After leaving the council hall, Chen Xu found a lot of carpenters and blacksmiths, and even Zhao Feng was called over by him.

During the time when Chen Xu summoned these people, he asked Zhao Yun to lead the troops to surround the house, and then took out some drawings and explained some of his own ideas.

Carpenters and blacksmiths did not have a high status in this era, and they did not know why their lord had brought them here.

For a while, everyone was a little uneasy.

After Chen Xu saw that all the craftsmen had come, he said, "I summoned you here to ask you to help me create three items. ”

"But these three items, they are all military secrets, so after you finish building, you can't leak half of them to the outside world."

Then, Chen Xu looked at everyone with a cold look in his eyes.

The craftsmen were furious by Chen Xu's eyes, and they were all afraid in their hearts, and they all knelt on the ground and said, "We will never dare to reveal half a secret!" ”

"Good!" Chen Xu had a smile on his face and continued, "In the cottage of our Yellow Turban Army, no matter what profession you have, you are worthy of our respect. ”

"As for you craftsmen, you are no exception."

"This time, as long as I build what I need, each of you will be able to get five acres of land in addition to a generous reward."

When the craftsmen heard this, they all showed ecstatic looks, even Zhao Feng was no exception.

Fields are something that every ordinary person in China hopes to have.

Although the Yellow Turbans cultivated many terraces, few of them were rewarded.

Most of these reclaimed fields were leased to the people, and the ownership remained in the cottages.

Chen Xu saw everyone's faces and continued: "Although the fields are distributed to you, their ownership still belongs to the cottage, and you only have the right to use them for seventy years. ”

"You have been given the land, and you are not allowed to buy or sell it privately. If you want to sell the land that you have been allocated to others, or if it is abandoned, the cottage has the right to take it back. ”

The people were stunned when they heard this, they had never heard of such a way of rewarding the fields.

What is the matter with the ownership of the land, which is owned by the state and can only be used for seventy years?

As if knowing everyone's doubts, Chen Xu continued to explain: "Although the ownership of the land belongs to the cottage, in the seventy years that it was given to you last time, as long as you don't waste the land, no matter what crops you plant, the cottage won't care. ”

"And the tax revenue in the fields is drawn in the form of a tax of ten according to the average annual yield of corn grown in such fields."

"In the event of natural and man-made disasters, tax reductions and exemptions can also be made."

The reason why Chen Xu has not distributed the land is that he has not thought about how the Yellow Turban Army should treat the land and what kind of policy it should use in the future.

Chen Xu, who came from later generations, knew deeply that as long as land was privatized, land annexation would occur. Land annexation, on the other hand, is the root of all unrest.

Therefore, he wanted to learn from the land policy of later generations, and first implement it in the Taihang Mountains to see if it could be implemented.

With ten taxes and one, there seems to be no difference from the taxes of the Han family.

However, although the Han law stipulates that only one tax can be paid at ten, local officials often levy and extort excessively, increasing the taxes of the people.

And when natural and man-made disasters occur, not only did they not reduce or reduce the rent, but forced the people to pay taxes as soon as possible. This has caused many people to sell their houses and become homeless.

The reason why Chen Xu did not completely reduce the land rent and give subsidies to farmers was like the latter one.

That's because productivity is so low and the Yellow Turbans have no other source of income, and if they don't collect taxes, the Yellow Turbans won't be able to sustain the army's food consumption.

After thinking about it for a while, they found that apart from the fact that land could not be bought and sold privately, and that there was a period of seventy years, it was no different from the outside model.

If the land is sold, no one wants to do so unless the people can't survive. Therefore, this condition, for ordinary people, is a kind of protection in disguise.

As for the seventy-year period, although the people felt a little regretful, they did not say anything. After all, 70 years is still too far for them.

Perhaps after their son died, the fields would remain in their possession. As for their own descendants, they can only look at their creation.

It is better to have land than to rent cottage land.

Those people who rent cottage land, although they can also support their families, but most of the rent has to be handed over to the cottage. After all, the cottage still has to store food and plan for the future.

After a busy year, they have little extra food left except for the food they need for their own families.

Rao is like this, and the life of the people in the cottage is better than the days when they were hungry outside.

Fortunately, many people have been allocated livestock in their homes, and they can use these livestock to earn some extra money, and they can also make tooth sacrifices during the New Year's holidays.

Of course, the livestock that are distributed from the cottage are not free. After the livestock in the people's homes grow up and give birth, they still have to be repaid and returned to the cottage.

Fortunately, the cottage is surrounded by mountains and forests, and poisonous insects and beasts have also been wiped out by the Yellow Turban Army, so the people raise livestock without having to consume food.

Generally speaking, it is always good to be able to get your own land.

Thinking of this, the craftsmen were very happy, and they began to look forward to what Chen Xu was going to build.

Seeing that everyone didn't seem to be too resistant to the orders he had given, Chen Xu was also relieved in his heart.

To be honest, although his policies were simple, if they were implemented, they would be tantamount to the Han Dynasty's version of the agrarian revolution.

During the period when this strategy is implemented, I don't know how many powerful and large families will be touched.

Fortunately, these craftsmen are the lowest level of the people, and they have not studied these deeply.

"It's hard, and it's just the beginning."

Chen Xu sighed for a moment, and said to the craftsmen: "I want to create three things, one is a stirrup, one is a horseshoes, and the last one is a Takahashi saddle." ”

When the craftsmen heard Chen Xu's words, they were all stunned.

'stirrups', 'horseshoes', 'Takahashi saddle', these are all very novel terms.

The stirrup is easy to explain, after all, there are already unilateral stirrups at this time. The stirrup was very simple, mostly just a rope tied in a circle to make it easier for some women to climb onto the horse.

But for the cavalry, such unilateral stirrups were not used.

Because for a good knight, getting on and off the horse must be commonplace, so these things are not needed at all.

But horseshoes and Takahashi saddles have never been heard of by craftsmen.

Chen Xu had never seen these things in his previous life, and he didn't know which dynasty the 'stirrups' and 'horseshoes' appeared. But after he came to the Han Dynasty, he found that there were no such things in this era.

Although he had never seen the real thing, he still knew the function of these things very well, so he began to explain them to the craftsmen.

"This 'stirrup', I think so, I hope to add two things that can put feet in the belly of the war horse."

"In this way, when our cavalry rides, they only need to step on the stirrups tightly, and they don't have to clamp the horse's belly with all their legs."

"In this way, even those knights who are not very skilled in riding can control the war horse very easily."

After Chen Xu finished speaking, the craftsmen all gathered together to discuss.

Sometimes, a single thought can change the world. Difficulties are often not the process of achieving a goal, but rather locking in a goal.

The craftsmen first denied the use of rope to make stirrups, after all, not to mention that the rope is not strong enough, it is not easy to keep the rope round.

It would be a very bad thing for the knights to be strangled by the rope stirrups under their feet in the middle of the battle.

Later, wooden stirrups were ruled out because they were not strong enough and could rot easily in the rain. After discussing for a long time, everyone still thought that stirrups made of iron were more suitable.

Listening to their heated discussion, Chen Xu seemed to be an outsider. After waiting for a long time, their discussion ended.

At this time, Chen Xu told them the role of the horseshoe and the Takahashi saddle at one time, and as for how to invent it, it was their own business.

"When our knights are riding horses, their bodies always move forward or backward as the horses run."

"If only we could make a saddle out of wood, high in front and back, but concave in the middle."

"The outside of the saddle is wrapped in soft fur and placed on the back of the horse on which they are placed, so that our knights do not move their bodies back and forth when they are riding."

"If a horse accidentally steps on gravel or something else while running, their hooves can easily be injured."

"If we use pig iron to make horseshoes for war horses, and let the war horses wear them on the hooves, so that when the war horses wade through mountains and rivers, they will no longer be afraid of injury."

Chen Xu said all his thoughts in one go, which made the craftsmen all stunned.

They didn't expect that the idea of putting shoes on the war horse could be thought of by their own lord.

These ideas may sound unrealistic, but when you think about it, they have a lot to offer.

In the end, Chen Xu told everyone that the stirrups and Takahashi saddles were nothing, but after the horseshoe was made, it must be kept strictly secret.

After all, the stirrup and the Takahashi saddle are both hung on the body of the war horse, and as long as they are engaged with the enemy, these two things will no longer be a secret.

But the horseshoe, as long as the Yellow Turban Army can be careful and pay more attention when cleaning the battlefield, it can still be kept secret for a while.

Of course, once everything has been made, it is impossible to keep it a secret.

In the future, this technique will be learned by others, and Chen Xu will not be able to stop it at all. But he only needs to win this battle with the Hu people, and as for the rest, he can only leave it for later.

After explaining to the craftsmen, Chen Xu walked away, just to let everyone make these three things as soon as possible.

Chen Xu believes that as long as there are these three things, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army will be greatly improved.