The matter of forming a battalion of military vehicles was quickly decided.

According to Yin Si's calculations, the entire military vehicle battalion has nearly 1,200 vehicles of various types, and it takes at least five to eight people to operate a crossbow truck, so the military vehicle battalion needs 5,000 to 8,000 soldiers. Li Hong said that 8,000 people would definitely not be possible, and could only be given 5,000 people. He discussed with Xian Yufu and others, and decided to adjust the number of soldiers in each battalion of the three battalions of the infantry army to 5,000 people, so that the extra soldiers in each battalion could just make up 5,000 people.

Commander Zhang He led the army car battalion, Yin Si was Zhang He's marching Sima, and Sima Zhang Xiao and Jun Sima Ding Bo were the commanders of the two military vehicle battalions.

Li Hong immediately ordered Chang Gong and Chen Jian to serve in the Xianyu auxiliary army, and promoted Lei Zhong to be a fake Sima, and each of the three received a section to fill the vacancy left by Zhang He and the others after they left.

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In the big tent, Xian Yufu, Xu Rong, Lu Yi, Yan Rou, Zheng Xin, Zuo Yan, Wei Zheng, Li Wei and Tang Yun sat around and talked about the upcoming Taiyuan battle, and Li Hong sat on the side, smiling and not saying a word.

"My lord, tell us what is so happy, too." Koji Yi smiled.

"Well, I'm glad to tell you." Li Hong pretended to be mysterious and said, "A great good thing. ”

"Tell me something, say it quickly." Li Wei hurriedly urged.

"Zhong Yuan has made a great contribution to this matter, and he deserves to be rewarded."

"Me." Li Wei pointed at himself in surprise and said, "What great achievements have I made?" How did I not know? ”

"We have 2.7 billion dollars now, can you believe it?" Li Hong said with a smile.

Everyone in the big tent was stunned for a moment, and then Xian Yufu and the others understood, and immediately laughed excitedly.

Li Wei and Tang Yun looked at each other, secretly shocked, Li Hong had so much money, it was really unexpected to them, but the two were also moved by Li Hong's trust. This kind of thing is not his cronies, Li Hong will never say it. The two of them suddenly felt a feeling that they could die for Li Hong.

Li Wei said excitedly: "Thank you for your trust in me and Wenlong. ”

Tang Yun was also excited and didn't know what to say, and finally said what he thought was the stupidest thing to say, "Where did you get so much money?" ”

"This money was intercepted by us when we were fighting corruption in Xiliang." Zuo Yan said with a smile, "At that time, we thought that even if we didn't keep a little, no one would believe it, even His Majesty wouldn't believe it, so we left a billion dollars." As for how it became 2.7 billion dollars, that is Zhong Yuan's credit. ”

Li Wei and Tang Yun suddenly realized.

Tang Yun then said very dissatisfiedly: "The adults have left too little, they should stay a little more." ”

"Enough." Zheng Xin said with a smile, "Most of the stolen goods are houses and fields, and we can't keep them, it's too eye-catching, so they were all given to Your Majesty." Then he said to Li Wei, "Zhong Yuan, before you and your lord arrived in Luoyang, you once told the old man how to make money out of money, and we turned one billion dollars into two billion or seven billion dollars according to your method, so you have the greatest credit." ”

Li Wei immediately thought about it and said proudly: "Oh, so, I really have my credit." ”

"This time, thanks to Yuntian's two brothers, we have made a fortune." Li Hong patted Ko Yi on the shoulder and said, "This money came in time, with this money, I am very confident that I can solve the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Bingzhou in the short term." ”

"There is money from the imperial court to fight a war, where do we need to pay for it?" Li Wei hurriedly said, "This money should be kept for other things, and besides, adults who use this money to fight will also cause unwarranted disasters and ask for trouble." ”

"Don't talk about this now, when the time comes, you will know that this money must be spent." Li Hong smiled, "I'm careful that this money is not enough, so I want to ask everyone, what other ways do you have to make money?" ”

"Two billion is not enough?" Tang Yun opened his mouth and said with wide eyes, "My lord, what do you want to do?" ”

Li Hong looked at everyone's puzzled expressions, pointed at everyone and asked, "None of you want to divide this money, right?" ”

Everyone laughed.

"My lord, we just have this heart, and we don't dare to say it." Koji Yoshiki laughed and said, "But, since we have so much money, can we improve the meal?" ”

"Don't even think about it." Li Hong said solemnly, "If any of you don't eat with the soldiers and eat alone, see how I clean you up." ”

"Okay, don't talk too much, let's think about how we can make more money."

"My lord, we don't understand this, you better discuss it with Zhong Yuan and Wen Long." Yan Rou said with a smiling face, "If there is nothing else, we will leave first." ”

Li Hong glanced at him and Koji Yi, and asked very suspiciously, "Did you make an appointment with Hu Zi and Dauntless to go to the military market for a drink?" ”

Koji Yi immediately turned his face to look at Zheng Xin.

Zheng Xin was startled, and hurriedly shouted: "Yuntian, don't stare at me with your eyes, how dare my scouts stare at you adults." ”

"You kid, it's getting worse and worse now, sneaky, let's go and we'll try you." Yan Rou pinched Zheng Xin's neck, and the two of them dragged Zheng Xin out.

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"Zhong Yuan, Wen Long, what do you two adults have in mind?" Li Hong asked, "Just make money?" ”

Li Wei said with a smile: "Don't worry, adults, there are opportunities to make money right now, and you can make a lot of money." ”

"Oh." Li Hong and everyone in the tent looked at each other and asked in surprise, "Is there in front of you?" What are the opportunities to make money in front of you, you can tell me. ”

"Military market." Li Wei pointed to the outside of the tent and said, "The opportunity to make money is in the military market." ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, think about it, there are 70,000 soldiers and 100,000 people in this big battalion, and these 170,000 people now have money in their hands, and if we let each of them spend ten dollars a month in the military market, the military market will have an income of 1.7 million yuan a month, and we can earn at least 300,000 to 400,000 yuan from it, which is a lot of money in a few months."

"Especially those tens of thousands of Hu people, they don't know what their fate will be in the future, even if they don't die on the battlefield in the future, they can still return to the grassland, but it's useless for them to take the money of my Great Han Kingdom, so I found that after they got their military salaries, they went to the military market to spend money indiscriminately as long as they had time. The adults give them 500 dollars a month, and 50,000 people have 25 million dollars, and if they can all spend it in the military market, we can make millions of dollars a month. ”

The eyes of Li Honghe, Xian Yufu, Xu Rong and others suddenly lit up.

"Now in addition to buying some necessities in the military market, most of the money is turned into molestation and prostitution, gambling and drinking, and the means we use to make profits is taxes, but these taxes are very little, and most of the money is actually made by the merchants in the military market."

"Almost all the traders in the border counties are concentrated near the military markets in various places to make money. When I was in Yicheng, I heard that some traders relied on the military market to do some wine and food business, and they could make hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few years, so they could still make a lot of money in this military market. ”

"You see that we are stationed in the Great Wall Fortress this time, and the traders in the fortress military market must have made a profit, but what about us? Only out, not in, not a single money was made. ”

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

"Zhong Yuan, then what can we do to earn this money back?" Li Hong asked.

"Then I'll have to ask Wenlong." Li Wei pointed at Tang Yun and said with a smile, "The Wenlong family is a wealthy man in Yizhou Jiangzhou, who has been in business for generations, he is very familiar with the way of goods and colonization, and he knows the tricks in it, how to make money back, I only ask him, I really don't know about business." ”

"Wenlong, do you have a way?" Li Hong hurriedly asked.

Tang Yun confidently arched his hand and said, "Don't worry, my lord, since Zhong Yuan has come up with such a good idea, Xia Guan will definitely live up to the high expectations of the lord and will definitely earn back this money one by one." ”

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After listening to Tang Yun's introduction of several ways to make money, Li Hong pondered for a long time and said: "The people in the border counties are very hard, and they need relief from the local government government many times, and part of the taxes paid by the local government government are from the hands of the traders, so, Wenlong, you don't just want us to make money ourselves, and ruin the wealth of those traders." What should be earned for them, or let them earn it. Everyone can make money, and there are many talents who come to the military market to do business; There are more people who come to the military market to do business, and the military order (the administrative officials of the military market) collects more taxes. If we are allowed to do the business ourselves, the merchants from all over the country will abandon the market one after another, which will affect the reputation of the army, and second, we will have a lack of abundant supplies, and third, the news will be much more closed. ”

Tang Yun shook his head again and again, thoughtful.

"The vendors in the military market have to live and spend money, and all they think about is how to make more money. Wenlong, if you can not only earn their money, but also let them gain a lot in the military market, that is your ability, and it is also a safe way for us to continue to make money, what do you say? ”

"Your Excellency is clever." Tang Yun said with admiration, "The words of the adults made the lower officials suddenly brightened, the lower officials are not as far as the adults see, and they are all greedy for small profits." The subordinate should think about it carefully, and then reply to the adult. ”

Li Hong said with a smile: "I'm just talking about things, I can't talk about it far, don't be chaotic and flattering." In addition, you should pay attention to one more thing, most of the camp prostitutes in the military market have a miserable background, many of them are assigned to the military market to work as camp prostitutes because they are implicated, and even some of them are wronged and guilty, so you don't do anything for money. If anyone is willing to marry them and go home, as long as they agree to it, the military order must be allowed to do so, and no obstruction is allowed to interfere with it. ”

"What if the time for the punishment is not yet complete?" Tang Yun asked, "The Great Han Law only allows them to return to their hometowns after completing their sentences, and there is no such thing as an adult's marriage. ”

Li Hong smiled but did not speak.

Zuo Yan leaned into Tang Yun's ear and whispered a few words. Tang Yun suddenly realized, and then said with a smile: "This kind of thing is still up to the adults, I and the military order can only report it, regardless of whether it is released." ”

Zuo Yan said: "The adults are here to talk about this matter, as long as you know it in your heart." In the future, when the country is stable and the war subsides, these Hu soldiers must always make proper arrangements, and they must not be allowed to go back to the desert again, so it is a big deal to start a family and start a business. If you can do this well, it will be a great contribution to the stability of the border counties of the Han Kingdom. ”

Tang Yun touched his chin, glanced at Li Hong, and asked cautiously, "My lord, is the more prostitutes in that camp, the better?" ”

"In the past few years, we have been on expeditions everywhere, and we have no fixed place to live, so let's go with the flow." Li Hong smiled, "This is a matter of the future, for now, you still help the army to make money, and you just need to know about other things." ”

"But if there is no fixed battalion, how can you come to the military market?" Tang Yun asked puzzledly, "Without a military market, wouldn't so many words be in vain?" ”

"After arriving in Taiyuan County, we will probably stay for a long time." Li Hong said, "After conquering Jinyang, we were stationed in the Jinyang camp, and there was a military market there. ”

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No one spoke in the big tent for a while, and everyone was thinking about the meaning of Li Hong's words.

Li Wei couldn't help but ask, "My lord, do you want to appease the Yellow Turban Thief?" ”

"Yes." Li Hong glanced around at everyone and said slowly, "Although we haven't arrived in Taiyuan County yet, how to fight this battle, I still want to tell you first, I hope you can all understand my intentions, and you won't be at a loss when you start doing things." ”

"Whether it is Taiyuan County or Shangdang County, the terrain is complex and there are many mountains, and it is difficult for our cavalry to play any role. Don't expect me to be like the Xianbei people and attack the city with cavalry, I will never do such a thing. ”

"The Xianbei people used cavalry to attack the city, it was purely helpless, they originally grew up on horseback, for them, there is no cavalry and infantry, whether it is a grassland battle or an attack on the city, it is those people who fight. But for me, it's different, my Han country is declining, the population of the border counties is getting smaller and smaller, and it is difficult to recruit soldiers who are good at cavalry and archery, and forming a strong cavalry army is basically a luxury. The cavalry I have now are all Hu people, and I still expect them to defend the border in the future, and I am not willing to take them out to attack the city. ”

"We have 20,000 infantry, if supplemented by iron cavalry, we can defeat Zhang Yan's Yellow Turban Army in a period of time, we do have a chance of winning, but the problem is that they will flee to Taihang Mountain if they lose, and as soon as we withdraw our troops, they will go down the mountain again, how long will this situation end?"

"Zhang Jiao is dead, and Zhang Niujiao comes out; Zhang Niujiao died, and another Zhang Yan came out; Now even if we beat Zhang Yan to death, who says that there won't be another Yellow Turban leader? ”

"Every time we put down the rebellion, we have to displace more people, we have to let more people die of hunger, and we have to make my Great Han Kingdom scarred and dying, do we have to fight, we have to kill, we have to bury the Great Han Kingdom together with the Yellow Turban Army?"

"My lord, we can understand what you mean, but you can't ignore the meaning of Your Majesty and the imperial court." Li Wei said worriedly, "Xiliang appeased because of you, but the final result was a mess, and in the end, the battle of Yicheng decided the victory, so the difficulty of appeasing the yellow turban thief is ......."

Li Hong stroked his long hair and said, "It must be difficult, but only if we work together, we should be able to do it." We can't all listen to His Majesty and the imperial court about the current affairs, we have to think about the future of the Great Han Kingdom, for the millions of displaced people who follow the Yellow Turban Army, and more importantly, for ourselves and our soldiers. ”

Li Hong's smile gradually narrowed, and he sighed: "We suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Gall Tao, Lord Feng Yi of Julu County, Jun Sima Lihan, Fu Qiang, and many brothers were all killed in the battle. What about the Yellow Turbans? Their great leader, Zhang Niujiao, was killed in battle, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed in battle. What about the homeless people in Youzhou, Jizhou? At least hundreds of thousands of people have died in the scourge of several months of war. But what is the end result? The banner of the Yellow Turban Army is still being raised, but our brothers have turned to ashes, and the displaced people scattered all over the country are still dying. At this time, what are Your Majesty and the bureaucrats in the court doing? What did they do other than celebrate their counterinsurgency victory? How much have they thought about solving the problem of displaced people? If the displaced people are not solved, how can the Yellow Turban Army solve it? ”

"If we don't resettle the millions of displaced people on the Taihang Mountain, we won't be able to quell the rebellion of the Yellow Turban Army at all, not to say that it won't work this year, even in a few years. There are so many people on the mountain, and the displaced people from all over the mountain are still flocking to the mountain. Think about it, how long will we be able to finish the killing? ”

"If we count on Your Majesty and the court in everything, this battle will not be finished, and one day, we will all die on the battlefield, and no one will survive."

"So I decided to appease it, and the money was also for the resettlement of the homeless. As you all know, the Dasi Nong Mansion has been hollowed out by successive wars, and we don't know if the imperial court can provide us with military funds at present, so this money is only paid by ourselves, anyway, this is also the money of the Great Han Kingdom, and it is the blood and sweat of the people of the Great Han Kingdom. ”

"My lord, if I knew this, I should have left billions of money when Xiliang cracked down on corruption." Tang Yun muttered dissatisfiedly.

"How do I know I'll survive until now?" Li Hong smiled bitterly, "For me, life is a thing that is at stake, and I may die on the battlefield at any time, so I rarely think about these headaches, but not this time, this time I have to make a complete break with Zhang Yan while I am still alive." ”

"My lord means that I want to solve the millions of displaced people on Taihang Mountain by appeasing the Yellow Turban Army, so do you have a specific solution in your heart?" Li Wei asked.

Li Hong shook his head and sighed.

"No, I don't have a clue at all, this matter involves the Yellow Turban Army, the state capital, the imperial court, and the Han Dynasty, the official system, land, population, taxes, all aspects, and in the end, everything has to be nodded by His Majesty, the complexity of it, we can't predict it, we can only take one step at a time."

"Especially now, I don't even know how to get Zhang Yan to agree to be caressed. Do you hurt him or do you take the initiative to talk to him? Hurt him, he may turn around and run back to Taihang Mountain; When I talk to him, he may think that I can't beat him, but he will make things difficult everywhere. The other is Your Majesty's place, if I don't fight, what will Your Majesty think? If I propose to appease him, will His Majesty agree to it? ”

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"The problem of displaced people is an unsolvable stubborn disease in the Han Dynasty in the past few decades, and it is also the root cause of rebellion." Li Wei pondered for a long time, and said to everyone in the account, "Although the adult's idea is very good, but to really solve this problem, I'm afraid it is not as simple as the adult imagined, let alone with billions of money." If the problem of displaced people could be solved with money, there would have been no displaced people in the Great Han Kingdom for a long time, and of course there would be no current rebellion and war. ”

Li Hong nodded and said, "Zhong Yuan is right, I also know that it is difficult, almost impossible, so I will tell you my thoughts now, the purpose is so that everyone can work together and have the strength to work together to see if we can find a temporary solution." You must know that even if only a part of the displaced people in Taihang Mountain are solved now, a big problem can be solved. ”

"When I was in Luoyang, I talked to Your Majesty, Lord Liu Yu, and Lord Huangfu Song about the issue of displaced people, but Your Majesty and the ministers were at a loss, and they never proposed any good solutions. I still haven't figured out why I can't solve the problem of displaced people because I am a great Han country. Is it really incurable? ”

"Can anyone tell me what is the root cause of this problem?"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads, only Li Wei was on the side and stopped talking.

"Zhong Yuan, tell me." Li Hong pointed at him and said, "You have a lot of insights into Mr. Wang Fu's "Theory of the Hidden Husband", do you know the crux of it?" ”

Li Wei arched his hand and said: "My lord, it's not that the court officials don't know the crux of the problem of displaced people, but that this crux of the problem is related to their own wealth, so no one wants to say it, no one can say it, let alone solve it." ”

"The ancestor of my Han Kingdom, Emperor Gao, and his ministers were all from poor backgrounds, and they were all untouchables or petty officials in the past, and they knew the reason why the people were poor, so after they conquered the country, their greatest wish was to distribute the land in the world to every common person in the world, and then let them farm, and the state would collect taxes and levy labor. In this way, men and women can weave, have no worries about food and clothing, and the people will be at peace, and the world will be peaceful forever. ”

"After decades of war, the Great Han Kingdom quickly prospered and became powerful through this method. As the country stabilized, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, everyone became more and more affluent, and the population grew rapidly. As soon as the population increased, there was not enough land, so the distribution of land gradually changed. ”

"Due to the increasing prosperity of the country, the increasing number of wealthy people, coupled with natural and man-made disasters, foreign wars and other uncertain factors, resulting in an increasing demand for land constantly changing its owner, so the land of the Han Kingdom is more and more concentrated in the hands of a few people. These few people are princes and nobles, royal relatives, family bureaucrats, and wealthy lords. There are many ways in which they acquire land, mainly through buying and selling, and of course, some of them take the * method. ”

"It stands to reason that the more personal wealth a subject has, the richer the Han Kingdom becomes, but why is there such a situation?"

Li Wei paused for a moment and continued: "This involves the taxation and land ownership of my Great Han Kingdom. ”

"My Han's tax is definitely light, which has never been done in the past. During the Warring States period, Mencius said, 'tithe and tax, the government of the king', it can be seen that the tax amount in the Warring States period was more than tithe, in Mencius's view, tithe tax was very good. The amount of tax implemented by our Great Han Kingdom is only 'fifteen taxes and one', and in fact, only half of them are paid, that is, thirty taxes and one tax. One hundred stone of millet only needs to pay a little more than three stones. During the time of Emperor Wen of the former dynasty, all land rents were exempted for 11 years. Even so, the state treasury of that year could not hold the tax revenue of the next year, which shows the wealth of the country. However, this tax system later produced a huge flaw, as a result of which the people were overwhelmed and lost their land and became displaced people. The reason for this huge defect is the question of land ownership. ”

"All the lands of the Great Han Kingdom belong to His Majesty." Within the four seals, it is not the king's land, the hair of the soil, and the king's ministers', all in this world is the wealth of His Majesty today. According to the laws of the Great Han Dynasty, there was only one way to distribute land, and that was to give land to the people or reward it to the magnates. Paradoxically, the Great Han Law of this dynasty also stipulates that land is privately owned, and the cultivator owns his land, and the owner can use it freely or sell it freely. Because land can be bought and sold freely, there is land annexation, so there is a dilemma that the poor have no place to stand. ”

"The lighter the tax of the imperial court, the richer the rich and powerful who have a lot of land, the richer they are, the richer they are to annex and buy land, and at the same time their desire for land is getting stronger. The powerful and wealthy only had to pay one-thirtieth of the imperial court's tax, while after the peasants sold their land, they had to rent their fields in order to survive, but they had to pay them five-tenths of the tax, which was the direct reason why a large number of people could not cultivate the land and became displaced people. ”

"The land and wealth of the Great Han Kingdom were concentrated in the hands of the rich and powerful of these landowners. In the past ten years, the Great Han Kingdom has been plagued by wars and natural disasters, taxes have been sharply reduced, the treasury has been depleted, and the national power has been declining, but the powerful and rich people of the Great Han Kingdom have lived a luxurious life that is richer than that of princes, they have hundreds of hectares of land, herds of slaves, women, cattle and horses, and countless gold, silver and jewelry. In order to accumulate more wealth and evade the imperial court's crackdowns and restrictions on those who annexed land, they deliberately concealed the amount of their land and did not pay taxes to the state. The court had no choice but to compromise with them, turning a blind eye to their wanton annexation of land, hoping to collect as much money as possible from them in order to increase the tax revenue of the state treasury. ”

"People who have lost their land have no land and cannot pay taxes, so there are only two ways out, one is to rent the land of the rich and powerful to make ends meet, and the other is to leave their homes and become refugees. However, once the people who rent land encounter a year of famine and no harvest, they have no choice but to flee their homes to become homeless, because they cannot pay the rent and taxes, so they can only flee for their lives. ”

"Since the Emperor Xiaohe of this dynasty, the phenomenon of land annexation has become more and more serious, and with it, the scale of displaced people has also increased, and there have been more and more rebellions."

"This is how the problem of displaced people in the Great Han Kingdom came about." Li Wei glanced at everyone silently, and said in a low voice, "If you want to solve it, you have to break the land annexation, and if you want to break the land annexation, you have to infringe on the wealth of the powerful and rich, so ......"

"My lord, can you do it? When today's land is confiscated, can you let him hand it over and confiscate it? When the three princes and nine kings of the dynasty have their fields, can you let them hand them over and return them to the displaced people? ”

Li Hong sat on the seat, stunned, his mind blank.

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