Ergou looked enviously at the soldiers who gave out the land. They were all soldiers just like them. There is a person. Like him, he was a private, and because he was the first to climb the city wall when he occupied Zhongmu County, which was beneficial to the local defenders, he was granted 200 acres of land.

"Two hundred acres of land, I won't change it for our gold mountain." A veteran next to him said excitedly. Many people, like him, stood on their toes to see if the land was really distributed.

"The people who can get more than 200 acres of land this time are a minority after all." The thin man said from the side. It seems that he is still skeptical of Officer Cao's statement, after all, land is an unattainable thing for them. It is really unrealistic to give them these things.

"Ball. I don't think you can get out of the land, sour. A middle-aged veteran with bared teeth said. Although the ranks of the other side are all the same. Private of the second class. But in terms of experience, the other side already has a lot of combat experience.

"This war was not fought well at all. Really fight. Can there be a lot less land this time? The veteran asked rhetorically.

"That's for us. But it's a very favorable situation. You know, the old old chief, but he didn't make a land. "The veteran has some of his own experiences. Many soldiers agreed.

In fact, Cao Jun did not have much extra land at all, and all the lands in the county were famous. Only a small part of the land was new land acquired by Cao Jun. But the new land was simply not enough for most of the soldiers to divide it equally.

If it is really distributed, there will inevitably be some soldiers who will be allocated land and others who will not, which will cause even greater unrest.

In order to appease this unfavorable emotion. Cao Jun had to elect some outstanding representatives. Concentrate the land, distribute it to these people, and at the same time let more people see it. As long as they actively build up their military merits, they will be paid more. This is extremely reciprocal for their combat operations.

Such a reward directly stimulates the nerves of the soldiers.

Some of them have been prisoners of war in the Republican Army, which is not a shameful thing, but they still know about the Republican Army, and they know that in the Republican Army, as long as they behave well, there will be land. Now, Cao Jun also has such a measure here, which is a great opportunity for them. It's not often that they get to meet this opportunity. true

For these children, who are mostly from the countryside, the land means that they will be able to perform to a greater extent.

"We don't have much land. Ways must be found to expand the sources of land. Xi Zhicai said to Cao Cao. Cao Cao and Xi Zhicai were far away, but even so, they could still hear the excited enthusiasm of the soldiers, and this enthusiasm could not be dispersed for a long time.

"In whose hands are all those lands?" Cao Cao asked, Xi Zhicai. Cao Cao himself is very clear about this problem.

"In the hands of the landlord. They own a large amount of land. But if we do it directly against them, it's obviously not good for us. Xi Zhicai said. Cao Cao faced a very unfavorable situation, that is, they could not do anything to the landlords of the county towns who had already surrendered, after all, the landlords were supportive of Cao Cao, and their role in taxation was very great for Cao Cao.

But when it comes to reform, their resistance has become very great, and this situation has made their situation very unfavorable.

If we want to change this, we have to solve some practical problems. The question is, how to solve such practical problems. This made Cao Cao very big.

"Next, we will attack Xuchang. However, attacking Xuchang, if we still face such a situation, it will be very disadvantageous to us, after all, when we are then, there will be more and more soldiers with military merits, but we will not be able to give the other side so much land. We have a big problem. Cao Cao said.

Reform does not open up the situation all at once. The same is true for Cao Cao, after all, it is already very good that he can open such a situation.

If you kill those landlords, it will inevitably arouse the opposition of many of the same strata, and Cao Cao will inevitably not be able to gain a firm foothold. Now Cao Cao has just opened a situation, and this situation is not easy to open.

Xi Zhicai also has nothing to say, the Republican Army is built on the basis of war, and the civil war has caused a lot of ownerless land, so the Republican Army can naturally distribute it, plus expel and transform some landlords. Naturally, the pressure is much less. However, Cao Cao had just opened up the situation, and the amount of land he had not had in the first place would have been so large, which was inevitable.

At the same time, the landlords who surrendered on their own initiative owned more land, and they took the initiative to surrender to them, and if Cao Cao wanted to have greater development, he would inevitably treat them well, but in this way, the land problem would become extremely acute, and the situation would become more and more difficult. This is Cao Cao's situation.

Cao Cao, who has no land, is not easy to do anything, this is an inevitable result, and if he wants to change to a greater extent, he must have a choice.

Faced with such a choice, Cao Cao does not have a good way for the time being. Because his strength is too weak. If we easily carry out high-conflict reforms, the results can be predicted.

From the beginning, Cao Cao did not have the innate favorable conditions of the Republican Army. Reform is struggling. He needed some opportunity to accomplish something like this.

Luoyang, Republican Army clothing warehouse.

The warehouse, located just outside the city, was converted from several farmhouse compounds. On the surface, this is a Republican clothing warehouse, and there are Republican patrols nearby. But in fact, this is an important intelligence station of the Republican Army in Luoyang.

Outsiders had no idea that the IRA intelligence station was actually hung with a warehouse sign.

"Now intelligence work has been divided into four directions. The intelligence work in other directions was carried out very smoothly, but the intelligence in the direction of Luoyang was not carried out very well. Xu Dou said to Wang He, the head of the Luoyang Intelligence Station.

The commanders of the intelligence station all have the rank of colonel. But only the intelligence station in the direction of Luoyang is a brigadier general. From this point of view, the direction of Luoyang is very important.

"Sir, I understand this, Luoyang is in a very important strategic position, and he has important information in his three directions. Especially in the east, and in the south, the impact on us is very significant. Wang He said.

"You know that, it seems, you know it very well. One thing we need to note, though, is that many things are not as simple as we think. The Luoyang area is extremely complex, which is very detrimental to the development of intelligence work, and the difficulties we face may be very large, so you have to be prepared for this, after all, many things have exceeded our imagination. He said.

"Yes, sir, I understand that." Wang He said.

"Next, your focus should be on the east, as for the south, economic smuggling is the main thing, and there is too much lack of intelligence in the east. A lot of the time in our work, there is a serious lag, and we are very dissatisfied with this. We need to unfold it as soon as possible. Xu Dou said.

The IRA has set up four main intelligence stations, for example, the northern intelligence station collects information on the northern nomads, and in this regard, their work is carried out easily, they can use their status as merchants to do this, and they can also recruit those nomadic herdsmen, horse bandits. The intelligence they provided helped the IRA to some extent understand the situation.

The work was carried out quite smoothly, in the east, mainly in Lijiazhuang, where the intelligence station set up was mainly aimed at intelligence in the direction of Jizhou and Youzhou. They have already focused their work on Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan. Because they have a lot of potential to expand their capabilities.

As for the west, setting up Hedong, they are facing Dong Zhuo, Han Sui and the like. Because their power is controlled to a certain extent. This is a very good point for them.

But the situation faced by Luoyang is very complicated, and there are many warlords here. There are also many forces. Coupled with a variety of competitive situations, this directly leads to the complexity and variability of their intelligence work. There is a lot of manpower needed.

And Xu Dou came here, the main purpose is to divide the focus. Otherwise, everything will become extremely unimportant.

For the south, the Republican Army does not have the strength to expand for the time being, and they need to digest the major benefits brought by the occupation of Luoyang. So for a certain period of time, the IRA could not move south. But in the future, it will inevitably go south, and during such a period, the intelligence work of the Republican Army will not be very urgent, but it will still have to be continuously collected.

So, their main task at the moment is to use commercial means to open up the situation and make their situation extremely better, and in such a situation, their situation will become extremely favorable.

In other respects, it will be an important shift for them.

For example, in the east, because of the chaotic situation, they need more intelligence support, if they don't get such intelligence support, many things will become difficult to deal with, which is a big problem for them, this is the biggest difficulty they face, to solve such a difficulty, they need to do a lot of work.

And Xu Dou's purpose here is to guide the direction. So that there will be no great confusion on major strategic issues. They want to try to avoid such confusion.