The Han army, armed to the teeth, can be said to be invincible in the vast land of the Han Dynasty, but in Liu Xin's view, every victory is actually piled up with human lives and money. Therefore, before starting a war, Liu Xin will first calculate the economic account, and if he can get a certain amount of compensation through the war, it would be better.

When others fight, in addition to plundering wealth and land, they will also supplement their own army with surrendered enemy soldiers and forcibly recruited people, which Cao Cao often did. But Liu Xin only needed wealth and land, but he didn't need these surrenders.

In the past, these troops would be charged into the engineering corps, but now the engineering corps has been reorganized into the engineering corps, which is a special army, except for some hard, tiring and dangerous work that requires a small number of slaves to do, other work is done by the skilled engineers themselves. Now the captured soldiers will be ordered to be disarmed and repatriated to their hometowns after they have been registered.

As soon as Zhang Fei and Zhang He entered the city last night, they were busy searching for Yuan Shu and finding Liu Bang's whereabouts, and they didn't bother to raid the homes of those Yuan Shu's subordinates and the big families of the Shi clan. However, after Zhang Fei entered the city, he imposed a harsh curfew order, and it was not afraid that they would transfer their property overnight.

Just when Xu Chu was escorting General Yang to get the jade seal of the country, Liu Xin sat in the hall and looked through some volumes of Lujiang County. These volumes are still written in bamboo slips, and there is a tall pile in front of Liu Xin, recording the situation of the fields in Lujiang and the counties under its jurisdiction, which is what Liu Xin is most concerned about now.

Liu Xin knew very well that although these scholar families in Lujiang were rich, when it came to money, they might not be as good as Yuan Shu and his subordinates. What is the property situation of Yuan Shu's subordinates, it is not yet known, but the Taishou Mansion where he is now is equivalent to Yuan Shu's home, judging from the situation in the treasury, the property here is not enough to make up for one-tenth of the military expenditure, and it is even more conceivable how much property other subordinates and scholar families can have.

However, Liu Xin was more concerned about the large amount of land held by these scholar families. The Yellow Turban Uprising, which broke out a few years ago and almost shook the foundation of the Han Dynasty, was actually due to the serious land annexation and the unsustainable livelihood of a large number of peasants who had lost their land.

In Liu Xin's memory, at the end of each dynasty, there would be such a situation, the land was annexed by the powerful bureaucracy in large numbers, the peasants were forced to become vassals of the landlords, and then the crisis of these dynasties came. Since Liu Xin knew such a historical law, he wanted to change it, but the only thing he could do was to control as much land as possible in the hands of the state and make the country the largest landlord. The state then leases these lands to the peasants for cultivation, and the state adjusts the taxes so as to ensure that the peasants are able to eat their bellies, so that the peasants will not rise up in rebellion.

The situation of these scholar families has basically been mastered by the phantom secret spy, and now, Liu Xin is putting forward opinions on how to deal with them separately according to the phantom secret spy report. Those who had the closest relationship with Yuan Shu and funded Yuan Shu many times would have all their land confiscated. Those who have a general relationship with Yuan Shu and have had certain dealings will be confiscated part of the land. And those who have never listened to Yuan Shu's greetings can be saved.

These tasks did not need to be done by Liu Xin in person, but Liu Xin had nothing to do, and suddenly became interested, and he was willing to stop after seeing these materials one by one.

The fourth generation and three dukes of the Yuan family, the protégés and former officials are all over the world, this is not a joke, there are really many scholars in Lujiang City who are staunch supporters of Yuan Shu, and all the volumes related to these people have been drawn by Liu Xin with a red pen with a big "cross", and what awaits them is to copy the fate of the whole family.

And more scholar families donated some money under the coercion of Yuan Shu, although they were just out of helplessness, but Liu Xin, who had been looking for an opportunity to weaken the strength of these scholar families, naturally would not let them go, and also drew a "circle" on the volumes related to them, and their land would be confiscated at least half.

After classifying all these volumes, there was only one volume left in Liu Xin's hand, which was the only scholar family that did not fund Yuan Shu. Liu Xin was a little curious, how did this family escape Yuan Shu's blackmail?

Fu Zhu seemed to know what Liu Xin was thinking, and said with a smile: "Back to the lord, it was quite strange for my subordinates to see these materials at the beginning, and then I sent someone to inquire carefully, and then I figured it out. This family's surname is Qiao, they are a local family in Lujiang, and they have never been afraid of rape, and Yuan Shu has been rejected by him several times. When Yuan Shu sent troops to forcibly come to the door, their head Qiao Yuan actually set himself on fire to show his determination. When Yuan Shu heard the report, he actually ordered the soldiers to be withdrawn and spared the family. ”

Liu Xin laughed and said: "I can't imagine that there are such tough guys in this Lujiang City, when will I go to see it." ”

Fu Zhu also smiled: "Judging from his methods of dealing with Yuan Shu, I'm afraid it's stinky and hard, but don't make the lord unhappy, hahahaha......"

Before his laughter fell, the guards outside the door suddenly walked in and said, "Enlighten the lord, there is a person outside the door who calls himself Liu Bei, come to surrender, please make a decision!" ”

With a "snap", the bamboo slip in Liu Xin's hand fell heavily on the table.

"What do you say? Liu Bei came to surrender? Liu Xin stood up, looked at the guard with a shocked face, and only calmed down after a while, waved his hand, and said, "Well, bring him in." ”

"Wait!" Frustrated with a handful of hands, he stopped the guard and asked, "Did Liu Bei come alone or with others?" ”

The guard arched his hand and said, "Lord Hui, Liu Bei still has a young man with him, do you want to let that young man in with you?" ”

Frustrated, he didn't answer, but turned his head to look at Liu Xin. Liu Xin looked indifferent, as if he hadn't realized who the young man who came with Liu Bei was.

In fact, when he heard that Liu Bei came to surrender, Liu Xin had already thought of Liu Bang. Back then, Liu Chong found such a child to come out, but he didn't let Liu Xin take a look, and now more than ten years have passed, he actually met here, Liu Xin has a feeling of crying and laughing, but he doesn't know how to face Liu Bang, he just wants to fool this matter over, so Liu Xin didn't ask and ordered the guards to bring Liu Bei in.

But now that Fu Zhu has made his words clear, Liu Xin can't continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb, so he has to wave his hand and say, "Bring both of them in." ”

After a while, Liu Bei walked in with a chubby young man. Liu Bei was still the same as before, with big ears, hanging his hands over his knees, walked to the opposite side of Liu Xin and sang a deep fat promise, and said: "Meet your lord in Xuzhou." ”

The chubby young man looked obviously a little nervous, but under Liu Bei's constant gesture with his eyes, he finally walked up to Liu Xin hesitantly, knelt on the ground with a "plop", and kowtowed again and again: "Unfilial son Liu Bang has seen my father!" ”

This embarrassing situation finally appeared, and a subtle wry smile appeared on the corner of Liu Xin's mouth, raised his hand, and said, "You get up first." Liu Bang, let me ask you, why don't you stay in Juchao and come to Lujiang to do something? ”

In the past few years, the Phantom Spy has developed extremely rapidly, and it is difficult for big and small things that happen in various places to escape their ears and eyes. But Liu Bang moved over just after Yuan Shu occupied Lujiang, and at that time Liu Xin and Fu Zhu neglected him, but who knew that the situation like today was formed.

When Liu Bang saw Liu Xin and Yan Yuese's appearance, he made up his mind, quickly got up from the ground, and said: "Back to my father, the child was coaxed by Yuan Shu to move to Lujiang, but he almost missed his father's major event, and asked his father to forgive him. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Bang made a gesture and wanted to kneel down again.

Liu Xin waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go down first to rest." ”

Seeing that Liu Xin didn't ask a few more words, he asked someone to take Liu Bang down, Liu Bei's heart was also a little apprehensive, and he arched his hand and said, "Lord Liu, ...... down."

Fu Zhu sneered: "My lord didn't ask, you stand aside!" ”

Liu Bei was frustrated and knocked once, his face was not shocked, he arched his hand and stepped aside, this city is indeed very accessible.

Liu Xin secretly admired in his heart, no wonder he could be regarded as an opponent by Cao Cao in history, and he really had extraordinary ability, so he couldn't help but say lightly: "Liu Bei, do you dare to come to see me?" Do you remember what I told you? Pretending to be a royal prince is an unforgivable crime! ”

After Liu Xin finished speaking, there was already a murderous opportunity in his eyes!

Liu Bei asked rhetorically: "Dare to ask Lord Liu, are you considered an imperial prince?" ”

Liu Xin was stunned, Liu Bei actually dared to ask such a thing, could it be that he had the evidence that he was impersonating the imperial family? It's impossible! Only himself, Ma Yun and his father-in-law Liu Kai knew about this matter. Now, Liu Kai is long gone, he and Ma Yun will never say it, and with the box as evidence, who dares to doubt the identity of his Han clan relatives?

The most critical point is that for so many years, Liu Xin has been pretending to be a royal prince, just like if he has told a lie a thousand times, he will take it as true, and now Liu Xin feels that he is originally a member of the Han family, and his words and deeds will never show the slightest flaw! So who else would be idle and doubt his identity?

After thinking about this, Liu Xin's face returned to calm, and he said coldly: "The royal family tree is clearly written, Liu is a fake Han clan relative!" ”

Liu Bei didn't seem to notice the change in the expression on Liu Xin's face, lowered his head and continued to ask: "Then may I ask Lord Liu, Liu Bang's son is your eldest son?" ”

After a short hesitation just now, Liu Xin is now able to deal with it easily, he doesn't have to worry that Liu Bang will tell Liu Bei that he is not Liu Xin's biological son, and not to mention whether Liu Bang knows about it or not, even if he knows, it is impossible to say it, because the name "Liu Xin's eldest son" is his talisman now.