After Liu Bei separated from General Fei Qian of Zhengxi, he did not immediately go to his temporary residence. Instead, he wandered on the street for a while, looking at the shops on both sides of the street and the passers-by, and then bought something in a wine shop.
After ordering some cooked food, we slowly moved into our residence.
Of course, Liu Bei doesn't have many servants to protect him now. Except for the few who are close to him, he has taken them all back. However, Liu Bei is also a person who has been through hardships, so he doesn't feel any discomfort, let alone compared to servants and so on.
What Liu Bei valued more than the things outside his body were the things he learned from Zheng Xi during these days.
General Fei Qian of the Expedition to the West had many things that Liu Bei had never seen before, but after seeing them, he felt that they must be like this, which made Liu Bei a little confused...
Speaking of which, Liu Bei has been to many places. Of course, this cannot be blamed on Liu Bei, but in the Han Dynasty, those who could travel thousands of miles at a time were very rare. Naturally, he gained a lot of knowledge, but Liu Bei still felt that this knowledge was not enough, because he had
Among the princes, no one has ever seen a governance style like Fei Qian's.
Let’s not talk about Gongsun Zan. That guy can’t even manage his own army, let alone manage the people’s livelihood. If we talk about it, based on Gongsun Zan’s personal ability, serving as a captain of a place should be almost the highest level.
no.
Yuan Shao, although Liu Bei didn't see it with his own eyes, he generally knew something about it. Liu Bei couldn't use this guy's methods. There were many people in Yuan Shao's tent, and if there was anything he could do separately, it would be gone. But Yuan Shao
The strife among various aspects below is very fierce, and it seems that Yuan Shao doesn't take it seriously, or maybe he does it intentionally...
As for Cao Cao, probably because of Cao Cao's background, many court ministers were not very cooperative with Cao Cao, and Han Emperor Liu Xie didn't seem to be very satisfied with Cao Cao. In addition, Cao Cao's calculations also made Liu Bei not very comfortable.
Liu Biao, haha, let alone...
Now, in the Zhengxi General Fei Qian's place, Liu Bei had a very strange feeling. Everything seemed to be on the surface, but if he looked carefully, he could taste some strategies. But is this kind of strategy...
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"Brother!!!"
A loud shout frightened the crickets who were lying in the crevices of the rocks and making noisy noises. They immediately stopped making noises, and then desperately pressed themselves into the crevices of the rocks in an attempt to avoid the sudden sonic damage.
"Ah!" Liu Bei was just about to dismount, and almost sprained his foot. He stumbled and regained his balance, "Third brother! Why are you here... This... next time, can you wait until I get off the horse before saying hello..."
Zhang Fei was so happy to see Liu Bei that he walked around Liu Bei and looked up and down, "Brother, you have lost weight! Ah?! Brother, what did you just say?"
"..." Liu Bei smiled, "Why are you here? How is your second brother's injury now? There must be someone around to take care of him..."
"Much better! Most of the wounds are healed now! The second brother was worried about the eldest brother, so he asked me to come over first, saying that it would be fine if Ping'er was with him, and he also said that he would come over after the injury healed..." Zhang Fei laughed, and then turned around
He muttered, "This little thief from Zhengxi's golden sore medicine works quite well...I don't know how he got it..."
For Zhang Fei, who often fights on the battlefield, the speed of treatment and healing like Zhengxi's has made Zhang Fei very surprised and admired. However, Zhang Fei's temperament has always been that even if he is convinced in his heart, he still refuses to accept it.
So being able to say something good is already very remarkable.
Liu Bei also nodded and said as he walked in: "I've also heard it. It is said that if the wounded soldiers here in Zhengxi are not fatally injured, many of them will survive... You have seen the patrols in the city.
Huh? I heard that in Guanzhong, all the wounded soldiers retreated, and there were also many who had broken limbs and were still alive..."
"Brother, what do you mean, you can survive even if your limbs are broken? No, I mean, there are many like this?" Zhang Fei's eyes widened. Because after all, there are few people like Zhengxi who pay attention to disinfection and first aid. In addition,
The wounds of amputated hands and feet were very large, so many people suffered from complications of one kind or another during the healing process. Therefore, under the rule of ordinary princes and based on the rudimentary medical conditions, most of these soldiers were discharged from the battlefield.
Can't live more than a few months.
Liu Bei nodded, entered the hall, sat down, and was silent for a moment, as if his thoughts drifted to the past years...
Zhang Fei was also a little sad.
Although it is said that one must have a heart of stone on the battlefield, people are not grass and trees, especially some guards who have been around for a long time, and then are injured and broken, they will leave some marks in the heart. Over time, these marks will
There are more and more. If you think about it carefully, it is simply too horrible to look at.
"But, having said that, this Zhengxi is indeed well-deserved... I have learned a lot these days..." Liu Bei quickly calmed down and said to Zhang Fei, "Let's not talk about military affairs, just civil affairs.
This area is so interconnected, it’s quite remarkable... Third brother, when you entered the city, did you find anything different from before?”
"Oh! Of course!" Zhang Fei curled his lips and said, "Everyone is in great spirits, putting up lanterns and colorful decorations to celebrate the New Year..." Such an obvious flattery, how could I, Lao Zhang, not see it?
Liu Bei was not in a hurry and guided him: "What else?"
"Also..." Zhang Fei wondered, "There are more people than before..."
"Then what?" Liu Bei continued to ask.
Zhang Fei thought for a while and said uncertainly: "Are all the big names in Sichuan coming?"
Liu Bei nodded and said: "Most of them are here, which is what it should be... But, third brother, have you noticed that the streets in this city are much cleaner? This smell..."
"This... Big Brother said that, it seems true..." Zhang Fei rubbed the beard on his chin, as if rubbing it with a brush, "No wonder he looks a little uncomfortable..."
In ancient times, well, until the Republic of China, there were still no public toilets in many places, not even indoor ones. Every morning, people would drag big wooden bucket carts out to collect night incense. Needless to say, the Han Dynasty had not yet formed any system.
, human and horse excrement everywhere is simply an inevitable incident of a city...
"Ah ha, I didn't expect General Zhengxi to care about this?" Zhang Fei said with raised eyebrows, as if he was preparing to give General Zhengxi the title of "Three Corpses of Shit and Pee".
But Liu Bei said seriously: "Small things make a big difference... If you, third brother, are asked to handle this matter, what should we do?"
Zhang Fei rolled his eyes and said: "Isn't it like Zhengxi, where we sent some soldiers to patrol the streets and punished each one we caught?"
Liu Bei smiled, shook his head and said: "Inspection on the main street, um, that's right, but what about the ones in the shop? Also, this matter can't be suppressed when entering the city, right? There must be a source at least,
How to arrange it? If third brother is you to handle it, how will you arrange it and how long will it take?"
"This..." Zhang Fei really didn't think about such detailed things.
Liu Bei raised a finger and said: "Zhengxi just summoned the big families in the city and said one thing. Fighting belongs to metal, and plague belongs to water. Therefore, there are more fighting in autumn and winter, and more plagues in spring and summer. After the war, gold will
Water produces water, so it is easy to have serious epidemics, but water also produces trees, so these dirty things are of great benefit to Zhuanghe..."
Zhang Fei's eyes widened: "Is this...really?"
Liu Bei let out a laugh and said: "The key is that when conquering the west, he also said that using the method of fertile land in Guanzhong and the north can increase production by 20%... And whoever collects these filthy things will belong to him and can be used for accumulation.
Fertile fields, the expedition to the west also sent agricultural bachelors to give some guidance... As a result, up and down the city, not a single soldier was moved in the expedition to the west, and they did not spend a penny. They only sent some patrols to assist the big households.
Next, within three days, everything was cleaned..."
Liu Bei sighed quietly and said: "Third brother, you still remember when we were here before, we asked these big families to do something. It was difficult to say this, and it was not easy to say that. To collect taxes, we had to go over and over again...
And this expedition to the west is just a sentence... This is the beauty of it... The Shiwu method was also used in the pre-Qin Dynasty, but it was later exhausted due to the concealment of large households... By the way, the expedition to the west must implement the system
The people were ordered to sit in a row, and a certain chief... If it were normal, big households would often hide and not report... However, in order to open up new fields in the Western Expedition, some mountain plowing and waterwheeling methods were used, and then these cultivated fields were given to the landless households.
In this case, how can the big families in various places dare not to report it? After all, it would be fine if these hidden households under the big families don't know about it. If they know that these big families have cut off the benefits of land granting, haha..."
Liu Bei looked out of the hall and said, "...In this way, there will be more people in Sichuan, and there will be more taxes... This levy to the west, alas..."
Hiding the population has always been a Chinese tradition. Even in later generations, there are still many black households. These people have become the best targets for exploitation. However, if these people hear that there is an opportunity to divide fields and houses, they will still be willing to hide among the big households.
Next? Coupled with the method of continuous prosecution, rewards for reporting, and covering up for the same crime, the original balance of interests was immediately broken...
Zhang Fei frowned and said, "How can these big households agree to this?"
Liu Bei nodded and said: "This is exactly what I am worried about... However, Zheng Xi will not announce his appointment until tomorrow... And according to Zheng Xi's temperament, I am afraid there will be follow-up measures... Zheng Xi is a person who always likes to use Yang.
Conspiracy, under this conspiracy, alas..."
Liu Bei felt that these days, he sighed more than the most difficult time before: "In Qingyangsi, Zhengxi asked me what my ambition was? Do I want to be a local official, or be a third official, or be
I want to be the king...Third brother, tell me, how can I choose? If I choose to be the king, Zhengxi will probably immediately designate a vassal state, such as a run-down place like Mianzhu, and then arrange a state minister..."
"Choose the Three Dukes? If I want the position of the Three Dukes, why should I leave Xu County?" Liu Bei shook his head and smiled bitterly, "On the surface, it seems that there are three ways, but in fact there is only one... However, if I choose the position of a herdsman, I will
Then came this strange method, how could I not have known that this matter would harm the big families in Sichuan and Sichuan..."
"Ouch!" Zhang Fei screamed, obviously about to stand up, but when Liu Bei glared at him, he shrank back and lowered his voice, "The little thief from Zhengxi... is really... treacherous and cunning..."
Liu Bei said: "But these are all on the surface... General Zhengxi even said that this matter is not easy. If you do it well, you will naturally know how to herdsmen..."
"Zhengxi said the same thing?" Zhang Fei was a little confused, "You just told me that? What did he mean?"
Liu Bei was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled somewhat self-deprecatingly and said: "Mostly because I feel that I can't do this well, and I don't even have the qualifications to be a herdsman..."
"Bastard!" Zhang Fei said angrily, "How dare you underestimate my elder brother!"
"But I think what Zheng Xi said is reasonable..." Liu Bei shook his head and said, "Zheng Xi asked me what I did in Xinye for such a long time? Did I build water conservancy roads and bridges, did I clean up the surrounding bandits, did I do anything?
To rectify the market and expand trade, have you guided farmers to recruit refugees..."
"Ah... this..." Zhang Fei was also a little confused, and then said sternly, "Xinye is a small place, if you need money and no people, how can you do things? With so many people, who can do it?"
"But we can conquer the west!" Liu Bei exclaimed, "When the expedition to the west reaches Bingbei, the land of Shangjun at that time was either Baibo or barbarian, with no more than a thousand soldiers and no more than three generals... But just do this
Already..."
"Uh..." Zhang Fei was speechless. He wanted to open his mouth to say something several times, but found that he couldn't say anything. In the end, he could only hold his mouth and his beard trembled, like a cow shrinking.
Spiny hedgehog.
Liu Bei smiled and said softly, his voice still full of the power of hope, "Looking back now, it's not that we didn't have the chance, but we did not do well... It's not too late to learn now, it's better than waiting until you can't learn anymore.
When the time comes, will you discover these problems again? Third brother, since you are here, you have to learn..."
"Ah? Me?" Zhang Fei pointed at his nose, "I want to learn too?"
Liu Bei nodded and suddenly said: "By the way, how are our soldiers doing now?" No matter what, as the Danyang soldiers who settled down and settled down, they were still the most important support in Liu Bei's heart.
"Opening fields..." Zhang Fei curled his lips, "That guy over there, Xu Yuanzhi, said that soldiers can't be idle, otherwise they will be troubled, so they were sent to open up new fields, so that they can be rationed to the landless people in the next spring.
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"Only our Danyang soldiers are going?" Liu Bei frowned.
"No, they all go, they come in turn..." Zhang Fei said, "This is fair, the people from Sichuan and Shu, Dongzhou, Jingxiang, and even Zhengxi himself also went, so...
..." Because of this, Zhang Fei couldn't say anything. Everyone went, so everyone had nothing to complain about.
"Well...it's not about scarcity but about inequality..." Liu Bei muttered and nodded. Soldiers can also be used to farm fields. Well, this method is not bad either.
"By the way, what did Zhengxi arrange for you to do?" Liu Bei asked again.
Zhang Fei shook his head and said: "We don't have this for the time being, but we will discuss it tomorrow. If anything comes up, we will probably talk about it... Brother, if Zhengxi really arranges something, will this... be done or not?"
Liu Bei pondered for a moment and said: "If it doesn't harm you, just do it... There are too many things in Zhengxi that we can't see clearly. If you do more, you may be able to understand more..."
Liu Bei's eyes turned to the hall. A Tangdi tree stood slanting in a corner of the courtyard. Because it was still the twelfth lunar month, the upward branches stretched alone. He didn't know when it would sprout again and bloom with bright flowers...
