In order to control prices, Liu Bei ordered the transfer of grain from Sanfu, the purchase of grain from Chenliu County, Yingchuan County and other places, and simultaneously promoted the collective farm policy in some areas of Luoyang.

He used the industries and land controlled by the officials of the Yuan clique to resettle the displaced people who had wandered to the land of the Three Rivers, built collective farms, arranged for them to settle fields, and resumed agricultural production as soon as possible.

At the same time, he mobilized the officials of the ancient literature school in the court to attack the external officials who raised prices, and strictly stipulated that hoarding was not allowed internally, thus restricting the insects within the ancient literature school.

Then, he mobilized his members of the salt selling circle all over the land of Sanfu and Three Rivers to fully support his material transfer, and made every effort to crack down on the family that hoarded and raised prices, and set a law to prohibit hoarding and raising prices.

Whoever hoards Juqi, as long as Liu Bei gives an order, they can rush up and tear each other clean.

After severely punishing a few families who took the lead in not complying with the regulations, and forcefully suppressed the ill-intentioned opposition of the government and the opposition, the grain prices in Luoyang, which had risen for a time in May and June, finally returned to the level of the five years of Zhongping.

Through this struggle, Liu Bei successfully proved to the people of Luoyang that he was not only very strong in military affairs, but also in politics, he had many supporters and a hard wrist.

In order to kill the modern literature school, the ancient literature school essentially recognized Liu Bei as the leader of the ancient literature school, and was willing to support him and restrain the behavior of family members.

The local families with whom he had a salt trade were willing to support him.

Hongnong County, under the influence of the Yang family, did not oppose him.

Zhang Rang clearly asked the Ten Standing Servants not to oppose Liu Bei at least at this time.

At this strange moment, Liu Bei is the only person who can be trusted to protect the interests of the eunuchs, annoying Liu Bei, the eunuch's political future will be very bleak, and he must not let him know that some of the ten permanent servants are raising prices at this time, otherwise the internal punishment will not be soft.

Jian Shuo's power is the weakest, thinking about it, although he wants to take the opportunity to make a lot of money, but because of Liu Bei's prestige, he doesn't dare to act.

Then there are indeed not many forces that can oppose him and influence him economically and materially.

Not to mention that he still has more than 100,000 troops in hand, under such a strong deterrent, at least the insects around Luoyang don't dare to jump for a while.

So Liu Bei gathered a lot of troops around Luoyang, but there was no problem with the price of food and the transportation of materials, everything was running smoothly, and the training of the army was also in full swing.

And Liu Bei did not expect to be wrong.

Compared with him, who has rich experience in governing and fighting, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are like political amateurs.

Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu had never led a large-scale army campaign, and what they had learned and had practical experience in the past was positioned in the position of a leading general, and did not involve deeper places.

But the position they are in now requires them to be a commander-in-chief.

There are too many things for the commander-in-chief to take care of.

Not to mention anything else, the transportation of the army's logistics grain needs to be coordinated by the commander-in-chief, and before Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu were only Zhonglang generals, responsible for fighting on the front line, and the food was naturally managed by other people in charge of logistics, and He Jin was the support.

And this time, He Jin, whose head moved, obviously couldn't provide them with any effective support, they could only rely on themselves, so when the number of troops was still small, they could still support it, and after the number of troops increased, the problem arose.

The speed of expansion of the army on Yuan Shu's side was relatively fast, so problems appeared relatively quickly, lack of food, lack of money, lack of living materials, and so on.

The Yuan family does have a background, it does have money, and it can indeed raise a lot of troops if they take it all out, but the problem is that they can't take out all the money, and if they take out all the money, how can they live a luxurious life?

Not to mention anything else, Yuan Shu, a guy who has been clothed and fed since childhood, is willing to take out his living expenses for the army?

So the problem arises, there is money, but it will not be used for the big soldiers, after the number of troops exceeds 30,000, not to mention the rest, just talk about the food, just talk about the loss of people eating horses and chewing, then every day is a big number.

A person needs at least one pound of grain a day to maintain basic survival, and this day is 30,000 pounds of grain, which is the most basic loss of the most basic soldiers in the combat troops.

In addition to the front-line life-fighting soldiers in the combat troops, there are also a large number of technical arms in the army, represented by crossbowmen and cavalry, and the rations of these technical arms are often better than those of the front-line hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, adding a little more to 30,000 catties of grain is almost an expenditure of 40,000 catties a day.

In addition, there are thousands of officers at all levels, military Chinese officers, and generals in the army, and their food standards become more expensive the higher they go, which is completely different from the big head soldiers.

From private guards to high-ranking officers, these people have several times the amount of food they have to lose, and there is no upper limit, and their treatment is slightly better, and these more than 1,000 officers and nearly 2,000 officers and so on can consume more than 10,000 to 20,000 of the materials needed by the big soldiers.

The minimum of 10,000 catties of grain was spent.

In addition to the big soldiers, the army also needs to have auxiliaries who help with chores, transportation matters, civilian men, etc., of course, these are not common, mainly in times of war, but once they appear, the number often exceeds the combat troops.

At least 40,000 bottoms, there is no cap.

With the war, they lost 40,000 catties of food every day.

In addition to people, there are also livestock, horses and other animals that need to be carried in the army, horses, donkeys, mules, and the like.

Their number is also in the tens of thousands, and the amount of loss is often several times more than that of a large soldier, especially the war horse, more than ten times.

This part of the grain expenditure is too large, and the wear and tear of the stationary state and the marching state are also different, if the forage is not enough to feed simply with grain, 10,000 livestock is enough for the loss of 50,000 large soldiers.

In order to maintain these 30,000 soldiers, Yuan Shu needs to spend almost 100,000 catties of food a day.

If it's on the march or at war, the number is doubled.

100,000 catties of grain, for a behemoth like the Yuan family, the amount of money converted into it is not amazing, they can definitely afford to buy this grain, as long as there is food, they can buy it, and they can buy it for a long, long time.

The Yuan family is very wealthy.

But the problem is that people don't want to shell out too much.

Because of the safety of life and the binding of Yuan Shu, everyone had no choice but to provide Yuan Shu with a huge amount of starting funds and materials, which was the main support for Yuan Shu to be able to raise an army of 30,000 people in two months.

It is no exaggeration to say that the expenditure of this money and materials can only be supported by an old family like the Yuan family.

And this is almost all they can support, and further up, they will start to reduce their living standards to help Yuan Shu fight, after all, it is tens of thousands of mouths to eat.

Would they like to?

Not reluctantly.

The members of the Yuan family could easily accept one more dish on their table, but they couldn't accept one less dish on their table, even if they didn't eat that dish at all.

Although they are now facing the problem of life and death, they will not take the initiative to bleed more until the knife is on their neck.

So two months later, when Yuan Shu found that his troops couldn't make ends meet, he began to be anxious, on the one hand, he asked the family for money, and all kinds of sloppy tricks rolled and cried, just asking them for money, and it was not okay if he didn't give money.

On the other hand, Yuan Shu also realized that this way of crying poor can certainly get some money, but the efficiency is too low, the speed is too slow, it is inconvenient to accumulate wealth quickly, and it is also relatively undesirable to use it.

So Yuan Shu suddenly remembered the call of Yuan Shao's bastard.

He was very reluctant to admit that Yuan Shao's method was very useful, but the fact was that this method was really useful.

Runan County has a large number of eunuch industries, and even if Runan County is gone, Nanyang County and Yingchuan County, two famous and wealthy counties, also have a large number of eunuch industries.

The ten permanent servants represented by Zhang Rang have a large number of industries in Hebei and the Central Plains, and the Central Plains is also a place where many eunuchs are born.

By bringing all these properties here, he can not only live a more luxurious life, but also feed the big soldiers in the army and give them a few more meals of rice porridge.

So for these eunuch industries, Yuan Shu drooled greedily.

So he found Yan Xiang, Yang Hong and other strategists who had planned for him, and consulted with them about the feasibility of doing so.

Of course, Yan Xiang did not support it, feeling that this was too direct and shameless, and it might cause some unexpected problems, which would not have a good impact on Yuan Shu's reputation.

Yang Hong knew the actual situation in the army, and there was no good way to think about it, relying on a county in Runan and a stingy Yuan family, how could he afford to raise 30,000 troops?

"Although this law is slightly inappropriate, it is easy to cause widespread concern in the locality, but if the army does not have enough rations, it will also cause a mutiny, and the consequences will be more serious.

Yan Xiang was helpless, although he still didn't support it in his heart, but the actual situation was stronger than people.

So after thinking about it, Yan Xiang proposed a compromise method - not to publicize it publicly, to do things in private, to rob quietly, not to shoot guns, to carry out precise strikes on the eunuch industry, and not to make things known to the world like Yuan Shao.

Moreover, Yuan Shu has his own righteous declaration, has his own basic plate, and does not need to win the support of some people like Yuan Shao, he can monopolize this part of the interests by himself.

All in all, come quietly, don't make a big deal, and then look at the local reaction, if the local authorities acquiesce, then of course it's best, if not, be careful.