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The vast number of the people of Li suffered from the plague of locusts, and the young grass had just sprouted, and all of them were uprooted and eaten, which was worse than the locust crossing the border, and the locusts only ate the leaves on it, but the people who were dying of hunger dug up the grass roots and ate them.

After Liu Chengfang took Haozhou, the first thing he did was to distribute the grain from Yicang and Guancang to the people.

There are Yicang and Guancang in various places of the dynasty in case of emergency. When Liu Chengfang was the prefect of Haozhou, he did a good job, but since he was transferred to the Wu prefect of Xiangyang to take over, in order to retaliate against the Liu family, not a single grain in the granary has been taken out. For this reason, Liu Chengfang himself communicated with Wu Governor no less than 20 times, but each time he broke up unhappily.

The children of the Liu family hated him for a long time, but they were detained by Liu Chengfang and were not allowed to make trouble. In fact, the Liu family never thought of making trouble at all, since Liu Chengfang became the prefect, he was willing to bring motivated children and nephews, and the life of everyone in the Liu family has been extremely nourishing.

Wu Zhifu insisted that the chickens and ducks of the Liu family ate locusts, and the local disaster was not serious, no matter how Liu Chengfang wore out his mouth, he refused to release grain, and wanted to use this to provoke internal and external contradictions in the Liu family.

Now the head of the Wu Governor's Mansion has been hung above the city gate, and Liu Chengfang has distributed the grain to the local people, and everyone is very grateful. In addition, he had a good official reputation before, and his eldest son Liu Yongan lost his official reputation just to not marry the princess of Tatar, these facts can move everyone more than any nice words, and the people nearby are willing to follow him without waiting for him to say anything.

The people regard food as their heaven, and having food to eat is more important than anything else. What's more, the contradiction between the Tartars and the Han people has reached the point of irreconcilability, and what is needed at this time is only a person who takes the lead in standing up, and the Liu family has become the best choice.

Outside to distribute grain, Liu Chengfang took everyone to discuss the future development plan.

Liu Yongan: "Haozhou is our hometown, this place must not be lost, it must be kept." "Not only are the wives and children of the Liu family here, but they are also the people who run to Liu Chengfang, and most of them are acquaintances who are recognized in the nearby towns and villages, and they can't cut others in front, and their homes are copied in the back.

Liu Chengluan: "Our Liu family is a good man who dares to fight, but it is difficult to make a bridge alone, and the candidate to govern Haozhou still needs to find an experienced one." ”

A cadre of sons and nephews all said: "This person is none other than the fourth uncle." ”

Liu Chengluan: "You shallow-eyed people, this little thing has thought of your fourth uncle, we can grab Haozhou now, and the next Chuzhou will not be a problem, and there will be more and more in the future." ”

Liu Chenggui: "In addition to the fourth brother and Chang'an, those who have been officials in our Liu family are Sanlang, Wulang, and Liulang. ”

This is the ranking between the Liu family brothers. San Lang is Liu Yonghui, who was previously a county lieutenant; Wulang is his son Liu Yongzhi, after winning Xiucai, he was in the Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau, and the big knives used by Liu Yongan to sell grain before were secretly made from him, but the creation of these big knives was still a matter when Liu Chengfang was the prefect of Haozhou, Liu Chengfang didn't know about it, and Wang Jing secretly asked him to do it; Liulang is the eldest brother of Liu Yongsheng's mother, and he is also a Xiucai, who has been a county magistrate in Dingyuan for half a year before.

According to Liu Chenggui's thoughts, the people who make the effort are the Liu family's own people, and now that there are benefits, they must definitely be distributed to them.

Liu Yongzhi's shrewdness is even better than his father's, knowing that he is planning for himself, he is busy saying: "I think the previous Tongzhi Tangquan is good, since the fourth brother was unwilling to marry the princess, the Wu Governor's Mansion was difficult with us everywhere, but Tangquan defended us everywhere, like the big knife explained by the fourth sister-in-law before, he knew it but never felt sorry for us." ”

Liu Chengluan said: "Let's unite as one, work hard, we can hit the capital is not certain, take 10,000 steps back, and still use those who are willing to cooperate with us before, which is also conducive to future development, even if something happens, there will be more people to bear." "The foundation of the Liu family is too shallow, and there is no talent to be a prefect at all, even if there is such a talent, he will have to play a greater role.

Of course, this is just a tactful statement, in fact, Liu Chengluan is a pedantic scholar, if he wasn't forced to be helpless, he didn't want his son to do these jobs with his head.

However, his words inspired Liu Chengfang, and decided that after each place was in hand, if the local officials cooperated and their reputation was good, they would not replace them, so that more people would support and support them.

"The prefect will use Tangquan, but the general who guards the city will use our own people. You can recommend it or you can recommend yourself. But you have to keep it. Liu Chengfang said.

Liu Yongsheng: "I recommend the fourth brother." He was an official before, even when the Wu Governor's Mansion deliberately looked for ballast and made it bad, the men, women and children within three hundred miles saw him and called him 'Third Master', he had read and learned martial arts, and when he took a large group of people to transport grain, he made great efforts, so that he could keep it reassuring. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone agreed.

Liu Yongan said: "Don't think about dividing the seal and being an official now, all of us add up to less than 20,000, not to mention the imperial court, just Han Ling's subordinates can just open a few people, we only have to be obedient, what we need to do now is to grab land and expand the team; Others are willing to follow us, mainly because they want to live, and if they want to live, they have to fill their stomachs! This is the right thing, and it is serious to grab a few large warehouses quickly. With food, more people are willing to follow us, otherwise we will be grasshoppers after autumn, and we will have a few days to jump. ”

It's not a nice thing to say, but everyone thinks it makes sense.

"It's different for people who read a lot, as soon as Chang'an opened his mouth, my hanging heart was put back in my stomach." Liu Wanming said.

He is a generation higher than Liu Chengfang, Liu Yongan wants to call him "Ninth Master", and his favorite thing to do is to tell his nephews and grandchildren about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which has always been very prestigious in the Liu family. As soon as this remark came out, it was unanimously approved by all the Liu family.

"No matter how small the sparrow is, it is still meat, so it is better to take advantage of the present time, let's go over and grab all the nearby hills. If you don't want anything else, just want to add more to our number and increase your momentum. ”

Liu Wanming: "The next time we have a meeting, let's just elect a few representatives, so that people with foreign surnames can also participate, so as not to chill the hearts of others." ”

Liu Chengluan said: "Uncle Jiu's words are very reasonable. "He can't do anything else, but as the eldest brother of a mother's compatriots, there is no ambiguity at all when he supports his younger brother." If our own people feel that the old four are unevenly divided and handled unfairly, we can talk to Uncle Nine. "The implication is that you can't coax behind your back.

Liu Wanming was originally the patriarch of the Liu family, and the power of the patriarchal law in this dynasty is more effective than the law, so letting everyone go to Liu Wanming is also a good way to alleviate internal contradictions.

The crowd was unanimous. went straight to Dingyuan from Haozhou to the south, and when he arrived in Dingyuan, he didn't move a single soldier at all. Guo Zhixing had already encouraged everyone to take down Dingyuan.

With Dingyuan, their number more than doubled.

Everyone's confidence doubled, 50,000 horses went straight to Chuzhou, they arrived at the time of the three watches, a city people are in a good dream, some people to death do not understand what happened.

However, it was only the local prefect who was killed, and he still made the same prefect to Fuzheng. (To be continued.) )