Chapter 32: Planning
Qin Dong looked at the jubilant scene of the captives and his original subordinates, a smile appeared on his face, and he was very satisfied with his move, he knew very well that he had no foundation here, no family background and background, and if he wanted to develop his power and let countless people follow him, and consolidate his rights, he must put forward a certain political proposition, and an uprising without political proposition is doomed to failure, because people don't know what you are going to do, how can they follow you with confidence?
For example, the slogan put forward by Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, when he fought the world, was to overthrow the tyrannical Qin, and after entering Guanzhong, he made three chapters with the locals to gain the support of the local people.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei and Liu had big ears, is he really a member of the Han family? This is just what he said, his political proposition is "reviving the Han family", and there are really many people following, and in the end he really let him lay down a piece of territory, even Zhang Jiao, a god stick, put forward the slogan of "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand, the age is in Jiazi, and the world is auspicious", this slogan is very easy to pronounce, but it is like a superstitious slogan, there is no substantive guarantee to the people at all, and there is no substantive implementation program, so the Yellow Turban Rebellion finally evolved into a riot.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao rebelled, Huang Chao's political proposition was "equal", which was actually a very good slogan, because people had the idea of "suffering from widowhood and unevenness", and his rebel army also swept the world at one time, but he made a fatal mistake, that is, eating people, eating people without food, in the three hundred days of besieging Chenzhou, he arrested all the people near Chenzhou, built hundreds of giant cones, and started construction at the same time, becoming a human flesh workshop for supplying military food, running water operations, day and night. A large number of living villagers, regardless of men and women, young and old, are all included in the giant rice and ground into minced meat in an instant. The common people around Chenzhou have eaten up and expanded the source of raw material supply, "the army has plundered in all directions, and dozens of prefectures such as Henan, Xu, Ru, Tang, Deng, Meng, Zheng, Bian, Cao, Xu, and Yan have been poisoned by it." ”
You must know that the people under Huang Chao are all farmers, and his practice of eating peasants can be seen by the farmers under him? It's strange if he doesn't rebel! Cao Cao of the Three Kingdoms also eats people when he has no military rations, but he is different from Huang Chao, his subordinates are all scholars and doctors, and they are all feudal landlords, what is it to eat a few peasants? And he did it very secretly when he used human flesh as military rations, and no one else knew about it at that time.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, put forward the political proposition of resisting the tyrannical yuan, and then his advisers put forward a strategic idea of development for him: "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king".
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng rebelled, and his political proposition was: "Juntian is exempt from taxation", which is a big killer, as soon as this slogan was put forward, it immediately attracted countless people who had no land and no money, and could not survive, but it was a pity that he was too impatient, and his political proposition was not effectively implemented, it became an empty word, and he and his generals were greedy for pleasure, and the uprising was not successful, so they only cared about pleasure, and it was strange if they did not fail.
Qin Dong has studied history, and he is naturally very clear about these, now his life is temporarily saved, but the power is still too small, a year later, the Xiongnu Empire collapsed, and his men are not enough to save their lives, so they must develop and strengthen their own strength, if you want to develop your strength, you can't just rely on plunder, plundering can only rob property, not people's hearts, and if you want to develop your power, you must have a complete development plan.
Judging from the current situation, the only and effective way is to adopt Zhu Yuanzhang's set of methods, that is, "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become the king", at this stage, he can't put forward his own political proposals, can't publicize his own slogans, the Xiongnu Empire is still alive, if you shout slogans now, not only the two Roman Empires in the east and west and other barbarians will not let him go, I'm afraid that people in the Xiongnu Empire will want to kill him, and he will immediately become the target of public criticism, and now he can't shout slogans, but he can do it, You can do it according to your own political proposition, that is, "abolish slaves and divide the land".
After the Roman Empire entered a period of weakening, slave riots became more and more frequent, not to mention anything else, let's say that the leader of the Visigoths and the founder of the Visigothic kingdom, Alaric, besieged Rome for the third time in 410 AD, and it was the slaves in the city who cooperated to open the city gate so that Alaric led his troops into the city and plundered for three days.
As long as this slogan is shouted, Qin Dong believes that most of the slaves in Europe will defect to him, and the slaves of this era are living too hard, especially those who are specially prepared for the gladiatorial arena, and few can come out of the gladiatorial arena alive.
Slaves in this period had to work for their masters, without pay and without personal freedom. Slaves generally came from prisoners of war, indigenous people from occupied areas, debtors and convicts, but also from people who were trafficked into the slave market from places like Africa.
Qin Dong's original intention was not to completely abolish slavery, which was unrealistic in Europe during this period, which would be opposed by many people, so the form of slavery must be transformed into serfdom, serfdom is a system that appeared more than 20 years later, the Germans destroyed the Western Roman slave empire after migration, and established a series of new feudal states, many wars, heavy tax and military service burdens, and land annexation by the secular aristocracy bankrupted a large number of Germanic free peasants, They all became dependent peasants of feudal lords - serfs. On the other hand, the king's feudal division of land created a strict feudal hierarchy, with secular and clerical nobles at all levels owning large amounts of land and feudal sovereignty, including judicial, administrative, and various economic and agricultural rights, and they confined serfs to their estates for slavery.
Let Europe enter the dark ages of the Middle Ages twenty years ahead of schedule, which does not have any psychological burden for Qin Dong, but he must control the rhythm and not let Europe make great progress in science and technology in this era, otherwise it will threaten the security of the East
The Roman Empire has been established for more than 400 years, and the land annexation is very strict, most of the land is in the hands of the aristocracy, and the vast majority of the commoners are tenants of the noble slave owners, who have no land and can only farm for the slave owners.
The ancients put forward the "equal land" does have a great appeal, but this slogan also has a drawback, the arable land in one place is limited, and some people even get land in other places, so he can't move to other cities because of this land, right? Moreover, this measure also undermines the existing economic order and makes the economy regress.
But this has no impact on Qin Dong, if you destroy the economy, you will destroy the economy, and let the vast majority of the people at the bottom have something to eat, as for those so-called nobles, let them die!
After getting rid of those prisoners, Qin Dong convened a meeting of officers and said his thoughts: "What I said just now, I think you have all heard it, as long as you join us and become a soldier, you will keep 30% of the gains from the battle in the future, and hand over the rest, convert these handed over booty into money, leave a part to be distributed to officers and generals, and keep the rest as the construction property of the army, and also set up a logistics department to manage this matter to supervise the implementation, and anyone who deliberately hides the trophy will be caught." , immediate and severe punishment!
The second thing, after arriving at Saidika, I will divide the pasture for each family, my own cattle, sheep and horses can only graze in my own pasture, not to other people's pastures, if someone complains that your cattle, sheep and horses have entered his pasture, then you will lose money, if you have no money, use livestock to pay off debts, the pasture is guaranteed to every household, if it is not enough, we will rob others! ”
Although Qin Dong's policy made restrictions on grazing, it was a great gift for these Xiongnu cavalrymen who were originally slaves for each household to be allocated pasture, and everyone, including Su He, Muren, Batu and other subordinates who followed Qin Dong at the earliest, were very grateful, and their loyalty value soared to the peak.