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Chapter 53 Winter Solstice

In the winter of the first year of Zhongping, after the alliance of gentry was taken over, the power of the eldest princess's mansion greatly expanded. All the gentry who were half-hearted in Youzhou of Jizhou were wiped out, and the rest became extremely obedient, and the government orders of the eldest princess' mansion were also unblocked in the two states.

At this time, millions of refugees were sent north by the Yellow Turbans. In order to show their sincerity, the Yellow Turbans later withdrew from various counties and states in northern Hebei. According to the Han army, Xu Rong also reduced the troops stationed in Gaoyang Daying under the order of Yang Yi, and only increased troops to the north in Jixian to support him.

The Yellow Turban was so tactful that in return, Yang Yi secretly sent corn to the Yellow Turban. Although the Yellow Turban abandoned its huge population, the burden was greatly reduced and there was no shortage of food and grass, but this was a gesture.

It is impossible to transport military weapons. After all, it is the enemy. Yang Yi will not increase the enemy's strength. He does not transport much food and grass. It is just a gesture. These food and grass are actually sent directly to the refugees to prevent misery from happening on the way north.

For Yang Yi, who now has a force spanning Youzhou and Jizhou, there are not many people who can make her embarrassed, that is, some families in Bingzhou are also members of the gentry alliance.

In order to prevent commercial channels from being destroyed by these gentry, Yang Yi sent a army from Dai County and occupied part of Dingxiang County, Bingzhou as an outpost to serve as a deterrent.

Yang Yi of Bingzhou did not have much to do. After all, he was just a general of the guard. He could surpass him slightly in military terms, and not many people dared to speak. This is actually enough. The various gentry members of Youzhou were punished and used as props to kill chickens to warn monkeys. At present, this prop is still very qualified.

Compared to Yang Yi's slight dissatisfaction, Zhang Jiao was actually even more uncomfortable at this time. Now he focused on defending the north, but not much could be done. One of his generals was defending the Han army under Huangfu Song of Qingzhou to the east, and the other was defending the Yellow Turbans in the west, and the other was scarce to defend against Lu Zhi and Dong Zhuo's troops. Only these two aspects were too short of defense. He had to live in Yecheng to dispatch. There was basically no defense in the north, and the Han army in the north could attack Yecheng at any time, which made Zhang Jiao very uncomfortable.

He knew the combat power of the Yellow Turbans very well. After several investigations, he had basically understood how powerful the Han army in the north was. If it was a field battle, the Yellow Turbans had no advantage, even if it was his Taoist bonus, so he had to use refugees as bargaining chips to force the north to temporarily not take action and gain a chance to breathe.

You should know that the Han generals in the north, Guan Yun Chang, and the Yellow Turban general Zhang Niujiao, Zhang Yan and the rebel Shao Bing could not help. Once these two heavenly war generals launched an attack, would they directly break through the Yellow Turban's crude defense line and stabbed Yecheng with one spear?

This is very likely. Zhang Jiao didn't have much confidence in the Yellow Turban. Although it was less than a year, the ups and downs made him realize that it was indeed an extremely difficult thing to govern the world.

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Gaoyang has been abandoned for a long time, but it is not actually considered abandoned. Instead, the center of gravity of the world has moved south, from north to south of the Yellow River. Now, everything is in ruins around Gaoyang. Although it is still in winter, it is still very popular.

After establishing this place as the center, countless refugees began to dig several transportation channels such as Baigou, Pinglu Canal, Quanzhou Canal, Xinhe, etc., connecting several large rivers on the northern Hebei Plain, so that the rivers diverted into the sea would flow into the sea near Wuqing.

Now the river water has not been frozen, and many young men are logging upstream and transporting wood and firewood with the river water. However, it will not work in a few days and the river will freeze.

The winter in the north is extremely cold. At this time, generally speaking, people are huddling in the house and shaking, and the fire pit keeps the cold. However, with Yang Yi's direct intervention, the heating measures for the Han people in the north in winter have become more abundant.

Earth kang, which had prototypes to be found, naturally appeared. It was initially implemented in Liaodong and other places, and then spread rapidly to various places. It is not difficult to build a earth kang.

With the invention of the fire wall, Han people are healthy and improve their quality of life, which also increases productivity accordingly.

You should know that at this time, there are not a few people who freeze to death in winter, so each family does not distinguish between poverty and humbleness, so they have more children and raise more. In this era, it is a very unlikely event that can survive from birth to adulthood.

Chen Xi is visiting refugee settlements in various parts of Youzhou. In winter, it is not easy to build a fort. He just prepares materials and waits for it to be built next year. All settlements are still roughly built wooden houses, earthen houses, or even sheds and thatched cottages, which can block the wind.

Fortunately, without exception, all earthen kangs were built. Men often cut trees or transport ore. The elderly, women and children stayed behind. When they stayed behind, they sat cross-legged on the kang and weaved bamboo baskets, hemp ropes, or used hard wood to polish farming equipment. Some of the exquisite craftsmanship were weaving wool. There were too many seized on the grassland. Now the Donghu people can only stay away from the Han territory.

If this were in previous years, most Han people in the north would probably have to stay at home, and lack of food and clothing was the most important reason. Now, the various livestock seized, just those injured, are enough to eat meat from Han people in the north in winter. Gongsun Zan and others have made great contributions to this.

Gongsun Zan is said to be brewing the last blow to the Donghu people. If you are going outside, the king will not accept the order, and Yang Yi will not blame him. Now the Han army has changed into various fur coats, so he will not be frozen. He will be allowed to do so for the time being.

Nowadays, Ju Su and Tian Feng and other scholars from gentry were ordered by Yang Yi to dispatch the celestial phenomena, which made the coldness of the north a little late, delaying it by almost a month, and it made a lot of contributions.

Shen Pei sat cross-legged on the hot kang and sighed: "General Chen's achievements are forever!"

"The people's livelihood is hard, but it's just what you can."

Chen Xi could only bear this false reputation. He actually didn't expect these things to be "invented" by Yang Yi with a reminder. Although he had used coal before, he did not consider the use of people's livelihood. This is also what these people under Yang Yi's command lack, or what the times lack.

After all, no one cares about the common people. Although they know the power of the common people, there are really few who are truly united with the common people.

Chen Xi was in Liaoxi County at this time, and Shen Pei was the prefect of Liaoxi County at this time. The establishment of Youzhou was changed by Yang Yi. For example, the Liaodong vassal state established in order to take care of Wuhuan, Xianbei and other Donghu peoples had been abolished and incorporated into Liaoxi County.

In the fourth year of Yuanshou of Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu Liu Che "sented General Huo Qubing to defeat the left land of the Xiongnu, and moved the Wuhuan people to Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, and Liaodong five counties to detect the movements of the Xiongnu.

This was the first time that the Wuhuan people migrated south on a large scale. At that time, in order to facilitate supervision and management of the Wuhuan people who moved south to the five counties, they first established a Wuhuan lieutenant with a rank of 2,000 stones and supported the officials of the rituals to prevent communication with the Huns.

Since then, the Wuhuan people had close political, economic and military relationships with the Han Han people. The Wuhuan people were also very close to the residential areas of the Han people in Youzhou, and began to accept the influence of Han culture. They "bent their huts in the morning and reached the city walls in the evening", and had settled life and some extensive agriculture.

The vassal state of Liaodong was settled by the Wuhuan people who were attached to the Han court during the Yuan Dynasty. They were divided into two counties, Liaodong and western Liaoning, and their capital was located in Changli County.

The abolition of a county and the resettlement of millions of refugees was a great effort with Chen Xi's wisdom. There was still a lot of support from a group of famous scholars. At this time, Chen Xi was setting a small table in front of him, and he spread a book to examine the content: "It's just right here, and during this period, I've gotten tired of such trivial government affairs."

Looking at the inspector, it was a list of the rosters, which were compiled by Qimin.

The household registration system implemented since the Qin Dynasty stipulates that the household registration of a citizen must be registered one by one according to items such as name, age, origin, identity, appearance, wealth, etc., and the common people who are officially registered as government household registration are called "Enterprise-entering Qimin".

What is "the establishment of households and people": managing the people based on households is called "the establishment of households"; at the same time, the original local leaders such as aristocrats, elders, clan leaders in the local area under the feudal system were abolished, and all of them were subjects of the monarchs, which were called "the establishment of households and people", which was collectively called "the establishment of households and people".

Before the Qin Dynasty, the Shang and Zhou dynasties were a feudal society with strict upper and lower classes, which took a major turning point until after King Ping moved eastward. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the various vassal states continued to merge. In order to seek prosperity and strength, the princes began to set up household registration systems, mainly to effectively control human resources. Men, women, old and young people had to log in to the book, called "household registration".

At that time, the land and people were all owned by the clan property under the "parent chief" under the old patriarchal system, and the "household and civil servants" reconstructed them from the strict class system and reshuffled them.

The nobles were not backward and "returned to the Duke", and the countries were diligent in controlling household registration and expanding recruitment, so they rectified the administrative area. Shang Yang reformed the "gathering small towns and towns into counties" to strengthen administrative agencies for easy management, and the rights of the original nobles were dispersed.

After the Han Dynasty, it was promoted to another stage. After the tax system was implemented, the landlords, self-cultivated farmers, servants, and hired farmers were officially incorporated into households. After the tax system was implemented, the Han Dynasty could directly or indirectly interfere in the local area, and the county-based society gradually became popular, and the social structure was officially transformed from the feudal city-state of the classical vassal states to the centralized society of the county-based system.

The Han system of "partners and people are allocated" is both an administrative management system and a tax system. For example, the voluntary land rent for the country: thirty taxes per one; the head tax is calculated: money; lip service: money; corvee service: one month each year, three days on the Xu side, and if you don't leave for three days on the Xu side, you will pay a new tax (300 coins) for service; military service: serve for two years in a lifetime.

The land rents in the Han Dynasty were lighter, but the population taxes and more taxes were heavy. In addition to basic taxes, various surcharges were also levied. The people also had to serve officials, and women were not spared, and it was very common for them to serve overdue.

This gave local gentry and powerful people a space to operate. It is a very common operation to conceal the population. At this time, Youzhou collapsed the gentry alliance, and what can be done at present is to reach Liaoxi County.

Liaodong County, Xuantu County and Lelang County in the east did not have the energy to intervene in the reform. They implemented the three-year reunion of all Han people and publicly advertised them. Only now can those hidden households be divided into all the people.

Now Chen Xi is mainly responsible for this matter. He inspects the construction of gathering sites in various places, just inspects it. When Shen Pei saw it, he was also in trouble. This was another matter of digging out the corners of the gentry, and he didn't want to intervene.

At this time, Shen Pei raised the manual in Yang's hand and said that he was very busy. Chen Xi took it over and found that Shen Pei did not lie to him.

The content of the review manual is a collection of reports from the owners of various bunkers, which mainly revolves around two aspects: one is the Han people who drink cold water and eat raw food; the other is the fight caused by disputes among people who go out to log and hunt.

These trivial matters have been tried by relevant military officials. Now they have been reported to the trial process and punishment decisions. Cold water and raw food can easily lead to illness. At this time, the people's wisdom has not been opened, so they can only be determined by the law and punished for labor.

Nowadays, Yang Yi has spread the world through business. Rice in the south is cheap, but it is not suitable for preservation. Nowadays, rice is mostly eaten with rice, but millet is rare, and rice is mostly rewarded. Basically, as long as one day of service, you will be given three days of food, and even according to the work station, the most are even ten days.

Basically, every family can have surplus food. When they are full, all kinds of troubles will naturally arise. Chen Xi overcame the agent and sets the tone in a few words, and insists on pulling the Shen Pei to do the work of registering households and communicating the people.

Shen Pei had no choice but to open the book to review it. At this time, he was a little puzzled: "General Chen is now a world of wise and famous, so why not take the opportunity to recruit virtuous, handsome and handsome men to enrich the shogunate?"

These offensive affairs are left to the men to handle, so why bother to drag themselves down? Shen Pei didn't understand. He was willing to help him knowing that Chen Xi would not let him take responsibility at this time, otherwise he would not accept anything.

Chen Xi smiled bitterly at this time. It was not easy to get people. Nowadays, there are only one literate persons. Most of these literate people were born in aristocratic families. Although they focused on training in Yan State, in just a few months, those who had been trained in the crash course were transferred to the fort system to serve as the fort owners.

Although some people defected to him before, after Chen Xi's investigation, there were basically few people who were attracted to him. Now most of his subordinates are trained by themselves.

There were no outsiders on the left and right, Chen Xi said directly at this time: "I thought that the only ones who came to my school were poor families. I never thought that they were all from generation to generation and were all from the children of the princes, but they were not in line with my philosophy."

Before, he could break up with the gentry at any time. Chen Xi did not dare to use the gentry's children. Those who devoted themselves to his own disciples had to investigate several times and also examine the background before he could be credited.

With a long sigh, Chen Xi raised his head to drink tea, and then said, "I am not biased, but the world is inseparable."

When Shen Pei heard this, he couldn't say anything. Although his friendship was good, the system was different. Chen Xi was trusted by the eldest princess, and most of the things he did were secrets. However, the family first in everything, and the two sides naturally had a big difference in concepts...

Now the eldest princess is determined to split the powerful family and let each family separate its own families. Only a few can be preserved. For example, the Zhen family was able to develop rapidly at the time and gained great power from the Zhen family.

Although it was robbed, the Zhen family in Zhongshan was not exterminated. After fully participating in the commercial system under the command of Princess, they also made many contributions. Even the daughter of Zhen family was able to marry Zhao Yun, the current general of the thief, and recovered her vitality.

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