I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 378, Nanpiao problem

Because of the drought, Yuan Shao came to Xiangyang for nothing. The only advantage was that he solved the problem of buying food from outside.

The Yuan Clan has four generations and three princes, and the imperial court has relationships all over the world. Even in a wild place like Jingzhou, there are a large number of powerful nobles who have relationships with Yuan Shao, or they want to have a relationship with Yuan Shao.

They also want to sell the grain in their hands. Liu Bei has reclaimed tens of millions of acres of land in Nanjun over the years, because he learned Xu Wei's planting techniques. Nanjun's climate is much stronger than Bingzhou's, and Bingzhou can only do it for two years. three seasons.But this South County can achieve two harvests a year, plus the popularization of soil fertilizer and struvite, and the construction of water conservancy projects.Jingzhou's grain has grown explosively by two or three times in the past few years!If Liu Bei hadn't been recruiting refugees to Nanjun for the past few years and consumed a lot of food, I'm afraid that the price of food in Jingzhou would drop to the floor price of 100 yuan at this time.

However, no matter how low the price of grain was, Liu Bei's poor settlement actually forbade them to sell grain to Jingzhou. All those who violated this prohibition were ransacked by Liu Bei.The local tyrants can only drool at the price of 300 yuan and one grain in the Central Plains.

Now that there is a big order from Yuan Shao, the local tyrants in Jingzhou are naturally overjoyed. As long as the grain is transported to Yuzhou and resold, the price can be tripled. This kind of business is too rare.

So Yuan Shao bought 100 million shi of grain at a low price in Jingzhou, and placed an order of 200 million shi, and then had to return to Luoyang City. After all, the drought affected a wide range, and he needed to return to Luoyang City to take charge of the overall situation.

But before Yuan Shao left Jingzhou, he had to sigh: "No, he still has some skills. The entire Central Plains is short of grain, and he can still control the price of grain in Jingzhou to around [-] yuan. This is already the most prosperous period of the Han Dynasty. Value. The Tuntian system is still useful, and we still have to learn a thing or two in Sili!"

But Xu You said embarrassingly: "At first you forgot that there is no wasteland in the Central Plains. Where can we find land for reclamation, but Liu Bei has Jingzhou and Yangzhou, and the large wasteland south of the Yangtze River can be reclaimed by him!"

Although the population of the Central Plains has been reduced by half compared to before the Yellow Turban Uprising, the land is more concentrated in the hands of powerful and powerful gentry. It can be said that ordinary people cannot have land without family protection!You can only escape to Hebei or Jiangnan!So Yuan Shao has no conditions for reclamation at all!

For such a situation, Yuan Shao can only sigh. The powerful and powerful gentry are the foundation of his rule, and it is impossible for him to destroy his foundation and learn from Liu Bei.

But if you can't control the land, you can't control the food. Just like this drought, although the grain production in the Central Plains has been reduced, it is not a complete harvest. With the current population situation in the Central Plains, it is impossible for the food to skyrocket, but the entire Central Plains. They are driving up the price of food, and the price of food will naturally rise to the sky.Yuan Shao has nothing to do about such things, even the elders of the Yuan family are doing such things!He can only find a way to purchase grain from other places to stabilize grain prices in the Central Plains.

Divide the words!

At this time, Liu Bei was also extremely busy. Since it had been decided to attack Yizhou after the autumn harvest, the army had to start preparations now, and food had to be transported. Zhang did not put down the rebellion in Yizhou in a short time.

It can be said that all these preparations are extremely heavy, but the time left for Liu Bei is not too much, only two months!

Officials throughout the imperial court are preparing for the big battle two months later.

But when Liu Bei was so busy, Yang Biao and Zhang Wen found Liu Bei.

"Xuande, there is another matter that you need to find a way to deal with! Many gentry from the three prefectures of Hebei have come to Jingzhou with the court, but they have lost their land and family property. It can be said that they have nothing. Is the court trying to settle it? Give them a look, after all, these are the Zhongliang of our great man, if we don’t arrange them well, the gentry and nobles in other parts of the world will feel chilled, thinking that the imperial court has treated Zhongliang badly!”

Liu Bei turned cold and said, "What do they want?"

Liu Bei didn't have a good impression of them. When he pacified the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, he spent three percent of his energy on the Yellow Turban Army and seven percent on them.There are many noble families who fled to the south, but many of them are Liu Bei's enemies, so Liu Bei naturally doesn't have a good impression of them.

Zhang Wen naturally knew this too, but they were his own people after all, and the imperial court didn't care about them!

So Zhang Wen said: "The imperial court is not recovering Yangzhou. Now Yangzhou lacks a large number of officials. Should we let them go to Yangzhou to become officials!"

Originally, a barren place like Yangzhou was looked down upon by the nobles in Jizhou, but now their families are not down and out, these people want to start a business in Yangzhou, it is better than going south in Xiangyang like this!
But Liu Bei said: "Except for Jiujiang County and Lujiang County, other places are under the control of court officials. People from Hebei have been inserted in. What about the former officials? When Yuan Shu attacked Yangzhou, they were still loyally doing things for the big man. We Doing so now is still treating loyal ministers badly!"

Obviously this is not a good idea. Except for the 2000 shi high-ranking officials, the other officials in Yangzhou are local nobles in Yangzhou. The powerful gentry control these places. If they want to put the nobles in Hebei there, the whole Yangzhou will be in turmoil like Yizhou.

Yangzhou's elite clans are all locals, and they have already established a stable relationship. When Hebei people intervene, Hebei people must rely on their power to seize people's land, manors, shops, mines and other resources!After all, their foundation in Hebei has been eradicated by Lei Gong.Now I can only find a way to re-establish the foundation in Yangzhou.

But Liu Bei knew that what the imperial court did was to let a group of evil dragons go to Yangzhou!

Zhang Wen said helplessly: "They followed the imperial court for thousands of miles before arriving in Xiangyang. There is no need to doubt their loyalty to the imperial court. The imperial court can't let them continue to gather and wander in Xiangyang. The imperial court will always find a way to help them solve some life problems. The problem, otherwise the big man will definitely lose the hearts of the people."

Liu Bei thought for a while and said: "Do it yourself, have enough food and clothing, the south of the Yangtze River is no better than the Central Plains, there are wastelands and swamps everywhere, there is no shortage of land here, as long as you have the ability to develop hundreds of thousands of acres, the court will not only not limit it, but also help them solve it. Practical difficulties. Over the years, Bei has invested more than a billion dollars in land reclamation in Nanjun, and only now has the current results. If the elites in Hebei are willing to go to Changsha County for land reclamation, Bei is very welcome. If there is any problem, Bei will find a way to help them solve!"

"And the land they reclaimed just solved their family business problem. Only with the land, their family will not decline. This is a good thing for the court and them!"

(End of this chapter)