Chapter 53: The Winter Solstice
In the winter of the first year of Zhongping, after cleaning up the Shi Alliance, the power of the Eldest Princess's Mansion was greatly expanded, and all the half-hearted scholars in Youzhou, Jizhou were swept away, and the rest became extremely obedient, and the decrees of the Eldest Princess's Mansion were also unimpeded in the two states.
At this time, millions of refugees were sent north by the Yellow Turbans, in order to show their sincerity, the Yellow Turban Army withdrew from the counties in northern Hebei, and correspondingly, on the side of the Han Army, Xu Rong was also under Yang Yi's order, reducing the troops of the Gaoyang Battalion, and only increasing the garrison in Jixian County to the north to make a countermeasure.
The Yellow Turban is so knowledgeable, in return, Yang Yi also secretly sent corn to the Yellow Turban, although the Yellow Turban gave up the huge population, the burden was greatly reduced, and there was no shortage of grain and grass, but this was a gesture.
It is impossible to transport weapons, after all, it is the enemy, Yang Yi will not increase the strength of the enemy, and there is not much grain and grass to be transported, it is just a gesture, these grains and grass are actually directly sent to the refugees to prevent tragic accidents from happening on the way north.
For Yang Yi, whose power now spans Youzhou and Jizhou, there are not many things that can make her embarrassed, that is, some families in Bingzhou are also members of the Shi Alliance.
In order to prevent the commercial passage from being destroyed by these scholars, Yang Yi sent a force of troops and horses from Dai County to occupy part of Dingxiang County as an outpost and serve as a deterrent.
There is not much that Yang Yi can do in Bingzhou, after all, he is only General Wei, he can surpass a little more militarily, and not many people dare to speak, this is actually enough, the various warriors in Youzhou have been cleaned up, and they can be regarded as a prop for killing chickens and monkeys, and this prop is still very qualified at present.
Compared with Yang Yi's slight dissatisfaction, in fact, Zhang Jiao is more uncomfortable at this time, now he focuses on defending the north, but there is not much he can do, his generals are defending the Han army of Qingzhou Huangfu Song in the east, and the other side is defending Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo in the west.
He knew very well the combat power of the Yellow Turban, and after several investigations, it was basically clear how powerful the Han army in the north was, if it was a field battle, the Yellow Turban would have no advantage at all, even if it was his Dao Law bonus, it was the same, so he had to use the refugees as a bargaining chip to force the north to temporarily not be able to move and get a chance to breathe.
You must know the generals of the Han army in the north, but there is Guan Yun Chang, as well as Zhao Yun, who is helpless when the Yellow Turban generals Zhang Niujiao, Zhang Yan and the traitor Shao Bing join forces, once these two heaven-level generals launch an attack, will they directly penetrate the crude defense line of the Yellow Turban and stab Yecheng with a spear.
This is very likely, Zhang Jiao doesn't have much confidence in the Yellow Turban, although it is less than a year, but the ups and downs make him understand that it is indeed an extremely difficult thing to govern the world.
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Gaoyang has been abandoned for a long time, in fact, it is not a desertion, but the center of gravity of the world has shifted southward, from the north of the Yellow River to the south of the Yellow River.
After establishing this place as the center, countless refugees began to dredge several transportation channels such as Baigou, Pinglu Canal, Quanzhou Canal, and Xinhe to connect several large rivers on the Hebei Plain, so that the rivers that diverted into the sea flowed into the sea near Wuqing.
Now that the river is not frozen, many Ding Zhuang are logging upstream to transport wood and firewood, but in a few days it will not work, and the river should freeze.
The winter in the north is extremely cold, at this time, generally speaking, people at this time are shrunk in the house to shake and fire to keep out the cold, but with Yang Yi's direct intervention, the heating measures of the Northland Hermes-Epitek in winter are more abundant.
The prototype of the clay kang also appeared naturally, at first in Liaodong and other places, and then spread rapidly everywhere, and it is not a difficult skill to build the clay kang.
With the invention of the ondol and the wall of fire, Hermes-Epitek has improved its health and quality of life, which has also increased its productivity.
You must know that in the north at this time, there are not a few people who freeze to death in winter, so each family does not distinguish between poor and poor, so they can have more children and raise more, which is really in this era, from birth to adulthood, it is a unlikely thing.
Chen Xi is visiting refugee settlements all over Youzhou, at this time in winter, the dock fort is not easy to build for the time being, just prepare materials, and wait for the next year to build, each settlement is still poorly built wooden houses, earthen houses, even shacks, grass huts, just to block the wind.
But fortunately, without exception, all of them have built earthen kangs, men go to cut down trees or transport ores, and the elderly, women, and children stay behind, and sit on the kang to weave bamboo baskets and hemp ropes, or use hard wood to polish farming tools, and some of the exquisite craftsmanship is to weave wool, and there are too many seizures on the grassland, and now the Donghu people can only stay away from the Han realm.
If this had been placed in previous years, most of the Han people in the north could only be trapped at home, and lack of food and clothing was the most important reason, but now, just the various livestock that were captured, just those who were injured, were enough to eat the meat of the Han people in the north in winter, and Gongsun Chan and others had a great credit for this.
Gongsun Zhan is said to be brewing the final blow to the Donghu people, and will be outside, the king's order will not be affected, and Yang Yi will not be harsh, and the Han army is now wearing all kinds of fur coats, so they will not be frozen, and he can be left to him for the time being.
Now the scribes from the scholar clan such as Fu Zhu and Tian Feng were ordered by Yang Yiqiang to dispatch celestial phenomena before, so that the cold in the north arrived a little later, almost a month later, and the credit is not small.
The trial pan sat on the hot kang and sighed: "General Chen's achievements are in the future!" ”
"People's livelihood is difficult, but what we can do is heard."
Chen Xi can only bear this false name, he actually didn't think of these things, it was Yang Yijia who reminded him to "invent" it, although he had used coal mining before, but he did not take into account the use of people's livelihood, and this is also the lack of these people under Yang Yi, or the lack of this era.
After all, no one will care about Xiaomin, although they know the power of Xiaomin, but there are really few people who are really with Xiaomin.
Chen Xi was in Liaoxi County at this time, and the trial was the Taishou of Liaoxi County at this time, and the establishment of Youzhou was changed by Yang Yi, such as the Liaodong vassal state that was established to take care of Wuhuan, Xianbei and other Donghu people, which had been abolished and incorporated into Liaoxi County.
In the fourth year of Emperor Wu's Yuanzhan, Emperor Wu Liu Che "sent the dart cavalry general Huo Qubing to break through the left land of the Xiongnu, because of the migration of Wuhuan people in Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong five counties outside the Saiwai, for the Han to reconnoiter the Xiongnu movements.
This is the first large-scale migration of the Wuhuan people to the south, at that time, in order to facilitate the supervision and management of the Wuhuan people who moved south to the outside of the five counties, the Wuhuan school captain was first placed, with a rank of 2,000 stones, and he was supervised by the festival, so that he could not communicate with the Xiongnu.
After that, the Wuhuan people had a close relationship with the Han Dynasty politically, economically and militarily, and the Wuhuan people were also much closer to the residential area of the Han people in Youzhou, and began to accept the influence of Han culture.
During the period of Emperor Yuan, the subject state of Liaodong was to settle and manage the Wuhuan people attached to the Han Dynasty, and it was divided into two counties, Liaodong and Liaoxi, and the seat of governance was in Changli County.
Abolishing a county and relocating a million refugees is a great drain on Chen Xi's wisdom, which is still assisted by a number of celebrities, at this time Chen Xi has a small table in front of him, he spreads out a book and is examining the contents: "It is just right to come from the south, during this time, I am tired of such trivial government affairs." ”
Judging from the probe, it is a roster, a roster of households.
The household registration system implemented since the Qin Dynasty stipulates that the household registration of the people must be recorded in the household registration according to the name, age, place of origin, identity, appearance, wealth and other items.
What is the meaning of "household arrangement": to manage the people with households as a unit is to "organize households"; At the same time, the original local nobles, elders, patriarchs and other local leaders under the feudal system were abolished, and all of them were subjects of the monarch, which was called "Qi Min", and was collectively referred to as "Qi Min".
Before the Qin Dynasty, the Shang and Zhou dynasties were a feudal society with strict upper and lower classes, until there was a major turning point after King Ping moved eastward; In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes began to set up a household registration system in order to seek prosperity and strength, mainly for the effective control of human resources.
At that time, under the old patriarchal system, the land and people were all owned by the clan, and the "household and people" reconstructed and shuffled them from the strict class system.
After the decline of the aristocracy, the "mining of the province returned to the public", the countries were diligent in controlling the household registration and expanding the conscription, so the administrative area was rectified, and the Shang Dynasty had the reform of "gathering small towns and towns into counties", strengthening the administrative institutions for easy management, and the rights of the original nobles were dispersed.
After the Han Dynasty was promoted to another stage, after the official registration of landlords, yeoman farmers, mercenaries, hired farmers, etc., the tax system was introduced, and the Han Dynasty was able to directly or indirectly intervene in the local area, and the county system of society gradually became popular, and the social structure was officially transformed from the feudal city-state of the classical vassal state to the centralized society of the county system.
The Han system of "arranging households and people" is not only an administrative management system, but also a tax system, such as the compulsory land rent of the people of the household and the people: thirty taxes and one; Poll tax is calculated: 120 yuan for 15-56 years old; Oral endowment: 20 money for 7-14 years old; Conscription: one month a year, and three days on the side, and if the border does not go for three days, pay more (300 money) on behalf of the service; Military service: 2 years of service in the lifetime.
In addition to the basic taxes, various additional taxes were also levied, and the common people had to serve for the officials, and women were not spared, and it was also common to overstay the service.
This gave the local nobles room to operate, and it was very common to conceal the population, and at this time, Youzhou disintegrated the alliance of the scholars, and what could be done at present was to Liaoxi County.
Liaodong County, Xuanwu County, and Lelang County in the east have no spare strength to meddle in the reform, and all Han people will not be levied for three years and widely publicized, so that those hidden households can be organized into households.
Now Chen Xi is mainly responsible for this matter, inspecting the construction of gathering points in various places, just an inspector, and seeing it, it is also a big head, this is another matter of digging the corners of the Shi clan, he doesn't want to interfere.
At this time, the judge raised the manual in his hand, saying that he was also very busy, Chen Xi snatched it and found that the trial did not lie to him.
The content of the review manual is a collection of contents from the main newspapers of various places, mainly around two aspects, one is that Hermes-Epitek resists the order to drink cold water and eat raw food; The other is a brawl caused by an argument between people who go out to cut wood and hunt.
These trivial matters have been tried by the relevant military officials, and now they are reported to the trial process and punishment decision, cold water, raw food, can easily lead to illness, at this time the people's wisdom is not opened, can only be forced by the law, punished with hard labor.
Nowadays, Yang Yi is connected to the world by commerce, rice in the south is cheap, but it is not suitable to preserve, now the food is mostly rice, corn is scarce, rice has many rewards, basically as long as one day of service, three days of food will be given, and even according to the different stations, more or even ten days.
Basically, it can ensure that every family has surplus food, and when they are full, they will naturally give birth to various incidents.
The judge was helpless, so he could only open the book and review, at this time he was a little puzzled: "General Chen is now famous all over the world, why not take the opportunity to recruit virtuous and handsome people to enrich the shogunate?" ”
These offending affairs can be handled by your subordinates, so why drag yourself down? The judge didn't understand it, he just knew that Chen Xi would not let him take responsibility at this time, so he was willing to help, otherwise, he wouldn't accept anything.
Chen Xi smiled bitterly at this time, this recruitment is not easy, now literate people can be said to be one in a hundred, and among these literate people, most of them are born in the scholar family, when they were in Yan Kingdom, although they focused on training, but in just a few months, those who were trained in the crash course were transferred to the dock system as the castle master.
Although some people took refuge before, after Chen Xi's inspection, there were basically few who caught the eye, and now most of their subordinates are cultivated by themselves.
There were no outsiders left and right, Chen Xi said directly at this time: "I thought that I was only a child of a poor family who entered my door, but I never thought that they were all generations of hairpins and children of the princess, but they didn't agree with my concept. ”
Before, he could break with the Shi Alliance at any time, Chen Xi didn't dare to use the children of the Shi clan at all, and if he invested in his own disciples, he had to investigate several times and investigate the background before he could be credited.
With a long sigh, Chen Xi raised his head to drink tea, and then said: "I have no prejudice, but the world is not up to others." ”
Although the relationship is good, but the system is different, Chen Xi has the trust of the eldest princess, and most of the things he does are confidential, and the people of the scholar clan put their family first in everything, and the differences in ideas between the two sides are naturally very big.
Now the eldest princess is bent on splitting the family and making the big families separate, and only a few can be preserved, such as the Zhen family, when the Yan country was able to develop rapidly, the power of the Zhen family was very heavy.
Although it was robbed, the Zhongshan Zhen clan was not wiped out, and after fully participating in the business system under the command of the eldest princess, it also made a lot of contributions, and even the daughter of the Zhen family was able to marry Zhao Yun, the current thief Zhonglang, and also recovered her vitality.