In February of the 25th year of Han Jian'an, Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, sent the envoy Deng Zhi and the Han hussar general Sun Quan to ascend to the altar and make an alliance, agreeing to come to Japan to fight against Cao Thief.

After completing this matter, Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, issued several royal orders in succession.

The first way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, said that the former general Guan Yu shook Huaxia, and had meritorious service in begging for thieves.

Liu Bei also increased the food of Guan Yu Hanshou Pavilion Marquis by 500 households, and the former 1,200 households.

The second way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, merged the three eastern counties of Xicheng, Shangyong and Fangling into Hanxing County, and ordered Mi Yang, the general of the Hou Biao in Guannei, to be the Taishou of Hanxing and govern Shangyong.

The third way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, appointed Chen Zhi as the general of Zhendong and the Taishou of Nanjun to govern Jiangling.

Fourth way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, appointed Guan Ping, the general of Yamen, as the Taishou of Wuling and governed the public security.

The fifth way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, ordered the general Fu Wei to be the Taishou of Changsha and govern Changsha.

Sixth Dao: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, ordered Xi Zhen, the governor of the northern part of Lingling and the general of Pi, to be promoted to Guiyang Taishou and govern Chenxian County

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Liu Bei issued a total of several royal orders, and arranged the defense and personnel of each county in Jingzhou.

In February of the twenty-fifth year of Han Jian'an, Liu Bei issued an order for Wang to return to Yizhou.

In order not to delay the spring ploughing in Yizhou, Liu Bei had already arranged for most of the Shu sergeants to withdraw to Yizhou one after another, and now there are not many soldiers who follow Liu Bei back to Chengdu.

Among them, the main ones were Zhao Yun's Bai Yu soldiers and Mi Yang's 10,000 recruits.

After Mi Yang was appointed by Liu Bei as the Taishou of Hanxing, he should have led the troops to take office.

However, most of Mi Yang's 10,000 recruits did not have armor and stomach weapons, so Liu Bei ordered Mi Yang to return to Chengdu with him first, and after obtaining a large number of ordnance from Chengdu's arsenal, he went north from Chengdu Shuoshui to Shangyong.

At the gate of Xiangyang City, a huge team of kings was parked outside the south gate of Xiangyang City.

On top of the gorgeous king in this team of more than 10,000 people, Liu Bei sat in the king and looked at Guan Yu below, and the reluctance in his heart began to ripple again.

Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu, who had gray hair hidden in his temples, and he instructed: "Yun Chang, my brother is leaving, and Jingzhou will be handed over to you." ”

In the face of Liu Bei's entrustment, Guan Yu's face was solemn, and he solemnly hugged his fists under the king's control and said: "Please rest assured, the king has a minister in one day, and Jingzhou will never lose." ”

Guan Yu's solemn promise sounded in his ears, but Liu Bei was not completely relieved when he heard it.

He said to Guan Yu: "You are kind to the soldiers and proud of the scholars, although treating the soldiers well can make you win the hearts of the army, invincible."

However, there are many families in Jingzhou, and if you want to stabilize Jingzhou, the strength of the Jingzhou family is also very important. ”

"There is a gap between Pan Jun and you, although this is Pan Jun's fault, but you must also take this as a warning, so as not to be injured by hidden arrows in the future."

"Pan Jungu will bring it back to Yizhou, Ji Changgu will stay in Jingzhou to assist you, Ji Chang is calm and resourceful, and he is from the Jingxiang clan, you have to discuss everything with him."

Facing Liu Bei's reminder, Guan Yu's face showed obedience after hearing this.

Seeing this scene, Liu Bei's face showed a smile.

Liu Bei finally said to Guan Yu: "You go back to the city, brother should go."

It's just that Guan Yu didn't obey Liu Bei's "royal order".

Guan Yu's face showed a look of reluctance, which was rare for Guan Yu, who had always been calm.

Guan Yu bowed to Liu Bei and said, "Let the ministers, send the king for a while." ”

Faced with Guan Yu's request, Liu Bei smiled.

There is a banquet in the world, Guan Yu has a heavy responsibility, how far can he send it again?

"Train the soldiers well, hoard grain and grass, and meet you in Chang'an in the future."

After speaking, Liu Bei ordered Wang to set off.

Under Liu Bei's royal order, in the huge contingent of tens of thousands of people, the military drums instantly sounded in unison, and the ranks of tens of thousands of soldiers began to move.

And after the snare drum sounded, Mi Yang, who was bidding farewell to Guan Ping in another place, immediately turned his head to look at the 10,000-strong team that had begun to act.

After seeing that Liu Bei's Wang Jia had already started his journey, Mi Yang immediately bowed to Guan Ping on the opposite side and said, "Tanzhi, I'm leaving." ”

"I'll see you in the future."

After saying that, Mi Yang pulled the reins, then turned the horse's head, and headed towards the royal team in front.

Seeing Mi Yang's departing back, Guan Ping stood behind Mi Yang and shouted: "Zicheng, take care!" ”

Guan Ping's voice drifted to Mi Yang's ears along the breeze, and Mi Yang didn't look back after hearing this request, he just raised the horsewhip in his hand and waved it as a sign of farewell.

Under the illumination of the morning sun, the figure of Mi Yang whipping turned into a light and shadow of a model lake, and finally disappeared above the horizon of Jingbei Land.

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Starting from Xiangyang City, they first went south to Jiangling, and joined Li Yan's army, which had been waiting outside Jiangling City, and the two armies finally formed a long army of nearly 20,000 people and headed towards Yizhou.

After more than half a long march, after crossing the hills and mountains, this huge homecoming army finally stepped into the vast Chengdu Plain.

When he first entered the Chengdu Plain, Mi Yang, who was in the army, felt a scene different from Jingzhou.

In the vast plain, there is a newly repaired official road with a width of more than ten zhang leading directly to the city of Chengdu in the distance.

On both sides of this official road, tens of thousands of acres of fields are distributed, and among the tens of thousands of acres of fields, many canals are interspersed among these tens of thousands of acres under Zhuge Liang's personal planning.

In order to ensure a bumper agricultural harvest, Zhuge Liang attaches great importance to the cause of farmland water conservancy and irrigation.

There is a Dujiangyan outside Chengdu, which was made by Li Bing, the Taishou of Qinshu County during the Warring States Period, and since the completion of Dujiangyan, it has been the lifeblood of Sichuan and Shu agriculture.

After Liu Bei took charge of Chengdu, Zhuge Liang made a field investigation on the one hand and ordered people to repair and improve Dujiangyan.

On the other hand, Zhuge Liang regarded Dujiangyan as the lifeblood of agriculture in Shuzhong, recruited 1,200 Ding Shi to guard it, and set up weir officials.

Mi Yang's cousin Mi Wei served as the first Dujiangyan official and was responsible for guarding the safety of Dujiangyan.

This move is unprecedented.

And Zhuge Liang's move has a profound background.

Since the completion of Dujiangyan: the people enjoy their benefits, the drought is to divert water to irrigate, and the rain is to plug the water gate, so that Shu, fertile fields for thousands of miles, the world is called Tianfu also.

But this scene changed after Liu Zhang's father and son took power.

The first Yizhou pastor Liu Yan was an outsider, and in order to get the support of the Shuzhong clan, he was very indulgent to the Shuzhong clan, and Liu Zhang's personality was already soft, which was more significant after he succeeded the Yizhou pastor.

Under the continuous tolerance and indulgence of Liu Yan and Liu Zhang, the behavior of the wealthy clan in Shuzhong became more and more excessive.

Everyone knows that Dujiangyan is the lifeblood of agriculture in Shuzhong, and in order to grasp this lifeline, most of the wealthy families in Shuzhong have joined forces and sent their families to drive away the ordinary people near Dujiangyan.

Originally, Dujiangyan was: drought will divert water to irrigate, and rain will stop plugging the water gate.

But under the control of those wealthy families in Shuzhong, Dujiangyan completely violated the original intention of the design and became their private weapon for profit.

"From the diversion of water to irrigation, the reverse of the water gate is to plug the water gate."

What's more, in order to expand their own interests, those Shuzhong clans actually dug canals everywhere privately after introducing the water from Dujiangyan into the Chengdu Plain, and introduced all the water into their own fields.

Originally, the water from the Minjiang River was under the action of Dujiangyan, "passing through the Erjiang Chengdu", but under the operation of those Shuzhong clans, it became "through the private fields of the Erjiang River".

In the case of those wealthy clans in Shuzhong controlling Dujiangyan, because many people's farmland could not be replenished with water sources, a large number of fields were barren.

Under the barrenness, the people had no food income, and finally they could only sell their fields to the Shuzhong clan.

In the end, the land was sold, and the people could only sell their families and themselves to the Shuzhong clan as slaves and vassals to survive.

Later, after Liu Bei captured Chengdu, the Yizhou clan maintained their ownership of the local Dujiangyan in order to curry favor with Liu Bei.

They suggested that the houses in Chengdu and the mulberry fields outside the city should be given to the soldiers, hoping to block the mouths of Liu Bei's ministers with this kind of benefit.

But it's a pity that the suggestions of those big clans were opposed by a group of ministers led by Zhao Yun:

"The people of Yizhou, at the beginning of the military revolution, can return the fields and houses, so that they can live and resume business, and then they can be transferred to the service, and they are favored."

After that, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, who gradually spread their tentacles to the Chengdu Plain, gradually discovered the rampant behavior of the local clans.

This move is obviously absolutely unacceptable to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's ministers.

The two of them are in order to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and it is impossible to be indifferent to the actions of many people who are ruined.

As a result, a "Shu Branch" was born under the auspices of Zhuge Liang.

As soon as this law, which mainly dealt a blow to the interests of the powerful and powerful, those who occupied Dujiangyan in the past and the common people suffered an instant catastrophe.

Before the promulgation of the "Shu Branch", the doctors of the Haoqiang in Shu took advantage of their wealth and bullied the small people, so that the people in Shu thought of chaos, ten households and eight.

After the promulgation of "Shu Branch", Zhuge Liang rebelled against the moderate normal, and he strictly implemented the strategy of 'first managing the strong, then managing the weak'.

To enforce the rule of law is to restrain and crack down on the bureaucrats and tyrants who are 'authoritarian and self-indulgent'.

To manage the weak is to strive to support the peasants and develop production.

With the help of the law of "Shu Branch", Zhuge Liang swept away the powerful clans who occupied Dujiangyan with the method of "convicting first and then sending troops", re-liberated Dujiangyan, and finally sent troops to defend it.

Since then, Zhuge Liang has personally re-planned the canals in various parts of the Chengdu Plain, and the water from Dujiangyan has been truly used for the local people's livelihood again.

And Zhuge Liang took the opportunity of clearing up a part of the Haoqiang to rescue a large number of fields and people that had been bought and sold by force, so that the people's livelihood near the Chengdu Plain was gradually stabilized.

Since then, the people of Shuzhong have been happy and grateful to Zhuge Gong for his virtue.

Under the rule of Zhuge Liang, the Chengdu Plain "the ditch blood is scattered, the territory is wrong, the millet oil is oily, and the japonica rice is Momo", and a prosperous scene has reappeared.

Shu land is originally fertile, with fertile rivers and fertile fields, coupled with Zhuge Liang's careful management, the agricultural output is very high.

The paddy fields in the Mianzhu and Guanghan areas of the Dujiangyan irrigation area have maintained a record of more than 30 hubars per mu.

At the same time, under the rule of Cao Wei and Sun Quan, the highest yield per mu of paddy fields was not half of the record.......

In Mi Yang's sight, many people in sackcloth were working in the fields under their feet.

If you look closely, they all have more or less happy smiles on their faces.

What does it mean to live and work in peace?

With fields under their feet and grain in their hands, this is what all the people yearn for to live and work in peace and contentment.

And all of this was given to them by Zhuge Liang.

Before Zhuge Liang came to power, most of these people were still tenants of powerful clans, and they had no personal freedom.

They have worked hard all their lives, and they may not be able to have a grain of their own.

But now it's different, they themselves become the masters of the fields.

Zhuge Liang devoted his life to restoration, and the prosperous scene of the world during the reign of Wenjing of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, even if Zhuge Liang knew that Tuntian harvested more grain and grass, since he came to power, he has not carried out the Tuntian policy in Shuzhong on a large scale.

If you say Tuntian, Shuzhong is fertile for thousands of miles, and because of the previous war, a large number of landless people fled from Guanzhong, which really has all the natural conditions of Tuntian.

But Zhuge Liang knew that once the Tuntian policy was opened, for a long time, supervision would be abolished, and the officials would encroach on the people's interests, and in the end the people would definitely suffer great harm, which was completely contrary to his original intention of going out of the mountain.

After the army entered the boundary of the Chengdu Plain, the outline of the magnificent and majestic Chengdu city in the distance was already looming.

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to Chengdu City, Mi Yang had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

In the sixteenth year of Jian'an, when Liu Bei entered Shu, Mi Yang, a talented young man who was favored by Liu Bei, was also brought into Shu by him.

Subsequently, in the twenty-third year of Jian'an, Mi Yang was recalled to Jingzhou because Mi Fang missed his son.

During the eighteen-year period from the sixteenth year of Jian'an to the twenty-third year of Jian'an, Miyang has been living in Shuzhong.

This period of time happened to be the time when Mi Yang's mind and personality were gradually fixed, so it can be said that Shuzhong is Mi Yang's second hometown.

Mi Yang is very familiar with everything here.

He said to Deng Ai beside him: "Shizai, how do you view the livelihood of the people in Shuzhong?" ”

When Mi Yang finished saying this, his face was filled with a proud smile.

Although there is such a scene of living and working in peace and contentment in Shu at present, most of them are from the hands of Zhuge Liang, Fa Zheng, and Liu Ba.

But among these three sages, two of them are his teachers, which makes Mi Yang and honorable.

Deng Ai looked at the people working endlessly on both sides of the official road in amazement, as well as the water canals in the farmland that seemed to be the source of life, and he praised it with amazement: "It's really the scene in the book. ”

Deng Ai has been a tuntian household since he was a child, so he has his own views on agricultural development.

It's not the first time Deng Ai has seen these tens of thousands of acres of fields, he grew up in the Central Plains, and he has seen hundreds of thousands of acres of fields connected.

He has even seen the scene of hundreds of thousands of people bowing their heads in the fields together, which is the foundation of the national strength of the Central Plains.

But compared to what he saw in the Central Plains, perhaps the scene of the handover of fields outside Chengdu was not as strong as under Cao Cao, but he felt a very different feeling from the fields here.

That's anger.

The north is dominated by the tuntian system, although the tuntian was able to collect a large amount of grain and grass for Cao Cao in a short time.

However, the people under the tuntian system were oppressed by the government and lived a miserable life, and most of their faces were numb when they worked.

And the people of Shuzhong outside Chengdu, their faces are full of smiles full of hope for the future when they bow their heads to work, which is enough to make Deng Ai feel novel.

The fields are staggered and the sky is connected, and the people are constantly working and laughing.

In the past, Deng Ai only thought that similar scenes were the imagination of the ancients, but he never expected that all this could come true.

Isn't this the heyday?

According to the general, all this is the credit of Zhuge Gong.

So if one day the whole world is ruled by Zhuge Gong, will the prosperity of the world come?

What kind of person is Zhuge Gong, Deng Ai is deeply curious.

As the team of the King of Hanzhong continued to drive, at this moment, ten miles outside the city of Chengdu, a group of civil and military ministers were already waiting.

Led by a minister of the Distant Mountains, they prepared for the return of their king.