"Childe, you're in good time, if it was a few months earlier, I wouldn't be helpless, but now even the heavens are helping us." When Liu Feng was distressed by the problems faced by Tuntian, Liu Ba had obviously thought of a way to deal with it.

Liu Feng's spirits were lifted, and he hurriedly asked, "What is the best plan for sir?" ”

"It's very simple, four words, check the household registration." Liu Ba replied very happily.

"Checking your account?"

Liu Feng was slightly surprised, he immediately thought that Liu Ba planned to check the population that was attached to the names of powerful landlords, which was equivalent to snatching food from the mouths of these landlords, which would inevitably cause a strong backlash, and in such a special period, it would obviously do more harm than good.

Liu Feng frowned slightly, and was about to express his concerns, but Liu Ba's face showed a little smugness, as if he had long expected what Liu Feng was thinking.

Seeing Liu Ba's expression, Liu Feng knew that what he could think of, Liu Ba's smart mind must also be able to think of it, and the "checking the household registration" in his mouth must have another mystery.

Thinking of this, Liu Feng's brows quickly relaxed, and he said patiently: "What is the inventory method, Mr. may wish to talk about it in detail." ”

"Have you ever forgotten that when Cao Ying went south last year, many people in Jingbei avoided the four counties of Jingnan in order to escape the military disaster, according to my estimates, Changsha alone alone, at least 50,000 or 60,000 people took refuge, which is a considerable wealth."

Liu Ba's words reminded Liu Feng, and his eyes suddenly flashed with excitement: "I forgot about this group of people, Mr. continue." ”

Liu Ba continued: "Among the 50,000 or 60,000 people who have taken refuge in Changsha, most of them are ordinary poor people, they have no land to support themselves, and they are not registered in the government, they can only live by working as hired laborers for the local tyrants. ”

Liu Feng nodded in agreement: "Fifty or sixty thousand people, even if half of them can be counted, it is already a considerable number, but with the population, how can the land problem be solved?" ”

Liu Ba's expression became more and more confident, and he stroked his beard and smiled: "If the population is there, the land is not a problem. Although the existing cultivated land is basically occupied, as long as there is enough labor, those original wastelands, as long as they are slightly reclaimed, they can soon become fertile land, so population is the real key. ”

In the era in which Liu Feng originally lived, it was an era with a large population, so in his initial concept, he did not attach too much importance to the important surname of the population. But as his knowledge grew, it wasn't until a conversation with Liu Ba that he truly realized how important the size of the population was. At some point, the size of the population even directly determines the success or failure of a party's power.

In terms of agricultural economy, Liu Feng is a veritable layman, he can only put forward the idea of tuntian, but how to do it, you have to rely on an insider like Liu Ba.

After listening to Liu Ba's systematic explanation, Liu Feng said happily: "This aspect is what Mr. is good at, Mr. will let go of his hands and feet to do it boldly, and I will definitely give full support behind it." ”

After a pause, Liu Feng added: "Regarding the implementation of Tuntian, we must also get the permission of that person, in order to avoid that person's doubts, I am not good to express my opinion on this matter, I am afraid that Mr. will have to come forward, I believe that person will allow it." ”

Liu Ba smiled knowingly: "Don't worry, Son, this matter will be handled by me." ”

After the secret discussion between the two, Liu Ba repaired a letter and sent it to the Jiangling battlefield, where he proposed to Liu Bei to try out Tuntian in Changsha to solve the problem of military grain and grass.

As Liu Feng expected, Liu Ba's hard bone is willing to be attached, which is already a big surprise for Liu Bei, and Liu Ba, who has just taken office, also took the initiative to put forward Tuntian's suggestion out of consideration for Liu Bei, and this suggestion is indeed beneficial to Liu Bei on the surface, so he quickly gave a permissive reply, and is ready to try it out in Changsha first, and if the effect is good, it will be promoted in the rest of the counties as soon as possible.

Liu Bei fell into the trap laid by Liu Feng again, and after getting Liu Bei's approval, Liu Feng fully supported Liu Ba to check the household registration and start Tuntian. At the same time, in order to buy off the local powerful warriors, Liu Feng also instructed Liu Ba to recruit influential scholars in the county to serve as county officials, and used both soft and hard means to make the county magistrates order their children to send their children to Linxiang as hostages.

When Liu Feng was intensively preparing for the rupture, he was also concerned about the situation in the world all the time.

As he expected when he was in Baqiu, not long after Pang Tong went to Chaisang to meet Sun Quan's soldiers, Sun Quan, Marquis of Wu, led all his remaining belongings, about 30,000 soldiers and horses, to launch an attack on Hefei on the western front. At this time, Hefei was empty, Cao Ying was shocked when he heard it, so he had to lead the main force to leave Nanyang County and enter Huainan in the east, wanting to relieve the siege of Hefei.

As soon as Cao's army left, the morale of the entire Cao army in Jingzhou was suddenly hit, and the Sun-Liu coalition army took advantage of the situation to launch a more fierce attack on the enemy in Jiangling.

After Zhou Yu personally led the army to defeat Cao's army, he took advantage of the victory to move the camp from the south bank to the north bank, approaching the city of Jiangling. Liu Bei's subordinates occupied the counties of Linfu and Jingyang between Xiangyang and Jiangling, west of the Han River, while Guan Yu's troops went north along the Han River, occupied the counties east of the Han River, and cut off the northern road connecting Xiangyang and Jiangling.

In order to understand the siege of Jiangling, Le Jin, who was stationed in Xiangyang, and Wen Ping, who was stationed in Anlu, were ordered to attack from two directions and fought fiercely with Guan Yu and Liu Beijun. Although the two sides won and lost each other, because Liu Jiajun took advantage of the water army to successfully drag the music and cultural institutes on the front line of Hanshui, he was never able to provide effective direct assistance to Xiangyang.

Due to the departure of Cao Ying's main force, the Cao army in Jingzhou can no longer be replenished with troops, and as time enters the second half of the year, Jiangling City has gradually become a lonely city with outstanding reading ability, Cao Ren and Zhou Yu have repeatedly fought unfavorably, the casualties are large, and they cannot be replenished by troops, and the situation has fallen into an increasingly unfavorable situation.

In order to get more say in the division of Jingzhou after the Battle of Jiangling, Liu Bei had to follow Zhou Yu to participate in the Battle of Jiangling, and when the four counties of Jingnan had been successfully obtained, he had no time to pay more attention to the four counties in the south for a while, so he only ordered Liu Feng and Zhang Fei to divide the eastern and western counties of Xiangshui, obviously planning to make new arrangements after the Battle of Jiangling was over.

The Battle of Jiangling dragged Liu Bei and bought Liu Feng enough time, and in the fourteenth year of Jian'an, he managed his two county bases almost without interference.

In the autumn of that year, Liu Ba's painstaking management of the Tuntian business finally received the first wave of returns, with the hard work of nearly 20,000 Tuntian people, the autumn grain was harvested, although the agreement between the government and the people was divided into five, so that Liu Feng could only get half of the grain, but this batch of precious surplus grain was enough to support his army for about three months.

At the end of autumn, Liu Feng's controllable army had reached 5,000 people, and after half a year of training, it had initially formed a certain combat effectiveness.

The situation seems to be getting better and better, and Liu Feng at this time wishes that the battle of Jiangling would continue to be fought, and it is best to fight until Zhou Yu and Liu Bei defeat Cao's army.

However, early one morning in December, Liu Feng received the latest battle report from the north.

Gangneung Fortress is broken.