Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 379 Depressed Cao Cao!
Chapter 279: Depressed Cao Cao, the four states of the Central Plains without middlemen to make the difference!
Xuchang.

The time has entered July, and the grain and grass supported by Jingzhou have been delivered one after another.

Coupled with the additional investment from the Guanzhong aristocratic families, the Cao Wei forces, which had been in a weak period since the first year of Ding'an, finally showed signs of recovery.

"Prime Minister, 3000 tiger and leopard riders have been newly recruited. At present, there are 1 tiger and leopard riders. All of them will be trained by General Cao Chun. It is expected to form an army by the end of the year. There should be [-] tiger and leopard riders Leopard riders can be used in combat."

In Cao Cao's Duke Wei's mansion, Xu Chu, who was the guard of Duke Wei, walked in and handed over the documents in Cao Cao's hands.

Cao Cao took the document and read it over. After confirming that there were no major omissions in Cao Chun's military training methods, he nodded and said, "Tell Cao Chun to work hard. If he does it again, there will be no third chance! "

After finishing speaking, Cao Cao sighed again.

Right now there are only him and Xu Chu in the courtyard. Mrs. Bian has always lived in the back house and never goes out, and Xu Chu is his most trusted general.

To put it bluntly, although Xu Chu is a general with a foreign surname, but in terms of trust, Xu Chu's trust is even higher than that of Xia Houdun and other generals of the Cao Wei clan.

So in front of Xu Chu, Cao Cao never concealed his emotions. Looking at the memorial in his hand, even with Cao Cao's state of mind, he couldn't help showing a little wry smile.

"I don't want me, Cao Cao, to have today."

If it were the past, in the last battle of Yanzhou, Cao Chun sent almost all the tiger and leopard riders to Yuan Tan's merits in the form of giving away their heads.

He escaped death solely because he was a member of the Cao Wei clan, but according to Cao Cao's temperament, Cao Chun committed this crime.

If you don't let him idle for three to five years and polish his character, there is absolutely no chance that Cao Chun will have the chance to lead an army again.

But right now, Cao Cao and even Cao Chun had to be reassigned to the army to be responsible for handling the affairs of the tiger and leopard cavalry, recruiting new soldiers, training the tiger and leopard cavalry, and so on.

It is also verified from the side that Cao Cao really lacks talents in his hands right now.

Li Dian, Le Jin, and Yu Jin, these three generals with foreign surnames defected to the enemy one after another, but Xu Huang and Xun Yu were nowhere to be found.

Now Cao Cao looked around, only to feel that there were too few generals he could trust.

On the other hand, in Hebei, the power can be said to be increasing day by day.

Instead of rushing to annex Xiaguanzhong in one go, the Yuan family in Hebei had enough time to spend the states in the Central Plains acquired during the two years of war.

According to the news reported by the spies, whether it is Yanzhou Yuzhou or Qingzhou Xuzhou, the people's power is steadily recovering.

The battle between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the Central Plains caused great damage to the aristocratic families in the four states of the Central Plains.

But this is good news for Yuan Shao.

After all, Yuan Shao is different from Cao Cao. Cao Cao now eats and drinks from the Guanzhong family. After two consecutive years of defeat, the power has not collapsed. It is purely because of the support of the Guanzhong family.

In other words, Cao Cao had to reciprocate in order to get the continued support of the Guanzhong family.

But what about Yuan Shao?

Although the Hebei forces made great strides in the early days, it was indeed inseparable from the full support of the Hebei Family Group.

However, during the Battle of Guandu, the Hebei family pulled back.

First Tian Feng and Ju Shou, one confused the king's heart in the army, and the other repeatedly confused Yuan Shao to retreat.

Later generations looked at Jushou and Tian Feng on the basis of preconceptions, knowing that if the battle of Guandu continued, Yuan Shao would lose because of Xu You's betrayal.

Therefore, Ju Shou and Tian Feng, the two civil servants who advocated defeat, appeared to be clever and resourceful.

But what if you think about it differently?

It's like the battle of Chibi is about to start, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu next to Sun Quan and Liu Bei are constantly agitating there.

Zhuge Liang said, hey, Cao's army is too powerful to be taken lightly. We should retreat first and look for opportunities.

Zhou Yu said, ah, the military supplies cannot keep up after the war, so Marquis Wu retreats quickly, and we will fight Cao Cao again after the autumn harvest.

Damn it... Liu Bei and Sun Quan don't want to draw their swords and kill them. These two people are already in good temper.

Therefore, everyone will say the truth, but the key is to be inappropriate.

The words Ju Shou and Tian Feng said before and after the Battle of Guandu were not pleasant to say the least. Even if they were accused of confusing the emperor and beheaded, no one would say that Yuan Shao did something wrong.

This can be regarded as the first cross-stretch operation of the Hebei family.

If this were the case alone, perhaps the Hebei family's influence in Yuan Shao's power would not have gradually weakened after the Battle of Guandu.

But as luck would have it, among the many scholars from the Hebei family who joined Yuan Shao's tent, Xu You appeared again.

Xu You, although this guy is not from an authentic Hebei family.

But I can't help but this guy has a good relationship with many scholars in Hebei.

After all, no matter how you say it, Xu You can be regarded as a famous person, and who doesn't know the habitual operation of something like this from an aristocratic family?

Hearing the name of a celebrity is like smelling a dog of that sort.

Everyone rushed to make friends with Xu You.

As a result, when Xu You betrayed, all the scholars of the Hebei family were dumbfounded.

You know, although the Han Dynasty abolished the consecutive seat system, there was a rule in the probation system, if someone was recommended by a certain person to be an official.

If this person makes a mistake, so-and-so will lose his job.

Similarly, if someone makes a mistake, the person recommended by him will also be subject to stricter scrutiny.

So in the end, although the battle of Guandu relied on Yuan Tan who turned out to be born, he successfully rescued the situation.

However, the influence of the Hebei Family among the Hebei Yuan family has fallen again.

This is also another important factor why, when Yuan Shao implemented the New Deal in Hebei, although he was hindered, the resistance was far less than Yuan Tan expected.

There is this prerequisite.

The four states of the Central Plains changed Yuan Shao to be the master, so the recovery of the people's power will naturally be much faster.

After all, the aristocratic families in the four states of the Central Plains have almost been destroyed by the flames of war, and the rest are either some mud-legged common people or some local rich people who have just completed the transition from mud-legged wealthy families.

In the face of the huge Hebei forces, there is no thought of confrontation at all.

It was time to pay taxes, and it was time to inspect the land. It could be said that they would do what Yuan Shao asked them to do honestly.

As we all know, a large part of the reason for the poverty of the Han Dynasty is that the powerful local families have acted as black intermediaries.

The taxes of the Han Dynasty were mainly based on land taxes. Originally, the land of the Han Dynasty was vast and the fields cultivated were not small. At least it was more than enough to support the Han government.

But it’s so hard to die, Guangwu ZTE created an aristocratic family system.

As a result, the Dahan's local control was greatly weakened, and the land taxes collected by the Dahan government had to be divided into two before being handed over to the central government.

One part is the tax collected from the family's fields, and this part is basically not able to reach the central government, so it is directly divided up by the family members on the spot.

Just kidding, we are well-dressed gentry, how can we pay taxes like those mud legs?
But it is definitely not enough to hand over the remaining half to the central government.

So the well-dressed gentry thought of a way very cleverly. On the one hand, they were less ignorant and handed over to the central government more or less, which is a meaning.

On the other hand, it is to apportion this part of the tax that they ignorantly paid to the mud legs in their eyes.

As a result, the people of Mudleg had to pay double taxes without knowing it.

But as time went by, the appetite of the aristocratic family grew, and at first they would pay part of the tax themselves, and later it was all apportioned to the common people.

When I looked at it later, I thought, well, these leeks are still very energetic, so is it okay for me to collect some taxes privately?
After coming and going, all the self-cultivating farmers were cut off so that they couldn't grow any longer. Looking around, all the states and counties were all private properties of the family.

Under such oppression, the self-cultivating farmers who can really contribute taxes to the big man either flee from famine or sell themselves into slavery, becoming the hidden households and hidden fields of the aristocratic family.

The taxes of the big men are getting less and less, and they have to continue to increase taxes. The people are even more overwhelmed, and have to flee and sell themselves on a larger scale.

A vicious cycle is thus created.

But now, there are no aristocratic families in the four states of the Central Plains, and even if there were, they all fled with Cao Cao when he withdrew to Sili.

Without the middleman of the aristocratic family to earn the price difference, although the number of people in the four states of the Central Plains was much smaller than during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty.

But after the officials of the four states calculated it, they were pleasantly surprised.

Why... It seems that the number of people has decreased and the tax rate has been lowered, but the tax paid to the government seems to have doubled compared to previous years?
(End of this chapter)