Winter!

Gongsun Zhan, who had been crisscrossing the grasslands for a year, was trapped in the prairie when the road was closed by heavy snow, with a shortage of food, and was surrounded by the raging Karasuma people.

After Liu Yu learned the news, he immediately sent someone to talk to Karasuma.

Although Gongsun Chan has been disobeying orders for the past year, Liu Yu can't watch thousands of soldiers die outside the fortress.

Among the many tribes in the steppe, Karasuma has always been in a weak position, and he has to be bullied by the Xianbei people and the Huns.

Compared with Xianbei and Xiongnu, the Karasuma people did not want to go against the Han people, and he preferred to choose to rely on the Han to survive, so that the Han people could help them resist the attack of the Xianbei Huns.

However, Gongsun Chan took advantage of the previous rebellion of some Karasuma people with Zhang Chun and began to massacre Karasuma people. They can only start to rebel.

This is a rare and good opportunity for them to get rid of Gongsun Chan.

But the Gongsun family, as the head snake of Youzhou, gets rid of one Gongsun Zhan, and there will be other people surnamed Gongsun who will come out.

After Liu Yu repeatedly assured that only the Karasuma people let go of Gongsun Chan and a cadre of soldiers, and would never send troops into the territory of the Karasuma people again. And willing to engage in normal business transactions with Karasuma people.

These were originally what Liu Yu wanted to do, and he just took advantage of this opportunity to negotiate with the Karasuma people.

The Karasuma people accepted the peace talks and let Gongsun Chan leave.

After this defeat, Gongsun Chan temporarily lowered his head in front of Liu Yu and was honest for a while.

But Gongsun Zhan was not a man who was willing to be ordinary, so he soon found another excuse and led people into the grassland again, and this time his targets were changed to the Xianbei and Huns.

Although he was trapped by the Karasuma people last time, Gongsun Chan didn't think that he would be defeated by the Karasuma people, but the time was not good.

If they defeat the Xianbei people, the Huns, who dares to say that he can't.

When Liu Yu was busy communicating with the grassland tribes and Gongsun Zan was once again rampant in the grassland, Shanggu County had been developing steadily and orderly.

From the time Zhao Hui began to infiltrate Shanggu County, it has been nearly a year now, and all indicators of Shanggu County have made great progress.

The population increased by 50,000, all of whom were displaced people collected by Zhao Hui from all over Youzhou.

Many of them were disbanded by Guan Hai 100,000 yellow scarves before, they came all the way from Qingzhou to Youzhou, came to Shanggu County, changed their identities, and settled down next to Zhao Hui Guan Hai again.

They were given vacant land around Shanggu County for farming, and Zhao Hui rented cattle from Xianbei to them.

They don't have to pay money, but when the harvest comes, they have to pay 50% of the output as a tax.

And half of the fifty percent of the tax went to the official warehouse in Shanggu County, and the other half went to Zhao Hui's Black Wind Village.

Fifty percent of the income is used as a tax, which is a very unreasonable policy in later generations, but in the current era, there are countless displaced people, after hearing the rumors, they rushed all the way to the valley. Willing to be exploited by Zhao Hui.

Although it is necessary to hand over fifty percent of the output, compared to other places, Zhao Hui can provide ploughing cattle here. This is the most important thing.

In Dahan, the number of cattle is very scarce, and owning a cow at home is equivalent to getting out of poverty.

The government strictly prohibits the slaughter of cultivated cattle, and the crime of slaughtering cultivated cattle without permission is very serious.

If an adult man owns a ploughing ox, the area of land he cultivates in a year can be doubled or tripled.

In Dahan, land is not scarce, even if much of it is annexed by the big families.

However, in Upper Valley County, the displaced people who come here do not have to worry about not being able to get a share of the land.

Outside of Kamiya, there is a vast and fertile land waiting for them to reclaim.

In the past, Shanggu County was often harassed by the Xianbei people, so there were relatively few people outside the city, and it was difficult to secure the fields they cultivated.

Every autumn harvest, there will be countless Xianbei people come here to snatch the grain in the fields, so that all the efforts of these people for a year will become flowing water.

But now, with Zhao Hui's Black Wind Army here, and Gongsun Zhan with his newly established White Horse Yicong in the grassland, no Xianbei people dare to come here to snatch food.

The displaced people who came to Shanggu County only had to wait until the autumn harvest and hand over fifty percent of the output, and they didn't need to worry about other things at all, and there was no other exploitation.

Even if they were to farm elsewhere, they would not pay less taxes than in Kamiya.

And in the half a year of the newcomers, they can borrow grain from Zhao Hui to ensure that they can spend the time of land reclamation in the early stage.

Zhao Hui even assured them that if they encountered natural and man-made disasters, they did not need to hand over fifty percent of the grain, in short, they could ensure that they could eat enough.

The conditions given by Zhao Hui are really much better than those in other states and counties, and those homeless displaced people are moving closer to Shanggu County.

After hearing about this, the Taishou of other counties also wanted to learn from Shanggu County, after all, being able to settle the displaced people was also a major achievement for them, and they might be transferred to the Central Plains or Luoyang.

But when they come, not all the officials below them will cooperate with them.

Even if a group of displaced people were collected, but the food was distributed, they were immediately deducted by some people.

And they can't get a huge number of ploughing cattle, the displaced people only rely on their hands and farm tools, and the land cultivated by each person is very limited, if they all charge five percent of the tax, the displaced people will definitely prefer to come to Shanggu County.

And the most important point is that these county guards dare not guarantee that the crops in their fields will not be stolen by the Xianbei people.

Although they wanted to learn from Ueya County to collect the displaced people, they made a mess, and as a result, many of the displaced people left them and came to Upper Valley County.

The population of Shanggu County was constantly increasing, although in the first half of the year, Zhao Hui could not get anything from them, but instead had to invest a lot of grain and iron tools, as well as seeds for sowing.

But as soon as autumn comes, Zhao Hui will be able to obtain a large amount of supplies, and these will be far more than he has invested now.

Although all this was led by Zhao Hui in the back, everyone thought that everything in Shanggu County was the merit of Xu Kuan, who was too guarded.

After Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou, learned about it, he also came to Shanggu County to take a look, praised Xu Kuan very much, and then wrote to the imperial court, reporting everything Xu Kuan did to Liu Hong.

Liu Hong's reward came soon, giving Xu Kuan a township, but the gold and silver rewards were gone, Liu Hong's several palaces were burned down some time ago, and now he is still raising money and grain from the ministers of the court, and he wants to build a few new palaces.

But even so, it already made Xu Kuan feel that happiness came too suddenly.

Although the order of Upper Valley County to collect the displaced people was given by him.

But in fact, Xu Kuan didn't meddle in these things at all, it was the people below who reported to him, and then he nodded in agreement and stamped his Taishou seal on the paperwork.

Xu Kuan felt that he hadn't done anything, so he got a townsman for nothing.

For the people below, he let go more and more, but he didn't know that he himself had been gradually hollowed out.