Under the current situation of the Han Dynasty, if Liu Yu still wants to implement his early Huairou policy towards those aliens outside the Guan, who had a good effect, then he is simply looking for death.

However, although Liu Xian understood these situations in his heart, these were not affected by Liu Xian. What's more, even if it can be influenced? Liu Xian didn't know Liu Yu at all, and his life and death had nothing to do with Liu Xian.

This Liu Yu, like himself, is a member of the Han family, and he should be a good court official, if he is his own person and can be used for himself, then find a way to change his governance philosophy and save his life or it is still possible. But now, it's really not about me.

When Liu Xian arrived in Youbeiping, what he had to consider was how to sell the batch of winter cotton clothes brought by his caravan, and then use the money to purchase a batch of materials.

For example, grain, horses, cattle, sheep, and so on.

The right Beiping City has been captured by Zhang Chun's rebels, and the city has also been wreaked havoc by the rebels. Looking at the situation in Beiping City, there is also a shortage of food, and ordinary people can't afford to buy their winter cotton clothes at all.

Fortunately, Liu Xian didn't plan to sell these winter cotton clothes to ordinary people, and along the way, Liu Xian didn't let the caravan sell these clothes in the towns along the way.

However, Liu Xian immediately asked people to inquire about the situation of those landlords and tyrants in Youbeiping City. found that their life was still good, although they also flaunted the banner of lack of food, but it is certain that they must have hidden a lot of food secretly. This can be seen from some of their rice grain stores. At least their grain stores still have grain for sale. The price of grain has not risen too high, about 40 yuan a catty.

Converted, such a grain price is actually equal to more than ten yuan in later generations.

Under the situation of food shortage, the price of grain has risen to this radiance, which is barely acceptable.

The information collected by the people sent by Liu Xian shows that such a grain price is actually the price after the government has suppressed and adjusted it.

These Liu Xian didn't want to care more, Liu Xian was asking people to find out the information, one was to sell his goods first, and the other was to figure out the current Youbeiping, or other cities, to see where there was still a large amount of grain for sale.

This is to sell your goods before you can have money, and with money you can buy supplies, and you have to know who has so much food and other materials in their hands.

In the early years of Youzhou, it was quite good under Liu Yu's governance. In this north, Youzhou is actually also a place where grain is produced, and if the place is peaceful and the wind and rain are smooth, the yield is quite good.

In addition, it is clear that no matter what the world is, as long as there are people working on those fields, then there will definitely be food. And the food that is produced is not actually in the hands of the people.

Let's put it this way, it should be said that the vast majority of the people, the fields they cultivate, are actually those of those families and scholars, the fields of those landlords. Basically, they can only be regarded as renting other people's fields. In this way, the vast majority of grain output will only fall into the hands of those families, landlords and tyrants, and the government.

For example, if a thousand catties of grain are produced, then at least one-third of this will be paid to the government in taxes. After that, to say the least, one-third will fall into the hands of those landlords and tyrants.

In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the people were so miserable, and most of the fruits of their hard work fell into the hands of others. And all they have left is basically just barely enough for them to survive, and it's not even enough for their family.

This is also an important reason why there is a Yellow Turban Uprising, if they don't rebel, they will indeed have no way to live.

The people are now running out of food, and if the government's food is broken by thieves, then the government's food will definitely be gone.

However, those family members, landlords and tyrants, they must still have a lot of food. Their grain is usually stored for several years.

These situations can be known from those landlords and tyrants in Yangshi County. In addition, in fact, it can also be glimpsed from the situation of the plain palace.

The Plains Palace, strictly speaking, does not have the same profound heritage as those real family scholars. The mansion was only built for decades, and some families have existed for a hundred years or even two or three hundred years.

In fact, the plain palace is only equivalent to two or three county seats. But this has allowed the Plains Mansion to accumulate unbelievable wealth.

Ma Guiren privately told Liu Xian that the wealth of the Plains Palace, calculated in hundreds of millions, is a real family wealth. In addition, the grain hidden in the plain palace is two or three million catties, to say the least.

Outside the city, there were two or three manors that belonged to the Plains Palace. In those manors, there are millions of catties of grain.

Liu Xian also made a rough calculation of how those wealth were obtained.

The fiefdom of the plain palace is about equal to two or three county seats, that is to say, the fields cultivated by the people of these two or three counties are all regarded as the plain king's mansion. Of course, this is only theoretical.

Regardless of anything else, there are more than 300,000 people in two or three counties. According to 300,000 people, every year, the grain that Pingjun has to pay to the plain palace is counted as 100 catties. Then this year, the plain palace will be able to harvest 30 million catties of grain.

30 million catties of grain, even if you have a penny or a catty, you have an income of 30 million yuan. And the Plains Mansion has existed for so many years, even in the past ten years, there is a harvest of 300 million dollars.

Especially in the past ten years, there is only one real master left in the Plains Palace. She is a woman's family, and she basically doesn't go out much in the plains, in fact, she doesn't spend any money at all. Most of the expenditures of the Plains Mansion are spent on those subordinates, and of course, these funds cannot be spent, because in order to maintain the normal operation of the Plains Palace, those funds still have to be spent.

But no matter what, there is still a lot of money and food leftover, which was secretly hidden by Ma Guiren.

Grain is naturally inconvenient to store, so it is generally exchanged for money, like now, the plain palace secretly hides three million catties of grain, which is only about one-tenth of the grain collected by the plain palace in good years. The food is hidden, but it's just a backup, just in case.

Okay, where did all the food go? In fact, these are all in the hands of those businessmen. In exchange for money, naturally it can only be exchanged with those big businessmen.

Of course, this is only a part of the situation in the Plains Palace, in fact, those wealthy families, they all have their own caravans or shops, those grains, surplus grains, they will sell through those shops.

Whether it is those wealthy families, or those landlords and tyrants, or even those big businessmen, they are actually extremely shrewd.

Usually, they may not be very inconspicuous, but no one knows how much wealth they will have. Because they will hide their wealth well.

Especially when encountering troubled times, like this Yellow Turban Uprising, the momentum is huge and far-reaching. However, at the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, it was impossible for them to target all the local families and governments at the same time.

Before they were attacked by the Yellow Turbans, they would immediately move their money and food to a safe place and hide them.

Therefore, don't look at the current turmoil in the Han Dynasty, wailing everywhere, the people are struggling to make a living, the people are killed by the rebels, starved to death without food, it seems that many places have fallen into a food crisis.

However, looking at those real family members and landlords, they will basically not be affected too much. Of course, when it comes to influence, it's just that they are indeed targeted by those Yellow Turban Army, and if one is not good, they will indeed be killed and robbed by the Yellow Turban Army.

If they hadn't been killed and plundered by the Yellow Turbans, they would have had a lot of money and food.

It can also be said that if those family members and landlords and tyrants can be like Liu Xian, sympathize with and pity those people who have run out of food, and can spare no expense to take out some stored grain to help the people, then at this time, there will be no food crisis at all.

As long as there is money, and there is a way to get those family members to take out the grain and sell it to themselves, then there is no need to worry about the problem of food at all.

Liu Xian asked people to investigate, that is, to investigate those families, landlords and tyrants, and those big businessmen. Liu Xian had to buy grain from those people, so that he could have a large amount of grain.

But you have to get the money first.

Liu Xian was rich, Zhang Ning obtained Zhang Bao's inheritance, and Ma Guiren also handed over the wealth of the Plains Palace to Liu Xian to dispose of.

It can be said that if it was just to solve the problem of food danger in Yang's County or even in the entire Julu County, Liu Xian would not have to do this business at all, nor would he have to come to this Youzhou at all.

But Liu Xian didn't want to touch those wealth for the time being, because in the next development, there would be more places where money would be needed.

What's more, this batch of goods is the crystallization of the labor of tens of thousands of people in Yangshi County, and it is related to the livelihood of the people in the future, so Liu Xian must continue to do the business of these merchants.

Also, this time the businessman Liu Xian is not simply for these things. Liu Xian is a place to do business by himself, dotting along the way, and setting up his own stations in various places. For the purpose of gathering intelligence for yourself.

In fact, many things can be done together. Liu Xian traveled south and north like this, and he could also get acquainted with some historical celebrities of the Three Kingdoms by the way, and if he had a way, he could also subdue some talents for his own use.

Just like when I went to Zhaojia Village earlier, didn't this persuade Zhaojia Village to move to his own Liulin Village? This is also equivalent to having a relationship with Zhao Yun, if there is no accident, Zhao Yun will inevitably serve himself in the future.

However, this benefit is not only that Zhao Yun will be effective, among the more than 300 people in Zhaojia Village, there are dozens of young and strong people, and among these dozens of people, many are proficient in bows and arrows. These are the best sources of soldiers for archers. As long as they are gathered and trained, they can become elite archers.

Not to mention these, Liu Xian is in this right Beiping City, and there are actually quite a lot of things to do.

Because of Liu Xian's Liu Mansion caravan, there were more people, and they were carrying weapons. Therefore, after entering the city, it was somewhat controlled.

Zhou Wu, the general of the Right Beiping Command, was somewhat wary of Liu Xian's line. Although he believed in Liu Xian's identity and origin, he still asked Liu Xian, Liu Xian's caravan guards, not to wander around the city in groups, and when they wanted to go out, the people of Liu's caravan could not carry weapons.

Zhou Wu deliberately let Liu Xian's team settle in a military camp in the city, and he also let some officers and soldiers guard the military camp to restrict the entry and exit of Liu Xian's horses.

Now is indeed an extraordinary period, Liu Xian can understand Zhou Wu's arrangement, and has no objections.

In order to express his gratitude to Zhou Wu, Liu Xian also gave Zhou Wu 100 thick cotton clothes on the spot.

A thick cotton coat, at the current price of inflation, can actually really buy a thousand yuan or even two or three thousand yuan a piece. Liu Xian's gift is 100 pieces, which is equivalent to sending more than 100,000 yuan to Zhou Wu.

In this way, Zhou Wu's attitude towards Liu Xian couldn't help but be a little better.

As a city defender, his troops are thousands. His military rank should be higher than that of ordinary county lieutenants, and even higher than that of a goalkeeper. At least it's a long part.

In terms of official position, Liu Xian is really nothing in front of Zhou Wu, if it weren't for Liu Xian's hundreds of people, Zhou Wu would really not ask about these ordinary caravans. But Liu Xian still has a layer of identity, a clan member of the Han family, which is also the reason why Zhou Wu came forward in person.

Liu Xian still had a lot of things to deal with this unknown guard of the Three Kingdoms, so he gave him a hundred thick cotton clothes.

In addition, Liu Xian also discovered some advantages of this Zhou Wu by meeting with this Zhou Wu. He doesn't look like one of those unscrupulous officials.

How to say it, this Zhou Wu actually did not mention the caravan entry fee with Liu Xian, and there was no embodiment of extortion against his caravan. It is precisely because of this that Liu Xian feels that this Zhou Wu should be regarded as a relatively upright guard, not the kind of greedy person who plucks his hair.

In addition, Liu Xian also saw that the hundred thick cotton clothes he gave him were distributed to the people below him. And Liu Xian heard his special confession and let those soldiers who patrolled the city at night wear them.

It can be seen that Zhou Wu is also a general who is more sympathetic to soldiers.

In the current chaotic world, it is rare for a person to maintain an upright heart. Therefore, Liu Xian became a friend of Zhou Wu.

Accepting talents for your own use, this does not necessarily require those who are famous in history. Even if they are nameless, as long as Liu Xian feels that there is no problem with their character, then they can be co-opted and subdued.