Chapter 30 The Scholarship Triggered by Tuntian

The so-called tuntian is divided into military tun and min tun. As the name suggests, the former is carried out by the military, while the latter is carried out by ordinary people. Historically, Tuntian was figured out by Cao Ying and his subordinate Han Hao and others, and it was also one of his important means to restore production and people's livelihood, and it once played a great role. But there are two sides to everything, and during the reign of Cao Wei in history, the large-scale uprisings and riots organized by Tuntianke have almost never stopped. However, according to Zhao Feng's analysis, it was generally the Juntun who rebelled first, and then the Mintun people followed the uprising.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the Tuntian guests in the military are Tuntian soldiers, although most of them are veterans, or weak people, but after all, they are soldiers and people who have fought in battles.

As for why the incident happened, the reason is simple: the oppression is too heavy. Cao Ying stipulated that if the cultivators used publicly-owned cattle, they would be divided in half according to the proportion of the official six and the four people; If a private cattle is used, the government and the people will divide it in half. On the other hand, ordinary landlords generally collect only two or three percent of the rent from tenants, and forty percent is already considered relatively inhumane. Compared with Cao Ying's naked exploitation, these tenants are simply in heaven. Moreover, Cao Ying was extremely harsh on the management of Tuntian guests, except for farming, they almost did not have any personal freedom. Through comparison, Zhao Feng felt that Lao Cao's Tuntian guests were almost the same as serfs in a slave society. And the Three Kingdoms era was already a feudal society, and Lao Cao's reversal of history would of course cause fierce resistance. Almost every time Cao Ying's soldiers went out to fight Wushu in history, the Tuntian guests in the rear would take the opportunity to rise up. When Cao Ying attacked Hefei, 100,000 local households dragged their families to Dongwu overnight to make a living because they were afraid of becoming Tuntian guests.

Therefore, as early as when Zhao Feng promoted Tuntian in Xuzhou, he had discussed with Liu Bei and Chen Qun, and finally set the tax at three and a half points. Liu Bei was born in a humble background, and he knew the suffering of the people, and he also agreed to pay taxes lightly, and at the same time stipulated that if he cultivated for more than five years, he could get a piece of land. This kind of treatment is a world of difference compared to Cao Ying's naked exploitation.

Later, with the genius of Zhuge Liang, under his initiative, the tax of Tuntianke was decreasing year by year. At first, it was three into five points, decreasing by one point every year, and after five years, the tuntian guests who were allocated the land had a household registration like normal ordinary people, and they only paid two cents of taxes. However, the prerequisite is that during the cantonment period, the wasteland should be reclaimed. Otherwise, you still have to pay a three-cent tax. In this way, while greatly mobilizing the active family of laborers, it steadily increased taxes and strengthened the development of uninhabited places such as Jingnan and Jiaozhou. Thinking of the time when Zhuge Liang was in the Longxi military camp in history, the local soldiers and civilians lived in harmony, Zhao Feng estimated that Ah Liang was indeed talented in this area.

Of course, the relationship between productivity and production is supernatural, and Zhao Feng couldn't tell Lao Liu clearly for a while. Now that he is not ashamed to ask, Zhao Feng can only choose the most general reason to answer. "The main reason is that Cao Ying's taxes are too heavy!" Zhao Feng said simply, this truth is also easy to understand, even Zhang Fei nodded again and again in half understanding when he heard it.

"That is, the priority of governance is not to disturb the people!" Liu Bei nodded, but at this time, Chen Qun's eyes lit up and said: "Lord, now that Cao Ying has a riot under the rule of Tuntianke, why doesn't the lord issue an edict to specifically accept the Tuntianke who fled from Hebei, and let them go to Qingzhou and other desolate places to reclaim the wasteland to enrich the place?" ”

"Huh?" Liu Bei was also thrilled when he heard this. At this stage of the war, the two sides are already competing more for economic strength. Liu Bei was able to win this time, it can be said that he won completely because of Cao Ying's self-made cleverness, and the victory was extremely lucky. At present, Yanzhou and Yuzhou, as well as most of Qingzhou, have been obtained for themselves, but the first two are just enough, Qingzhou has been desolate for more than ten years after the wars of Yuan Tan and Cao Ying. If you don't seize the time to govern, I'm afraid it will be difficult to provide Liu Bei with combat power in the shortest possible time. And Cao Ying currently occupies Hebei and Guanzhong, the two richest places in the world, and the population of these two places alone is not less than 10 million. If you want to continue to fight with him, you can accumulate more strength in advance to have a better chance of winning.

"That's great!" Liu Bei quickly made a decision. After looking at the people in the tent, Liu Bei still said to Wei Yan at the moment: "Wen Chang, I will show you as the assassin of Qingzhou today, and be responsible for the important military and political affairs of Qingzhou, you must guard Qingzhou and benefit the living beings of this side!" ”

"Thank you, my lord!" Wei Yan was also excited, and hurriedly thanked him. Everyone is not surprised, because after all, Wei Yan has been in Qingzhou for many years, and he is better than Zang Ba and Gao Shun in terms of talent, and it is very suitable for him to serve as the assassin of Qingzhou. As for the two places of Yuzhou and Yanzhou, Yuzhou is easy to do, Zhang Liao used to be stationed in Yuzhou with Guan Yu for many years, and now he is the assassin of Yuzhou, which is also logical; The problem is that this Yanzhou is really a hot potato.

Compared with the states occupied by Liu Bei before, the situation in Yanzhou is undoubtedly more troublesome. If Qingzhou is a mess, then Yanzhou is a powder keg. As the key point of the Central Plains and the birthplace of Cao Ying, the major wealthy clans in Yanzhou are intertwined, and they have a deep friendship with Cao Ying. Although Cao Ying has temporarily returned to Hebei now, once they are taken lightly, it is not difficult to imagine what will happen to these people if Cao Ying returns to Yanzhou in the future. What's more, many people have moved their families to Hebei and followed Cao Ying, including many famous families in Yanzhou, and many of them are in-laws with the Cao family or the Xiahou family. Obviously, Yanzhou did not welcome Liu Bei.

In the face of such a complex Yanzhou, Liu Bei also had a headache. Thinking about it, Liu Bei couldn't think of who could sit in Yanzhou under his command. After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Bei decided to serve as the pastor of Yanzhou by himself, and moved the administrative office from Shouchun to Xuchang to control the overall situation. As for how to appease the people, we will talk about it later.

"Lord, I see that Wei Yan has a backbone in the back of his head, and he will rebel in the future, I don't know why the lord appointed him as the Qingzhou Thorn History?" After Wei Yanxing rushed away, Pang Tong whispered to Liu Bei.

"Why does Shi Yuan say this, Wen Chang has followed me for many years and has always been diligent and careful, how can Shi Yuan tarnish people's innocence out of thin air?" Liu Bei said lightly, but his tone was already a little unhappy, he didn't like people who told right and wrong. Zhao Feng was also a little crying and laughing when he heard this, didn't Wei Yan just have a little protrusion in the back of his head, how could he conclude that he had a backbone?

"That's right, Bo Tao. This time, thanks to you and Zilong, they came to help in the battle, otherwise if you want to defeat Cao Ying, I am afraid that there will be more twists and turns! Just when Zhao Feng's thoughts were deserting, Liu Bei's voice sounded in his ears again.

"The lord is serious, this is a matter of subordinateness!" Zhao Feng hurriedly said humbly. Liu Bei smiled slightly, and then asked: "This time Bo Tao broke through Longxi and came to the Central Plains to help in the war, which is really a great contribution." If there is no reward, it is really unconvincing, I don't know what you want? ”

"The lord is serious, Feng is a military general, and the decisive battle on the battlefield is a matter of duty, how can he ask for a reward in vain? It's just that Feng has been going to Xichuan for several years, and he has been getting together less with his wife and children. I also ask my lord to allow me a few days off so that I can go back to Jingnan to reunite with my family for a while. Zhao Feng said with some bitterness. He has been in Chengdu for four years, but he has been living in Hanshou with his wife Zhen Jiang and his son, but he can only meet when he visits relatives occasionally, and now his son is four years old, and his son who accompanies him adds up to less than four months. Now that the fight between Liu Bei and Cao Ying has come to an end, it is estimated that it will not stop for two or three years, and there should be no more war. Take advantage of this free time, and hurry up and have a little time.

Liu Bei was stunned when he heard this, and finally looked at Zhao Feng, and then sighed: "Bo Tao has been separated from his wife and children for a long time, so naturally he misses it very much. After bowing his head and thinking for a long time, Liu Bei said again: "That's it, Bo Tao said before that the Sichuan army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Guanlong. In this battle of the Central Plains, a total of tens of thousands of prisoners were captured. You choose 30,000 strong from among them, and go to Jingnan to reorganize and surrender soldiers to supplement the battle losses of the Sichuan army, and accompany your wife and children well! ”

"Thank you, my lord!" Zhao Feng hurriedly thanked. At that moment, he first took tens of thousands of soldiers to Jingnan to reorganize the army and horses to prepare for the next battle. And all the affairs of Xichuan were first handled by Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun. In addition, Liu Bei was promoted to Zhang Ren as the general of Huya, and assisted the military affairs of the three counties of Longxi, the governor of Hetianfeng, against Xiahou Yuan and Cheng Yu in Guanzhong.

It seems that in the twelfth year of Jian'an, 207 AD was a year of great profit for Liu Bei. Just after the war in the Central Plains ended, Liangzhou Thorn Shi Ma Chao sent Liangzhou to meet Liu Bei in Xuchang and present the household registration atlas of 600,000 people in Liangzhou.

"600,000 people in Xiliang, 50,000 Xiliang iron horsemen under the command of Spur Shi, and various departments in Xiqiang, are willing to help the lord crusade against the national thieves at any time, and obey the king's orders!" In Xuchang City, Fa Zheng knelt on the ground, raised the album in his hand above his head, and said respectfully. Liu Bei nodded again and again, and after taking the album, he asked Fa Zheng to sit down and speak.

"Filial piety, with the help of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, it will be impossible to fight with Cao Ying on the battlefield in the future!" Liu Bei was also happy after reading Ma Chao's handwritten letter. Although Ma Chao's words are extremely ugly, Liu Bei, who is in a good mood, obviously can't take care of these things, and after reading it, he only smiled with his eyebrows.

"Lord, this time I am coming, and I have brought five thousand Xiliang horses, and in a few days, I can go to Jingxiang through the three counties of Shangyong, and the lord can send someone to answer!" Fa Zheng said with a smile. Liu Bei was even more overjoyed when he heard this, with Xiliang, a stable source of horses, as well as the Central Plains horses in Qingzhou and Yanzhou, as well as the southwest horses in Jiaozhou and Nanzhong, Liu Bei could finally be on a par with Cao Ying in horses.

Zhao Feng didn't care about all this for the time being, and when he returned to Hanshou, he finally had a good chance to accompany his wife and son. "Daddy!" The little Zhao Zheng looked at the man in front of him who was not very familiar, and held back for a long time before shouting this sentence timidly.

"Good son!" Zhao Feng took his son from his wife with some helplessness, hugged him with one hand, and led his wife back to his home with the other. After all, children are easy to coax, although they were a little recognizant at first, but after a long time, they became close to Zhao Feng.

"By the way, madam, have you invited Mr. Zheng'er?" After being amused by his son for a long time, Zhao Feng suddenly remembered this important question and hurriedly asked Zhen Jiang.

"After the New Year, when Zheng'er turns five years old, please ask for a gentleman!" Zhen Jiang said with a smile. But I didn't want Xiao Zhao Zheng to suddenly speak after hearing this: "Daddy, my mother always says that you are very knowledgeable, why don't you teach Zheng'er to read and write!" ”

"Huh?" Looking at his son with an expectant look in front of him, it was obvious that this little guy was extremely curious about reading and writing, and even a little impatient. Zhao Feng thought about it, he didn't have anything to do now anyway, so it was better to accompany his son to do some early education. He is also a legendary figure who travels through the past and the present, and it is not a problem to teach his own son.

So in the next few days, Zhao Feng stuffed himself in the room, and did nothing else, just to prepare a set of teaching materials to carry out early education for his son. After two days of busy work, I finally came out of the toss roll call. So on this day, Zhao Feng found his son and began to teach him hand in hand.

"Daddy, shall we study the Analects or Mencius?" Looking at the few thin books that Zhao Feng brought over, Zhao Zheng asked with some expectation. The little one also knows that children generally have to learn this.

Touching his son's head, Zhao Feng smiled and said: "The Analects and Mencius are too difficult, let Mr. teach you, Daddy will teach you the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text" first, learn hard!" "That's right, Zhao Feng hasn't done anything else in the past few days, just busy adapting the two more classic children's textbooks "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", the latter is just the same, but the former has a lot of historical allusions, a considerable part of which happened after the Three Kingdoms. In order to avoid foresight, Zhao Feng had to either eliminate or replace these. As a result, there are nearly 2,000 words of the three-character scripture, and only a little more than 1,000 words remain.

"What is the Three Character Classic?" Zhao Zheng asked, tilting his little head.

"The Three Character Classic" is for children to learn, follow Daddy, I read a sentence, you read a sentence!" Zhao Feng is kind and seductive. At that moment, the father and son are yours and I are beginning to learn the three-character scripture one sentence.

"At the beginning of the person, the surname Benshan, Daddy, what does this surname mean?"

Zhao Feng: "! #@#¥%¥%#%! %@¥#!! ”

It is said that the son lives so simply, every morning he goes to check the training of the surrendered soldiers, in the afternoon he teaches his son some simple words, does some arithmetic, and accompanies Zhen Jiang who has been absent for a long time in the evening. Zhao Feng suddenly found that he liked this kind of thing very much, and he didn't need to work hard to design anything, and the whole person really felt more relaxed than ever. It was from this moment that Zhao Feng made up his mind and retired after success.

However, at this stage, it is not easy for him to be free. One day, more than a month after he returned to Hanshou, he was teaching his son to read at home that afternoon, but he heard a report from the housekeeper that Chen Qun had come to visit.

"Please!" Zhao Feng was a little surprised by Chen Qun's visit, although he said that he had the grace of knowing him, but time has passed, and now Chen Qun is in a prominent position, and he has basically served in the central government as Liu Bei's senior staff member over the years, and he has not had too much contact with himself. But I don't know why he is today, he wants to come to Hanshou from Shouchun to find himself.

"General Zhao has been gone for a long time!" After Chen Qun entered the door, he smiled and said, after the two finished the ceremony, they sat down and said a few polite words, and Chen Qun said straight to the point: "General Zhao, don't hide it." Qun said that he came here today, but he had something to discuss with the general. General Su Wen has seen people, and the group also wants the general to give more advice. ”

"I don't know what's so difficult about the long article, but it's okay to talk about it!" Zhao Feng seemed to have guessed something, but he still waved his hand, signaling that it was okay for Chen Qun to say it directly.

(To be continued)