"Liu Bei..." Liu Jingcai received a letter from Liu Bei a few days after returning to Linxiang. As a person familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms, he knew that Liu Bei would defect to Liu Biao after the Battle of Guandu, so he was not too surprised.
In Liu Bei's letter, he claimed to be the elder of the clan, and he mercilessly accused Liu Jing of ignoring the national crisis and provoking Xiao Qiang. How is this behavior any different from helping Zhou to commit abuse?
He repeatedly urged Liu Jing to settle the feud with Liu Biao as soon as possible, and then lead his troops north to fight against the national thief Cao Cao with the righteous men of the world.
Liu Jing couldn't help but sneer in his heart, he would have abandoned Jingnan and gone north unless he was crazy.
Liu Bei just stood and talked without hurting his back, and it was not his interests that were harmed. Of course he could stand on the moral high ground and speak a lot of high-sounding nonsense.
However, although Liu Bei is now living in Jingzhou and is in a very poor condition, Liu Jing's inner fear of him is far beyond what Liu Biao can match.
Of course Liu Biao was also a momentary hero. He rode into Jingzhou alone in the past and then crossed over to Hannan to create a foundation of thousands of miles. It is extremely rare.
But Liu Jing stepped on Liu Biao and rose up in Jingnan. The two sides fought many times in the past few years, and Liu Jing won a great victory. Liu Biao lost all his elite men, ships and equipment, and his generals withered.
In Liu Jing's view, Liu Biao was already a tiger without its claws and could do nothing.
Liu Bei is not like that. He is a generous and broad-minded person, unyielding, and has the style of the great ancestor. He is a heroic weapon and is a real talent who lives his life.
When he was in Xuzhou, it only took Liu Bei one year to make everyone in Xuzhou, from Tao Qian down to the officials, believe that Xuzhou could not be settled without Liu Bei. After arriving in Jingzhou, many heroes and wise men returned. Later, when they entered Yizhou,
Whether they were Shu people or Dongzhou scholars, they all joined him one after another, and he won the hearts of the people to this extent.
If Liu Bei is allowed to win people's hearts and accumulate strength, he will definitely become a serious problem for himself, so the Northern Expedition must not be delayed for too long.
Liu Jing had thought about it before, but now he has made up his mind to send troops from four counties to the north to attack Liu Biao next year, trying to conquer Jingbei in one fell swoop, and even if it doesn't work, he will also capture Jiangling.
For this reason, Liu Jing sent an urgent letter to Liu Zong of Wuling, ordering him to postpone the encirclement and suppression of Wuxi barbarians and instead focus on pacification and suppression as a supplement, so as to avoid expanding the war and miring himself in the quagmire of war, thus affecting next year's Northern Expedition.
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Then Liu Jing once again focused on government affairs. This year, Jingnan had a bumper harvest and the food crisis was relieved. Liu Jing now has a little spare energy and can do things he has always wanted to do but could not, such as providing free breakfast for officials.
Liu Jing was once a city official and knew the hardships of officials. Take eating as an example. In the Han Dynasty, it was common to have two meals a day. Breakfast was eaten between 7 and 9 in the morning, which happened to be working time. Officials with wealthy families
, there are slaves to deliver meals, but most of the officials prepare pot meals by themselves, and most of them are overnight meals.
Liu Jing provided the officials with a free breakfast of one meat and two vegetables. Even though the meat dishes were only the most common fishery products, they were unanimously welcomed by the officials.
Liu Jing's move not only solved the official's food problem, but also reduced the official's life pressure.
You must know that the vast majority of officials have a monthly salary of less than two hu of rice and three hundred and sixty-six dollars. They can support one person, but it is difficult to support their family. Liu Jing exempted them from the cost of breakfast. Over the years, it is not a small sum.
In addition, officials live alone in their homes on weekdays, and can only go home on holidays to reunite with their families.
Liu Jing used to feel sorry for being alone in an official's house, so he broke this tradition and allowed officials' wives and sons to live in the official's house.
In view of the dilapidated condition of some official buildings, Liu Jing ordered people to renovate them to ensure that the officials and their families would not be exposed to the cold.
As a woman, she has the duty to serve her uncles and aunts, and with all kinds of scruples, only 30 to 40 percent of the wives and sons of officials live in the officials' houses.
"Guanzi" says: "Farmers have regular work, and women have regular things. If a farmer doesn't plow, the people will suffer from hunger; if a woman doesn't weave, the people will suffer from the cold."
As mentioned before, the salaries of officials are not enough to support their families, and most of their wives need to spin and weave to supplement the family income.
There were more than 50 people from poor families. Liu Jing set up a spinning room and provided them with raw materials such as flax and silk cocoons, as well as tools for spinning, weaving and weaving. He paid wages and collected cloth.
In the Han Dynasty, even though they were empresses, they had the honor of "kissing mulberry" and setting an example for the world. Although Deng Yuan and Lai Ci came from famous families, they were also accustomed to being female workers. They went to the spinning room on weekdays to weave clothes and shoes themselves.
Liu Jing's approach did not arouse controversy, because there has always been a tradition in the Han Dynasty of "women working together in the same alley, and doing business at night". The so-called "women working together at night" meant that in order to save money on lights, all the women would get together at night and weave together.
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To be honest, these two things were just a piece of cake for Liu Jing, and they only cost a little money and food. However, they established his lofty status in the hearts of officials. They were truly spending a small amount of money to do big things.
Liu Jing worked for the welfare of officials, and he also did not forget the people. In fact, since taking control of Jingnan, Liu Jing has issued a number of policies to benefit the people, such as tax reductions and exemptions, the abolition of oral money, etc. This time, he focused on corvee labor
"Han Feizi" says: "With fewer corvees, the people will be safe." Liu Jing strictly ordered all counties and counties in Jingnan not to cause trouble to the people unless necessary.
Of course, the person who actually served the most heavily was Liu Jing himself. Over the past year, he conquered Zhangjin in the south and Wuling in the west. He repeatedly mobilized civilians to transport military supplies. Moreover, he will also conquer Liu Biao in the north next year, and he will definitely recruit a large number of civilians by then.
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However, this was unavoidable. The only thing he could do was to strictly restrict counties and counties from arbitrarily recruiting people for corvee labor as in the past.
In mid-September, a stack of paper about half a foot high was placed on Liu Jing's writing desk. This paper was made of bamboo by papermakers in Linxiang and Leiyang, following the process described by Liu Jing and taking several months to make it.
This bamboo paper is earthy in color, tight, tough, flat and smooth, but the texture is a bit brittle and thin, and the bamboo material is not processed carefully enough. There are many bamboo tendons on the paper and a lot of impurities.
Liu Jing looked at bamboo paper according to the standards of modern industrial paper, which was naturally not satisfactory. However, the reality is that bamboo paper made using the methods of later generations is far superior to today's paper.
The most important thing is that bamboo, as a raw material, can be found everywhere in Jingnan. It is no exaggeration to say that it is inexhaustible.
Sitting again were Liu Ba, Huan Jie, Jiang Wan, Xu Shu, Deng Zhi, Lai Gong and others, all of whom were full of praise for bamboo paper. When they learned from the papermaker, there were now craftsmen and more than a hundred children in the papermaking workshop.
, thousands of sheets of bamboo paper can be produced every day, everyone is shocked and surprised.
A hundred years ago, Cai Lun improved the papermaking technology, making the world realize that paper will replace bamboo and silk in the future. However, although paper has continued to develop for hundreds of years, it is far less than people's expectations. Liu Jing solved the problem in just a few months.
solved a problem that could not be solved for hundreds of years.