Everyone didn't expect that Liu Bei's speed would be so fast.

According to the assumption of the locals, every time there is a new assassin or a new Taishou, even if it is a pastoral guard, after taking office, he should first make friends with the local high-ranking families, and after obtaining the local political discourse and support, and then through the unanimous consent of all the families, he will start to govern the government affairs of Xuzhou little by little, or change the original system.

However, such a drastic reform from the beginning is really unacceptable.

Although Chen Qi expressed his support for Liu Bei, and also expressed his support for Liu Bei's implementation of Tuntian and the imperial examination, the thorough implementation of these two new policies in Xuzhou alone will already greatly change the local pattern, not to mention the interests of local wealthy families.

But now, Liu Bei is obviously not satisfied, and while thoroughly implementing the tuntian system and the imperial examination system, he must continue to strengthen the power of the official office and implement new policies.

First of all, it is naturally the axes when Jizhou was pacified.

The Hebei Business Association was once again led by Liu Bei to enter Xuzhou, accept the local families in Xuzhou who are willing to transfer their interests, form a new interest chain, and distribute the industry.

And most of those who are willing to re-grasp this chain of interests are the middle and lower classes of Xuzhou.

And when Xuzhou's original top wang clan and valve reading reacted too strongly, the planning of the interest chain has been redrawn.

In fact, logically speaking, after the chain of interests of the Wang clan valve of Xuzhou ontology is reformulated, as long as they disagree, or express their opposition to Liu Bei, and tightly hold on to the chain of interests in their existing hands, Liu Bei will not be able to do anything to them for a while, maybe he will have to overturn the original plan and talk to them again.

But the problem now is that the industrial chain structure that Liu Bei wants to establish is the original industrial chain in Hebei.

In other words, Liu Bei wants to introduce industries and re-establish a new business system.

Is this kind of thing possible?

Of course it's possible.

Because the Liu brothers have too many chips in their hands.

Not to mention anything else, the current four states of Hebei are the largest granaries of the Han Dynasty.

Jizhou was originally the granary of the world, after Liu Jian's years of tuntian reform, including the introduction of various waterwheels, including the widespread dissemination of agricultural and industrial matters.

As a result, whether it is Jizhou, Qingzhou, or even Bingzhou and Youzhou, the grain output has increased greatly.

And in this era, grain is undoubtedly the most important hard currency.

Especially in the case of the barren Central Plains and the continuous rebellion of rebels in various places, food is the top priority.

Xuzhou is not short of grain, but this does not mean that Xuzhou's grain is more productive than Jizhou.

Once Hebei's grain is transferred to Qingzhou, or then entered the market in Xuzhou through Xuzhou and Qingzhou, the industrial chain of the most important grain that originally belonged to the local nobles in Xuzhou can be disrupted again.

Especially now, the food controlled by the local nobles in Xuzhou is limited, because the Xuzhou war caused by Cao Cao has delayed Xuzhou's spring plowing this year, and has almost exhausted the grain storage of Xuzhou's treasury.

Perhaps before Cao Cao went north to attack Xuzhou, Xuzhou was not short of food.

But now, there is no doubt that Xuzhou is lacking!

In addition to food, the second most important weapon is salt.

Throughout the southeast, although Xuzhou also produces salt, it is too low compared to Qingzhou's output.

No one in the Han Dynasty could not lack salt, and in addition to the well salt in Western Shu, the southeast, including Hebei north of Qingzhou, also relied on Qingzhou for many salt sources.

For salt affairs, Liu Jian and Liu Yu have also made a lot of layouts over the years.

The original salt affairs were scattered in the hands of the Qingzhou families, and even in the hands of the neighboring counties of Qingzhou.

However, after Liu Yu's layout in Qingzhou for such a long time, the industrial initiative of Qingzhou Salt gradually returned to the hands of the government.

Although Qingzhou's sea salt industry is not explicitly advertised, it has actually become an industry monopolized by the government to control people's livelihood.

After all, in Liu Jian's concept, industries such as grain, ironware, and salt, which are very important to people's livelihood and can influence the current situation, cannot be scattered outside, and must be in the hands of the government.

Otherwise, if someone takes advantage of disasters or wartimes to speculate on the price of food or salt, it is very likely that countless families will be ruined and become large-scale disasters and rebellions.

Qingzhou's salt industry is in the hands of the government, so Qingzhou's salt industry has a very large impact on the people's livelihood of the surrounding counties.

In addition, there is a hard currency such as Qingzhou brocade, including the new books of Qingzhou Book Company and Qingzhou paper, which is highly sought after by Xuzhou scholars.

These things can be said to reshape Xuzhou's economic and cultural pattern in an all-round way from people's livelihood to spiritual culture.

Even if these things can't completely reshape the pattern of Xuzhou, Liu Jian still has a big killer weapon in his hand, that is, Hebei's iron tools.

Hebei's ironware, whether in terms of quality, price or craftsmanship, is already able to crush other states and counties.

It's cheap, it's also large, it's full, you say how do you let the iron producers in other states and counties live?

Important industries are gradually concentrated in Hebei, which is the biggest confidence that Liu Jian can confidently rebuild his new control of the prefecture and county.

Politics is an extension of the economy, and this has been the case since ancient times.

Therefore, Liu Bei has the ability and courage to carry out industrial restructuring in Xuzhou so boldly, and he is not afraid of offending the local nobles, because the right to speak has always been in their hands, but there is no suitable opportunity to show it.

Liu Bei was so domineering, the local wang clan was a little panicked.

Even not only the local nobles, but also big tycoons like Mi Zhu can't bear this kind of pressure.

Although Mi Zhu knew that it was the right choice to take refuge in Liu Jian, he really didn't expect Liu Jian to be so arbitrary.

Of course, the Mi family also joined the Hebei Trade Association, but the Hebei Trade Association had extremely strict control over their families.

Although Liu Jian did not block their financial path, what kind of business they did and how they did it, including the pricing of various projects and industries, needed to be approved by the Hebei Commerce and Trade Association.

The rules that Liu Jian set for them are that they will not be prevented from making money, and will even support them to make money, but they cannot not make money and affect political current affairs.

Liu Jian wants to make the major families in Xuzhou the same as the families in Hebei...... A family that can only be a rich man, but is not a threat to politics.

This is an iron law set by Liu Jian.

Although he also knew that this was something that Liu Jian was bound to do, Mi Zhu's heart was still not very happy.

After all, they were the richest people in the East China Sea, and Tao Qian shared most of the local business interests and political rights with them in Japan.

Now they are helping Liu Jian clean up Tao Qian, but if you think about it carefully, their power in Xuzhou is far less than before.

But do you say that the Mi family regrets it?

They won't regret it either.

Because compared to Liu Jian, Tao Qian's power is too weak, and sooner or later it will be destroyed.

Although the political benefits given to them by Liu Jian are far less generous than those given by Tao Qian, they have not been treated badly in terms of monetary benefits, and there is one thing that Liu Jian can give to the Mi family that others cannot give, that is, security.

In this world, who can wipe out Liu Jian's Mi clan within his power? Such people simply do not exist.

And Mi Zhu can see that Liu Jian is a figure with the ambition of hegemony.

It was really an honor for him to be able to follow such a character.

His Mi family may be able to become a famous family in the world in one fell swoop.

But it is an honor to be honored, but for the future of the Mi family, Mi Zhu still has to make comprehensive preparations.

Compared with the time when he was under Tao Qian, the Mi family must not have the original nourishment, which Mi Zhu knows very well - the money is enough, but in terms of politics, you local tyrants should not be too involved.

At most, you can let the people of your family enter the official career, but it is impossible for those of you who have entered the official career to make too much profit for your own family.

This is Liu Jian's purpose.

In fact, this is not a bad thing for Mi Zhu.

But after all, he is still young, and some things still can't be let go so easily.

In the future, if he wants the family to live like this all the time, he has no bottom in his heart.

Although it is impossible to completely overturn the rules formulated by Liu Jian for the major clans, Mi Zhu hopes to let his family have some privileges and some exceptions.

But how can there be privileges, exceptions?

Mi Zhu thought of a way, so he asked Mi Fang to discuss with him.

After all, Mi Fang is not a political person, and he has not entered the official office, so he does not have such a deep understanding and feeling of the series of improvement measures carried out after Liu Jian let Liu Bei occupy Xuzhou.

But even if he didn't feel it deeply, after Mi Zhu's explanation, Mi Fang still understood.

"Brother, then according to what you mean, how should our Mi family act now?"

Mi Zhu said to Mi Fang very seriously:

"Now, if we want to change the general's attitude towards the Xuzhou families, it is impossible, all we have to do is obedience, but in this obedience, we can also do something that other families can't do."

Mi Fang said suspiciously: "What's the matter?" ”

"You say, if the general is allowed to see our sister? The result? ”

"Sister?"

Mi Fang didn't react too much at first.

Then he narrowed his eyes and began to ponder carefully.

In the end, he suddenly patted his head and said, "Brother, do you want to dedicate your sister to the general?" ”

"It's just that I heard that the general already has a wife, who is the daughter of Zheng Xuan, can I still let the general divorce his wife and marry our sister?"

Mi Zhu glared at Mi Fang fiercely, and said: "Confused, Zheng Xuan's daughter, how can the status be compared to our family, how can the general not want his current wife, but our sister?" What you say is ......."

When he said this, Mi Zhu reached out and made a fan movement, as if he wanted to hit Mi Fang.

But in the end, he put his hand down

He let out a long sigh with a sad face.

"You, when can you save my worries, share some of the burden for my brother, and make it easier for my brother."

Mi Fang said with a hippie smile: "Isn't there enough worry I share for my brother? ”

"When I went to Hebei the other time, I got into a fight with the general and the hussar general."

"Now our relationship is good, now Liu Xuande has become the pastor of Xuzhou, I have a very close personal relationship with him, on this relationship, isn't it still a matter of sharing worries with your brother?"

When Mi Zhu heard this, he couldn't help but reach out helplessly and rub his eyebrows.

"You think it's quite simple, do you think that Liu Xuande is really good friends with you? He befriended you for the sake of being good with you! ”

Mi Zhu's words made Mi Fang a little puzzled in his heart.

"What do you mean to deliberately befriend me in order to be good with me, does it mean that for Liu Xuande, does he still need to ask me?"

Mi Zhu sighed, shook his head, and said, "He didn't ask you for anything, he did it to show me to make friends with you." ”

When Mi Fang heard this, she seemed to feel a little lost.

Brother, why can't you recognize his strength and ability?

If you have to say such words to hit him, it really makes Mi Fang feel uncomfortable.

Then I saw Mi Zhu bring the topic to the point.

"If we can let our sister be a concubine for the general, isn't this a good thing for our Mi family?"

When Mi Fang heard this, she was immediately startled.

He looked back and forth at Mi Zhu in disbelief, and said suspiciously: "Brother, haven't you always wanted our sister to marry into a wealthy family as a wife, and when the time comes, you can help our Mi family to the next level, why do you want your sister to be a concubine now." ”

"Isn't this the identity of our Mi family? And my sister won't want to do it, right? ”

Mi Zhu made a straight face and said to Mi Fang very seriously: "Who to be a wife and who to be a concubine can't be generalized. ”

"In my opinion, if my sister can be a concubine for the general, it is better than being a wife for the lord reading the high gate, how can the identity of the general be compared to ordinary people of the noble family?"

Mi Fang listened carefully, then nodded and said, "Brother, this is true, but can it be done?" Sister, can she agree? ”

After Mi Zhu heard this, he seemed to be a little hesitant.

He still knows his sister's temperament well.

Although she looks gentle and virtuous on weekdays, her vision is still relatively high, and her temperament is sometimes a little stubborn.

Although she won't refuse you some things to your face, if she doesn't want to do something in her heart, others generally can't do anything about her sister.

In particular, the daughter of the Mi family, known as the first beauty of the Eastern Navy, actually asked her to be a concubine for others, Mi Zhu estimated in his heart that his sister would also resist.

Mi Zhu suddenly said to Mi Fang: "Brother, why don't you go to our sister and talk about this?" ”

When Mi Fang heard this, he suddenly became a little anxious.

"Why don't you say it? Why do you have to talk to me? ”

"You came up with this idea, why did you push it on my head!"

Mi Zhu's face turned pale, and he said quite dissatisfied: "As my father-in-law and your brother, can't I let you do this little thing?" ”

Mi Fang thought about it very seriously for a while, and then said with certainty: "I can't do it." ”

As soon as he said this, he almost didn't drive Mi Zhu crazy.

"Bastard, you, you...... Let you deal with such a trivial matter, but you are pushing back, how can you help me undertake the business of the Mi family in the future? ”

Mi Fang's face turned red.

"If you let me take on the Mi family's business, then I naturally have nothing to say, and I will definitely support it! But if you look at what you have asked me to do now, where is the business of the Mi family? ”

"Why isn't this the business of the Mi family?"

"Not at all!"

The dispute between the Mi brothers became louder and louder, and even provoked them outside the hall where they were, and the people who came and went couldn't help but look inside curiously.

The sound of the argument immediately led a beautiful young girl to them.

She was dressed in a light blue dress, her face was as flawless as jade, her plump lips were shining, her eyebrows and eyes were silky, and although she was young, her bumpy figure was more like a ripe peach.

It is the first beauty in Xuzhou, Mi Zhen.

"Brothers, what's wrong with you? Why is there such a dispute? ”

With the appearance of Mi Zhen, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang were speechless all of a sudden, and the two of them really didn't quarrel, but looked at each other tentatively.

Seeing the two brothers looking so strange, Mi Zhen was even more puzzled in her heart.

She frowned slightly, and asked softly, "Two brothers, what happened?" Is there anything we can't say between brothers and sisters? ”

Mi Zhu coughed lightly and pointed at Mi Fang.

"Your second brother has something to say to you."

Mi Fang looked at Mi Zhu in surprise.

This...... Just sold yourself like that?

Where in the world is there such a brother?

When I thought of this, I saw Mi Fang's heart crossed, and then said: "I have something to tell my sister that your eldest brother is going to give you to someone else as a concubine, what should you do if you watch this matter yourself." ”

After saying this, Mi Zhu's lung tube was almost blown up.

This brute!

Mi Zhen's pretty face was pale, and she seemed a little unresponsive at first.

When she was young, Fang saw her looking at Mi Zhu: "Big brother, what my second brother said is true?" ”

Mi Zhu glared at Mi Fang fiercely.

Then, I saw him sigh and said, "Sister, you listen to your brother and finish this matter slowly." ”

Subsequently, Mi Zhu completely narrated the whole situation to Mi Zhen.

"Sister, although she is only a concubine, the other party is the top person in the world."

"Even if it's just a concubine, it's better than someone else's wife."

"This is a rare opportunity for our Mi family, I think about it, this matter is good for the Mi family, and it is also good for your sister."

Mi Zhen was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "Brother, I want to ask you something." ”

"Sister, please speak."

"If that General Liu is really such a character in your mouth, and you give me to him as a concubine, such an obvious thing, can't he see that you have other plans behind this?"

"This ......"

"Therefore, according to my sister, this matter is absolutely not advisable, and I ask my brother to dispel this idea."

My mother has pneumonia, and I am accompanying her in the hospital, and the hospital signal is not very good, so let's change these things today, this eleven years have passed......

(End of chapter)