Moling City

At this moment, Liu Xun couldn't wait to live in the Taishou Mansion, and couldn't help but fall into contemplation when he looked at the letter written by Liu Ye in his hand.

Seriously calculated, now the forces he has established with his own hands, including Liu Ye's newly acquired Shouchun, already have four counties, which is already nearly half of Yangzhou's territory.

Because his power has skyrocketed too fast, the foundation is naturally insufficient. In the three battles of Lujiang, Yuzhang, and Moling, Liu Xun mainly surrendered, and indeed received a lot of prisoners in the base camp.

But the problem also followed, after all, these surrendered soldiers were all Jiangdong soldiers, and the Sun family had not completely collapsed, so the military spirit naturally had not been attached to Liu Xun. At this moment, Liu Xun was also a little embarrassed whether to use these soldiers, and it was a pity not to use them. After all, these soldiers and horses followed Sun Ce's southern expedition to the north and made great achievements. Each of them is a veteran of the battlefield, and they are undoubtedly much more elite than his soldiers and horses, and Liu Xun naturally regards them as treasures. But Liu Xun felt uneasy after using it, after all, the army was not attached, and Liu Xun was afraid that they would defect when the time came.

Liu Xun muttered: "Now it is not impossible to make them completely fall to themselves, in this troubled world, if you want to buy these soldiers, you have to come up with real money, but you definitely don't have gold and silver."

Then the only way to buy people's hearts is to use the most common and effective method in this troubled era, that is, to divide the land. As long as the soldiers have their own land, their families will have land to grow and food to eat, and the family will be able to survive in this troubled era. They have a home, and even if they drive them away with a stick at that time, it is estimated that they will not leave this land.

Tie their hearts with land, so that they will naturally feel at ease to serve as soldiers, or it can be said that they have a community of interests. When the time comes, let alone defect, even if they are told to give their lives to themselves, after all, the lives of this era can really be exchanged for land.

That being said, the biggest problem also came one after another, and he didn't have so much land under his hands to share the reward. If there is only the land over there in Shouchun, after all, it has been harmed by Yuan Shu a lot, and most of them are borderless land now, but it is impossible for him to arrange these people to Shouchun.

And the three counties of Lujiang, Yuzhang, and Moling on their side have not gone through a major war, and on the whole, the power of the wealthy family is still there, and the ownership of the land on the surface still belongs to them. These families value land as much as civilians, so how could they be willing to give it to the common people? ”

"His grandmother, what should I do?" Liu Xun scratched his scalp and couldn't think of any tricks. He knew that he couldn't have both fish and bear's paws, and now he could only choose between the family and these elite soldiers.

"The family itself is not a good bird, and if he rules the world in the future, he will definitely get rid of this cancer. Why not solve it now. Although the road to domination of the world in the future will increase many difficulties, everything has advantages and disadvantages, and many benefits will be reaped at the same time as difficulties.

In the end, Liu Xun was heartbroken, and he still made up his mind to suppress the family. The land of the Collectors was distributed among their subordinates and among the common people.

After making the decision, Liu Xun couldn't help but muttered to himself: "If you can snatch the land from the Shi clan and distribute it to these poor people, their hearts will definitely be towards themselves at that time." And these soldiers are basically poor people, soldiers who only become soldiers for food, if they give them the land they dream of, so that they can support their families here with peace of mind, it would be strange if they didn't give themselves their lives. In this way, these Jiangdong troops will naturally be willingly accepted by themselves as soon as possible. What's more, he was kind enough to accept them before, and he never slaughtered half of the surrendered soldiers, so it can be said that he still has the grace of life for them, so he will definitely be able to win the hearts of the army with such a two-pronged approach. ”

It's easy to make a decision, but it's not easy to put it into practice.

Because Liu Xun asked people to investigate, he found that the strength of the family on the Jiangdong side was too strong, and most of the land was in their hands.

Liu Xun wanted to find someone to discuss and see if there was any good way, but when he thought of a group of reckless men around him, he could only shake his head helplessly. Now that Shouchun is new, only people like Liu Ye can develop stably there, and Liu Xun feels unreliable when he thinks about it, so although Liu Xun lacks resourcefulness, he still insists on not letting Liu Ye come back. I wanted to write a letter to Liu Ye to ask for a plan, but this time the daylily was cold.

Liu Xun couldn't help but say to himself: "Forget it, I also have thousands of years of knowledge, I'm afraid that he is a bird, isn't it just some family?" I thought that the demon king Dong Zhuo could subdue Luoyang, Kyoto by force. Thinking that the big families in Luoyang City were nothing compared to Jiangdong, at that time, I didn't see any family that could do anything to him Dong Zhuo, and everyone was obedient under Dong Zhuo's coercion.

And he is not as tyrannical as Dong Zhuo, so the backlash caused by it is naturally smaller. After all, Dong Zhuo not only asked for money but also his life, and not only the family but also the common people were offended, and he only offended the family. I don't think that Sun Ce is also in Jiangdong so that the family can't raise their heads, and they can't see what they can do to the Sun family, so they can only express their dissatisfaction with the small means of assassination. ”

Now that the decision has been made, Liu Xun naturally will not delay, after all, time is pressing, and after solving the army's heart, he has to continue to wave his troops south to attack Sun Quan, who has an unstable foothold.

In order to have the most intuitive understanding of the current situation, Liu Xun sent attendants overnight to recruit Wang Jun, the patriarch of a local middle-class scholar clan.

Liu Xun has been in full swing recently, and his reputation is not very good, so the Wang family naturally does not dare to offend a villain like Liu Xun easily. Hearing that Liu Xun was summoned, he naturally didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately followed the attendants.

At this moment, in the hall of the Taishou Mansion

After Wang Jun worshiped Liu Xun, he asked respectfully: "I don't know what is the important matter for Taishou to come to the old man?" ”

Liu Xun smiled and said kindly, "Hard, the royal patriarch has come here." ”

"It's too polite, please ask too much, the old man knows everything." Wang Jun said very politely

"Then thank you Patriarch Wang, this is too shou Xinde Moling, now his eyes are black, there are really some things I want to know, and I hope you will not hesitate to give advice." Liu Xun said politely

Before Wang Jun could be polite, Liu Xun pretended to ask inadvertently: "I don't know how much grain your family has received this year?" ”

As soon as he heard the word grain, Wang Jun immediately became vigilant, what does this have to do with Xinde Moling? But he still said hesitantly: "In the old family, when the summer harvest comes, maybe ...... There will be a harvest of about 3,000 koku. ”

Liu Xun was speechless when he heard this: "I'll go to his grandmother's, such a small family is so rich." Looking at his hesitant appearance, maybe he is still underreported. ”

Liu Xun asked with a happy face: "Thank you Patriarch Wang, I wonder if the income of the other families is not much different?" ”

Wang Jun couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart when he heard this: "Returning to Taishou, it should be almost the same." ”

"Okay, I got it. If it's getting late today, the royal patriarch should go back quickly. Liu Xun suddenly gave an eviction order

Wang Jun was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart: "Just say these two words and drive me away." Did he know that I had lied to him, and that the real harvest was 6,000 stones? But this is a family secret, so I guess it won't be discovered. ”

"The old man retired first." Since Liu Xun had already issued an eviction order, he didn't want to ask much, so he could only slowly retreat with confusion and uneasiness.

Looking at the departing patriarch of the Wang family, Liu Xun muttered to himself: "No wonder Emperor Han Ling has to sell his official position to be rich, no wonder many people have money to be official, this is a link that is linked to this link." There are too many scholars like Wang Jun in the world, and there are many under his rule, one is only 3,000 stones, and most of the money and grain taxes in the world go to the pockets of the scholars. ”

It is said that this scholar class sprouted in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was also an important reason for the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The nobles possessed strong economic power and held policy privileges, and were the pillars on which imperial power was built and consolidated. This comes from the powerful power of the Shi clan, the Shi clan in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in the economy, has been "acres of land connected to the Fang country", "thousands of slaves and maids, in vain attached to ten thousand". In other words, the nobles held a large amount of land, and the people of the land had to listen to them.

In politics, it is even more "tired of classics", "tired of the princess", and even Yuan Shao, a prominent family of "four generations and three dukes", and enjoys the privilege of being exempted from servitude in fact.

These powers reached their peak in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and after the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the scholars who held the authority worked even more for the benefit of their own families. A large number of people's lands were annexed by them. They don't have to pay taxes, the land is theirs, and the court naturally has no money. They were even more ruthless than the imperial court, completely ignoring the law, and killing and plundering the people of the land at will, which caused many peasant uprisings.

Later, the scholar system was the most prominent political feature throughout the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties periods, and it was also a manifestation of the political darkness of the Western Jin Dynasty. Due to the wanton sucking of blood by the scholars, they are rich and rival the country but are selfish, resulting in the imperial court having no money and food to build national defense. Naturally, the Wuhu Chaos began.

The heyday of the scholar clan can be said to be the dark period of China, but there is no strong performance at the national level.

In every way, this clan is a disadvantage to the ruler, or a scourge. For example, in the dialogue between Liu Xun and Wang Jun just now, Liu Xun is also a Taishou, and his summer harvest is only 105,000 stones, and Wang Jun's family alone has an income of 3,000 stones, and this is only the amount that the Wang family concealed, not to mention the four major families in Jiangdong.

"If you raid all of them one day, then you shouldn't be worried about money and food," thought of this, Liu Xun's saliva couldn't help but flow.

The previous rulers of the Eastern Han Dynasty were born from the Shi clan, and their interests were intertwined, making it impossible for them to attack the Shi clan. Although Sun Cexiong slightly suppressed the family, he did not suppress it completely, after all, he also relied on the scholar clan to start his family, and he himself was also a child of the scholar clan.