Liu He came to Macheng this time, in addition to personally presenting the flag to the Xiaocai Guards of the First Army of Youzhou, there were several long-term matters that needed to be resolved.

From the beginning of the third year of Chuping, Liu He instructed the Wuhuan Lieutenant's Office to implement the "reserve" system in Shanggu County and Dai County, and allowed all counties to regularly gather the private soldiers raised by rich families in their counties to organize drills every year on the grounds of strengthening public security.

Because Liu He was very vigilant about the issue of land annexation in the territory from the very beginning, in recent years, all the big households who built dock forts in Shanggu and Dai County have been subject to certain restrictions, and from the county to the county, they are strictly ordered not to take in the displaced people without permission, and if they are discovered, they will not only be punished to varying degrees, but also disqualified from participating in the border market. In this way, the big families were naturally vigilant, and in order to protect their property, they often trained the private soldiers and troops in the dock fort out of their own pockets in case of "unforeseen needs".

Liu Hui knew that the big families in the counties of Ludao were dissatisfied with the government, but he also pretended not to know, and let them often engage in some concentrated exercises in the county, so that these big families could take the opportunity to vent, save them from causing trouble, and force themselves to start early.

Liu Hui's approach not only allowed the big households to maintain a certain sense of crisis, but also not forced them too much, but also allowed them to willingly pay out of their own pockets to support the county's reserve training.

At the beginning, Liu Fang, Han Heng and others were worried that sitting back and watching these big families train their private soldiers would cause internal instability and even large-scale rebellion, but as Liu He led the army to fight in the north and south and beat one opponent after another, these big families became more and more afraid to confront the government, because they were facing an opponent who could not be challenged at all.

The Xianbei leader Kebi can be murderous, right? After being beaten by Liu He, he didn't dare to go south for four years! Yan Rou is capable enough, right? Now hiding in the north of Baishan, I don't dare to go back to my hometown in Guangyang to sweep the tomb and worship my ancestors! Gongsun Chan is powerful enough, right? Not to mention being defeated twice in a row, he also fell into a place where he died without a place to be buried! As for Gongsun Du, Yuan Shao, Li Dao, and Guo Yan, let's not talk about those who are far away, anyway, it seems that no one can please Liu He......

If these big families knew that there was a guy named Xu Miao at the beginning. He once suggested to Liu He that the big families in each county should pay a "protection fee" to the garrison of the border city every year according to the number of people in the clan, and if anyone did not pay, they would send Xianbei prisoners and Wuhuan soldiers to pretend to be horse bandits and robbers to go door to door to "collect debts", and they would know how tolerant Liu He was.

Now, Liu He's army expansion is imminent, and there are more than 20,000 cavalry garrisons and more than 30,000 infantry on the western front of Youzhou alone, so he is full of confidence, and he doesn't have to worry about the private troops of the rich families in these two counties will cause a large-scale rebellion.

Before moving on the "reserves" of Shanggu and Daijun, Liu He asked Han Heng and Liu Fang to carefully count the rosters submitted by each county. The final number startled Liu He. There are eight counties under the jurisdiction of Shanggu County, and eleven counties under the jurisdiction of Dai County, of which Juyong County is inhabited by the Wuhuan tribe, so it is not counted, and the remaining eighteen counties maintain as few as two thousand reserve private soldiers, and as many as five thousand, adding up to 60,000 people!

According to Liu Hui's report, the total population of the people who have settled in Shanggu and Dai County is about 2 million, and the family private soldiers and troops raised by the rich families are definitely more than the 60,000 registered ones! Other words. In Shanggu and Daijun alone, there are about 100,000 young and strong men who spend most of the year not farming, but there they dance with knives and sticks, and practice the art of assassination and fighting.

If Liu He is incompetent, he will not be able to protect the safety of the people in Shanggu and Dai County. Then these private soldiers raised by wealthy families may also be able to assume a certain function of protecting the family and the hospital. However, since Liu He returned to Youzhou from Chang'an, Shanggu County and Dai County have not been invaded by the Hu tribe and other powerful forces in the north for several years, so the existence of these tribesmen has not only wasted a lot of food. It also restricts the government at all levels from implementing more policies to benefit the people to varying degrees.

As long as Liu He thought about the fact that Liu Hui had been sitting on a powder keg that could be ignited at any time in the past few years, managing Shanggu County and Dai County for himself, he would have more admiration and gratitude for Liu Hui, an elder.

Because the number of registered reservists was beyond Liu He's imagination, he was more cautious about this matter. After repeated discussions with Liu Hui, Han Heng, Liu Fang, Zhao Yun and others, a "confiscation" plan was finally settled.

First of all, Liu He personally drafted an official document that was distributed to all counties, in which he did not hesitate to praise the big households in each county for their full support for the recruitment and training of reserve forces, and then said that he would commend and reward the counties and large households with outstanding performance in the near future. Liu He's reward project is not a child's play, and some of the content in it is enough to make any big family's heart beat faster!

One of the rewards, on the basis of the policy of resting with the people issued by the Taifu Mansion, exempts the two counties with the most outstanding performance from annual field rent;

The second reward is to distribute a batch of ploughing cattle, horses and high-quality agricultural tools made by masters in the Macheng workshop to the four counties that performed well in the drill competition free of charge;

The third reward is to increase the quota index for households who have obtained a good grade or above in the drill competition to be sent to "Yenching University";

Reward four, to the outstanding performance of the household to open to the outside of the Daqing Mountains around the right to the tuntian, all the households involved in the tuntian, within three years do not charge any field rent, within six years the rent of the field is halved, the number of each household tuntian is not set an upper limit, you can let go of the hands to do a big job, more work and more rewards!

The "Daqingshan" that appeared in the official document is the Danhan Mountain called by the Xianbei people, and Liu Hezhi originally had the flavor of the Hu people, so this time he simply changed it to the name that was handed down in later generations, that is, Daqingshan.

As soon as this official document was distributed to all counties and townships, it immediately caused an uproar. Ordinary people were attracted by the complete exemption from the annual rent, some large families were attracted by the ploughing cattle and high-quality agricultural tools, some of the wealthy families who dared to take risks were attracted by the conditions of the Saiwai Tuntian, and a few long-term families were attracted by the guaranteed place to study at Yenching University...... In short, Liu He's official document blew up the spring water of Shanggu and Daijun, and made the people of the two counties completely boil.

Soon after the official document was issued, the surprised people began to carefully ponder the specific contents, only to find that it was not so simple to get the rewards listed by the eldest prince, and they had to send troops to participate in the drill competition that was about to be organized on the outskirts of Macheng.

Driven by huge rewards and interests, large households in various counties enthusiastically signed up and actively supported the county to send the most effective reserve soldiers to Macheng to participate in the competition.

All of a sudden, the road leading from the counties to Macheng was boiling, and the outsiders who didn't know the inside story thought that it was the Xianbei army that was coming, and the eldest prince temporarily recruited private soldiers from all over the country to fight in Macheng.

Because the rules for participating in the drill competition had been issued to the counties in advance, one of which was to check whether the counties could attend the full attendance according to the registered roster, so each county sent reserve soldiers in full according to the number of heads reported.

The first half of the training competition is not new, it is nothing more than the collective performance of fighting skills according to the usual training content, performing queues and marching teams. However, after entering the second half, the content of various assessments and tests has increased significantly, which can be described as dazzling.

Liu He moved out the set of procedures for the assessment of soldiers in the Macheng Barracks, can it not be fancy?

After a long period of half a month of various competitions, tests and assessments, all the private soldiers who had a good comprehensive evaluation or above were directly taken away by the cavalry sent by Zhao Yun, and it was said that they were going to Ningxian to participate in the next round of more fierce competition. And the remaining more than 30,000 young men had no chance to leave Macheng again, and were directly imprisoned by Liu He in the barracks that had already been vacated, and outside were the murderous horsemen in charge of guarding!

Liu He said that he had done so, and in accordance with the content of the official document issued at the beginning, he announced in public that he had exempted Sanggan County and Xialuo County from the annual land rent, distributed a batch of ploughing cattle, pack horses, and high-quality farm tools to Pingshu County, Dai County, Zhuolu County, and Fuyang County free of charge, and presented a quota for all large families in Shanggu and Dai County who had sent more than 100 private soldiers to study at Yenching University, and opened up the right to go to Daqingshan Tuntian for all households who supported the county's participation in the drill competition.

It's just that these reserve soldiers from various counties were all detained by Liu He on the grounds of "other reuse"!

At this point, the rich families who sent their subordinates at the beginning of the tribe knew that they were fooled by Liu He, but at this time, none of them dared to jump out and ask Liu He for those tribes and family soldiers that originally belonged to their own private property.

Don't be okay, at least there is a place to send people to study at Yenching University for free, and you can also send people to the Daqingshan area to run horses and occupy land, if a mouth makes the eldest prince unhappy, then even these benefits are wooden!

Liu He really didn't plan to reason with the big families in the counties this time, if anyone didn't open his eyes to make trouble, he didn't mind sending Xu Huang to lead the army directly to the county where this house was located to reason with knives and guns.

Lao Tzu has obviously provided you with very thoughtful security protection, and your family still has so many private soldiers, what is your intention! Is it true that Lao Tzu does not dare to kill people and exterminate his clan on his own territory?

After the noisy county reserve drill competition ended, Macheng returned to calm. Zhao Yun took the selected more than 20,000 young people to Ning County, and these people will naturally be expanded into the five armies of Youzhou in the future. As for the more than 30,000 young men who were locked up by Liu He in various barracks in Macheng and did not meet the selection criteria, Liu He also thought of a place for them.

Liu He is ready to establish a new household registration file for all of them, help them completely break away from the original master's family, and then let these young and strong laborers be transformed into industrial workers in various fields, and concentrate on all kinds of labor production for themselves, the big boss behind the scenes! (To be continued......)