The five-day grand ceremony is like a small cycle of political struggle.

After every debate in front of the imperial court is fruitless, there will be a gang formation between various forces in the following few days, and the support and opposition will be repeatedly ripped.

Although the 16th National Court debate did not have any substantial results, it also pulled away the attention and hatred. In the following days, everyone was discussing how to better obstruct the system of the government, how to help the court open up its source, and to find other ways to delay the passage of the government system.

Whether it is a selfish official or a sincere heart to keep the people under a lighter burden, he does not want Emperor Liu Bei to become a ruler like Cao Cao who is too abused by the people. People with both motives tend to oppose the "domestic military system".

It can only be said that these people were not beaten thoroughly enough by the troubled times and did not experience a period of great division for more than a hundred years.

In fact, let alone the Southern and Northern Dynasties in later generations, even if you just look forward, look at the ancient times, if you change to some elite scholars and officials from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, who do not think that it is natural to join the army if you have land and freedom and civil rights?

In the words of Mr. Lu Xun, the great division and military confrontation that lasted for more than a hundred years, "continuously suppressed the people so that they were even worse than pigs and dogs. At this time, if the rulers came out to give the people a little equal to the price of cattle and horses, they would be convinced."

If you suffer too much in troubled times, you will not feel that this kind of suffering is harder than you, but instead feel that it is worth it. Born like this, the general acceptance of the free military service system will be higher.

As soon as the rule began to chaos, the great division and war did not last long enough to reach the overall lifespan of a generation. Of course, the people would feel that the general free military service was exploitation.

Although there were continuous nationwide wars since the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the late Han Dynasty, it has only been fifteen years since then, and it is not enough to generally eliminate the beautiful memories of the people of the whole country in the era of peaceful reunification.

While the court was bustling, the external environment also helped Li Su and Liu Bei. The news of Yuan Shao's stroke and hemiplegia finally reached Guanxi after the 16th anniversary talk.

Some people may wonder: Yuan Shao’s stroke is of course a good thing for Liu Bei’s Guanxi court, but how valuable can it be to help Liu Bei promote reform?

In fact, just Yuan Shao has become paralyzed, the news itself cannot help reform.

But the chain reactions behind this news have points that can be exploited.

This is to be discussed from the channel of spreading this news

The news came to Chang'an on November 18th. At that time, it had been twenty-eight days since Yuan Shao's stroke. Even after so long, the news was still not transmitted from Shangdang and Hanoi front lines, but from Yingchuan County to Luoyang and Wancheng.

Some people may be surprised: Why is the shortest path for the circulation of intelligence and information? It takes a big circle to spread it?

This is obviously because after Yuan Shao suffered a stroke, the direct forces of Yuan Ying attached great importance to confidentiality work. Shangdang and Hanoi fronts are currently in a strict hostile confrontation. The border blockade is tight, there is no traffic in business and travel, and the intelligence blockade is also highly valued, so it has not been reported for a long time.

On the contrary, Yecheng was a channel for spreading rumors to the hinterland of the Guandong court camp. Although there were also controls, it was not so strict, so it gradually spread.

Then, the news reached Cao Cao's jurisdiction, and Cao Cao was not obliged to keep the secret so resolutely for Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao even faintly expected that Liu Bei felt that Yuan Shao was weak and continued to fight with Yuan Shao, sharing a lot of pressure from Yingchuan and Runan, which has now completely fallen into Cao Cao's defense and control.

Therefore, "Yuan Shao's stroke" finally made a circle, spreading from Yuan Shao's territory to Cao Cao's territory, and then to Liu Bei's territory.

At the same time, because Cao Cao already knew about Yuan Shao's stroke, he vaguely felt that his chances of controlling the Guandong court were also expanding.

After all, Yuan Shao is just a general and a county duke. The county duke can pass the throne, but the general may not be able to pass the throne to Yuan Shao's son. After all, the nominal Guandong court emperor Liu He was still there.

Therefore, even if Cao Cao could not deal with Yuan Shao, he was still very confident in dealing with Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang. He did not want to fight within the country, but if he could peacefully annex the sphere of influence of the nephews of the Yuan family, Cao Cao would have thought about it day and night.

On the other hand, the absolute military power comparison between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao has gradually reversed. Two years ago, Cao Cao had only Yanzhou and Xuzhou, with only 150,000 troops at that time, while Yuan Shao had 400,000. Cao Cao could only hold his nose low and admit that he was his younger brother.

But what about now? Yuan Shao fought in Shangdang in Hanoi, and Liu Bei wiped out 190,000 of his alive forces! The total strength of more than 400,000 fell below 250,000 at one point. Even though Shen Pei tried hard to expand the army in the rear to make blood, he could barely recover to 270,000 or 280,000.

In the past few years, Cao Cao swallowed Yuan Shu's land in Lianghuai, and obtained most of the Yuzhou area, with a total force of more than 200,000. Later, he also swallowed Sun Quan's land in Huainan, and obtained the Jiangbei part of Yangzhou, with a total force of more than 300,000.

Of course, Yu Jin lost 40,000 Cao Cao's troops at Jingkou, causing Cao Cao's total troops to fall to 270,000 to 280,000 at one point. However, with Yuan Shao's fall in Luoyang before the stroke, Rongan, Yingchuan became an enclave, and these two counties were completely handed over to Cao Cao for the management and defense.

After the fact of controlling Ruying, Cao Cao finally occupied Yuzhou, and his total force expanded to 300,000 again.

Cao Cao now has an army of 300,000, and Yuan Shao only has 270,000. Yuan Shao himself suffered a stroke. Compared with Yuan Cao's strength, there has been a subtle reversal.

If Emperor Liu He hadn't been in Yuan Shao's hands, Yuan Shao would have held the title of emperor's righteousness, and it would have been really worthy of just fighting for pure military Cao Cao.

In this case, Cao Cao wanted to throw a stone to ask for directions. In the name of Emperor Liu He, he hoped that the emperor would "work hard to govern, reform and survive, learn from Yuan Shao's defeat, and strive to better fight against the pseudo-dynasty of Guanxi."

Cao Cao was quite good at writing the time. After all, Liu He's court has not held accountable since Yuan Shao's consecutive defeats on the battlefield in the past two months.

When Yuan Shao was awake, he actually had the imperial court, so of course he didn't have to hold him accountable. Even if he lost the battle, he would lose, what's the point of probing?

But this matter is theoretically unreasonable. As long as Cao Cao is willing to take the lead, Liu He has to respond.

Liu He's response was drafted by Guo Tu and Shen Pei, but he just asked Cao Cao how to "reform and strengthen the situation".

Guo Tu was even more angry when he was afraid that Yuan Shao would be "Cao Cao dared to jump out and add to the insult" and did not even dare to tell Yuan Shao the news that "replying to Cao Cao on behalf of the emperor" and so he discussed it himself.

Then, Cao Cao said with a clear idea: In the four prefectures of Yan, Henan, Xu and Yang, in the past two years, he has gradually piloted the "military garrison system" conscription method in batches, which greatly reduced the cost of mobilizing troops.

As long as you give the soldiers and their wives and children a bite, you don’t have to give them anything else, you can get them into the army without spending too much like the old rules before the Han Dynasty.

If the General was helping the General to rectify the military affairs, the Shangshu could also implement the military conscription system like the ministers, and the number of troops that the people in Qingji and You and the four states could extract could be as abundant as the four states of Yan, Henan, Xu and Yang.

At that time, the troops that the imperial court could control could definitely be increased from the current "six or seven households, more than 30 people sent troops" to "two or three households, more than ten people sent troops".

The Kanto court controlled 17 million people, including both peasant soldiers and local garrison troops, and even if it was possible to expose more than one million total troops! Why is there only more than 600,000 people like now?

After all, in history, Yuan Shao was relatively "light taxes and taxes" to the people. He did not implement a general military farming system and did not scrape so much money, grain and military service from the people.

Cao Cao had strong execution ability. Just "a county around Xuchang and Yingchuan, which collected millions of stones of military rations every year", but this also means that the people under Cao Cao's rule were plundered very fiercely.

Otherwise, when Hebei was just unified by Cao Cao in history, the burden on the people increased and they all had to farm. Why did "Hebei scholars and women were all hurting their grievances, crying in the city and alleys, or betrayal?" To put it bluntly, it was a light burden under Yuan Shao's rule.

Of course, it is impossible for Cao Cao to pass this suggestion immediately. He is just testing to see how Yuan Shao's control over Liu He actually is.

Moreover, Cao Cao also planned to "recover three steps and two steps back" and wrote a letter to advise him. It would be good if 30% of the reforms could be implemented, and the others were bargaining chips.

However, these bargaining chips of Cao Cao are now regarded as real things. Like the good news about Yuan Shao's stroke, they have almost reached Chang'an at the same time.

In this way, Liu Bei, Li Su, Zhuge Liang also seized the opportunity and quickly made people publicize various publicity in Chang'an, proclaiming "How can Cao Cao do a drastic move in the puppet dynasty of Guandong after Yuan Shao is paralyzed and comprehensively promote the universal military service system for free land granting."

Therefore, no matter where the Han Dynasty is, the burden on the people will be increased! Compared to the pseudo-chou of Guandong, we are even more ugly! Our Majesty is already considered an absolute benevolent monarch!

Coincidentally, the content of the court discussion in the Chang'an court on the 16th day was gradually spied by the detailed works of the princes of the pseudo-Kuning dynasty of the Kanto, and then reported to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was also feeling like he was a treasure, and spread the news that "Liu Bei is also promoting the universal military service system for free land granting" in Yecheng,

It is said that "Even the pseudo-emperor Liu Bei has followed. If Your Majesty does not follow up, and still learns from the general's mobilization potential of light taxes and levies, and does not exploit war machines, will Your Majesty be afraid of the fall of the world?"

Cao Cao and Liu Bei even chose to promote each other's threat theory to speed up the obstruction of internal reforms.

This is the main reason why reforms are easy to be implemented in troubled times. Everyone has external pressure, and they can use external pressure to intimidate internal reform oppositions. They use "If you don't change the law, you will wait for the foreign enemy to destroy it", and put a knife on the opposition's neck to force the reform.

Just like France before World War II, Betton never needed to be like Bloom who jumped up and down. Since French literati and politicians wanted to be whispered to soldiers, French soldiers chose to put their beards in. Foreign enemies killed the literati's body, and no one was whispered.

Similarly, science and engineering have never held social debates with liberal arts students, but have to uphold the principle that "we lose a lot of human nature, and we lose everything if we lose animal nature." When the contradiction between man and nature overwhelms the contradictions within mankind and becomes the main contradiction at a certain stage of the human world, those sociology jokes shut up.

From the spread of viruses to the attack of the Three-Body Stars, those who are confused about legal principles have been poisoned by viruses, those who are confused about sociological fairness have been exterminated by aliens, and they are still debating. Why do you want to kill human hands dirty? (Of course, the Ugly Chinese people have recently promoted that "virus has led to a regression in cooking". I absolutely do not agree with this view. The Ugly Chinese people just did not distinguish the main contradiction at this stage is the contradiction between man and nature)
Chapter completed!