Chapter 224: The Yellow Turban of Mouqingzhou

Although Xi Zhicai knows that Chen Gong is not the kind of person who uses power for personal gain, the reason why Chen Gong's power is so heavy is because Chen Gong's control is very heavy, in short, Chen Gong is the kind of person who wants to realize his self-worth very much!

But Chen Gong's self-worth is not that kind of governance, otherwise he would not have been just a small county official at the beginning. Chen Gong is like a vertical and horizontal family, if such a person is born in a peaceful and prosperous era, is it possible for him to realize his self-worth? Later, Chen Gong and Lu Bu would get together, and in terms of surnames, it was not too surprising, because they were the same kind of people!

Lu Bu fights for the world with force, Chen Gong plans the world with strategy, both of them are extremely "enjoying" this troubled world!

But Chen Gong's way of realizing self-worth was obviously not taken into account by Xi Zhicai. Who in the world is not working hard to realize their own value? For example, Dong Zhuo, isn't he realizing his own value? ! It's just that Chen Gong's values are a little more normal, and he hasn't done bad things.

In the eyes of Xi Zhicai, this kind of selfish thinking is obviously more than one level lower than that of him in order to realize universal values. In this world, no one is on the same path as Xi Zhicai. And Guo Jia, the only one who can understand Xi Zhicai, still went the opposite way and took a diametrically opposite path!

"Ahem, Qingzhou Yellow Turban, maybe it will be a great opportunity!" Xi Zhicai covered his mouth and coughed, sat back in his seat, and began to write with a pen

No one knew that at the same time, Xi Zhicai and Guo Jia, two sworn enemies, were thinking about the same problem.

"Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the key to Cao Ying's start!" Guo Jia muttered to himself.

Co-optation, that is definitely going to be co-opted. If the Qingzhou Yellow Turban had not been co-opted, if Cao Ying had not had the Qingzhou Army and wanted to recruit troops purely from Yanzhou, the growth of military strength would definitely be much slower.

In the past, whether it was watching TV or playing games, Guo Jia had nothing to do with himself, and he never thought about it seriously. Even if Cao Ying can defeat the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, even if the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army lacks food and cannot make a living.

But the reason why the Yellow Turban Army is the Yellow Turban Army was formed in the first place! The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army has come over for so many years, and there are not a few defeats, why don't they see anyone taking them in, and who have they surrendered to?

Just because the Yellow Turban Army is a rebel thief, it can only be killed, not surrendered? Are you kidding! Everyone is a child of the Han Dynasty, and almost all of the Yellow Turban Army are poor working people who cannot make ends meet and do not have enough to eat. I haven't seen it so ruthless when dealing with foreign enemies, but I don't give people a way to live when dealing with my own people?

If it was in the past, of course, it was another story, but now that the troubled times have come, the military strength is a crucial point to dominate the world, even if the territory is smaller, as long as there are more soldiers, it is easy to expand. Now the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, like locusts, has no territory at all, and it is where it hits!

The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army claims to have 300,000 troops, and aside from the miscellaneous soldiers, it is estimated that there are at least 100,000 young people with normal combat effectiveness. If you can incorporate all of them, no matter who they are, they will probably be among the ranks of first-class princes immediately! Then why has no one ever recruited the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army? Including last year, it was winter, and there was a shortage of food, but why did Gongsun Chan and others just defeat the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army and did not take the opportunity to surrender? No matter how you look at it, the success rate of Gongsun Zhan's surrender at that time was definitely much greater than that of Cao Ying's surrender of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army now.

Moreover, it is not that the other Yellow Turban Army has not been recruited to surrender, so why is the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army "unattended"?

In fact, the reason is very simple, everyone wants to recruit the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, but they just can't afford to raise it. It's like in modern times, many people can afford a good car, but they just can't afford it. The Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is too large in numbers, and the 300,000 army only has a combat strength of 100,000, if it just raises so many 200,000 people, then it will be enough. But in fact, behind these 300,000 troops, there are millions of old and weak women and children! These are the families of the 300,000 Yellow Turban Army, if they can't maintain the livelihood of all of them, it is impossible for the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army to surrender to anyone!

Therefore, any prince who wants to gnaw on such a Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army is a headache. You can only choose to defeat and drive, and rush to the place where everyone else, as long as you don't go wild on your own chassis, that's it.

Anyone who knows a little bit about history should know why Cao Ying was able to afford this sudden extra million people? That's because Cao Ying is in the field. Then history also said that because of years of turmoil, there were idle wastelands everywhere, and Cao Ying drew a group of elites from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army for the Qingzhou Army. All the rest of the people arranged arable land for them, let them farm for a living, and the official also helped distribute ploughing cattle and tools, so that not only did they feed these displaced people, but the extra part could also support the army, and Cao Jun would not be short of food at once......

At this time, Guo Jia wanted to scold, what he said was really simple! Can the cultivation of farmland support so many people? The so-called yellow turban thieves are farmers who make a living from farming, and if it were really that simple, they would still not have enough to eat? Will they still revolt? Will they still come out every year to grab food and money? And isn't there so much empty land? Why don't they just find some places to cultivate, just such a place in Yanzhou is enough to feed all more than a million people, so isn't the entire empty land in the Central Plains enough? Could it be that the Yellow Turban Army lacks those few ploughing cattle and tools? Could it be that the other princes couldn't think of such an obvious way?

Even if I didn't expect it at the beginning, seeing that Cao Ying had implemented the tuntian system, why didn't the other princes follow suit? And to be precise, the tuntian system was not invented by Cao Ying!

Cao Ying gave these acquired Yellow Turban Army land and distributed farming cattle and tools to them, and at the same time, Cao Ying did not want to reciprocate! These people not only have to pay taxes, but also more than half of this tax, and when they are mature, they have to pay a full sixty percent of the grain to Cao Ying!

But even if this is the case, even if he only has forty percent of the food left, these Yellow Turban Army are enough to feed himself. Don't you think it's weird, don't you think there's something wrong? Isn't it that Cao Ying's land here is fertile, and he can grow hybrid rice, and the yield is much higher than that of Qingzhou?

Wrong! Wrong from the start! Now that he has come to this world and is really facing these problems, Guo Jia happens to be in the position of internal affairs, and he has discovered the key to the matter!

Yes, because of the war, there is indeed a lot of empty land in various places now, but is that land ownerless? Don't look at the fact that no one cares about it now, once you start farming here, someone will soon "jump out of the stone" and bring the title deed to you, saying that he is the "land lord".

(To be continued)