Liu Bei's response to Cao Cao's rough economic reform was a bit slow. On the one hand, Liu Bei didn't want to be tempted and wanted to wait until the dust settled to see the reactions of all parties.

On the other hand, it is also because the end of the year approaches that Prime Minister Li Su is crowded with official affairs and private affairs, which is relatively busy. Liu Bei doesn't want to always ask someone to work overtime.

After all, strictly speaking, although Cao Cao's actions were shocking and offended countless people, it was precisely because of the shocking and no one dared to try it or do it before.

Only Wang Mang used the Wang Tianfa under the banner of retro reform, but wasn't it done in three years? Cao Cao found a better excuse this time, and changed the most intense point that Wang Mang had resisted Wang Tianfa back then, leaving the rest.

Liu Bei himself also wanted to see if Cao Cao could carry out this reform so as to provide some experience and lessons for the land policy and economic policy after unification.

Since ancient times, there have been too few politicians who are willing to carry out major reforms at the risk of their own destruction, so the trial and error experience of extreme policies is very rare.

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Some people may be curious: Isn’t Li Su very meticulous? He is very greedy for pleasure? It’s almost the Chinese New Year, what else can he do to be busy with?

In September and October, Li Su properly arranged the first imperial examination held in Luoyang and even the issuance of banknotes and bonds in Zhangwu for the fourth year.

None of these major events made mistakes. By the end of the year, at most, it would be to convene all officials to conduct the next stage of "reading club", study "Confucianism and Legal Lunheng" and further unify your thoughts.

This kind of work is not tiring. With Li Su's temper, other daily administrations must have been given to Xun You, Zhuge Liang and Jiubuqing.

This kind of understanding cannot be miscalculated. During the entire November and December period, Li Su presided over the main official duties were those official ideological work that were employed.

But his private life is really a bit overwhelmed.

Because his concubine Zhen Mi was about to give birth, she was still worried and exhausted before, which hurt her anger. In the end, she had a little difficulty in giving birth and premature delivery, which made Li Su restless and had no intention of doing anything.

Fortunately, it was not a critical moment for fighting for the world at that time, otherwise later history books would evaluate Yuan Shao's "sexy, bold, and courageous, and undecisive" as a comment.

In history, Yuan Shao missed the best opportunity to launch the Guandu Battle because his youngest son was seriously ill. He did not kill Yang Chou in Guanggu and attacked Cao Cao as soon as he avenged Zhang Yang. He has been ridiculed by later generations.

Li Su could only ask the medical officer personally to see if there is any improvement in the obstetrics and gynecology medical skills currently used, and also asked Hua Tuo to come for consultation and care of the fetus.

Finally, in early November, Zhen Mi gave birth to a baby safely. The child was less than nine months old and was born prematurely and was extremely thin, with less than 11 kilograms (five kilograms).

Fortunately, he is a baby girl, so it would be fine if he is a little thin and short in the future.

On the first day after giving birth, Li Su did not enter the delivery room so that Zhen Mi could rest.

The house is replaced with clean gauze curtains that have been cooked in advance, and the floor of the house is also used in advance to deworm and moth-proof wood. Even the walls are wrapped and cooked in advance, so there is absolutely no need to mention the sanitary conditions.

It is colder in winter, which also reduces the sweating of the mother. It is difficult to breed bacteria when she covers her.

As for the technique of using knives to heat and blanch the umbilical cord wounds to prevent maternal and infant infection, it was also tested a year ago. Li Su's second son was already a mature technology when he was born, and this time he was even more familiar with the birth of his second daughter.

After the mother and baby had a slightly restrained wound and their condition was stable, Li Sucai took a shower and changed clothes the next day, comforted Zhen Mi through the disinfectant curtain, and gave her spiritual encouragement.

Zhen Mi looked haggard and upset: "My husband is in charge of national affairs, but he is worried about these mundane affairs. He is really uneasy. I am incompetent and gave birth to a daughter."

Li Su held Zhen Mi's arm with cooked gloves:

"Don't think too much, this is not your decision. Besides, if you give birth to a son, you will be weak and you will inherit the Duke of Minzhong County in the future. It's great to have a daughter first, just practice it. The first child of the wife is also a daughter."

Zhen Mi felt a little better and couldn't help asking something else: "It's all my fault that I was always worried that something happened to my family business would affect my husband's reputation and hurt my fetus.

But I can’t help but worry and worry. I clearly told myself not to think about those troublesome things, but I couldn’t control my mind. I really felt that I was useless. I don’t know..."

Li Su: "Okay, I'd known that you had been so concerned, so I'd tell you the result earlier. Just the business you managed before you got married, how could you break the trust of the people and damage my reputation?

At most, I lose some money, but I can’t afford it. I just think it’s practice. I’ll lose all the money I earned last year this year, and our family still has a few hundred million. Keep it well.”

When outsiders talk about Li Su and Zhen Mi, they may be confused at first glance, but in fact, it’s nothing to say.

Before Zhen Mi got married, she had been running people's livelihood industries in the Zhen family?

It is to use the financial resources of the Zhen family to make the turnover in the middle, so that the people hundreds of miles around Luoyang in Chang'an and grow fresh vegetables, and then sell them to the city people in the two capitals, and then transport grain to local vegetable farmers.

This business has been making a few years, but this year, Luoyang has fully immigrated and moved the capital successfully, the Zhen family completely transplanted this industrial model from Chang'an to Luoyang, but who knew that it would be a huge loss in the first year.

The market deteriorated after the autumn harvest. When Zhen Mi found out, she was very worried, afraid that it would implicate her husband's reputation and eventually hurt her fetal aura. Li Su realized it later and hurriedly asked the others in the family to deal with the matter, so that Zhen Mi would not think about it more, just a small matter.

The reason for the loss is funny, because the Zhen family initially promised to underwrite vegetables for a fixed price to provide food in order to encourage the people and tenants. Then this year, the radish, pineapple and leek around the Yiluo Basin all had a bumper harvest.

According to market rules, a good harvest should have "short vegetables hurt farmers", but the Zhen family promised a fixed-price purchase in advance. If the price is not lowered, the increase in immigration among Luoyang citizens will not be as fast as expected. If you can't finish so many fresh vegetables, it's just like stir-frying vegetable futures and then encountering a good harvest year.

There were two options for this matter. One was to publicize the "change of situations". In the good times, you would lower the acquisition price or not promise to acquire them all. Just like the later contract law stipulates that changes in situations can be renegotiated and changed the terms of the contract. Moreover, Party A is strong in power, so who dares to say no?

But farmers don’t understand the law, and you tell them that they won’t acquire them in a good year, which will damage the credit that the Zhen family has finally established, and this industry that has just been born for a few years will also be cast a shadow.

In the future, the people and tenants will not listen to you, and will go back to grow your own food, and dare not use all the land to grow vegetables.

What's more, Zhen Mi is now Li Su's concubine, and her reputation is not only her own, but also she has to beware of implicating her husband's family.

So the second method is to accept the situation and buy according to the agreement. If the vegetables purchased more cannot be sold, they will lose money. In contrast, Li Su of course asked someone to deal with them according to the second method. Anyway, the vegetable-selling business has a net profit of several hundred million yuan every year, and it is not bad that it will occasionally lose hundreds of millions this year.

Besides, the extra vegetables purchased may not be compensated.

People in this era made pickled vegetables in a small scale and did not form a business. Ordinary people would dry vegetables themselves or add some precious salted salted vegetables. There were very few pickled vegetables, pickled vegetables, and there were no canned food.

The clay containers in the late Han Dynasty were not airtight, so they could not pickle pickled pickles. The original porcelain jar/urn with yellow glaze might be better airtight. I like the Sichuan people in later generations like the ones in the jar, and seal the edges of the jar to block the air. I guess they can pickle pickled pickled pickled.

If it really doesn't work, Li Su gave a little help and asked the Zhen family to organize the research and development of pickled vegetables by themselves. At most, there would be no profit, but he would not even lose the capital to purchase the remaining vegetables.

Isn’t the invention of ketchup in history also forced out by similar incidents? At the end of the 19th century, a certain year, the hometown of Heinz founder, had a good harvest of tomatoes in Pennsylvania, and vegetables were cheap and injured farmers. In order to save the villagers, the Heinz boss invented to deal with endless tomatoes that were sold out.

Zhen Mi encountered this little trouble, but she just changed the soup and didn't change the medicine. With Li Su's knowledge, she had never seen any storms before, so how could she worry about these small problems?

After hearing this, Zhen Mi felt a little relieved after hearing that her husband was dealt with. She was not unable to afford the money, but she was very thoughtful and prone to over-thinking.

She said worriedly: "My husband is already at the top of the court, and he still makes his family keep his promises so trustworthy to the people. I am just afraid of losing money and being chewed about it, and it will be bad if I say it is like Mengchangjun’s righteousness...

When Xiao He helped Emperor Gaozu to pacify the world, he even asked his family to rely on their power to reduce the price and buy the people's land and houses to be defiled. Wang Jian went to war and asked for land and asked to leave it to the King of Qin. His husband was trustworthy, but he became more and more arrogant in this regard. I almost got into a dilemma for his husband."

Li Su was angry and funny, shook her head and sighed: "You just thought too much. After reading a little, she was so arrogant and copied. She thought she was thinking about the whole family, and sometimes she was just mediocre people disturbing themselves.

Your Majesty has trusted me, so why is the King of Qin vs. Wang Jian, and Emperor Gaozu is comparable to Xiao He? Your Majesty has long known about my ambitions in life. Since I have used it, why is it suspicious?

I am determined to be a saint, and even the position of Prime Minister is just like a rotten rat to a phoenix, and it is just a gift. What is important is not the prime minister himself, but this position can extend my opinion to the world."

The Night Owl, the Rotten Rat and the Phoenix that Li Su casually quoted are naturally the allusions of Zhuangzi and Huizi. Although Zhen Mi's knowledge is not good, she has read these basic skills, so there is naturally no difficulty in understanding them.

After hearing his husband's arrogant words, Zhen Mi couldn't help laughing out loud, her heart was quite relaxed, and her depression gradually became relieved.

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Li Su spent a few months until mid-December, and only took care of official duties every day. He got off work early for the rest of the time, accompanied his wives, concubines and daughters, and took care of them.

It was not until the second daughter was full month after the sickness of the premature baby was relieved, and Hua Tuo looked at it again and confirmed that the probability of death was not high and he could support him. Li Su was relieved and re-betted his energy on the important work.

Li Su is already his fourth child. Originally, he didn't like to celebrate his children's affairs.

Especially when the second son was born, considering that the child's surname was Cai, he handled it even more in a low-key manner and did not hold any banquet.

After all, what is the moral of the child of the Cai family's turn to serve as a Li family? Who should the guests celebrate? Should they congratulate the Grand Tutor on winning his grandson (the grandson of the clan law) or the Prime Minister on winning his noble son?

Similarly, the Cai family was not good at drinking at that time, otherwise it would be easy to remind all officials that the prime minister had an extra son, but he was not from the prime minister's surname, which was so embarrassing. In the end, Cai Yong just accepted some congratulatory gifts, and this matter was over.

This time, the daughter I gave birth to was not worth handling according to the customs of the ancients.

But because he was a little premature and it was difficult to support him, Li Su spent so much effort and decided to celebrate and fight for the joy. He held a banquet, and all the officials were invited.

None of the officials dared not give face, so they all came to drink and gave great gifts.

Li Su also specially asked someone to put lanterns inside and outside the mansion, and also asked the craftsmen to improve some spray fireworks similar to big snatches and hand-cranked rods, which were set off on the full moon wine day.

Firecrackers have been born for five or six years, but the principles of those traditional firecrackers all rely on gunpowder to explode instantly, so there is a loud noise. Even if Li Su later improved the fireworks that could be launched to dozens of steps or even nearly a hundred steps high, there was still a clear sound of explosions at the moment of launch.

This time, Li Su was afraid that the mansion would be too noisy and frightened her weak daughter who had just been in full moon, so she specially issued improvement requirements and ideas to the craftsmen, creating fireworks that did not explode and only blasted sparks.

Because it was a new thing that the prime minister had only invented by a girl, it was later imitated and learned and attracted to the elegance.

When a high-ranking official gave birth to a son, he would set off firecrackers and firecrackers, and when he gave birth to a daughter, he would set off only beautiful and quiet fireworks.

Later, all fireworks that did not explode, especially those that were held in their hands and swayed, were called "Zhen Jiyan".

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After his daughter's full moon banquet was held, Liu Bei summoned Li Su to discuss the matter the next day. Before, Li Su was half off and had been taking care of his private affairs for a month.

Liu Bei didn't see him, and he went straight to the point: "Seeing that my brother drank so happily last night, I think he was not worried about his brother and sister-in-law and niece at all.

I have let you go idle for a long time, afraid that you will not be interested in government affairs, so Cao Cao has been tormenting like that, but he just lets me watch it and collect movements.

Now my brother is overwhelmed and it’s time to do some effort. Now, here are a bunch of reactions from the states under Cao Cao’s jurisdiction to the reform of “banning the sale of manors and fields” and information.

And these are the memorials formed by me and Ziyu, Zichu and others after discussing and discussing. My brothers will take a look and tell you what you think. Should we watch Cao Cao carry out this reform, or should we immediately be overwhelmed after the New Year?

In addition, how many of the methods of Cao Cao can reunite the world in the future? Or should we completely deny it?"

Li Su drank a little too much from her daughter’s full moon last night. Although she had some ideas before, she had to reorganize it.

He asked Liu Bei to wait a moment and asked him to read and sort out other people's opinions and first-hand information carefully, and then give his opinions carefully.

Not to mention that although he was on vacation this month, he did not have any experience in serious government affairs. At least he encountered some practical problems when dealing with Zhen Mi's business and was quite inspired. He felt that he could learn from some policy details that control land transfer and improve land efficiency.
Chapter completed!