Ji Han was busy preparing to move the capital, and Cao Wei was not idle.

The counterattack on Luoyang failed, but fortunately, the front was finally stabilized, and this time at least one county was fished back, which was the only battle that was still fruitful in the previous wars with Shu thieves.

Really, when Cao Ei comforted himself like this, he suddenly had a very sad feeling.

Thinking back to the period of Emperor Taizu Wu, sweeping the world, no one can be the one, what Liu Bei is, is just a lost dog chased by Emperor Taizu Wu.

Even after the Battle of Chibi, Emperor Taizuwu had no choice but to retreat, but he was soon able to regroup, expel Ma Han, and force Zhang Lu to surrender Although defeated, he was never discouraged.

But now, when he is in power, he can comfort himself just because he recaptured a county town in the battle with the Shu thieves. What a fall.

Cao Rong really didn't want to live such a life, so he decided to follow Liu Fang's advice and recruit the people of Tuntian as soldiers.

Liu Fang's suggestion, of course, was inappropriate in the environment at the time, and there was no time and energy to complete these things.

But now, it's a good way to plan ahead.

Fought with the Shu thieves several times, the Shu thieves are getting stronger and stronger, and the Great Wei side has been defeated several times, and most of the elites of the hundred battles have been lost.

It's just that Cao Rong just wanted to do this, but he was fiercely attacked by Chen Qun.

"Your Majesty thinks twice. If you do this, it is tantamount to drinking water to quench your thirst. Chen Qun exhorted bitterly.

This time, Chen Qun had no selfish intentions, he really proceeded from the actual situation of the Great Wei and advised Cao Rong not to adopt Liu Fang's strategy and recruit the people of Tuntian as soldiers.

Because the price is just too great.

Emperor Taizuwu established the tuntian system, the main purpose of which was to resettle those landless displaced people, give them a livelihood, and tie them to the land to barely survive.

As long as there are no displaced people, the world's careerists will have no foundation, so that the world can be quickly pacified.

It's not that the tuntian system is good, after all, the exploitation and oppression of the displaced people by the tuntian system is still quite ruthless, but at least, this system is the lowest cost and the most effective system for reconciling displaced people in this era.

As for where the Tuntian system will go after the world is pacified, with Cao Cao's political wisdom, there will naturally be a better way at that time.

But it's a pity that Cao Cao didn't wait for the day when the world was completely pacified, and this Tuntian people system is still continuing.

In the Cao Ei period, as the family regained a foothold in Cao Wei and gradually grew in power, Cao Wei's tax income was declining year by year.

Chen Qun is the most aware of this. But there is no way, Chen Qun's family itself is also one of the reasons for the decline in tax income, Chen Qun can only turn a blind eye to this matter, and he didn't see it.

Fortunately, in addition to the tax income of the freedmen, the tax income of the Great Wei was also supported by the Tuntian system.

The distribution method of "four public and six people" stipulated during the period of Emperor Taizuwu was slightly changed to "six public and four people", so that the gap in taxes could be filled.

As for the quality of life of the people of Tuntian, these untouchables can live if they have a stutter, and what a good life can they expect to live?!

But now, Cao Rong wants to recruit the people of Tuntian as soldiers, even if it is a selected soldier, it will inevitably seriously affect the income of the Tuntian offices in various places. As a result, the tax revenue from the tuntian will be reduced, and the military revenue from training these tuntian soldiers will be increased.

If you do this, the financial hole will be very big, and you can't expect those big families to make concessions to subsidize the financial hole, and in the end, local officials can only find a way to make up for it on the people of Tuntian. At that time, I am afraid that there will not even be "six public and four people", and if some local officials are ruthless, the "eight public and two people" will not be able to be rectified.

At that point, the so-called tuntian system, even if it is destroyed, these displaced people will not survive, it will inevitably cause local turmoil, and the result will be better, and the displaced people will be accepted by the family and become recluses, and the result will be a little worse, I am afraid that the Yellow Turban Rebellion will be repeated.

For this reason, Chen Qun had to stand up against it, and even did not shy away from taboos, and explained some of the reasons to Cao Rong clearly.

After listening to Chen Qun's story, Cao Rong was annoyed for a while, but he was powerless. The Tuntian system was supposed to be the last insurance that Emperor Taizu Wu made for the Great Wei, but now in Chen Qun's mouth, the use of the Tuntian soldiers has become the source of the turmoil in the Great Wei.

Is this the real root?!

Shouldn't the real root cause be the result of the insatiable greed of the big families, the constant annexation of land, the concealment of Dingkou, and the payment of less or even no taxes?!

Cao Rong actually knows very well in his heart, but. The Great Wei can now maintain the battle line and maintain the strength of the First World War under the military oppression of the Shu thieves, not by the support of the people, but by the families of the Central Plains and Hebei, who are still on the side of the Great Wei.

At this time, can Cao Rong choose to turn his face with these big families, force these big families to check the acres, release the hidden households, and pay back taxes? !

If Cao Rong dares to turn his face, tomorrow Hedong, Hanoi, and even Yingchuan County may directly surrender to the Shu thieves, and the situation in Great Wei may be turbulent at any time.

After all, even the Shu thieves only used a fish scale atlas system to limit the speed of the family's annexation of land, and the Shu thieves didn't dare to do it to clean up the hidden households or anything. If Cao Rong does it, then for the family, it is better to choose "eating pot pulp to welcome the king".

Cao Rong is not the kind of lord who doesn't know the importance of it, for this reason, his heart is really very entangled and weighed, what should he do.

Asked Chen Qun, Chen Qun could only be silent, because it was impossible for Chen Qun to betray his own interest group, but in the same way, Chen Qun also had the ethics of being a minister of Great Wei.

When the interests of the two are the same, Chen Qun can always give a good enough strategy to solve the problem, but once the interests of the two are inconsistent, then Chen Qun can keep his mouth shut, which is already very disciplined.

Cao Rong also knew that there was no good result for asking Chen Qun about this kind of thing. So, just ask your two kobold strategists.

Sun Zi and Liu Fang, although they are indeed equivalent to the two Xiaobai in military affairs, but in terms of government affairs, their talents are still outstanding.

Soon, the two came up with an idea.

The strategy given by Liu Fang is actually nothing special. If you want to increase financial revenue, since you can't use your brains from the big families, you can only think of ways from ordinary people.

The easiest and most effective way to do this is to raise taxes.

This thing has its own precedent and is not easy to adjust, and once it is adjusted, it will also have a certain impact on the family No matter how the family family hides Ding Kou and annexes the land, they still have a number of their own land.

If you add it, the big families will also stand up against it.

But tax increases can. The great families had a way to avoid these taxes, but the common people did not have that leeway.

With the size of the people, adding some taxes to make up for the fiscal revenue can also solve the urgent need for a while.

This method is not a new method, but it is effective in the short term, and Cao Rong is a little hesitant.

What Cao Rong wants is not to solve a temporary emergency, he wants to accumulate strength to realize his desire to counterattack the Shu thieves, which cannot be supported by a tax increase in one or two years.

Therefore, Cao Rong temporarily shelved this strategy, wanting to hear if Sun Zi had any good solutions.

And the idea given by Sun Zi is not easy to evaluate.

You can't oppress the people of Tuntian too hard, but you can't offend the family too much, so let's compromise a little, don't recruit too many people from Tuntian as soldiers, and change the original 100,000 Tuntian soldiers to 50,000 to reduce the burden of the people of Tuntian, and at the same time, implement the system of "money for crimes" among the family.

Tun Tianmin's strategy is easy to understand, and Cao Rong directly agreed after a little thought.

But let's talk about the money for sin. Cao Rong is really a little unsure.

Speaking of the "sin money" thing, it is somewhat new, but if you talk about the system of "sin money", Cao Ei is much more familiar. This is not a new thing, there has been such a system since the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it has been carried forward by Emperor Xiaowu of the former Han Dynasty.

Emperor Xiaowu used this system to support his great cause of the Northern Expedition to the Huns, but in the end he also gained a reputation of "poor soldiers".

In fact, in Dawei, this "atonement money" system has always existed, but it uses the method of "redemption and punishment together", that is, it is okay to atone for sin, but in addition to paying money, you also need to bear a part of the punishment, which has a warning effect.

In addition, there are also very strict regulations on what crimes can be applied to the "atonement money" system, and not all crimes can be exempted from paying money.

Of course, there is also the most important point - this "indulgence money" system has been inherited since the pre-Han Dynasty, and the people and bureaucrats in the world are treated equally, and everyone enjoys this right.

But now, the so-called "discussion money" proposed by Sun Zi is based on the original "money for atonement", and pays more attention to the word "discussion".

Ordinary people are not qualified to "discuss" their crimes with the government, only the bureaucrats, nobles and big families can "discuss".

This makes the "indulgence money" system, which could still maintain black fairness, into a privilege belonging to the elite.

Since it is a powerful class, there must be no shortage of money, so Sun Zi proposed to greatly increase the range of "money for discussing crimes", and expand it to all punishments except for rebellion.

Doing so can indeed allow Cao Rong to get a lot of money to help in the short term. If you don't have money, you can get a case out, and you can collect all kinds of money justifiably.

However, once this system is popularized, his shortcomings can also be seen clearly in Cao Ei's eyes.

The big families can pay for "discussing crimes", but the people can't. Fools can figure it out that the big families will definitely impose the cost of these "crimes" on the people.

Invisibly, the burden on the people will increase dramatically.

Moreover, with the cover of the "guilty silver" system, these big families and bureaucratic aristocrats will be more unscrupulous in their actions. It's a big deal, and in the end, you can spend money to "discuss the crime".

This will lead to the corruption of the official rule of the Great Wei and affect the normal operation of the government.

This is a double-edged sword, and the handle of the knife cannot be completely controlled in his own hands, so Cao Rong can't be cautious.

(End of chapter)