Chapter 2077 Changpingcang
Listening to Xun You talking about Cao Cao, Cui Cheng couldn't help but said: "The fourth and third princes of the Yuan family in Runan, starting from the great-grandfather, have held high positions for generations, second only to the Hongnong Yang family "The Fifth Generation and the Three Dukes, can't they learn from the Taihang Mountain people?"
"The Yuan family in Runan is indeed very powerful, but they are intertwined among the court and the scholars, but the Taihang Mountain people's methods are different. Teaching without distinction directly hurts the nerves of the scholars. If they imitate the Taihang Mountain people, they will definitely offend the scholars." Xun You shook his head and said, "I am sure that the Yuan family will not take it. If they win Jizhou, they will be severely suppressed. "
"If they can't get Jizhou, they have lost their chance." Xun Chen, Yuan Shao's first adviser in the early period, suddenly shook his head.
Xun Yu and Xun You nodded.
Cui Cheng was still a little confused: "Why is this so?"
"Because the Taihang Mountain people have 20,000 elite soldiers, and they have bought a large number of county guards near Jizhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou, and placed people among them. And Yuan Yuan of Runan The family is still arranged above the court, and it is beyond the reach of the whip. They made a mistake, and I also made a mistake. The future of the Han Dynasty lies in the local government, not in the court." Xun You admitted decisively.
Indeed, in history, Xun You planned to make a difference, trying to kill Dong Zhuo, control the capital, assist the king, and command the world.
I also want to follow Cao Cao’s path.
It just doesn't work, he has no military power.
Of course this is not possible.
This is caused by personal vision, character, and family background.
Their family is a prestigious family. They have no friendship with rangers and have never been involved in military power.
Cao Cao suppressed the Yellow Turbans from the beginning, accumulated valuable experience in leading troops, and had a large number of local warriors in his family.
"Can Cao Cao do it? How can he have the courage to accept such a big thing after being a mere eunuch?" Cui Cheng obviously didn't know Cao Cao well enough.
"When Cao Cao first became an official, he made a five-color stick and killed the uncle of the great eunuch Jian Shuo. You can imagine how brave he was. This year, when the Yellow Turbans broke out, he was promoted to Captain of Cavalry and joined forces with General Huangfu. The Yellow Turban Army was defeated in Yingchuan with courage and strategy. If anyone can restrain the Taihang Mountain people, I can only find Cao Cao now." Xun You shook his head and said.
"But doesn't Cao Cao have a weak foundation? He is just a cavalry captain now and has no territory of his own." Cui Chengcheng said sincerely.
"His father is rich, very rich, even richer than the people in Taihang Mountain. Of course, it is only now, and he will not be able to do it in two years." Xun You said with a smile.
Xun Yu didn't say anything. The words were too vulgar. He was still a little aloof and unwilling to say it directly.
Because it will soon involve selling an official position and getting a title.
But once he handles the logistics, it won't feel cliché anymore, because money and food are the most real things.
Those guys who can only talk empty talk will understand the importance after two hungry meals.
"I understand. You want to seek refuge with Cao Cao, tell him to quickly go to the local government to buy officials, and then follow the example of the Taihang Mountain people in recruiting troops, establishing institutions, and absorbing a large number of talents. But will Cao Cao agree? This is You are rebelling openly." Cui Cheng understood.
"Cao Cao will agree. He must have seen what happened to the Taihang Mountain people." Xun You said confidently.
Because the Taihang Mountain people’s methods showed them a way.
A way to just copy without bothering to try, without bumping back and forth, without fussing.
If the Taihang Mountain people had not appeared, they would still want to try to save the big man, still want to sew, and still want to toss around.
In the end, they chose local separatism and sought independence.
It would take another five or six years before it transitioned to the era of separatist rule.
It is now 184 years. Of course they do not know the history. They only know that judging from the current situation, the imperial court still has troops to suppress local rebellions.
If they want to fight against the Taihang Mountain people, they have to step up their efforts to occupy territory and copy the opponent's methods.
However, the opponent is in the mountains. The mountains are high and the roads are far away, making it difficult for the army to conquer.
Where are they going?
"But where will Cao Cao start his career?" Cui Cheng asked again.
“Yizhou!” Xun You pointed at the map and said.
"Then what should we do?"
"Change the governor to the state pastor, and use the state pastor to control the military and civilians."
"Ah, this is an obvious separatist regime. Can your majesty agree?" "
"As long as you tell your majesty, in this way, there will be no more bandits. They will appear locally and suppress them locally. Don't bother the court to pay for troops, and your majesty will agree," Xun You said confidently.
He was right. Only three years later, Liu Yan made this suggestion, and the current Han Emperor Liu Hong actually agreed.
The fall of the Han Dynasty was inevitable, but when it would fall was accidental.
This measure obviously accelerated the demise. If it was not agreed, it might be possible to delay it for another 20 years, waiting for the local powerful forces to exterminate the bandits and grow to the point where the imperial army could not restrain it.
But this agreement is tantamount to hitting the wrong knife on yourself.
So the last imperial court was often like this. The measures taken to solve a problem actually accelerated its own demise.
This is determined by human nature.
Human nature wants to save itself, just like swimming and drowning. The more you struggle, the faster you die, but if you do nothing, you will inevitably die.
In order to seize a little possibility of self-rescue, I kept struggling.
The later Ming and Qing Dynasties copied this perfectly.
Just like the late Ming Dynasty, what is the solution to doing nothing?
That is to give up outside the customs, run to the south of the Yangtze River, and cut off the burdens of the north.
Don't add any additional wages, just defend the south of the Yangtze River and leave the north of the Yangtze River to the peasant army and the Qing army.
At that time, the economic center of gravity had shifted to Jiangnan. As long as Jiangnan could unite its efforts under one emperor and not mess around on its own, it could still be defended.
It is said that it can extend the life span by 100 years. As long as the emperor doesn't think about it, there is a high probability that it will not be a problem.
But who can make such a decision?
Someone can make a decision, but many forces are entangled, making it impossible to implement this decision.
It has to be forced by external forces.
Another example is that in the late Qing Dynasty, the imperial examinations were suspended and a new army was established, which ultimately ended up burying itself.
At this moment, Cui Cheng also suddenly realized.
"Brother Xun is so talented that it's like the sun is shining through the clouds. Yes, nowadays, he is addicted to pleasure and muddle along. As long as he can avoid trouble, he will agree to it. This way, it will be much more convenient. But who should be allowed to go? Have you submitted a letter?”
“A reputable clan is enough”
"Who?"
"Liu Yan of Youzhou." Xun You said directly.
"It's Governor Liu, no, it should be Governor Liu. It's strange. I feel something is wrong." An uncomfortable feeling flashed through Cui Cheng's mind.
It’s like modern people who tell you that if you step on your left foot and your right foot, you can reach the sky.
“In short, when I look at him, I have seen the problem of the Han Dynasty early on, and I want to solve it from the local level, and then follow the path of Guangwu.”
"Then he can't imitate the methods of the Taihang Mountain people?"
"He is too old."
Cui Cheng understood.
He couldn't help but admire him deeply.
This Xun family is so awesome.
If you win the Xun family, you will win the world.
In the end, he couldn't help but said: "So, your family will fully support Captain Cao?"
He also used honorific words towards Cao Cao at this time.
Even chatting in a dark room.
"No, I want to go to the Taihang Mountain people." Xun Chen said.
"Well, if there are three caves, then I will go too."
"Go together, after all, we still have to learn and use them."
The four of them laughed.
As the true elite among scholars, they are not afraid of competing with the poor and humble.
Moreover, poor and humble people also want to belong to aristocratic families in the future. Who would pass on glory and wealth not to family members but to outsiders?
…………
Half a month later.
The four of them came to the Taihang Mountains together, to the Huang Level Fengzihao Village.
Now the cottage is divided into four levels, the world is dark and yellow, and the universe is primitive.
In each level, they are arranged in order according to "sun, moon, stars, wind, fire, thunder and lightning".
Of course these were not done by Wen Rensheng, but by Xiao Huan.
According to her words, the game has been completed anyway, so it’s time to splash out.
Xun You looked up and saw that the village was neatly laid out, with steep rocks and numerous outposts, many with crossbows and rolling stones.
And the place you enter is often attacked from two sides, or even from three sides.
If someone comes to attack, the attacker will be extremely miserable.
Because you can't push in those conventional siege engines at all.
For example, don’t even think about cloud ladders, siege vehicles, and cloud vehicles with various protections.
There is only one way for the army to enter.
If you want to enter from other places, only a small group of people go over the mountains.
The opponent can easily kill as many as a hundred people.
You can't wear iron armor when climbing mountains because it's too heavy to climb.
There is no iron armor, but the opponent has iron armor. Both sides shoot at each other, and one side is condescending. How to fight?
Soldiers will refuse to attack as long as they take one look at it.
So mountain warfare has always been difficult.
Not to mention the Han Dynasty at this time, this is the mountain warfare in the modern world. Unless you have no scruples and completely put everything aside, the costs will far outweigh the gains.
It would take several years for the Ming Dynasty to quell the rebellion of some chieftains.
Don’t say it’s the Han Dynasty.
That’s why Xun You said that the people of Taihang Mountain have gained momentum.
It is impossible for the imperial court to succeed in the conquest.
Unless the opponent takes the initiative to rebel and attack, it will lead to conquest.
As soon as the four people came in, they were led to register their names, place of origin, and age. They also had to press their fingerprints and simply record their facial features.
Looking at this aspect alone, they were shocked.
Because this requires a lot of manpower.
Why the wars of princes are indispensable without the support of aristocratic families? Because these days, if you want to rule a place, manage logistics and population, you need scholars.
Only aristocratic families can provide these people, without whom you cannot take root.
It is expected that the poor can only work as coolies and cannot do these things.
But now, it is too difficult to complete the registration in just a copycat.
However, they soon discovered that those responsible for registration were also opportunistic.
"My name is Xun Yu." When it was Xun Yu's turn, the other party finally revealed his secret.
"Write it for me to read?" As he said this, the other party took out a bamboo slip.
Xun Yu wrote to the other party.
"Gou or." The registrant was a young man, and he copied it seriously.
"You, you, are Xun Yu, not this." Xun Yu was a very gentle and elegant person, but for the first time in his life, he was angry.
Xun You couldn't even be angry with him.
"It's all the same. I'll just add the pinyin. Why don't your parents give you a simple name, like Xun Er or something like that?" the young man said with a headache.
"Pinyin? Is it Zhuyin?" Xun Yu naturally knew the method of Zhuyin.
The fanqie method is a method of using one Chinese character or phonetic symbol to represent "sound", another Chinese character or phonetic symbol to represent "rhyme" and "tone", and spelling them into the pronunciation of the notated character.
The other party's pinyin should be the same thing, but it seems simpler.
No wonder this Taihang Mountain native was able to train so many junior scholars in just ten months.
"Haha, uncle, don't argue with this guy. It's serious if we hurry up and sign up for the class." If you make a mistake, everything will be wrong." Xun Yu was very serious.
Of course he is right, the name is wrong, how can he accumulate fame in the future?
"Okay, okay, I'll write it again." The young man had no choice but to copy it again on the bamboo slips.
"You all take it, make two copies, one for you and one for me. If someone else impersonates you in the future, you can use this to identify yourself. If you lose it, come here and ask me to get a replacement." Young man said.
The four of them nodded solemnly.
They all understand that this simple sentence actually contains the great meaning of organizing households and optimizing the people.
If you can find an individual, you can levy population, collect taxes, and then go out to fight.
This is not comparable to a bandit.
They have long known the power of the Taihang Mountain people from various rumors and information.
But seeing is worth hearing a hundred times.
Then, under the leadership of another young man, several people took the bamboo slips of their identities to handle their own food books.
"Grain book?"
"Yes, everyone has rations. You are not allowed to buy more, and you are not allowed to hoard. The excess must be sold to the general." The young man said proudly.
"Ah..." The four of them were shocked, and then their eyes lit up.
In this way, it will not solve the problem that the poor have no food to eat and the rich eat too much and become as fat as big fat pigs.
There were many obese people among the rich and powerful in the Han Dynasty, such as Dong Zhuo and Yuan Shu.
And this food base can control the population.
Every time you go to buy food, you are registering again with the government.
It is impossible for a person to hide in this way.
"Wait, if this happens, how can those who have a lot of land just give up and give up their food?" Cui Cheng asked the young man hurriedly.
The young man said proudly: "If you don't take it out, our swords are very sharp."
"If you have a grain base, you must have a sword. Without a sword, you cannot protect the grain base. This is what the Master and the Saint have said repeatedly." The young man said proudly.
“Wait a minute, it’s easy for non-farmers to say that food must be bought; but for farmers, after the autumn harvest, they hide a large amount of food themselves. Do you want to go against countless farmers?” Xun Chen immediately realized To where there is a big problem.
"Of course there is no need for this. Our general will charge 30% of the grain and then sell it to everyone at a flat price, regardless of years of disaster or famine, and the price will basically remain unchanged all year round. Whether you are a farmer or not, You can buy it without any delay, and the farmers can also sell the grain to the general at a fair price, and the general will bear the cost of storage.”
"Isn't this Changpingcang? It's only because of strong opposition and the hands of officials that it exists in name only." Xun You shook his head.
"Yes, that's why the general asked everyone to learn to write. If everyone can read secret messages, they can suppress those villains." The young man said proudly.
Everyone nodded slightly, that’s it.
In this way, the tyranny can indeed be restrained.
In fact, they are powerful themselves, but they understand that if they want to achieve hegemony, they must restrain their power.
This is the contradiction, so they are destined to fail and the dynasties are destined to cycle.
The enlightened among the powerful cannot restrain themselves, so they can only rely on the violence of farmers to restrain themselves, clear the land, and start another round of cultivating gu.
It’s that simple.
(End of this chapter)