The issue of people's livelihood, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, is an issue that rulers must take into account and put in the first place.

Even if it is just to maintain his dominance, this point cannot be ignored, and a ruler who does not pay attention to the people's livelihood is not a qualified ruler, let alone a ruler who can sit on the throne for a long time.

Lu Bu in Luoyang is just a simple soldier, and he only needs to do what a simple general should do, but now that he has become the de facto ruler of the four counties of this state, he can no longer treat it completely with the attitude towards the army, and the people's livelihood under the rule is also an unavoidable issue, even if the state may only be his temporary foothold.

Of course, if you want to arrange people's livelihood issues, it does not mean that Lu Bu can copy the successful experiences of the future that he is familiar with, but he must also combine it with reality, whether it is in time or space.

First of all, in this era, the productive forces are still far from being so developed, and in the early stage of the natural economy in the characteristics of the current era, although Lu Bu comes from later generations and will break through the limitations of this era for many problems and is full of "foresight", but it is not so simple to fully realize these ideas.

If the "southern invasion" of the Xiongnu people has occurred repeatedly before, most of the time it is still a small friction, then since Lu Bu declared war on the Xiongnu and drove him out of the court, it means that he cannot coexist peacefully with them, although he has never thought of coexisting peacefully with them, such an unstable environment is also a great obstacle and hidden danger for the development of Bingzhou.

At this time, Lu Bu, Da Ma Jindao sat on the main seat of the hall, looked at the Wenchen who sat down, smiled, and pointed to Jia Xu and said: "Wen He, you will talk about it first, about the return of grazing to farming in this river loop." What else is there to consider? ”

The people's livelihood in this era is the first priority in agriculture, in fact, when Lu Bu and others agreed to merge the state as the rear. It is not that the problem of agricultural production is not taken into account, after all, the people depend on food, and the war also needs to rely on strong logistics, but the problem is that there are not many places to choose from in his scenario at that time. It is necessary to consider the strategic position, and also to consider the economic factors, where in the world is there such a cheap thing and benefit for him to occupy it all?

But think about it now. He was indeed lucky, because the problems that he didn't consider at the beginning are actually not so difficult to solve now, why? Look at the location of Bingzhou, a very familiar term unconsciously appeared in Lu Bu's mind, that is, the Hetao Plain.

The Hetao Plain is located east of Helan Mountain, west of Luliang Mountain, south of Yinshan Mountain, and north of the Great Wall, and most of the eastern part of this area. It is located in the territory of the state.

It's a pity that this area was used by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xiu to settle the attached Southern Xiongnu, and a large area of good arable land was used by the Southern Xiongnu, a people who lived by water and grass, to graze cattle and sheep, which was a waste of this good place for the Han people.

And with this fertile land fattened the Southern Huns. As they gradually regained their vitality and strength, the Han Dynasty gained not their gratitude but wolf ambitions.

In fact, these rulers of the ancient dynasties have always had a problem, saying that it is good to say that it is called benevolence and righteousness, and it is naïve or even stupid to say that it is ugly, whether it is for the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other foreign peoples, or Goguryeo, Dongying and other foreign races, and even some small southern countries in later generations, and they are talking about benevolence and righteousness is playing the piano to the cow, although they are affected by the radiation of Chinese culture, they also know that etiquette, righteousness and shame, but it is one thing to know that it is one thing, and it is another thing to talk about it, in essence, these are a group of wolves that cannot be fed, I don't know how to be content and grateful, I only know how to ask and plunder.

In fact, the tragedy of the five chaotic China in history can be traced back to the source, and it is inseparable from the policy of the previous rulers.

Of course, no matter what, now the Southern Xiongnu have been temporarily and successfully expelled by Lu Bu, and the return of grazing to farming in the Hetao Plain will also officially enter the orbit.

Hearing Lu Bu ask himself first, Jia Xu was not polite, and he obviously had a draft, so he only pondered for a while and said: "If you want to reclaim farmland, the most important thing is manpower, and this is the last thing we need to consider, and those Hun captives can completely fill the gap here is more than enough." However, we can't rely on them completely, after all, the people's livelihood lies in the people, but now the most lacking in these four counties is the Han people, Shangdang, Taiyuan and Wuyuan three counties are not bad, but Xihe County was affected by the Huns, and the people moved south, resulting in a vast land and sparse population. If we want to develop, we must also carry out population migration, and the Han Chinese who fled south must be relocated. Not only that, in addition to the conditions that take time to return grazing to farming, it also needs experienced people to guide them, and such people can probably only be found among the old farmers in the south, which is another reason why the population must be relocated. ”

In fact, the Southern Huns grazing here, in essence, did not destroy this land, but after all, cultivated land and grassland are two concepts, and it still takes a certain amount of time to restore from the grassland suitable for grazing to the original cultivated land, and in this regard, whether it is the soldiers in the current Lu Bu army, or those Huns have no experience, and they also need the guidance of those old farmers.

When Lu Bu heard this, he also echoed: "This is also what is considered, reclamation and relocation of the people is the first goal of our next livelihood problems, especially the population, our army cannot always live without a fixed place, until those people are migrated, we will select some good families from them, and combine them with the officers and soldiers in our army, so that they can start a family here, and it will also be able to increase their loyalty." ”

Everyone nodded hurriedly, but Liangle suddenly said: "Actually, Wen Hou, I am happy to think that among those Hun women, it is not impossible to pick out some unmarried yellow flowers, and tell them that if they can choose the generals and soldiers of the army as their husbands, they can return their freedom and quit slavery; If they are able to give birth to a child, their parents and relatives can also be pardoned. Thinking about it in this way, many people will be tempted, and it is a good way for the Huns to restrain them, and of course to avoid the possible backlash of those young and strong men; In addition, it can also make the officers and soldiers of the army return to their hearts, so that they can kill two birds with one stone. ”

Hearing his words, Lu Bu and Jia Xu glanced at each other and laughed, Liangle was a little inexplicable by their laughter, or Jia Xu explained: "Bo Yu, in fact, the lord has already had an idea about this matter, but he has not talked to everyone about it yet, and the disposal of these Huns has already been decided. ”

Liangle couldn't help but be a little surprised, and a layer of blush suddenly appeared on his fair cheeks.

Lu Bu also smiled, but he said something to alleviate his embarrassment: "Okay Wenhe, although Bo Yu's words are not far from what we discussed before, there are also unique features in it, such as the fact that giving birth to a child can pardon relatives, which can indeed be considered." ”

In fact, Lu Bu knew very well in his heart that in Jia Xu's words, the meaning of Liangle was quite obvious, and Chen Gong, Lu Cui and others present could see it, but except for Chen Gong's somewhat guessing and seemingly misdirection, everyone else was confused and didn't understand how Liangle, a person who had never appeared among them before, seemed to offend Jia Xu's big Buddha in the first place, and Lu Bu naturally knew the reason the most in his heart, but he didn't break or pull them together. On the contrary, it sounds like a bias towards good pleasure. (To be continued.) )