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Coming to the fore Chapter 2: One is going down, the other is going up

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    In 225 AD, it had been four years since the establishment of the Three Kingdoms. Both Sun Quan and Liu Bei adopted the national policy of attacking instead of defending to harass and attack Wei. Cao Ang relied on Lu Rui's plan to defend his territory. Although he did not win a big victory, he did not lose an inch.  land.  Cao Wei fought steadily. As time went by, more and more young people joined the new army. According to Lu Rui's estimation, in ten years, the Wei State would be able to engulf Wu and Han with the power of swallowing up mountains and rivers.  Today is another day for Wei to select tiger and leopard cavalry. Cao Ang went to the school in person to select tiger and leopard cavalry. Lu Rui accompanied the king as a chariot and cavalry general.  "Long live your Majesty! Long live your Majesty!" On the school grounds, all the sergeants knelt down and shouted long live when they saw Cao Ang.  "All the clan members are exempted from the ceremony. You are all from the same clan as me. Today we are selecting martial warriors to serve in the imperial court. Please wait and see. Don't hurt the harmony." Cao Ang raised his hand to signal everyone to stand up and start the martial arts competition.  Contested.  "Thank you, Your Majesty!" After everyone stood up, they began to compete with each other. The first round of selection for the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was a melee. Thousands of people attacked at the same time. As long as they knocked down the opponent, the attack would stop with the remaining five hundred people.  (Of course, five hundred people is just an imaginary number. At about that number, Colonel Gongqian will ask everyone to stop) "Bufan, among thousands of people, I can only recognize a few people by face. It seems that the real Cao family clan  My dear, I've been slacking off a bit." Cao Ang looked at the people in the audience with surprise and disappointment. What was surprising was that there were indeed bad people among the thousands of people. What was disappointing was that few of these people were familiar to Cao Ang, which meant that he was familiar with the fifth server.  There really aren't many brothers inside.  The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was originally an elite unit composed of the clan members of the Cao and Xiahou clans. According to the selection criteria, only brothers of the Cao and Xiahou clans who were within the fifth server could participate in the selection.  But after the founding of Cao Wei.  Fewer and fewer clans are willing to participate in the Tiger and Leopard Riding.  After the founding of Cao Wei.  The first thing is of course to seal the clan. The Cao family and the Xiahou family are the two most profitable clans. Of course, everyone cannot be a general or governor, but if you are a ninth-grade official, you can be a county magistrate.  It is easy to order a general or a guerrilla general. Take the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry as an example. Ordinary soldiers have been awarded the ninth rank and can serve in local places based on their individual talents.  My father has taken up his post.  When you become a county magistrate, you are known as the Marquis of Baili, and your jurisdiction is within a hundred miles. Of course, you don't want your children to serve as tiger and leopard cavalry and charge into battle. In this way, the reserve personnel of the tiger and leopard cavalry will become less and less. The Cao family  The clan members of the Xiahou family are all willing to send their children to participate in the Hubao Festival.  Cao Ang originally wanted to disband the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, but on Lu Rui's recommendation, Cao Ang adopted Lu Rui's strategy of his own clan, relaxed the selection criteria, and retained the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.  Since ancient times, the same clan means that brothers within the fifth service are blood relatives. As long as they are out of the fifth service, they cannot be regarded as relatives.  They can only be regarded as distant relatives of the same clan.  The clansmen of the Cao family and the Xiahou family are all relatives within the Five Servers. Of course, Cao Wei received rewards after the founding of the country.  However, people of the same clan outside the fifth server had no interest. Lu Rui liberalized the selection criteria for tiger and leopard cavalry on the basis of being of the same clan. As expected, many people from the Cao and Xiahou clans in Qiao County were attracted to join the army.  "Your Majesty, this is human nature. No parent is willing to put their children in danger. Rui Zhizhi just wants to retain a loyal army for the Wei and Cao families."  Lu Rui handed over his hand and reported to Cao Ang. During the Three Kingdoms period when there were many aristocratic families, a relatively loyal army was the foundation for protecting the royal family. If Cao Mao had had guards like tiger and leopard cavalry to kill the Sima brothers when Cao Mao was in power, it might have been possible.  The outcome of Wei State will be rewritten.  "Thank you for your hard work, Bu Fan. We just let go of the soldier selection system. Will there be people from other clans mixed into the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry?" Cao Ang glanced at Lu Rui. In the past few days, Cao Ang had received a lot of reports. Some people were pretending to be  Clan members of the Cao family and Xiahou family applied to take part in the examination. Due to the long history, many people were unable to verify the authenticity.  "Your Majesty, it doesn't matter whether the Cao family and Xiahou family are members of the clan. The important point is that this army can be loyal to the Wei royal family!" Lu Rui pointed out the fundamental reason for the reorganization of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. The people who dare not participate are Cao family and Xiahou family.  The surname is just a surname. What Lu Rui wants is the loyalty of this team to the royal family of Cao Wei.  The newly formed Tiger and Leopard Cavalry has a system of rewarding officers upon retirement. That is, after the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry retire, the emperor will determine their merits and award them with a grade. The maximum cannot exceed five grades.  This is the limitation of Lu Rui's newly established nine-level Zhongzheng system. After all, in the Three Kingdoms where there are many aristocratic families, the nine-level Zhongzheng system can maintain stability.  The appointment of officials below the fifth rank will not cause objections from the wealthy families, and at the same time, it provides a reliable team for the emperor of Wei. As long as the poor people want to enter the rank, they must serve the Emperor Cao Wei with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and be loyal to Cao Wei.  Only the royal family has the opportunity to be promoted.  "Bufan is really smart. He came up with this method to restrain the family. I decided to reorganize the Tiger Guard of the original Wei Palace according to this method, so that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Tiger Guard can restrain each other to achieve the permanent imperial power!" Cao Ang has been emperor for a long time!  , emperorAfter learning a lot of martial arts, Cao Ang decided to reorganize Xu Chu's original Tiger Guard to contain the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.  "Your Majesty is wise!" Lu Rui smiled in his heart. Rebuilding the Tiger Leopard Cavalry and the Tiger Guard was just a temporary measure. If the dynasty was to last forever, it could only hope for the emergence of a wise king. Unfortunately, all dynasties did not have wise kings from generation to generation. Lu Rui  I can only extend the life of Cao Wei as much as possible, hoping to do the best in my own hands to repay Cao Cao's kindness.  The selection of tiger and leopard cavalry ended at noon. Cao Ang looked at the remaining five hundred soldiers. Although they had not been baptized by war, their faces were full of passionate fighting spirit. Cao Ang believed that as long as time passed, he could defeat this tiger and leopard cavalry.  The Leopard Cavalry is built into a new Tiger and Leopard Cavalry that surpasses Cao Cao!  Cao Wei selected strong men to strengthen the imperial army. Liu Han in the north and Sun Wu in the south were both facing the crisis of depleting their military resources.  In the palace of Yecheng, Liu Bei was wearing a dragon robe and sighed as he looked at his expressions. His generals and generals of chariots and cavalry were all asking him for new soldiers.  Guan Yu led his sons to resist Cao Wei along the Yellow River, and from time to time he sent small-scale troops to harass Cao Wei's cities. The final result was that the troops sent by Roubaozi never returned, and were either killed or surrendered to Cao Wei.  .  Additional troops should be deployed along the Yellow River to provide support.  Zhang Fei led his sons to defend Wuhuan in the north. Although they made many gains, they also faced the problem of soldiers.  Now there are not many men available for recruitment in Bingzhou.  If it is forcibly requisitioned.  There will be no labor force in the farmland, and finally it will affect the tax revenue of the court.  The northern defense line needs additional troops.  "Prime Minister, everyone is asking for soldiers from all over the country, what should I do?" Liu Bei looked at the confessions submitted by his two brothers and had a headache. He wanted soldiers from everyone. He is not a god or a person who spreads beans to form an army!  "Your Majesty, the four states of Hebei have been fighting for many years, and the people are short of soldiers. The aristocratic family has monopolized part of the people's power. Your Majesty believes that the only solution for now is to move the captured foreigners to Hebei and intermarry with the local Han people to increase the population of our country!  "Zhuge Liang bowed his hand and reported to Liu Bei that this is currently the best and most effective way. Only by Chineseizing foreign races can we enhance national strength.  "Recruit foreigners? Prime Minister, I have lived in Wuhuan in the north since I was a child. The Xiongnu are all nomadic soldiers, and they cause chaos in small groups. When we raid the Central Plains, if foreigners invade in large numbers, can our army be able to resist? If foreigners come in scattered groups,  How many people can our army recruit into the country during a surprise attack?" Liu Bei shook his head. Although Zhuge Liang's method was effective, it was unrealistic and a bit arm's length.  The foreign tribes in the north, both the Wuhuan and the Xiongnu, are nomadic tribes based on tribes. There are many tribes within the tribe, and there has been no unified leader for a long time. Even the so-called King of the Huns and the King of Wuhuan are just powerful.  Just the leader of the tribe.  Guerrilla tactics were a powerful weapon for foreigners to fight against the Central Plains dynasty in this era. Generally, foreign leaders would use their tribal strength to go deep into the Central Plains to plunder and then return outside the Great Wall.  If a large number of foreign invaders are encountered, Liu Bei can only defend according to his current strength. He also has to pray that Cao Wei does not stab him in the back in order to withstand the foreign attacks.  If the foreign tribes only caused sporadic harassment, Liu Bei would not be able to gain much population at all. Just like Gongsun Zan, he wiped out a tribe in Wuhuan and obtained thousands of horses. He was called White Horse General from then on.  At that time, Gongsun Zan did not capture many people at all. Without people, Liu Bei's horses were of no use.  "What your Majesty said is true, but Liang was negligent. If we only solve the population problem, Liang has a plan!" Suddenly Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up. Wuhuan and the Xiongnu could not move, but there was a place that could supplement the strength of Han.  "Prime Minister, please come quickly!" Liu Bei heard that Zhuge Liang had a solution, and quickly stepped down from the throne and grabbed Zhuge Liang's hand.  Once the population problem is solved, the strength of the four states in Hebei can be slowly restored.  "I wonder if your majesty knows the Three Koreas?" Zhuge Liang suddenly thought of the Three Koreas Peninsula when he and Yuan Xi went on the Northern Expedition.  "What the Prime Minister said are Ma Han, Chen Han and Bian Han?" Liu Bei was Lu Zhi's favorite disciple, and of course he had heard of the names of the Three Hans.  "Yes, Your Majesty, when I followed Yuan Xi in his Northern Expedition, I met a leader from the Three Koreas. They were willing to send troops to assist Yuan Xi in his Northern Expedition. As far as I know, the three Koreas are all tribes and have lived on the Sanhan Peninsula for a long time.  Above that, I'm afraid there will be no less than hundreds of thousands of subjects. If they are included in our dynasty, it will definitely enhance our dynasty's strength." Zhuge Lian bowed his hand and reported to Liu Bei, "Three Hans are not nomadic people, they are primitive tribes with fixed settlements."  People don¡¯t have to look around anymore.  "Oh? The Prime Minister's information is really reliable?" "Your Majesty, rest assured, this information has been confirmed by the Gongsun family of Liaodong. I believe this information is true. The three Koreas still don't know that Yuan Xi has abdicated and Your Majesty has become the lord of Hebei. If  Your Majesty will use the Yuan family's old troops to send envoys to the Three Koreas, and then take the opportunity to make a surprise attack, and they will definitely destroy the Three Koreas!" Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, the soldiers of the Three Hans still used wooden weapons, how could they be the opponents of the Hebei cavalry?  "Shan, just follow the Prime Minister's words on this matter!"   Hebei Liu Bei encountered a population shortage problem, and Xichuan Sun Quan also encountered the same problem.  After Sun Quan entered Shuzhong, he accepted all the power of Liu Zhang, but some aristocratic families in Shu were unwilling to compromise with Sun Quan. After Sun Quan became emperor, he eliminated the aristocratic families in Shu one by one. Although he finally won the victory, he still suffered losses.  There are also a lot of losses, especially the losses of the people.  In view of the sparse population, Lu Su put forward the suggestion of enriching the population of Shu with foreign races, which was approved by Sun Quan. After Sun Quan married his sister Sun Shangxiang to Meng You, the son of the barbarian king, he formed an alliance with the various tribes of the southern barbarians.  Sun Quan moved a large number of people from various southern barbarian tribes into Shu to mix with the Han people, which expanded the population of Shu, but a series of problems also occurred.  In the Chengdu palace, Sun Quan had a mountain of writings on his desk. Most of these writings were not about military affairs, but about ethnic conflicts. The Southern Barbarians moved into Shu in large numbers, and their customs were different from those of the Han people.  Large differences have resulted in many contradictions.  "Bo Yan, how could your southern barbarian general steal the unmarried wife of a colleague in the army?" Sun Quan pinched his forehead. This confession made Sun Quan dumbfounded.  A barbarian in Lu Xun's army robbed his fianc¨¦e who was going to marry a Han general and forced her into the bridal chamber. Later, when the woman saw that the rice was ready for cooking, she married the barbarian general.  "Your Majesty, this is the barbarian custom of snatching brides. As long as a man falls in love with an unmarried woman, he can snatch her by force. This is a common thing among the southern barbarians, and it will be difficult for the general to stop it." Lu Xun raised his hand and reported to Sun Quan.  On his wedding day, a Han general had a duel with a barbarian general. He was beaten into disgrace by the barbarian general and took away his wife before he got married.  This is purely a matter of personal ability. Can Lu Xun be blamed?  "This?" Sun Quan shook his head. What Lu Xun said made sense. This was a matter of ability. The emperor could not allow his subjects to marry or leave by force.  "Ziming, why do the Han people and the Southern Barbarians fight every day under your rule?" Sun Quan looked at Lu Meng again. Under Lu Meng's rule, there were most Han and barbarian counties, and there were ethnic conflicts every day.  "Your Majesty, the Southern Barbarian custom of endogamy between brothers and the Han people under my rule is quite uncomfortable. Please tell me!" Lu Meng shook his head. He really didn't know how to solve the situation under his rule.  There is a custom among the Southern Barbarians that after the elder brother dies, the sister-in-law will marry the brother-in-law, and so on.  Of course, there is no place for men among the Han people. Why not be happy if you have someone to warm your bed?  But the Han women have their own opinions. A few days ago, they were sisters-in-law. After a while, they became their elder sisters. They even took over the issue of the main wife. Therefore, there were more and more family conflicts among the people. It was the Southern Barbarian women and the Han women.  The so-called family harmony and everything is prosperous, but if the family is no longer peaceful, how can the people live their lives?  How else to serve the country?  !  In addition to wedding customs, there are also conflicts in life between the Nanman and Han people, as well as different work and rest times. All of these are factors that cause instability for the people in Sichuan.  "Zijing, what can you do?" The strategy of moving foreign tribes into the country was proposed by Lu Su. Now that there is a problem, of course it is up to Lu Su to solve it.  "Your Majesty, do you think it is possible to separate the barbarians from the Han people and set up Han and barbarian areas in the city to be able to manage our army?" Lu Su has only dealt with small-scale issues of assimilation and integration of foreigners and Han people. This was the case in Jiangdong back then.  He conquered East Vietnam, but now there is a large-scale internal relocation. Lu Su has not thought about many things, and he does not know how to deal with problems when they arise.  "No!" As soon as Lu Su finished speaking, Lu Xun and Lu Meng both opposed Lu Su's proposal.  "Your Majesty, now the people in Shu are proud to marry Southern barbarian women. If the regions are forcibly divided, I am afraid it will cause chaos!" Lu Xun raised his hand and reported to Sun Quan.  "Your Majesty, sex is a great desire of human beings. If Your Majesty abstains from sexual intercourse, I am afraid there will be a civil uprising!" Lu Meng's education was not high, so what he said was more direct.  Most of the soldiers brought by Sun Quan and those in Shu were single men, and many of them had never touched a woman. Now that the Southern Barbarians have moved inward, there are more women than men. Many soldiers have found wives, and the Southern Barbarians¡¯ brothers and sisters have also found wives.  The selfish desires of the soldiers were aroused. My brother died in the battle and my sister-in-law entered the house. What a wonderful thing!  "This?" "This matter will be postponed for later discussion!" Sun Quan shook his head helplessly. It was in chaos. Sichuan was in chaos!  Relying on the strong territory and the strategy of holding on, Wei State's national power is growing day by day, while Shuzhong and the four states of Hebei have fallen into chaos due to population problems. One is declining, the other is increasing, and Wei State's strength is gradually tending to annex the two countries.  (To be continued) PS: Thank you for your great support!  !  !  !
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