It has not been a day or two since Tuoba Tao wanted to divide the fields. In fact, since the time of the first emperor, there have been several petitions in the court requesting the equalization of fields. It's just that the population was too small before, and the fertile fields were still uncultivated, let alone the barren fields.
In addition, if the state allocates land, it will inevitably compete with clan tyrants for population, and a large number of yin households will leave their homes because of the country's division of land. As a result, the rebound of tyrant clans must be extremely terrifying.
Any reform of the country is often associated with bloodshed, sacrifice, struggle, and conspiracy. Maybe the result is good, but most of the pioneers who proposed reform have no good end. Tuoba Tao is not only a warlike Xianbei monarch , is also a qualified emperor who has been taught by Han culture since childhood, and naturally knows that this kind of thing cannot be rushed.
So he kept waiting.
Now Rouran and Hu Xia, who are the biggest threats to the Wei state, have been destroyed. The situation is stable.
Rouran's defeat made him captive of millions of people, cattle and sheep. Xia Kingdom sits on a large area of fertile land in Henan, which is the granary in Guanzhong.
Tuoba Tao knew that neither the Xianbei nobles nor the noble clan's interests could move him, so he planned to start with the most solid Pingcheng under his control and the recovered Xia Kingdom, and gradually implement it little by little.
Needless to say, Pingcheng does not allow big clans to occupy the land. All the land near Pingcheng is state-owned, at most it is only some forbidden land enclosed by the royal family. If he wants to divide the land, even the ministers in the middle of the dynasty will not hinder it. .
The Xia Kingdom has been destroyed, new clans and forces have not been created, and the old clans and Huns cannot be recognized by the original forces of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
In addition, there are many Hu tribes in the Xia Kingdom. Originally outside the customs, the Hu people could make a living by herding cattle and sheep, but in the customs, they did not do any production, and could only become slaves and coolies. The life was extremely hard, and now they are divided into fields. Work, at least, can prevent young adults from being idle and becoming robbers.
In the past, the ethnic opposition in the Xia State was even more severe than that in the Wei State. Not only the Lu Shuihu, but also the Qiang, Di, Dingling and other miscellaneous Hus lived in the Wei realm. mess up.
After Wei State conquered Xia State, how to deal with these Hu people also became a big problem. Killing is definitely impossible, but if you are a slave, the summer will be unstable. According to the rules of the Hu people in the past on the grasslands, these people can be driven as "dead camps" when they are defeated, and they charge forward as a barrier and cannon fodder when fighting. The cannon fodder wasted national strength.
If the fields are not planted, they will become barren. If the top-level fields are not planted, they will become middle fields in two years, and the middle fields will become lower fields in three years, and almost nothing can be grown.
Nowadays, the population is small and fertilizers are scarce, and the land often needs to be fallow to become fertile. Therefore, the land needs to be cultivated in turns, and it cannot be idle for too long, otherwise, the land will not be rested properly, and instead the land will be abandoned.
All of this requires population, a large number of people, the original population of the Central Plains was not enough, and the suzerains in various places sheltered too many people to avoid taxes, which has made Tuoba Tao to the point where there are fields and no use. The captured population can be used to cultivate the land in the original territory of Pingcheng and Xia Kingdom. As long as they have cultivated enough land, it is not impossible for them to be granted freedom.
The physical quality of the Hu people is better than that of the Han people, but they do not do production or farming. But if they can't survive, giving them land, giving them seeds, and teaching them how to farm is naturally more secure and safer than robbing a family.
In this way, in just a few years, it will become a matter of course for Hu people to retire and become farmers. Hu people like the Lushui Hu people who have already started to gather clans and have a concept of territory will not be willing to take risks to become mercenaries in various countries. Live by killing people.
What Tuoba Tao thought was thoughtful, and the conditions were ripe, and he had the tragic experience of Lushuihu as an example in front of him, which made him move the idea of implementing this policy.
If the land reform is not carried out, the army will be used all year round, and the tax and corvée of the people will only become heavier.
It's just that most of the "equal fields" politics were motivated by the interests of the local "suzerain" and the Han people. The Xianbei nobles owned all pastures, and the government of granting fields had little impact on them. Mutiny occurred.
But Tuoba Tao has endured the Wubi masters everywhere for a long time. If nothing else, the Wubi of the Yuan family in Chen County already has solid evidence to collude with Liu Song, and he has long wanted to clean up the Yuan family.
These Wubi masters "supervise" the local people, making the government's population statistics inaccurate. The households they reported often include fifty or more households. Taxes in the Northern Wei Dynasty were calculated by "households", and the Wubi masters engulfed countless households a year. Wealth has made the local sects too powerful, and in the long run, it is not conducive to the rule of Wei.
If there is resistance from the local suzerains during the implementation of "Juntian", Tuoba Tao is thinking of taking this opportunity to help the Xianbei nobles to clear the walls of the territory in one fell swoop, making Yinhu return to his hometown, and use the three chiefs to collect taxes and taxes. Assign corvée.
The old Xianbei clans had long been in conflict with the local clans, and Tuoba Tao ordered an attack, and he would definitely respond, and he didn't even need to allocate food and grass to the DPRK.
These links are linked together, and each link involves countless interests and factions. If it is implemented well, it can be said to kill several birds with one stone. If it is implemented poorly, it will only waste some time. Maybe there will be a few games.
With a heavy army in his hand, Tuoba Tao, who had already reached the peak of prestige in the army, was not afraid of anything at all.
Taking advantage of the drunkenness, Tuoba Tao confided to He Mulan the "dividing fields" that had been held in his heart for a long time, and He Mulan first thought of not how to divide it, how to divide it, and whom to divide it, but Shang Yang, Wang Anshi, There are countless politicians who have fallen on the "reform".
Even so, when He Mulan stared at the king who seemed to be drunk and uttering lies, she calmly asked:
"Your Majesty said this time that he wants to divide the land, is there something Mulan needs to help?"
No matter who Tuoba Tao said about the word "divide the land", even Su Hejun, who was most loyal to him, or Cui Hao, the minister he regarded as his most relied on, would be shocked and inexplicable, and even persuaded him. endlessly.
Because they all know how this change will bring about changes to the Great Wei, and these noble nobles have already engraved the phrase "moving is worse than stillness" into their bones, and they dare not easily shake the gradually balanced Power barriers.
And Tuoba Tao was not really drunk, he was testing Hua Mulan's reaction while looking forward to her response.
Tuoba Tao was not disappointed, and Hua Mulan's reaction at the moment gave him a boost of heart.
As Tuoba Tao expected, if the common people or Xianbei military households had no objection to this policy, it would be easy for him to implement it from the bottom up.
He didn't know that He Mulan was so calm, not because "dividing the land" did not involve her interests. On the contrary, if Tuoba Tao needed her to submit a letter or agree to become a part of the reformists, then she would also Obligation.
From the reign of Zhenjun Taiping to the present, she has been to later generations, and she has seen how the people under Wubi lived humiliatingly by clan, saw the suffering of Lushuihu and other miscellaneous Hus, and saw the people become monks in order to avoid taxes and corvée And led to the extermination of the Buddha, the robbers who had seen the place exploited and could not make a living and had to degenerate into thieves...
She has seen so much suffering that she is reluctant to sit idly by even if she knows the possible consequences of the reform.
Tuoba Tao has gradually stood up straight.
He had always thought of himself as a very hard, very unlucky king.
When he ascended the throne, all the enemies surrounded him, and before his father's bones were cold, he was caught off guard by the Rouran people. After finally getting the harem, he was stunned that he couldn't give birth to a son; when he adopted the child of his brother's family, the son came out again, which almost turned the brothers against each other and made a fight to the point of flesh and blood.
The natural star he finally looked forward to, young and promising enough to expand his territory for decades, turned into a woman in the blink of an eye. However, this woman made him respect him from the bottom of his heart, and was even willing to conceal her identity and plan her future for her, just so that she could walk smoothly and stay side by side longer.
But now, Tuoba Tao thinks that even if there are so many hardships and so many unsatisfactory things, God has given him such a person, and in the future, he may give more like-minded people, even if he has suffered so much before. And disappointment is also worth it.
Looking at He Mulan with a determined expression, Tuoba Tao smiled.
"Where do you need to do..."
He looked at Su Wei, who was gradually gathering behind him, and said in a firm tone: "If you want the Great Wei's treasury to be prosperous, it is useless to persuade Nongsang to teach you, and the fundamental problem has not been solved. From the beginning to my sons, grandsons, great-grandchildren, great-grandsons, unless the food shortage and population shortage of the Great Wei are resolved, it must be implemented as the law of my Great Wei. Because it is so important, I cannot Allow any minister to suffer misfortune after my death because of this, causing Juntian to fail..."
He has also read history books, and of course he knows what the outcome of Shang Yang's reforms will be.
"I want to raise this matter in the DPRK myself, and I don't need any minister to discuss it for me."
Several of the guards had vaguely heard the word "Jun Tian", and suddenly stopped in surprise, but did not dare to go forward.
Tuoba Tao glanced at his resident guards, and said to He Mulan unhurriedly:
"The open field belongs to the state, starting from Pingcheng, the open field is divided first. If the open field is cultivated, one can obtain fertile land and produce, until the person who obtains the field dies of old age, and the open field returns to the country and becomes fertile land; the hemp field can obtain cloth, and the mulberry field can be obtained. Silk, those who have surpluses must sell their surpluses, and those who are deficient must buy their shortages, so that in the year of disaster, they will not be starved to death…”
The future he talked about was so beautiful that He Mulan forgot where he was, and only listened to his vast plan with fascination.
"In addition to the fields, cattle and seeds must also be distributed. Otherwise, the miscellaneous hu and poor households have fields but no seeds, and no manpower to cultivate them, so they can only sigh at the open fields. The cultivation technology of the Southern Dynasty is mature, and I want to send messengers, merchants, Go to Liu Song to learn about farming, buy books and farming tools about farming, and hire old farmers who are good at farming to come to my big Wei to promote new farming knowledge..."
Tuoba Tao's eyes shone brightly, and the excitement after drinking brought spiritual satisfaction, which made his words have a different kind of charm.
As if attracted by his words, among the Su Wei who was still in a dilemma not far away, some people began to involuntarily take steps towards the young emperor.
One, two, three...
As Tuoba Tao's tone became firmer and his expression became more and more confident, more and more Su Wei leaned on him, and his footsteps became more and more steady.
"My Great Wei is now strong and strong, but I dare not say that there will be no future troubles. We need grain and grass for wars, and we need grain in disaster years. Food is everything, and population is everything. It is you loyal people, I am in my prime now, and you are in my prime, as the lord of a country, I am not afraid, are you so afraid?"
He looked around and saw that seven or eight out of ten of the guards had been around him again, but there were still some people who didn't show any excited expressions.
Most of these resident guards were not Xianbei troops, but were the descendants of the local suzerain, or had something to do with the local suzerain.
Tuoba Tao's purpose of probing has been achieved, and the last word "fear" is like a giant stone pressing the top of the force towards these guards. Some of them are not calm enough, they kneel on the spot, and only dare to whisper "Long live".
Some who didn't want to kneel and didn't want to express their position, saw Su Wei kneeling down next to him, so they had to kneel down with the appearance of having to kneel.
These unwilling Su Wei have already knelt down, not to mention the hot-blooded men who looked excited before. Under the leadership of He Mulan, the guards outside the camp lowered their heads to Tuoba Tao and obeyed his decision.
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The four sides bowed down, only Tuoba Tao stood among them with high spirits. Looking at this moment, he scolded Fang Qiu and pointed at Jiangshan, indescribably high-spirited.
I don't know how many years I think of this scene again, and everyone present doesn't know what kind of feelings they have.
Regret or pride.
There is a kind of power in this world that is originally detached from the family, the nation, and the mundane.
- This is an upward belief, the footprint of history, and the balance and struggle between heaven and humanity.
He Mulan is honored to be able to serve such a king.
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He Mulan was working hard for the Lushuihu tribe of Gaiwu to eat and drink in the military camp, and his upright and resolute tribesmen even indirectly promoted the determination of the young monarch of the Northern Wei Dynasty to reform, and he was naturally even more so. Uninformed.
If he knew Tuoba Tao's determination, he would not regret working so hard for Hua Mulan.
As Gai Wu thought, it was not so easy for people from the Tiantai Army to come to Pingcheng. Gai Wu has the help of Gai Tiantai's close friends, so he can enter Pingcheng after clearing his identity, and even bring his former subordinates into a caravan, but his uncles have no such ability.
They will enter Pingcheng in such a short period of time, and they can even carry terrifying weapons. The power they use comes from Bei Liang.
Tuoba Tao thought that the heavy nuclei came from Liu Song. This inference was not false, but it was not Liu Song who was instructing everything, but Bai Xingping of Beiliang.
Beiliang was a regime established by the Lushuihu people, and naturally, over the years, he has also supported the Tiantai Army a lot. Bai Xingping, a Lushuihu from Xingcheng, has always acted as a "middleman" between the Beiliang court and the Tiantai army. "Identity, I am very familiar with the "chief" who introduced Lu Shuihu to work among the countries.
With the help of past relationships, Bai Xingping easily contacted the men of Gai Wu's two uncles, and introduced them to Juqu Mujian.
If Gai Wu's two cunning uncles were here, Juqu Mujian would not be able to easily fool these Lushuihu people to work for money. But Gai Wu's two uncles had been invited by Liu Song's nobles and had already taken some of their subordinates across the Jiangnan, so the ones who stayed in the Wei and Xia kingdoms were just some insignificant subordinates.
They stayed in the north to gather intelligence, and secondly, to recruit and support their clansmen. Beiliang behind Juqu Mujian was also a Lushuihu. In addition, Juqu Mujian implied that Mulan might have a holiday with him. In order to provoke the relationship between Beiliang and the Northern Wei Dynasty, these Lushuihu people also took over this business in order to protect their compatriots in Beiliang.
Juqu Mujian, through the relationship of the envoy, managed to arrange ten Lu Shuihu's good men to enter Pingcheng, Beiliang and Liu Song befriended, and the weapon such as heavy nu was also gifted. Juqu Mujian originally dismantled the mixed luggage. The middle one brought a pair into the Wei Kingdom for self-protection, and now it is natural to use them as assassination weapons for these powerful Lushuihu people.
Juqu Mujian was cunning because he not only used the Tiantai Army, but also did not contact them in order to distance himself from them.
Bai Xingping has always been opposed to Juqu Mujian's assassination of Hua Mulan. He took the initiative to contact the Tiantai Army in Xingcheng in order to deal with Helianding, who was about to surrender. If he could assassinate Helianding and make Wei Guo and Helianding's men fight against each other, then Beiliang would be able to breathe for a while longer in the gap between the north and the south.
Helianding said that he had a revenge with Beiliang to kill his son. Bai Xingping searched for the Tiantai Army to assassinate Helianding, which was considered a revenge for the country, which was morally tenable.
But who is Mulan? He was just a young general who had just gained some fame. No matter how powerful and influential he was, he would not be able to match the role of Helianding.
What kind of resentment do Mulan and Bei Liang have? never. Moreover, he will also be dispatched to Beiliang. If he is now in a bad relationship, the situation after the mission may change.
But Juqu Mujian swore that Hua Mulan would definitely become Bei Liang's great enemy. Nowadays, most of Wei's famous generals are old, and the clan leaders cannot be trusted by Tuoba Tao. The fast-rising Hua Mulan has become Tuoba Tao's best weapon to fight in all directions.
He firmly believes that if he doesn't kill Hua Mulan now, he will have endless troubles in the future.
If the Tiantai Army was at its peak, Gai Tiantai might really take over the task of assassinating Helianding. However, as today's Taiwanese army has no leader, the senior left and right Zong Lao, who has the highest qualifications, went to Liu Song again.
No matter how powerful Bai Xingping is, he is also a courtier, and Juqu Mujian is his Shangguan. Lu Shuihu people are not willing to plan Helianding, but they are willing to eliminate Hua Mulan for Juqu Mujian.
Because even if you kill Helianding, you can get a lot of rewards, but the rewards are terrible, and the place where Hua Mulan lives is not protected, and the daily round-trip itinerary is very regular. Assassins like to assassinate such people.
Not to mention that they still have a weapon that can kill three hundred steps away.
But these Lu Shuihu people never thought that they would actually find the son of the former leader next to Hua Mulan, and the son of the leader still looked very close to Hua Mulan!
The Lushuihu people are forbidden to fight infighting, and all disputes are resolved by martial arts. These people came from the Tiantai Army. After Gai Tiantai died, they abandoned their young master and they were guilty enough. If Gai Wu was accidentally injured or implicated, they would be considered Even death cannot wash away this shame.
Therefore, after the first arrow was shot in the air, they did not continue to assassinate, but immediately left with the disassembled heavy nu from the rear window on the second floor, thus avoiding the subsequent search by Chen Jie and others.
On the second day, Lu Shuihu, who had been staring at He Mulan, discovered that hundreds of clansmen from their Tiantai Army had gathered at He Mulan's mansion early in the morning, and they did not leave He Mulan. Pretending to be a protector.
Such a result made them fearful in their hearts, and they could only return to the monastery where they were staying. They were willing to return ten times the deposit for Juqu Muqian's work, and they were unwilling to continue.
Lushuihu people do not hurt friends. Even though Juqu Muqian was a member of the same clan, they could not be called friends. However, the people who made good friends with Gai and Wu, and who could even protect the men who were most loyal to Gai Tianwang in the Tiantai Army, were definitely the friends of the Lushuihu people.
Gai Wu searched all the way through his former contacts, and finally found the Kangning Temple in the center of Pingcheng and returned to Kangli, and there was no trace of these tribesmen.
Tiantai Jun is notorious for being strict with his mouth. Although the people of Gaiwu accepted the commission of Juqu Mujian, they did not reveal the identity of the commissioner to others.
But the Lushuihu had his own way of conveying information, and it was this way that led him to find Kangning Temple.
Gai Wu originally thought that when he entered Kangning Temple, he could find his father's former subordinates, but he did not expect that he would be respectfully received as soon as he came to Kangning Temple to report his name, but after that it was not smooth.
"Who are you? Where are my people?"
Gai Wu, who was "invited" to the meditation room, stared at the monks in the room vigilantly, and couldn't help shouting loudly.
The handsome young monk folded his hands together and opened his mouth with a smile.
"Don't need to be angry, the poor monk invited you to come here because he wanted to chat with you..."
"I don't want to talk to you!"
Gai Wu felt that the situation was not right, and quickly turned around to leave.
But no matter how hard he shook the door of the meditation room, he didn't see the slightest opening in it.
"You! You are still a monk! You are doing this kind of robber business!"
Gai Wu drew his swords and pointed at the young monk.
"If you don't open the door again, don't blame me for being rude!"
"Amitabha, the donor is really angry."
The young monk shook his head annoyed.
"If you're not polite, then I can't be polite to your friends."
Hearing this sentence, Gai Wu was shocked.
"Who the hell are you!"