Chapter 52 The Alternative Farming System
As the saying goes, geniuses are one step ahead of the times, saints are ten steps ahead, and 100 steps ahead are aliens.
There is also the saying that in an era, you must do what you need to do.
Therefore, Lin Chen’s plan is not complicated.
It is not much higher than the current era.
He just made a small change in the upcoming major change in the current era.
Major changes were the weapon for Cao Cao to grow rapidly in this era: the military farm system.
This system was naturally not proposed by Zao Zhi or Han Hao at first.
The earliest military farming system appeared during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han.
According to the records of the Grand Historian, Emperor Wu first entered the Western Regions, established a lieutenant, and stationed a farm and ploughed the fields.
Of course, the military farming system proposed by Zao Zhi and Han Hao has made certain changes to the existing system.
For example, the original military farming system only needs to ensure the needs of the current army.
The military farming system proposed by Zao Zhi and Han Hao was directly supplied to Cao Cao, nominally providing it to the Han Dynasty centered on Emperor Xian of Han.
This system emerged because the wealthy families and aristocratic families in the Central Plains occupied extremely vast fertile land. Although Cao Cao was considered a very powerful leader of the Central Plains in modern times, he always had to worry about food.
After several food shortage battles, Cao Cao was very upset. Finally, after welcoming Emperor Xian of Han, his reputation reached a certain level, and he took advantage of the situation and completely promoted the military farm system.
After that, Cao Cao never felt worried about food again.
This completely laid the position of the heroic ruler of the Central Plains and laid a solid foundation for the later northern overlords.
Lin Chen made a slight change based on the military farm system proposed by Zao Zhi and Han Hao.
Under his conception, the farmland outside the city, including the northern part of Jurong to Baohua Mountain, Qixia Mountain, Tangshan, Nanshan and other areas, completely belonged to the Han Dynasty since then.
The people in this area will be protected by these armed gangs hiding in the scenic area and reclaimed farmland.
For the opened fields, they only need to hand over 20% of the income to the armed gangs to store them in case they hand them over to the Han court.
The remaining 80% are equally divided by the forts and villas formed by the people, so that they can live a good life where they can eat and drink as long as the weather is good.
It seems that this plan seems to be prepared for Sun Ce, or for Sun Ce's future, and it may even give him a solid foundation...
But this just looks good.
The armed gangs in the mountain spoke very nicely. Even if Lin Chen only represented the passing prince Liu Bei, most of them treated each other with courtesy.
But don't forget, they are human beings too.
If you are a person, you will have greed.
When the two deals are in their hands, will they still be willing to hand over the food to Sun Ce?
Go dreaming!
These people will only take the opportunity to continue to grow and grow until they occupy the Jinlingyi area and completely develop this area into a big pit.
A big pit that Sun Ce group will never be able to take down as long as there are tens of thousands of soldiers.
In the scenic area...hehe, in the mountains, they are much more familiar with Sun Ce and others.
This is the location.
Sun Ce is awesome, but Lin Chen dares to guarantee that he will never dare to invest large-scale troops in this area, otherwise it will easily cause Yuan Shu's misunderstanding and the future boss Cao's attention.
This gives local armed groups an opportunity to grow and grow.
When they grow to a certain level, even if Sun Ce gives his official position, these guys are afraid that they will not be willing to come out.
Some people may say, can't Sun Ce burn all the farmland in this area during their development?
You should know that in history, the Sun family dealt with Shanyue, and they have been pushing millions of Shanyue to the point of ending their lives. This is why the historical events of the initial development of Jiangnan were officially launched...
From Jurong to those scenic spots, there are plains.
Could it be that Sun Ce would never have imagined burning the farmland?
To be honest, Lin Chen really wished Sun Ce would do this.
The reason why he wanted to unite the armed gangs in the scenic spots was that Sun Ce would go to that point.
What should I do if the farmland is burned?
The local people would immediately treat the Sun family as a thorn in their eyes and treat it with thorns in their flesh.
In addition, don't forget that Yuan Shuke is in the north.
It is not impossible for these armed gangs to surrender to Yuan Shu in anger.
Anyone who knows some common sense in geography knows that if the Jinling area is cut off, it will be cut off in one or two pieces of Jiangnan area.
Simply put, if Sun Ce caused all the people's hearts to be lost, he would be completely unable to turn his attention to Humao, Moling, Shicheng, Liyang and even Danyang County.
Will Yuan Shu not see this?
Lin Chen doesn't believe it!
Will Boss Cao not see it?
That was even more dreaming. Although Cao Cao was full of problems, his strategic vision was definitely the top in the world.
In Lin Chen's opinion, the only time when this big pit could be unraveled was probably the period when Yuan Shu became emperor.
However, at that time, he felt that Sun Ce should not dare to move.
The Jinling area is very wealthy!
If Yuan Shu had finally retreated with his armed forces, he would suddenly realize the idea of fighting for the hard-working masses. Sun Ce happened to force all the armed gangs in Jinling area to anger...
At that time, I'm afraid the whole era will tremble.
Lin Chen was scared even if he thought about it.
Therefore, this pit should be either kept and mainly comforted those armed groups.
In this way, the people will rely more on armed groups, and they will also be closer to the people.
These people almost created an invincible golden body.
Or, Sun Ce would forcefully suppress it, then attract Yuan Shu or future Cao Cao's gaze, and then these two sides would cut off the possibility of Jiangdong's rise.
There is no third choice.
Some people may say, wouldn’t the guys in the mountains surrender to Sun Ce?
Yes, there is this possibility.
But don't forget that people are greedy. When they can get a large amount of food they have never thought about every year... they may gradually awaken their ambitions.
Once a person has ambitions, he will never destroy his foundation again.
In addition, since Lin Chen left this pit, he would of course leave some of his own people in the pit.
This time, among the two thousand people he brought out of the city, he would choose some of them who were loyal and capable, stay here to mediate with the armed groups, and always keep in touch with Liu Bei.
Maybe this big pit can play a huge role in the future.
"The only bad thing about this method is probably that Sun Ce will see the benefits of farming. In the future, he may have a deeper foundation..."
Liu Bei subconsciously made a judgment as he watched the two thousand troops gradually scattered and helped the people farm. He also had some worries on his face.
"No, absolutely not!"
Lu Su, who was next to him, stared at Lin Chen's back with a cold body and said firmly: "Unless Sun Ce cleaned up all the Jiangdong family, he would never be able to use it even if he saw the military farm system."
"The Jiangdong family has too much power to control, far from being able to destroy Sun Ce."
After speaking, his eyes continued to stare at Lin Chen's back and smiled bitterly: "I suspect that this point should have been thought of before. He didn't even say it last night, but even the plans he revealed on the surface were enough to convince the lord and me..."
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