Xian Yuyin and Han Heng returned smoothly, diluting the originally dull atmosphere in the hall, Liu Yu said to Li Min with a smile: "Li Junshou, although you resigned and left in Hedong, it seems a little inappropriate to call yourself a grass citizen, right?" ”

As the Taishou of Hedong County, Li Min's name is the same as that of the original Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, Chen Liutaishou Zhang Miao, Jibei Xiang Bao Xin, Runan Taishou Kong Ling, Beihai Xiang Kong Rong, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao and others.

Li Min knew that Liu Yu had a gentle temperament, so he also replied with a smile: "At this time, it is not wrong for me to call myself a grass people, if the adults in the coming day arrange a position, I will call myself a lower official." ”

Everyone in the hall laughed knowingly, and they all expressed their appreciation for Li Min's straightforwardness.

Liu Yu turned his head to look at Liu Zheng and asked, "Ziqian is a descendant of the Han family?" ”

Liu Zheng nodded excitedly and replied: "My lord Mingjian, the grass people are indeed relatives of the Han family. ”

Liu Yu said again: "Well, since you have come to Youzhou, you will do things with peace of mind in the future and do your part for the restoration of the Han Dynasty!" ”

"The government must remember the teachings of today's adults, and dare not slack off!"

Liu Yu looked at Tai Shi Ci and said, "Tai Shi is a strong man, are you willing to serve my son?" ”

Tai Shici replied loudly: "Fortunately, the son is favored, and I am willing to die for the son!" ”

Liu Yu nodded in approval, and then said to Xian Yuyin: "Minghui, you are tired of bumps and hardships on the way, first take everyone down to settle down and rest, tonight the official will set up a banquet in the mansion to catch the wind and wash the dust!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" Everyone thanked Liu Yu one after another, and then left with Xian Yuyin.

Gongsun Ji had just made Liu Yu half angry, and he was originally very happy, but suddenly saw Xian Yuyin go out and bring back several usable people for Liu He, and his good mood suddenly disappeared, and he secretly pondered what means to quickly send this important news to Gongsun Zhan.

Xian Yuyin temporarily settled Li Min's family in his own mansion, and then settled Liu Zheng and Tai Shici in Xian Yufu's mansion, so that he would not favor one over the other.

That night, Liu Yu, who had always been thrifty, held a feast in the mansion, invited the state officials and the heads of the city sergeant clans to the banquet, and solemnly introduced the arrival of Li Min, Liu Zheng and Tai Shici to the upper echelons of Youzhou.

Liu Yu did this, to a large extent, to strengthen the momentum of his son who was far away in Macheng, and at the same time to convey to the outside world that there was no suspicion between their father and son.

After the banquet, Xian Yufu, who was still unsatisfied, dragged Xian Yuyin to his mansion again, and shouted Liu Zheng and Tai Shici, who had just moved in, together, and then had another drink.

When the wine was hot, Xian Yufu brought the topic to the rumors brought back by Gongsun Ji during the day, and asked Xian Yuyin and said, "Brother Minghui, have you heard any rumors unfavorable to Gongzi on the way back to Jicheng?" ”。

Xian Yuyin then told the story that they had slaughtered fifty patrol rangers in Quancheng as soon as they came ashore, saying that he had been on the road and had not paid attention to this matter.

Xian Yufu exclaimed happily after hearing this, and also toasted Tai Shici's three bowls of wine.

Liu Zheng was careful and asked Xian Yufu what kind of rumors were unfavorable to his son, so Xian Yuyin scolded and told the three of them the rumors that Gongsun Ji brought back.

Xian Yuyin, who was originally in a good mood, didn't wait for Xian Yufu to finish speaking, and directly smashed the wine bowl on the ground, and said angrily: "Hugh wants me to catch the miscellaneous pieces that concocted these rumors behind the scenes, otherwise I will definitely cut him with a thousand knives and correct the reputation of the son!" ”

In the early morning of the second day, as soon as the west gate of Jicheng was opened, Xian Yuyin rode out of the city like a gust of wind on a war horse, followed by Han Heng, Liu Zheng and Tai Shici. Li Min is older, and his original official position is not low, and this time he came to Jicheng as an unexpected "head", so he will not go to Macheng for the time being, but stay in Jicheng to wait for Liu Yu's official conquest.

On this day, a month and a half had passed since Gongzi launched the "large-scale military training" activity in Macheng, and with the assistance of Wei You, Liu Hui, Liu Fang, Xu Miao, and Murong Ping, Liu He had a lot easier in handling various affairs, and had completely let go of military training, but concentrated on pondering how to resettle the displaced people, how to organize the peasants to seize the time for spring ploughing, and how to requisition the private soldiers under their control from the big households in various counties.

A few years ago, the Yellow Turbans in various places were in turmoil, and more than one million displaced people poured into Youzhou from the direction of Jizhou, Qingzhou and Bingzhou, although they were all accepted by Liu Yu, but because the number of people was too large, and the territory controlled by Liu Yu was limited, so the resettlement was chaotic, but it was not allowed to starve to death, and it was not really peaceful, let alone happy.

More than half of these outcasts were recruited into the grange and the dock fort by the wealthy clans of the counties at a very low cost, and became their servants, vassals, tribesmen, and even slaves.

The so-called domestic servants are those who have lost their land and "sell for helpers and sow farming". Servants were hired peasants by the name of a land-earner, and they had no or very little land, and were forced to work as hired servants for the farmmaster because of their necessity. The servant is free in human beings, and there is no strict subordination with the owner of the farm, and he can move freely.

The so-called apprentices are the type of population that appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, generally including poor clan members, diners with declining status, hired farmers and tenant farmers who took refuge in the grange after losing their land. Legally, the apprentices are still the members of the state, and they cannot be bought and sold freely like slaves and maids, and they have the obligation to bear the taxes and servitude of the state. However, due to the turbulent times, many of the apostles no longer actually paid taxes to the state.

The so-called trilogy is a type of population that appeared at the same time as the attached disciples in the late Han Dynasty. As the war intensified, many grange owners set up their own army camps, turning some of the able-bodied disciples into armed peasants, so as to prevent the peasants in the grange from revolting, and secondly, to resist foreign invasions. During the Three Kingdoms period, many big families had thousands of trigrams, among which the famous ones were the Mizhu family of the East China Sea, the Xu Chu family of Qiaoxian, the Chen Deng family of Guangling, the Linhuai Lusu family and so on.

The so-called slaves and maids are slaves, who have no personal freedom, and are the "livestock" or "assets" of the master's family, just like cattle and horses, and can be bought and sold at will, and killed at will, without bearing any legal responsibility.

A population of more than one million is not a small number, which is not only a big burden for Youzhou, but also a great wealth of Youzhou, and the key is to see how the rulers make good use of this huge population resource.

Liu He had long been displeased with the many wealthy families entrenched in Youzhou, but he also clearly realized that with the current power under his control, he could not carry out a thorough and profound "land revolution", and many things had to rely on the wealthy households, so he could only find a way to adopt a less obvious and radical method to weaken the armed forces controlled by the wealthy families step by step, liberate the excess labor controlled by these large families, and let these people eventually become handicraftsmen and land-owning yeoman farmers.

After repeated thinking, Liu He was still helpless to find that in addition to being the largest landlord in Youzhou by himself, there seemed to be no better way to solve the increasingly serious problem of land annexation, and there was no better way to rescue the many displaced people on the death line.

However, this is also an inevitable conclusion. It seems that the emperor in the feudal society is the largest landlord in the country, and under him are divided into various layers of landlords of different sizes, as well as commoners, hired farmers, handicraftsmen, slaves, and so on. If Liu He is not a big landlord, others will grab land and people from him, which is a "zero-sum" game of retreat if you don't advance.

Liu He's current wish is very simple, that is, with his efforts, he can solve the problem of eating for the people of Youzhou, and there will be no tragedy of cannibalism, and there will be no tragedy of unarmed people being driven by warlords to serve as meat shields and shields in front of the army.

As for eliminating the slave class, opening up the wisdom of the people, and restricting the expansion of the wealthy families, these things are too profound, and Liu He doesn't want to think about it for the time being, and he doesn't have the energy to think about it.

Shi Liuhui, the governor of the school governor's office, suggested that Liu He could find out the borderless land in Youzhou by verifying the population and measuring the land production, and then collect all these fields to the prefecture and county, and finally the county would come forward to lease these fields to the displaced people for cultivation.

Liu Fang, the head of the school governor's mansion, suggested that Liu He send troops to the upper reaches of the water to build a fort, take back a large area of land north of the Outer Great Wall and east of Danhan Mountain from the hands of the Xianbei people, and then settle the displaced people for farming.

Liu Hui's method is tantamount to throttling, Liu Fang's idea is open source, and the ideas are all land, which has certain risks, but the feasibility is very high.

Checking the population and measuring the land production will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among some large wealthy families, but according to the law of the Han Dynasty, this should be done every few years, so the rebound will not be too strong, after all, the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that Liu He is holding in his hands are not vegetarians.

Expanding to the upper reaches of the Yunqiu River and the east of the Danhan Mountain will inevitably guard against the harassment and invasion of the Xianbei people, which can be described as risky, but the rewards will also be very rich. This practice is equivalent to Liu He using the army in his hands to go out to grab land, and it is still the land of foreign tribes, which will not only greatly boost the confidence of the people of Youzhou, but also train the army.

The suggestion put forward by Xu Miao, the governor of the school captain's office, was even more tempting and cruel, that is, to directly let the big families in each county pay the "protection fee" to the garrison in the border city, and if anyone did not pay, they would directly let the thousands of Xianbei prisoners who were willing to be attached to it act as villains and go to the door one by one to "collect debts". Anyway, there are more than 400 miles of the Great Wall in the northwest of Youzhou, and if you let go of a single opening, you can let these Xianbei captives go back and forth, and then the black pot will let Kebi carry it.

After several people listened to Xu Miao's suggestion, the Khan at that time was thinking that Xu Miao was also the son of the Jicheng clan, how could he come up with such a "desperate plan" that was poked in the back?

Liu He did not agree to Xu Miao's proposal, but he thought of how to force the wealthy families in various places to hand over some of their private soldiers and tribes. He decided to try out the "reserve" system of soldiers in Daijun and Shanggu, requiring the wealthy families of each county to report a group of private soldiers as the source of reserve soldiers in the county, and to concentrate on training during the agricultural slack period, and to be under the unified command of the county lieutenant in wartime, so as to jointly defend the city and fight against the invading enemy.

Liu He's method is much milder than Xu Miao's proposal, neither imposing additional "protection fees" on the wealthy families, nor asking them to ask for land taxes, and still under the banner of defending the county and township, the resistance encountered will definitely weaken a lot.

It's just that when the war comes, if Liu He needs to mobilize these reserve soldiers to leave the county to fight, who would dare to say "no" at such a critical juncture?

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