Shortly after Yan Xing and Yan Su and his group arrived in Chencang, Sima Wuqiuxing, who was originally staying in Chang'an, also arrived.

What they brought was good news, and Wang Zhong led his army to Chang'an and surrendered.

Last year, after Yan Xing defeated Han Sui's army, Wang Zhong from Wuguan also started a war between the aggressive army and Liang Xing, who was moving to Shangluo.

Liang Xing was sure that Wang Zhong was defeated, so he was defeated by Wang Zhong as soon as the war started. Liang Xingjun, who was proud and underestimated the enemy, was gradually introduced to the ambush point they set for the enemy in advance by Wang Zhongjun, who pretended to retreat.

So, after a bloody battle with killing sounds, Wang Zhong, who was waiting for it, killed Liang Xing, who was trapped and defeated Liang Xing's army. Then Wang Zhong's army took advantage of the victory and pursued them again and occupied the city between Shangluo.

However, Wang Zhong's life was not easy after his victory. As Lantian entered the Hedong army, the pressure he faced was increasing.

The severe winter is approaching, and the soldiers and horses of Hedong who have been exhausted from fighting for a long time have not sent troops to Shangluo. However, Wang Zhong knew that it would be a matter of time sooner or later. The Hedong army that occupied Guanzhong next year will definitely be between Shangluo.

Leading troops to resist the Hedong army is undoubtedly a mantis armed with a chariot, so the only thing left is to surrender.

But surrendering to anyone is also a science about the future of life.

Entering Lantian, he was able to surrender to Yan Xing, who was in the limelight recently.

After leaving Wu Pass, you can surrender to Liu Biao, who was fighting with Liu Biao for Cao Cao in the north of Nanyang County.

Because he had attacked Lou Gui, a general sent by Jingzhou, he was the first to surrender to Liu Biao and Wang Zhong to eliminate his first attempt. What he hesitated was whether to surrender to Yan Xing, who had initially decided to Guanzhong or Cao Cao, who was fighting for Nanyang.

Xu Du court and the homeland of Sanfu, he had to make a choice between the two.

Faced with these two unpredictable choices, Wang Zhong simply sent envoys to Yan Xing. Cao Cao both sides sent envoys, and he entered Shangluo and remained silent. He thought that if the situation was not good, he could run to Wuguan or Lantian anytime and anywhere.

Finally, after a winter, Wang Zhong, who had survived a winter, also learned that Lou Gui had turned to the Xudu court after his defeat and received news that Cao Cao was valued, he made up his mind to lead his troops to surrender to Yan Xing, and used the cities and Wuguan between Shangluo as the steps to advance. He also ran to Chang'an City to express his loyalty to Yan Xing.

This matter is serious, so Sima Wuqiuxing of the General's Mansion of the Cavalry rushed to Chen Cang personally and reported the news to Yan Xing, waiting for his decision.

Inside the tent.

After listening to Wu Qiuxing's report, Yan Xing thought of all kinds of rumors about Wang Zhong's cannibalism and asked with interest:

"I heard that this Fufeng Wang Zhong is a military man who likes to eat human flesh. He must eat human flesh every day. Before the war, he needs to eat flesh and blood before he can wear armor and get on the horse and kill the enemy. Since he has arrived in Chang'an City in person, what kind of person is he?"

Wu Qiuxing didn't expect that the first thing Yan Xing asked would be this. He was stunned for a moment before reacting and saying:

"Wang Zhong has a strong body and a strong body. His face is slightly red, his mouth is red, and his face is fierce. It is said that he was a pavilion chief before and he joined the army in Fufeng. He knew etiquette when he met. As for the rumors about cannibalism, Wang Zhong argued that this was nonsense. It was just a lie made up by the fugitives to shock people. Later, his rumors about cannibalism spread and gradually became more and more bizarre."

After hearing this, Yan Xing nodded, then turned to look at Yan Shu with a serious expression on the side.

"What does the Chief Secretary think?"

Yan Su was naturally disliked the military man like Wang Zhong, who was notorious for "cannibalism". However, this involved the city passes of Shangluo and Wuguan, which involved great issues. In addition, it was a matter of military conquest, so he was not easy to express his opinions and immediately said:

"The matters of Wang Zhong are not allowed to be discussed elsewhere, and the general can decide for himself!"

"Okay, I heard that Chen Ping, the fifth reunion, was called humiliation and laughed at him, but Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Guangwu were able to make it clear and use it. Although Gu did not dare to compare himself with the two emperors, Wang Zhong was brave and ruthless, and was able to defend the city. He also had the merit of offering sacrifices to the city. He pursued the two emperors with the virtue of loving talents, and only talent was promoted to the army captain to show his merits!"

After hearing Yan Xing's words, Yan Su's eyelids moved slightly, and his body, which was sitting upright, moved unnaturally. Wu Qiu Xing observed his words and expressions, noticed the subtle atmosphere, and quickly responded, and then retreated to his seat.

Yan Xing looked at Wu Qiuxing who was cautiously returning to his seat, smiled slightly, looked around at the history of the Bafu official who was accompanying him in the tent, and said:

"Since Wang Zhong has surrendered, the three auxiliary places have been generally pacified. Given the actual situation of Guanzhong's destruction, the General's Mansion must not only vigorously promote military farming, but also reform taxes, abandon the previous tax calculation, tuition, straw, and other taxes, and change them to pay a fixed amount of millet, wheat, cotton, silk and other physical items based on the land acres and household registration. What do you think? Let's discuss it today."

Hearing Yan Xing's words, Shi Gu in the account looked around and discussed the "renting and modulation" issue.

Today's world is in a chaotic world, with currency blockage and business trips cut off, and transactions between people have completely returned to a barter state, among which Guanzhong is the most important reason for the inconvenience of currency blockage in other places, which is more due to the constant war and the means of production are not enough to supply the needs of the people, let alone exchange it for Wuzhu coins to be circulated.

In addition to the above reasons, Guanzhong also has another fatal reason, which is that Dong Zhuo casts a large amount of small money during his reign. This kind of small money seems to fill the empty treasury in a short period of time, but the quantity is huge and the quality is too poor, and they will soon show huge consequences:

Bad money drives out good money, Wuzhu coins continue to depreciate, and daily necessities such as corn, wheat, salt, hemp, silk and other daily necessities soar. Coupled with the endless wars, the people's livelihood economy in Guanzhong completely collapsed. Whether it is Dong Zhuo's small money or Han Wuzhu coins, they all turned into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.

In this case, if Yan Xing, who had initially decided to collect taxes based on the previous tax calculations, tuition, money, etc., then the tax system must be reformed as soon as possible.

And rent modulation came into being under this situation.

Replacing the previous taxes with rent and modulation can enable the Bafu to obtain urgently needed necessities such as corn and silk as soon as possible, and also avoid the officials under the rule. The powerful and powerful used the excuse to calculate money, build palace money, and get rid of money to make a name for setting up a name and randomly levy the ordinary people of Guizhou.

This also has certain benefits for the government to encourage the people to farm and weave and crack down on illegal acts of privately minting currency.

After discussion, the officials in the account expressed their support for the Bafu to implement rent and modulation. Yan Su, You Chu, Zhang Ji, Su Ze and others also mentioned that the reformed rent and modulation quota should not be too high. It should be like the tax system in the early Han Dynasty, which can achieve the purpose of "light taxes and low taxes" and "people-oriented".

While listening to the opinions of the officials of the Bafu Mansion, Yan Xing also considered gains and losses in his heart.

Guanzhong is broken, and in order to encourage farming and weaving, it is naturally necessary to "short taxes", but the goal of "light labor" is probably difficult to achieve before the troubled times are pacified.

Guanzhong will reopen irrigation water conservancy, and will inevitably recruit a large number of civil servants in Guanzhong in the future.

The households under the military farm system provide a large amount of food, the households under the rental and modulation provide manpower and other materials, the soldiers under the military farm system are responsible for the conquest, and the military farm system supplements, this is Yan Xing's idea of ​​pacifying troubled times in the future. These four types of people under the rule of "dividing and governing soldiers and civilians" will jointly lay the foundation for Yan Xing's hegemony.

After preliminary discussion on the reform of rent and modulation, the officials in the account also retreated one after another, but the accountant Pei Wan was still in the account. He looked at the documents recorded in his hand and promptly reminded Yan Xing:

"General, it's still early. Will you meet another talented man from Fufeng?"

"who?"

Yan Xing, who had just finished the discussion, was busy sorting out the thoughts in his mind, but had not yet thought of anything from Pei Wan's words.

In the days after pacifying Guanzhong, Zhang Ji, Su Ze, You Chu and others had the precedents. Many talented and talented people from the Sanfu rushed to visit them later. Whether they were famous families, local tyrants or children from poor families, they regarded this as a shortcut for officials, and they all asked for help, flocked to them.

If it is an ordinary person who asks for help, then it will be handed over to the officers of Xi Cao in the General's Mansion and the assistant officials to receive it.

When Pei Wan saw Yan Xing's appearance, he knew that General Cavalry had forgotten the person he had asked him to record the meeting. He quickly spoke up and reminded him:

"This scholar in Fufeng is named Ma Jun and his courtesy name is Deheng. Do you have any impression of General?"

"oh!"

When Yan Xing, who heard Pei Wan talk about Ma Jun's name and took into account many military and political affairs, finally stopped what he was doing, looked up at Pei Wan and said:

"Have he been in Chen Cang? Tell me about the situation."

Pei Wan nodded, looked down at the document and said in response:

"Ma Jun, a Fufeng native, was a scholar who returned from a study tour in Kanto. Although he was speechless, he had some skills. This time he visited the general, he came to offer a silk weaving machine and a stone catapult."

In order to be able to receive Yan Xing, all the children of all parties racked their efforts and worked hard to offer gifts. In front of them were Meng Da and Fa Zheng, and later Ma Jun, a man known as "the world's reputation is clever."

Yan Xing couldn't help but smile bitterly. He thought about it and asked again:

"Ma Jun, a native of Fufeng, has anything to do with the Ma family in Maoling?"

Pei Wan knew that the Ma family of Maoling mentioned by Yan Xing was a branch of Ma Yuan. Like the Deng family, Geng family, Liang family, Dou family and Yin family, they were all famous families in this dynasty and lived in the same country.

He shook his head and replied:

"The document states that the origin of a poor family is not explained. I am afraid it doesn't matter much. Even if it can be related, it is mostly a distant family with blood distant blood."

Yan Xing nodded. Not all the Ma surnamed Ma of Fufeng can get close to Maoling Ma like Ma Teng and Ma, and he waved his hand and said:
Chapter completed!