In the autumn of the fourth year of the first peace, the grain harvest in Luoyang area was bumper. The poor people, who had been looking forward to eating gruel a day the year before, finally saw piles of grain filling the warehouse, and the feeling of happiness was really indescribable.

The people at the bottom are the easiest to be satisfied, as long as they can have something to eat, and they don't have to be harassed by the rebel army every day, they will feel that life is full of hope and there is hope for their lives. Even if it is very hard to work in the fields every day, even if there is little water and salt and oil at every meal, the people will take it for granted that this is their life, and they have become accustomed to working like an obscure ploughing ox, and their standards and requirements for life are limited to survival.

When Li Yan summarized the data reported by various counties, he came to a conclusion that surprised Liu He - this year's grain output in Luoyang is at least five times more than last year's!

In other words, the grain produced in the Luoyang area this year can not only feed more than 300,000 local people, but also at least about 400,000 more people......

Henan Yin can get such a bumper harvest, which is naturally inseparable from Liu He's efforts.

The Luoyang area is located on the south bank of the Yellow River, with abundant rivers and fertile land for cultivation everywhere, and as long as the rulers can provide a safe and stable environment for the people of Luoyang and ensure that their lives are not in danger when engaging in farming, then the recovery of grain production in the Luoyang area is almost a sure thing.

After Liu He was stationed in Luoyang, he not only provided safe shelter for the people of Luoyang, but also invested 20,000 quyuan ploughs, 1,000 ploughing cattle and 5,000 horses, as well as 1,000 stone of high-quality grain seeds. Such a sum of materials that was enough to make the counties blush was thrown in by Liu Heyan without blinking, so that the number of fields that the people of Luoyang could cultivate was immediately expanded several times, and the establishment of the agricultural mutual aid society further improved the production efficiency of the peasant households.

In other words, under the superposition of many factors, the Luoyang area has achieved such a gratifying harvest.

There is a way. There is food in the hand, and there is no panic in the heart. Liu He was still worried about the large-scale influx of displaced people into Luoyang, but now that he learned the news of the bumper grain harvest, he finally had the confidence, so he pondered how to organize and mobilize the more than 400,000 displaced people who poured into Luoyang within this year to become a new new force for the development and construction of Luoyang.

In order to properly resettle these displaced people, they must first be given land to cultivate, otherwise the displaced people will be rootless duckweed, and after eating up the grain in Luoyang, they will continue to flow to other grain-producing areas.

Cultivated land in the Luoyang area is limited. At present, except for some barren and owner-owned lands, the rest of the land has been reclaimed by the local people. The so-called barren land of lords mainly includes two parts, one part is the land left by the rich families who fled to Jingzhou, and the other part is the land that the imperial court originally rewarded the ministers.

Although the rich family left Luoyang, no one dared to guarantee when they would return, such as the Zheng Tai brothers, who returned to Kaifeng from Nanyang half a year ago. Most of the ministers remain in Chang'an, and some have died under Dong Zhuo's tyranny. But they all have children and relatives to a greater or lesser extent, so from a legal point of view, there are still people who can inherit the land that the imperial court gave to the ministers at the beginning.

Liu He asked Li Yan to secretly conduct an investigation and statistics. It turned out that these owner-owned wastelands accounted for more than half of the fields available for cultivation in the Luoyang area!

Large tracts of high-quality fields are uncultivated and barren all year round, while the hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have poured into Henan's Yin land boundary have no land to plant. What a funny and absurd scene!

In fact, this is the true portrayal of the large-scale annexation of the land of the peasants at the bottom by the bureaucratic landlord class in the late Han Dynasty......

Liu He looked at the data sent by Li Yan, and a bitter feeling suddenly surged in his heart.

Previous life. When he wanders the city streets full of high-rise buildings, he often sees that there are few lights on at night in the high-end residential areas, and the luxuriously decorated high-rise buildings have long been sold out. People who buy these buildings often hold several, dozen, or even hundreds of properties in their hands, and a sling like Liu He, who is still wandering around to find a job, may not be able to afford half a house for a lifetime without eating or drinking.

Even though time and space have changed for more than 1,800 years, Liu He suddenly feels that the grassroots people at the bottom are actually lambs who are exploited and oppressed by others at all times, but in a different form.

Faced with the strings of cold numbers on Cai Hou's paper, Liu He was not convinced, and he wanted to try to change.

"Pass on my order, from tomorrow onwards, all the wasteland near Luoyang that has no one to cultivate within 200 miles will belong to me, and the displaced people in each county can lease land from me to cultivate, and the land rent required to be paid is the same as that of local farmers, and there are no other miscellaneous taxes." Liu He said expressionlessly.

Li Yan glanced at Liu He carefully, and then said in a deep voice: "Childe, this matter needs to be cautious!" ”

Liu He understood what Li Yan was reminding, he looked at Li Yan, and suddenly said with some excitement: "Did you let me watch the millions of acres of fields around Luoyang being barren, and the people nearby just used these lands as pastures for raising horses and cattle?" That's a fine field to feed 600,000 people! It's been barren for so long? Waste is a great crime! ”

Li Yan has followed Liu He for more than two years, and he is very clear about Liu He's inner thoughts, and he continued to remind Liu He: "If the prince wants to stay in Luoyang for a long time, it is best not to touch these lands, otherwise the officials and families of the whole world may unite against you!" ”

"Is it that serious?"

"It's that serious. Once you touch these lands, you will be shaking the foundation of the ruling family of the great clans, if they lose their land, how can you control the poor people to feed them with blood and sweat in the future? ”

"Well, then change it, and announce it tomorrow, saying that the main wasteland in the Luoyang area is 'temporarily' managed by me, and the displaced people who have come to flee can lease farming from me. In the future, if those ministers and wealthy families have the order to return to Luoyang, let them come to me with the land title deed to ask me for land rent and tax! Liu He came up with a stopgap solution.

"This method is feasible, but when the time comes, what will the son give back to them?" Li Yan asked with a wry smile.

Liu He replied with a relaxed face: "Hehe, when the time comes, only God knows what happened!" The top priority at the moment is to properly resettle these displaced people, and as for the future, there is always a way. ”

Since Liu He insisted on recovering the owner-owned wasteland around Luoyang, Li Yan, as his most powerful "accomplice", naturally spared no effort to promote this matter. And generals such as Zhao Yun and Zhang He acted as gold medal fighters, specializing in all kinds of "disobedience".

Many of the staff members in the Taifu Mansion were very surprised and even angry when they learned of Liu He's plan, and they rushed into Liu He's study to persuade Liu He to withdraw the order, saying that doing so would be tantamount to self-destruction of the foundation, and would inevitably be violently resisted by the family.

General Wei and Henan Yin Zhujun also came to persuade Liu He, asking him to focus on the overall situation in everything, and not to miss a major event because of a momentary pleasure. Even the scholar Cai Yong came forward in person, and persuaded Liu He not to commit public anger in good words, and ruined the situation in Luoyang, which was finally changed, in vain.

Facing a lot of pressure. Liu He was also shaken, but he finally stuck to his choice. He said to the people around him: "If I really destroy Luoyang by doing this, then let it be ruined!" Anyway, when will Luoyang really get better? ”

At this time, Liu He, who was stubborn in his opinion, was somewhat similar to Dong Zhuo at the beginning.

At the beginning, Dong Zhuo insisted on burning Luoyang, and then coerced nearly one million people in Luoyang to Chang'an; Now, Liu He is determined to take the owner's wasteland for himself. The land was then distributed to displaced people who were in dire need of land to survive.

Although there are not many clerks in the Luoyang Taifu Mansion, the efficiency is surprisingly high, and it took less than a month for Liu He to hand over this matter to Li Yan. All the owner-owned wasteland around Luoyang was re-measured and registered by the government, and then divided into small pieces of dozens of acres, which were successively distributed to the displaced people who came to defect.

Although the displaced people obtained land from Liu He in the form of an agreement, Liu He tried to dispel their doubts. The contract was signed for a long period of 10 years, so it was equivalent to leasing the land to the displaced people at a very low price.

Displaced people have land and are worrying about how to cultivate it. At this time, the village elders and the leaders of the mutual aid cooperatives began to come forward, and they vigorously introduced the various benefits of joining the mutual aid cooperatives to these displaced people, and then incorporated the newly allocated displaced people into the mutual aid cooperatives, so that they could take risks and enjoy the fruits of their labor together.

After nearly a year of trial implementation, the local farmers in Luoyang are now looking back on the taste, and if they want to live a better and better life in the future, it is obviously more beneficial to rely on one family alone than to rely on mutual aid cooperatives.

For example, if a farmer wants to open a canal to divert water to irrigate the newly cultivated land, it is obviously unable to do so. But if he joins the Mutual Aid Society, then during the slack season, he can ask the able-bodied laborers of the whole society to come and dig this canal. Of course, there was a reward for digging the canal, and the farmer either gave a portion of the land to the people who came to help him, or he recorded it in his account, and when the other family dug the canal, he would pay off the labor he owed.

There is no need to worry that some farmers will default on their debts, and in terms of the integrity level of the people in the Han Dynasty, the vast majority of people will not be able to do such a shameless thing as not paying their debts. Besides, isn't there still justice and supervision from all levels of government?

When Liu He properly resettled the displaced people in various counties, he found that suddenly another year had passed.

Liu He, who has been away from Youzhou for almost two years, suddenly misses the days when he was in Youzhou, and also misses the subordinates he left in Youzhou at the beginning. Although Liu He's subordinates often greeted him by letter and asked him for advice on some difficult problems encountered, after all, they were thousands of miles away and could not sit down face-to-face and talk freely.

During this period of time, Liu He always had a hunch that his time to return to Youzhou was approaching. (To be continued......)

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