Chapter 5 is like a bamboo, and the second section of the general's personal expedition to Youzhou has been opposed by many people.

Zhang Wen, Zhao Qi, and Cai Yong successively found Li Hong and asked him to consider it carefully. It is a long way to Youzhou, and the war may not end soon, if the general stays in Youzhou for more than half a year, it will be very unfavorable to the stability and development of Jizhou.

At present, there is great resistance to the implementation of the new policy, and the support and deterrence of the general are urgently needed. As soon as the general leaves, the implementation of the new deal will definitely stagnate.

Li Hong's attitude is very resolute, at present, the pacification of Youzhou is more important than anything else, if you can't quickly take Youzhou, Jizhou will not be able to stabilize and develop.

Zhao Qi was in a hurry, so he simply picked out the words and said,

"As soon as you leave, Jizhou will be in chaos." Jizhou now has several worries that need to be solved urgently. The first is the implementation of the New Deal.

The implementation of the New Deal involves many aspects such as land, taxation, selection, farming and water conservancy, among which the most intense contradiction is land and taxation.

Because they directly involved the interests of different strata, the conflicts increased day by day, and the antagonism between the wealthy people, ordinary peasants, and the Hebei prefectures became more and more serious.

The second is Tuntian. The tuntian in Jizhou is all people's tun, and there are many problems involved, including the relief and resettlement of displaced people, the rational arrangement of tuntian materials, the reduction and exemption of tuntian taxes, the dispersion of tuntian districts and the cooperation of counties and counties, and so on.

These problems used to be easily solved in northern Xinjiang, but when they arrived in Jizhou, things changed unexpectedly.

First of all, there are many displaced people, including most of the people who have just moved south from the border counties of northern Xinjiang, who would rather wait for food and relief than go to Tuntian.

These people are smart, they do the math. If you want to rent land for farming, you have to pay rent, repay the seeds and farm tools borrowed from the government, and pay various temporary assessments, such as money for repairing ditches, and perform forced labor.

In this way, almost all of the year's harvest was handed over to the government, and when the harvest was bad, it was still in arrears.

My family worked hard, and in the end, not only did they have nothing, but they also had to post it upside down, who wants to do it? It's better to wander around every day and wait for food and relief.

Why didn't this happen when Tuntian in northern Xinjiang? When the tuntian was in northern Xinjiang, the imperial court considered that the northern Xinjiang was barren and the land harvest was small, so it decreed that the tuntian farmers were exempted from taxes for three to five years, and the seeds and materials used in the tuntian were also provided by the government free of charge.

In addition, the northern Xinjiang prefectures have also exempted all apportionment fees for military and civilian tuns. In this way, the people who originally lived in the northern border counties only had to pay a small part of the money for renting land, and the rest of the harvest would be their own.

Compared with northern Xinjiang, Jizhou's land is not only large in quantity, good in terms of land fertility, but also has a high harvest.

However, after the people who moved south from the border counties of northern Xinjiang arrived in Jizhou, they immediately quit when they saw that the Tuntian policy had changed and their profits were less.

They originally thought that they could live a good life when they returned to Jizhou, but who knew that it would be better to live well in the border county, and of course they were very dissatisfied.

Zhao Qi presided over the Mintun of Jizhou, visited many places, understood the suffering of the people, and once asked the general to appropriately reduce or reduce the taxes of the farmers in Tuntian, but the governments of Jizhou strongly opposed it.

The reason is very simple, the tax of tuntian farmers has been reduced, what should ordinary farmers do? It's all farming, all the same sweat, and the result is a hard year, and the harvest is far lower than that of Tuntian farmers, so Jizhou is not upside down?

It is better for everyone to become homeless people, and then go to the Tuntian District to cultivate the land. Problems followed. Everyone has gone to be a homeless person, what about the land of the rich people?

The people who rented the fields have run away, and the fields will not be abandoned? If you want to reduce taxes, you should reduce them together, and everyone will be treated equally.

The overall reduction of taxes, the biggest benefit is the gate valve rich, the biggest loss is the Hebei provinces, the people can not take much advantage, so the matter has been shelved, so it has not been resolved.

The third is that the rule of officials is extreme. The states and counties with the largest population and the most wealth in the Han Dynasty are mainly Sili, Yuzhou and Jizhou, and the officials in these three places are also the places with the most and the most concentrated in the Han Dynasty.

To what extent these local officials have ruled **, look at the areas where the Yellow Turban Army first broke out, and where is the area where the Yellow Turban Army has the greatest momentum and the most fierce fighting, that is, Jizhou and Yuzhou.

The officials of Northern Xinjiang and the officials of Jizhou cannot be compared in terms of quantity, and they cannot be compared in terms of the degree of official governance.

In the past, Jizhou was very wealthy, and even if the officials up and down were very good, they would not be like Xiliang, which immediately intensified the contradictions and caused rebellions.

After all, it's too rich to afford, but not now. After continuous wars and natural disasters, Jizhou has also reached its limit, and it is unaffordable.

After the Northern Xinjiang Army occupied Jizhou, although the eldest princess rushed to Handan with a group of officials, Li Hong also recruited dozens of people from Northern Xinjiang, but it was a drop in the bucket and to no avail.

At present, more than 100 people are concentrated in the Eldest Princess's Mansion, the Great Sima Mansion and the Great General's Mansion. Local counties have also replaced a number of major county officials, but the number is very small, and almost all the officials in Jizhou are the original team.

It has become a habit for these officials to be corrupt and pervert the law, and they have completely controlled the Jizhou prefectures through intertwined connections and various forces.

With the gradual stabilization of Jizhou and the gradual implementation of the new policy, officials at all levels in Jizhou seized this golden opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity of alternating between the old and new policies full of loopholes, and wantonly bent the law.

The problem in Tuntian is, in the final analysis, because of the ** rule of Jizhou officials. However, it is very difficult to rectify the rule of officials in Jizhou.

First, Jizhou is unstable, and strong suppression is prone to problems. The second is that they can't find a breakthrough, at present, these officials in Jizhou are all old oilmen in the officialdom who have been refined into a hundred years, and they are all more cunning than ghosts.

Moreover, they are inextricably linked with many officials in the three mansions of Handan, and it is very difficult to catch the evidence of some people's corruption and perversion of the law.

The third is the protection of the eldest princess. The eldest princess has a special identity, and Jizhou is her hometown, and those who don't know each other come to offer hospitality and pull relationships.

In order to rescue the Son of Heaven as soon as possible, she also tried her best to win over these people, hoping to get their help and support.

The eldest princess is now in charge of the patrol and supervision, if the eldest princess does not support Li Hong's corruption, Li Hong is really difficult to do.

Li Hong is not the general of the important town in the past, he was corrupt in the past, and there was an emperor on top of him. If something happened, the emperor supported him and helped him deal with the aftermath.

Not now, now that something has happened, what is endangered is Hebei, which is the great cause of Zhongxing Sheji, and no one supports him and helps him deal with the aftermath, so he has to be cautious.

Zhao Qi said dryly, and finally asked Li Hong, did the general give up going north? Li Hong smiled, shook his hand, and looked resolute.

Zhao Qi was so angry that he slapped the case and walked away,

"You are always so willful, you don't care about the overall situation at all, sooner or later you will bury Hebei." Looking at the angry back of the old man, Zhang Yan was uneasy, and said to Li Hong: "General, let's go to Youzhou, I can't do this." ”

"You are bold in Jizhou, and I am hiding far away in Youzhou. In this way, we can solve the troubles in Jizhou one by one. Li Hong said with a smile,

"By the time the eldest princess and these old men find me, you will already be resolute. The most I can do afterwards is to clean up the situation and support you. On the contrary, if I were to deal with these matters myself in Handan, I would be constrained at every turn. Before I moved, the big tent was full of people, what did you tell me to do? You asked me to be like Dong Zhuo, slashing around with a big knife? Zhang Yan smiled reluctantly.

Li Hong smoothed the long hair hanging down on his chest behind his back and took out a letter from his arms.

"When I arrived in Luoyang, the first emperor once told me that the benefit of anti-corruption is not to punish corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but to crack down on and eliminate dissidents, so that what you can't do will become a reality immediately." Li Hong handed the silk in his hand to Zhang Yan and continued,

"In the past, I didn't understand the meaning of the first emperor's words, or I can say that I didn't understand the meaning of this sentence at all, but now I understand."

"Corrupt officials can't be killed. For example, when we were fighting corruption in northern Xinjiang, your subordinate had just become an official, and he had not learned anything else, but first learned to be corrupt and take bribes, so this corrupt official will never be killed. As long as the corrupt behavior of the officials does not endanger the security of Hebei, we can tolerate it, and the people can also tolerate it. If the government of ** goes to the western Xinjiang, and the people rise up, then it will not work. Zhang Yan stretched out his hand to take the silk silk, did not open it, but looked at Li Hong suspiciously and asked: "What does the general mean is that the ** of Jizhou officials is still within an acceptable range?" ”

"Yes, that's acceptable for now." Li Hong nodded and said,

"We have taken back a lot of land from the hands of many wealthy officials in Jizhou, and the people have benefited from it, but they have suffered losses. One thing we must admit is that these lands were bought by them by various means, not robbed. We must compensate them for the loss of this interest at the appropriate time, and we must not push them too hard. It would be counterproductive to force them into rebellion. Therefore, the corruption and perversion of the law by officials at all levels in the prefectures of Jizhou are acceptable at present. Zhang Yan was dumbfounded, he couldn't believe that these words came out of Li Hong's mouth.

Li Hong smiled at Zhang Yan: "Brother Feiyan, in fact, we can't completely ban the corruption and perversion of the law in the Jizhou Prefecture now. ”

"If we kill everyone, who else will dare to be an official? After I cracked down on corruption in Hedong, when Lord Wang Han took office, he only brought more than 30 subordinate officials to Hedong, and no one dared to come. Also, the Jizhou Prefecture needs thousands of subordinates who are familiar with government affairs, if I kill all the people, where will I recruit so many people at one time? Li Hong patted Zhang Yan on the shoulder and said helplessly,

"It makes sense that the eldest princess and many adults don't want me to fight corruption in Jizhou." Zhang Yan looked at the silk silk in his hand, lowered his head and thought for a while, and asked: "Does the general plan to let me set off a large-scale anti-corruption storm in Jizhou, and then use this to blackmail the eldest princess and many officials in the three prefectures, forcing them to give up their protection and protection of certain people, so as to drive away all the Jizhou officials who oppose and hinder the implementation of the new policy, and quickly stabilize Jizhou?" Li Hong smiled and said happily: "Brother Feiyan, as I just said, the purpose of our anti-corruption is not only to punish ** and kill a few corrupt officials, but to drive away all the officials in Jizhou who have different political views with us." Whether it is too guarded, whether it is the prime minister, or whether it is the county magistrate, as long as it is against the new policy, they will all be driven away, and no one will be left. ”

"I am very dissatisfied with the approach of the eldest princess and many adults. For example, Lord Cui, the Minister of Anping Zhang Qi and he are relatives, this person is very disgusted with the new policy, and obstructs the implementation of the new policy in Anping country in every way, but Lord Cui takes care of his face and family affection, and does not agree with me to remove him, saying that the impact is too great. Lord Cui is counting on his own mouth to convince him, so when it comes to the Year of the Monkey? I guess Master Cui said that he was dead, and that Zhang Qi would not agree. So this person must be taken out immediately. The way to take it out is to grasp the handle of his corruption, and if you can't catch him, you can catch the handle of his relatives' protégés. As long as we catch one, we will plant him on his head and drive him away from Anping Kingdom. Zhang Yan suddenly realized and nodded again and again.

"If you kill a few corrupt officials who have committed heinous crimes, others will naturally have to restrain a lot, and they will definitely not dare to blatantly hit the knife in the short term, so that the problem of government governance will be improved, and the matter of reducing and reducing taxes for farmers in Tuntian will be successfully passed. As soon as Tuntian is stabilized, the implementation of the new policy will be much safer. Li Hong continued,

"But you remember, don't kill too much, keep some, stay in moderation. In the future, with the stability and development of Hebei, more new policies will be implemented, and opponents will rise one after another. At that time, we will eliminate dissent through the fight against corruption, and we must implement the new policy. Li Hong pointed at Zhang Yan and said with a smile: "If you kill them all in one go, like me in the past, what will I do in the future?" In the future, if I am in trouble, I will settle accounts with you. Zhang Yan laughed and understood.

The content on the silk silk surprised Zhang Yan, this turned out to be the trust of Yuan Shao, the secret of the Zhen family in Yecheng.

"This was sent by Yu Poison." Li Hong said,

"Zhen Ju was once the ruling Jinwu of this dynasty. When I was in Western Xinjiang, he and Song Dian were ordered to go to Western Xinjiang and had several relationships with me. On the New Year, I accompanied the eldest princess to visit him in Yecheng, and he swore at that time that he would help me to prosper the Han, but what did he do behind my back? ”

Zhang Yan asked in surprise, "This is sent by Yu Poison?"

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"When Zhen Ju's doorman secretly crossed the Black Mountain, he was caught by Yu Poison's men. Yu Poison saw that this silk was very important, so he hurriedly sent someone to send it. Li Hong said,

"Delivered in time, or I'd be gone, leaving you in big trouble. If you have a chance, thank you for your poison for me. ”

"This is what Yu Poison should do, and he should repay the general." Zhang Yan said,

"If he is willing to be cared for this year, my wish will be granted." Then he took the silk silk into his arms and asked in a low voice,

"Is this going to be a little longer? Zhen Ju will not be alone, there must be a group of people behind him. ”

"I'm not trying to kill him." Li Hong shook his hand and said,

"These people can't turn the sky, on the contrary, keeping them will have an effect on us in the future."

"General, keeping this kind of person is a scourge, and it's better to uproot it." Zhang Yan persuaded,

"There are very few people who know about the general's arrival in Youzhou, and Zhen Ju got the news so quickly, it can be seen that among the officials of the three prefectures, there are many people who communicate with him, which is extremely unfavorable to us."

"If you want to kill, kill the master behind him, but Zhen Ju is not this master and the master, so let's not touch him for the time being, just stare at him. Killing too many people doesn't do us any good. Li Hong said,

"After catching the mastermind behind this, you take this opportunity to remove many Jizhou officials in the three prefectures, as well as the county officials in Jizhou, as well as a group of officials from various counties and counties in Jizhou, as much as possible, so as to balance the power of the three prefectures and the officials of the Jizhou prefectures."

"After we arrived in Jizhou, the power of Jizhou officials like Cui Lie soared, and many things were affected and restricted by this huge force. So after I leave this time, you have to fight this force for me, without mercy. If I stayed in Handan, for various reasons, especially my status, I was subject to too many restrictions, and it would be difficult for me to do it. But you are different, you are an important general who leads the military of the acting general, and you were the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, and you have deep grudges with all forces in Jizhou. Whatever you do, it is estimated that someone will do it against you, so your opportunity will come. Zhang Yan thought for a moment and said, "The general had better give me an explanation." After the balance of power of the officials of the three governments is broken, which force will prevail? Is it mainly the Northern Xinjiang officials headed by Lord Li Wei, or is it mainly dominated by the Northern Xinjiang Gate Valve forces of Wang Rou and Ling Hu Shao? ”

"In this situation, who do you think we can trust? Who will stand firmly with us? Li Hong asked rhetorically.

"Of course, it's the old officials of Northern Xinjiang." Zhang Yan said without hesitation.

"Then do as you say." Li Hong said with a smile,

"In addition, all other forces must take care of it, and do not chill the hearts of others. For example, Liu Fang, Huang Yue, Ma Feng, Chen Qun, Yuan Lian, and Cui Yan must be taken into account. Zhang Yan nodded solemnly,

"General, can I immediately transfer some men from outside the Saiwai to Handan? The general himself has too few people, and I feel a little powerless. ”

"Who are you going to transfer?" Li Hong asked.

"At present, some of the officials of the three prefectures can serve in the outer border counties. These people are usually pampered, how do they know the hardships outside the plug? They should be allowed to walk outside the fortress, so that they will know about the great general's illustrious exploits. Li Hong laughed,

"Brother Feiyan, that's a good idea. Alright then, that's up to you. Wei Zheng, Huang Ting, Tang Fang, Song Wen, Zhao Zhao, Shi Lu, and even Tian Yu, you can all be recruited. If the Peng's subordinates of the Jizhou Prefecture are not enough, you will be temporarily recruited from the students of Jinyang University Hall and Handan University Hall, and I believe that Zheng Xuan and Wang Jian will definitely help you solve the problem. "In the second half of March, the imperial envoy Huangfu Song arrived in Handan.

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