After a pause of more than 20 days, recruiting soldiers, repairing the army, and the whole army, at this time, the weather in late autumn and early winter, the husband is easy to wear, and the war horse has been fat for a long time; The soldiers have not been in battle for a long time, and they all have the heart to fight; It was precisely because he was proud of something, and he was all happy, packed up guns and knives, tied saddle horses, and whistled in the wind, Liu He led more than 1,400 troops to set off towards Youbeiping.

"Lord, the assassin Liu Gong thinks about the things in the north too simply." Zou Jing said.

It turned out that the road was boring, and Liu He discussed some strategic planning issues with the generals.

Liu He blinked his eyes and listened quietly.

Zou Jing continued: "What Liu Gong intended was probably to focus on Youzhou and Hebei. Now there are ten counties and one country in Youzhou, and five counties have been eroded by the Hu people, leaving only Guangyang and Zhuo County as places that the Hu people have never entered. In time, Zhuojun will be lost, and if Zhuojun is lost, Hebei will be uneasy, so Liu Gongcai advocated preparing for war in Guangyang and Zhuojun to ensure that Hebei is not lost. ”

Liu He nodded.

"But those families in Zhuo County are different." Liu Bei said.

Seeing that Liu Xiu was a little nervous, Liu He smiled silently and encouraged: "Xuande but it doesn't hurt to say it's okay, what's the difference?" ”

"The first thing they have to think about is their own industry." Liu Bei's face was a little red, he glanced at Liu He gratefully, and then said: "If you want to fight, you have to spend money." If it was to spend money to protect their homeland, they might not have an opinion, but now that the Hu people have not hurt them, they are naturally a little hesitant to pay for the war at this time. He thought for a moment, and then said: "The people in the township, if they want to have a vision like Liu Gong, I'm afraid it will be difficult for some strong people. ”

Liu He nodded silently and sighed softly: "You are right. It's not just hesitation, it's just unanimous opposition. ”

Zou Jing and Liu Bei were also a little surprised, they only estimated that there might be objections, but they didn't expect the objections to be so big.

"The industry is mainly in the city is better, although they are a little worried, they still did not refuse in person, the industry outside the city is different, they are worried that once the fight starts, the city can be preserved, and the outside of the city will inevitably be poisoned by the Hu people, and they have opposed. At the moment, there is no objection, and I estimate that it may only be the Lu family. Liu He sighed: "Everyone forgets justice when they see self-interest, and the local heroes are so knowledgeable, can I not lose the territory of the Han Dynasty?" ”

"But my father is too angry." Liu He suddenly sighed.

Liu Yu was a benevolent and righteous gentleman, and advocated appeasement and appeasement for foreigners, and did not recommend conquest by force.

Liu Bei, Zou Jing, and Zhang Fei were speechless, and felt that Liu He was very right: You have no land in Youzhou anyway, the Hu people are here, hide in the city, people are fine, there will not be too much loss, the battle is over, the assassination of history is meritorious, maybe the imperial court will issue an edict, and your family will move to Luoyang again. But others are different, people can run, fine and soft can be taken away, and the house was burned by the Hu people, what a big loss.

"Don't say anything else, let's just say that the yard of my house, although it is only a small courtyard in Sanjin, it is also a lot of wealth." Zhang Fei thought.

Are these words obviously useless to Liu Yu, if they are useful? will not have different political views with Gongsun Chan and fight each other.

Liu He couldn't help but sigh to himself again, his father Liu Yu actually wanted to appease the Hu people, he really wanted to appease the Hu people, as for the ten counties in Youzhou, six of the counties have become the Hu people's racecourse, and they come to the grass valley every winter? But compared with Liu Yu, that bullshit is too guarded, as a party leader, a middle and senior cadre, he only cares about his own interests, and does not think about the overall situation at all. You don't think about the overall situation, and you still expect those local old people to think about the overall situation? It's a joke.

"I have an idea." Liu Bei thought for a while and said.

Liu He glanced at him, "Let's talk about it." ”

"There are those who seek profit, and there are also those who avoid harm." Liu Bei looked at Liu He a little shyly, and his face was a little nervous: "They are unwilling to prepare for war because they are afraid of losses and loss of their existing comfort." But if the Hu people are already about to fight, their comfort is difficult to guarantee, and their interests may also suffer heavy losses? Can they still think that? ”

Zhang Fei frowned: "What did Xuande say nonsense, when did the Hu people call?" ”

Liu Bei smiled a little proudly: "There are often Hu people on the border, do they have any plans to call over, whether the call belongs to the Hu people or the Xianbei people, how do those people know, as long as the government says so, how can they not believe it?" ”

Liu He thought about it for a while, and then understood what Liu Bei meant, but he felt that this method sounded good, but it was extremely risky to implement. Besides, his father Liu Yu is a righteous gentleman, if nothing else, he probably won't adopt such a bad idea.

The farther away from Zhuoxian, the more pedestrians on the road to help the old and the young, most of them were ragged, with yellow faces and thin muscles, silent and sluggish eyes looked blankly into the distance, and mechanically moved their steps step by step. On the side of the road, I saw the elderly or children who had fallen to their deaths, and there were family members who were crying in pain or mothers who were holding their children without saying a word.

The atmosphere slowly became oppressive, and the young men who had been keen on racing horses on the avenue at first lost their energy, and they controlled the horses they straddled down, and carefully let go of the pedestrians who seemed to have no strength to dodge, for fear of knocking them down and never getting up again.

"Who are these?" Guan Yu asked.

Liu He looked at the displaced people and said softly: "It should be the victims of Qingzhou, last summer the river burst, the river overflowed, Jizhou, Qingzhou several counties were flooded, there was no harvest, but the government pursued taxes, the affected people could not survive, only fled everywhere." It is said that most of the victims in Donglai chose to enter the sea, while those in the Beihai area went north, and after arriving in Youzhou, some went to the northeast and some went to the northwest. ”

Liu Bei frowned: "I know about the big water last year, didn't the imperial court issue an edict to reduce the land rent by half?" More than forty percent of the losses have been spared, why are there still so many displaced people? ”

Liu He smiled silently, and said in his heart You are not an official, of course I don't know how the state and county officials below carry out the edict of the imperial court. When these officials report their losses, they can't report too little, otherwise they won't be able to pay the difference, but they can't report too much, otherwise their careers will be affected. After they reported their losses, the benefits of the imperial court could not have fallen on the common people, and almost all of them were taken by the local tycoons who owned large tracts of land, and the taxes they had to pay were passed on to the poor. When the poor are affected by the disaster, they can't survive in the first place, and if this kind of thing happens again, it will naturally make it worse. They were soft-spoken, and they were unable to resist, so they had to flee with their families, knowing that they were likely to die on the road than waiting for death at home.

Guan Yu sighed and said, "So many people have entered Zhuo County, why haven't there been any troubles?" Zhuo County is calm, and it seems that Taishou and the county order are handled properly. ”

Zou Jing shook his head: "Zhuo County didn't make any trouble, but it was not the credit of the government and the county king, speaking of which, this is all done by the big families in Zhuo County." ”

"Really?" Guan Yu showed a rare smile: "It seems that they still have a benevolent heart." ”

"Compassion?" Liu Bei sneered, he glanced at the young people in Zhuo County not far away, lowered his voice and said, "Yun Chang, do you know why there are not many homeless people near Zhuo County?" Because most of them have been dragged by the big families to be vassals, only these frail old people, children and women will have no one to want, so they can only beg all the way forward, and maybe one day they will fall on the road and be eaten by wild dogs. ”

Guan Yu's face froze, and he was speechless.

Liu He pondered, Youzhou has to count on Qingzhou and Jizhou's wealth to make up for the gap every year, and now that Qingji and Hebei have suffered disasters, the victims have arrived in Youzhou, and the big households in Youzhou not only will not contribute, but take advantage of these opportunities to recruit the displaced people as vassals and compete with the imperial court for population. It is not lawful to recruit subjects, but who dares to punish them now? If you really want to force them tightly, they will push out all those displaced people, then Youzhou will be chaotic, Liu Yu can't afford this responsibility, and the county guards can't afford this responsibility, they can only pretend not to see it.

After all, it is better for these big families to recruit the homeless as vassals than to let the homeless starve to death on the road.

This is no way, it's not that Liu Yu doesn't want to help the homeless, they are powerless, because they have no money and no food in their hands, Qingzhou and Jizhou can't be counted on, but the rewards of the Hu people attached to it have to be given every year, where does this come from? What else can they think of other than borrowing from those big families?

Now Youzhou looks very stable, but in fact, there are troubles outside, there are homeless people inside, they are simply sitting on the fire, as long as there is a spark, this fire will become a raging fire, burning all over Youzhou, at that time, Xianbei people are like no one, not only can harass Youzhou, and may even go straight to Hebei.

Liu He became even more silent, silent as a stone, cold and lonely.