Liu He's words in Bo Luojin still have an effect, although everyone thinks that he is a bit of a bully, but because of the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command, the big families of the three counties who were finally named basically showed enough sincerity.

The officers and soldiers of the Zhenwu Battalion, who were ordered to go to Xujia in Nanhe County to borrow grain, had already prepared to storm Xujiawu Fort, and they even brought large weapons such as ladders and bed crossbows. In the opinion of the captain who led the team, as long as he could calm the Nan and Xu families, it would be equivalent to killing the monkey to show the chickens, and it would be much easier to go to other houses later.

Fortunately, the old head of the Xu family was wise enough to know that when everyone was roasted by the drought, any confrontation with Liu He was the way to death, so he tried his best to overcome public opinion, and before the officers and soldiers arrived, he opened the village treasury and moved a sufficient amount of grain outside the village gate.

Although the lieutenant in charge of borrowing grain in Nanhe County was a ruthless character, he was not an indiscriminate butcher, and when he saw the cooperation of the Xu family, he restrained his subordinates to wait outside the village, while he himself entered the dock fort to check the amount of grain left in the Xu family's granary. The head of the Xu family, who accompanied the captain, secretly wanted to bribe him, but he was glared at by the captain's eyebrows and eyes, and he shrank back in fright.

"The master of the Xu family can rest assured, Bendu Wei is just acting impartially, as long as your Xu family lends forty percent of the grain, I will never make things difficult for you!"

After some inspection, the Xu family did take out enough food, the lieutenant immediately asked the soldiers to carry the container for weighing the grain to get busy, and when all the grain lent by the Xu family was weighed, the lieutenant took out a beautifully printed slip from his arms, brushed a few times to add the specific amount of grain, and then wrote a line of small characters respectfully at the bottom of the signature signed with Liu He's name: Organizer, Guo Heng, the left forward of the Zhenwu Battalion, a certain year, a certain month, a certain day.

"Master Xu, please keep this IOU. After this disaster passes, you can go to any official warehouse in Youzhou and Jizhou to get grain, or you can ask Nanhe County to send you grain to Zhuangshang! ”

Guo Heng stuffed the IOU into the hands of the head of the Xu family, who was still trembling, and then led the team to escort the grain away.

After the fierce and vicious soldiers left Xujiazhuang, some leaders in the village surrounded the head of the Xu family and began to talk about it.

"God, I just saw a couple of bed crossbows!"

"Hmph, do you still need to say this, everyone has seen it. In addition to the bed crossbow, there is also a ladder! Look at the length of this ladder, it is enough to catch the top of our dock fort. ”

"Today, our Xu family has walked around the ghost gate. Fortunately, the man surnamed Guo had strict restraints on his subordinates and did not enter the village to plunder. ”

"Hehe, now you know you're scared? If you want me to say, it is still the old master who is wise, and this time he fully cooperated with the officers and soldiers, and although the result was that there was some less food, Zhuangzi did nothing at all. ”

"There is no shortage of food, but it is only temporarily lent out. If you look at this IOU, the paper is tough and thick. The printing is clear and exquisite, it doesn't seem to be perfunctory at all, and it also signed the name of Liu Shiren, as well as the name of Guo Duwei. If you want me to say it. This time we may really have the heart of a villain, although Liu Shiren is strong, but he has always been trustworthy in doing things, as long as he personally promised things. There was never a time to break a contract. ”

When the Xu family had different opinions, Guo Heng led the team towards the next family.

"Haha, Captain Guo. Today, we scared the old and young masters in Xujiazhuang a lot! ”

"Hmph, they are still acquaintances, if they don't want to give faces, they will have to cut off a few skulls today."

"Lao Guo, I heard that your woman is still from Nanhe County, you came to borrow food with your brothers this time, aren't you afraid that the people here will scold you behind your back?"

"Whatever you like to scold them, as long as you can get food. When I fled from Bingzhou to Youzhou, I never imagined that I would be where I am today. At that time, thanks to the eldest prince's acceptance and resettlement of the displaced people, and later the recruitment of sergeants from among the displaced people, I had the opportunity to eat military rations, and from then on I had a salary to get home every month. Now the general is borrowing grain from these rich people, not to save more hungry people, we are all from a hard background, and we can't do this errand badly! ”

"What Guo Duwei said is the same as what I want to say in my heart, this time we must do a good job for the general!"

In the next few days, Guo Heng took his brothers to borrow grain in several counties, and then met a few unsightly, all of whom were shocked by him with thunderous means and forcibly lent out food.

There are several such grain borrowing teams led by Guo Heng, they follow behind Liu He, Liu He cheekily summoned the rich families in the place where he passed to discuss the matter of borrowing grain, and these big-headed soldiers followed behind with black faces.

By the time Liu He arrived at Nanpi, the troops who were carrying grain behind him had already borrowed hundreds of thousands of stone of grain from the counties along the road.

When the news came to Liu He from behind, Liu He suddenly remembered the sentence he had said when he heard someone joke in his previous life, "Time is like cleavage, there will always be a squeeze." Looking at the food in the homes of rich families in Jizhou, there is always a force.

Nanpi County, as the seat of Bohai County, was occupied by Liu He's subordinates a long time ago, when Xian Yufu and Liu Zheng were partners, and put a lot of effort into governing this place, and now Liu He came, and the scene he saw was obviously much stronger than Anping County.

When Liu He met with the Nanpi County Commander, he asked the county commander how much food he had raised for disaster relief this time, and Liu He was taken aback by the Nanpi County Order's answer. Originally, according to the population and production situation of Nanpi County, it was only necessary to provide 200,000 stone of grain to Tian Kai, who was entrenched in the plains, but as a result, Nanpi County not only provided 200,000 stone of grain to Tian Kai, but also took the initiative to provide 300,000 stone of grain to the Zhenyong Battalion stationed opposite Gaotang.

Liu He was worried that Nanpi County would be overjoyed, and this time he would increase the intensity of grain collection for the sake of his personal performance appraisal and future, and then lead the people of the county to boil over, and even the food was not enough to eat. In order to find out the true appearance, Liu He instructed Tian Chou to send someone to investigate secretly after meeting the Nanpi County Order, and the results of the investigation once again exceeded Liu He's expectations.

The intelligence sent back by the agents of the Military Intelligence Department who went to investigate showed that the Nanpi County Commander was a good official, not only for his honesty and integrity, but also for his love for the people, and even won the support of the local people. The reason why Nanpi County dared to take the initiative to hand over more than double the grain this time was that the people were inspired by the county order and spontaneously donated more grain. Of course, the Nanpi County Commander can't do anything like a swollen face and a fat man, he won't sit idly by and watch the people of his county starve. Because Nanpi County is east of the Bohai Sea, the county magistrate mobilized the people of the county to go to the sea to catch sea vegetables, shellfish, shrimp and crabs from the sea as food, if there are fishing nets and sea boats, all go to the sea to fish, and then dry the sea fish caught in the sun, which can also be eaten as rations.

Liu He praised the Nanpi County Order's initiative to rely on the sea to eat the sea, and was inspired by it, and he personally wrote letters to the counties around the Bohai Sea, asking the county orders of these counties to learn from the Nanpi County Order, make full use of the natural granary of the Bohai Sea, mobilize the people of the county to ask the sea for grain, and then sell the saved grain to the government, so that a considerable amount of grain can be raised.

The new term "Bohai Rim" is naturally Liu He's first creation, but it sounds very appropriate. At this time, although many people in the north lived around the Bohai Sea, people regarded the sea as a dangerous place, and not many people were willing to eat the fish, shellfish, shrimp and crabs produced in the sea.

Although it is risky to go to the sea to fish, and from time to time fishermen fall into the water and die, because of Liu He's call and the guidance and advocacy of the "Dahan Times", the people near the sea soon responded to the call of the government and began to march to the beach, asking the sea for food.

If it was just by appeal, the people might not have been so active, but Liu He was willing to take out the money to buy grain from the people in the counties near the sea, and the price was still very attractive, which led the people in the counties near the sea to sell more than half of the grain, and then look for food from the sea, saying that he would also catch up with the rare time when the price of grain was high to make this quick money.

Liu He had just set off a wave of asking for grain from the sea in Nanpi, and there was a quick horse newspaper in the direction of Yecheng, which made a report on the friction between Hongnong and Li Dao. Liu He didn't expect that in this kind of trouble, Li Dao would dare to fight his own idea, he had not solved Li Dao's mind for the time being, but now he was provoked, and he was determined to solve Li Dao's tail immediately.

Liu He felt that the effect of Weifu's private visit had been achieved, so he no longer continued to stay in Nanpi, he rode quickly to Yecheng to catch up, and when he was still on the way, he sent fast horses to Hanoi and Luoyang to deliver letters, informing Zhao Yun and Li Yan of his determination to make a move against Li Wei.

When Liu He arrived in Yecheng, Jia Xu arrived just in time, and the two naturally had a long conversation after a long absence.

Although Liu He likes to recruit talents, especially capable talents, now he can use the military advisers Guo Jia and Li Ru, if Jia Xu can come over, it will naturally be like a tiger, but he is not as embarrassed as he was at the beginning, so he is not too enthusiastic and eager for Jia Xu's arrival, and there is a kind of confidence and calmness between his words.

Liu He asked Jia Xu: "Mr. Wenhe is not in Tongguan to assist Li Dao, but he came to me, do you also see that Li Dao's defeat is imminent?" ”

Jia Xu smiled bitterly and said: "Shiren's words have belittled me a lot, Jia Mou doesn't dare to say that he is superior in wisdom, but he also has a bit of talent for seeking the country, I have long known that Li Ji is not the hero of the world, and sooner or later he will be defeated." If it weren't for the courtesy with Li Dao, I would have left him a long time ago. ”

Liu He asked Jia Xu again: "Mr. Wenhe has completely gotten rid of Li Dao, why did he come to me this time?" ”

"Childe, I came this time, but I am persuading you not to cut the grass and eradicate the roots of Li Wei, it is better to leave him alive and let him go."

"Presumably, Mr. Wenhe also knew in his heart that the day before I passed through Wuguan, I was attacked and almost lost my life, and the person who attacked me at that time was that Li Dao. Although I don't like to be revenged, I will not be soft on those who once wanted to harm me. (To be continued......)