Chapter 411: Captain of the Pawn Farm
Liu Xin couldn't help but pat his head and sighed, his luck was really good, he was able to draw Deng Ai to help him in advance. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although Deng Ai is a late bloomer, Deng Ai is also a first-class historical figure of the Three Kingdoms, and he also belongs to that kind of all-round talent, whether it is in politics or commandery, Deng Ai can occupy a place.
Of course, the most important thing is the sentence mentioned by Su Jia, Deng Ai is of great help to Liu Xin's next plan, and Liu Xin's next plan is naturally the "farming" plan that he likes to see, after all, according to Liu Xin and Su Jia's research, as well as their understanding of the evil taste of heaven, Liu Xin and Su Jia both think that they still have about a year of buffer time, basically a year later, Liu Xin must find a way to let the Yellow Turban Uprising begin, after all, Liu Xin doesn't want to wait until Emperor Han Ling drives the crane west, Let's deal with this Yellow Turban Uprising again, so Liu Xin and Su Jia have a common idea, that is, no matter what the situation is, Liu Xin will force Zhang Jiao to launch the Yellow Turban Uprising a year later, and put down the Yellow Turban Rebellion before Emperor Han Ling drove the crane west.
So for Liu Xin, now he only has one year left to "farm", although Liu Xin has a lot of good things in his hands, whether it is crop seeds or agricultural tools, Liu Xin has good things in his hands that surpass the cognition of this era, and he can definitely get rid of other princes in this era for several streets.
But at this time, the problem came, because the time was urgent, and then it was necessary to lay a grain foundation for the unification of the chaotic Han Dynasty, so it was imperative for Liu Xin to store grain, so after a long time of discussion, Liu Xin and Su Jia had already discussed a decision, that is, when Liu Xin left Luoyang and returned to Yizhou, he began to implement the military tun system in the late Wei period in the history of the Three Kingdoms. A military cantonment according to the local situation stationed a different number of soldiers, these soldiers half soldiers, half civilian, usually responsible for the cultivation of the cantonment, if there is a local bandit or rebellion, these soldiers in the cantonment can quickly gather to exterminate these thieves and traitors, of course, when a large-scale war occurs, the soldiers in these military cantonments can also respond quickly, directly with the order to the front line, than the traditional troops to respond much faster.
Of course, this military system is still somewhat flawed in Liu Xin's view, and the Tang Dynasty implemented a few hundred years later compared with the government soldier system, after all, in the final analysis, the government soldier system is the ultimate evolution of the military system, usually responsible for cultivating their own land, every year according to a certain round to participate in training and defense work, to the war will also "select" the government soldiers to participate in the war, of course, the most important thing is that the weapons of the government soldiers belong to their own equipment, the king only needs to provide them with land and meritorious service.
However, Liu Xin also discussed this issue with Su Jia, whether it was possible to implement a more advanced government soldier system in Yizhou, but the result was naturally not, because the steps were too big and easy to pull lightly, and such a small place as Yizhou was not suitable for the implementation of the government soldier system.
The reason is very simple, first of all, the population problem of Yizhou, according to the method of the government soldier system "select" the government soldiers, basically a household elects a government soldier, although Liu Xin does not know how many households there are in Yizhou, but Liu Xin asked Huang Quan how many households are in Chengdu, and the answer given by Huang Quan made Liu Xin very speechless - there are about 500 households in Chengdu City.
Why is there only about 500 households in the huge city of Chengdu? After all, according to Liu Xin's previous calculations, there should be about 20,000 or 30,000 people in Chengdu, and excluding some floating population, the population in Chengdu is at least about 20,000.
According to the calculation of 500 households, there are about 40 people on this household in Chengdu, which is obviously abnormal... It's strange, this is very normal in Huang Quan's opinion, because about half of the population in Chengdu City belongs to black households, and these black households are attached to the families in Chengdu City, as the descendants and tenants of these families, and these families in Luoyang City often have hundreds of people on one household registration, especially more than 200 people directly on the Zhang family in Shu County, so there are about 500 households in the entire Chengdu City, or even less.
After all, over the years, the Han Dynasty has been in turmoil, whether it is natural disasters or man-made disasters, which have led to the displacement of a large number of ordinary people, thus allowing them to "cancel off" their local household registration, and these "black households" have either fled to the deep mountains and old forests, or have been taken in and hidden by those big families, so that these "black households" have become slaves of the big families.
Liu Xin also understands this truth, and also knows that it is very troublesome to solve this problem, after all, in the era of the Han Dynasty, population is the most valuable wealth, and when those families took in these "black households", they also annexed the land of these "black households" by the way, so these "black households" should have paid the taxes to the state to those families, which shows that it is impossible for the families to take the initiative to give up these "black households".
When Liu Xin thought of this, he couldn't help but think of the end of the Three Kingdoms period, in the national data of the Jin Kingdom, the population had decreased by more than eighty percent compared with the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, which was completely unreasonable data, after all, although there were decades of war and many natural and man-made disasters, it could not lead to the loss of so many people, so it was reminiscent of the exaggerated land annexation of the Jin family and the unprecedented strength of the family, so Liu Xin could guess that the "black household" in the Jin period There are even more than the number of people who are in the household!
Therefore, this is also the reason why Liu Xin accepted the task of "saving the common people" given by Tiandao, after all, for Liu Xin, the "dead population" counted by Tiandao has at least about half of the water, which is equivalent to Liu Xin completing about half of the task progress at the beginning, so Liu Xin feels that he has a great advantage.
Therefore, if the government soldier system is implemented, a household population selects a government soldier, then taking Chengdu as an example, a maximum of 500 government soldiers will be selected in Chengdu, and these 500 will be divided into at least two shifts for rotation, which is compared with the current 1,000 officers and soldiers in Chengdu City divided into two classes for random exchange, which directly reduces half of the troops, which is not good news for Liu Xin.
As for letting those big families "discover their consciences" and decide to release the "black households" hidden by these big families to become the people of the Han Dynasty again, Liu Xin can only say "hehe, smile", isn't this a joke, who will give up their own interests?
Therefore, Liu Xin can be sure that if the government soldier system is implemented in Yizhou, Liu Xin will be able to recruit about 10,000 government soldiers in Yizhou even if he selects two government soldiers with one household registration, and now according to Huang Quan's data to Liu Xin, the total strength of the official army in Yizhou is about 30,000 to 40,000, and if you add troops such as the city guard, there are a total of about 50,000 troops in Yizhou.
As for the second reason, there are two major features of the government soldier system - the first is that the government soldiers provide their own weapons and equipment, and each squad of government soldiers also has to prepare various logistics items, such as a donkey used to transport their own luggage, which is not a small amount of money; However, this depends on the second feature of the government soldier system, that is, to give these government soldiers' families a sufficient amount of land, and reduce taxes, and will also give these government soldiers a better promotion channel, so that these government soldiers have higher morale.
But now the problem is also obvious, that is, although Liu Xin has become the assassin of Yizhou, the area that can actually be controlled is near Chengdu, at most one more county is added, and then coupled with the topographical reasons of Yizhou, as well as the original land pattern of Yizhou, Liu Xin can use very limited land, not even the land of a hundred government soldiers can not be given, not to mention that these ordinary government soldiers now do not have enough money to arm themselves, so Liu Xin has to admit that this government soldier system does not work in Yizhou at all.
Therefore, Liu Xin can only retreat and choose the military tun system proposed and improved by Deng Ai, because this system has to be said to be very suitable for the current Liu Xin, Liu Xin can directly break up all the existing officers and troops in Yizhou today, and some of the more elite Yizhou officers and soldiers can be transferred to the first batch of professional soldiers in Yizhou, and the elite Imperial Forest Army brought back by Liu Xin from Luoyang is responsible for leading the training to form the first professional army in Yizhou and even the Han Dynasty. Liu Xin has already prepared all the logistical needs needed to form a professional army of about 10,000 people, whether it is weapons and equipment or soldiers.
As for those Yizhou officers and soldiers who did not become the first batch of professional soldiers in Yizhou, they were naturally transformed into Yizhou Tuntian soldiers, and Liu Xin would pay a certain price to "exchange" some land from those big families in Yizhou to set up as Tuntian camps for Tuntian soldiers, and the taxes of these Tuntian soldiers would be at least half lower than that of ordinary farmers.
Therefore, according to the plan prepared by Liu Xin, Yizhou will have a professional army of about 10,000 people, and a tuntian army of about 50,000 people, which is enough to meet the needs of the war in the early stage, and it will not lead to the regression of Yizhou's agriculture because of the vigorous development of the army.
Therefore, Liu Xin had made all preparations for the military tun system in Yizhou, but Liu Xin only discovered a very serious problem at this time - that is, Liu Xin could not find a suitable candidate for the post of lieutenant of Diannong.
The captain of the agricultural school is an official position set up by Cao Cao specifically for the tuntian system, that is, the highest official position in charge of the tuntian, to put it bluntly, the "minister of agriculture".
And before Deng Ai appeared, Liu Xin really couldn't find a suitable candidate to become this "Dian Agricultural School Captain", to put it simply, after Liu Xin's generals were all excluded, including all-round talents like Jiang Wei, Liu Xin's scribes did not meet the requirements, or they were too condescending, after all, scribes like Zhang Song and Qin Mi were "dedicated to reading sage books", and their talents in other political affairs were very good, but Liu Xin did not expect them to be able to have insight in agriculture, Even Liu Xin can say that their level in agriculture is not as good as that of an ordinary old farmer, after all, there is a specialization in the art industry.
Although the official position of the captain of the agricultural school is the kind of official position of "being able to write and martial arts", Liu Xin can arrange a military general to be in charge of the position of the captain of the agricultural school, but this was also vetoed by Liu Xin, after all, although there are many generals under Liu Xin, but the gap is still very obvious, after all, although Yizhou is in the hinterland of the Han Dynasty, but if it is really a time of chaos in the world, Yizhou must beware of the barbarians and the Jiaozhou region in the south, the Jingzhou region in the east, and then guard the Xiayin Pass in the northern region, Of course, Yizhou's offensive direction is also these three directions, so under Liu Xin and Su Jia's initial plan, Liu Xin will divide Yizhou into three major defense areas, so the number of generals under Liu Xin is already stretched.
Therefore, Liu Xindu began to think about letting Su Jia be in charge of the part-time captain of the agricultural school first, and then waiting until the first batch of students of the agricultural department of Chengdu College graduated, and let the most outstanding students take up the position of the captain of the agricultural school.
Of course, now this problem has been solved, after all, Deng Ai, the representative of the Diannong School Captain, is ready to take refuge under his hands, and Liu Xin still needs to go near and far to find other people to take up the position of Diannong School Captain?
Thinking of this, Liu Xin smiled and said to Su Jia: "Su Jia, you go and tell everyone that today's reception is over, let them all go back to the living room, take Deng Ai by the way, and ask Deng Ai if he is interested in serving this king." ”
Although Liu Xin knew that Deng Ai, as a historical figure of the Three Kingdoms who was summoned to this world by himself in advance, would definitely choose to be loyal to him, but no matter how he said it, he had to do a good job on the surface, after all, Liu Xin found from Zhuge Dan that Zhuge Dan had a very good impression of him, so he was willing to work for himself, but Zhuge Dan also got a "memory" that should not belong to him, so Liu Xin understood that this was the way of heaven to enrich the memories of these historical figures of the Three Kingdoms who were summoned in advance, so for the sake of insurance, Liu Xin finally decided to do a good job on the surface, and no matter how he said it, he had to symbolically "recruit" Deng Ai, which was more acceptable to the melon-eating masses like Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
Su Jia naturally understood Liu Xin's thoughts, and said to Liu Xin with a smile: "Master, I am already on the way back to the compound, and I have already recruited Deng Ai for the master, Deng Ai is very willing to serve the master, as long as the master is willing to help Deng Ai's family move to Yizhou, after all, Deng Ai's family is not in a good situation recently, and it is about to go bankrupt." ”
Liu Xin nodded thoughtfully, and said as a matter of course: "Of course, we will definitely be responsible for the expenses of Deng Ai's family going to Chengdu, Su Jia, you can tell Deng Ai directly." ”
Su Jia nodded, and then left the living room to find Deng Ai.