Luo Pei's three strategies can be said to have defeated He Bai's previous plans. After He Bai's return to Rope, he couldn't help but compare his original plans with Luo Pei's strategy. His original plans were to base himself on secretly developing his own power, recruit talents, build walls and accumulate food, and make a splash. This is a hard power. Luo Pei's strategy was to base himself on his personal soft power such as personal popularity, connections, reputation, prestige.

These two solutions cannot be said to be right or wrong, but what He Bai lacks now is not hard power. In terms of hard power, there are 5,000 good elite soldiers to rely on, with hundreds of billions of dollars, and although there is little food, there is still no need to worry too much. What's more, there is a large amount of land in Changshan at this time. If you collect grain by using the method of military farming, you will get more than 200,000 stones in a year. It is more than enough to maintain your army.

He Bai has no shortage of hard power, and the soft power is the most lacking. If He Bai can make everyone known in Luoyang City, and there will be people who will accept it wherever he goes, and talents will come to invest, and money and food will be delivered to the door automatically, that would be truly amazing.

Isn't this the case in Yuan Shao's early days? If Cao Cao hadn't been better at the Battle of Guandu, he would have been unified with Yuan Shao's popularity and reputation, and there would be no later Three Kingdoms. Although He Bai was a later generation, he did not have the prejudice of ordinary people in later generations and really regarded Yuan Shao as his second generation ancestor.

After careful comparison, He Bai felt that he was better at developing hard power, so he could not be anxious about hard power. In the next year, he could focus on developing soft power. Even if he could not reach the realm that Yuan Shao had expected, he would still be able to reach the level of being famous all over the world.

After He Bai decided to make a decision, everything in Taiyuan County could be temporarily abandoned, but these three thousand elite soldiers could not be left to others, and they had to be taken over. He Bai asked: "Increase, the Taiyuan County soldiers have been well trained. I want to turn them into private soldiers and place them in Changshan Kingdom. I don't know if they can succeed?"

Luo Pei said, "Lord, although the Taiyuan County soldiers were under the lord's command for a short time, it was not difficult to turn them into private soldiers. As long as they were given a sufficient term salary, most of them would like to do so. However, if they wanted to place them from Taiyuan to Changshan, there were only nearly half of the soldiers who were unwilling to leave their hometowns. The lord may use the land to lure them, and think that the past beheading merits were distributed to the fields to cultivate the fields, and these thousands of soldiers would definitely follow the orders of the lord."

Luo Pei's method hit the weak point of the Chinese people. The Chinese people worked hard all their lives, but they were just land. As long as they had land to cultivate and could live and work in peace, they were not their hometown. What's more, Changshan and Taiyuan are just separated by a mountain. Even if they had the idea of ​​missing their hometown, they could still visit relatives nearby.

He Bai originally wanted his soldiers to become professional soldiers and support his family by receiving wages. A large amount of land would distract the soldiers' minds. However, Luo Pei's method was more suitable for the Chinese people's concept at this time. However, this method would hinder his own public and private arguments, and would also lose most of the land. This is because he lacks fame, family background and status, and he cannot gather a large number of righteous men with people's expectations. Only by tempting them with real benefits can he get the benefits of others. This is also helpless.

Well, let the soldiers choose their own choice. But this strategy cannot last long, otherwise feudal militarism will form one day. When there is no land to be given, a new war will be rekindled. I don’t want to be kidnapped by this monster in the army. Therefore, the land grant is only temporary, only for these 5,000 soldiers. It will depend on the situation in the future, but will never be expanded.

He Bai nodded. As long as the soldiers agreed, the government would be fine. He had been separated from the Taiyuan Prefect and was considered a hard-core friend wearing a pair of pants. It was not too difficult to transfer a family of 3,000 households with a population of nearly 20,000. If it really doesn't work, it's just right to use the captive thieves from Heishan to get the number.

Why should we move to Changshan State instead of staying in Taiyuan County? First, Changshan State belongs to Jizhou, and the area of ​​Jizhou has a large number of household registrations, so it is relatively easy to expand troops nearby. Moreover, Changshan is close to Qingzhou, so it is relatively close to the land of Qingzhou in the future.

Second, there are many black bandits around Changshan Kingdom. The army is always threatened by black bandits, which can prevent the army from fighting for the time they leave, but will gradually increase. Especially for the battle against Dong in the next year, it can play a great role in resisting the elite troops of the Western Liang army alone, and can stand out among the heroes and become famous all over the world.

On the evening of that day, Li Ping sent back the news that shortly after the bandits traveling south to the Tang Dynasty left the city under the fake military order, the bandits who were scattered were defeated by 700 ambushed cavalry. Three hundred beheaded, five hundred enemies were captured, and then forced to surrender the thieves guarding the city, capturing more than 3,000 thieves and more than 3,000 families in the city. After hearing the news, the bandits at the two counties also sent envoys to surrender, and Guo Daxian's thieves were completely wiped out.

Two days later, He Bai received great news that Fu Xing's army defeated the Huanglong bandits, beheaded more than 1,700 levels, and captured more than 9,500 thieves. Che Jing's army also defeated Wang Dang's bandits, beheaded more than 1,500 levels, and captured more than 7,700 thieves. All three troops won, and all three Black Mountain bandits were destroyed.

He Bai was overjoyed when he heard the news. When he was about to leave Jingjing Pass, he still wanted to take advantage of the Black Mountain bandits' unpreparedness and attack and retreat quickly, so that the Black Mountain bandits who suffered heavy losses had nowhere to be angry. But at this time, he had to abandon the position of Taiyuan Duwei and go to Luoyang City, and then he had to settle the five thousand private soldiers and their families under his command first.

If they wanted to settle in Changshan, in addition to investigating the seized real estate, they would also be able to distribute it to their private troops, and they would also fight with the Black Mountain bandits, so that they would not dare to think of revenge.

On another day, Fu Xing and Che Jing came to Lingshou, Zhending and the land situation of the nine-men counties. The local tyrants in Lingshou have suffered a lot of losses, and will have 360,000 mu of land; Zhending has always been in the hands of the government, and the Black Mountain bandits' tribe only occupied a small part, and will have 120,000 mu of land; the local tyrants in Jiumen have also suffered a lot of losses, and will have 150,000 mu of land available. In addition, the 130,000 mu of land in the south of the Tang Dynasty and 110,000 mu of land in Du Township. At this point, He Bai will have five counties and 870,000 mu of land to control.

870,000 mu of land is less than 10,000 hectares. Using the rotating fallow method, you can obtain more than 800,000 stones of grain in a year. If calculated based on the value of 200 coins per stone of grain, you will have an income of 16,000 yuan a year, which is almost the income of a ten thousand household marquis in a year. He Bai was shocked by this calculation. How many wealthy families in the country can have this asset? However, most of the land must be distributed to the soldiers under his command, and there is not so much left.

Another day, when three thousand soldiers heard He Bai's new land grant order, they immediately became excited. As long as they were willing to become He Bai's private part, they could obtain corresponding land with their previous beheading skills!

The soldiers immediately ran up and down happily and told each other. After less than half an hour of boiling, all three thousand soldiers agreed to become He Bai's private part, and they unanimously demanded land instead of monthly salary.

Through the military's lack of military merits, He Bai found out after a survey that after coming to Taiyuan to take office, he had experienced three major battles, beheading a total of about 70,000 thieves. This is a large base. If you can give land, you can't use the standard of 100 acres of land to be given at the first level of beheading, otherwise there would be so many fields to be given, and the standards should be lowered.

The new standard is that captives and beheadings are equivalent. Because the thief's combat power is not strong, the elderly, women, and children under ten years old are not considered the first contribution. The other elderly and weak are given ten acres of land, while the young and strong are given thirty acres of land.

Because most of them are the result of teamwork, the land is given in terms of what. On average, each person has at least several levels of beheading, and can be divided into more than 100 acres of land. Most of them are even eight or nine, and can be divided into more than 300 acres of land, and a total of 530,000 acres of land is required. Soldiers with real estate in Taiyuan County can also be exchanged for land from Changshan Kingdom and moved to Changshan Kingdom to live in a unified manner.

After a short time of consideration, the soldiers immediately agreed to this request. If the soldiers were recruited by He Bai, they were basically poor and lower-middle peasants who could not afford to pay 300% more money. How much land can they have at home? It would be good if each household had an average of 30 acres, so they went to about 100,000 acres of land.

The 100,000 mu of scattered land in Taiyuan was inconvenient to cultivate, so it could only be sold again. In the end, He Bai only had 240,000 mu of land left, and all of them would be handed over to the remaining 2,500 households of captive thieves and serfs for farming. The remaining captive thieves may have to reach the population of 3,000 Taiyuan County soldiers to avoid insufficient household registration in Taiyuan.

The fields planted in the names of soldiers only need to be paid for the regular taxes in the court, and He Bai will collect them on his behalf. In addition, no other private taxes will be imposed. In the future, if there is excess grain in the soldiers' homes, they will only be sold to the army, and the army will purchase grain at a unified and affordable price.

The harvest of fields cultivated by the serfs will be all given to the public service of the army. There is no need for the serfs to be responsible for drought, flood, apology, and locust plagues. The army also uniformly supplies the serfs' daily supplies.

This method is not much different from later communes and production brigades. Although the serfs had no land, they had enough food to feed every day. Although they were not free, they were more likely to be war, diseases, and hunger everywhere. I don’t know how many times better.

He Bai was afraid that the captive thieves would disagree, and even resisted the riots. Unexpectedly, when the captive thieves heard that they would become He Bai's serfs, they were not happy, which made He Bai very puzzled. Later, he gradually realized that compared to ordinary people who were helpless, being slaves to noble officials and nobles, both in terms of status and status, they were more advanced.

With He Bai's protection, they no longer have to worry about bullying and persecution from the local government, and they can even pretend to be powerful and bully others. Let them become serfs, not persecuting them, but exalting them. This made He Bai, who had the thoughts of later generations and had fewer thoughts in the world, wonder whether to laugh or laugh bitterly. No wonder the wealthy nobles in this life have a large number of domestic slaves and rarely hear rebellion from domestic slaves. Rebellion is more from ordinary people who have no support.

In this way, the soldiers and serfs were protected by He Bai and no longer suffered from the double harsh persecution from the court and the local government. They could immediately live a very comfortable and worry-free life. Even the serfs who had no private property were grateful to He Bai because they could eat enough and not hungry every day. As long as the He family did not fall, they could continue so comfortably for countless years.
Chapter completed!