The World of Yellow Sky

"A man can do something, and he can't do something. This imperial seal was not given to me by the heavens, Sun Jian!"

Sun Jian pointed to the sky and said in a deep voice.

"It's just that God wants to pass on the national seal to me and dedicate it to the emperor..."

Cheng Pu stood up, but still maintained a bowing posture. Sun Jian wanted to give up, but he didn't want to give up.

In the Battle of Daguguan, Sun Jian led the Yuzhou army to defeat Dong Zhuo, his power shocked the world, and he became famous all over the world. He was appointed as the shepherd of Yuzhou and granted the title of Marquis of Ten Thousand Households. Indeed, even Huangfusong who wiped out the Yellow Turban did not enjoy such an honor.

But because of this, Cheng Pu wanted Sun Jian to seek independence.

Because soon, Sun Jian will reach the point where there is no reward and no promotion.

Today's emperor has great trust in Sun Jian, but people will always change.

The emperor always wants to be in charge of the government. Liu Xie is ten years old this year, and he will be in charge of the government in a few years.

The cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks, the birds are gone, and the good bow is hidden.

How could a young and vigorous emperor allow a master of great achievements, a minister of great military exploits, and a highly respected minister to oppress him in the court?

Cheng Pu is very clear about the fate of the former power minister Huo Guang, and now Sun Jian is needed to quell the rebellions in various places.

But when the emperor is in charge, when the rebellion in various places subsides, Sun Jian will be useless at that time.

If Sun Jian died, the generals and schools who followed Sun Jian would not benefit much.

Some things are more at ease in his own hands. Cheng Pu has followed Sun Jian for a long time, he knows Sun Jian's character, and he trusts Sun Jian.

But Liu Xie, Cheng Pu has never even met him, how can he be believed.

How can one place one's wealth, life, wealth and honor on Liu Xie's kindness?

Now that the world is in chaos, the princes of different places have different ideas and have the desire to separate themselves. This is already known to everyone!

This is a god-sent opportunity, time to take advantage of it!

The world is chaotic, the states are in turmoil, and the emperor is young. Now Sun Jian has a heavy army in his hands, and he is in charge of Henan and Yangzhou, but he is overthrown!

Chapter 536 Recruitment, Taxation, Flat Taxation

With the sound of firecrackers a year old, the spring breeze sent warmth to Tusu.

Thousands of families always exchange new peaches for old ones.

However, there were no firecrackers during the New Year in Han Dynasty, but because Xu An ordered the lifting of the curfew, the excitement was not reduced by half.

On New Year's Eve, most of the soldiers who were able to go home took leave and returned home, while the soldiers who did not have a family gathered in the barracks to celebrate the New Year together.

Last year was the first year of Yonghan (189), and this year should be the second year of Yonghan, but in fact this year is not the second year of Yonghan.

Following the year name of the second year of Yonghan, only Dong Zhuo controlled Sili in the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty.

The rest of the places use a new year name, which comes from the new year name-Chuping drawn up by the court of Chendu.

Sun Jian regained Luoyang, Dong Zhuo retreated in Guanzhong, and most of the rebellions in various places were suppressed.

Xu An from Bingzhou did not go out to attack again, Han Sui and Ma Teng from Liangzhou had no time to visit, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun from Youzhou were beheaded, and Wuhuan returned.

The future of the Han Dynasty seems to be a little brighter, so a group of courtiers negotiated and set the year name as "Chuping".

Xu An is not proclaimed king or emperor now, and naturally he has not set a year name.

Xu An's main energy is now on Liangzhou's affairs, and he will prepare to use troops against Liangzhou at the latest this autumn harvest.

Now that Sun Jian's army is in full swing, and Yuan Shao has also entered Jizhou, at this critical juncture, Xu An does not want to provoke the Han court.

Xu An beheaded Zhu Jun back then, and after the big commotion in Bingzhou, Liu Hong was already planning to mobilize an army to attack Xu An.

But at this time Zhang Ju jumped out, directly proclaiming himself the Son of Heaven, and proclaiming the emperor system grandly.

Rebellions were common, and there were quite a few rebellions reported by Liu Hong when he was in power, and Liu Hong basically handed over them to ordinary courtiers to quell them.

But among so many rebellions, only Zhang Ju dared to call himself the emperor.

Xu An and Han Sui occupied a state, and even Zhang Jiao, who stirred up the world and led the uprising of millions of yellow turbans, only called themselves generals, but Zhang Ju just went the other way and did it in one step, calling himself the son of heaven .

If the general rebellion is to clamor with gongs and drums beside a tiger, then the act of proclaiming emperor is undoubtedly to directly touch the tiger's buttocks.

Zhang Ju's proclaiming the emperor directly angered Liu Hong. Originally, Liu Hong, the Imperial Army of the West Garden, was originally established to hand over to Huangfusong to pacify Bingzhou, but thanks to Zhang Ju's arrogant behavior, the Imperial Army of the West Garden was defeated by Liu Yu Take it to Youzhou.

Xu An established a nine-rank grading system. He proclaimed himself the third-rank General Zuo, who was in charge of Bingzhou Mu. He only opened a mansion and built a government office, and did not call the king's system. The purpose was not to provoke the Han court as much as possible, and to seek development.

The Yellow Turban Army was able to stand up, and there are two people to thank. The first person is naturally Zhang Ju, and the second person is Dong Zhuo.

There was Zhang Ju in the front and Dong Zhuo in the back, both of which attracted tons of firepower for Xu An.

Now Dong Zhuo is still attracting firepower for Xu An in Guanzhong, and to a certain extent it can be said that he is doing his best for the cause of the Yellow Turban Army.

Previously, the year name was Yonghan, and everyone in the Yellow Turban Army said it, but they all felt extremely awkward.

This time, they heard that the Han court in Chendu changed the reign name to Chuping, and what Chuping said was far better than Yonghan, so everyone changed their words one after another, no longer using the reign name of Yonghan, and they all called it Chuping.

And before the first year of Chuping (190 years).

All the soldiers of the standing army of the Yellow Turban Army received an annual fee for the New Year. The unmarried soldiers received all money, while the married soldiers had their families distribute part of the food locally, and cloth offset part of the money. .

The soldiers in the army station did not pay annual fees. In the first year of the army station, Xu An only left enough rations, and collected all the rest of the food to supply the soldiers.

Most of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were unmarried, single, and rarely had family members.

Many of them have experienced turmoil, experienced the separation of their wives and children, and experienced hardships, so they did not resist too much taxation in the first year under the influence of the military blessings and the Diannong officials.

However, this year's autumn harvest, the taxation of military villages has been based on the tax amount levied by ordinary civilian villages. However, since all the farm tools and cattle in the military villages are leased, the tax rate is [-]%, five for the public and five for the army.

With the improvement of Xu An's control over Bingzhou, policies that were not implemented originally were also implemented within the jurisdiction of the Yellow Turban Army.

In the previous decree, in the first two years, [-]% of the land was collected from powerful landlords, only [-]% of the tax was collected from ordinary households, and [-]% was collected from those who leased land; the reclaimed wasteland was exempted from tax for one year, regardless of whether the rich or the poor.

From the third year onwards, both the powerful and the common people collected [-]% of land tax, and rented land collected [-]% of land tax.

This year happened to be the third year that Xu An led the Yellow Turban Army into Bingzhou.

Compared with the previous two years, the area of ​​cultivated land in Bingzhou has grown significantly. There are still a lot of wasteland reclaimed by ordinary people in military and civilian settlements.

There was one statute that was not promulgated at that time, and this statute was the Law of Recruitment.

The Recruitment Law refers to the abolition of the original civilian households needing to undertake corvee labor such as hard labor, miscellaneous labor, and military service.

Under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army, all the methods of hiring people to serve as soldiers were adopted, and the funds needed by employees were apportioned by households, which was called "servant money".

The tyrants, landlords, and aristocratic families who did not have to bear the errands had to pay the errands, and even bear heavier taxes.

Now all the corvees under the Yellow Turban Army are paid by the Yellow Turban Army to hire voluntary civilians in various places.

This time the people from the four prefectures entered Bingzhou, and Xu An ordered the implementation of "relief with work", which indeed allowed a large number of civilians to obtain money, and also made considerable progress in Bingzhou's roads, water conservancy and other infrastructure.

However, a large amount of money flowed out of the treasury of the Yellow Turban Army and flowed into the people, which also caused the money in the treasury of the Yellow Turban Army to shrink sharply.

Speaking of which, the Yellow Turban Army's extravagance can be maintained until now, apart from relying on Yan Zhong's careful planning, it is really because of the original powerful family of the Yellow Turban Army that ruled the twelve counties.

Those aristocratic families have been powerful for hundreds of years, have accumulated a lot of money for hundreds of years, and have accumulated food for years.

And those powerful people from aristocratic families who have passed the public trial but were not guilty of death were all sent to the Taihang Mountains to undergo labor reform. Come out and return to society.

The powerful family who was convicted by the public trial allowed Xu An to obtain a lot of money to maintain the normal operation of the Yellow Turban Army.

However, the money was almost exhausted by Xu An's almost crazy military training and preparations, military equipment and other affairs.

At present, the infantry of the Yellow Turban Army is divided into four categories, one is military soldiers, the other is sharp soldiers, the third is regular soldiers, and the fourth is field soldiers.

Among them, the two battalions of military pawns and sharp soldiers are directly under Xu An, and the defenders in various places are basically composed of regular pawns, which belong to the sequence of front-line combat troops.

All combat troops practice five times a day, training five days out of seven days, resting two days, and exercising every half a month.

Those with excellent grades are promoted, and those with low grades are devolved.

If people from various military camps are unwilling to farm and want to join the combat force, they can apply for an assessment. The examiner will go to the various military camps to inspect every two months, and let those who pass the assessment enter the combat force.

And in these two months, the group with the worst comprehensive assessment will be downgraded to field soldiers, which will also ensure the vitality and combat effectiveness of the Yellow Turban Army.

The soldiers of the two battalions of military pawns and sharp soldiers even practiced extra after the training, in order to get better results in the assessment.

The capture of Hedong County this time made Xu An another windfall. Although the powerful families in Hedong County had already transported some things out of Hedong County, there was still a lot of money in Xu An's pocket.

Relying on the interrogation of the Eagle Wolf Guards, many gold and silver treasures buried in the cellar and secret vault were also seized by the Yellow Turban Army.

The powerful families in Hedong County are mainly concentrated in the south, and the background of the powerful families in the land of Sili is naturally far more than that of the two prefectures in the bitter cold land.

The Wei family in Hedong County alone contributed a lot of gold and silver to the Yellow Turban Army.

The Hedong Wei family has lasted for hundreds of years, and it can be said to be a giant in the true sense. Although most of the core members of the Wei family had fled when Xu An occupied Hedong County, the Wei family has stayed in business for many years. Large amounts of money that cannot be transferred.

When Xu An saw the description in the book that Mi Ren funded Liu Bei to raise soldiers, Mi's family had tens of thousands of children and had a wealth of hundreds of millions, he thought it was a bit exaggerated.

But when Xu An saw the check list of Hedong Wei's family with his own eyes, he knew how rich the family in the late Han Dynasty was.

Compared with the Mi family, the wealth of the Hedong Wei family is somewhat different, but it is not within the reach of those aristocratic families in Bingzhou.

Moreover, the collection of books in his home was even comparable to the collection of powerful books in the entire Bingzhou aristocratic family, which was enough to see its background. In order to transport his collection of books, Xu An even dispatched more than ten four-wheeled carriages to transport them all to Jinyang City.

With the money of the Haoqiang family in Hedong as the bottom line, the Yellow Turban Army is not short of money for the time being, but when the money is finally used up, the recruitment law must always be implemented.

After several large-scale public trials, the resistance of the powerful families in the Yellow Turban Army has been minimal, and there is no need to worry about the enlistment law that the powerful families from other places will gather to resist the Yellow Turban Army. worried.

Now that the Eastern and Western emperors of the Han Dynasty stand side by side, powerful families from all over the world began to place chips on the game.

Immediately, they will start to mess up on their own, and the lords will divide the regime. At that time, who will have nothing to do to control the new laws issued by the Yellow Turban Army in Bingzhou?

Under such circumstances, the recruitment law was promoted, and it was promoted along with the momentum of promoting the "Law of Peace".

In the territory of the Yellow Turban Army, no conscripts were conscripted, and only a small amount of "service money" was collected. The government was clean and the people were rich, and it was carried out without any obstacles.

Ordinary civilians don't pay a lot of "service money", but more "service money" is paid by powerful families, which is one of the reasons for the smooth implementation.

One of the influencing conditions for the collection of "assistance money" is the amount of land.

Within the jurisdiction of the Yellow Turban Army, the small landlords have basically been eliminated, and only some powerful families survived.

Most of these powerful families are local powerful families who have kept themselves safe. Among them are Hao Zhao, Zhang Liao, and Li De and other families.

There are also Yan Zhong, Fu Qi, Pang Bo, Yang Ji and other families who moved from Liangzhou.

Although some of their interests were touched, Xu An knew that these measures must be implemented in the future.

Now that the yellow turban warship is small, it is easy to turn around, and the influence of the powerful family in the yellow turban army is not much, relying on his prestige can still be suppressed.

Once the powerful family becomes more powerful, it will only be more difficult to carry out.

Along with the Conscription Law, there is also a supplement to the Taxation Law, which is also a government decree proposed before.

After the Taxation Law is completed, the full text is here.

In the first two years, [-]% of the land was collected from powerful landlords, [-]% of the tax was collected from ordinary households, and [-]% of the tax was collected from those who leased land. The reclaimed wasteland was exempted from tax for one year, regardless of whether the rich or the poor.

From the third year onwards, both powerful and ordinary people collect [-]% of the land tax, and [-]% of the land tax is charged for renting land, but the more land there is, the heavier the tax will be.

Those with more land pay more, those with little land pay less, and those without land don’t pay.

Divide all farmland into three grades according to the degree of fertility of the land. Upper fields are more expropriated, middle fields are expropriated as usual, and lower fields are less expropriated.

The investigation of the land is judged by Yinglangwei, Fu Zhu, the Secretary of Agricultural Affairs, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Anyone who dares to deceive the land maliciously, or who is corrupt and perverts the law will be punished.

At that time, there was a saying that "the more the land, the heavier the tax." Under Yang Ji's advice, Xu An did not implement it at that time.

Now it is implemented together with the conscription law.

As soon as the two laws came out, the originally peaceful and powerful families in various places were quite critical. Hao Zhao, Zhang Liao and others also came under pressure from their families, and the Eagle Wolf Guard intercepted the contents of their letters.

However, Yan Zhong, Yang Ji, Fu Qi, and Pang Bo did not participate in it. They knew the content of the decree early on, and they also knew Xu An's determination to implement it.

And more reason why they did not object, more because their rights and interests have not actually been damaged too much.

They don't have much arable land in Bingzhou, and all they cultivate are rented fields.

Now the land occupied by the powerful family in Bingzhou is actually less than [-]% of the total arable land in Bingzhou.

Most of the land is controlled by the Yellow Turban Army, that is, it belongs to the public. The Yellow Turban Army has taken over all the land of the cleared powerful family and has become the largest landlord in the twelve counties.

Different from the families of Hao Zhao, Zhang Liao and others, the main source of income of Yan Zhong and others' clans now is from shops, caravans, and some forging workshops.

In Bingzhou, Xu An gradually downplayed the long-standing policy of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, and encouraged business.

In order to revive Bingzhou, Xu An also provided a variety of conveniences for business channels. Although Yan Zhong and others did not do business directly, they also raised some caravans under Xu An's arrangement.

The business tax is not high, because the relief from work and the low taxation also make the people have surplus money.