Chapter 2094 Kanto and Kansai
Yizhou.
Cao Cao’s palace.
"The people of Taihang Mountain finally moved out, and they were like thunder."
Cao Cao sighed while looking at a very vivid and realistic map.
The other side has cavalry, food, and talents, and the situation is set.
Although he has also developed for several years, how can Yizhou be compared with Hebei?
Incomparable.
Hebei has a large population, a lot of talents, and horses.
A few years have passed and he has just consolidated the entire state and county, and is not yet able to expand externally.
And now the Taihang Mountain people have begun to take action.
Cui Cheng persuaded him: "My lord, don't worry. The many measures taken by the Taihang Mountain people will definitely attract strong opposition. As long as they are instigated carefully, they will definitely make their rear unstable."
"Then go ahead and instigate him." Cao Cao sighed, "Why come out of the mountain if Cao Cao is born?"
Cui Cheng looked helpless.
Then he asked people to incite.
However, it cannot be incited at all.
The local powerful said this:
“The Taihang Mountain people firstly don’t rob us of our land, and secondly they don’t rob our food. They also let our children go to school. Why should we risk being beheaded? To risk your own life, rebel against him?”
“But he is rebelling against the Han Dynasty.” When Tu Gaoye.”
The reason why everyone turned against Yuan Shu during his rebellion was mainly because he failed to manage the local area well and hired bandits, which offended the powerful and everyone around him.
Otherwise, there may not be any foundation for him to become emperor.
"You, you guys..."
Cui Cheng failed.
Cannot incite.
The main reason is that Wen Rensheng took an economic route and used the logic of the bottom economic level to draw the blood of powerful people.
This is not something that powerful people can fight against.
In short, Wen Rensheng quickly gained a foothold.
Not only that.
And continue to attack south.
Only two years of work.
Yan, Xu, Yang, and Jing were all occupied.
Continue to implement new economic strategies.
Then I won’t enter the customs.
Only the land of Kanto.
"Master, why don't you go straight to Guanzhong, capture Luoyang and Chang'an, and change the dynasty in one fell swoop." Xun You was a little confused.
He can't wait to be a king for once.
You must know that he has accomplished the feat of organizing people to go to sea.
We no longer have to worry about too many people and not enough land.
“Without comparison, people will not know how good the new dynasty is.”
"People's happiness comes from contrast."
"We must build our own land well, and then attract people from the west. In the comparison, they will gradually strengthen their new beliefs and understand the new "The importance of the system."
Wen Rensheng said confidently.
Everyone was amazed.
"Master is right."
"Yes, people are like this. No matter how nice you are to them, they will still be dissatisfied, but if they see that others are terrible, they will be satisfied."
That's true.
…………
A town somewhere in Kansai.
Opposite is the land of Kanto.
Although there is a barrier between Kansai and Kanto.
But it was a thoroughfare that could carry horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts, and there were still many small roads connecting each other.
"Dad, go to work in the east. You can get 5 pounds of rice for a day's work there."
"Yeah, it's not better than farming. The owners here work hard. One year, 50% of the rent will be taken away.”
“Let’s go, let’s go together.”
Situations like this occur all over the town. Going to work in Kanto has become the most popular talk nowadays.
No one is willing to stay in the local area and rent land for farming.
It’s tiring and hard work. You have to pay capitation tax and various rents. What’s even worse is the free expropriation of all kinds of manpower.
This last item is the main reason why people flee.
Once encountered, it is a sign of family ruin.
In a tavern, several wealthy families were also sighing.
“Master Wang, how many people are there in your land?”
“More than half of the tenant farmers have fled. Why do these damn Guandong Han people pay such high wages to those people? 5 kilograms of rice a day is 2,000 kilograms a year, which is much more profitable than farming.”
“Yes, and 5 kilograms of rice can be exchanged for 15 kilograms of whole grains, which can feed a family of five. ”
"Yes, and an 8-year-old child can work with us and have two kilograms of rice."
"Damn it, the people of Guandong are so rich, where does their rice come from?"
< br>"I heard that it is a kind of collective planting, with unified use of cattle, unified use of water, and unified use of fertilizers. In short, it is thousands of acres of land, cultivated together. The efficiency is high, the output is average, but only one-third of the original manpower is needed. "
"What are the extra people going to do?"
"Brew wine, weave cloth, make paper, make porcelain, and then go to sea and farm overseas..."
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"This is impossible. There is no land overseas. It is very dangerous."
A few wealthy families couldn't figure out why the people of Guandong have money and food after much thought.
In fact, the food in the whole Kanto is enough to eat, but it is not put into the exchange market.
Wen Rensheng broke through their manor economy through wine, cloth, paper, and porcelain, and then exchanged for the food they produced.
At the same time, they used more efficient official land cultivation and farm-based grain cultivation to beat the cost of growing grain in the manor, forcing them to sell it at a low price.
Otherwise, just wait until it rots and no one will buy it.
And land has been obtained overseas to grow rice.
This two-pronged approach can greatly enrich supplies.
State-owned farms produce commercial grain to ensure that the maximum price of grain does not exceed people's consumption levels. Management issues must also be considered. In short, it is necessary to rely on the assessment of various managers to improve efficiency.
How can these old bosses from the feudal era understand these complex economic details?
All they can understand is what they see with the naked eye.
People fled.
No more sharecroppers.
The rent had to be lowered.
Some people also said: "We need the government to issue a decree that fleeing is a crime and they must be captured."
Yes, this is what most powerful people think and do.
They themselves organized servants to prevent the tenant farmers from escaping.
But you can stop it for a while, but not forever.
The more they are stopped, the more everyone wants to escape.
Many people went on the road overnight.
Escaped overnight.
And there are people in Kanto helping them escape.
In this way, a large number of people in Guanzhong and Guanxi were lost.
It does solve the bandit problem.
The land was vacated.
As a last resort, many powerful people had to lower land rents.
Also increase the hiring price.
This is the regulation of the market.
But the premise of market regulation is that the labor force can move at will, and there is a law to ensure the personal safety of the labor force.
However, those powerful tyrants can forcibly prevent the people from fleeing.
In fact, it turned the common people into serfs.
This is a problem that the market cannot solve.
It has no power against violence.
The common people can only rely on their own feet to fight.
Wen Rensheng naturally wanted to break this pattern.
"The people have the right to live the life they want."
"The people have the right to go where they want to go."
Then he sent a team to attack Kansai. Powerful people.
(End of this chapter)