795 Resistance to Change
If Luo Tianming wanted to take charge of the navy in person, Huang Zu had to be laid off.
In view of his relatively well-behaved position, Luo Tianming did not treat him badly and gave him a position in charge of military logistics.
The position is very rich. Even if you don’t greed or take advantage of it, just deciding who to buy food and supplies from will be enough to make Huang’s family good.
As for military power, haha, it’s best not to think about it, otherwise something will really happen.
Of course, the truly talented people in the Huang family are not unable to continue to be appointed.
For example, Huang Zu's son Huang She also has the temper of some nobles, but he is stronger than Huang Zu and can be used.
When Luo Tianming was training the navy, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were making drastic reforms.
Most of these reforms were Luo Tianming's idea, but he ignored it when he came up with an idea, and left the rest to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang.
If the reform is successful, even if Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang cannot achieve any achievements, they will be worthy of being famous in history.
Luo Tianming gave them all these, so they were naturally very grateful, doing their work diligently and meticulously.
First of all, the one Luo Tianming implemented in Luoyang that year was spread throughout Jingzhou.
Although the state-owned part of the land did not forcibly acquire the land of the aristocratic families, the people were still able to cultivate enough land for the people to cultivate.
When the people have their own land, they will no longer rent aristocratic families, which will increase the cost of hiring tenant farmers a lot.
However, in this era, a very small number of families employed tenant farmers, most of whom took the people as slaves. Not only did they control their personal freedom, they also did not have to pay any compensation, and they did not even have to feed themselves.
According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, many slaves that were collected had to be filed for taxes, otherwise it would be a hidden household, which would be illegal.
But there is no family that does not hide the number of slaves in the family, which is one of the reasons why the Han Dynasty has fewer and the imperial court cannot collect taxes.
Of course, Liu Bei had to clean up these people, but his methods were not as ruthless as Luo Tianming. He just asked those aristocratic families to re-record the hidden households and pay taxes from then on.
Even the hiding news was rarely seen, and they turned a blind eye to it.
Although he is a little tolerant of the aristocratic family in the land, in other aspects, the aristocratic family is about to curse.
Because, Liu Bei began to vigorously develop the paper industry and printing industry!
When Luo Tianming was in Luoyang, he did not dare to use papermaking and printing techniques at all, because he was afraid of being besieged by aristocratic families all over the world, and the little emperor was not good enough.
Now Liu Bei has enough strength to deal with the aristocratic family, so he took out these two technologies.
As soon as papermaking and printing were released, the popularity of books was immediately increased by hundreds and thousands of times!
In the past, only aristocratic families were qualified to study. Even poor families with poor families with poor families had difficulty studying, let alone ordinary people, they were just blind people.
Now that books are popular, ordinary people have the opportunity to read and read. Aristocratic families can no longer monopolize talents, and the foundation of the aristocratic families has been shaken.
In other words, papermaking and printing are equivalent to breaking the roots of the aristocratic family, and it is unlikely that they will ever be immortal.
This made the family inspire and asked Liu Bei to control the flow of paper and the spread of printing.
As long as paper and printing are controlled, there will not be too many books, and the people's chances of reading can be curbed.
But since Liu Bei dared to take out papermaking and printing techniques, he was ready to be besieged by the aristocratic family. Of course, he could not agree. Instead, he would open a free school to teach the people's children to study.
However, he also made some concessions, that is, in the school, he only taught literacy, not the subtle meaning, and taught some skills such as arithmetic, businessmanship, and craftsmen.
In the Three Kingdoms era, merchants, craftsmen and others were far less ruthless than those who were oppressed during the Ming and Qing dynasties, but they were not valued. So when Liu Bei said this, the aristocratic family felt relieved.
Just cultivating some craftsmen, merchants, etc. is not only harmless to the aristocratic family, but also beneficial.
Because it is not easy to do business in this era, bandits everywhere are a bit exaggerated, but if someone dares to go alone, he will definitely go without going back.
If a merchant wants to transport goods to other places for sale, he must have a considerable number of people and force. This is something that civilians cannot do, and only aristocratic families can do.
Those so-called big businessmen, such as the Mi family in Xuzhou and the Zhen family in Jizhou, are all aristocratic families.
Even Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang, who had sponsored Liu Bei, deeply suspected that they were white gloves from a certain aristocratic family. Otherwise, how could they give away fifty horses, five hundred taels of gold and silver, and one thousand kilograms of iron at once?
What a great fortune this is? In modern times, it is equivalent to fifty armored vehicles, five hundred guns, and half a million funds.
Who would be so generous to give so many things for free? It would be strange if someone instructed him behind him.
From this we can see that doing business is the patent of the aristocratic family. With the development of business, the aristocratic family gets the most benefits, and running a school is beneficial to them.
Of course, the base of the people is too large. If you learn to read, you will inevitably have a few geniuses, and you may enter the officialdom.
But it doesn’t matter. Even if the school is not opened, some lucky grass-roots people can become officials.
But even if they become officials, the officialdom is still the world of aristocratic families. It is not difficult to suppress people from the common people, so the aristocratic families don’t care.
Don’t you know what Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang had secretly planned? This is just the beginning. In the future, they will gradually disintegrate the foundation of the aristocratic family and use warm water to boil frogs so that when they wake up, they will be powerless to turn things around.
When Jingzhou was undergoing earth-shaking changes, the major princes were also watching.
When Cao Cao heard that Liu Bei had control of Jingzhou, he felt indescribable concerns.
But he really couldn't make any moves, so he could only do some small moves, such as shooting Shi Ah's assassination, or inciting the aristocratic family to rebel, etc.
Unfortunately, these small moves are of no use in the face of the general trend. At most, they will start and disappear.
Cao Cao didn't take action, but Sun Quan had time. Shortly after Luo Tianming took over the navy, he sent a large army to attack Jiangxia. The front governor was Mei Zhoulang.
Luo Tianming inherited the "Formation Map" by Wu'anguo, but there was no content of water battles. When he came to command the navy, he could only explore it himself.
But before he could figure out the way, Zhou Yu came and he could only be forced to fight.
Historically, Zhou Yu conquered Jiang Xia and killed Huang Zu in this battle.
Luo Tianming wants to maintain his reputation as a military god who is victorious in every battle, and this battle cannot be defeated.
But he was indeed not proficient in water warfare, so he designed several new weapons, hoping to make contributions.
The most high hopes for is the Breaking God Crossbow. The arrows used by the Breaking God Crossbow are as thick as wrists. Luo Tianming changed the arrow shaft to an iron tube, filled with tinder oil inside, and wrapped with linen soaked with tinder oil on the outside.
Light the fire before shooting it out. Once it hits the enemy ship, the iron tube breaks and the tinder oil flows out, a large piece of flame can be formed and the enemy ship is ignited.
Chapter completed!