The way to do it is to introduce new reform measures in the south.

The specific reform content in it is actually similar to the reform content of all dynasties and dynasties in the past thousands of years.

Nothing more than the following.

First, suppress the powerful families, measure the land, and return the land to the people, so as to reduce the landless people.

Second, the phenomenon of tax evasion and evasion by the bureaucratic family class should be strictly investigated, and the officials and the common people should pay their grain in one and cut off all privileges.

Third, it is necessary to ban excesses and miscellaneous taxes, reduce taxes due to light forced labor, and collect only two taxes, namely the tax on the ding and the tax on the mu, rest with the people, and never increase the taxes.

Fourth, the abolition of slavery, the prohibition of hidden households, the compilation of household registration, the liberation of the population, and the increase of labor productivity.

Fifth, it is necessary to rectify the administration of officials, select and promote talents, establish an evaluation system for officials, and establish a new system of supervision and inspection.

Sixth, the army should be streamlined, the old and weak should be reduced, the army should be strengthened and the country strengthened, and an elite army capable of fighting wars should be created.

Seventh, reform the system of selecting and promoting talents, reduce the number of talents under the probation system, and parallel it with the assessment system, and once a year the official examination, scholars can choose to take the initiative to sign up for it.

Eighth, increase commercial taxes, and at the same time actively promote commercial development, and establish government-led business organizations to ensure people's livelihood.

The second of them will be thought to be a huge reform measure, but in fact, since ancient times, the gentry have paid grain, including the Ming and Qing dynasties, but the Ming and Qing gentry will have a tax exemption policy.

In the Han Dynasty, the family hid the land and population, and the two taxes at that time were the field tax and the poll tax, and the family concealed these fields and population, and turned the people and fields into their own private property, so as to avoid the taxes of the imperial court.

Therefore, as long as the hidden households and hidden properties are checked, more fields and people are liberated, and the registers are made, the tax revenue will naturally continue to flow.

In addition, the last commercial tax is more controversial, Zhuge Liang once considered whether this would cause a lot of trouble, such as whether the government would personally go out to do business, whether it would lead to the birth of privileges.

However, Shen Chen stressed that only the government and the government would only establish a government business house for rice merchants and salt merchants, and that the rest of the government would not interfere, so that the purpose of this was to lower the price of grain and salt, and the government would collect grain and control the salt farms, so as to achieve the goal of stabilizing prices.

Hearing that it was just to make rice salt, Zhuge Liang agreed.

Because both Han Dynasty did this, the Han Dynasty monopolized salt and iron, and the state controlled the salt, so that the price of salt was lower, and at the same time built granaries in various places, filling the warehouses with new grain every year, and selling old grain to the market to stabilize prices.

For example, during the Wenjing period of the Western Han Dynasty, due to the smooth wind and rain and the political communication, the price of rice at that time was even as low as more than ten yuan a stone, which was more than ten times lower than the price of about 200 yuan a stone in the normal years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which shows the importance of the government's control of rice salt.

It is a pity that any system is good at the beginning, but it is easy to be exploited if it does not change for a long time. For example, when the grain in the granary is taken and sold by the officials in charge, when it is inspected by the superiors, it is immediately a fire and the evidence is burned.

Mi Fang and Shiren should be very familiar with this.

Therefore, the contents of Shen Chen's reforms are nothing more than strengthening the centralization of power, enriching the government's finances, reducing the burden on the people, improving the national defense strength, and promoting the development of the commodity economy.

All of them are reform plans that have long been in place in all dynasties.

For example, the Shang Dynasty reform, the reform of Emperor Xiaowen, the Qingli New Deal, Zhang Juzheng's reform, etc., have been taught in junior high school and high school history books, and they belong to copying homework.

It's not that Shen Chen can't come up with new methods, but these methods are already the best solutions in the current feudal era, which can be regarded as an expedient solution to the temporary shortcomings of scraping bones and curing poison.

In order to have a new approach, it is necessary to raise the productive forces and develop the level of science and technology.

And even if productivity increases, new problems will arise that will have to be readjusted according to the situation.

Therefore, the legal system and policies of the country in the new era are changing all the time, and the simplest example is that the spring breeze of reform is blowing all over the ground, and at least more than ninety percent of the people in the new era can have enough to eat, which is already very remarkable.

Therefore, Shen Chen's promotion of reform can only choose the best quality solution to solve the problem under limited conditions, so as to alleviate the increasingly acute social contradictions.

Moreover, if it continues to be implemented in the south, it will not encounter any resistance.

Even Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang Pang Tong Xu Shu were involved, otherwise they would not have transferred Jingzhou officials to Yizhou, and Yizhou officials would have been transferred to Jingzhou to divide and implement the rule.

At this point, Shen Chen was a little envious of Cao Cao.

Because the north was most severely affected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, the powerful power of the family was much less than before, so that Cao Cao rarely had to solve the land problem between the family and the common people in history.

It's not that he did a good job, it's really that the powerful forces of the northern family have been messed up and decayed by several times, and the ownerless fields are everywhere.

Even Yuan Shao frantically suppressed the Hao clan in Jizhou and deprived them of their land.

According to historical records, Yuan Shao destroyed many clans to fill the military finances and return the land to the people.

Many wealthy clans fled to the north to join the ethnic minorities, which brought iron development to Xianbei Karasuma, and indirectly made the Hu people strong during the Wuhu Rebellion.

This is also the reason why Yuan Shao died, and the people of Jizhou were all sad.

On the other hand, Yizhou, Jingzhou, was less affected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, and the power of the wealthy families was relatively well preserved, and there were even a large number of wealthy families from the north who migrated to the south and purchased land and property on a large scale, aggravating the land conflict.

In addition, the problem of hidden households and hidden births is extremely serious, if Cao Cao has not yet pacified the north, Sun Quan will be weakened and rectified immediately.

In the future, when Cao Cao completely takes over the north and Sun Quan recovers some vitality, the serious problems of land annexation and wealthy families will become the most important weight to drag down Liu Bei's regime.

Therefore, before Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang had already discussed and studied, and wrote the content of the reform into a booklet and began to implement it.

The implementers of Jingzhou are Fa Zheng and Zhang Song, and the implementers of Yizhou are Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong and Xu Shu.

As for Shen Chen.

He still has to lead troops, and it is uncertain whether he will go to Yizhou or Jingzhou in the future, so he can only give reference suggestions, and there is no way to carry out the restructuring himself.

However, if there is a problem, Zhuge Liang Fazheng and they can also ask at any time, anyway, there is the Yangtze River, and it will not take long for Yizhou and Jingzhou to communicate back and forth, a few days in a short time, or more than ten days in a slow way, and they will probably be able to communicate with each other.

After talking about the internal reform, Shen Chen talked about the external situation again.

Externally, there are nothing more than two points.

Military.

Diplomacy.

It doesn't even count the economy, because the princes often don't dominate the economy and let the people develop on their own.

Shen Chen also didn't have much research on the economy, although he knew that economic warfare was very important, he was better at leading troops to fight, so he could only put forward his own suggestions militarily and diplomatically.

He looked around at the people in the hall and said softly: "Layman domineering, I advocate forming a confrontation with Cao Cao, only confrontation and no fighting. Forming a superficial alliance with the Jiangdong Sun clan is actually a trend of annihilation. Formed a substantial alliance with Xiliang Guanzhong to resist Cao Cao's trend. ”

"Eliminate Jiangdong and unite Xiliang Guanzhong?"

Liu Bei glanced at Fa Zheng, which was completely different from the strategy discussed by Pang Tong and Fa Zheng Xu Shu.

The three of them believed that they should temporarily unite with Sun Quan, first take Guanzhong and Xiliang to form a three-point world, and then develop a naval army to raid Jiangdong and pacify Yangzhou, and divide the north and south into two.

When Fa Zheng heard this, his face suddenly became serious, and he wanted to hear why Shen Chen made such a suggestion.

"Not bad."

Shen Chen nodded: "I think strategically, we must eliminate Jiangdong first, Jiangdong is too close to us, on the side of the couch, how can we allow others to snore!" Sun's wolf ambition, if not eliminated, will become a scourge in the future. ”

"But ......"

Liu Bei hesitated: "Shi Yuan is the main force to send troops to Guanzhong, and he imitates the ancestors of Xiliang Sanfu, and after having a horse breeding land, he can establish cavalry to compete with Cao Cao in the eastern part of the country." ”

"Xiaoqing is also a northerner, you should understand the importance of cavalry."

Zhang Song also said: "If we can't have a strong cavalry, whether it is reconnaissance, rushing, pursuit, or battle changes, it will be much worse than Cao Cao." In the great plains of the north, we need cavalry. ”

Don't look at Cao Cao's defeat of so many Wuhuan iron cavalry, he thinks that the cavalry is useless.

In fact, Cao Cao's defeat of Karasuma relied on the tactics of infantry and cavalry, disrupting the cavalry formation through bows and arrows, and then the tiger and leopard cavalry charged the two wings to strangle and divide the battlefield, which won the victory.

Otherwise, it will be difficult for a simple infantry to win against cavalry, just like Li Ling, you can only fight and retreat, and you will be hung by other cavalry using mobility.

Shen Chen also suffered a loss at this point, because there was no cavalry, he was chased and beaten by Cao Cao's 5,000 cavalry like rabbits.

If it weren't for relying on Gan Ning to fight to the death, using chariots to form a formation, and the pressure given by Yuan Shao in the north was too great, I'm afraid that Shen Chen would have been wiped out by Cao Cao in that battle of Ziyun Mountain.

Therefore, Pang Tong's strategy is strictly correct, if Liu Bei's forces can get the horse-producing land, they will change such a disadvantage.

Even Shen Chen was able to pull out the three big killing weapons of the bilateral stirrups, the Takahashi saddle and the horseshoe, and together with the steel filling method, he could organize a strong heavy cavalry and a large number of light cavalry troops in just a few years.

In this case, Cao Cao couldn't last long.

Fa Zheng also said: "And Han Sui is said to have sacrificed his children to Yecheng, and Ma Chao's family is also hostage in Yecheng. It can be seen that they have already wanted to serve Cao Cao, attack Xiliang Guanzhong, and eliminate Han Sui, Ma Chao and others, not only to get horse breeding land, but also to weaken Cao Cao's strength, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. ”

But Shen Chen said: "Shiyuan and Xiaozhi are not wrong, but the problem is that you are all looking at the wrong person. ”

"Saw the wrong person?"

Everyone was surprised, and Liu Bei asked, "Who did you see wrong?" ”

"Han Sui Ma Chao."

Shen Chen said.

Han Sui Ma Chao?

A few people were puzzled.

Fa Zheng asked, "Isn't that right?" ”

Shen Chen shook his head: "No, if Sun Quan has the ambition to practice, Han Sui and Ma Chao have the heart of Gongsun Shu." ”

Gongsun Shu's heart?

Zhang Song was surprised: "Do they want to divide Guanzhong and Xiliang and become kings?" ”

"Not bad."

Shen Chen said: "So if we send troops to attack them, we will be enemies with them. The best way is to wait for Cao Cao to attack Guanzhong, and Han Sui Ma Chao clashed, we sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, and when Han Sui Ma Chao was defeated by Cao Cao, accept them, and then send troops to Guanzhong to fight with Cao Cao. ”

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After listening to Shen Chen's words, Liu Beifa and Zhang Song glanced at each other, looked at each other, and then fell into silence and did not speak for a long time.

This inference is too outrageous for them.

From the perspective of God, later generations know that Ma Chao is a filial son, but he doesn't even care about his father in Yecheng, and insists on recognizing Han Sui, the enemy of his mother, as his father and forcibly fighting with Cao Cao.

and Han Sui, a loving father and son, didn't want it, recognized Ma Chao as his godson, and raised troops to fight against Cao with Ma Chao.

But from the perspective of people at the time, Han Sui sent his children to Yecheng, Ma Chao and his father were also hostages in Yecheng, and Cao Cao recovered the north and was powerful, Han Sui and Ma Chao took advantage of the situation to serve him, which is also a reasonable thing, and even this is the most probable event.

Therefore, in the opinion of Pang Tong, Fazheng, Xu Shu and others, it is the best solution to send troops to the customs now.

The first is to eliminate Han Sui's Ma Chao's power and weaken Cao Cao's strength. The second is to plot to seize Xiliang Guanzhong and get the horse-producing land. The third is to send troops according to Guanzhong to attack the Kanto region and seize the world. It can be described as killing three birds with one stone and taking the initiative.

However, Shen Chen's inference was completely different from their opinion.

He thought that Han Sui and Ma Chao would definitely abandon their families and not be anti-backbones, and take the initiative to send troops to Xiliang Guanzhong, which was to push them to Cao Cao's side. It is better to wait and see what happens, and wait for the small probability event of Cao Cao and Han Sui Ma Chao fighting, and then win over Han Sui and Ma Chao to fight Cao Cao.

This made Liu Bei Fazheng and Zhang Song almost incomprehensible.

It's just a fantasy, it's an impossible thing.

For a while, Fa Zhengdu began to doubt whether this world-famous Jingzhou God of War was true or false.

After being silent for a long time, Liu Bei turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang and said, "Kong Ming, do you think so too?" ”

Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly: "Lord, in Liang's opinion, Shiyuan, Xiaozhi and Yuanzhi are right, because Liang also thinks that it is most appropriate to send troops to Xiliangguan first." ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed and said: "Then it seems that only Xiaoqing's opinion is contrary to everyone's. ”

"But ......"

"But what?"

Zhuge Liang shook his head and said, "But this is Xiaoqing's opinion. ”

"Xiaoqing's opinion?"

Liu Bei was stunned.

"Not bad."

Zhuge Liang said: "If someone else proposes to take Jiangdong first and then level Guanzhong, Liang will definitely scold him for being ignorant." But this is proposed by Xiaoqing, Liang has to think about it. ”

If Xiaoqing proposed it, you have to think about it.

When Liu Bei heard this, his face stiffened, and he sat there stunned.

Immediately afterwards, his expression became trance-like, and his eyes gradually lost concentration.

The eyes of memories are all the figures of the little adults in Xuzhou back then.

Eight years old.

Shen Chen, who was only eight years old at that time, had already prophesied that Cao Cao would slaughter Xuzhou.

Later, the general trend of the world was all said by him.

Since then, I have begun to trust Mr. Xiao 100%.

He will listen to every word of Mr. Xiao, and he will take every suggestion to heart.

So he finally fled to Nanyang, and as Mr. Xiao said, he got the land of Jingzhou and Yizhou.

Everything was said by him.

Yes.

So many years down.

I trust Mr. Xiao so unconditionally.

Why is it ...... today?

For a while, Liu Bei felt a little ashamed and unconsciously lowered his head.

Because he suddenly found that he didn't trust Shen Chen just now, when did he become like this?

Maybe it's after getting Jing Yi.

Since there are Kong Ming, Shi Yuan, Yuan Zhi, and Xiaozhi, I seem to rely on Mr. Xiao a lot less.

But isn't it because of Mr. Xiao's plan that he can get the land of Jingyi?

If it weren't for him, how could I be where I am today?

Behave.

Don't forget your roots.

Liu Bei was deeply ashamed and lowered his head.