Three days after leaving Luoyang, the vanguard cavalry arrived in Xingyang, a city they had personally captured from Xu Rong and now had no belonging, and was under the de facto control of Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao as a front-line town. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhang Miao's gratitude to Yanbei naturally doesn't need to be talked about, everyone knows that Yanbei doesn't have the idea of getting involved in this city or even the whole land, she is just a visitor, stepping on the road back to Liaodong.

This is equivalent to Yanbei sending half of Henan Yin to Zhang Miao, isn't this a great kindness?

The Yanbei army received the best reception in Xingyang, and Zhang Miao sent people from Chenliu County to rush over nearly 100 pigs and more than 300 large cauldrons with broth as early as when he received the news of Yanbei's return to the army.

This is a great meal, for more than a year on the expedition, not to mention his subordinates, even Yan Bei and other generals have not eaten a few meals of meat, and at most they use some fish and game.

Yan Bei was very satisfied, and his soldiers were also very satisfied.

After all, they usually eat military food, and with the support of Han Fu, they can manage their fill, but after all, Jizhou, which has suffered several wars, is not as good as the Central Plains.

There is no big oil in the stomach, and there is no way for the soldiers to become lean.

This is also the reason why Guo Jia said that even if Gongsun Zhan does not send troops, he will let the soldiers return to Liaodong to recuperate for three months. Although the people of Liaodong are not rich, but the poor county is rich in Yanbei, and he has the ability to let his soldiers eat four taels of meat in at least two days.

Raising soldiers, isn't that the case, meat, grain, and salt have to be served, and then the soldiers have the combat strength to fight with others.

The soldiers, who have not even been able to reach women for more than a year, are naturally fierce when they fight, but it is difficult to control after a long time. At this point, the operation is basically the limit.

"Mr. Zhongyu, the one you told me that day, the four troubles, right? The selfishness in it, I want to know what to say. After a full meal, Yanbei led Xun Yue and Zhao Yuntai Shici to wander around Xingyang City, although a few people walked, there was a team of cavalry with spears and knives behind them, Yan Bei said while walking: "When I first arrived in Liaodong County, the county was poor, Yan led more than 10,000 light soldiers, and the taxes could not even raise the soldiers' rations, and at that time they owed the county officials 40,000 stone annual salaries. ”

Xun Yue nodded and motioned for Yanbei to continue, he didn't know much about the situation in Liaodong, so he could only try to see the situation in Liaodong from Yanbei's words.

"But now that the urgent need for food for the soldiers in Liaodong has been solved, the people in the county are still poor, just like the dinner prepared by Zhang Mengzhuo for the soldiers today, each person can eat six or seven taels of meat...... If Yan is in Liaodong, it is not a problem to take it for granted. Yan Bei frowned and said, "But if you let the soldiers go home and eat by themselves, you can't afford it." Even if the annual salary I give them is enough for them to occasionally spend fifty yuan to buy some meat, but there are not too many people in Liaodong who can feed pigs and sheep except for me and Wuhuan Kingdom, what is going on? ”

Xun Yue probably understood, and asked: "General, the barren land reclaimed by Liaodong County is the general's private land or the official land in the county; Are these soldiers the county soldiers of Liaodong County or the private soldiers of the general? ”

"This ...... Isn't my field also the field of Liaodong County, and aren't my soldiers also soldiers of Liaodong County? Yan Bei didn't understand what this meant, and then explained: "This is not entirely true, for example, the hundreds of Hu cavalry under the command of Su Fuyan are the subordinate soldiers of Wuhuan State. The soldiers and horses of each department have the Tianshu military households in Liaodong, and there are also the former captains and battalion soldiers, and this battle has disrupted the battalion soldiers, and I am afraid that I will only know until I return to Liaodong. ”

Xun Yue seems to be a great talent of the country, but in his opinion, both the law of Tuntian and the military system of Liaodong are still in a very chaotic stage. Even if Yanbei can fight with Dong Zhuo's imperial court soldiers and horses, this is because the overall combat strength of his soldiers is high, and the generals are powerful, but the military system has great drawbacks compared with the imperial court.

Just like now, the system of military guards in various ministries has long been chaotic, not to mention Yanbei, the main general, even Zhao Yun thinks so...... The soldiers of his Changshan Township Yong Battalion and Zhongshan Dead Soldiers Battalion don't know where to go now, some were taken to Qingzhou by Jiao Touch, some were assigned to Cao Cao and returned a few days ago, and some people were disrupted and divided into various battalions.

I can't find it.

Besides, the soldiers that Cao Cao returned were also available everywhere, Chen Liubing, Dongjun soldiers, and even Qian County soldiers. What's more, the resumes of these soldiers are amazing in Zhao Yun's occasional questioning, some are evil teenagers who followed Cao Ren in the early years between Huaisi, some are county soldiers, and some are farmers and fishermen...... It's uneven, it's too many to count.

In short, because of the military rebellion, all the soldiers and horses in the world are virtuous, and the military system is chaotic. The soldiers under the northern part of Yan are already good, at least they have sufficient armaments, and they did not let the soldiers pick up their bows and crossbows to form a bow formation and charge with spears and halberds like the princes of all walks of life.

This is naturally different, and it is said in the following direction, the law of private injustice. It is understandable for the general to do the work of clearing the wasteland to raise soldiers, but what if the big families in the county also recruit displaced people to open up the wasteland? ”

"It's a good thing that more people are clearing the wasteland, isn't the tax of the county government higher?" Yanbei's political talent is limited to knowing how to collect taxes, "If the taxes are high, the people will be able to accumulate surplus money, and the county will be fine in the future...... Actually, I'm just afraid that no one will open up the wasteland. ”

"No, the general's need to reclaim the wasteland is that there are thousands of light soldiers under his command. What do those powerful and wealthy households use to open up wasteland? With the people who lost their land, they became the personal vassals of the powerful and annexed more land for those people. Xun Yue seemed to be extremely disgusted with land annexation in his words, and said: "The strong and the rich merge the land, buy the land with money, and become richer; The people could not live without money, and they were even poorer by selling their fields and drinking to quench their thirst. The money is limited and the fields are unlimited, and there is no wealth to live, one is a bandit, and the other is a tenant in a wealthy household...... However, the powerful clan has thousands of fields, there are more than 1,000 slaves, and the general is not kind to his words, and he will rebel at every turn, and it will be too late to regret it, so what should he do? ”

"That'...... Don't let them reclaim the land? ”

Xun Yue's words made Yanbei's heart cold, now Liaodong County is not strong, just a few big households. But there are many big clans now, such as the Koji clan of Lu Yi, the Zhen clan of Zhen Yao, and the clans of his generals, which will form the foundation of the powerful clan of Liaodong in the future.

If it is really as Xun Yue said, their interests cannot be guaranteed in the future, and it will be difficult to recover it once it is covered with water.

"If reclamation is prohibited, the general will have land but the big households will have no land, and the reputation will be damaged and criticized, and the worst will lose the support of the people." Xun Yue was tired of walking, and seeing that he was about to walk to the city gate, Yan Bei hurriedly beckoned everyone to find a rest under the shade of the tree, and the horseman spread out the straw mat and sat down, Xun Yue continued: "What's more, even if the reclamation is banned, the big families still have the money to buy land from the people, and the more they gather, the more they gather...... If everyone had land to cultivate, how could there be millions of people in the first year of Zhongping? ”

This sentence shocked Yan Bei's heart.

From now on, the Yellow Turban Rebellion meant that humble madness to him, but now? When he became the de facto ruler of the Three Counties of Youdong, would he want the same massive rebellion to take place in the land under his control?

Joke!

He can't wait for everyone to be fed and clothed, and every day in addition to giving birth to cubs on the couch, he is burying his head in the field and plowing the fields, and An'an is divided into three generations of obedient people!

"Mr. Zhongyu also asked me how to curb the merger." Yan Bei got up and bowed humbly, and then sat down and said to Xun Yue: "How can you make the people not hungry or cold." ”

Yanbei is talking about neither hunger nor cold, not food and clothing...... He used to be a common man, and even for most of his life, his status was not as good as that of the common people, and he knew very well what the people wanted. But all people have a thirst, and this desire will become ambition under certain conditions, except for a few people, usually just want more, better, a little bit.

If the people are well fed and clothed, what they want is a higher status and more property. But if the people are just not hungry or cold, he wants to be fed and clothed, or he just wants a ploughing ox.

If a person like Xun Yue has political ideals, it is better to say that what he needs is not to satisfy himself. But what if it is the kind of person who has no political ideals? He just wanted more.

In comparison, Xun Yue is more satisfied than Lu Yi, and Haoqiang is better satisfied than Xun Yue, and large households are easier to satisfy than Haoqiang, so the people who are well fed and clothed are easier to satisfy than the big ones, and the people who are not full and clothed are easier to satisfy than everyone!

Yan Bei vaguely grasped a key point in his mind...... It is difficult for people to change in the world class, but it is obviously not difficult enough, Yanbei wants to make this process a little more difficult. The number of people in each class is obviously fixed, and there will always be more people who are doing well than those who are bad.

This deadline that Yanbei needs is...... It takes thirty or fifty years for social classes to change.

As for why it was this age, Yan Bei looked at Xun Yue with blazing eyes.

When a generation dies, social classes naturally become empty.

Only in this way will the world be more stable.

Of course, now Yanbei is far from being able to mention the world, and what he wants is nothing more than the long-term peace and stability of the three counties in Youdong.

"It is forbidden to buy and sell land property, the special land is not ancient, the well field is not the present, and the reform of the field property cannot be delayed." Xun Yue suddenly felt that Liaodong was a good place at this time, the inherent class of the Central Plains did not exist, and only some military nobles who could obey Yanbei's personal prestige were used to change the law, which was probably the most suitable, "And the general's private land will also become the official land of the county government and be distributed to the people...... General, what do you think? ”

Yan Bei paused, happily silent and fell into deep thought.

Without private land, what will he use to raise soldiers? Is Xun Yue digging his foundation?

At this time, there was a commotion in the camp outside the city, and Yan Bei said to Xun Yue under the pretext of "Mr. Zhongyu, this is a major matter, and Rong Yan will think about it for a few days...... Why don't we go and see what happened in Zhang Mengzhuo's camp first? ”

After that, in order to hide his embarrassment, Yanbei took the lead in the direction of the camp.