The second punch of the open jaw still couldn't shake Dupu, like the feeling of hitting the unchanging deep sea boulder, which immediately made his face become embarrassed, but Liu Lan was present next to him, but he was blocked by his opponent with two punches in a row, which made him still calm down.

In fact, these two punches have made Dupu suffer a lot, at this moment his face turned red, and he endured the great pain without shouting, but only he knew the result himself, but the people around him did not know his embarrassment, and he stood proudly in the field one by one, and shouted in his heart: I didn't expect it to be a master.

"Take a third punch!" Zhang Jaw put away his contempt, and used ten percent of his strength to blast out a punch, but this punch was blasted, and Liu Lan, who was watching from the sidelines, immediately screamed in his heart, and immediately stopped it: "Jun Yi's subordinates are merciful!" ”

Liu Lan's shout, immediately made the latter slightly stunned, through the previous temptation, he knew in his heart that the opponent had some real skills, but he couldn't withstand his full strength no matter what.

But he had already shot, and he couldn't stop if he wanted to, only the force, when the third punch hit Dupu, although it was not ten percent of the strength, but it was seventy percent of the strength, and it was not something that Dupu could withstand at this time.

With a muffled snort, Dupu retreated more than ten steps in a row to stabilize his body, coughing in his mouth, and was actually distracted by the blow of Zhang Jaw before, and looked at Zhang Jaw like a breath of fire in his eyes, although he knew that he was not an opponent, but he couldn't let him be humiliated like this. The arrogance of the warrior made his body straight, and his hand tightened the pear wood gun.

Open jaw looked at the stubborn face of the young man. Slightly stunned, then laughed. Said: "Boy, good job." If you can take my jaw three punches, yes, follow me in the future! ”

Who is Zhang Jaw, it may not be clear among the people, but the soldiers smack their tongues in unison, that is the fifth master in the army, and how can a person like Du Pu who practices martial arts not hear the name of Zhang Jaw, and his mouth is wide open. It's like swallowing a duck egg.

He never dreamed that the person who fought him just now turned out to be Zhang Jaw, who was once the chief general of the Jizhou Army and was praised by Yuan Shao as one of the four court pillars in Hebei......

The soldiers in the field guessed that the person who came must be a certain general early in the morning, until this moment when they heard that it was a jaw, they all blushed, and their hearts immediately flooded with the innate worship of the strong, and they were just about to cheer. was interrupted by a loud laugh.

Immediately, everyone's eyes were focused on the laughing man, and I saw that he was in his thirties, and although he was not tall, he stood in the midst of the crowd. But there is a feeling of standing out from the crowd, he has goat's whiskers under his jaw, and his ears are not only big. The arms are longer, and the whole body exudes a long-standing bearing.

There were several people around him to clear the way for him. There is a feeling that the stars are holding the moon, among the many people around. Most of the people are from Yanyu Erzhou, and they don't know who they are, but some people have heard the rumors, and at this time, the people in the field are the same as the rumors, and the call of "Liu Yuanjun" immediately sounded.

"Qu Chang Gao Xiang has seen the envoy!"

"Qu Chang Chen Shi has seen the envoy!"

The surrounding soldiers immediately knelt on one knee and shouted to meet the envoy, and for a while the voice of the envoy was endless, Liu Lan pressed it several times in a row before the soldier stopped speaking, and Du Pu's heart on the side was already shaking! Although he had long been ready to join the Xuzhou Army, he didn't expect to be accepted by Zhang Jaw, and now he has seen Liu Lan, the real boss of the Xuzhou Army!

I have to say that Liu Lan's first impression on him was too deep, and the worship of the soldiers was too fanatical, especially the people in Xiaopei County, in this period, in Yuzhou, where he came, it was already a tragic scene of cannibalism, but the people here lived a rich life and had more land......

And more importantly, he heard that in Cao Cao's troops, human flesh was used for food, but the Xuzhou army not only had food, but also could get salaries, which was not uncommon if it was placed more than ten years ago, but today, there is no one in this world who can do this, except for Liu Lan in Xuzhou!

And what made him even more tongue-in-cheek was that Liu Lan walked straight to him after greeting everyone, and asked with a pleasant face: "Little brother, since you are from Qian County, why didn't you join the army at Cao Cao or Lu Bu, but came to Xiaopei?" ”

Du Pu's heart was excited, it can be said that Liu Lan is the biggest official he has ever seen in his life, he usually sees the county order in his hometown, and he is all arrogant and unreasonable, mean and unkind, but this person in front of him is Yutai gentle, polite, listening to him, not only does not make him feel nervous, but there is a feeling like a spring breeze, and the distance between him seems to be shortened in an instant.

It's not that Liu Lan deliberately wants to be like this, but nature, he was born as a little common man, even if he comes to the end of the Han Dynasty, he will not be superior to others because he becomes Liu Lan, but knows the importance of the people more, plus he is now under the banner of respecting the Han, then the first thing is to let the people under his rule understand that this Han is not another Han.

Du Pu replied truthfully, and said: "Return to the envoy, the boy's hometown was affected by the disaster, and he fled here with his younger brother and old mother. ”

In fact, Liu Lan didn't want to know why he joined the army, but why he threw himself into Xiaopei instead of Lu Bu or Cao Cao, with his skills, even if he really voted in these two places, he would be promoted to Baichang or Qu Chang in a few years, and what was the purpose of him seeking the near and far, could Cao Cao and Lu Bu be so unpopular in Yuzhou? Asked again, he said, "Are there many people like you who are unwilling to vote for Cao Cao or Lu Bu in Yuzhou?" ”

"A lot." Dupu thought for a while, and then said: "Yanzhou has been in trouble one after another, and the recruitment of soldiers has already caused the people to complain, if it is not forcible conscription, no one wants to join the army. ”

"Then why are you willing to come to Xiaopei to join the army?" Liu Lan asked with a smile.

"Because the king has a salary!" Du Pu scratched his head and said embarrassedly: "I also heard that the envoy has a salary after I came to Xiaopei, which is very different from Cao Cao Lu Bu's place, so I came to sign up!" ”

"Oh!" Liu Lan nodded, he already knew why Du Pu came to Xiao Pei to join the army, just because Xiao Pei gave money and food, and the temptation of money and food. For these victims who have left their homeland and have no food to eat. An errand that doesn't help to support the family.

"Since Jun Yi asked you to follow him in the future, then do a good job." Liu Lan patted him on the shoulder and encouraged. Road.

But there are more thoughts in my heart, the refugees fled to other places, all in order to mix a bite of food, if it was in previous years, they would not be too far away, as long as they went to the nearby county seat, but this year is different, because Cao Cao and Lu Bu fought in the army, Lu Bu will not open the city gate to let the hooligans enter. so as not to get mixed in. However, Cao Cao was mean, he did not have enough food and grass in his army, and he followed Cheng Yu's advice to feed on human flesh, even if he let the victims into the city, he would not provide disaster relief, so as not to cause a riot, so he did not collect the displaced people.

On the contrary, Xuzhou suddenly became a gathering place for displaced people, but among the displaced people, it was divided into two classes. The first class has land and land, and when the disaster passes, they will return to their hometowns, and they are like second-class people. People who have no land and no land will choose to stay like Dupu, not only to escape the disaster and famine. Avoid military disasters.

And Xiaopei's recruitment is to gather the strong among the displaced people to farm. In fact, there are large areas of wasteland in Xuzhou now, and he can let Xiao Pei recruit more troops. Then send them back to Xuzhou Juntun, as for some people who cannot join the army, they can get a little land in Xuzhou to cultivate, and tie them to Xuzhou completely, instead of waiting for the locust plague to recede and then return to their homeland.

Although Xuzhou has not yet implemented Xiaopei's new policy, the workshop and the merchant dealer are still extracted a large amount of taxes, but with the Guangling being taken, after the territory of Xuzhou is completely pacified, he will first step to put the lifting of the ban on the traders.

In addition, the trend of heavy commerce in Xuzhou is serious, even if it extracts heavy taxes, it will not allow them to cultivate among the ridges with peace of mind.

Even if the power of the officials of Langxi and Guangling is recovered, the money and grain collected are enough to maintain Xuzhou, but with the increasing tide of refugees, it will inevitably drag down Xuzhou's finances, so after seeing such a huge wave of refugees, he understands that not only can he not persuade business in Xuzhou, but he must work harder to persuade farmers in Xuzhou.

Since it is necessary to persuade the peasants, it has become the general trend to gather the population, as Guoyuan said, the people are the foundation of the state, if even food and clothing can not be solved, supporting industry and commerce is just an empty word, and in the late Han Dynasty, when manpower was the primary productive force, if you want to develop agriculture, you must first gather the population, and then encourage farming, and then you can develop industry and commerce.

This is like a biological chain, there are people, there is a mouth, there is a mouth, there is a mouth, there is a mouth, there is a mouth, if you want to eat, you have to farm, there are more and more delicious, so Liu Lan wants to encourage industry and commerce, but there are still a lot of mouths to eat, so you can only go to open Qianmo, but there are fewer and fewer Qianmo, but there are more mouths to eat, what should I do?

Historical experience tells us that at this time, there will be a dynastic change, which will cause a sharp decline in the population, and then enter the prosperous era again, and then change from prosperity to decline again, and change dynasties again......

But all Liu Lan has done is to break the history that has been repeated for thousands of years, but where can high-yield food be found? Another point is that the Ming monarchs of the past dynasties did not discover the problem of cultivated land that plagued the people? But why is there no one to prevent or solve it? Is it impossible to solve it, or do you not want to solve it?

But now Chen Qun and Guoyuan's strategy of gathering population has taken a turn for the better, and the turnaround is to have enough land to attract the displaced people, but his strategy of cultivating less land in Xiaopei is obviously not very attractive to the displaced people, and when the disaster and famine pass, they will inevitably return to their hometowns.

But this made him see the hope of Xuzhou's reform, the reason why he has not been reformed in Xuzhou, is because there are too many ownerless wasteland, and even the food and clothing of the army and the people can not be solved, but you go to encourage industry and commerce, this is not crazy or anything.

The premise of encouraging industry and commerce is that after the land is saturated and food and clothing are solved, this is just like the reason why Liu Lan was able to reform in Xiaopei is because his army is funded by Tao Qian, and there is no burden of grain and grass, of course, he can let go of his hands and feet, but under the premise that he has to do it himself to have enough food and clothing, the income of money and grain has become the top priority at the moment.

Now he is in control of the East China Sea, Pengcheng, Xiapi and the newly acquired Langya, although Langya was not affected by Cao Cao's military disaster, but the other three counties have a large number of casualties, resulting in eight or nine out of ten ownerless wasteland, once the disaster is alleviated by the victims, and then after Guangling is recovered, Liu Lan will completely solve the problem of money and grain in Xuzhou.

In this way, although the tax decree cannot be changed due to the situation, he can encourage industry and commerce, abolish the discrimination of Shinong industry and commerce, and let Xuzhou's commerce develop.

If you want to understand the people's livelihood, you naturally have to go to the municipal level, where everything is what the people in the market are most concerned about, the so-called seven things to open the door, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, when he was in charge of Pei County, the price of Pei County has been quite low, but what he wants to know now is that the inflow of disaster victims, has the price of Pei County increased.

Liu Lan came to Beishi, where there are a large number of grain and rice stores, in ancient times, the standard of measuring prices is grain, if you want to know whether the price of a place is high or low, you can know the price of grain.

The archway of the north city is tall, Liu Lan and his entourage entered the square gate, both sides of the square door are the trading office and the money village, and the adjacent place is the grain store, the first one is called Gui Liangyuan, a big storefront, the front of the door is full of traffic, and the crowd is lined up for a long time.

Of course, Liu Lan will not enter such a shop, entering will only hinder the boss's business, he walked forward to the grain store with few people, Liu Lan glanced at the door of the store with the signboard name: Ten Thousand Kinds of Grain, but said to Dupu: "You follow me in and have a look." ”

Which of these people under him will come to buy rice in person, and no one knows the price of grain, but Dupu is different, he lives at the bottom, not only knows the grain, but also knows the price of grain.

Liu Lan entered the store, and he had already stepped forward to greet him, and said, "What do you want to buy objectively?" ”

He saw that Liu Lan was dressed brightly, obviously the lord of a big family, but he wondered in his heart, how could such a rich family come to buy rice in person, but he was curious in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it, just politely waited on the side.

There are all kinds of grain on both sides of the store, and there are wooden signs inserted in the grain openings, writing the types and prices of the grain, which makes Liu Lan feel at ease, otherwise he doesn't even divide the grains, how can he ask the price.

Walking to the grain, looking at the price on it marked 60 wen per bucket, while the rice on the side was marked with the words 44 wen per bucket, he pointed to the grain and asked Xiao Er, "Why is the price of grain higher than the price of rice?" ”

He has been a man for a long time, and he has developed a domineering momentum that makes Xiao Er stunned for a while, and he didn't say a word for a long time, and the shopkeeper on the side saw this, and immediately stepped forward to explain, saying: "I want to come to the guest officer is the first time to buy grain, the reason why grain rice is more expensive than rice, not only is the taste of grain rice better, but also because a bucket of grain rice is different from a bucket of rice, a bucket of grain is four catties, but a bucket of rice is only three catties, so grain is slightly more expensive than rice!" (To be continued.) )