The portable magic tower of the Three Kingdoms

"To put it simply, this arrangement will not only make the people more stable, but also strengthen their sense of belonging to the imperial court. The quality of life of the local people is indeed constantly improving, and at the same time, the places to be built can be completed on time and with high quality. The most important thing is the local finance. It is actually improving, and after deducting the employment fee, the balance is getting more and more." Xun Yu concluded.

All the officials have been advocating "hiding wealth from the people", but this "people" is obviously just an excuse, in fact, it is to let the local rich and aristocratic families monopolize this interest;

Now the series of policies that Liu Tao is implementing are truly hiding wealth from the people. The imperial court gets taxes, the people get benefits, and the aristocratic families don’t suffer any losses.If there is any loss, it loses the power to monopolize prices.

After all, there is a big business here, as long as the profit can be made, if they don't sell it, other places will transport the grain, let alone there is such a thing as Cangping.

It really forced Liu Tao to be dissatisfied, and directly ordered that all the grain produced by the common people should be purchased by Cang Ping first.At that time, those gentry who want to guard one-third of an acre of land, farming, studying and inheriting their families will probably start to think about how to manage and make money.

Don't say anything about farming and reading heirlooms. Those who have said such things in history are not the ones who cultivated.

There are a lot of tenants in the family, and they help them cultivate, and the grain grown must be purchased at a low price, otherwise it will not be sold at all.Now the grain production is low, so it’s okay to say, after changing it, you need money and land rent. How can you pay if you don’t sell grain?

For Liu Tao, the grain output must first be increased to the point that no one can eat it all.It is then either exported or reprocessed.Otherwise, the grain fields will be changed into vegetable fields and tea fields.

It doesn't matter if you don't cultivate, most of them are tenants anyway.Only when there are more proletarians can industry be developed, otherwise they will do odd jobs during the slack season, which is not enough!Without enough workers, industrial technology can't move at all!

This is what Liu Tao is eager to change.

Chapter 628 196 AD

Time passed quickly, and it was 196 AD in a blink of an eye. This time, Liu Tao did not feel that time had passed suddenly.

The past two years have been very fulfilling. After all, the drought and locust plagues in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, as well as the follow-up relief work, have wasted a lot of time.For this reason, the imperial court initiated macro-control, allocated a large amount of budget, and carried out a large amount of infrastructure work for the two states.

Refugees can work locally, and the imperial court will give them a bite to eat.Especially after the continuous improvement of water conservancy, the irrigation problems in the next ten to twenty years can be solved.

By 196, the weather was starting to normalize a bit, at least the rain was starting to come in.According to this situation, this year should be a good year.

"In a blink of an eye, it's time for the imperial examination... But we can only get the three-level examination mechanism in Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, Zhili Province, and Gansu Province." Liu Tao sighed. If it is spread across the country, it will take at least six Nine years.

"We need more teachers!" Xun Yue, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, stepped forward and replied, "Academies in various places need to be established, and it will not be possible in a few years. In addition, the reform of states and provinces must continue..."

It's not just a matter of changing the state to a province. In the past two years, in Shanxi Province, the prefectures have not changed, but the counties below have changed.

In other words, this was Liu Tao's original idea. Under Shanxi Province, a city would be set up on the basis of a hundred miles, with two to three counties under its jurisdiction.Towns are set up under the county, and townships are set up if the number of people is not enough.Villages are set up under the township, and Liheting is no longer used as a unit.

In a sense, the villages are also included in the scope of jurisdiction, no longer semi-autonomous as before, or handed over to "highly respected" squires to assist in the management.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial court had almost no jurisdiction over the county level.This tradition continued to the Republic of China, and it turned out that the possibility of 'surrounding the city from the countryside' was precisely because the government could not control it.

This is based on the basis of national conditions. It may not be applicable in another country.

"How many more people participated in this imperial examination?" Liu Tao asked silently.

"It's three times more than last time!" Xun Yue replied, all headed towards Luoyang, the hospitality almost became a problem, and finally the army had to be transferred out to barely make enough.

"No way, this time we need to take the exams for three subjects at the same time!" Liu Tao thought for a while and said, "In the first round of exams, those who do not have the honor of a scholar can take the exam, and they can get the honor of a scholar if they pass the exam; Only scholars can participate, and only those who pass the examination can become Juren; the last is the examination, and only Juren can participate."

"But there are quite a lot of people needed for the Xiucai exam." Xun Yue carefully asked for instructions. With so many candidates and five examiners, it would be exhausting, especially since he was also one of the examiners.

"Arrange fifteen examiners temporarily!" Liu Tao replied casually, "Divide the test papers into three stacks, and each person is responsible for a part."

"Then, isn't this unfair to candidates?" Xun Yue was a little puzzled.After all, it is human beings who mark the papers, so each examiner has his own likes and dislikes. Maybe this test paper is not acceptable for this examiner, but it is acceptable for other examiners?

"Luck is also a part of strength." Liu Tao reminded, "For example, a person is as talented as a prime minister. As a result, there are natural disasters and man-made disasters, even if he has such a talent, such a person can be used ?”

"Then his luck is really too bad." Xun Yue smiled wryly.

I didn't really believe in this kind of metaphysics before, and I probably also had a kind of lofty ambition of "my fate is up to me".In the end, after seeing Liu Tao take out the scroll of luck, he realized that luck is not a non-existent thing.

Not to mention him, many people are now privately looking for something that can make them lucky.Even if it is useless, it is good to have psychological comfort.Since knowing the value of luck, everyone suddenly finds that the world is not friendly anymore.

In particular, it is said that His Majesty's luck technique can be used on the enemy. It is to increase luck for oneself, but it is of course to reduce the luck of the enemy for the enemy.

Who wants to experience the feeling of being targeted by the whole world?Anyway, Xun Yue definitely doesn't want to experience it!

"Not being selected, I can only say that he was unlucky this time, let's try his luck next time!" Liu Tao said indifferently.

Xun Yue nodded when she heard the words, and did not continue to struggle with this aspect.

The imperial examination, which was originally held for about ten days, is afraid that it will be abruptly increased to 20 days.Fortunately, Liu Tao has already approved to temporarily prepare accommodation and meals for the candidates, at least even without spending a penny, they can pass the exam period.

Of course, if you want to eat well, you can go to the city to buy it yourself. This is not prohibited.Among the candidates this time, there are a large number of gentry children from the Central Plains, Hebei, and Northwest.The deduction has clearly stated that the three generations who were unable to participate in the imperial examination basically passed.

Even if it is clearly stated that they cannot, they have silently cultivated collateral clansmen to take the exam in the past few years.Not allowed is also aimed at their direct lineage, there are a lot of collateral clansmen, and it's okay to find a few talents.

For the Wang family in Taiyuan, Wang Yun and Wang Ling are the direct lineages, but Wang Hong is one of the sidelines, and then there is the lineage of Wang Ze and Wang Chang.In addition, the Xin family of Yingchuan, Xin Ping took refuge in Yuan Shao, was banned from participating in the imperial examination, and has gone back to train young clansmen.

On the contrary, it was Xin Pi who took refuge in Liu Tao at the beginning and has become the patriarch of Yingchuan Xin Clan.

The same goes for the Guo family in Yingchuan. At the beginning, they looked down on Guo Jia as a collateral lineage. They had found him two years ago and hoped that he could become the patriarch.As for the original patriarch Guo Tu, he has gone back and is responsible for cultivating talents in the ethnology.

The same is true for the Chen family in Guangling. Chen Deng became the new patriarch of the family. Chen Cong and Chen Yu...they are still in hard labor. After two years, they will return to Guangling and become the new household dogs.

Housekeeping dogs are not fixed either. Since there is no way to become an official and lead the family to grow and develop, then go back to guard the ancestral graves and ancestral houses.Of course, if this generation can't do it, then pin your hopes on the next generation!

With the talents of Chen Yu and Chen Cong, if they go back and continue to train the younger generation, the next generation of Guangling Chen family may have many successful careers.This is the background of the old family, and it is difficult to completely defeat them.

Even in the era of capitalism, big families are still like this. The disciples join the army as officials, and the collateral runs agriculture and commerce. The money they earn supports the direct descendants, and the disciples are on the official side. Under the conditions permitted by the rules, they give convenience to the subordinate descendants. .

The stronger the family concept, the easier it is to unite.On the contrary, it is just relying on blood, or a family united by an elder. On the contrary, it is easy to go their separate ways after the death of the elder, and never communicate with each other.

"Your Majesty, the wooden cow and horse you asked to study has been researched!" Just as Xun Yue was being sent away, Su Shuang came over.

"Have you done the survey of the route into Shu?" Liu Tao asked casually. It was ordered to be done two or three years ago, mainly to send people to sneak into Yizhou and mark all the routes along the route.

The point is, is there a way to open up a new, walkable route based on the original route.

"Reconnaissance is reconnaissance...but if you want to walk, I'm afraid it will take a lot of manpower and material resources to transform..." Su Shuang became embarrassed.

Chapter 629 Two Ways Crusade Plan

It is difficult to enter Shu, and it is also difficult to leave Shu.As for the waterway, you can go up the Yangtze River, but that section of the waterway is not easy to walk.The water flow is so fast that there is a saying that "a thousand miles of rivers and tombs will be returned in one day when the emperor resigns from the Baidi in the court".

Baidi City is located in Berkshire, which should be the Yufu area of ​​this era.About 260 miles down the river, you will arrive at Zigui County in Jiangling.Conversely, as long as you go upstream in Zigui County for more than 200 miles, you can enter Berkshire.

That being said, the current during this period is very turbulent, and the dry season is fine, but during the dry season, hidden reefs are also a problem.

What Liu Tao can do is to let the craftsmen improve the propulsion technology of the ship, such as using paddle wheel or double paddle wheel structure to advance;

The other is to find other mountain roads that can go south to Yizhou. After all, in his memory, there are at least three mountain roads that can enter Yizhou in later generations.For example, the Guanghan State enters Baishui via the waterway; enters Xuanhan County from Hanzhong Xicheng County via the mountain road; and finally enters Guanghan County through the normal passage into Shu through Baishuiguan.

Fortunately, after Baishui Pass is Jiameng Pass, the two largest passes in Yizhou.

As for Jiange Pass, the dangerous pass in the world, it was set up by Zhuge Liang. It has not yet been set up in this era, nor has that idiot Liu Zhang set it up.In other words, there is no need for me to learn from Deng Ai and find the Yinping trail to go around.

"It doesn't matter, the finances have been improving." Liu Tao looked at Su Shuang, "We can slowly recruit people, 1 to [-], and build them in shifts. We can even change our thinking and use the method of winding mountain roads."