Zhang Fei left, and seeing the excited look on his face, Chen Xi knew that 80% likely this guy would have a big fight in Mount Tai before coming back.
The next day Liu Bei came in, watching Chen Xi leisurely drink tea in the government office, feeling a little helpless. After such a long time, Liu Bei no longer worried that Chen Xi would be exhausted. He understood how much trouble there would be if that guy frowned. He believed Chen Xi's words on the road, the political strategy was what he was good at.
"Chen Xi feels bored again?" Liu Bei asked with a smile. He hardly handles government affairs now. Except for the promotion or punishment of his subordinates, other aspects are basically left to Chen Xi. He spends more time selecting people with good physical fitness among the refugees and training them. Up to now, the more than 10,000 recruits are really similar in physique.
"Drains, wells, roads are being dug everywhere, and the city walls have been renovated. Finally, hundreds of thousands of people are called out to do everything at once, and a lot of things will be saved in the future." Chen Xi pretended to take out some slips and look through it. Even though he knew that Liu Bei know his personality, he was still accustomed to dressing up in front of his boss, so he couldn't be too much.
Jian Yong snickered at the side, laughing at Chen Xi's pretending to look through the slips. The slips were taken upside down and he was still reading.
"Does Zhao Yun Tuntian system meets Chen Xi's requirements?" Liu Bei asked. He was still not at ease with Zhao Yun's abilities. After all, it is not easy for a man with such a high level of martial arts to make a contribution to political strategy.
"Probably the only people who can compete with him on the Tuntian system in the world can be counted on one hand." Chen Xi said proudly, "And there is basically no way to win him."
This is not just Chen Xi's bragging, after all, the Tuntian system is a new thing at this time. Although someone had done it before, after Zaoyi's renovation, it was basically a different matter from the previous system. Now after Chen Xi informed Zhao Yun of Zaoyi's Tuntian system, he let Zhao Yun take a look at the modification himself.
Zhao Yun's intelligence is not bad. Although he has never seen this new Tuntian system, he can tell whether it is good or bad, and he will naturally analyze the system with his own eyes. According to Zhao Yun's own words, this Tuntian system is indeed a way to quickly accumulate national power, but isn't it a bit too much? Is it a bit cruel for the common people to divide their yield by 50%?
Chen Xi was too lazy to explain to Zhao Yun that the people would live better than before after the fifty-fifty split. After all, the middle class was cut off, The land tax was 30%, the land rent was 50%, so only 20% of the crops a year could fall into their own hands. This is why Ming and Han Dynasty did not lack land, but the common people were starving to death.
As for the fifty-fifty split that Chen Xi said, it was based on the average value of the output of a random inspection. Without private tax, Chen Xi guaranteed that even if the sixty acres were half-divided in a small disaster year, they would not die from starvation. As a result, Zhao Yun argue with Chen Xi, and he couldn't win the argument with Chen Xi, so he took a handful of people with him to collect information angrily, and he had came back a few days ago.
On-site investigations are absolutely important. After more than half a month of research, Zhao Yun discovered that what Chen Xi said was true. The fifty to fifty splits can even pass the disaster year. Is this still reasonable? Then why did the Yellow Turban Rebellion occur before?
When Zhao Yun came back, he was holding a spear with a gloomy face. Giving a look that could poke two holes in Chen Xi, he held a spear and debated with Chen Xi again, from tax system to farming, from yield per mu to the disaster year. After an hour of debate, even Jian Yong was shocked, never realizing that Zhao Yun knew so much.
In the end, Chen Xi shrugged and said that the Tuntian system was handed over to Zhao Yun to settled, and there was no need to tell him. If Zhao Yun have any needs, he can read the book, or go to the field to investigate, and take care of it himself if there is a problem.
That's how Chen Xi sent Zhao Yun away. Although he could find many loopholes in Zhao Yun's Tuntian system, Chen Xi was more willing to believe that Zhao Yun himself would notice these things. Of course, that was with the passage of time and field inspections. It can be discovered, but it is undeniable that he has already taken his own steps.
Listening to Jian Yong talking about the previous events, Liu Bei sighed, "The decree of the Han Dynasty is not wrong. What's wrong is that there are always people who take advantage of the loopholes. There are no shortage of talents in the family, but they use it in the wrong direction."
"Any government decrees will have loopholes, it's just a matter of how many. After all, anything can change at any time. It is normal for the golden rules of the past to be inconsistent with the present. What is important is to keep pace with the times." Chen Xi said helplessly.
Chen Xi found that he had to instill something new in Liu Bei. If Liu Bei kept holding on to the deficiencies, he would eventually become a Emperor Guangwu even if the world was unified. Chen Xi wanted the spirit of the Emperor Qin or Han Wu that chase down the North, and he wanted the kind of courage that would overwhelm the entire era. Sword pointing to the ambition of the world, like Han Wu's last military force to reach the level of seeking solitary defeat. And he doesn't want Liu Bei to be bound between aristocratic family and the foreigners like Guangwu.
The rise of Guangwu represented the gradual dissipation of the martial spirit that would not bend. He bowed his head to the aristocratic family, lowered it until it became a habit. He has forgotten the original spirit of "the Huns are not destroyed, why do you consider going home", and forgotten the burden of enduring humiliation and shameless determination.
To be honest, Chen Xi is not afraid of a Han Wudi (Han Wu), even if the domestic people's heart are unstable in order to clean up the Xiongnu (Huns), and even if there will be civil riots, how bad can it be? At least after the war, there were more than one hundred years of recuperation time. One hundred years, one generation brought one hundred years of cultivation time. What is there to worry about?
In the later period of Han Wu, the people's sentiment appeared unstable, but the Xiongnu was basically abolished. If you want to cultivate and recuperate, then you can cultivate and recuperate. When Emperor Jingdi took the throne and you said that you want to cultivate and recuperate, you also need to see whether the Xiongnu is willing or not. Emperor Han Wu wasn't worried about people's sentiment at all. After that, Emperor Xuan of Han (Han Xuan) continued to cultivate and recuperate to a prosperous age. In other words, if Emperor Wu of Han (Han Wu) did not cause much trouble, and Emperor Xuan would not be so stable.
After Emperor Han Xuan, if another ruthless man of Han Wu level was produced and then repeated, basically equivalent to the operation of the whole world spinning the wool. Then the Han Dynasty can conquer all of Asia...
Look at Guangwu again. After Guangwu the aristocratic family were in power. There was no ruthless person to suppress the aristocratic family and their relatives. For more than a hundred years, the aristocratic family became stronger and stronger until they started looking at the emperor's throne. In the end, they forced the Han Dynasty to death. It was a tragedy.
It is precisely because of this that Chen Xi now prefers to instill the poor soldier Liu Bei rather than let him follow the old road of Guangwu. At least the old road of Han Wu can be passed on as long as the people can withstand it, and the old road of Guangwu is completely a dead end. At the end, even if it is not "high-grade Wuhanmen, low-grade nobles", it is estimated that it would not be much better. After all, the essence of the aristocratic family was left there, and there was no force to suppress the problems.
With this thought in mind, Chen Xi now has something to do and meets with Liu Bei, so that he can instills some domineering, kingly, heavenly thoughts.