Huan Wen, who was bored, vented all his anger on Fan Liu's rebels, and the 50,000 elite army was divided into three routes, and the soldiers pointed directly at Sheyang. In September of the fifth year of Taihe, Huan Wen led the army to defeat the Fan Liu rebels, beheaded more than 1,000 people, captured more than 10,000 people, and recovered Sheyang. Then attacked Yandu again, and more than 3,000 remnants of Fan Liuling's army escaped to the sea and disappeared.

Huan Wen had no choice but to return to Guangling, and before he spread the news of the victory of the imperial court all over the world, he found a very depressing thing, that is, the Jiangzuo court had no money, and now it was Huan Wen's old life, and he was the head of the Jiangzuo court.

If you don't have money, you can't live, if you don't have money, you can't pay food, and if you don't have money, you have to go hungry, but now Jiangzuo has to use money everywhere. The victorious soldiers and the court should always be interesting and give some rewards; Xuzhou was ravaged by the chaotic army into ruins, and there were more than 1,000 people in the family, so we had to allocate some money and food to appease these people and restore the Xuzhou place; There is also the most important grain-producing area of the Jiangzuo Imperial Court - Sanwu This year's drought, the people starved to death, and they needed money and grain for disaster relief. Money was being asked everywhere, but the warehouses of the Jiangzuo Imperial Court had been so clean that even the rats had moved.

Seeing these documents, Huan Wen was very depressed, and in the second year of Xingning (364 AD), he implemented "reform measures" such as the Gengxu soil break, and the financial situation of the Jiangzuo court improved for a time. In February of the first year of Taihe (366 AD), His Majesty the Emperor also issued an edict saying that Jianye's official warehouse had been stored for a year's money and grain, and suspended the transfer of rice cloth to Jianye for one year.

Huan Wen realized the seriousness of this matter, and soon discussed with his brother Huan Yun and the strategists Xi Chao and Wang Xun in Guangling.

"Jingxing, Yuan Lin, this matter is not trivial, I have to borrow the talents of the two!" Huan Wen said solemnly, Huan Yun didn't have any say in this kind of thing, so he sat down honestly and listened quietly, expressing his opinion at the right time.

"Gong Huan, I can't imagine that the situation has actually eroded to this point." Xi Chao and Wang Xun looked at each other for a while, and finally Xi Chao spoke first according to the usual practice, "After I received the letter from Duke Huan last month, I went through the files of the branch and warehouse department in the past few years, and found that the drawbacks in it are too serious, and there are many kinds of things. ”

"First of all, the officials are greedy for ink, after the Huan Gong carried out the soil break and other reforms in the second year of Xingning, the degree of the imperial court has improved, at that time, the official warehouses around the country are full of grain, rice and cloth, and the officials around the country began to take the opportunity to steal or to make up for good, and the loss of all places is calculated in ten thousand hundred. Wang Youjun (Wang Xizhi) once went to Huiji to travel, and on the way, he accidentally saw that Yuyao County had consumed 100,000 yuan of grain and rice from Guancang, no wonder he would sigh that he was re-collecting the people to be traitors. When Xi Chao said this, he couldn't help but sigh. And Huan Wen sat there silently with a dark face.

"The second is that the forced labor of the common people is too heavy, although His Majesty has granted amnesty to the world when he ascended the throne, reduced the income per mu to two buckets, and implemented a system of 15 taxes. However, other miscellaneous taxes are endless, such as converting cloth into rice, sometimes rice into cloth, and sometimes renting rice and cloth into money or other physical goods, all depending on the preferences of local officials. Speaking of this, Xi Chao gave an example: "Due to the flood of woven cotton cloth in Beifu, the price of cloth is extremely low, from the Xiankang period (AD 335 ~ 342) of a thousand yuan to the current less than a hundred yuan, according to the imperial court system, it should be four pieces of cloth per household, but the local government is stipulated to accept only two pieces of cloth, and the rest of the cash, and each piece of cloth according to the price of cloth in the Shengping period of the net income of 500 yuan, there are greedy officials according to the price of 800 yuan in the Yonghe period. However, there is a difference of several times, and the people are overwhelmed. ”

Xi Chao stopped, saw Huan Wen's gloomy purple face, sighed secretly in his heart and continued: "There are also shirts for officials and generals; There is a special tax according to Ding, which is used to build embankments and protect ponds, and this tax is levied in coastal areas such as Huiji; There is also money to welcome and send money, where an official arrives or leaves office or dies in office, the local government must send money and materials, often tens of millions of dollars; There are also public utilities (office expenses), public fields (official fields of officials), miscellaneous supplies, and so on. ”

"In addition, there is conscription, because for decades the imperial court has accumulated troops for the Northern Expedition, and the conscripts of the people range from thirteen to sixty-six years old, and even more so to conscript seven- or eight-year-old boys or eighty-year-old men; And a war is often years and months, and the people are a few months in recent years, no wonder the former Yuzhang Taishou Fan Wuzi Lord (Fan Ning, a famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty) once lamented that "the ancients made people, the age is only three days, and today's labor is difficult to have three days of rest". In this way, the extremely poor are all organized into household servants, and the servants are severely served, and the household servants are unbearable, or their limbs are amputated, or they sell their children and daughters, or they give birth to infertile children, or they pawn their wives and stick to their wives, or they sell themselves into slavery, or they flee to the mountains and lakes, or they hang themselves in the ditches. ”

Xi Chao suddenly heard a slight "pop" sound, looked up suddenly, and found that Huan Wen, who was sitting in the middle, broke the Pei Yuhuan in his hand, which shows how angry and shocked this big Sima is in his heart, it seems that he is the same as himself, fighting and seeing tens of thousands of troops in unison, full of spirit, but he didn't expect that there are so many sad stories behind. If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court ran out of money this time, he wouldn't have studied these things so carefully that he hadn't paid attention to in the past, and only after studying it did he find out the seriousness of the problem, no wonder the Fan Liu rebels were like a vast ocean.

Huan Wen breathed a long sigh of relief, and sighed gloomily: "Since a certain administration, there is nothing to talk about, nothing to remember, the army is broken outside, and the resources are exhausted inside. Look at the Beifu Zeng Xuping, but he can swallow thousands of miles like a tiger, crisscrossing far away. Why is this so? ”

"Jingxing, what should I do?" After a while, Huan Wen, who had recovered from his extreme anger, asked.

"After I discussed with Yuan Lin and others, I feel that the only solution today is to fight for the people!" Xi Chao replied without hesitation, he, Wang Xun and others checked this situation, and only after careful deliberation did they decide on a plan, and they just told Huan Wen now and asked him to decide.

"Fighting for the people?" Huan Yun, who was also gloomy just now, couldn't help but be stunned, and couldn't help but cry out, but quickly sat down under Huan Wen's glance.

"Yes, fight for the people. The common people are the foundation of the imperial court's taxation and servitude, and only when the more households they have, the more servants they share, and the more grain they lose, so that the imperial court can not only collect more grain, but also ease the people's feelings. Xi Chao began to say, "Since the Yongjia Rebellion, there have been nearly one million remnants of Jiangyou. The imperial court established overseas Chinese counties and counties as pastors, which can prevent the Jiangyou refugees from flowing into private wealthy families, second, to soothe the feelings of the homeless people, and third, to retain the county prestige of the overseas Chinese surname. However, the northern province of Fujiang established a domain, recruited expatriates with the Juntian system, and the first of ten returned to the north, and the rest were only more than 100,000, all of which were not returned because they were attached to wealthy families. ”

"After the imperial court crossed to the south, in order to appease the family and scholars, it not only continued the system of shade guests and shade relatives, but also gave the custom system, and could have a different number of tenants, pawns (serf stewards), and food and clothing guests (miscellaneous servants in the house) according to their official ranks. If the official product is the first and second, the tenant shall not exceed 40 households, and the pawn shall not exceed three people, and the following shall be reduced by one product, and the tenant household shall be less than five households, and the ninth product can still be obtained by five households, and the number of tenants shall be one person and one person shall be counted above the five grades. Tenants, pawns, diners and servants, as well as the left and right retinues and guards of the family are all registered and have no separate household registration, so the court will not look for them to collect taxes and levy labor. ”

"The imperial court gave customization to appease and give preferential treatment to the scholars and stabilize the place, and the second was to try to restrict the scholars from hiding their households and competing with the country for the people. However, the powerful family often did not appreciate the painstaking efforts of the imperial court and wantonly occupied the people, while the local officials turned a blind eye to this because of various relationships, and the people in the register were overwhelmed, so they often joined the powerful family and attached it to the domestic slave tribe to avoid harsh taxes and servitude. The imperial court is also weak to this, the former Yuyao County Ling Shan Yanlin (Shan Yao, the grandson of Shan Tao) had used severe criminal law to inspect the hidden households of the Haoqiang family, and in less than three months they picked up more than 10,000 mouths, and found that Yu Xi, the priest of the Yuyao family, hid the household registration, thinking that it was privately attached, and the huge number could be abandoned in accordance with the law (beheaded to death). Let Shan Yanlin want to bring Yu Xi to justice, Zhu Haoqiang did not cut his teeth in Shan Yanlin, and jointly wrote to Jianye, with Yu Xi having a high festival, for the famous people at that time, it is not suitable for humiliation. He also used the mountains and forests to build the county government without permission, and then framed him for his crime. Shan Yanlin submitted a letter to He Wenmu Gong (He Chong), who was the internal history of the Huiji, and begged to stay for 100 days, so that he could ask for his guilt after being arrested and escaped from Yu Xi, and he had no hatred. He Wenmu refuted his letter and sentenced him to dismissal. ”

Speaking of this, Xi Chao took a look and found that Huan Wen's expression had not changed at all, knowing that his name on He Chong this time did not cause the dissatisfaction of this boss, although Huan Wen had been promoted and valued by He Chong, it seems that people who have been dead for more than ten years can't bear the heat and coldness of reality no matter how prestigious they are.

"And Huan Gong in the second year of Xingning after the implementation of the Gengxu soil break and other reforms quite effective, this is because Huan Gong strict law. Sima Xuan, the king of Pengcheng, was sent to Tingwei by Duke Huan to punish because he found out that he was hiding five households in the soil break, and the prince Shuwu (Wang Biaozhi) in the imperial history was the master of Huiji Neishi for several years, and he appeased more than 30,000 hermits. With such a strict prohibition, all the powerful people in various places have reined in their actions, so the national law has been greatly enforced. ”

However, in recent years, the imperial court has been negligent, so the powerful family has been able to do the same trick again, hiding the private population, and the common people have suddenly decreased, and the forced forced taxes are heavier, and they are forced to rely on the family. In this cycle, the national law will collapse and the court will be embarrassed. Xi Chao finally concluded.

Huan Wen heard this, couldn't help but blush, since Gengxu was broken, Huan Wen saw a slight effect and shifted his attention, more concentrate on expanding his power to the east, and gradually stretched his hand into Jiangzhou, Nanyuzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou and other places, according to Wang Meng, internal fighting is better than foreign war, and finally Xie Wan, Xi Tan, Xi Su after Yin Hao, Xun Xian pulled off the horse, swept away the footsteps of the east, who knew that such a serious thing happened in Jiangzuo Chaozhong.

Huan Wen said to do it, first in the name of the imperial court and then implement strict laws, clearly said the world, first to the local officials to apply for punishment, strictly ordered them not to be greedy for ink, and re-examined the system of taxation and forced labor, explicitly abolished unreasonable measures such as conversion, and then strictly prohibited the harsh taxes such as money and miscellaneous supplies.

Then Huan Wen demanded that the people who were hiding and secretly attached in various places should be strictly inspected. In order to save face for the wealthy families, Huan Wen ordered to raise the standard of the Yin Ke and the custom system, so that each household could receive more than half of the serfs, and then the rest of the population must be cleared out and included in the people's household registration.

Huan Wen sent a large number of envoys to inspect the counties and counties, first to check the official warehouses in various places, to verify the number of grains and rice, and to order the officials to return the grain and grass that was greedy for ink, otherwise they would be exempted from official investigation, and second, to investigate the private collection of population.

Huan Wen knew the power of example, and immediately set up two examples, the first model was in Jingkou, Huan Wen sent envoys to find out that the shortage of grain in the official warehouse in Jingkou amounted to 400,000 Hu, involving hundreds of officials. Huan Wen saw that the main officials were left by the former Xi Tan, Xi Su and other predecessors in Xuzhou, and there were inextricable links with Xi, Wang, Xie and other families, so he began to deal with it strictly, he immediately sent the table to the imperial court, and the 32 officials of Xuzhou Beijia and Guangling Neishi who were stationed in Jingkou were abandoned in the city, and the remaining 467 subordinate officials were exempted from the border land of Beifu (the border land of Zhuzhou in Beifu was an agreement reached between Huan Wen and Beifu in recent years, Jiang Zuo sent the criminals and criminals of the exiles to Beifu on behalf of their families, and Beifu paid weapons and armor according to the population, It can be regarded as human trafficking), one of the criminal officials of the exiles is Dantu Gong Cao Liu Qiao, he did not get any oil and water, he was purely implicated, so he had to take his wife Xiao and two sons Liu Jinu and Liu Daolian to the north with the team.

Another typical Huan Wen found the Yu family in Yuyao, and he sent an envoy to find out that the Yu family was hiding more than 400 people with private attachments, so he immediately ordered Yu Liang, the head of the Yu family, to abandon the city, and to meet the internal history of Wang Fu and Yuyao County to order Liu Li to be dismissed without reporting to the official, and to exile the border of Beifu.

Huan Wen used such strict methods, and the political affairs of the counties and counties in Jiangzuo were cleared, and although the powerful families in various places did not dare to move because of Huan Wen's "obscenity", the anger and resentment in their hearts became deeper and deeper. 2k reading web