Chapter 57 A good official who sticks money and becomes an official

After returning to Liaodong, Li Su spent more than half a month, leaving everyone's personnel to be smoothed out, and everyone was arranged clearly.

The generals don't have much to say anyway, Guan Zhang Zhao and Zhou Tai are already in Qingzhou, Dian Wei follows Li Suran, these people want to stay, the court will worry that they will be empty in the future Xu Rong will support the army and self-respect, and it is best to be willing to go with Liu Bei.

Li Su only left a Tai Shici who was still inconspicuous and had never heard of the name of the imperial court as a spare tire insurance.

In terms of civil officials, the original intention of the imperial court was to retain them in their original positions.

Lu Su is a special case, Li Su thought of some excuses, entrusted favors, and helped Lu Su to do the reason of "living on the coast of the East China Sea, intolerant of the bitter cold of Liaodong, and unaccustomed to water and soil", and took another post to recuperate.

However, since it is a special case, it is not easy to copy, and other civil officials have to leave a few to contrast Lu Su and reduce the court's fear that "Liu Bei is too popular in Liaodong".

Therefore, Tian Chou, a "local" who was originally from Youbeiping, was further reused, and although the current rank was not officially reported to the imperial court for promotion, he was asked to hand over to Lu Su and gradually manage the most important work of Xiangping County.

Tian Chou is just a representative, and other capable officials who are local to Youzhou but are not from Liaodong have also been promoted and assessed by Li Su.

For example, Li Su found a young man named Tian Yu in the team of local officials left by Liu Bei - this Tian Yu is from Yuyang, and he is half a fellow countryman with Liu Bei, and he defected to Liu Bei early in history.

It's just that according to the original trajectory, Liu Bei should have been under Gongsun Zan at that time, and in this life, Liu Bei was already directly under the state pastor Liu Yu.

After Tian Yu followed Liu Bei for many years, it was because Liu Bei lost his base and wandered to the south, and Tian Yu's old mother was seriously ill, and Tian Yu wanted to return to his hometown in Youzhou to serve his elders, so he said goodbye to Liu Bei.

But in this life, Liu Bei still has a base in Youzhou, with Li Su's endorsement, everyone knows that working for Mi Zhu is equivalent to serving Liu Bei, and there is no worry about his mother, and his thoughts are very unified.

In addition, Mi Zhu is a rich man, and he has a very good grasp of the treatment of officials.

Since the middle of the year, Mi Zhu began to concentrate on the construction of the port of Yushi, to find a foothold for immigrants from the south, and to facilitate trade and grain transshipment by sea, Mi Zhu found that this place is very livable in winter and cool in summer.

Therefore, Mi Zhu took the opportunity of "resettlement of displaced people through work", arranged for 20,000 hungry people to build the city of Yushi, and reclaimed the land near the Yushi, and even made full use of the slope land: fruit trees could be planted on the hillside, grapes introduced from the Western Regions could be planted on the hillside, and wheat requiring less water was planted on the flat land. Next year, we are also planning to move another 30,000 hungry people from Donglai to continue cultivating land.

The climate and agricultural structure of this place is similar to that of Donglai (Qingdao/Yantai) on the other side, although there are no rivers because of the terrain of the peninsula. However, with the agricultural technology of the Han Dynasty, it was no problem to grow dryland crops along the coastal plain of the Wafangdian-Zhuanghe River in the northeast of Dalian in later generations, and it was no problem to feed 200,000 people by themselves.

There are a total of more than 1,000 square kilometers of gentle and reclaimable area, close to 2 million mu, which can fill the 60,000 or 70,000 strong laborers of the tuntian, and not more than 200,000 if you count the family members.

After cultivating the Yu family into a "paradise", Mi Zhu sent all the elders and relatives of his officials who needed to be supported and were not tolerant of bitter cold.

Then each person was given a manor that Mizhu funded and repaired, and each official was also given ten hectares of newly opened barren land, with orchards and vineyards. He also sent the Mi family's family to "protect" and serve, and even the Mi family's family personally participated in the cultivation as the chief and chief of the Mi family.

Tai Shici's old mother and Tian Yu's old mother, these are just a few examples, and there are many such people.

Of course, everyone is very satisfied with Mi Zhu.

Li Su had to sigh when he saw it: Mi Zhu's administrative management ability was completely born from his amazing management and governance ability, which is to treat Taishou as the CEO.

With such a steady arrangement, Tian Yu was also relieved to be assigned to the post of Changli County Cheng and worked for several years over the years.

The reason why Tian Yu was discovered late was also because he was two or three years younger than Tian Chou - Tian Chou was already in his early twenties, and Tian Yu was only nineteen years old. When Liu Bei himself was there before, he couldn't be further reused, and he was also limited by his age.

The position of county magistrate who protects everyone's family members is held by Mi Fang. Because the population of Yushi County is swelling wildly, according to the Han Dynasty's practice of "setting up chiefs for less than 5,000 households and orders for more than 5,000 households", Mi Fang only needs to work for one year to automatically upgrade to "order".

Even after two years, when the Yu family grows to a large county with more than 10,000 households, his order can be worth the rank of "more than a thousand stones", and it can be said that he will be automatically promoted while lying down. Mi Zhu's arrangement is also trying his best to benefit his younger brother.

Although Li Su was a little instinctively worried when he heard this name, he thought about it carefully, the Mi clan was surrounded by the sea on three sides, Mi Zhu had the absolute superiority of the navy, and Donglai was still in the hands of friendly forces.

There must not be an enemy who travels far and crosses the ocean, amphibious landing, and sneaks up on the Yushi. Mi Fang's task is mainly to take care of the families of the ministers who stay there. And Mi Fang is not an outsider like Guan Yu who wants to assist this time, but his own brother, even if Mi Fang has no heart and lungs, he can't betray his own brother and surrender when he is in trouble.

Thinking about it like this, Li Su was relieved, after all, he couldn't persuade Mi Zhu to not even trust his own brother and not use it.

Inseparable.

In the end, Li Su wanted to take away the list of civil officials who were placed in Hanzhong, including these people: Lu Su, Guan Ning, Jian Yong, Sun Gan, and the Zhuge brothers, Guo Yuan, Xi Wei, and Cheng Bing, who are now staying in Qingzhou and acting with the army, are all recruited locally, and have never been to Liaodong from beginning to end, nor have they officially been officials in the imperial court.

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After arranging the personnel, it was the beginning of November in a blink of an eye.

After observing during this time, the relationship between Xu Rong and Mi Zhu has further improved a lot.

The main reason is that Xu Rong found that Mi Zhu was really a rare good official in the sense of the Han Dynasty - at the beginning, Xu Rong felt that Mi Zhu was also a buyer of officials, and he would definitely want to loot the people's fat and ointment to earn it back.

But after half a month of secret visits, he found that Mi Zhu was actually sticking money to be an official!

Civil officials are not greedy for money, and they have surpassed 90% of their colleagues in this way, and talent is not so important.

The common people only need a Taishou who is willing to do things and does not loot, which is already a great fortune for the people.

Of course, Mi Zhu didn't really love money, he just listened to Li Su's advice, to put on a "long-term" posture, that is, the cost of investment, don't think about exhausting the water in a year or two and catch it back, but relax the investment cycle to three or five years, and make a "five-year plan".

Nowadays, it is impossible for other civil officials in the Han Dynasty to make a five-year plan, because the official validity period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty is not so long. The money for buying an official for a year must be earned back in the same year, otherwise it will lose money.

Li Su endorsed his personal vision and credit, and privately said that when he saw His Majesty in the capital, he had not seen His Majesty's body for a few months, and the system of selling officials would definitely end with the death of Emperor Ling. Therefore, we must do a good job and look at the long-term, who can continue to be a Taishou in the future may depend on political achievements and people's will.

In view of Li Su's divine prophecy all along, Mi Zhu was also willing to gamble with Li Su's vision, so he implemented long-termism.

He must still earn money from the people, but since he has a long-term plan, he will lend moderately and earn interest.

This kind of loan to the hungry people in the tuntian is of course usury by the standards of later generations. But according to the standards of the Han Dynasty, it is definitely the rate of return that it should have, and there is no problem of usury.

Mi Zhu's idea is to "lend usury, return to capital in three years, and make money in five years", and do not be greedy or loot anything else.

According to this line of thinking, Liu Bei had a population of 150,000 from Qingzhou before, and about 50,000 people could immigrate to the Liaodong Plain this year, leaving 30,000 in the Liaohe River valley and 20,000 on the Yu's side.

The remaining 100,000 will be left in Donglai for the time being, reducing the loss of ration transportation, and then moving to the area to be newly reclaimed when the lunar month comes. It is estimated that the Liaohe Plain will be able to accommodate another 30,000 or 40,000 next year, and then move 30,000 or 40,000 to the basin between the Datong River and the Han River on the opposite bank, and hand it over to Lelang County to open up the wasteland to the south.

Other officials can't learn this trick, because they don't have a huge amount of capital to lend money like Mi Zhu, so this kind of "benevolent government" can only be implemented by Mi Zhu himself.

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On the ninth day of the first day of November, after all the arrangements for civil affairs were understood, Li Su privately found Mi Zhu and told him the last two precautions.

"Brother Zizhong, what I told you last time, to help Ziyi make military merits, promote Sima to other departments, and balance Xu Rong, you have to hurry up." Li Su hit the nail on the head.

After working with Xu Rong for more than half a month, Mi Zhu actually relaxed his vigilance a little, and said with a big grin: "I think Xu Duwei is also an impartial person, I have successively married his heart with the name of the divine soldier armor, Ma Jinbo, and also sent him a few beautiful maids, he and I have a very good relationship recently." ”

Li Su shook his head: "This is not enough - I don't want you to guard against Xu Rong himself, if you just want Xu Rong to not have dissenting intentions, of course this is enough, because I can see that he is a pure soldier, and he has no ambition to be a shepherd."

However, it is necessary to beware that after His Majesty is dying, in the future, the lord and the young ministers will be suspicious, and the monarch will have the power to commit treachery and rebellion. If there is a chaotic order of the imperial court here, you may guarantee that Xu Rong will not listen to the new edict of the imperial court? ”

"The lord and the young minister are suspicious? This is not to be prevented......" Mi Zhu muttered.

Although this topic is a bit of a big reversal, everyone knows it in their hearts. The crown prince is only fourteen years old, and after ascending the throne, he must have auxiliary ministers.

Of course, Mi Zhu didn't know that the young emperor would not be in the future for long, but even if the young emperor was the hypothetical emperor and ascended the throne at the age of fifteen next year, it would take five years to reach the crown of twenty and the crown, so that he would not need to entrust the minister to assist the government.

It is still necessary to make a guarantee for the five-year chaotic period.

After Mi Zhu figured it out, he also asked very simply: "But as a Liaodong Taishou, the territory is already Yanran." Before Xuande Gong crossed the border to attack the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, he has been reprimanded by His Majesty, where can I find military merits for Ziyili? You can't innocently kill Fuyu and Goguryi, and the imperial court won't take credit for it. ”

Li Su: "Isn't Donglai Guan Cheng still there, when Brother Xuande killed Zhang Rao and Guan Hai, Guan Cheng stood by and watched, regardless of the friendship of the same qi and branches, relying on his own boat to escape back to the island, and he couldn't help Guan Hai when he was destroyed." Now that I have taken the head of the management of the inheritance, I am afraid that it is not worth Ziyi and another Sima? ”

Mi Zhu: "But that's the Donglai Pirates......"

Li Su: "We can say that he is a Pirate of the Clan. Shamen Island is located between the green and secluded, since ancient times, there is neither a county nor a township, and the imperial court map is not clear. In previous years, the reason why he was said to be a Donglai pirate was that he was accustomed to plundering the good people along the coast of Donglai.

But as long as we create an incident of 'the Youzhou grain ship was robbed halfway by Guan Cheng', are we afraid that there will be no excuse to send troops? Actually, you and I don't need these excuses, this excuse is not for Xu Duwei to see. ”

Xu Rong was sent by the imperial court, even if he got some Maine incident, it would be for Xu Rong to see, and he didn't need it.

For Li Su, the excuse for engaging in some diplomatic blackmail is easier than eating.

In his previous life, when he was studying, he clearly analyzed the historical cases of the CIA overturning the rule of all small Latin American countries one by one, and he had to take the exam.

Mi Zhu couldn't help but gasp slightly.

This Li Boya's ability to frame him is really open-mouthed, and he doesn't even use his brain.

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