Chapter 341: The Scholars Will Destroy Chidi (1)
In this year, Lu promulgated and implemented a new policy of taxation per mu, known as "initial tax per mu" in history.
The "Jingtian System" is an ancient, basic land system developed by the Zhou people, which dates back to the establishment of the city-state by Gongliu and even earlier.
The Zhou people divided the land into nine tic-tac-toe pieces, the middle one was called "public field", and the outside of the public field was called "private field". Laborers must first take care of the public land before they can cultivate their own land. After harvesting, the harvest of the public land is dedicated to the monarch, and he himself enjoys the fruits of his labor on the private land, and the ruler enjoys the output of the public land, and does not pay taxes on the private land.
But as the population grows, the original arable land cannot support more people; The public office dragged on planning new farmland, and the powerful officials would only fill their own pockets, so people began to cultivate the land privately.
The privately opened land no longer had to be cultivated for the monarch, and the ministers gave up the original land to cultivate private land. The phenomenon of private land cultivation is becoming more and more intense, and the wealth of the ministers and doctors is increasing, but the granary of the monarch is becoming less and less day by day.
In this case, the Jin people took the lead in implementing the "field system (the fifteenth year of Lu Xi Gong)", and the Lu state implemented the "tax mu system" in this year. It is nothing new that the monarch levied taxes on the amount of land in order to protect the interests of the office.
In western China, after the Jin army was wiped out, there was a wind of self-soothing slackness among the Chidi countries. Chidi thought: The enemy of the Jin State is only the Lu State; After the fall of the Lu Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom will definitely live in peace with other countries. Based on this thinking, the nations did not actively prepare for war, and people became decadent and lazy.
But those ideas were wishful thinking, and the scholars thought that in that deep and ancient land, in that historic race, the next overlord would soon be born, and that it was only a matter of time before a leader even stronger than Sushu appeared. In order to solve the Di disaster once and for all, the most effective way is to completely wipe out the Chidi forces from the map of the Spring and Autumn Period.
The Jin people hid their true thoughts deep in their hearts: on the surface, they showed friendly and benevolent hypocrisy towards Chidi, but secretly actively provoked conflicts between all parties.
After the fall of the Lu Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom divided the land of the fallen country to the Chidi Kingdoms. Duochen once had an enclave that was taken away by the Lu State, but the enclave bordered Liuhu, so the Jin people pretended to be stupid and couldn't figure it out, and assigned it to Liuhu in the absence of the Duochen people.
Although the area of that enclave is not large, it is the birthplace of the Duochen clan, and countless ancestors of Duochen are buried underground. In this way, the Jin people sowed the seeds of discord between the two countries.
Of course, the people of Liuhu know this origin; As mentioned earlier, both Duochen and Liuhu had competed with the Lu Kingdom for supremacy, so both countries had the possibility of becoming the new leaders of the Chidi Alliance.
For the purpose of provocation and disgust against their opponents, the Liuhu people built a pig farm on the burial ground of the ancestors of the Duochen people. You must know that even the dictatorial and arbitrary Yu Shu will carefully guard the cemetery and dare not make any disrespectful actions. And the practice of leaving a call is that there is no longer a priest.
The Duochen were overwhelmed by the anger and immediately gathered an army to sack the few frontiers that remained behind. However, instead of retaliating against the enemy, the Liuhu people immediately accused the Duochen people of tearing up the covenant, breaking the peace, and provoking disputes without authorization.
On the surface, the Jin people looked very worried, expressing their unwillingness to see the newly acquired tranquility shattered like this. The Liuhu people thought that they could use the hands of the Jin people to destroy Duochen, and even more strongly requested the Jin people to come forward to investigate the incident and severely punish the perpetrators.
On the other hand, the Duochen people also realized that they had caused a great disaster, and they also came to accuse the Liuhu people of the crimes they had committed against their ancestors, tell them about the humiliation they had suffered, and at the same time demand that the Jin people make a fair judgment.
Under the strong request of both parties, Jin Jinggong sent Luan Shu to investigate the cause of the incident. Luan Shu was not yet thirty years old at the time, thin and tall, he was shy by nature, fair-skinned, and rarely spoken, and often blushed when he looked at people.
Luan Shu was very popular with the Chidi people: they thought he was mild-mannered, approachable, and unstinky. Di Ren didn't know that he was the most scheming, the blackest, and the most desperate person in the whole Jin Kingdom.
Luan Shu's trip was as low-key and uncertain as usual, he ordered the guards (the secretary must bring more than 1,000 troops when he traveled) to advance slowly, and he himself took a few personal attendants to hurry up and hurry to Liuhu.
Luan Shu secretly met with Liuhuzi, and the two talked happily, Luan Shu reassured the other party and said that he would persuade the Marquis of Jin to stand on Liuhu's side. After that, Luan Shu went to Duochen again, and he said what he said to Liuyuzi to Duochenzi again, and supported Duochen to continue to provoke; He said that once Liuhu launched an attack on Duochen, the Jin State would have an excuse to intervene.
Both sides thought that the Jin Kingdom was on their side, so they had nothing to fear.
In the spring of the sixteenth year of Lu Xuangong (BC593), Liuhu united with the Jia clan to fight against Duochen, and both sides of the war asked for help from the Jin state. Shihui, Xun Ke, and Luan Shu happily led their troops to the battlefield to "rescue their allies".
At this time, Duochen had been besieged by the coalition forces, with the Liuhu army in the west of the city, the Jia's army in the east of the city, and the Jin army stationed behind the Liuhu army. The Jin people secretly made contact with the city, and the two sides agreed to launch an attack on the Liuhu army.
According to the predetermined plan, the Shihui demanded that the Liuhu army immediately move to the north gate and give up the original garrison for the Jin army. The reason given by the Shihui was to enable the Jin army to encircle Duochen from both the west and the south.
The move of the Liuhu people to pull out the camp was a signal to launch an attack, and the Chinese army led by Shihui and Xun Ke first launched an attack from behind the Liuhu army, and the enemy army was suddenly in chaos.
Liuhuzi shouted: "The Jin people deceive me!" "He ordered the movement to be halted and lined up to defend against the Jin attack; But the Duochen army came out of the city again. The two armies flanked left and right, driving the enemy into a Jedi surrounded by mountains on three sides. Luan Shu's army and a part of Duochen's army launched a surprise attack on the Jia army, and the friendly troops of the Jia army were already surrounded and did not dare to fight, so they hurriedly left their baggage and fled with grain and grass.
Liuhuzi has hatred in his heart and can't let go: one hate, Duochen deceives people too much; Second, he hated the Jin Kingdom and was scheming; The three hated themselves for being stupid and incompetent, and they actually believed Luan Shu's lies.
Deciding to be ashamed of his death, he took off his helmet and said to the sergeants: "The enemy is surrounded by many people, and there is no longer any possibility of breaking through and escaping. The widow has no right to take your life, and whoever dares to die will follow the widow for the last time, otherwise he will stay where he is and wait for the enemy to surrender. ”
A large number of dead soldiers were soon gathered around him, and Liuyuzi straddled his horse and drew his sword to lead the death squad to launch a suicidal attack, and they all died after inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy; The rest surrendered.
The Jin army and the Duochen army then attacked the undefended Liuhu and destroyed this old Chidi powerhouse. However, the war was still not over, and the Shihui asked Duochen to provide troops to accompany the Jin army to attack the Jia clan.