Zhao Haiping is in the historical slice.

Dongping.

"General, these are all Fake Chu's household registration books. With these, the household registration and tax situation of Fake Chu's hometown will be clear!"

Zhao Haiping nodded and asked his men to place these books properly.

Since the second great victory in Zhuxian Town, the situation among the Qi, Jin, and Zhaoyi armies has changed several times.

First, Qi Gaozong surrendered on the spot and issued an edict to appease General Han Fuyue. At the same time, he expressed his intention to recruit troops, probably because he was afraid that he would actually attack him on the spot;

Wanyan Sheng suffered heavy losses, and the Jin people were unable to fight anymore, so they had to retreat temporarily and sign a peace treaty with the Qi Dynasty;

As for the Zhaoyi Army led by Zhao Haiping, they continue to fight on the land north of the Huaihe River.

Although from an emotional point of view, Zhao Haiping would like to fight directly south and directly destroy the Dog Emperor and Qin Huizhi, from a rational point of view, this idea is obviously not realistic for the time being.

At this time, the Qi Dynasty still had the legal principles to rule, and there were still a large number of people and troops in the south who were loyal to the Qi Dynasty.

General Han Fuyue, played by Zhao Haiping, did not actually rebel at this time. He only established the Zhaoyi Army and was in a state of obeying orders but not obeying orders.

Qi Gaozong asked him to retreat, but he stayed to continue the war and defeated the Jin army. Morality and justice were on Zhao Haiping's side.

But if he really left the Jin alone and raised his troops to fight south, he would have lost his morality. Not to mention the chances of winning on the battlefield, the soldiers under his command might mutiny.

Therefore, this matter cannot be rushed.

During this period, Zhao Haiping led the Zhaoyi Army and was basically doing two things.

The first is to distribute all the captured land to the people who provided military supplies to the Zhaoyi Army and the soldiers who made military exploits as originally agreed.

The second is to continue to pursue Xu Chu's territory and pursue him fiercely.

The Puppet Chu was a puppet regime established by the Jin army in the north of the Qi Dynasty a few years ago. The emperor was Liu Yu, the original surrender of the Qi Dynasty.

The Puppet Chu State was originally set to be based in Damingfu, one of the five capitals of the Qi Dynasty. However, because it was afraid of the resistance of the soldiers and civilians of Damingfu, it later moved to Dongping and established its rule here.

The Puppet Chu's territory started from the Shaanxi Road bordering the original Qi Dynasty and Xixia in the west, to Shandong in the east, and to the Huaihe River in the south. It can be said that two out of five of the original Qi Dynasty's territories were eliminated.

Most of the old lands of the Qi Dynasty conquered by the Jin were handed over to the puppet Chu regime. The Jin themselves personally ruled an area east of the river including Zhending Prefecture and Daming Prefecture.

Of course there is a reason for the Jin people to do this.

At that time, the Jin people were still in a slavery society. Compared with the rule of the Qi Dynasty, it could be said to be extremely cruel, and the level of governance was very low.

Although they can use powerful military force to conquer these lands, they cannot establish long-term and stable governance in a short time.

Therefore, the Jin people decided to support Liu Yu in establishing a puppet regime and help them temporarily manage these areas and slowly digest them.

In real history, seven years after the establishment of the Puppet Chu, it did not achieve the results the Jin people wanted. Not only did this puppet regime fail to relieve the Jin people, but it was beaten violently by many generals of the Qi Dynasty, and the Jin people had to send troops

Rescue has become a big burden.

As a result, the Jin people abolished Puppet Chu and began to rule this area by themselves.

At this time, the Jin people actually had not had time to destroy Puppet Chu, because they were beaten by Zhao Haiping and were unable to find their way.

Zhao Haiping started to operate on Pseudo-Chu.

The rule of Puppet Chu was already unpopular. At this time, it was already in turmoil. Rebels were everywhere. The Zhaoyi Army fought in this area, which was almost like a home battle.

Moreover, Puppet Chu was not only dishonest, but also very wealthy. In order to support him, the Jin people gave him many war horses, and these horses were naturally captured by Zhao Haiping.

At this time, Zhao Haiping had led the Zhaoyi Army to fight all the way to Dongping, and the puppet Chu emperor Liu Yu had long since fled to the Kingdom of Jin.

Zhao Haiping naturally took over the old land of Pseudo-Chu.

Then, Zhao Haiping stopped temporarily.

Because after conquering such a large territory, he had to digest it a little.

The Zhaoyi Army did not have many people at first, and only about 30,000 people from the 100,000-strong army actually stayed behind voluntarily.

But after that, they fought all the way and won consecutive battles, and people from all over the country also joined in. Therefore, at this time, the army in Zhao Haiping's hands had once again reached one hundred thousand, which was even greater than when he was under the Qi Dynasty.

Problems also arise.

First of all, the quality of these soldiers is uneven. Among them are hypocritical prisoners, ordinary farmers who have never fought, and some green forest people with gangster habits.

To transform them all into qualified soldiers, it still takes a certain amount of time of hard training.

Moreover, these conquered lands must also be garrisoned by separate troops.

One very important reason why Zhao Haiping was able to win consecutive battles and achieve great success was that he would really allocate land to these farmers and soldiers!

In the process of dividing land, there will inevitably be obstacles.

For example, what should we do if we conquer some areas, but the local powerful families occupy a large amount of fertile land and are unwilling to distribute these fertile lands to farmers and soldiers?

Whether it is killing chickens to scare monkeys or killing them all to redistribute the land, in short, a strong army is needed to carry out the operation of dividing the land.

Otherwise, after the army leaves, these lands will still be taken back, which means all the work has been in vain.

What's more, although Jin Ren and Qi Chao seemed to have been defeated at this time, no one could say whether they would seize the opportunity and suddenly come back. It would be embarrassing if the empty house in the rear was stolen.

Therefore, after Zhao Haiping took over Puppet Chu's large territory, he temporarily stopped and began to rectify internally and slowly digest it.

And he is very convinced that as long as he is given a year or two, he can create a victorious army of kings!

Because the army composed of farmers and good family members was synonymous with invincibility in ancient times.

Look at the older dynasties, such as the Chu Dynasty, or the early years of the Liang Dynasty. The reason why those soldiers were so powerful was because most of them were composed of farmers and good family members.

Although it sounds like soldiers who combine military and peasantry are no match for specially recruited professional soldiers, in actual fighting this is not the case at all.

Because when recruiting soldiers, the soldiers are given nothing more than money and food, and under the premise of large-scale recruitment like the Qi Dynasty, the money and food given will not be very much.

In terms of its appeal to soldiers, it is actually quite lacking.

The key to the integration of soldiers and farmers is that these soldiers can obtain land through military merit. Land was the most important means of production in ancient times, and it was incomparable to any gold and silver treasures.

The gold and silver may be squandered, but the land can be passed down from generation to generation, so that future generations can have a stable meal.

As for why these armies collapsed...

That's because this kind of military-civilian integration system can never withstand land annexation.

As land continues to be annexed, these soldiers lose their land, and their combat effectiveness will plummet after being neglected for a long time. They have neither the ability nor the motivation to fight, and the entire military system will naturally collapse.

But no matter what, in the early years of the dynasty, as long as the division of land can be implemented, it is almost possible to create a strong army with an extremely strong will to fight.

This was almost always the case for dynasties such as Chu, Liang, and Sheng, which had extremely strong martial virtues in their early stages.

The Qi Dynasty won the country unfairly, so in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the problem of land annexation had always existed, and it could not be solved at all later.

But now, Zhao Haiping is using the Zhaoyi Army to attack the puppet Chu territories. Although these are the old territories of the Qi Dynasty, they have been occupied for many years, so the resistance to many things is naturally much smaller.

However, in the next two years, in addition to dividing the land and training troops, Zhao Haiping also has two very important things to do.

One is to use the Zhaoyi Army as the skeleton to temporarily establish a military control system to govern this area.

The second is to negotiate peace with the Jin people and the Qi Dynasty.

The former is actually not that difficult, because...it all depends on the support of peers.

The taxes of the Qi Dynasty were extremely heavy. Many taxes were based on the old system of the previous dynasty, but many new types of taxes were added later. Wang Wenchuan wanted to solve this problem when he carried out the reform, but after doing it over and over, it only worsened in the end.

The burden of the people.

During the Qi Dynasty, some people said: "The ancient methods of carving and peeling are all prepared in this dynasty." Others said: "The amount of taxes in this dynasty is seven times that of Liang and dozens of times that of Chu."

All in all, the Qi Dynasty exploited the people a lot, and recorded the most peasant uprisings in history books than any other dynasty.

Most of these taxes were spent on redundant soldiers, redundant officials, and redundant expenses.

In addition to maintaining the huge expenses of the bureaucracy, they also had to pay tribute to the Jin people. This was a very huge burden.

Under the rule of Pseudo-Chu, people's lives became even more difficult.

In fact, Pupi Chu really considered implementing the tithe law at first. If it could be implemented, it would indeed greatly reduce the burden on farmers, and it might even win more people's hearts than the Qi Dynasty.

But it is still the key problem that Wang Wenchuan encountered during his reform: his ability to control the grassroots is simply not enough!

How can it be possible for those powerful families to implement this kind of tax law honestly? They must collude with the officials, and ultimately transfer the heavy burden to the common people.

And whether it is the Qi Dynasty or the Puppet Chu Dynasty, it is impossible to really use the sword against the powerful, after all, it is the foundation of their rule.

As a result, this new tax law could not continue, and it returned to the old way of the Qi Dynasty.

In addition, the Puppet Chu was actually a puppet regime supported by the Jin people. If the Jin people wanted to use troops, it would have to help draw troops; if the Jin people wanted to continuously obtain various materials from here, it would have to continuously

Exploiting people.

You can only imagine how the people are doing.

But what is surprising is that even if the Puppet Chu regime has reached this level, its rule does not cause anger and resentment, and the people are in dire straits. Compared with the Qi Dynasty, it still has a slight advantage.

Historical records record that as the Puppet Chu rule continued, order and agricultural production in the Central Plains gradually recovered, and many people slowly accepted the rule of the Puppet Chu regime.

There are fewer and fewer people like Yu Jiaxuan who start an uprising whenever they disagree.

So many officials and military generals of the Qi Dynasty began to worry that the people of the Central Plains "were getting older and more polluted, and the trend was the same and could no longer be transferred" and alienated the Qi Dynasty.

In short, although Puppet Chu's governance ability is not very good, compared with Qi Dynasty, which has equally poor governance ability, it is evenly matched, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.
To be continued...