When He Decai retelled Jiang Feng's words to Cao Wanchuan, the Yuhou of Gushi Army, Cao Wanchuan's face suddenly became serious.

The reason why Jiang Feng placed his hope on this Gushi Army Yuhou was because he was the only Du Yuhou in the entire Guangzhou army who was not surnamed Xu, and the only Du Yuhou who was not from a prominent family. He was a general who fought against the Guangzhou army and the Shenzhou army entirely with his own strength.

"You said you sneaked into Ruluo to find out the situation of the thief army, why didn't you report to the governor?"

"Mr. Yu, I believe you know the rift between me and Xu Ziming. Believe it or not. Once the ant thief returns east, our Guangzhou will definitely be in trouble."

Jiang Feng was too lazy to say too much. He believed that Cao Wanchuan should be aware of the tricks in the governor's mansion. Cao Wanchuan only lasted a few months from command of the Ya Army to serving as the Yuhou in Gushi Army.

Cao Wanchuan pondered silently, and Jiang Feng's words made him feel a great pressure.

In fact, he had long realized the dangers brought by the rise of the Yellow Ant Thief, but the head of the family was obsessed with the plan of joining forces with the Liu family in Nanyang and the Yuan family in Caizhou to annex Shenzhou. He repeatedly dissuaded and opposed the use of troops against Shenzhou because he was worried that the ant hief would take the opportunity to cause trouble, but he ended up being demoted to the Gushi army.

But now the situation is so serious, and it will be a disaster for destroying the family and destroying the clan, and he cannot sit idly by.

"What can we do now? Is it useful?" Cao Wanchuan's face changed and he asked after a long time.

"I don't know either, but I know that we will definitely be done if we don't do anything, but we do it, maybe there is still a glimmer of hope." Jiang Feng's face was not very good either.

"A glimmer of hope?" Cao Wanchuan sighed sadly, "You underestimate those ant thieves. Fifty years ago, Huang Chao led the ant thieves to take advantage of the chaos, and the Tang Dynasty destroyed the country because of this! Once these ant thieves were organized, they could destroy everything in order to survive. If the number of ant thieves has reached tens of thousands, as you said, is our small Gushi Army, what can we do?"

"Mr. Yu Hou, although there are many ant thieves, they are not affiliated with each other, and they do not have a unified leadership, and their combat effectiveness is also poor. We do not expect to defeat them. We just hope to avoid Gwangju being destroyed by them."

Jiang Fengye's words were also a little unnatural. As far as he knew, this was the situation of the Yellow Ant Army in the past, but now it is different.

"There is no unified leadership? Then how can they grow and grow in Ruluo? Jiang Feng, don't hide anything. We are grasshoppers tied to a rope now. I hope we can do something useful when the thief army has not yet returned east." Cao Wanchuan did not realize the unfinished meaning of Jiang Feng's words, sighed and said lightly: "Decai, the command of the central camp is vacant. You will temporarily act as the command of the central camp. Your rear camp will be represented by Jiang Feng."

The chaotic crowd was bustling with people, and endlessly rushed towards the county town. Cao Wanchuan and Jiang Feng stood on the city wall, with a bitter look on his face.

"Mr. Yuhou, as soon as this news came out, the people immediately responded."

"Erlang, you have never experienced the Huang Chao Rebellion. This was once a severely affected area of ​​the Huang Chao Rebellion. It was a thousand miles away from the ground and white bones were everywhere. Fortunately, it had been barely recovered without war in the past few decades. Most of the older generation had experienced that disaster. Most of their children had also heard the older generation telling the various tragedies of that year. Now, the ant thieves are rising again. Who dares not believe these people?" Cao Wanchuan shook his head, "I don't know whether it is a disaster or a blessing for them to come to Gushi City."

"Master Yuhou, if everyone is afraid of ants and thieves like tigers, why are there many followers? When ants and thieves entered Ruluo, there were only less than 50,000 people, but when I left Song County, there were at least 80,000 people. They could gather more than 30,000 people in just 10 or 20 days. What is the reason?" Jiang Feng said disapprovingly.

Cao Wanchuan was stunned, and after a little thought, he said: "Most of the thieves are landless refugees and rogues who do not work hard, trying to get something for war without any effort."

"Then why are there so many refugees in Wudi?" Jiang Feng asked after him.

This question is a bit profound and makes Cao Wanchuan unable to answer.

"There is nothing else. The land is occupied by wealthy families. Farmers must bear the head tax, and renting a land must not be reduced, but also have to bear labor. If God does not do good, who can survive? There are some people with ulterior motives who tease and take the lead in the initiation, and the people will naturally follow." Jiang Feng asked and answered, "The wildfire cannot be burned, and the spring breeze will blew and grow again. This is the soil for the survival of ant thieves."

Cao Wanchuan obviously could not understand the truth contained in Jiang Feng for a while, and he was stunned for a long time and said: "Why is there no such disaster in the era of Taizong, Xuanzong?"

"During the Emperor Taizong and Xuanzong, the great melee brought about by the Jin Dynasty and the Five Barbarians invasion of China led to a large reduction in the population. The rent-in-law regime could still be implemented. The country could have a large amount of land for land granting, but the population increased day by day, and the land was insufficient. In addition, Liankou divided the land began to be freely bought and sold. The land was occupied by wealthy families. Most of the newly reclaimed land lived among mountains, forests and sieges. The roads were blocked, and miasma was rampant and there was no people. Who would like to go there? The country had no land to be granted, and the rent-in-law regime naturally collapsed. Most of the farmers became powerful tenants, and they could barely make a living in ordinary years. Once they encountered natural disasters of floods and droughts, the tenants could not make a living. They could only become refugees and transform into bandits. The Huang Chao rebellion arose.

Jiang Feng said casually.

As a student who graduated from the history department, these principles that have long been analyzed and summarized into the most common ones by historians are naturally unremarkable to him, but they are deafening in Cao Wanchuan's ears!

Although Cao Wanchuan had known that Jiang Feng was a figure in the scout team before, he could analyze the fundamental reason for the ant thief's uprising in such a thorough and incisive way, rather than passing by as perfunctorily as the official said, the troublemakers made trouble. How could Cao Wanchuan not be shocked, and his eyes at Jiang Feng changed a lot.

"Erlang, according to what you said, isn't this knot still unsolvable?" Cao Wanchuan said after thinking for a long time. At this time, Cao Wanchuan had an inexplicable awe of Jiang Feng's profound knowledge.

"Yes, why not? War is the best solution. The death brought by war can reduce the population a lot, and the change of victory and defeat can subvert the traditional wealthy families and allow all wealth, including land, to be redistributed; foreign wars can open up territory, obtain more land for reclaim, meet people's needs, and allow the new system to continue. When everything returns to the origin, everything will happen again and repeat itself."

Jiang Feng said in a flash that this theory sounds reasonable, and it seems that the decline of all dynasties is also proving the truth of this principle. As for the development of productivity and the liberation of farmers from the land and transforming them into the industrial class, Jiang Feng did not dare to say anything, and probably no one could understand it if he said it.

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