Chapter 893: One Hundred Thousand Villages Attached to the Yellow Turban
As mentioned earlier, the family clan in the Han realm controls too many resources, among which the land resources are almost monopolized by the family clan, and the common people have little place to stand, coupled with natural disasters, this is the fundamental reason for the complete collapse of the Han Empire, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion is just an introduction.
Qingzhou has suffered heavy casualties among the people due to wars, and most importantly, the frequent wars have completely destroyed the ruling order of the local clans, and a large number of fields in their hands have been abandoned and turned into borderless land.
But even so, the people who wandered and begged for food to escape the war still did not dare to cultivate these ownerless fields.
In addition to worrying about the family's settlement after the autumn, it is also because of the turbulent situation that there is no stable farming environment at all, even if the planting is more and better, maybe it will be cheaper for bandits and bandits in the end.
Qingzhou Yellow Turbans occupy hundreds of thousands of miles of territory in two counties, and they have taken root here and developed rapidly, not to mention the people who took the initiative to defect, just around the villages on the edge of the Yellow Turban Collar, directly cultivating the nearby ownerless land, even if there is no planting technology that the Yellow Turban Collar has thoroughly popularized, it is not very difficult to barely solve the problem of food and clothing.
These villages are basically inhabited by one ethnic group, with strong cohesion and the so-called cold doors, and they are very uninterested in the concept of the Yellow Turban, so they are naturally very unhappy to completely integrate into the order of the Yellow Turban Collar.
You must know that the Yellow Turban Leader has its own resettlement method, and the people of the clan will be scattered and resettled, and there will be no so-called clan power under their rule at all, which is absolutely unacceptable to the patriarchs and elders of those clans.
They are not happy to accept the management of the Yellow Turban, and want to rely on the powerful Yellow Turban Collar to obtain a stable life, so they can only hesitate to build their own villages on the edge of the Yellow Turban Collar to make a living.
After discovering that the Yellow Turban Collars were not disgusted, or that they were prevented from doing so, nearly 100,000 such villages appeared in just three years!
For these free clan forces who want to take advantage of them and are unwilling to accept management, in fact, the high-level leaders of the Yellow Turban Collar are quite unhappy, and according to their previous temperament and style of acting, they have already led all the people to break and become Yellow Turban cannon fodder.
It's just that right now, they are living a normal and prosperous peaceful life, and the anger and ruthlessness in their hearts are not so serious, plus the big leader Lei Hu does not let them, so they can turn a blind eye and forget it, otherwise how can there be a good life for these rural clans, and even dare to take advantage of the Yellow Turban Army!
Lei Hu has another reason for this, and he bluntly said at the high-level gathering: "The twisted melon is not sweet, since these guys would rather be self-reliant outside than be managed by us, then let them go!" ”
"Don't think that they will take advantage of us, I believe that it won't be long before these wandering villages will be merged into our territory, and when the time comes, it will be a good thing for us to use the established villages to expand outward!"
"A certain family didn't want to be strong, don't get me wrong, with the wealth of our territory, is it difficult to attract those villagers who are wandering away, have to support themselves, and have an average harvest?"
"Don't be bluffed by the so-called clan name, those who mix the best in the village and can enjoy the best benefits will always be just a small number of so-called high-level clan elders, and it is not easy for the clansmen below to have food and clothing, how can they compare with the people in our jurisdiction?"
"Over time, with the increase in communication, those villagers who are living a difficult life will always take the initiative to invest in our yellow turban collar, just wait and see!"
There are some things that Lei Hu didn't say too clearly, the reason why the family is powerful and even the poor is not only that they have a large number of production and living materials, but also that their quality of life is generally much better than that of the people at the bottom.
Even if the worst clansmen are mixed, at least it is not a problem to mix food and clothing.
But it was in the peaceful season, and now it is a troubled time, at least in Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the situation is completely reversed.
After three years of development, the yellow turban collar has changed greatly, and the lives of the people have completely departed from the food and clothing line, but entered the well-off level, and the living standard of any ordinary person is much better than that of the so-called poor family head when the Han Empire has not collapsed.
No matter what world you are in, people will yearn for a better life, and the villages around the Yellow Turban Collar are no exception.
With more exchanges, the villagers will surely be attracted to a better life within the Yellow Turban Collar.
There is no need for the Yellow Turban to use any means, and the villagers scattered on the edge of the territory will naturally take the initiative to defect, even if it is difficult to restrain the so-called clan rules.
You must know that if you find a dry coolie in the Yellow Turban Collar, the harvest of one year is definitely far more than the income of planting land in the village controlled by the clan for a year, who can endure the hard life in the village for a long time, at least the young people in the village take the initiative to pour into the Yellow Turban Collar is an unstoppable trend.
In the more industrial era, the urbanization changes are general, and the living standards and incomes in the cities are much stronger than those in the countryside, which naturally attracts a large number of young and strong farmers to work and settle in the cities.
The productivity of the Yellow Turban Collar is almost in the early stage of the Second Industrial Revolution, while the productivity of the marginal villages is still at the level of the Han Dynasty, and the gap during this period is unreasonable.
When the young Zhuang of the villages on the edge of the Yellow Turban Collar are attracted in, then these villages will naturally be included in the management of the Yellow Turban Elar, which is also an irreversible trend, even if the patriarchs and elders of the sub-clan are stubborn, it is useless, most of the young Zhuang people have 'rebelled', and it is a question of how much power they have left.
Of course, before that, Lei Hu didn't mind showing his goodwill, and sent an elite patrol team to maintain the security of the marginal area of the Yellow Turban Collar, that is, the outer villages, so that they could have a peaceful living environment.
Obviously, the Yellow Turban Collar's responsible behavior made the nearly 100,000 villages in the surrounding areas inexplicably grateful, and they were all fed up with the dangers of war and the upheaval of their lives.
No, when Tai Shici led hundreds of elite cavalry patrols, he met the people of the outer villages from time to time, and they all took the initiative to greet each other warmly, without any guilt.
"General, these people are really enthusiastic!"
When passing by a village, the group was almost stopped by the enthusiastic villagers, until Tai Shici and his party promised to come to the village when they were free to be a guest, and when they left, everyone had more specialties in the village to eat, and the enthusiasm was really beyond words.
"Haha, I think it's the girl from the village who has taken a fancy to us, right?"
"It's almost the same as looking at the general, you kid is a fart, I heard that the patriarch of that village is a big clan, even if he is down, he won't take a fancy to your kid!"
"Hey, what nonsense, speaking of which, the village is also an evil sect, I heard that eighty percent of the children born in the last two years are women, and all of a sudden the ratio of men and women in the village is completely out of balance, and it seems that there is no problem at the moment, but when these babies grow up in fifteen years, this village will become a daughter country!"
"My daughter's country is good, I just happened to marry all of them to our Yellow Turban Collar, and this village was directly under the control of our Yellow Turban Army, so that the imbalance between men and women here was finally bullied by others!"
"Anyway, this village established three years ago is also weird, not to mention that most of the recently born babies are women, but the ratio of men and women in their village itself is also very problematic, just now I casually glanced in the village, drink, most of them are women!"
"Tsk, don't you remind me that I haven't reacted yet, the smell in my nose was a little different when I entered the village just now, no wonder those old guys are enthusiastic, I'm afraid they have some ideas!"
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Tai Shi Ci smiled and listened to his soldiers chatting and farting, and by the way, he completed today's patrol task, patrolling tens of thousands of miles a day is not endlessly boring, but when passing by the villages on the edge of these territories, the enthusiasm of the villagers is a little too much.
Of course, as the soldiers said in their chats, these villagers did not have any bad intentions, but they just wanted to show favor through this kind of behavior for various reasons.
As a high-level leader of the Yellow Turban Collar in Qingzhou, Tai Shici knows a lot of secret information, and most of the nearly 100,000 uncontrolled villages on the edge of the territory are not very happy.
Especially in these villages, because a village is a clan, there are often some strange situations that make people feel quite strange.
Just like the village I just passed, the ratio of men and women in the village was seriously imbalanced, and the whole village or the entire clan did not know what was wrong, and the ratio of men and women reached an astonishing three to seven, which made the village elders despair.
At a time when productivity is low, and a lot of middle-aged labor is required to make ends meet, and to protect the homeland, there are too many women in the village, which is not only not a good thing, but also a source of trouble.
It's not a peaceful season now, but what if the patriarch is from a big clan?
If you want your own female clan to marry the right family, it is unrealistic, although the surrounding villages are at least the Hanmen clan, to really say that everyone's background is out of the civilian class, and the current situation is even more similar, the eldest brother doesn't need to laugh at the second brother is a mess.
But it is instinct for people to go to high places and water to flow low, and so many young people with a good life in the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Collar do not choose, but have to choose the 'same people' who are currently struggling to eat in the soil, and only if their brains are bad, they will act like this.
In the Yellow Turban Collar, the status of the soldiers in the army is not low, not only can they learn literature and martial arts in the barracks, but also their rich family assets are quite ideal for marriage, and it is no wonder that the patrol elite cavalry just now can't stand the enthusiasm of the villagers.
Those who are qualified to be arrogant and unwilling to bow to the Yellow Turban Collar are only the high-level in the village, the patriarch and the clan elders, and the ordinary clansmen below are not so arrogant, and they are living a tight life, where do they have the confidence to look down on the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Collar?