Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 84 Trouble Encountered in Recruitment

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In the future, Zhu Wei will naturally implement the garrison system, which is definitely a good strategy to solve the food problem.

In the original history of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao adopted Zaoyi's garrison strategy, which solved the big problem of food shortage for Cao Cao in the early Three Kingdoms period.

At least during the war period, using official means to ensure a certain amount of manpower to open up wasteland and grow grain, and collect grain with ten taxes and four, can reserve sufficient grain for military wars, and can also feed the people in the fields.

This is tantamount to letting the warlord become a large manor owner, seizing land and manpower from the local gentry and tyrants, and meeting the food requirements self-sufficiently.

Otherwise, relying on the gentry and powerful to pay taxes and so on will not be able to meet the food reserve requirements for military warfare, and will make the warlords subject to the local gentry and powerful clans.

It's just that although Zhu Wei knew the general idea of ​​the farming system, Zhu Wei didn't know exactly how it was done and what problems would arise during the farming process.

Therefore, taking advantage of the current period of temporary resettlement of the people in Liyang, we can just use them to do farming experiments, so as to lay the foundation for the large-scale implementation of the farming system in Zhu Wei's control area in the future.

After Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan discussed this matter, Wang Yuyan also agreed very much.

It's a pity that Zhu Wei doesn't have any more manpower at hand, so he can only let the two Liyang officials who have taken refuge in him, and a few respected elders selected from the Liyang people to help take charge.

After solving these basic survival problems, Zhu Weicai really cared about the recruitment issue.

To be honest, within a few days after sending out the recruiting news, not many people from Zhu Wei's side came to join the army, that is, some shabby settlers and rangers in Lingyang County seemed to have joined the army under the arrangement of the Liyang County Magistrate.

But these people are free and undisciplined, and they can't bear hardships, so it's not very suitable at all. I'm afraid it will take a lot of time to tame them, Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan don't think it's very suitable.

But now there is really no one, and Zhu Wei can only reluctantly put it away and restrain it. As for whether he can endure hardships, whether he can stay in the end is up to him.

However, the common people that Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan really wanted to find did not come to join the army very often. It seemed that someone secretly blocked Zhu Wei's recruiting plan.

At first Zhu Wei thought it was Yuzhang's Ruo Rong who noticed Zhu Wei's move and did something secretly, but later Zhu Wei found out that the force secretly obstructing it was precisely this big family in Lingyang County.

After Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan analyzed it, they understood the reason.

After all, Danyang County, where Lingyang County is located, is not a county in the north, and has not been affected by the Yellow Turban Uprising, so the common people in the local area have been controlled by the local gentry, powerful and other powerful families for most of their freedom.

And how could the local snakes in these places send the young and strong labor force to Zhu Wei as soldiers for nothing.

Anyone who is young and strong wants it, even if it is not used as a labor force for farming and labor, it can also be absorbed as a private soldier and housekeeper in such a troubled world.

In other words, Zhu Wei's recruitment of troops in Lingyang County was contrary to the interests of these local snakes in Lingyang.

Anyway, for three or four days in a row, there were very few people who joined the army, so Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan were really worried about this. The recruiting didn't work, so they couldn't send people to the countryside to recruit young men directly.

In this way, I am afraid that there will be direct conflicts with these local snakes in Lingyang, and maybe they will meet with each other in battle, which is really troublesome.

If this continues, when will Zhu Wei be able to fight Yuzhang?

In addition, Zhu Wei discovered that although the county magistrate of Lingyang County was cooperating with him on the surface, he issued a recruitment notice in the name of Lingyang County, and sent messengers to the four miles and eight townships to follow Zhu Wei to recruit soldiers. They walked together, and seemed to be helping Zhu Wei to promote the recruitment of soldiers.

But he is just pretending, in fact, he is in a state of not working hard.

Zhu Wei also inquired and understood that the county magistrate of Lingyang County was originally from a noble family in Lingyang County, which meant that he represented the interests of local snakes in Lingyang, so naturally he would not really do things sincerely for Zhu Wei, an outsider.

The local county magistrates of this year are not as powerful as the county magistrates of the later period.

If you are not from the gentry, then you will be under the pressure of the sandwich cake. The upper level is urging you to do something, but the lower level gentry and powerful people will not do it.

But if the county magistrate is from a local gentry or a powerful family, he can become the local emperor. No matter what the higher-ups order, the lower-level officials can do what they want, and they are not afraid of being demoted.

This is what the magistrate of Lingyang now meant. Although Liu Yao ordered him to cooperate, he cooperated, but it was just a pretense.

Of course, the thousands of soldiers and horses brought by Zhu Wei also made him dare not confront them in the open.

Zhu Wei suddenly felt that Liu Yao asked him to come to Lingyang to recruit soldiers, and it seemed that he also asked him to help him teach the not-so-obedient Lingyang County. This is definitely a conspiracy.

But the cause of the problem was guessed, but it still couldn't solve the real recruitment problem.

Zhu Wei already knew who the bullies were that hindered his recruitment. There were three main clans in Lingyang County, one of which was considered a gentry family, and the other two were local tyrants, and they could even be regarded as clan thieves.

That gentry family controlled about [-]% of the population of Lingyang County, and the remaining [-]% of the population was controlled by those two local powerful families, and another [-]% of the population was controlled by other large families.

Of course, this is the population on the surface. As for the other hidden population, I don't know how many there are.

Then that gentry family has [-] private soldiers, and the other two powerful families each have [-] to [-] private soldiers. The three families are now holding each other back and maintaining the stability of Lingyang County.

Of course, when facing Zhu Wei, an outsider, they united together tacitly.

The county magistrate of Lingyang County was born in that noble family, and he was recommended as an official by virtue of his family relationship, and then obtained the official position of Lingyang county magistrate.

But even after knowing this information, Zhu Wei has nothing to do, and is still a little helpless, just like Zhu Wei had considered before, Zhu Wei can't turn his face against the local nobles and powerful people now, and he doesn't have the strength to turn his face.

As a result, you can't use violence casually, then you can only restrain your hands and feet.

Perhaps Liu Yao asked Zhu Wei to come to Lingyang County to recruit soldiers because he hoped that Zhu Wei would be young and vigorous, and come head-to-head with the gentry and powerful families in this place.

When Zhu Wei offends these local forces, if he intervenes a little more, he will be able to reap the benefits of a fisherman, and maybe he can subdue Zhu Wei from the bottom up, and he will be completely under his control in the future.

So Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan discussed it several times, but there was nothing they could do for the time being. They could only send Pang Yan, Mu Lan, and Tai Shici to take turns leading troops to Siliba Township of Lingyang County to recruit troops in person, hoping to attract some people to join the army.

As long as you sign up with him, then don't even think about running away, but this still has little effect...

　Calvin, I don’t know if writing this now is delaying the plot!Alas~
　　
　
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