Chapter 17 Jizhou
"General Qiyu, there are no important discoveries."
Xu Rong heard the reward of interrogating the prisoners, and didn't care, according to the information obtained from those places, it was not many days since Cheng Peng rose again, and most of his subordinates were newly recruited, although they seemed to have high morale, but after only a few days of forming an army, it was also appropriate to be defeated in a battle.
Zhang Fei asked the soldiers to go to a basin of water to directly wake up Cheng Peng, in this era, you don't have to worry about any preferential treatment of prisoners of war, this era is basically to see you pleasing to the eye so treat you preferentially, if you don't like the eye, then it's casual, who made you a prisoner of war?
However, the basic quality of people in this era is not bad, a basin of cold water can not give birth to soldiers, do not worry about the situation of wind and cold, it is difficult to get around ordinary minor diseases, but once you get sick, it is basically a serious illness, not far from death.
"Ahem, ahem." Cheng Peng opened his eyes while coughing up blood, and saw that the black-faced man he saw before was looking at him, he understood that he had been captured, and spit out a mouthful of blood, Cheng Peng's eyes flashed and asked, "I want to know that I am in the hands of Yanren Zhang Yide." ”
"Heh, Zhang Junhou, people know you, let's see if there is any friendship." At this time, Xu Rong said indifferently, Zhang Fei didn't mind his jokes, he thought about it for a while, he shouldn't know this person.
He inherited the family business not long ago, and he can be regarded as a local hero, and he used to be a strong man in the township, and he met not a few people, but this person really has no impression.
"There shouldn't be a friend who is a yellow turban thief, eighty percent of them have heard of me in the past, right? General Xu, a certain family is also very famous in Yandi! Zhang Fei said with a little pride at this time, he was hanging out with the rangers on weekdays, and after inheriting the family business, because he was not good at management and made a generous move, the family was actually almost defeated, otherwise he would not have rashly joined the army.
"No need to be eight, Your Highness said it when he gave you a weapon, your Zhangba snake spear is very rare, and you will rely on this weapon to become famous in the future." Xu Rong smiled slightly, he didn't envy Zhang Fei, the construction of weapons Zhuojun had already been carried out now, his own weapons were quite handy, and Zhang Fei's Zhangba snake spear was not suitable for him.
"Tell me, how did you recognize a certain family?" Zhang Fei grabbed Cheng Peng and asked with a hideous face.
Xu Rong squinted at Cheng Peng with half-squinted eyes on the side, looking at people with this kind of eyes is uniquely murderous, and it looks uniquely majestic, at least now Cheng Peng is covered in a cold sweat by this person's eyes.
"Okay, Zhang Junhou won't be joking, stay this person, interrogate him well, the minister still has something to ask." Xu Rong, as the main general, is not a person who does not distinguish between severity and importance, at this time, he stopped Zhang Fei's play, this Cheng Peng looks at a lot of secrets, and the people above are also waiting.
"That's up to you, look at this person's great name, but it's a pity that his skills are too poor." Zhang Fei threw Cheng Peng to Xu Rong.
Xu Rong continued at this time, "Zhang Junhou, His Royal Highness has an order, ordering you to take people across the border to collect the displaced people. ”
Generally speaking, when there is a war, there are naturally displaced people, and these people eat everywhere, but the biggest reliance is still on the government.
Although it is said that in this era of turmoil, the people no longer recognize the Han Dynasty, so the pure disaster relief can no longer be rolled out, the reason is very simple, the people do not believe that you will release food for no reason, even if someone spreads it, those displaced people do not want to believe it, they believe that they can rely on their own strength to feed their family.
This is also one of the important reasons why the yellow scarf is so powerful.
Yang Yi also directly extinguished the idea of opening a warehouse to release grain, spending so much grain to create such a little harvest, relatively speaking, it is not worth it, Jizhou chaos, I am afraid that there are 100,000 displaced people, of which there are more than 100,000 people who can go to Yan Kingdom, and 100,000 living people with hands and feet, if they work, the profits created are also extremely huge.
If you put grain directly, then before the war in Jizhou has not subsided, you have to support them, which will become a burden, rather than this, it is better to work for relief, such as today's land is sparsely populated, there is a lot of land, here in Yan Kingdom, the land of the powerful family is basically on the verge of being confiscated.
Since they have hands and feet, it is much better to let them eat the food they earn than to eat the disaster relief food, at least they have the confidence to eat the food they eat, although the national disaster relief is also an obligation, but well, it is more reasonable to work and give food?
Moreover, these hundreds of thousands of displaced people, after working, can also stimulate commercial circulation or something, and a little money allows them to see more hope, not more promising.
With such an idea, Yang Yi naturally didn't plan to open another warehouse to release grain, anyway, the Han Dynasty was basically finished in the hearts of most civilians, and there was no need to use it in vain, and I am afraid that these people would not be able to sue the door.
Cash-for-work is equivalent to teaching people to fish, teaching them to build houses, giving them food, and when they are finished, telling the displaced people that the money they were given to them can be used directly, and of course the main purpose is to buy houses.
If you don't want to go to work, but you just want to farm, if you don't have the money to buy land, the government can also grant the land under its jurisdiction to everyone, according to the current tuntian order, a year of grain production forty percent of the state tax, one percent of the lease fee, five years later, only the state tax is left, the field is yours, of course, this kind of endowment is limited, each person is limited to a maximum of 20 acres of land, in addition to the land, three years tax exemption.
land, there is no shortage of officials, the world is one, and this Yan country has been regarded by Yang Yi as his own.
Yang Yi's money and food are still enough to toss for a while, mainly because Zhao Zhong is too rich, and the implementation of this policy is nothing more than transferring the money from the left pocket to the right pocket, spending a circle, and in the end the money is not still in hand, but there are more people who make money for you.
The area of Yan is very large, since the sixth year of Emperor Gao of the Western Han Dynasty, it is divided into the south of Guangyang County, the north of Julu County and a part of Hengshan County, Zhizhuo County, now known as Yan Kingdom, and a part of Zhongshan Country belongs to Yan State, at this time Yan Country is estimated to be more than 100,000 square kilometers, enough to support millions of people.
In the north, there are Youzhou to block the grassland aliens, as well as the Great Wall natural danger, the south at this time the main force of the Yellow Turban is besieging Yecheng, this battle may not be over in a few months, at this time it is naturally a good time to absorb displaced people, to carry out the tuntian, tuntian system, the use of soldiers and farmers to cultivate wasteland, in order to obtain army support and tax grain.
"Mr. Fu, please listen to the order of this palace: Tuntian is equivalent to the army, it is five households and one army, ten households and one fire, five fires and one team, five teams and one battalion, one battalion with one fort, two hundred and fifty households, each household with ten acres of land, one fort and 3,000 acres of land, each fort, to build its fort ......"
After listening to Yang Yi's Tuntian strategy, his face was uncertain, this is not a simple decree, this is clearly to build the foundation of the emperor!
"A fortress, about two or three hundred households, is exactly the place where the sun rises and rests, and the sun sets and enters the fort......"
The fortress is a kind of ancient fortress, its essence is to change the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon, such an improvement, so that no matter what point of attacking the castle, the attacker will be exposed to more than one fortress surface (usually 2-3), and the defender can use crossfire to carry out multiple strikes, as long as the interior is stable, it can even resist ten times more enemy attacks.
This is a great invention in military architecture, the thieves are helpless against the city, there is no way to rob, but the people outside the city can only let the thieves fish and meat.
The Yellow Turban will definitely go north, after Yecheng is defeated, to the south is the hinterland of the Central Plains, the center of the Han Empire, it must be very difficult to fight, and the Yellow Turban will definitely go north, so Yang Yi is not ready to let the displaced people build farmhouses - how good it is to build a fortress directly.
And relatively speaking, it is also very easy to control, and the security has also been greatly increased, the principle of the fortress is the diamond-shaped edges and corners, which can make the city gates, city walls, and passages have been perfectly covered, cross fire, cover each other, completely eliminate the dead ends, and greatly expand the defense line.
In the face of such a fortress, even if you enter the age of firearms and carry cannons, I am afraid that the only choice is a long-term siege, and you can only rely on hunger and disease to force the defenders to surrender, basically it can be said that before the appearance of siege artillery, this kind of fortress was considered "almost impossible to overcome"!
A basic fortress can basically accommodate more than 1,000 people, and if there are hundreds of guards and sufficient internal materials, it can basically defend thousands of people, making it impossible to conquer.
The point is that the cost of building this kind of fortress is not high, and it also saves the time of building houses and building village walls, which is still cost-effective in comparison.
The most important thing is that the political significance of this is that in fact, in the late Western Han Dynasty, the wealthy family began to build the dock fort, and after the war that began now, the dock fort has spread all over the northern region in just a few decades.
Its political and economic characteristics are that the people do not have a normal independent model of each household at all, all live in the dock fort, the scope of cultivation is around the dock fort, the sun rises and ploughs, the sunset and rest, once in danger, can all retreat into the dock fort.
In the war, when the rebels are raging, it is difficult to easily destroy the dock fort, which retains the vitality of the nation, and if it goes to war, the rear is stable, and the soldiers can be safe and worry-free.
Basically, if you change people to do this, it can already be said that you are rebelling, absorbing displaced people, establishing large-scale armed forces, and having a massive material base, it only takes a year to storm tens of thousands of soldiers, and they are all elite soldiers!
Yang Yi's daughter has a great disadvantage, and naturally she also has an advantage, at least at this time, she will not think that Yang Yi is planning to rebel, of course, this is also related to the fact that Yang Yi has brought so much wealth from Jingshi.
Maybe the current emperor is looking at the situation is not good, thinking about preparing a way back here, Jizhou is after all the land of Guangwu Longxing, Zhuo County is stable, backed by Youzhou, if the situation in Jizhou changes, only a strong army needs to go south to quell the chaos.
Attacking from the north and south, the Yellow Turban will occupy the entire Jizhou, and I am afraid that it will only be exterminated on the bank of the Yellow River at that time.
I feel like I have seen a hint of national policy, and I should go down at this time, and I didn't let Yang Yi say more, if I am frustrated, Yang Yi will have to recruit people again at this time, and there are not many people who can be used in Jizhou at this time, it is nothing more than frustration, Tian Feng, and the trial of the three people, Zhuojun is too small, and now Yang Yi's foundation is too shallow, so he can only appoint one person.
Although it is said that Yang Yi will not be judged by Xun Yu's evaluation of Tian Fenggang and commit it, and he will not plan to use people on this basis, but at this time, when the Yan Kingdom was first established and Yang Yi's foundation was not stable, it was not appropriate to let the Jizhou family get involved too much.
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Yecheng was besieged, but the essence of the Jizhou family was trapped in the city, and the people in Yecheng could be said to have more than eighty percent of the wealth of Jizhou.
Fighting hard with the yellow scarf, they didn't have time to organize the strength at all, if they were given time, it didn't take too much, two or three months to organize, or even a month, then Zhang Jiao dared to besiege Yecheng again, they were not afraid at all.
It's just that at this time, it's not enough, although in order to take precautions, the nearby Han army and the Hakka Ding of the Shijiamen have been mobilized to enter the city to guard, but in a hurry, the preparation is very insufficient.
The lure plan did not succeed, they could have mobilized more strength, but Liu Yan's plan gave them a lot of confidence at that time, after all, no one could afford Zhang Jiao at that time, but it was just a mere soldier!
Originally, I thought that a giant deer, Guangzong and other big cities were tempted, Zhang Jiao would be happy to go to it, this can occupy two big cities without consuming strength, and then occupy the east of Hebei, sweep the north and south, and finally take Yecheng to the west, this strategy, Zhang Jiao should not be able to refuse.
Yecheng must be difficult to fight, Zhang Jiao should know, is Yecheng's wealth more than Julu and Guangzong combined? It's impossible, but the people in Yecheng are much more valuable.
Their descendants of various families are trapped in Yecheng, and they can't mobilize the strong men distributed all over Jizhou, or those branches of each family may have different hearts.
If Yecheng was not besieged, they could naturally mobilize their forces, encircle and chase and intercept, and force Zhang Jiao to fall into eastern Hebei, and then as long as they waited for the imperial court soldiers and horses to arrive, they would have jointly attacked the Yellow Turbans, and they would definitely be able to capture countless strong men, open up a manor, and use them as coolies!
It's just that now it's not happening, hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves surround Jizhou, and the equipment manufacturing of yellow turbans is not very good, but there are many people, just rely on the ladder to get to the city, and fill in the human life.
The city is working together to resist, and everyone has no dispute at this time, working together to resist the Yellow Turban, and every day sends messengers to bring beautiful relatives to the Yellow Turban, praying for the Yellow Turban to withdraw from the army.
In addition, the dead soldiers were also sent to the camp every day to ask for help, and their respective families were ordered to raise strong men and work together to rescue Yecheng, but every time the messenger was driven back, the dead soldiers seemed to have basically no success.
Zhang Jiao felt more and more that his strategy was correct at this time, he seemed to be blinded before, it is said that he should not be in this realm, he is very proficient in Wen Tao and Wu Strategy, at this time after starting to establish the "Yellow Sky", his cultivation is even more rapid in one day, and his spiritual realm has improved several times, which is a great luck.
However, thinking of that state not long ago, who deceived him? There is a hint of gloom in Zhang Jiao's heart!
He is ruthless, he is a real cultivator, at this time to establish the "Yellow Sky", not for himself, but for the people of the world, the beautiful relatives sent by Yecheng were all transferred to Ma Xiaoling by him, the establishment of the women's camp, the upper level of the Yellow Turban is basically meaningless, this is the early stage of the establishment, everyone is very high-spirited, there is no time to enjoy.