"Wow~Wow~"

Under the first rays of sunlight in the early morning, a group of hard-working Han soldiers poured basins of cold water on the main street that ran through the city from north to south in Changli County, washing the blood stains left over from the massacre last night, so that the entrance of the court officials into the city would look more decent for a while.

At the beginning of the hour, Liu Bei and Li Su walked side by side, Li Su was slightly behind the distance of a horse's head, wearing iron armor inside and official robes outside, surrounded by five hundred white horse cavalry, Shi Shiran entered from the north gate.

The conquest of Changli County is still of great significance, because this is the seat of governance of Liaodong's vassal state, and until this moment, Liu Bei, the "Liaodong Minister" and Li Su, the "Liaodong Long History", can be regarded as justifiably and officially arriving.

The hard days before can only be regarded as "twists and turns on the way to office".

In this kind of troubled times, it is not easy for the officials given by the imperial court to do it.

Any one-time promotion is relatively large, and it is often in the hands of anti-thieves, giving you a false name of righteousness, and asking you to bring back the territory yourself - for example, Sun Jian is the same. The imperial court directly promoted Sun Jian to be the Taishou of Changsha from a petty official like Sima/Yilang in other departments, which meant that Changsha County had to be defeated by himself from the anti-thief district star.

Liu Bei rode his horse to the largest official office in the city, and looked at the dilapidated building, his heart was quite agitated.

This house was not lightly harmed by the king of Nanqiao and the uncle and nephew of Nanlou, but it was a symbol of power sent by the imperial court to send a shepherd.

"It's too dilapidated, since we have recovered the imperial court and county, we should also repair it slightly." After walking into the main gate of the official office and looking left and right, Liu Bei said to himself.

"Big brother, I'm waiting for Changli to recover, and the Tuhe County next to it is still in the hands of the thief army. And this year's great hunger and people's livelihood are withering, how is this the time to say this. Guan Yu was by Liu Bei's side, and he couldn't help but persuade directly, he was also used to talking to brothers when they had something to say.

Liu Bei smiled with relief: "Yun Chang, don't you think I'm greedy for pleasure?" Even if the living room in the house is simpler, it doesn't hurt, the key is to make the façade magnificent. I am not for the sake of living comfortably, but I urgently need to lift the hearts of the people in Liaodong and let the people see the new atmosphere of the imperial court. When people's hearts are fluctuating, they need the face of the court even more. ”

With such an explanation, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, who are diligent and thrifty, are not easy to say.

Li Su, on the other side, rarely agreed with Liu Bei on this kind of issue: "I also support this matter, in the year of the catastrophe, it is better to use the people to have a degree than to rest with the people completely, we can work for relief."

As for Tuhe County, which has not yet been recovered, it is a trivial matter. In the past few days, Yun Changzi Long first settled the surrounding counties where there were no rebels, and after a while, I went to the Yide camp and asked Yide to surround Tuhe County to death.

Shooting a book into the city to persuade him to surrender, he is ninety percent sure that he can be subdued without a fight - there are only four or five thousand men and horses there, and he will not have the confidence to resist when he sees Nanlou and Yan Rou's head. ”

Liu Bei originally just felt that the victory was a little successful, and he wanted to decorate it, but when he heard that Li Su could find legitimacy for him, he was also happy in his heart: "Oh? Boya always has a high opinion, and he is willing to hear it in detail. What is this 'cash-for-work' method? ”

Not only Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, but even Lu Su pricked up their ears and wanted to hear what they had to say.

The method of cash-for-work was already in place in the Tang and Song dynasties at the latest, and Su Dongpo used it very slippery when he was a magistrate. That's because the Song Dynasty had developed commerce, and people at that time had a certain amount of common sense of economics.

However, the Han Dynasty was still too heavy on agriculture and suppressed commerce, so people today must have never heard of it.

Li Su then said: "It is now the end of March, and with the recovery of our army's lost territory, the hungry and displaced people are still clinging to it. Those who came to vote in April, after letting Zijing take over, they can still reclaim the land and plant some beans and vegetables.

But what if there are still displaced people in May, or even later, who need to be resettled? At that time, it must have been missed in the agricultural season, and at this time, it was necessary to absorb the elite and strong soldiers among the hungry people, and use food and salary to raise the soldiers to eliminate the source of chaos.

And those who are not enough to serve as soldiers can only serve in the work organized by the government, so that the hungry can serve to earn rations. This is at least easier to manage than direct unpaid disaster relief, and it can also prevent the people who come first from working and paying rent from being unhappy and want to waste their fields and mix in with the people receiving relief. ”

This is a very simple truth, but after Liu Bei and Lu Su heard it, they were shocked for a while.

Lu Su muttered to himself in distraction: "Work for relief...... I didn't expect that there would be such a wonderful use for letting the people work and distribute rations. These days have indeed become difficult to manage for the growing number of displaced people, and it is a deep headache.

Some of the hungry came in February, some in March, but when it came to distributing land and rations, there were many people and it was difficult to keep accounts. It is often impossible to understand how many days of rations each hungry household has received, and after the autumn harvest, the rent will be doubled and repaid, and they are afraid that they will miss everything.

Therefore, it can only be divided into groups every month, no matter what day of February comes, they are counted as receiving the rations for the whole month of February. In this way, it is more convenient for the government to keep accounts. Then those who came at the beginning of February were proud, and those who came at the end of February were unhappy.

With this method, the hungry people who come in April in the future will only start to pay their rations on the first day of the fifth month, and they will do a few days of work in April if they want to eat, and they will pay it in person every day, and the tax collectors will be exempted from being too busy. ”

Guan Yu on the side had never done internal affairs and didn't understand Lu Su's pain, he was just frugal by nature, and couldn't help asking: "Then this work for relief is to repair the mansion?" Repair the city walls? Although the people's power is cheap, isn't it too wasteful......"

Li Su smiled: "It's just temporary, it's good to spend a thousand people to repair the mansion." The extra manpower, in this land of Liaodong, is of course to build water conservancy. Zijing has also practiced, this land in eastern Liaodong is actually abundant in water, and even rice can be planted, and the yield per mu is higher than that of wheat and millet. It's just that rice cultivation requires a lot of irrigation, and more water conservancy must be repaired. In the off-season, this is mainly based on the construction of irrigation canals with cash for work. ”

Hearing Li Su think so thoughtfully, Liu Bei couldn't help but feel proud: "I have always been a Boya Duoqi plan, but I didn't expect that in terms of governing the people, I didn't lose Zijing." In addition to the talent of Liangping Yi Qin, Xiao He has to be added. ”

Li Su: "Brother has won the award, and he has won one occasionally." ”

Liu Bei smiled proudly: "Among the generals, now I and Boya are the marquis, and Boya's marquis has not been built, so I think I will pick a mansion in the city and let the people repair it." ”

The house where the officials of the Han Dynasty lived was not called a "mansion" casually, and the "opening of the mansion" by senior officials was a very big pomp and circumstance, which required the permission of the imperial court.

However, as a liege, you can have a mansion, but there is no team to open a mansion to take care of things, and it is purely to live.

used to call the homes of the super-rich people of the Zhen family and the Mi family "mansion", but it was just a common name, which was strictly unruly.

Li Su subconsciously wanted to say, "I haven't lived in Changli County for a long time, and when Xiangping is recovered, I may have to move there" to refuse.

But if you think about it carefully, Xiangping may not live for a long time, and the final layout of Emperor Ling before his death is not easy to say, so Liu Bei will agree to it.

This is also in line with Li Su's consistent character of "greedy for money, asking for land and asking for money", since Chen Ping's character is used, the simplicity of life will not make the lord dare not fully trust you.

"Then thank you, brother." Li Su accepted it calmly.

Liu Bei patted him on the shoulder: "Boya, after laying Xiangping, we can also be regarded as the princes who guarded the border of the Han Dynasty and subdued the four yi. It's time to enjoy a little peace and don't suffer yourself. ”

A trace of worry flashed in Li Su's heart: Could it be that Liu Bei has been fascinated by the small victory in front of him, and has the slackness of being temporarily satisfied with being the "King of Liaodong"?

But that's right, Emperor Ling of Han did not die, and the prestige of the court was not completely swept away.

After all, Liu Yu and Gongsun Zan have always been pressed on the top of his head before, and Liu Bei has always been working for others.

And Liaodong is far away, separated from Liaoxi by 400 miles of uninhabited land, so although it belongs to Youzhou, the political practice of the Han Dynasty for many years has been decided by Liaodong Taishou, and Youzhou Mu/Youzhou Thorn History is also a big question of right and wrong, and nothing else cares.

Therefore, Liaodong Taishou can be regarded as a feudal official who has no one to restrain and actually controls one-third of the area of Youzhou.

If you are not satisfied with being the "King of Liaodong" temporarily, it will be abnormal, unless you have a heart of disobedience early on.

Li Su knew that he had to find a way to persuade him slowly in this matter, and it was not good to say it too directly, otherwise wouldn't it become an instigation of a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty to have different intentions towards the court?

"Let's let Brother Xuande live a good life for two months to relax, and when Xiangping is captured, I will find an opportunity to persuade tactfully. Even if he can't be persuaded to have greater ambitions, it's a big deal to temporarily use 'the world is not yet peaceful, and the thieves caused by Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun have not been completely quelled' to encourage him to cheer up and cooperate with friendly troops to cross the border to fight the thieves. ”

After Li Su pondered for a while, he had such a draft in his mind.

Some people may wonder: If Xiangping is captured and Zhang Chundu is headed, how can he use the excuse that the rebellion of Juchun has not been completely pacified?

Li Su also felt that this question was more difficult, and after thinking about it for a long time, he roughly found a few ambiguous excuses that were barely usable:

First of all, Wusu of the Xianbei Wusu Department used to be an abandoned bait when he cooperated with Zhang Ju to break through, and fled south into Qingzhou, using Taishan County as the base, scourging Qing and Hebei, and also igniting the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, especially on the Shandong Peninsula, which caused a lot of disasters.

If Liu Bei is greedy for pleasure in the future, he can persuade Liu Bei to "start well and finish well" and ask Liu Yu for orders to help his friends fight thieves.

As the state pastor, Liu Yu originally had the power to hunt down and kill the rebels across the border, so he could give this order.

Later in history, the Liaodong Taishou Gongsun Du also crossed the narrow Bohai Strait from the Liaodong Peninsula to Donglai to break the Qingzhou Yellow Turban. As a result, Gongsun Du also occupied Donglai County for many years.

The big deal is to persuade Liu Bei to take this as a warning to prevent Liu Bei from temporarily feeling that he is done and indulging in pleasure.

If the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army in Wusu and Donglai is not enough, then take the territory of Xuansu County and Lelang County around Liaodong that was infested by Goguryeo as eye medicine, find something to do for Liu Bei, and remind him that it will be dangerous to forget the war.

Xuansu County governed Goguryi County (now Shenyang, and the former Liaodong County governed Xiangping is today's Liaoyang), and Lelang County governed Chaoxian County (now Pingyao), but they are still under the invasion of Goguryeo. In history, Gongsun Du was too punctual in Liaodong and completely purged and recovered, and also occupied a lot of Goguryeo's land, beating Goguryeo all over the ground to find teeth.

You can't let Liu Bei indulge in music and dance.

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PS: I'm sorry everyone, my wife's house in Taizhou on National Day, I was drunk at noon...... So today I am writing slowly. I still owe you two days and three watches.