When the people near Luoyang saw the huge convoy full of grain coming slowly from the east from a distance, they couldn't hide their excitement and ecstasy, and crowded to both sides of the carriage and ox cart, shouting words such as "thank you to the eldest prince" and "thank you to the Taifu", and chased the convoy all the way to the outside of Luoyang City, which was still unfinished.

The food from Youzhou and Jizhou to support Luoyang has arrived!

In Luoyang, in February of the fourth year of the first peace, there is no news more exciting, more exciting and inspiring than this one.

Liu He stood at the head of the city and watched the long convoy wind all the way to the distance beyond his eyes, the heavy pressure in his heart suddenly eased a lot, he turned his head to Guo Jia, who was accompanying him, and said: "With the 100,000 stone of grain transported back from Youzhou and Jizhou, the people of Luoyang will be able to hold out until May." If you add the 200,000 stone of grain that Chen Yi and Tian Chou transferred back from the direction of Jingzhou, the people of Luoyang will no longer need to panic about the food problem in the future! ”

Guo Jia said thoughtfully: "It costs a lot to buy these grains, almost half of the wealth you got from the dock, if you were someone else, you wouldn't do this kind of business that loses money and makes money." I still haven't figured it out, why do you want to invest so much manpower, material resources, financial resources and energy here, knowing that Luoyang is in no danger to defend and belongs to the land of four wars? If you concentrate all your strength in Youzhou, why is it difficult to level Hebei in three or five years? ”

Liu He understood what Guo Jia meant by these words, and he said with some self-deprecation: "I don't know what kind of nerves Lu Dao had at that time, obviously thinking of returning to Youzhou directly from Chang'an, but when passing through Luoyang, he couldn't see the people fleeing from famine, and felt that he had more than 20,000 horses under his command and could act as a savior, and then he stayed behind with his own hardships." ”

"Knowing that you can't do it, a master like you is the most annoying to be a subordinate!" Guo Jia rolled his eyes. Complaining.

Liu He touched his nose and said with a stinky face: "Fengxiao, are you moved by my noble sentiments that have the world in mind?" ”

Guo Jia suddenly felt goosebumps on his body, and hurriedly rushed towards the city. "I'm going to meet Li Zhengfang and Zhao Zilong, son, you continue to stay on the city tower and enjoy yourself!"

On the same day, Liu He welcomed Li Yanhe and Murong Ping into the city, and it was very rare to set up a few tables of wine banquets in the Taifu Mansion at night, and invited the civil and military officials in Luoyang City to come to open meat together.

It is also hard to say, Liu He did not hold a decent banquet during the Spring Festival in order to save food. As a result, the officials in Luoyang City did not dare to entertain guests and friends in the mansion, so that relatively thrifty officials like Zhu Jun did not know the taste of meat for more than a month.

During the banquet, Liu He reiterated the old words, once again emphasizing his determination and will to promote mutual aid groups and mutual aid societies on the ground in Yin, Henan, which can be regarded as a remobilization and re-education for everyone.

On the second day, there was a big move in Luoyang City.

First, the registered young laborers received food subsidies from the government as a reward for repairing the city walls, palaces, and government offices in Luoyang City over the past two months.

Then, the county officials signed an agreement with the poor peasant households who were in dire need of means of production, and then distributed the ploughing cattle, horses, quyuan ploughs, and improved seeds sent by Youzhou to these poor peasant households. It can be regarded as the start-up capital for them to participate in mutual aid groups and mutual aid societies.

At the same time as the government distributed these eye-catching ploughing oxen, horses, and zigzag ploughs, a notice was also put up, strictly prohibiting anyone from misappropriating the production materials distributed to poor peasant households under any name, and strictly prohibiting the peasant households who received them from selling and selling them in the market. If there is a violator. The punishment is confiscation, and the punishment is capital punishment!

In other words, the agricultural materials provided by Liu He for the people of Luoyang must be used to expand agricultural production, and any other use will be regarded as a serious violation of the law.

A few days after the government notice was posted. There was the rich man who was not afraid of death, who looked at the quyuan plough that the poor people had obtained, and took the IOU written down by the local tenant at the beginning, and forcibly took the ploughing oxen, horses, and ziyuan plough distributed to the poor people as their own. And it is reasonable to say that this is to pay for the account in kind.

Similar things happened in all counties, and for a time the prestige of the county and township governments was seriously challenged!

After Liu He heard the news, he was very angry, slapped the table and scolded, and then immediately signed an order to transfer troops, so that Zhao Yun, Zhang He, Zhao Zhao, Murong Ping, Li Meng and other generals each led 1,000 cavalry and 1,000 dragon and tiger guard soldiers to the surrounding counties to mercilessly punish and crack down on those wealthy families who robbed poor peasant households.

In just ten days, the dock forts of more than a dozen wealthy families around Luoyang were breached, the soldiers in the forts were arrested, and most of the land ownership deeds that originally belonged to these dock forts were confiscated, leaving only a small part as ration fields for women, children, old and children, and as for the poor relief materials looted by the big families from the poor peasant households, they were handed back to the hands of the peasants.

In the face of the lessons of iron and blood, the scholars and wealthy families of Luoyang finally re-acquainted themselves with the methods of the eldest prince Liu Shiren, and they even felt that Liu He was even more ruthless than when Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang.

Of course, it is only those rich families who think that Liu He's heart is sinister, but the poor people in Luoyang regard Liu He as a real savior, and many families even set up an immortal tablet for Liu He at home to pray for his longevity.

They insisted that it was axiomatic to repay debts, and that since the government had signed an assignment agreement with the poor people, the materials obtained by the poor people should be counted as their private property, and these poor people had debts to the rich in the first place, so it was not illegal for the rich families to come and take away the goods from their homes with IOUs.

In addition to complaining for the grievances of these rich households, the scholars were also very dissatisfied with Liu He's practice of only providing the poor people with quyuan plows and good seeds, insisting that the people of Luoyang were all Han people, regardless of whether they were poor or poor, and that Liu He, as the current ruler of Luoyang, should be a bowl of water and should not favor one over the other, and harbor hostility and prejudice against the big scholars.

In the face of the difficulties of the wealthy scholars, Liu He had only two explanations.

First, the ownership of the materials used to expand agricultural production obtained by the poor people of Luoyang belongs to him Liu He, and the people of each county only have the right to use and not the right to control in the agreements signed by the people of each county with the official office, so anyone who snatches these things from the poor people's homes is robbing him Liu He's private property!

Second, it is understandable that the wealthy families of the wealthy families are interested in the Quyuan plough and those ploughing cattle and horses, but they should reflect on what the rich families around Luoyang did when the government recruited young and strong laborers to build the passes and cities. These Quyuan ploughs, ploughing oxen, horses and fine breeds transported from Youzhou are Liu He's rewards for those people who are willing to contribute to themselves!

Liu He confidently told everyone in Luoyang that whoever worked for him and listened to him would be able to get his support and live a good life. On the contrary, whoever works with him will be unhappy and will be cut off.

Regarding Liu He's two explanations, although the big families of Luoyang were dissatisfied, they did not dare to have obvious resistance, because Liu He was not a weak civil official, he was a warlord with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and it was not ambiguous at all to kill people.

Soon after the turmoil was quelled, the government of Yin County in Henan Province put up notices encouraging the rich households in each township to form agricultural mutual aid groups with the poor people in their own villages, and to form mutual aid societies with townships and pavilions as units, so that as long as everyone is willing to accept the justice and supervision of the government, then the rich households can borrow agricultural tools such as ploughing oxen and quyuan plows from the poor people, and no longer have to risk being killed to rob them as they did some time ago.

At this time, it was the spring ploughing season, and although the rich families had surplus grain at home, and there was no shortage of young and strong laborers, they still looked down on the ploughing cattle, horses, and quyuan plows that the poor people had obtained from Liu He, so they finally tried to sign mutual aid contracts with the poor people in their own villages and townships, and began to try to establish agricultural mutual aid groups and mutual aid cooperatives.

As a result, a long-term reform of the agricultural production system began in Luoyang and was implemented throughout the Han Dynasty many years later, which had a profound impact on the agricultural production of the Han Empire.

Although mutual aid groups and mutual aid cooperatives do not fundamentally solve the problem of land ownership, there will still be a difference between the rich and the poor, but they can solve the problem of food for the common people. Liu He knew in his heart that even after 2,000 years, the land problem would still be unsolvable, and even if all the land was classified as state-owned, as long as there were classes within a country, then exploitation would still exist, and would not be eliminated by the nominal nationalization of land.

In many cases, exploitation is carried out in the name of the government, and in reality only a few people benefit......

When the news of the establishment of mutual aid cooperatives in various townships came back to Luoyang, Liu He was excited for a while, and he felt that he had finally done a good deed for the people of Luoyang that would have a long-term impact.

In order to promote the development of the mutual aid cooperative, Liu He and several of his subordinates traveled to the surrounding counties of Luoyang, not only going deep into the fields to understand the progress of reclamation and farming, but even personally going to the fields to demonstrate to the farmers how to use the Quyuan plow correctly, how to build manure tanks, and how to maintain the moisture of cultivated land......

In short, Liu He, who goes to the countryside and goes to the countryside, is like a standard farmer, without the appearance of a half-cent son.

Several times, after Liu He, who was covered in stinky sweat, returned to Taifu's mansion, he was forcibly stripped of his clothes by Cai Yan's sister and scrubbed from head to toe several times, almost breaking his skin.

Regarding Cai Yan's sister's incomprehension, Liu He will always use "the four bodies are not diligent, and the grains are not divided" to fight back, and he also patiently persuaded Cai Yan to go to the countryside when he has time, take more ground, and don't always stay in the back garden to play the piano and dance, and moan without illness.

Cai Yan was annoyed by Liu He's words, and she didn't want to be a talented woman, so she really appeared in the fields in the clothes of a peasant woman, but it attracted the applause of many farmers.

In order to praise Cai Yan's positive behavior, Liu He wrote a poem called "Persuading Farmers".

In fact, Liu He became a literary thief again, and plagiarized the "Persuading Agricultural Poems" by the later pastoral poet Tao Yuanming. (To be continued......)

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