In the third year of Yonghe, at the end of March, King Ming went to Hanzhong. Since frustration, 60,000 people have moved to Shangyong and Hanzhong. In the summer, Deng Ding, the general of the eastern part of the Han Dynasty, and the general Kui Wen all raised troops to rebel, and there were more than 10,000 people. In April, Ding Si, Deng Ding, Kui Wen and others entered Chengdu, captured the general Yang Qian, abandoned Fucheng, and retired to Deyang.

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After Zeng Hua went to Hanzhong to take up the post of Liangzhou Assassin History, he first expressed Zhang Shou as the general of Zhichong and led Jin Shou Taishou; Gan Rui is the general of Ning Yuan, leading the Yong Taishou; Feng Yue was the general of the material officer, and the leader of the Ba County was too guarded; Liang Ding was the Taishou of Brazil County, and Liu Nu, another old subordinate of Tuntian who accompanied the army to the west, was listed as the Taishou of Fuling County, plus Mao Muzhi, who led the Taishou of Hanzhong with General Yangwei, Zeng Hua finally arranged the official position of the six counties of his own half an acre of land.

Most of the 60,000 tun people followed, and were divided into Shangyong and Hanzhong. They all came with them willingly, and before leaving, they also "received a subsidy" from Xiangyang and Jiangling. For this matter, Fan Wang was given a good training by Huan Wen, who returned to his teacher.

Huan Wen, who knew Zeng Hua and the tunmin very well, knew that there was something in it when he heard it, how strict Zeng Hua's control over the 60,000 tunmin was, Huan Wen knew very well, how could a rumor spread so outrageously and bring such a serious impact. In the end, looking at the results, 60,000 tun people gathered in Xincheng County, and as soon as they raised their feet, they arrived at Zeng Hua's territory and returned to his "embrace".

This Zeng Xuping, really as Liu Zhenchang and Che Wuzi said, plan and then act, everything has already been in his planning, no wonder he made a bet with himself before the western expedition to ask for the post of Liangzhou assassin. It seems that the biggest beneficiary of this western expedition is not himself, but the new general of Zhenbei and the assassin of Liangzhou, and the rest of the people are accompanying the prince to study.

Not only Huan Wen is talking about Zeng Hua, but there are also two people in Jiankang talking about him.

After Liu Yi Hu Huanwen's western expedition arrived in Jiankang, he didn't plan to return to Jingxiang, so he lived in Jiankang. A few days later, Liu Yi moved to Danyang Yin (Zhi Jiankang, under the jurisdiction of Danyang County. Since the capital of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Yangzhou administrative office are all in Jiankang under the jurisdiction of Danyang County, Danyang Yin is almost the same as the current mayor of Beijing. ）。

After receiving the detailed battle report of the Western Expedition, Liu Yi was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly came to negotiate with Sima Yu, the king of the old club.

"Lord Wang, my subordinates have tasted the words, Wen can't make a place where the shape is beautiful, and his title should always be suppressed. Now that its westward conquest has been successful, I am afraid that its momentum will be more prosperous, and it will be more difficult for the imperial court to control it. After Shi Li sat down, Liu Yi spoke first.

Sima Yu, the king of Huiji, understood Liu Yi's intention, and couldn't help but be silent for a long time when he heard the words, and finally sighed and said, "Lonely regrets!" At the beginning, I should have listened to your good words, from the upper echelons of the town, and used you as a military commander. Even if you are guarding Jingxiang, it is better than today's situation. It seems that he has seen Huan Wen's aggressive power.

"Lord Wang, there is no endless road." Liu Yi turned to rejoice.

Sima Yu is strange, what is the happy event? Although Huan Wen's expedition to the west was successful, the imperial court regained the three states of Yi, Liang and Ning (now Yunnan), and had both the former Shu and Wu lands, and its strength increased greatly. The possibility of resuming the Northern Expedition and recovering the homeland is a little more likely. But the upstream Huanwen forces are also rising, and there are already signs of Wang Dun bullying the imperial family in the upper reaches of the court, which is the most precarious now, so what is there to be happy about the victory of the Western Expedition?

Seeing Sima Yu's puzzled appearance, Liu Yu smiled slightly, and then asked, "Lord Wang, whose name do you see all over this battle report?" ”

After Sima Yu listened to it, he hurriedly picked up the battle report on the table and hurriedly reread it again, this time he saw that there was a problem.

"This Zeng Xuping is really a fierce general! From Jiangzhou to Chengdu, it is really invincible! No wonder you pushed him so hard before. Sima Yu sighed.

Liu Yan shook his head and said, "Lord Wang, you don't know much about Xuping, and you may think that he is a martial general. But as soon as this son entered the court, I took it, so I knew him well. He is a farmer general, 60,000 people bow their heads to their ears, have no worries about food and clothing, and do not worry about patients. The long water army is trained to become a tiger in half a year, and in just a few months, it is impressive. The most unexpected thing is that it shines in the Western Expedition, so knowledgeable and strategic. Although Li Han has weakened the country and weakened the army, Zeng Xuping has destroyed the army and the country so devastatingly, which is really unexpected! ”

After listening to Liu Yu's praise for Zeng Hua, Sima Yu thought about it carefully and couldn't help nodding in agreement. But even if this Zeng Hua can fight, it is just to add a general to the imperial court, and he is Huan Wen's hand, and he is his confidant, I am afraid that the more this Zeng Hua can fight, the more worrying it is.

Liu Yuan continued: "Huan Yuanzi has few great ambitions and is known as eloquent, and once said to me that there are not many people he can admire, and even fewer people who are afraid. But it seems to me that after the expedition to the west, he should have found that the man he feared most appeared. ”

As soon as Sima Yu heard this, his spirit immediately came, who is Huan Wen and the person he is afraid of? Lao Tzu immediately dug him up with a lot of money.

"Who is the real chief talking about?"

"It's this Zeng Xuping!"

As soon as Liu Yu said it, Sima Yu was immediately stunned, how could it be him? Isn't he Huan Wen's confidant?

Liu Yu said: "Huan Yuanzi probably already knows that Zeng Xuping's martial arts are far superior to him, and he has long known that his ambitions are lofty and not under him." ”

Sima Yu couldn't help but be even more depressed after hearing this, a high-aspiring Huan Wen had already made one of his hearts lift in the air, and another Zeng Hua with even higher ambitions would not let people live? No, what does Liu Zhenchang mean by this? Is there another mystery? Sima Yu faintly felt that the problem was, but he couldn't find it for a while, so he couldn't help but ask, "Please really speak clearly." ”

Liu Yi said with a smile: "Lord Wang, you think, Huan Wen occupies Jingxiang and looks down on Jiankang, but now there is one more Zeng Xuping behind him." In the past, Zeng Xuping was only a pawn farmer and a general. Now he is listed as the assassin of Liangzhou, with his means, this Liang and Yierzhou are afraid to get into his hands, and the power will not be underestimated. If Huan Yuanzi dares to make a move, do you say that he is afraid or not afraid of Zeng Xuping, who has a strong soldier behind him? ”

Sima Yu understood a little: "What do you mean ......?" ”

Liu Yuan stroked his beard and said: "Huan Yuanzi doesn't know if Zeng Xuping's loyalty to the court is greater than his affection for him, but he at least knows that Zeng Xuping will not let him alone take power and control the government and the opposition." ”

"What do you mean......" Sima Yu was so bluffed that he couldn't speak.

"How close Huan Yuanzi and Yu Zhigong (Yu Yi) were back then, but later Yuanzi replaced Jing Xiang and showed no mercy to Yu Zhigong's descendants. How can one mountain accommodate two tigers, I know this, Yuanzi knows, and Zeng Xuping also knows. ”

Sima Yu finally understood, indeed, how could an ambitious person tolerate another ambitious person to be in power alone?

"But why does Huan Yuanzi still want to show Zeng Xuping as the assassin of Liangzhou?" Sima Yu still has some questions that he hasn't figured out.

"The current Huan Yuanzi and Zeng Xuping still need to rely on each other. Huan Yuanzi needs someone to echo outside, there is Zeng Xuping in Liangzhou as a helper, does the imperial court dare to tamper with Huan Yuanzi? And with Huan Yuanzi in Jingxiang, the imperial court is also beyond the reach of Liangzhou. What's more, Huan Yuanzi also needs Zeng Xuping to help him in his Northern Expedition. Huan Yuanzi is fighting again, once the Northern Expedition is successful, recover Heluo, at that time its power and reputation are in the sky, no one dares to fight, and then Zeng Xuping will be transferred from his post, and the real person will seize his military power and real position, it is logical. ”

It seems that Liu Yi knows his old friend Huan Wen very well, and he can see his "foresight" clearly.

After Sima Yu listened, he finally understood, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "It's really good!" In this way, we have to make good use of this Zeng Xuping! ”

"Yes!" Liu Yi replied categorically, "We must vigorously support Zeng Xuping, so that he can smoothly occupy the two prefectures of Yi and Liang, and contain Huan Yuanzi of Jingxiang." Zeng Xuping must rely on the imperial court in order to prevent Yuanzi from getting involved in Yi and Liang, and it is separated by Jingxiang, even if there is any abnormal movement, it will not affect Yu and Yang. ”

Sima Yu couldn't help but praise: "It's really a good strategy, there are two tigers in the upstream, we can use this as a balance, and the security is worry-free." ”

Sima Yu was very much in favor of Liu Yi's strategy, so Zeng Huabai's reward for General Zhenbei and the Assassin of Liangzhou was quickly passed, which was smoother than Huan Wen's reward. Moreover, Sima Yu listened to Liu Yu's advice, and when Zeng Hua made another "new contribution", he took advantage of the situation to add a fake festival to him, supervise Liang and benefit the military, and directly separated him from Huan Wen.

But Sima Yu was hesitant about Liu Yi's other suggestion and was undecided. Liu Yu still did not forget that he was also a matchmaker, and persuaded Sima Yu to choose a princess Shang Zhi from among the kings of the clan in order to win over Zeng Hua. But Sima Yu was reluctant to reply, because he didn't look down on Zeng Hua, and felt that this Zeng Xuping was just a martial arts official, and even Huan Wen was far inferior, and he was not a Qingliu celebrity at all.

Zeng Hua didn't know how many people were talking about his upstart, and he didn't have time to care, because he was very busy now, really busy!

After Zeng Hua arrived in Hanzhong, the 60,000 Tun people in the east were still migrating in Shangyong, and the first batch of more than 30,000 migrants led by Che Yin in the south were being resettled in Hanzhong South Road, and the second batch of more than 40,000 people under the leadership of Mao Muzhi had just passed through Fucheng, and it was estimated that it would take a month to reach Hanzhong. These more than 150,000 people have no way to participate in this year's spring ploughing, but fortunately, Zeng Hua's foundation from Chengdu is still relatively thick, enough for more than 200,000 people to eat for a year, plus 60,000 tun people had a bumper harvest last year, and they don't have to pay taxes and receive a "subsidy", so the grain in his hand is still very rich, and Zeng Hua doesn't have to worry very much.

According to Zeng Hua and the others, the original Tun people will be resettled in the relatively wealthy counties of Nanzheng, Chenggu and Ankang, the families of the former Shu army sergeants and the Lin and Xie clans, as well as the tribes of the former Pixian Zuochao Hao clan will be resettled in the counties where the two counties of Jinshou and Hanzhong meet, and the families of the craftsmen will be placed in Hanzhong and other counties.

Fortunately, Hanzhong and Shangyong counties are at the junction of the northern and southern forces, and after war, the local wealthy families were either forcibly moved away or ran away by themselves, so there are many ownerless wastelands, and the population of more than 100,000 can be easily digested.

During the month or two of resettlement of the migrants, the most important thing for Zeng Hua and officials at all levels in Liangzhou was to count household registration and measure land. Zeng Hua was taken aback by the first demographic data.

Hanzhong County has four counties, with 8,786 households and a population of 20,334; Shangyong County leads eight counties (including Xicheng, which belongs to Weixing County), with a household of 9,448 and a population of 3653; Jinshou County has four counties, with 5,034 households and a population of 31,976; Brazil has nine counties, with 12,000 households and a population of 63,346; Ba County leads nine counties, with 12,000 households and a population of 53,183; Fuling County has five counties, 4,200 households, and a population of 27,597.

The registered population is only more than 210,000, which is not much more than the number of migrants who have been "deceived and brought in" from all over the place. I always look at the hundreds of thousands of people's armies at every turn in ancient times, and look at the present, the total number of people in their own countries cannot be compared. Especially in Hanzhong County, there used to be nearly 20,000 households, more than 100,000 people, but now half of them can't arrive, and this is all left over from the previous Cheng Han Dynasty after moving the population of Hanzhong to Yizhou, and then bringing together the displaced people who fled south for decades.

Zeng Hua now knows the details of his own family, the total population under his jurisdiction is only 360,000, and even the total population of a county in Jizhou or Sizhou during the Taiping period is not comparable, this is still relying on himself to carry nearly half of the population from Jingxiang and Yizhou, otherwise I don't know how miserable it is.

Around May, the measurement, statistics, and resettlement in various localities were almost completed, and Zeng Hua was ready to implement the system of equalizing land in all counties.

According to Zeng Huaxin's policy outline, the common people are born yellow, 4 to 15 years old are young, men between 16 and 20 years old are middle, 21 to 59 years old are Ding, and 60 years old and above are old. Every year, one accounting, two years, and three years.

Middle-aged men and Ding men over the age of 18 are each given 80 acres of grain fields and 20 acres of miscellaneous fields. The grain field is used to grow rice and wheat grains, and the miscellaneous field is used to grow cotton and linen. Grain fields and miscellaneous fields are divided into upper, middle, middle, middle and lower according to the soil fertility and barrenness, and the annual harvest is divided into five levels: abundance, abundance, peace, apology, and disaster. Land is granted once at the age of sixteen and is allowed to be bought and sold.

The tax is based on the field, and the large harvest levy, the abundance levy is 90%, the flat levy is 80%, and the poor levy is 50%, and the tax is exempted in disaster years, and then a certain amount of grain is paid per 10 mu of grain field every year according to the land grade; Miscellaneous fields per ten acres of silk (or silk, silk) a number, a number of cotton.

Then the market is easy tariff system, the whole Liangzhou unified tariff, according to different commodities in the transaction of a one-time transaction tax, the rest of the time can be free to pass in Liangzhou, no need to pay taxes. Salt, iron, and copper are bought and sold by the government.

Set up a craftsman field, according to the smelting field, casting field, forging field, machinery field, carpentry field, etc., according to the specialty of the craftsman in each field, according to the skill of the craftsman has one to ten grades, according to the grade of the monthly salary of grain and silk, and then count the number of workpieces processed and produced every month and then receive allowance. There are also generous bonuses to reward craftsmen who have invented, innovated and made outstanding achievements.

In terms of the official system, Zeng Hua planned to divide Liangzhou into three levels: county, county, and township, and set up three levels of administrative officials at the county guard, county order, and township chief to take charge of local governance.

Military officials at the county and county lieutenant levels are set up to master the daily training and management of the local militia, assist in managing local law and order, and assist in recruiting local garrison troops from the militia.

There are 32 inspectors who are in charge of judging matters in accordance with the law, upholding discipline, and clarifying the rule of officials, and their main work is to investigate criminal names, accept lawsuits and adjudicate cases, supervise and patrol judicial work.

However, the officials did not grant other fields, but only paid monthly grain and silk according to their grades.

In terms of education, it is prepared to set up county schools, county schools, and township schools, and all six-year-old children in the people's families can enter the township school for free, and at the age of 12 they can be admitted to the county school, and at the age of 16, they can take the big examination and enter the Liangzhou High School. According to Zeng Hua's assumption, only those who have come out of Liangzhou high school can enter civil and official positions and start to become officials.

Zeng Hua began to reorganize the non-commissioned officer battalion into a military preparation school in Hanzhong, recruiting those who have completed their studies in the countryside or the children of military meritorious persons or orphans who died in the army, and those who passed the test at the age of 16 either joined the army as trainee non-commissioned officers, or were admitted to the military preparation school converted from the training camp, and after four years of study, they joined the army as officers.

However, before this, Zeng Hua carried out military reform, because he knew that the army was the basis of all his power, so the military reform began when he was still thinking about the new policy.

The most important thing in the military reform is to take the Changshui Army, the reserve Changshui Army and the newly recruited Yuan Tunding as the basis, with the non-commissioned officers and officers from the non-commissioned officer battalion and the training battalion as the backbone, and mix together a total of 25,000 young and strong people of the elite and Lin Xie ethnic groups of the former Shu Army, first train for a period of time, and then select the best to be organized into three armies, and select another 2,000 elites to be organized into the left and right guard battalions, thinking that Zeng Hua was a pro-army.

The structure of each army has also been adjusted, or with ten people as a tithe, three tithes as a sentry, three sentry plus flag bearers, trumpeters count more than 100 people as a team, three teams of more than 300 people as a tun, three tun even flag guards and so on count more than 1,000 people as a battalion, three battalions plus a team of Mo knife hands and so on as a box, left and right two sides of 6,000 people as an army, also called a legion. The commanders at all levels are in order, including the chief, the sentry commander, the captain, the canton, the battalion commander, the commander of the left and right compartments, and the regiment commander. As a rule, each team began to set up a secretary to be in charge of military law, military merit records, and morale and morale.

In this way, there are still more than 5,000 people, all of whom have been sent to the local garrison.

The establishment of local garrison troops, Zeng Hua basically did it in accordance with the military system of the Tang Dynasty. Temporarily set up six Zhichong Mansions, and put six Zhichong captains under the leadership. Each prefecture has 1,000 government soldiers selected from the militia from all over the country, and the organization is like a battalion, and the following organization is the same as that of a regular army. Like the Xiang Army, Zhechong Mansion is directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhenbei General's Mansion, and the local government has no right to dispatch.

Liu Zhen was the commander of the first army led by General Xuanwei and stationed in Chuyang, Zhang Qu was listed as the commander of the second army led by General Wu Yi, stationed in Chenggu, and Xu Dang was the third army led by General Wu Lie, stationed in Xicheng, all of which were in military tun.

After the implementation of the government and militia system in the localities, young and strong people in all localities had to participate in militia training for a period of time and bring their own weapons every year during the agricultural slack period. And the best in the militia were selected according to the proportion and became government soldiers. The Ochichong Mansion was generally stationed near the county seat, and generally served for five years, during which there was no monthly salary, and he prepared his own weapons and was supplied with daily food by the imperial court, but his family was exempt from all taxes during his service. After retiring from the government soldiers, they still participate in the annual militia, but once there is a war, the government is ordered to recruit them, and they must rejoin the government soldiers.

The core of Zeng Hua's military reform was to allow himself to firmly grasp the military power of the regular army and the local army, so as to lay a good foundation for the "new deal system" that followed. Therefore, after Zeng Hua tightened his grip on the gun, he immediately began to implement the new policy reform that had been planned in detail.

A little modification was made to the military system!