The third year of Xingping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 196) was considered a good year. After three consecutive years of disasters, the world experienced a rare scene of good weather this year! It was not good weather in one place, but good weather in the entire Han region!
In such a chaotic world, it is really rare!
Jingzhou, Nanjun!
Liu Bei took a group of confidants to inspect this year's early rice. They saw the wind blowing the rice waves and making a roaring sound. The rice was green but full of grains. It was obvious that a good harvest was in sight!
Liu Bei said happily: "The world has suffered three years of disasters, and this year we can finally have a good harvest. The people of the world can also breathe a sigh of relief!"
The recent period has been a torment for Liu Bei. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been captured, and a large number of close generals have been arrested. It can be said that Liu Bei's ten years of accumulation were not only destroyed in one day, but his vitality was also severely damaged. If it hadn't been for the deal with Xu Wei later
Prisoners of war, Guan Yu and other close generals were redeemed, and Liu Bei didn't even know how to face old brothers like Zhang Fei!
However, the trade of hundreds of thousands of captives' families has also seriously affected the development of Jingzhou. You must know that he came to Jingzhou and has been promoting the reclamation of Jingzhou. In the past ten years, he has only attracted three to four million refugees, and this time he will reduce the number of refugees.
Twenty percent of the people were ordinary people. If Xu Wei hadn't later traded hundreds of thousands of noble families to come to Jingzhou, many towns in Jingzhou would have been empty.
Hundreds of thousands of nobles came, and Liu Bei resettled them on the territory of the common people who had originally moved away. At the same time, he recruited some barbarians in Jingzhou to supplement the population. However, there were frequent conflicts between the nobles and the barbarians.
This gave Liu Bei a headache, and he had to ask Yuan Ji to patrol all around Jingzhou to deal with these conflicts!
At the same time, the currency reform was not going smoothly. Although Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping came up with paper money, both the nobles and the common people were used to using copper coins, and no one was worried about the paper money issued. Therefore, paper money was not used in the four states of Han Dynasty.
The promotion was very unsatisfactory. Both the common people and the nobles were resistant to using banknotes!
However, the war in the Central Plains greatly damaged Liu Bei's strength. Whether it was casting cannons or recruiting new soldiers, building equipment required a lot of money. Therefore, Liu Bei could only forcefully promote paper currency in the four states of the Han Dynasty in exchange for silk, grain and salt.
Although there was collateral, Liu Bei's forced issuance of banknotes also caused prices in Jingzhou to continue to rise. As a result, resentment arose among the people. Liu Bei, who had a very good reputation throughout the south, began to rely on Dong Zhuo, a treacherous minister who had brought disaster to the country and the people.
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In order to stabilize prices and reduce the losses of ordinary people, Liu Bei had to learn from Xu Wei in issuing bonds. He began to forcibly issue bonds among the noble families in the four southern states.
Among them, Nanyang County is the imperial hometown and the area that Liu Bei focuses on. Not only are there many Han clan clans, but also many descendants and founding heroes. It can be said that the wealth of Nanyang is not much worse than that of Jizhou. Even now, Nanyang County is
There are also more than 2 million people, which shows how wealthy Nanyang is.
Of course, it was also the place where the Han people were most oppressed. At that time, apart from Jizhou, Nanyang County had the largest number of Yellow Turban uprising troops, and the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang County was also the most capable. Both sides fought to death several Yellow Turban generals and Nanyang County prefects, but
They still fought to the death, but in the end it was Zhu Jun who led the Central Army to assist Nanyang's powerful forces to pacify Nanyang County!
Liu Bei became the shepherd of Jingzhou, but he still had a lot of headaches for the many founding heroes and queens in Nanyang. After all, historically they were not even convinced by Liu Biao, so much so that Liu Biao set his seat of government in Jiangling, not to mention Liu Bei, a down-and-out family.
The most Liu Bei could do was move the gangsters from Nanyang County to Nan County for farming, or wait for the imperial court to move to Xiangyang City. With the help of the emperor's prestige, Liu Bei could barely frighten the founding heroes of Nanyang County!
After the defeat in the Central Plains, Liu Bei no longer had to worry about regaining his strength. Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, and Wei Yan to each lead a battalion to the Wubao of the founding hero of Nanyang County, forcing each of their families to
100 million yuan of bonds were allocated!
The families who dared to resist were directly bombarded by Zhang Fei and the others who had explosives to blow open their Wubao! They robbed all the property in the Wubao! Then Zhang Fei and the others left a bond for them!
Originally, Liu Bei's doing this kind of thing was enough to make the world's elites and nobles scream for death, but now with Xu Wei's rebelliousness as the bottom line, the world's elites and nobles can also understand Liu Bei's desire to deal with Lei Gong, and they don't think Liu Bei did it.
Things went too far.
In the past troubled times, they could shop around and find a lord who was good to them and seek refuge with them. Therefore, the heroes who wanted to seize the world not only did not dare to mess with their families, but also offered good conditions to attract them to seek refuge.
But now Lei Gong, the most powerful prince, did not want them to join him at all, and even shouted at them to kill them. The entire noble family in Hebei has disappeared (the land is gone, the disciples and old officials are gone, and even the rights are gone)
, in the eyes of the powerful nobles in the Han Dynasty, the powerful families in Hebei will disappear in smoke!).
As a result, all the noble families in the world have lost the conditions for bargaining. If they don't want Liu Bei, why don't they surrender to Lei Gong and let him kill them all? The noble families in the world have no choice but to choose Liu Bei!
So the Han clan clan members and founding heroes of Nanyang County became the targets of everyone’s criticism!
The imperial court only wants 100 million from you, but it doesn’t want your land, nor your lives. As a clan member of the Han Dynasty and a founding hero, after enjoying the glory and wealth of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, how can you be so ignorant of the general situation?
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Liu Bei only wants 100 million from you, but Lei Gong wants your lives!
What can these founding heroes do?
After being defeated again and again, and with the pressure of public opinion pointing at them again, these founding heroes could only lie down and take the initiative to subscribe for 100 million yuan of bonds from Liu Bei!
What the wealthy nobles didn't expect was that Liu Bei had killed the monkey to scare the chicken. After the founding hero of Nanyang distributed billions of dollars in bonds, Liu Bei began to point the finger at them!
At this time, the founding heroes of Nanyang County laughed and asked the nobles and nobles in other parts of the Han Dynasty to understand the difficulties of the court. You powerful nobles and gentry, who have enjoyed the glory and wealth of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, how can you be so ignorant! Buy some
It’s not like bonds die, not to mention that they still have to be repaid!
Faced with such a situation, the wealthy and powerful gentry could only stand at attention and be beaten.
The top noble families like Yang Biao, Zhang Wen, and Zhenju each took the initiative to subscribe for 100 million yuan in bonds. Jingzhou's local tycoons, Cai, Zhang, Huang, Kuai, and Wang families also subscribed for 5,000 yuan each.
Bonds ranging from tens of thousands to tens of millions, and small powerful families such as Deng, Jin, Yin, Fu, etc. also allocate bonds ranging from millions of dollars!