Chapter 1407

If Lu Yan didn't have the eye of insight, he thought he wouldn't be any worse than Cao Cao.

After all, he is a player.

Regarding talents, Lu Yan and Cao Cao are very similar.

Lu Yan likes talents, and Cao Cao also likes talents.

And nepotism.

Reuse talented people.

Lu Yan established a talent recruitment hall, and talents from all over the world continued to gather.

In Lu Yan's hands, there are many rising figures from humble families.

Baili Xi, Guan Zhong, Han Fei and others all rose from humble beginnings. In the game, they do not have very prominent family backgrounds.

Especially Han Fei.

Han Fei at this time was not a prince.

This is especially true for the generals promoted by Lu Yan.

Yuwen Chengdu, Xue Rengui, etc., he even reused subordinate generals.

The same was true for Cao Cao. He issued a recruitment order and reused Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others from poor families.

Let their talents flourish.

It also laid the foundation for the future foundation.

In the selection of officials during the Han Dynasty, the selected people should not only have feudal moral qualities such as benevolence, justice, filial piety and brotherhood, but also have a noble family background.

Cao Cao did not value reputation when employing people. He selected officials who must"understand legal principles" and be able to practice the rule of law.

Cui Yan and Mao Jie were appointed to be in charge of the election."All the people they appoint are honest and upright people. Although they are famous at that time, those who do not act according to their own standards will never make progress. We must lead people with frugality, so all people in the world must be honest." Self-discipline and self-motivation, even if you respect your favored ministers, you should not dare to overdo it." Social atmosphere has improved.

In order to maintain and develop power and allow more people to serve their own cause, they are not restricted by the above standards and emphasize"the meritocracy". As long as he has talent, he will pay attention to promoting people even if they lack feudal moral character and come from a lower class.

From 210 to 217, he issued three"orders to seek talents" to select and appoint some talented people. Break the concept of family status, recruit people from the middle and lower classes of the landlord class, restrain the powerful, and strengthen the centralization of power.

Cao Cao's thought was influenced by Confucianism, and its foundation belonged to the category of Confucianism. He valued benevolence, justice, and courtesy, and tried to educate the people and administration with benevolence, justice, morality, and courtesy, that is,"governing etiquette first."

On the other hand, Cao Cao, like Lu Yan, valued laws and techniques and imposed severe punishments, which is very clear in historical records. This constitutes another important aspect of Cao Cao's thoughts.

This is"putting chaos and punishment first."

Therefore, Cao Cao's thought is a contradictory unity. Cao Cao, who was in troubled times, not only emphasized criminal law, but also did not forget the use of ethics. He always valued etiquette and law, using both hands, and showed his unique deception ability in using both etiquette and law.

Lu Yan was also a person who valued the law. He promoted Han Fei and re-employed Bao Zheng.

Give Bao Zheng Shang Fang's sword, and he has the right to kill first and then show off.

At the same time, Bao Zheng was also given three guillotines - dragon, tiger and dog.

Shang Fang's sword is convenient for Bao Zheng to investigate the case.

The three-mouthed guillotine was for Bao Zheng to carry out punishment on behalf of Heaven.

Anyone who violates the laws of Yun State will be convicted according to his/her guilt.

Those who commit heinous crimes will be killed without mercy.

In terms of military and criminal law, Lu Yan and Cao Cao had each other's shortcomings.

But economically, Lu Yan was much stronger than Cao Cao.

This is the limitation of vision.

Lu Yan took a long-term view, but Cao Cao didn't do much because of the limitations of the times. so······

Economically, Cao Cao was no match for Lu Yan.

The current Yun State is comparable to the Song Dynasty.

And the Wei State is indeed not as good as the current Yun State.

Of course, this does not mean that Cao Cao is engaged in poor economic performance.

On the contrary, Cao Cao did a lot of things in order to improve the national power and make the people rich.

The most famous one is undoubtedly Tuntian.

Even now, it is still talked about.

Due to the circumstances of the times, social production suffered serious damage and there was a great famine between the Han and Wei dynasties.

During this period, food supply became the biggest problem for various military groups. There were countless people who were invincible and self-defeating due to insufficient military food.

Cao Cao cultivated fields in the north and built water conservancy projects, which solved the problem of lack of military rations and played a certain role in restoring agricultural production.

In the first year of Jian'an, Cao Cao adopted the advice of Zaozhi and others, and used the materials seized from the Yellow Turbans to recruit people to work in the fields under his promise. Great results were achieved that year, and millions of dendrobium grains were harvested.

So Cao Cao ordered to set up field officials in various states and counties to set up farming. Farmers ensure reproduction through state investment, and their work efficiency is higher than that of ordinary homesteaders. Therefore, in a short period of time,"peasants, officers, soldiers, fields, the sound of chickens and dogs, and the streets are related to each other".

The farmland effectively solved the food problem of Cao Cao's group, so Cao Cao said:"Then the land will be used to enrich the country, destroy the rebellion of the masses, and conquer the world."

While setting up the farmland, Cao Cao took various measures to support the farmers. economy. In response to the situation of population loss and barren fields at that time, Cao Cao successively adopted measures such as recruiting refugees, migrating people, encouraging farmers to teach farming, building water conservancy projects, and checking household registration to enrich household registration and restore agricultural production.

In addition, Cao Cao also issued decrees one after another to restore the normal rent-and-settlement system and prevent powerful tyrants from annexing small farmers.

In the fifth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao promulgated a new expropriation system. In the ninth year of Jian'an, it was further clarified:"He who collects land will rent four liters per mu, and each household will produce two pieces of silk and two pounds of cotton. He is not allowed to be good at making money." Cao Cao implemented this system successively. This series of measures enabled the peasant economy on the verge of collapse to continue to recover and develop. This has become a strong economic foundation for the Cao Cao Group.