This year was destined to be an extraordinary year for the Han Dynasty. From north to south, heroes from all over the country suddenly collided fiercely in all directions.

Frequent wars are incredibly tragic.

The states and counties were completely in a state of war.

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Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou, Yuan Shao's troops and Gongsun Zan's Youyan Knights, Tao Qian and Cao Cao's fierce attacks and defenses.

Even in the Guanzhong area west, the Xiliang army led by Li Jue was secretly making arrangements, hoping to take the opportunity to control the situation in the world with invisible hands.

And on the other side.

The Yuan Shu power of Jiang, Huai and Ru is also developing steadily.

After Yuan Yao led his troops to conquer Liyang and controlled the entire Jiujiang area, the construction of Huainan area and the administration of officials were put on the agenda.

With Liu Fu being appointed to station in Hefei, the work of restoring the people began to proceed in an orderly manner.

When he arrived in Hefei City, Liu Fu did not issue a government order as soon as possible, but instead sent his confidants to inspect the local area first.

After nearly four or five days of investigation, Liu Fu returned to Hefei with satisfaction, and then wrote a handwritten letter to send it to Liyang in an emergency, inviting Yuan Yao to Hefei, in order to discuss important matters.

At this moment, Yuan Yao was also continuing to reorganize his army and prepare for war in Liyang, discussing military affairs, and intending to continue to attack Lujiang County.

In Yuan Yao's view, if you want to cross the river and take over the six counties in Jiangdong, you will definitely not ignore Lujiang, otherwise there will be endless troubles!

The entire Huainan area, Jiujiang and Lujiang must be fully in charge of the jurisdiction before they can completely control the north of Jiangbei.

However, according to the intelligence, the current enemy situation in Lujiang is too complicated, and it is even more chaotic than Jiujiang.

The bandits such as Lei Bo and Mei Cheng alone had more than tens of thousands of forces, not to mention that Lujiang also had many private armed forces hidden by many powerful tribes.

These factors will make it slightly difficult for Yuan’s army to pacify Lujiang.

Just when Yuan Yao and Cui Zhou were discussing a plan to pacify Lujiang.

Liu Fu's letters have arrived at the critical moment.

After reading it, Yuan Yao felt that Liu Fu might have any problems and wanted to seek help from himself, so he also deserved to temporarily rest his strategy of entering Lujiang, and instead led Xu Chu and more than a hundred personal guards to ride horses back to Chengde.

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Along the way, Yuan Yao did not rush up, but slowed down his speed and walked slowly among the fields with everyone, secretly observing the spring plowing of the people.

It is April and spring plowing has entered its late stage.

Seeing that the fields were sowing seeds, and only waiting for the autumn harvest after half a year, Yuan Yaofang was still extremely satisfied.

only.

When I noticed that there was still a large area of ​​fields that were still deserted and the weeds were no longer farmed, my face suddenly became "brushed".

Break the surface with a point.

From here, Yuan Yao could already recall that Jiujiang County has now shown the phenomenon of "large land and sparse population".

Then, he couldn't help but think in his heart: "It seems that after a lot of time, the Jianghuai area has affected people's livelihood due to war and famine, which has led to the formation of a situation where the land is wide and sparsely populated."

"If this is allowed to develop, taxes will be difficult to collect after the autumn harvest!"

At this moment, Yuan Yao couldn't help but think deeply.

After all, taxation will be the most direct source of economic income for a regime.

The most important thing to fill the treasury is the population, and the human resources that can create value.

But now this situation caught Yuan Yao off guard.

He did not expect that Jiujiang County was also somewhat destructive.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think deeply: "After meeting Liu Fu, he would urge him to nationalize these unowned lands as soon as possible, and then quickly form the civil and military camps."

"Otherwise, the future logistics may not be able to support our army's large-scale military operations!"

Yuan Yao saw this very clearly.

It should be noted that in the Battle of Guandu in the original history, Cao Cao, who dominated the entire Central Plains, was worried about the shortage of food.

It is conceivable how scarce food and fodder are.

Moreover, Yuan Yao also thought of a terrifying question.

That is, the situation has become a vast and sparsely populated situation, but why are refugees in Huainan so rare for so long?

This is unreasonable!

After a deep thought, Yuan Yao thought for a moment and seemed to have realized that these refugees might have been gathered by the local wealthy families, removed their household registration and turned into tenants.

From then on, these people will only serve the nobles and create corresponding value, but they will have no freedom except for infinite exploitation.

Even because they did not register and were hidden as black households, the country could not collect taxes.

This means that the power of the wealthy clan has further expanded.

But every time I think of this, Yuan Yao has a headache.

In today's era, the powerful people are too powerful and the annexation of land is becoming increasingly serious.

In fact, it is extremely difficult to constrain and manage.

Not only that.

Almost all local tyrants are connected with the world's Confucian scholars. If they rashly commit crimes on the tyrants, they will inevitably be protested by groups of scholars.

In a chaotic world, the most important thing is naturally talent.

And it happened that almost all outstanding talents were from Shilin.

Once you are notorious or hostile to Shilin, you will not be far from defeat!

In the original history, there was Dong Zhuo in front and Lu Bu in the back.

All of them lost Shilin's support because of their reputation, which led to the excitement of the crowd and was pushed down by everyone.

The so-called "learning from history".

Although Yuan Yao thought of this matter, he still did not dare to deal with it rashly, so he had to discuss and deal with it carefully.

What's more, the Yuan family was originally the leader of the Kanto clan. The area of ​​the house occupied by the merchants, servants, and tenants were so deep. If we really wanted to suppress land annexation, wouldn't we have to start with ourselves first, otherwise how could we convince the public?

But when he pointed his finger at himself, he was afraid that his father Yuan Shu would be the first to get Yuan Yao's skin...

This is the most difficult thing.

When he thought of everything, Yuan Yao couldn't help but ponder: "It seems that he has to hurry to Chengde and discuss the construction of Hefei with Liu Fu."

The accidental field investigation resulted in many reasons, and he began to become impatient at this moment.

In fact, land annexation is too destructive to the impact of the country.

Even if it is stronger than the Han Dynasty, it still leads to refugees everywhere under the land annexation of local tyrants, weakening the country's strength, and gradually becoming lonely.

If the death of land annexation cannot be resolved, even if a brand new regime is established, it will be quickly corrupted.

However, the problem of "land annexation" was the primary issue that affected China's feudal society for thousands of years. It was not until the establishment of the Celestial Empire that the land annexation and the practice of landlords and gentry monopolizing the grassroots and controlling the people as tenants was perfectly solved.

At this moment, Yuan Yao also fell into a choice in response to such issues.
Chapter completed!