their hearts were cold, but they were a little agitated and accelerated. However, although they had some heart palpitations, they didn't do anything to stop Li Sheng's thoughts. In their opinion, Li Sheng's thoughts and actions are very beneficial to their side. Although the means are a little bad, those bad means are all secret. And these secrets, no one will say anything to accuse, after all, whether it is Cao Cao or Sun Quan, they are all using quite tricks in private.

“…… These are things that you know but can't make public. Everyone thought like this, looking at the increasingly deep smile on Li Sheng's face and was a little curious: "What is the lord thinking?" ”

“…… These are things that you know but can't make public. Everyone thought like this, looking at the increasingly deep smile on Li Sheng's face and was a little curious: "What is the lord thinking?" ”

They were tempted to ask this question, and although they didn't say it, their actual eyes revealed it. However, Li Sheng, who had obviously seen their eyes, turned his head slightly and said nothing. It's just that after a while, he lightly ordered: "By the way, let me increase the reconnaissance of the Jiangdong side." ”

"No!" Everyone took the order, although they didn't quite know what Li Sheng wanted to do.

Although Cao Cao and Sun Quan both coincidentally strengthened their own intelligence construction and had a certain impact on Li Sheng's white clothes, as the strongest intelligence organization in the world, Bai Yi's reconnaissance ability was still top-notch. After Li Sheng expressed that he attached great importance to the changes on Sun Quan's side, relevant information about Jiangdong, especially the records of conversations between the monarch and ministers, was continuously sent to Li Sheng, allowing Li Sheng to have a further understanding of the situation in Jiangdong.

Everything is as Kong Ming said, Jiangdong's reform is mainly focused on the construction of the navy and the expansion of maritime trade, but they have not changed anything about the things that can play a vital role in the development of the country by designing a fundamental system.

"Still arguing?" Li Sheng muttered about this, and seemed a little surprised in his heart: "Since it is a quarrel, it means that the people on the Jiangdong side are not completely denying such a reform?" Li Sheng thought so, and immediately issued an order to Bai Yi: "Quickly find out for me the respective opinions of those big families in Jiangdong on this matter." ”

"No......!" Bai Yi acted very quickly, and within a few days, he put the information that Li Sheng needed in front of Li Sheng. Li Sheng read these things carefully, but he generally understood the current situation in Jiangdong: the current Jiangdong from Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, to his ministers, is roughly divided into two factions, represented by Sun Quan, the faction that is determined to reform with the Wu family, the Zhou family, and the Zhu family, and the conservative faction represented by Zhang Zhao, who follows the Gu family and the Lu family. Most of the people in Jiangdong threw themselves into these two factions, and fought a party struggle based on the distinction between the factions.

"It's a mess." Li Sheng pressed his forehead with a headache and said helplessly. Although the forces of Koto are divided into two factions based on the boundaries of their respective families, the personnel between the two factions are intricate. For example, the Wu family, as the uncle of Sun Quan, the lord of Wu, naturally spoke with Sun Quan, but as the largest landlord in the entire Jiangdong, he helped Zhang Zhao's people speak slightly intentionally or unintentionally. Speaking of the Lu family, the current head of the family, Lu Ji, is firmly on the side of Zhang Zhao's conservatives, but the next head of the Lu family is considered to be a genius, but Lu Xun is dead following Sun Quan's steps. This seems to have something to do with the Lu family's family business - who made the Lu family both landlords and maritime merchants.

"There is already a ring on the Jiangdong side, you can help me see if there is anything we can use in it." Li Sheng gathered several of his strategists, and immediately began to plan the conspiracy: "Regarding the matter on Cao Cao's side, I have almost determined it. I could have fully predicted that Cao Cao would be in great trouble in the near future. But at the moment, I don't think so much about the issue of Koto. Don't look at these people in Jiangdong who are so cheerful at the moment, but as long as they savor it carefully, their cheerfulness is controlled to a certain extent. After listening to Kong Ming's analysis last time, we fully understand that the quarrel on the Jiangdong side will eventually form a compromise. After all, there isn't that much fundamental conflict between the two. It's just that their compromise is something we don't want to see, and I hope that our people can stop this compromise from happening, and at the very least, we must let this compromise drag on. ”

"The lord is going to make them completely chaotic?" Kong Ming asked Li Sheng with a smile, and he seemed to have guessed the purpose of Li Sheng's proposal here.

"Yes." Li Sheng nodded approvingly: "Such a quarrel will delay the development of Jiangdong's strength, and it is very beneficial for us to slow down the development of any non-local force." Li Sheng smiled and said his reason.

"Well...... It's good that the Lord Guild has such an idea. However, ......" The smile on Kong Ming's face was a little strange: "After I carefully analyzed Jiangdong's actions in this matter, I feel that Jiangdong's quarrel should not have happened. Well...... Exactly, they're making a joke! ”

"What?" As soon as Kong Ming's words came out, Li Sheng and several people around him couldn't help but widen their eyes and raised their voices: "...... acting?" ”