Doesn't it sound unrealistic to let Cao Zhang go to Wei to recruit troops and horses, and then go to fight abroad?

Under normal circumstances, this is true, because in those times, the control of the population was very strict, and it was like a young and strong laborer who could become a soldier, and it was even more important to keep an eye on it.

At the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty, due to the chaos in the world, the government's ability to manage household registration has declined a lot, resulting in a large-scale tide of displaced people.

However, at this time, it was already a period of three divisions, and the three families of Cao, Liu and Sun had already recovered their ability to manage the population in the territory, so it was unrealistic for Lu Ren to think of grabbing the population from the three families of Cao, Liu and Sun as before. In fact, since the Battle of Chibi, unless there are some special circumstances, the number of people that Lu Ren can absorb from Cao, Liu, and Sun every year is a bit pitiful.

Don't go too far, anyway, if Lu Ren wants to go to Cao Wei to recruit troops and horses in a normal way, it is basically equivalent to daydreaming. And Lu Ren has been mixed up for so many years, how could he not understand these things? So Lu Ren had already made a different plan.

To be precise, as early as when Lu Ren decided to send troops overseas, he had already considered the lack of troops here. And the arrival of Cao Zhang at that time provided Lu Ren with an excellent idea...... I, Lu Ren, can't recruit troops from your Cao Wei, but what if it is replaced by Lao Cao's son?

Of course, Lu Ren would not be stupid enough to let Cao Zhang do it directly. And this is a political circle, and some messy means must also be played. So Lu Ren's arrangement is like this:

First of all, of course, it is a small-scale subsidy for Cao Zhang, that is, to let Cao Zhang be attached to Lu Lingqi to fight in Juyong Pass. Don't think that this is superfluous, in fact, it is to observe Cao Zhang, and let Cao Zhang familiarize himself with the soldiers on Lu Ren's side to a certain extent. This is a step that must be done, if it is found that Cao Zhang does not meet the requirements of Lu Ren's heart, Lu Ren must make corresponding adjustments even if he does not stop the plan in his heart;

Then, Cao Zhang was abducted by Lu Ren and came to Yizhou, and Lu Ren also proposed to Cao Zhang that Cao Zhang go to Cao Wei to recruit troops. But don't think that this is the end of the matter, because of those messy factors, Lu Ren still has a bunch of political and emotional cards to play, otherwise Cao Zhang will not be able to recruit anyone if he returns to Wei Realm eight times out of ten.

If you want Cao Zhang to return to Wei and recruit soldiers, the first thing you have to do is to play the political card. To be precise, although Cao Zhang is the son of Lao Cao, if there is no reasonable excuse and reason, then it is illegal for him to recruit troops and horses in Cao Wei's territory, and he can even be linked to the intention of rebellion, Cao Pi can use this as an excuse to destroy Cao Zhang in minutes, so Lu Ren has to pave the way for Cao Zhang in this matter.

Lu Ren's method of paving the road is actually very simple, that is, to give Emperor Liu Xie a message, saying that he is going to counterattack the Guishan who invaded the territory here, and then ask Emperor Liu Xie to come forward and issue an edict, ordering Cao Zhang to lead troops to help Lu Ren in the battle as a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. And in this way, it became legal for Cao Zhang to recruit troops and buy horses in Cao Wei's territory, and Cao Pi had no way to dictate Cao Zhang, after all, the current Cao Wei was only a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, and it was common for the suzerainty to ask the vassal state to bring troops to war.

But that's not all. Going out to fight is not just a matter of enthusiasm, and the corresponding battlefield needs, reward and punishment mechanisms, etc., are inseparable from money. If it's just a matter of money and food in this regard, it doesn't matter if Lu Ren pays for everything, in Lu Ren's words, I pay for it, and you work hard.

But here Lu Ren thinks more long-term, or from another aspect, Lu Ren just wants to take this opportunity to kick off the prelude to the colonization and expansion of the Chinese people. And once this move is done well, it is very likely to further destroy the status of the noble class of the scholar clan.

In other words, the conditions that Lu Ren is going to give Cao Zhang are those areas on the east coast of the Indian Ocean, and how much you Cao Zhang can fight down, then these territories will be your Cao Zhang's.

Do you think Lu Ren is too much of a loss and too stupid to do this? No! There are a lot of things to consider in the world. And Lu Ren seems to be a very disadvantaged thing in the short term, but in fact he will have long-term benefits.

Take the matter of arranging for Cao Zhang to occupy the land, is that land really returned to Cao Zhang? No! The people who will get these lands will be the soldiers brought by Cao Zhang, and the soldiers who get these lands will of course find someone to cultivate, so where do the people who cultivate come from? There were two channels, one was to obtain prisoners of war as slaves through the war to farm, and the other was to call friends and let their landless tenant farmers come over to farm. For Lu Ren, he will definitely find a way to favor the latter as much as possible, that is, he will promote the foreign colonization of the landless tenant farmers in China as much as possible.

Lu Ren had the conditions to achieve this goal, because during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the nobles became more and more powerful, and the annexation of land became more and more serious. And if the land is annexed, it will of course be the middle and lower class people who will suffer. Although Lao Cao's tuntian system alleviated this situation to a certain extent, it was only slightly alleviated, and in the middle and late Three Kingdoms after Lao Cao's death, the tuntian system was officially abolished, and the situation of land annexation was even worse. Although Lao Cao has only been dead for two years, many things are already very serious.

Lu Ren understands these situations, and Lu Ren will not go to the warriors and say anything like land redistribution, which will only attract the direct hatred of the nobles, so Lu Ren is looking at the tenant serfs. Cao Chang knocked down the land, and Lu Ren would distribute it to the landless tenant farmers he had recruited.

The landless tenant farmers' greatest hope is nothing more than to get their own land, so how much impact will this have on the landless tenant farmers? As soon as Lu Ren released the news, there would be a large number of landless tenant farmers willing to take a piece of land of their own. In this way, Lu Ren achieved the goal of guiding the Chinese people to colonize abroad.

Then, on the contrary, the nobles and magnates were nothing more than relying on the ownership of land to exploit the tenant farmers. But when the tenant farmers can get their own land elsewhere and no longer have to work hard with you to make a living, won't the land of the nobles be cultivated? And the land that no one cultivates, even if you have more, is useless wasteland.

So at this time, the nobles and powerful people were nothing more than two methods, one was to forcibly suppress the tenant farmers through power, which was actually equivalent to treating the tenant farmers as slaves. And if they really did this, Lu Ren would have to find a way to make a movement to emancipate slaves;

Another way is that the nobles have to find a way to increase the income of the tenant farmers, and use this soft knife to retain people. In modern terms, as a boss, you will definitely not be able to retain anyone to help you do things with a low salary, and if you want to retain talents to help you do things and make money, you must give a high salary.

If it is the latter method, Lu Ren will not have much to deal with in a short period of time, after all, Chinese people have a local complex, who is willing to leave their hometown if it is not necessary? But if this trend is really achieved, Lu Ren can also say that I am special, is this alleviating the class contradictions within Huaxia? If the class contradictions within China are alleviated, a situation will soon be formed in which everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, and the country and the people are safe, in other words, China will soon be able to become rich and strong, and the idea of border tourists like the Xiongnu who want to fight the Chinese region will have to be considered more often.

These are Lu Ren's main thoughts, and there are also some margins and corners.

For example, after Cao Chang conquered the territory, although it was nominally owned by Cao Zhang, or even owned by their Cao family, Lu Ren would try to make Cao Chang belong to the name of the Great Han, in other words, Lu Ren would support Cao Zhang to establish a new vassal state belonging to the Great Han. And at the political, economic, cultural, and heritage levels...... I'm really sorry, it's no problem for you Cao Zhang to fight, but to say that in these aspects, Cao Zhang is far from being Lu Ren's opponent.

Politics and economics were used by Lu Ren to control Cao Zhang, and culture and inheritance were indispensable things for integrating these regions into the Chinese system in the true sense. Even if it is a little more realistic and utilitarian, Lu Ren will bring the culture that belongs to China and inherit it to those regions, which will also be conducive to the next maritime trade activities. Then, in turn, these things affect the political and economic system of the newly occupied areas, and Cao Zhang's lifeblood is equivalent to being held by Lu Ren, and it is difficult to make any trouble if he wants to.

In terms of political system, Cao Zhang will certainly bring people to fight down, but the management class of civil and political affairs will definitely be Lu Ren to arrange a large number of Yizhou children to go over. To put it mildly, Cao Zhang brought all soldiers and generals, and it is not realistic to expect them to engage in development. And after these personnel of Lu Ren pass, they will definitely follow the same set implemented by Lu Ren in the political system. So what is Lu Ren playing? It is a system that is close to a democratic form of government, and it is a practice of comprehensively suppressing the powerful and powerful of the noble clan. Once such a form of government is established, the newly occupied areas will basically be free of those noble clans. Then, at about the same time, it can in turn affect the pattern of the Chinese continent.

In addition, there is another very important reason why Lu Ren will let Cao Zhang go to recruit soldiers, that is, before certain conditions are met, the soldiers summoned from Cao Wei can only be led by Cao Wei's personnel, and Lu Ren will definitely not be able to arrange people to lead these soldiers. Lu Ren can't do anything about this in a short time, after all, Chinese people will always have their own regional thoughts.

Okay, that's enough for that. It was only said that after Lu Ren handed over some of the bottom to Cao Zhang, Cao Zhang was a little uneasy. The conditions given by Lu Ren are really tempting, and Lu Ren doesn't seem to get anything on the surface, after all, many of Lu Ren's thoughts are not hidden in an ordinary depth, Cao Zhang always feels that Lu Ren has ulterior motives when he doesn't know Lu Ren's true thoughts?

Lu Ren's own strategy, where would he not understand that it might cause some conjectures from others? So Lu Ren had already prepared some words: "Ziwen, I'm also your elder, right?" ”

Cao Zhang couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this. Strictly speaking, Lu Ren can really be regarded as Cao Zhang's elder in terms of seniority and age, Cao Zhang is now in his thirties, but Lu Ren is in his fifties, at least in terms of age, there is no problem. But the question is...... Lu Ren in front of Cao Zhang looks younger than Cao Zhang, okay?

Lu Ren smiled, and continued: "Since you are your elder, then let me ask you, do you know what a sense of belonging is?" ”

Cao Zhang shook his head.

Lu Ren said: "I, Lu Ren, have been mixed for so many years, and I am not short of fame and profit. And when people of my age say to you, what do you want to prosper the Han Dynasty is my pursuit, maybe it's hard for you to understand, right? ”

Cao Zhang frowned. If Cao Chang doesn't know anything about this kind of thing, it's unlikely. Because there has always been the idea of orthodox inheritance in the Chinese cultural system, but at a certain point, some people will think that the current dynasty should be exhausted.

Lu Ren waved his hand again and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you just need to know that there will always be some people like me in this world." Let's not talk about it from afar, why Xun Gong left Ling Zun in the first place and switched to me is because Xun Gong has the same thoughts as me. ”

“……”

This kind of talk is not easy for Cao Zhang to answer. There are some things, Cao Zhang can still hear something from Lao Cao's mouth.

Lu Ren continued: "If these words continue to be said, it may make you, me, and the deceased Ling Zun look not good-looking, so I won't go on." I just want to tell you now, I am doing this now just to revive the prestige of our big man. There is another sentence that may be a little hurtful to say, but I must say ......"

At this point, Lu Ren's face was straight: "Ling Zun is really a great merit to the Han Dynasty, but the insistence on entering the public office back then really touched too many taboos, which is destined to be shameful and scolded by too many people thousands of years later." And you are his son, don't you want to save as much as possible for Ling Zun on this issue?

"Now I am giving you such an opportunity, and at the same time, I am also using my own way to repay Ling Zun's kindness to me back then, and more importantly, I want to use your hand to revive the prestige of our Han. Aren't your idols Huo Quzhi and Wei Qing? And why did these two remain famous for eternity? Isn't it because they have established the national prestige of our Han? ”

Anything else may be easy to say, but when it comes to the two idols in Cao Zhang's heart, Cao Zhang is once again not calm......