Chapter 88 Unloading the armor and tun soldiers ruled Pi, and accepted the displaced people to reclaim the wasteland

Xiapi County, not far from Xuzhou, is an area where Yellow Turban thieves are more rampant. Liu Shi, the commander of the Yellow Turban Qu in Xiapi, followed Zhang Jiao to fight in all directions. After Guangzong's defeat, he led the remnants to flee back to Xuzhou and disappeared from the people.

With the assistance of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Huangfu Song defeated Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao, but failed to solve a large number of displaced people. For a time, the displaced people became a big problem in Qingzhou, Jizhou, Xuzhou and Youzhou.

Naturally, Xiapi County could not escape this fate.

It is said that Liu Bei took Guan Yu and Zhang Fei back to Anping City.

Liu Xu, the king of Anping, learned of his situation, and couldn't think about it for a while, so he wanted to throw himself into the well to find a short view, but was stopped by Liu Bei's mother and son.

Liu Bei persuaded him to change his mind.

After learning from the pain, Liu Xu put a heart on Liu Bei.

The Son of Heaven did not want to confiscate the property in the palace, so he asked Liu Bei to pack up all the valuable things in the palace, including food and money, and transport them to Xiapi.

If the servants of the palace are willing to stay, they will go to Xiapi with them; If you don't want to, you will be sent home with the travel fee.

In this way, more than 300 people in the palace followed him to Xiapi.

Also going there were three thousand elites under Liu Bei.

When he came to Xiapi, Liu Bei was really stunned by the desolation in front of him.

The city wall collapsed on all sides, none of the gates on three sides were intact, and more than 23 out of 10 houses in the outer city collapsed.

The people in the city are sparsely numbered, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Hey! After all, it is the people who suffer from war! Liu Bei said with emotion.

Le Yin said on the side: "Yes! The people only want stability and peace, but those in power are not considerate of the people, but only fight for power and profit! ”

After Liu Xu, the king of Anping, lost his title, Le Yin wanted to leave.

Liu Bei repeatedly retained him and asked him to be his staff.

Seeing Liu Bei's sincerity, he agreed.

When everyone came to the palace, they didn't see anyone to greet them.

Pei An and Meng Fan stepped forward and slapped the knocker.

It took a long time for someone to come out.

"Who are you?" The door opened, and a man in his thirties peeked out.

Meng Fan glared at him and shouted, "What person? The new Taishou-sama has arrived! ”

The murderous aura brought from the battlefield suddenly frightened the man into taking two steps back, and shouted in panic: "Ah! Taishou-sama has arrived! ”

The man hurriedly opened the gate and ran towards the courtyard.

After a while, more than a dozen people came out of it.

An old man led by him, trembling with the support of others, led everyone to Liu Bei, and quickly knelt down to give a salute: "Cheng Chailuo of Pi County, take the officials of the county government to greet Lord Taishou." ”

What the? Are you the Juncheng? This is the big and small officials of the county government?

Looking at these people in front of him, Liu Bei felt that his brain was deprived of oxygen.

Is this still a county seat?

Shaking his head helplessly, he asked Chai Luo and the others to get up.

Led everyone to the palace hall, Liu Bei asked Chai Luo about the situation in Xiapi.

This question really startled Liu Bei.

It turned out that not only Xiapi Taishou was killed in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but more than 50 officials in the county government were killed by the Yellow Turban thieves in the rebellion.

Xiapi County, the registered population of the 16 counties was originally more than 600,000. Today, however, the population of each county has plummeted, and I am afraid that it will not exceed one-tenth.

The grain in the city has long been looted by the Yellow Turban thieves, and the grain depots in all counties are also in an emergency. It can be said that the current Xiapi is poor and white, and how to support himself has become the first thing Liu Bei did after taking office.

After listening to Chai Luo's report, Liu Bei waved his hand to let these officials go down, leaving Le Yin, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, and Tuoba Kun behind.

"You've all heard what you just said! The current situation in Xiapi is such a situation, do you have any suggestions? Liu Bei asked everyone.

"Lord, the cold winter has come, and the people are unclothed and have difficulty eating, I'm afraid this winter will be difficult!" Huang Zhong said.

Zhang Fei shook his head, sighed and said, "Hey! When it comes to winter, I really don't know how to help these people survive the winter! ”

Le Yin lowered his head and pondered on the side, suddenly raised his head to look at everyone, and then said to Liu Bei: "My lord, there are a total of sixteen county towns in Xiapi County, and there is no shortage of houses in the city. On the one hand, let the people be grateful for the kindness of the lord; On the other hand, it can attract displaced people from all over the world. ”

"That's a good idea. Big brother, in this way, we can develop Xiapi County! Guan Yu interjected at this time.

Tuoba Kun was a person who followed Liu Bei from Pingyin at that time, so he has a deep memory of the events at that time: "Lord, we might as well continue to implement the tuntian system." ”

Looking at everyone's suggestions and suggestions, Liu Bei's face smiled brightly: "Very good!" Now let's deal with the winter. Mr. Yuanqi, you immediately find Chai Luo and ask him to arrange for those dozen people to go to the counties immediately, and they must complete the registration of all houses and the registration of the population within three days. If you can't do it well, don't do anything in the county government. ”

"Yes, my lord." Le Yin agreed. Yuanqi is the word of Leyin.

Then, Liu Bei said to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Huang Zhong: "Yun Chang, you take Zhou Cang to Liangcheng, Siwu, Xiaxiang, Consideration, and Guguo counties; Yide, you take Pei An to Xiaqiu, Xuxian, Suiling, Xuyi, Gaoshan and other counties; Hansheng, you take Wei Yan to Huailing, Dongcheng, Quyang, Huaipu, Huaiyin and other counties. Each of you leads a team of cavalry, and you must check the situation of the fields in various places within half a month. ”

"Yes!"

Le Yin, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Huang Zhong received the order and said goodbye to Liu Bei.

After the four of them left, Liu Bei instructed Tuoba Kun: "Yunye, you take the remaining soldiers and horses to carve out a military field near Xiapi and prepare for Tuntian." I am afraid that I will have to feed on the prey this winter, so I will immediately go out on a list, allow the people to hunt in the mountains, open the market, and exempt the market tax to encourage the people to trade. ”

"Yes!" Tuoba Kun agreed, and went down to prepare.

After he left, a soldier reported to Liu Bei: "My lord, someone who claims to be Zhen Rong and asks to see him outside the mansion." ”

"Rong? Isn't he a member of Xuzhou Mu Taoqian's staff? Liu Bei said to himself, and then said to the soldier, "Please let him in!" ”

"Yes, my lord."

A short time later, a slender middle-aged man came in from outside.

Seeing Liu Bei from afar, he quickened his pace and came to Liu Bei's approach, and bent down to salute: "Xuzhou Mu's secretary Zhenrong pays a visit to Lord Taishou." ”

"Excuse me." Liu Bei helped him up and asked, "Lord Zhen came from Xuzhou, is there something important?" ”

"On the orders of Lord Tao, I came to condolence my lordship." Zhen Rong said.

Liu Bei hurriedly invited him to sit down, and then said with a very humble attitude: "Bei is in a hurry, I haven't had time to visit Master Tao yet, and I ask the Lord to go back and help prepare a few beautiful words!" ”

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It turned out that Tao Qian and Lu Zhi were close friends, and when he learned that Lu Zhi's disciples had come under his command, he immediately sent Zhenrong to offer condolences and brought 300 loads of food.

Judging from these things, Tao Qian is very fond of Liu Bei.

Liu Bei got a pair of jade toads and a coral tree from Liu Xu.

He gave the pair of jade toads to Zhen Rong, and asked him to help give the coral tree to Tao Qian.

Seeing that Liu Bei was so generous, Zhen Rong took the gift and returned to Xuzhou with his entourage.

At present, after the notices were posted in the county towns of Pi County, the displaced people hiding in the mountains and rivers walked out of the mountains and headed towards the reception of the displaced people in the county seat.

Before the beginning of winter, more than 50,000 displaced people had gathered in various county towns in Xiapi.

The news of Xiapi County's acceptance of displaced people soon spread throughout Xuzhou.

As the end of the year approached, more than 300,000 displaced people had been accommodated in Xiapi counties.

Shelters have been provided to the displaced people, but food rations have not been provided.

This question has been bothering Liu Bei.

He sent his soldiers and led the settled people into the mountains and wilderness, dug up the roots of the grass in the ground, dried them, and crushed them to fill them with food.

He also selected a group of young men from among the people to form a hunting team and go into the mountains to hunt.

All kinds of measures were pondered by him day by day, and they were arranged in an orderly manner.

Although the people had a hard time, no one was making trouble.

Even though they knew that there were tens of thousands of loads of grain in the granary of the county government, none of them thought of stealing even a grain of grain.

Finally, they survived the winter.

The county government yamen and the county government also posted notices.

Liu Bei, the Taishou Lord, prepared tens of thousands of loads of good seeds, which will be lent to all the people, hoping that the people will reclaim the fertile land.

The people once again felt the kindness of Liu Bei, the Taishou Lord.

The people who read the notice knelt in front of the notice one after another, shouting Lord Fujun, the voice shook the sky, one after another, it can be seen that Liu Bei's reputation in Xiapi has reached a very high height.

The good breed is still being distributed.

On this day, a caravan came from outside the city of Xiapi.

The size of this caravan is huge! There were thousands of guards alone, and there were more than 100 trucks of all sizes! It seems that most of the goods are grain and the like, because the pressure makes the wheels creak and creak non-stop.

The caravan entered Xiapi City, and did not go directly to the post station, but headed in the direction of the county capital.

Before coming to the county hall, they really stopped.

"This official, please give me a report, just say that Zhang Shiping wants to see Lord Taishou!" The old man who looked like a wealthy merchant in the lead said to the official guarding the door.

"Alright! Wait here, don't go far. The servant said this, and went back.

Which one is Zhang Shiping?

As we mentioned in the previous document, Liu Bei rescued two Zhongshan merchants when he was studying.

One of them is this Zhang Shiping, and the other is called Su Fei.

After a while, Liu Bei came out from inside.

"Uncle Zhang, don't come here for a long time!" Liu Bei went straight to the old man.

The old man hurriedly walked two steps quickly and caught up with Liu Bei: "The old man Zhang Shiping has seen Lord Taishou. ”

Liu Bei hurriedly hugged him and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't kill the little nephew." You still call for a virtuous nephew, I listen to it! ”

"Then the old decay has trespassed!"

Liu Bei let Zhang Shiping enter the government, and then asked why the old man came here.

It turned out that Zhang Shiping and Su Fei went to Xuzhou on business, and when they heard that Liu Bei was in Xiapi, they wanted to come over and have a look.

They sent someone to inquire, only to learn that Liu Bei had become the Taishou of Xiapi, and it seemed that he was still in some trouble.

After inquiring clearly, Zhang Shiping decided to help him.

In this way, Zhang Shiping purchased 10,000 quintals of grain from Luoyang and other places and sent them to Liu Bei.