Even though the three states of Jing, Yang and Jiao are relatively stable on the surface, Liu Cong knows that contradictions are temporarily suppressed rather than permanently eliminated. Of course, he will not be naive enough to think that contradictions can be eliminated forever. From the point of view, there are many similarities between himself and Cao Cao. Although Cao Wei succeeded in replacing Han Dynasty, it was eventually ended by Sima Shi. It seems that Liu Cong did not solve the contradictions well.
As far as Cao Cao is concerned, there are not only aristocratic families, but also small strongmen and commoners. The royal family can even be included in the Cao Cao Regiment. Among the aristocratic families, Xun Yu and Xun You are the representatives of Yingchuan literati, while the representatives of small strongmen are Xu Chu and Li Dian, who are the representatives of the poor. It can be said that Cao Cao Regiment includes all classes in this era. Their political demands are naturally inconsistent, and their political forces are equally different. The final impact of their struggles and games is the historical pattern.
What about Liu cong himself? Cao Cao is facing the same problem except that he doesn’t represent the Emperor’s Han Dynasty. Besides, there are few men in charge of the army in Yingchuan, Cao Cao’s regiment, but there are Wen Pin, Huang She and others who directly lead the troops here. Although the current military system of Jingzhou Army can ensure that the control of the army will eventually be in the hands of Liu Cong, there is a difference between the nominal commander and the general who directly leads the troops for the army. This is the reason why Liu Cong has been trying to promote the establishment of Xuanzheng Lang in the army and constantly expanding their roots.
In order to solve this contradiction caused by different political demands, we must first understand what the demands of all classes are. Or, more bluntly, what do they want?
If the family continues to maintain its political and economic monopoly, they will inevitably choose spokespersons to attach themselves, and in this process, many aristocratic men have done the same thing, not putting eggs in the same basket, betting on the prosperity of the Baoze family is wrong, and the outcome will inevitably be marginalized, which is likely to lead to genocide. However, in addition, there is another very important thing for aristocratic men to appeal to the former, which can be said to be politics and this is economy.
What they need is a weak central government or a weak royal family. Because the economic base of aristocratic families is "occupying mountains and protecting ze", they annex a large amount of land and operate manor economy. The object of their annexation is yeomen, who are also the economic base of the central royal family. Government taxes and military service are borne by yeomen, which makes aristocratic families’ manor economy conflict with the government’s economic income. To put it mildly, aristocratic families are drinking royal blood and growing up. When Cao Wei attacked the powerful and strengthened the central government, all the families turned to Sima.
This greed for political and economic monopoly position determines that the choice of "master" by the aristocratic families is both pre-existing and inevitably contains profound contradictions. Especially for Liu Cong and Cao Cao, the central legalist thinking is doomed to the struggle of Confucian division and co-governance, loyalty and betrayal, and sometimes it is not personal. Think about the origin of Cao Cao’s uprising and how many times he betrayed Liu Cong.
Liu Congli advocates the small-scale peasant economy with yeoman as the main body? This is the main reason, however, he is soberly aware that for a long time to come, he will not be able to maintain the balance between the two without the support of aristocratic families, and even make appropriate compromises in some cases to maintain this balance and ensure the stability of the Ministry.
What about small strongmen? The strength of Liu cong’s regimental headquarters is not small, but the small strongmen are more local, unlike the aristocratic family, which is a combination of big bureaucrats and big families. It is more realistic to hope that there will be a "gentleman" who can protect the environment and protect his family from the yellow turbans and stabilize his family. Such a small strongman in the local rich man Jiangdong Crossing the North Corps constitutes the main force, and there is also a hidden representative figure Lu Su. Of course, Lu Su’s personal ambition is greater and his goals are greater.
Of course, in addition to Jiangdong Jingzhou, there are many small strongmen similar to Nandu Beishi regiment, and they are also more expansive. For Liu Cong, they are more likely to become the staunchest supporters. In the end, who wants to be suppressed by higher classes without longing and pursuit?
However, it is the elite in the poor class who have this impulse more than the small strongmen. The so-called poor people do not mean poor families, but they are mainly small landlords with no political status. Their appeal is to break through the monopoly of aristocratic families on officialdom and gain opportunities for success.
Nowadays, in this era, the name is to choose the state and county wise men, but it has actually been monopolized by the aristocratic family. When you go out, you will report your family background for three generations. You will be arrogant, and all kinds of despised officials will almost become completely dependent on your family background. Otherwise, Liu Bei will have to label himself wherever he goes. "The Queen of Zhongshan Jing" Zhuge Liang, who lost his father, will be looked down upon by people. Through his contacts, we can see that because the elites from small landlords have no way out and their access is blocked, they are more eager for the opportunity to make achievements and fame.
Jia Xu is the representative figure in the Jingyang Group of Liu Cong. However, Jia Xu is very intellectually detached from all walks of life. He is the most loyal or himself. Of course, Liu Cong did not want to change his attitude of acquiescence and support in the past. Now, the main strength that Liu Cong relies on is Jia Xu and Zhuge Liang, who were born in the elite.
In addition to those elites, Liu Cong’s biggest supporters come from the civilian class, Wei Yan, Zhao Yun and even Xu Shu. They are as eager to break all the constraints and make achievements as those elites.
Throughout this era, the biggest feature is that the royal bureaucrats struggle for the commoners and the humble class, although they are the largest in number and the strongest in strength, but they are mostly suppressed. From the appeal, they say that the commoners and the humble class are on the same side of the royal family. They are really a two-faced royal party with one economy. If they want to maintain their family, they must have enough tax service for farmers and absorb the bottom elite royal family and the bottom ties. Small farmers also hope that the country will be unified without war, and there will be a government to ensure that they will not be bullied by the door.
However, these two forces come together because there is a royal family that can’t have much contact with the people. The royal family can rely on the interaction between bureaucrats and civilians, but this bond has grown into a aristocratic family. They are opposite to each other. The royal family and bureaucratic ministers in the DPRK contain each other. There are manors and armed suppression of yeomen, and they release low-level positions in counties and counties to attract the elites of the poor and ordinary people, so that these people are no longer loyal to the royal family and become aristocratic men.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the yellow turban insurrectionary disorder has upset this balance, and the civilian elites have seen this opportunity, such as Liu Bei’s small and powerful middle-level careerist, such as Sun Jian.
Yu Yuan Shao and Yuan Shuliu were influenced by this sweeping chaos, but at the same time, they couldn’t help thinking about Gao Gao Huang. So as far as Liu Cong is concerned, should he finally take the lead in the game of various classes and make it develop in the direction he expects? For this problem, Liu cong has been exploring and practicing, and through several years of hard work, various corresponding systems have been formed, and not only the division and integration of heaven and earth, but also the social strata will inevitably go through this stage.
☆ Chapter 23 Start a new stove for a reason
When Nanyang carried out the New Deal, Liu Cong didn’t realize what impact it would have on Jingzhou and the sky. At that time, Liu Cong was still immersed in heroic memory and romantic fantasy of war less than two years ago, and he was able to travel to Jingzhou. The root cause of his awareness of learning martial arts was his fear of respecting history and tragic field.
As far as Nanyang satrap is concerned, what Liu Cong thinks is just to protect himself in this troubled times. Don’t give up your destiny to others without fighting like the Lord.
In this process, all kinds of temporary measures to ensure strengthening the strength and attack the enemy have gradually become the main body of the new deal in the future. The mutual cause and effect of reclamation and training depends on all walks of life to expand the source of taxes, but this success is inseparable from Liu Biao’s support, which has a very local color, but gradually makes Liu Cong realize that Jingzhou can be the same in the future.
Nanyang can carry out the small-scale peasant economy with yeomen as the main body, and other counties in Jingzhou will be opposed to it to varying degrees. Until now, the progress is far less than Nanyang. The special geographical environment of Nanyang and the background of unrest at that time were as follows
Because of Dong Zhuo’s political chaos, the people in the three auxiliary areas had to abandon their homes because of the war and disaster for many years. Many of them went to Nanyang and other places nearby, while others went to Yizhou and Yangzhou Naijiaozhou, which accounted for a large proportion of refugees in Nanyang County.
Before Liu Biao entered Jingzhou, the counties in Jingzhou also suffered many wars, including the Yellow Scarf Rebels, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian. More thieves fought and smashed the monopoly of the original aristocratic family on land. This is also the main reason why Liu Biao was able to get the support of Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, the first Jingzhou aristocratic family. If they want to restore order and regain control of the place, they must launch a representative recognized by all parties, and Liu Biao was born in the largest aristocratic family. It is not surprising that the royal family was supported by them.
However, the influx of refugees is just the opportunity for Liu cong to break through the existing system and start a new stove.
Will Emperor Han Ling fail to get a captain in Xiyuan?
Not only because of their own lack of ability and the rebound of aristocratic families, but more importantly, rebuilding an army requires a source of capable soldiers and supporting this army. To put it bluntly, there should be enough yeomen to pay taxes and the royal family can directly manage it. But at that time, the rural yeomen were responsible for taxation because of the merger and division of the gate, and the state and county officials and the generals of the army were also gate-keepers. Their proteges were loyal to the gate-keeper, but they were more loyal to the gate-keeper than the court. If they did not talk about personnel disputes, they would be doomed to failure from the root.
Therefore, after Liu Cong extensively settled the refugees, he not only gained a large number of yeomen, but also made the Nanyang Army’s main source of soldiers and grain, grass and ordnance. Only by further strengthening this control can Liu Cong get a long-term and stable variety of resources.
Therefore, the military system of Jingzhou is more inclined to the central theory of "Wang Dang", that is, whether Liu Cong’s Guards Light Ride or Cannon Car Camp Light Ride Camp. Up to now, it has not been known that the big killer and strange knife camp are all led by the most loyal generals or Liu Cong’s relatives, while some troops in the periphery are mostly controlled by Zhang Xiu and Wen Pin, and the literati’s gate represented by Liu Cong Yue can hold civilian posts and rarely refer to military posts.
Since the war in Jiangdong, Liu Cong has further changed the military discipline to "the crime of rewarding merit without punishing it" and "the loser compensates for the loser’s official position", which to some extent ensured that the army went to the circulation channel at the same time, and the policy of collecting private soldiers cut off the possibility of rebellion from the roots.
Wang Can, Du Xi, Pei Qian, etc. needless to say, there are already a large number of elites from small strongmen and very cold families in Jingzhou today.
The yellow turban insurrectionary uprising was a great chaos, but the armed forces of the yellow turban insurrectionary became a destructive trend. It depends on the elite choosing the elite of the civilian class. At this time, two parts were split, and some of them joined the armed leaders of the yellow turban insurrectionary. Many middle-level officials of counties and counties joined the yellow turban insurrectionary because these poor or civilian-born elites deeply felt that their system had come to an end, while those younger brothers who were less capable than themselves occupied important positions in counties and counties by their families and became their top managers to resolutely rebel.
On the other hand, the armed forces of the yellow turban insurrectionary refugees have also broken the clan’s monopoly on the officialdom, and the yellow turban insurrectionary army has attacked the state and county, killing a number of people who came from bureaucracies, but the situation is tense, and those who rely solely on their family background are unable to deal with this situation, which forces the clan to accept talented Chinese among ordinary people to take over their positions and solve the difficult situation.
This general situation makes the poor elite have more choices, that is, not only the monarch can choose the minister but also the monarch. In this way, before the general trend, Liu Cong must open his arms and take the initiative to attract the broad support of the middle class, which Liu Cong did even more extreme than Cao Cao.
Cao Cao’s "meritocracy" and Liu Cong’s "meritocracy" are not only meritocracy, but also mass-produce various technical schools with their own labels, such as official schools and military schools.
So will this be opposed and resisted by aristocratic families? Liu cong knows this is inevitable, but after he took control of the army and occupied the right of righteousness, the aristocratic family will end up in a larger foe unless they are cruel to jointly resist. This is not the best or the final choice for the long-term aristocratic family. Of course, it is not unilateral for Liu cong.
It is through the implementation of the New Deal that Liu Congcai struggled to integrate the political demands of all walks of life into a driving force for outward expansion. However, the seemingly calm form is full of different pursuits of all walks of life, resulting in various contradictions. These contradictions may not erupt soon in the process of fighting for heaven, but if they are not well controlled and reconciled, they will eventually become erupting volcanoes.
However, Liu Cong also knows that the New Deal is not a panacea. It is the root cause of various contradictions that makes him urgently need to make a big cake. Yizhou is his goal …
☆, Chapter 24 Don’t fight for messengers
In front of the hall, flying swallows hold new mud steps, fragrant grass spits buds, and the spring breeze is warm. It’s already the seventh year of Jian ‘an. In February, Liu Cong made people set up a window room, and the hall became brighter. He pondered for a moment and said to Zhuge Liang, "Yizhou seems to be undercurrent. I heard that some people actually made suggestions to Liu Jiyu to send tribute to Xudu. This is a good idea."
Zhuge Liang smiled and said, "I want nothing more than Wang Lei, Huang and others, but not all people in Shu are like this."
"oh? Does anyone else have other ideas? " Liu cong knows a lot about Yizhou’s current situation because of the special health camp. Zhuge Liang has never been in Sichuan since Wuxian came back. How did he know that? Maybe he made a judgment based on the contacts of former Yizhou people, or some kind of speculation?
At this time, a breeze slowly blew the Buddha from the window and the soft veil fluttered gently. The warm sunshine became more and more white, but Zhuge Liang looked at Liu Cong as if he had no sleep. He seriously said, "Pang Xi Dongzhou soldiers fought in front of Zhao Wei’s rebellion in Shu, and many responses showed that Yizhou people deeply hated Dongzhou soldiers. How could it be so if Liu Ji Yuli restrained Dongzhou soldiers? However, if Liu Jiyu falls to Cao, then Dongzhou will be at home. Is bright to recognize Pang Xi will not sit idly by Liu Jiyu Cao "
Liu Cong nodded and mused, "Besides Pang Xi, some people don’t want to see this?"
"Zhang Song Zhang Qiao" Zhuge Liang said with a wry smile, "Although he has been promoted to engage in other activities because of the help of our army in counterinsurgency, it is also for this reason that I have heard a lot about Jingzhou’s reputation in Shu, so he will inevitably be excluded and left out by Huang, Wang Lei and others, which is likely to lead to fatal disaster."
See Liu cong silent Zhuge Liang added, "so there will be three kinds of people in Yizhou who will surrender Cao Cao and protect themselves from the general. Those who surrender Cao Cao are more than those in Yizhou. Those who want to maintain the status quo and protect themselves are Dongzhou soldiers who are willing to defend themselves from the general."