"Reporting to the lord, Liu Bei, the minister of Changshan appointed by Gongsun Zhan, was defeated by the three men of the Montenegrin army, and successively lost the three cities of Jingcheng, Lingshou, and Puwu (now Pingshan County and the north of Houlu County), and Liu Bei has led 8,000 remnants to retreat to Yuanshi City in the south." Lu Jiu came to Liu Cun's side and reported in a low voice.

In the snowflakes in the sky, Liu Cun on the high post retracted his gaze from Jinan City, which had already towered, and asked in surprise: "What is the movement of Gongsun Zhan's army?" ”

Lu Jiu laughed in a low voice: "It's still in the process of preparing for battle...... Yuan Shao's 60,000 horses and horses captured Guangchuan City (now Zaoqiang County, Hebei) under the cooperation of the inside and outside, and hit Gongsun Chan by surprise, and then he couldn't defend it, and Gongsun Chan couldn't do anything about it, and it was estimated that there would be a big war after the beginning of spring. ”

Liu Cun ordered with satisfaction: "In the past six months, the information of the sub-stations in Jizhou has been very timely, and other aspects have also done a very good job, after you go back, you will be rewarded, and those who should be promoted will be promoted, and you will encourage the soldiers who go deep behind the enemy lines, take more care of their families, and not let our soldiers have any worries." ”

"The subordinate brothers have thanked the lord!" Lu Jiu was overjoyed to receive the compliment.

Liu Cun once again advised: "Pay close attention to Zhao Zilong under Gongsun Zhan, and strengthen the persuasion of his brother." ”

"The subordinates understand that they will not relax for a moment!" Lu Jiu bowed his hand and quietly retreated.

Liu Cun once again overlooked the city of Jinan, which had built four walls and gates.

Due to the heavy snowfall and cold temperature, the work inside and outside the city has been suspended, and there are only four city walls in the city, but the Jinan University covering an area of 100 acres on the shore of Daming Lake in the south of the city has been basically completed, and the two open gardens for the people to enter and exit freely have also been completed.

Across from the university, a cluster of 3,000 residential houses has been built, and the sprawling city has taken on a rough shape. Let Liu Cun be full of expectations for this majestic and strong city.

The old city to the west of the new city has also been renovated. The drainage system of the old city mentioned by Liu Cun three times was completed on schedule before the arrival of winter, and today's Licheng is still a small city with a circumference of five miles. But the inside and outside have become much cleaner, which is also something that tens of thousands of people in the old city and Liu Cun are very happy about.

The original population of the townships and villages in Licheng and the surrounding 30 miles is more than 108,000 people, of which more than 12,750 households live inside and outside the old city, a total of more than 47,200 people, in the past 50 days or so, 130,000 victims of the northern country of Jibei have poured in again, of which 50,000 people who have nothing have been arranged to live temporarily in Dongpingling (30 miles northwest of Zhangqiu today) in the east, waiting for the beginning of spring, all of them moved to the plain at the northern foot of Dajianshan 30 miles southeast of the new city to reclaim the wasteland, and then build a new city without city walls. The name is Zhangqiu City.

Many of the victims detained inside and outside Zhu'a County are looking forward to the Qingzhou Army helping them return to their hometowns, and these victims are also shouldering the arduous task of construction...... A total of 130,000 victims of the disaster for half a year of food and clothing brought a heavy burden to Qingzhou, so Liu Cun had to be ruthless, agree with the opinions of the staff, and do his best to protect the children at the same time, let these more than 100,000 people through the mountain quarrying and burning bricks and tiles in exchange for food and clothing, which is also the most desolate group of all the victims who fled to Qingzhou. So far, more than 7,000 people have died of illness or accident, but they have made the greatest contribution to the construction of Jinan New Town and the surrounding roads and wharves.

Since the total population of Qingzhou counties has exceeded 6 million, the existing land has basically been reclaimed. In the absence of a doubling of grain production, it is no longer possible to accommodate more victims, and millions of acres of newly cultivated land last year have been reclaimed. In the next three years, it is necessary to build a large number of supporting water conservancy and irrigation facilities in order to ensure long-term grain production. As a result, Liu Cun and his military officials had to turn their attention beyond Qingzhou.

Liu Zhen, who was in Yizhou, and the young civil and military officials around him were very capable. In the first half of last year, 420,000 of the more than 600,000 victims who were almost forced to be sent to Yizhou survived, and Liu Zhen not only consolidated the 100-mile area around Keelung City, which was built three years earlier, but also cultivated 3.5 million mu of land in the southern Tamsui River Valley (present-day Taipei City), most of which was planted with rice, and beans and sugarcane were planted in the mountains and slopes.

Last autumn, Yizhou obtained a good harvest, greatly alleviating the dilemma of more than 500,000 soldiers and civilians in tight food supply, just wait for the completion of spring plowing this year, Liu Zhen can build a new city on the bank of the Tamsui River in the center of the plain as the seat of Yizhou County, but within two years, Qingzhou can not expect to get Yizhou's grain supplement, and has to buy a large amount of grain from Jiangdong and Jiaozhou in order to solve Qingzhou's depleted strategic reserves.

Another important reason for Qingzhou's restrictions on immigration is that since the beginning of the new year, a large number of people have planted land that has reached the five-year term, and from this year onwards, nearly 10 million mu of land owned by about one million people has expired, and it belongs to the people who are completely privately owned, and the tax has also been reduced from the previous 50 percent to the normal 10 percent.

Therefore, starting this year, Qingzhou has officially implemented a strict land sales policy, and the mountains, rivers and rivers are shared by the whole people, and the local forestry and fishery revenues are uniformly controlled by the local governments for the construction of schools and public medical centers.

The newly promulgated policy land and tax collection standards clearly stipulate:

People who have obtained full ownership of land cannot buy and sell land at will within 10 years, and those who really need to transfer land can only transfer it to the local government government at the average price of land in Qingzhou, and they also need to pay up to 30% transfer income tax;

Within 10 years, it is forbidden to convert the fields for grain production to other purposes, and the annual rent of the land leased by the government and landlords cannot exceed 50 percent of the average annual income;

Any individual who owns more than 100 mu of land is required to pay an additional tax of 10 percent on the basis of paying the normal agricultural tax, and if he holds more than 200 mu of land per capita, an additional 20 percent is levied, and so on, with the maximum tax levied reaching 70 percent.

As soon as this set of strict decrees was promulgated, it immediately aroused strong resistance from many local tyrants and wealthy gentry, but Liu Cun was unmoved, and strictly ordered the county yamen to implement it to the letter, and for this reason, he instructed the supervision yamen of the Qingzhou government to send officials to visit everywhere, forcing the local tycoons to sell their land to the local government, and the recovered funds were invested in the industrial and commercial fields with higher profits.

The policy of "expropriating 50 percent of the income within five years and leaving the land owned by the cultivators after five years" was still implemented in accordance with the policy of "expropriating 50 percent of the income within five years and going to the cultivators after five years." This move was enthusiastically supported by the broad masses of the people, and the prestige of the government was not damaged in the slightest because of the resistance of the local tyrants, but was strengthened by the support of the majority of the people, including the small landlords and the rich peasant class.

So far, no one dares to oppose the local governments that implement the new policy, otherwise what awaits them is the confiscation of all their property and the fate of the whole family to reclaim the wasteland.

Because of the strict land laws, there are Haoqiang who have transferred land and property and moved their families to Liaodong, Jiangdong or Jingzhou to settle down, including the family of Zhuge Liang, who was only 10 years old.

Zhuge is a Lang evil wang clan, Zhuge Liang's ancestor Zhuge Feng once served as a lieutenant in the Western Han Dynasty when Emperor Yuan, Zhuge Liang's father Zhuge Gui is a famous man in Qingzhou. Zhuge Liang's mother Zhang died of illness when he was three years old, and he lost his father at the age of eight. Zhuge Liang's uncle Zhuge Xuan was Liu Biao's subordinate official, and after learning that his brother Zhuge Jue had died of illness, he asked Liu Biao to resign and rushed to Qingzhou to take care of Zhuge Gui's funeral, and then stayed in Qingzhou to take care of Zhuge Gui's widow and children.

With the implementation of the Qingzhou Land Law, Zhuge Xuan, who felt that his interests had been damaged, sold his land and real estate, and took Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jun and his two nieces to Jingzhou and defected to Liu Biao.

Liu Cun has no pity for the departure of these people.

According to the calculations of the Qingzhou Finance Yamen, the landlord Haoqiang, who covers an area of more than 1,000 mu, has three or four generations of his family, and there are at least a dozen members of his immediate family, and they only need to control the land within 100 mu per capita, and they can enjoy the same preferential treatment of 15 percent in tax payment as ordinary people, and the burden has not only not increased, but has been reduced a lot, at least they no longer have to endure the various forcible requisitions of officials at all levels every year before Liu Cun took power.

The only thing that displeased these landlords and tycoons was that they could no longer enrich themselves through the brutal exploitation of their tenants.

In fact, the 50 percent rent allowed by the new law is quite high, and after removing the 10 percent of the tax payable and the 40 percent income of the tenants, the landlords will still have about 40 percent left.

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