Chapter 307: Thriving
The so-called fist that can be collected can be released, and now Liu He is like a tiger waiting for an opportunity to move, recuperating and recuperating, waiting for this big battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, once this big war is over, Liu He will move from time to time, revealing sharp minions. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
At present, he has implemented a series of policies of recuperation and recuperation in his administration, including the development of domestic affairs, the training of non-commissioned officers, the recruitment of talents, and the consolidation of foreign affairs.
As for the development of internal affairs, on the one hand, he is committed to agricultural development, which is the foundation of Liu He's rise, and is the deepest source of his sending troops to fight, because sending troops to fight, grain and grass are the most important, after nearly three years of development, the current Guanzhong region has become a thousand miles of fertile fields again, because Liu He "developed" some new agricultural tools, such as the tool for cultivating the land, the tool barrel car, the water wheel for irrigation, etc., which greatly increased the agricultural productivity, and advocated the planting of double-cropping crops. In addition, his grain seeds have now formed a relatively large scale, so that the grain output has reached a very astonishing amount, and every harvest season, every household is full of small hoards, and the price of grain is reduced to a very astonishing level, only ten yuan per stone of rice.
Of course, Liu He would not let the "grain cheapness hurt the peasants" happen, and specially issued a document stipulating that the price of rice should not be less than the price of ten yuan per stone of rice, and proposed that the government could unconditionally purchase it at this price.
In addition to rice, Liu He also advocated that the people raise pigs, chickens and ducks and other domestic animals, and set a minimum price, which was purchased by the government to improve the physical fitness and supplement nutrition of the officers and men in the army.
As for where the government got so much money, this is naturally the result of Liu He's advocacy of the development of commerce on the other hand, in order to be able to manage business more effectively, Liu He specially set up a position, the city of the city general, under this position and divided into major city orders, the level of the city order is equivalent to the county order (county magistrate), of which Chang'an set up the east city order and the west city order, the two levels are all equivalent to the county order, and the rank of the two is a thousand stones.
Due to the relationship between qualifications and ability, Liu He decided to let Lu Su be the first general of the city, and Zhen Mi's brother Zhen Yu was the commander of Chang'an East City, and Zhong Yan, the brother of Zhong Xuan, was the commander of the West City.
In addition, because Chang'an's commerce has undergone more than half a year of development and has basically returned to its former prosperity, Liu He decided to restart the Silk Road, and in order to make things more successful, Liu He even sent Lu Su to lead officials and merchants to the Western Regions to start trade in person.
A few months later, Lu Su successfully returned, not only bringing back a large number of Western Regions merchants, but also attracting a large number of Western Regions camel caravans to come together, and from then on, the Silk Road was unimpeded, and Liu He obtained a large amount of commercial taxes from it, which made the treasury full of money.
However, Liu He did not let the money continue to pile up, he has the experience of capitalist development in later generations, he deeply knows that only by further converting the surplus money into capital is the means to make a lot of money, if you just store the money in the warehouse, this pattern is really a bit small.
Therefore, on the one hand, Liu He encouraged the development of private businessmen, and on the other hand, he also advocated the development of officials and businessmen, specifically recruiting talents as officials and businessmen, running for people, and then extracting profits from them, which led to a fuller treasury and a richer government.
And under Liu He's rule, whether it is the development of agriculture or commerce, is by no means limited to Chang'an, even Youzhou has developed rapidly, Liu He sent all the grain scavenged by Gongsun Zhan to the people, some people are very puzzled, now they are deeply impressed by Liu He's foresight, because of the abundance of food, the people of Youzhou in addition to cultivating land, are also engaged in industry and commerce, they use grain, cloth and other things to exchange war horses and cattle and sheep with the surrounding nomads, and the war horses are then purchased by the government at a high price, This not only makes Youzhou's commerce more and more prosperous, but also makes Youzhou's horses more and more, which is naturally conducive to the further development and growth of military power.
However, even so, Liu He still stubbornly enforced the monopoly system of salt and iron, especially iron and iron casting technology, even if they were allowed to sell iron to the surrounding nomads, once discovered, they would immediately confiscate the salt and iron quotation (business license), and no longer grant the merchant and his close relatives the monopoly right for life.
This is not that Liu He's mind is not open-minded, but a necessary means to impose a technical blockade on the surrounding nomads, as long as they do not have enough iron weapons in their hands, even if they rebel, they are easy to deal with.
In addition to agriculture and industry, education is also an aspect that Liu He attaches great importance to, under Liu He's vigorous advocacy, the prefectures and counties under his rule set off a large-scale wind of running schools, for some outstanding children from relatively poor backgrounds, even took measures such as exempting them from paying tuition fees, and even managing food, housing, and living allowances, which made all the states and counties under his rule have the sound of reading loudly.
In addition, Liu He transferred Guan Ning to Chang'an and asked him to be the literary sacrificial wine of his general's mansion, specifically in charge of education matters, and Guan Ning was also amazed by Liu He's printing skills and praised Liu He for doing a great good deed in the future.
Liu He's internal affairs are handled well, and the military aspect has naturally developed rapidly, in just less than a year, Liu He's Bai Yu army has been armed into an absolute elite, each soldier's standard configuration is a crossbow, a Mo knife, a Tang knife, a spear, two war horses, these two war horses are not for cavalry combat, although in general, these soldiers as long as they ride on war horses, they can be comparable to elite cavalry, but the main task of war horses is just to carry people and weapons, The purpose is to try to ensure that the soldiers will not get tired, which is completely different from the general cavalry in peacetime to ensure that the war horses are rested.
However, the Bai Yu army is not only well equipped, the morale is more vigorous, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is absolutely extremely strong, Liu He trained these soldiers in accordance with the way of training soldiers in later generations, their physical fitness has been fully exercised, and various battle formations are also very proficient, each of them is definitely stronger than the hundred generals in the ordinary team, although there are only 30,000 Bai Yu soldiers now, but they are confident, even if they encounter more than 100,000 people, they can be easily defeated by them.
"Haha, now it seems that the lord's original decision was so correct, once the war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao is over, with such an army, don't say that it is robbed while the fire is fired, even if it is an open fire, who can resist the heroes of the world? As long as we sweep away Hebei, what is Cao Cao? Where is his little power still threatening? ”
Deng Zhi on the side watched Liu He's political, economic, educational, and military development flourishing, and smiled happily, praising him heartily, but at the same time feeling ashamed of his shallow knowledge at the beginning.