Liu Cong smiled, pulled the child over and asked, "Do you like to practice martial arts very much?" ”

"Yes, it's a pity that no one is willing to teach my family." The child's words are unscrupulous, but they are unwilling.

"Oh, what's your name?"

"Liaohua."

"Liaohua?" Liu Cong asked a little puzzled.

"This kid is a native of Xiangyang, so he came here, and the old man saw him stealing food and being beaten in the market a few days ago, so he brought him home." Wang explained for Liao Hua on the side.

"Your name is really Liao Hua?" Liu Cong doesn't care about how he came, but whether this kid is really called Liao Hua. I have the impression that Liao Hua is over seventy years old and was sent to the battlefield by Liu Chan, is this Liao Hua the one? Liu Cong began to search for information in his mind.

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is not credible, Liao Hua appeared as a yellow turban thief in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, according to this algorithm, when he was a yellow turban in 184, wouldn't he be born in 170, and the history books record that Liao Hua died in 264, so he didn't live more than 90 years old.

In the official history such as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", there is no record of Liao Huachu as a Yellow Turban thief, and he was Guan Yu's main book when he first appeared, and at this time it should be very close to Guan Yu's death year (219). In addition, there is such a passage in "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms: The Advance Biography of the Sect": When Zhuge looked forward to the early unification of the dynasty, Liao Hua was too pre-planned, and he wanted to share the pre-approval.

Zong pre-said: "We are over 70 years old, and we have stolen it, but we have one less dead ear, so why do we ask for the younger generation to make evil with crumbs?" "So I didn't go. Here's what to say, Zong Pre and Liao Hua came to find Zhuge Zhan and said that the two of us are over seventy years old......) This happened during the Jingyao period, and Shu Han perished not long after Zhuge Zhan's regency, and Liao Hua died in the year of Shu's death, so his age should be over 70 years old and not over 90 years old.

To sum up, it can be inferred that when Guan Yu was killed in 219, Liao Hua was captured and then pretended to be dead and fled back to Shu, Liao Hua's age should be about 30 years old at most, that is, his birth year should be around 190 at the earliest, and when he died in 264, Liao Hua's age should be around 75 years old at most. Then this year's 12-year-old Liao Hua can match the number.

In my impression, although Liao Hua is not a first-class famous general, he is also very loyal to Liu Bei, and he defrauded Sun Quan, and Sun Quan gave him the position of Taishou, but he still misses Shu Han, and his life can be regarded as loyal and courageous!

No matter, teach and teach first, and see if it's the material that can be made!

Liu Cong then said to the boy: "If you like it, I will often take the time to teach you, but usually you have to study and read carefully and set an example for your younger brothers and sisters!" ”

"That's natural, Mother Wang said, I am the biggest child here, and I have to be a big brother in everything, so don't worry."

"Nurse, this child is smart, send him to the school as soon as possible." Liu Cong knew that this person was Liao Hua and naturally could not be cultivated as an ordinary orphan, but he didn't know how to favor it too much, otherwise others would not understand, so they could only observe and observe it first, if it was really Liao Hua, and then increase the cultivation efforts in the future.

Seeing that Liu Cong did not object to his adoption of orphans, Wang also breathed a sigh of relief.

But Cai Lin kept reciting Liu Cong's sentence that there are tens of thousands of mansions, sheltering the world's poor and happy, and the wind and rain are as safe as a mountain. Soon this sentence also reached the ears of Zhuge Liang and others, and everyone sighed that the second son Liu Cong is really worried about the world. Soon the whole Jiangling was chanting that the nursing mother of the Taishou Lord adopted orphans, and more people were lamenting that Liu Cong's Ande Mansion was ten million, and the cold people in the world were all happy, and the wind and rain were not moving!

Lord Taishou has such a thought, it is really a blessing for the people of Gangneung and a blessing for the people of Nanjun!

Soon Liu Cong implemented his words, and urged the officials of the Taishou Mansion to issue living subsidies to children under the age of 14 among the people in the city in batches. The amount is 5,000 cash per person!

There are nearly 5,000 children under the age of 14 in Jiangling County, and Liu Cong paid 25 million cash for this alone! Although there was a big robbery some time ago, coupled with Liu Cong's semi-compulsive fundraising and charity sales, some people in Jiangling City were quite complaining, but when more people came to get subsidies from Taishou Mansion, including which big families who were blackmailed, Liu Cong was also highly regarded by them.

After all, in their opinion, a few hundred gold can't hurt the fundamentals, and they are more concerned about the character and ability of their parents! Liu Cong's move gave them hope! Liu Cong also took the opportunity to promise the people that in the future, anyone who lives in Jiangling City, regardless of household registration, as long as a newborn is born, will receive 1,000 cash and 20 stone of rice! This is another policy to encourage childbearing!

The cost of working hours from pregnancy to postpartum for an adult woman is about the same price. Liu Cong wants to ensure that the women will not give birth because they are afraid of missing work, and of course, they will not starve to death after the child is born! Originally, Liu Cong wanted to promise to raise the child until he was ten or even fourteen years old, but considering the unpredictable situation in the future, he had to give up.

However, Liu Cong still revealed to his subordinate officials that when the conditions are ripe, the living allowance for children and newborns, as long as the government is generous, will continue to adhere to it in the future, and will gradually cover the rural areas of Jiangling County and even the entire Nanjun County according to financial resources! This can be regarded as a hope for those parents of children, Liu Cong certainly hopes that with the encouragement of this policy, the people of Nanjun will set off a wave of fertility**, and the people of other counties and even other states will flock to the news when they hear the news.

Although this is a later story, Liu Cong's famous words and a move have really won the support of the people of Jiangling, and there has never been a Taishou who can be as well-known as Liu Cong, and the people are almost all grateful!

Of course, in the future, Liu Cong's consideration will mainly be based on food subsidies, as long as his military reclamation area begins to produce, there should be a surplus of grain! The pattern of 1,000 cash and 20 stone of grain will be fixed. Because there are other uses for cash!

With the first pot of gold and gradually calming down the people's hearts, Liu Cong is ready to start working in Jiangling!

Conscription, tuning, doing business, raising horses, buying weapons, everything is in an orderly planning......

Doing business is Liu Cong and Zhuge Liang's repeated deliberations and feel that it is feasible and the fastest way to get money, because the seven counties of Jingzhou are relatively peaceful, and although Liu Biao and Cao Cao are opposed, they have not completely turned their faces, so the business and trade exchanges on the territory of the two sides are still guaranteed.

The next thing Liu Cong had to do was to select candidates to organize an official caravan, and take advantage of the price difference between the north and the south, especially the difference between grain and silk, to make a profit, of course, the caravan had to be escorted by soldiers of his own choosing. Speaking of caravans, Liu Cong naturally remembered Zhuojun Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping. Liu Cong naturally didn't have the energy to be Zhang Shiping, but he hoped that when he met this kind of wealthy businessman, he would be able to earn money and grain, and secondly, he would be able to get horses from the north.

Military training is the main purpose of Liu Cong's painstaking efforts to come to Jiangling and try his best to get money! Originally, Liu Cong, who was the Taishou of a county, did not need to train the soldiers in person at all, and now his generals include Wen Ping, Gan Ning, Wei Yan, Wang Wei and Huo Jun. These few people are also famous generals in the whole of China, not to mention this small Nanjun, there are only four or five thousand people!

But it is these four or five thousand people who may be the cornerstone and pillar of Liu Cong's entire army in the future. In order to ensure that the troops were loyal to him and obeyed his orders, Liu Cong decided to train with these people, most of whom would become captains, captains, and tun commanders in the future. And the most important thing is to teach some training methods to everyone in later generations.

After the subsidy was issued, Liu Cong now has nearly 80 million cash and 200,000 stone of grain in his hands. The inventory of the Jiangling City Ordnance Warehouse plus the captured, Liu Cong added 300 strong crossbows, 500**, 1,000 spears, 800 long knives, and 700 strong bows in the first battle of Jiangling.

Crossbows, knives, and spears can each arm a soldier, which can be regarded as solving Liu Cong's urgent needs, including the recruits recruited from Zigui and the soldiers who surrendered in the two wars basically have weapons. This also provided a prerequisite for Liu Cong to begin to expand the army and train his troops.

In terms of the size of the army, Liu Cong decided to follow the Han system and do what he could!

The military system of the Han Empire was a level of elite soldiers, supplemented by county soldiers, and strong men were recruited before the battle. For example, the five colonels of the Northern Army, the knights of the three rivers, the Yulin Army, etc., the soldiers in these armies have the lowest titles. In the Great War, these non-commissioned officers were junior officers. In other words, the regular professional army of the Han Empire trained low-ranking officers, similar to the medieval knights of Western Europe.