"Wow~Wow~"

In the first ray of sunshine in the early morning, a group of hard-working Han soldiers poured pots of cold water on the main street in Changli County that runs through the city from north to south, cleaning the blood stains left by the massacre last night, so that the imperial officials' entry style would look more decent.

At the beginning of the Chen hour, Liu Bei and Li Su walked together. Li Su was slightly behind the horse's head, wearing iron armor inside and official robes outside. Surrounded by five hundred white-horse cavalry, Shi Shi entered the north gate.

The conquest of Changli County is of great significance, because it is the capital of the Liaodong vassal state. Until this moment, Liu Bei, the "Liaodong Prime Minister" and Li Su, the "Liaodong Chief Historian", were justified and officially took office.

The hard days before were all considered "twisting changes on the way to take office."

In such troubled times, it is difficult to be a government official given by the court.

Anyone who has a relatively large promotion rate is often the territory of the thief, giving you a fairly good reputation and asking you to get the territory back by yourself - for example, Sun Jian is the same. The court directly promoted Sun Jian to be the prefect of Changsha from a small official like Sima/Yilang of other departments, which means that Changsha County needs to be defeated by himself from the thief Quxing.

Liu Bei rode his horse to the largest official office in the city. Looking at the dilapidated building, his mind was quite stirred.

This house was very harmful to King Nanqiao and Uncle Nanlou, but at least it was a symbol of power sent by the imperial court to send Mushou.

"It's too dilapidated. Since we have restored the imperial court and counties, we should make some adjustments." After entering the official gate and looking around, Liu Bei said to himself.

"Brother, I have just recovered Changli. The Tuhe County next to me is still in the hands of the thieves. Moreover, this year's famine and people's livelihood are in decline, so what is the time to say this?" Guan Yu was beside Liu Bei, and couldn't help but persuade him straightforwardly. He was also used to saying anything between his brothers.

Liu Bei smiled relievedly: "Did Chang think I am greedy for pleasure? Even if the living room in the mansion is simpler, it is okay. The key is that the storefront should be grand. I am not to live comfortably, but I urgently need to cheer up the people of Liaodong and let the people see the new atmosphere of the court. When people's hearts are floating, the face of the court is even more needed."

With this explanation, it is hard to say anything like Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, the thrifty people.

Li Su on the other side rarely agrees with Liu Bei on this issue: "I also support this matter. In the year of a major disaster, it is better to use the people in moderation than to have a complete rest with the people. Can we use work instead of relief?

As for Tuhe County, it was a trivial matter. In the past few days, Yun's eldest son Long first settled the counties that were not occupied by rebels. After a while, I went to Yide Camp and asked Yide to surround Tuhe County to death.

Shooting Shu entered the city to persuade surrender, and he was 90% sure he could conquer without fighting—there were only four or five thousand men there. When he saw Nanlou, Yan Rou would not have the confidence to resist."

Liu Bei originally thought that victory was a little successful, and he wanted to decorate his face. He heard that Li Su could find legitimacy for him, and he was secretly happy: "Oh? Boya always has great opinions and is willing to hear it in detail. What is this "work-for-relief" method?"

Not only Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun, but also Lu Su all pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what kind of high arguments there are.

The method of using labor for relief was already in the Tang and Song dynasties at the latest. Su Dongpo used it very well when he was a local official. That was because the business of the Song Dynasty was developed, and people at that time had certain common sense of economics.

However, the Han Dynasty still emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce too much, so people today must have never heard of it.

Li Su said: "It is the end of March now, and as our army recovers the lost territory, hungry and refugees are still constantly surrendering. After Zijing takes over in April, he can still cultivate the fields and grow some beans and vegetables.

But what if there are refugees who need to be resettled in May or even later? At that time, the farming season must have been missed. At this time, we must absorb the strong people from the hungry people to serve as military force, and use food and wages to support the troops to eliminate the source of chaos.

Those who are not enough to join the army can only use the work service organized by the government to allow hungry people to serve and earn food. Can those who do not work be fed? This is at least easier to manage than direct free disaster relief, and can prevent the lack of worrying about inequality and unevenness, so that the people who come to work and pay rent will not feel unpleasant, and they also want to waste land and mix in the relief group."

This is a very simple truth, but after hearing this, Liu Bei and Lu Su were astonished as if they had heard of the magic trick.

Lu Su murmured to himself in a daze: "Work-for-relief... I didn't expect that letting the people work and give food to them has such a wonderful use. These days, I have indeed felt a headache for more and more refugees to manage.

Some hungry people came in February, and some came in March, but when they were given land and food, there were too many people and complicated things, and it was difficult to do the accounting in detail. Often, they couldn't figure out how many days each hungry people had received. After the autumn harvest, they collected rents and paid back the money, and were afraid that they would miss tens of thousands of dollars.

So they can only be divided into one group every month. No matter what day they come, they will be considered as receiving the whole month of the rations for February. This will make it easier for the government to keep accounts. Then those who come in early February will be proud, and those who come in late February will be more unfair.

With Boya's method, all hungry people who come to April will start to pay rations on the first day of May. They will only do a few days of food in April, and they will do a few days of work. They will pay for one day to one day to settle the tax collectors in person, which will save them from being busy."

Guan Yu, who was standing by, had never done internal affairs and did not understand Lu Su's pain. He was just frugal by nature and couldn't help asking: "Then is to repair the government and the yamen? The city wall? Although the people's strength is cheap, isn't it too wasteful..."

Li Su smiled and said, "This is just a temporary matter. It would be good if you can spend a thousand people to build a mansion. The extra manpower is of course to build water conservancy in this Liaodong. Zijing has also practiced it. In fact, the water supply in this Liaodong is abundant, and even planting rice can be done. The yield per mu is higher than wheat and millet. However, the rice needs a lot of irrigation, so more water conservancy must be repaired. In the slack season, the main thing is to use labor-for-relief to build and dig irrigation canals."

Hearing that Li Su thought so thoughtfully, Liu Bei couldn't help but be proud: "I have always used Boya's strange plan, but I didn't expect that I would be inferior to Zijing in governing the people and governing the government. In addition to being a good and elegant Qin, I also have to add Xiao He."

Li Su: "Brother, I've won one after another."

Liu Bei smiled proudly and said, "Among all the generals, I and Boya are now the marquis. You, the marquis' mansion, have not been built. I think I will pick a large mansion in the city and let the civil servants repair it well."

The houses where officials of the Han Dynasty lived were not called "officials" casually. The "opening of a mansion" by senior officials was a very big show and required the imperial court to be granted.

However, as a marquis, you can have a mansion, but there is no team organization that can be used to deal with the matter.

The families of the Zhen family and Mi family were called "fai" before, but they were just common names, which were strictly incompatible with etiquette.

Li Su subconsciously wanted to say, "I'll live in Changli County for a short time, and maybe I'll move over when Xiangping is recovered," and refused.

But if you think about it carefully, Xiangping may not have lived for a long time. It is hard to say what the final layout was before Emperor Ling died. Liu Bei, Shengyi, agreed.

This is also in line with Li Su's usual personality of "greed for money, seeking land and asking for houses". Since Chen Ping's personality is used, life is simple, so the lord dare not trust you fully.

"Then thank you for your kindness." Li Su accepted it calmly.

Liu Bei patted his shoulder: "Boya, after conquering Xiangping, we will be considered as the Han Dynasty guarding one side of the border and subjugating the four barbarians. In the past two years, I know that you are a good and elegant food, a mansion with a beautiful maid. It's time to enjoy peace and don't make yourself suffer."

A faint worry flashed through Li Su's heart: Could it be that Liu Bei was already fascinated by the Xiaosheng in front of him and had a slackness of temporarily being satisfied with being the "King of Liaodong"?

But that's right. Emperor Ling of Han did not die and the prestige of the court was not completely wiped out. At this critical moment, people who are truly absolutely loyal to the court will feel satisfied with being at ease with their wealth.

After all, there was Liu Yu on his head before, and Gongsun Zan was pressing him down, and Liu Bei was always working for others.

Liaodong is dangerously far away, and is a no-man's land 400 miles away from western Liaoning. Therefore, although this place belongs to Youzhou, the political practice of the Han Dynasty over the years was decided by the prefect of Liaodong. The governor of Youzhou/Governor of Youzhou also asked about the big issues of right and wrong, and didn't care about the others at all.

Therefore, the prefect of Liaodong was considered to be uncontrollable by anyone above, and actually controlled three officials in Youzhou area.

It would be abnormal if you were not satisfied with being the "King of Liaodong" for the time being, unless you had the intention of being disobedient early on.

Li Su knew that he had to find a way to persuade him slowly, so it was hard to say it too directly, otherwise wouldn’t he instigate a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty to have a disagreement with the court?

"Let Brother Xuande take two months to relax. When you capture Xiangping, you will find an opportunity to persuade him tactfully. Even if you can't convince him to have greater ambitions, you can't use the "the world is not peaceful yet, and the thieves caused by Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun has not completely calmed down" to encourage him to cheer up and cooperate with friendly forces to cross the border to attack the thieves."

After Li Su thought about it, he had such a cursory script in his mind.

Some people may wonder: If Xiangping has captured and Zhang Chun has been awarded the title of leader, how could the excuse that the Ju Chun Rebellion has not been completely quelled?

Li Su also felt that this problem was difficult. After scrambling for a long time, he found several ambiguous excuses that were barely available:

First of all, Wusu of the Xianbei Wusu tribe, cooperated with Zhang Ju to break through, and used the abandoned son bait to Qingzhou south, using Taishan County as the base to harm Qing and Ji, and also ignited the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, especially on the Shandong Peninsula.

If Liu Bei is greedy for pleasure in the future, he can persuade Liu Bei to "begin and end well" and ask Liu Yu for orders to help his friendly troops attack the thieves.

As the governor of the state, Liu Yu had the power to cross the border and chase the rebels, so he could issue this order.

In history, Gongsun Du, the prefect of Liaodong, also crossed the narrow Bohai Strait from the Liaodong Peninsula and defeated the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou. Gongsun Du also occupied Donglai County for many years.

At worst, I persuade Liu Bei to take this as a warning to prevent Liu Bei from temporarily feeling that his achievements have been completed and he is addicted to enjoyment.

If Wusu and Donglai's Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army were not enough, then take the territory invaded by Xuantu County and Lelang County in Liaodong as eye medicine, find something for Liu Bei to do, remind him that he will be in danger if he forgets to fight.

Xuantu County was governed by Goguryeo County (now Chenyang, and the Liaodong County was governed by Xiangping in front of it was today), and Lelang County was governed by Chaoxian County (now Ping'ao), but they are still under the invasion of Goguryeo. In history, Gongsun Du was completely eliminated and recovered when he was the prefect of Liaodong, and occupied a lot of land in Goguryeo, beating Goguryeo all over the ground.

You can't let Liu Bei be addicted to playing music and dancing.

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Chapter completed!