Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 37 053. Subsequent events
The potato poisoning incident sounded the alarm for Wang Hao. Although he has laid a large fortune now,

With 20 mercenaries and many elite soldiers and generals under his command, he spanned the three prefectures of Yang, Jing, and Jiao.

But when the territory is large, there will be many trivial things. These things may seem insignificant, but one day they will become a catastrophe.

The Qin Empire swept through the seven kingdoms and unified the world, why did it die after two generations?

Yang Jian in the Sui Dynasty, like the first emperor, not only unified the world, but also ended the era of the five chaos.

But when it came to Yang Guang's generation, the second generation died,

Both of these dynasties were destined to perish because of tyranny.

Then why did other dynasties, like the prosperous Tang Dynasty, which flourished without closing their doors at night, slowly perish?

There is such a story, there is a village near the bank of the Yellow River. In order to prevent floods, the farmers built a towering long embankment.

One day, an old farmer accidentally found that the ant nest had suddenly increased a lot.

The old farmer wondered whether these ant nests would affect the safety of the long dike?
He was going back to the village to report, and met his son on the way.

The old farmer's son didn't take it seriously and said, "Are you afraid of a few ants on such a strong long embankment?"Pull the old farmer to go to the field together.

That night, with heavy wind and rain, the water in the Yellow River swelled violently. The roaring water seeped out of the ant nest, then spurted out, and finally burst the embankment and flooded people.

The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in an ant nest. This story is definitely not a joke.
The Han Dynasty experienced 400 years of vicissitudes. During the period of Emperor Heng of the Han Dynasty, eunuchs had exclusive power. In the 26th year of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, eunuchs and relatives were still competing for power.

Aristocratic families regard ordinary people as inferior to pigs and dogs, while powerful landlords treat people like cattle and horses, and the land also makes people unable to survive.

Only then did the Yellow Turban Rebellion occur, and the transformation of the governor into a state shepherd led to the situation of separatism among the heroes.

In the final analysis, it was the imperial dynasty's mediocrity, its disregard of the people as human beings, coupled with drought, military disasters, locust plagues, plagues and rampant bandits, the Liu Han family would perish.

Although Liu Jianwen did not know about the potato poisoning incident this time,
However, this has a lot to do with his attitude. As the steward of the production area, he can't escape his responsibility.

The whole story is simple and simple, but complicated means that I can’t finish it in three days.
The matter started with Liu Jianwen's younger brother, Liu Jianhe. When Liu Jianwen climbed the big tree like Wang Hao, it was considered as a rising tide. Liu Jianhe also followed his cousin and became a worker in the planting area.

There are two planting areas under Wuling County, both of which are reported to the prefect of Wuling County by the steward.

Then report that Xu Yuanzhi came here, so when he was in charge, and then reported to the county magistrate level by level, all he could see was the data.

Liu Jianwen governs the planting area, and the reported grain output has increased every year.

This is also a matter of course, after all, the planting technology continues to mature,
Moreover, the development land is getting wider and wider, so the output cannot still decline.

Last year, due to several months of drought, the corn harvest did not meet expectations,

Liu Jianwen and the steward of another production area both concealed the matter,

They withhold from the share of ricks distributed to farmers to make up for the shortfall in production.

Of course, farmers also need food such as corn and potatoes. After all, several members of their family are waiting to eat.

They just helped Wang Hao plant, not their own food.

Of course, there is also a discount for deduction from the monthly salary, so what they got last year was all defective corn, and some of them had even sprouted.

But they didn't complain either. It's not that they can't eat this kind of corn, it's just that it's more unpalatable.

It is much better than gnawing bark during the war in the north,
And they usually have some savings, and they can still use it to buy some wheat and rice, so this matter is over.

But this year, for some reason, the output of potatoes is one layer lower than that of previous years.

So another steward made an appointment with Liu Jianwen to take out the inexhaustible potato seeds in early spring,
Then use the part of the grower to fill in and enter the report.

Liu Jianwen didn't agree this time, he remembered Wang Hao told him,
Any potato that is moldy, rotten, or sprouting cannot be allowed to enter the market, and no one can eat such potatoes.

But his cousin Liu Jianhe, behind Liu Jianwen's back, exchanged the part that should have been given to the growers into inventory,
Most of the stocks that have not been planted in early spring have sprouted,
The growers didn't know that eating germinated potatoes would cause poisoning, so they readily accepted the potatoes given by Liu Jianhe, after all, they could get more this time.

If it's just this little thing, Wang Hao asked Xuefeng to send mercenaries to make unannounced visits all the way.
There is a problem in all counties under the rule, and that is corruption in internal affairs.

The output reported by each production area each year actually reaches only about eight floors of Wang Hao's treasury.

There are two other floors that have been corrupted by these people, the most serious of which are some local families.

After Wang Hao settled in Changsha County, he drove away those big families, and the rest of them, the township chiefs, Lizheng chiefs, and pavilion chiefs, were not big or small officials, who had always had various problems.

It is also a shackles of this era. Many people know that these people are greedy for ink.

But they dare not say it and are unwilling to say it. They think that the way of the world is like this,

They think that any random person from these small families with a few drops of ink is superior to them.

As long as they are left with a way to survive, they can eat and drink enough to not suffer from the chaos of war, they are willing to redouble their hard work in exchange for the current life,
And those descendants of the aristocratic family also think that this is what they should do, so they have created what they are today.

"Yuanzhi, do you still remember that you told me some time ago that you didn't know how to arrange the first batch of students who graduated from Haoyang Academy, and now the opportunity has come..."

Wang Hao sat at the head and said with a smile on his face, but Xu Yuanzhi and Xi Zhicai,

You can feel the cold murderous intent from Wang Hao's tone,
Dian Wei didn't know what Wang Hao meant, but sitting next to Wang Hao, he also felt Wang Hao's murderous intent.

Because of the potato poisoning incident, a large hidden scourge was drawn out,
Wang Hao intends to get rid of this malignant tumor at once, although this may cause confusion for a period of time under the rule,
However, it is only limited to internal affairs. With absolute force to suppress, no one can cause any big waves.

Starting from Changsha County, the four counties of Jingzhou have been rounded up, and nearly [-] giants have been found.

Among them, two pavilion chiefs actually falsely reported the harvest and sent the grain of Tanmo to Liu Biao in Nanyang. This is definitely the worst evil.

After that, I went to a few counties in Yangzhou. There was no big problem here just after it was settled down, but the more it was like this, the more aristocratic families were greedy for ink.

They really thought that Wang Hao didn't dare to do anything to them. A large number of mercenaries soon landed in various parts of Yangzhou, and they would be tortured by the mercenaries.

Relatively speaking, Jiaozhou is less greedy for ink. After all, most of them are pastures here.

If cattle and sheep want to succeed, they need channels and manpower. There are no medium or large aristocratic families here.

Naturally, there is no such thing as huge greed, but there are quite a few minor problems!

(End of this chapter)