Mi Han

Chapter 174
In February of the 25th year of Han Jian'an, Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, sent an envoy Deng Zhi and Han Hussar General Sun Quan to ascend the altar to make an alliance, and agreed to fight against Cao bandits together in Japan.

After completing this matter, Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, issued several royal orders in succession.

The first way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, presented himself to the Son of Heaven. He said that the former general Guan Yu was powerful in China and had made great contributions to beating thieves.

Liu Bei also added 1000 households to the food town of Guan Yu Han Shouting Hou, and combined the previous [-] and [-] households.

The second way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, merged the three eastern counties of Xicheng, Shangyong, and Fangling into Hanxing County, and ordered Mi Yang, the general of the Marquis of Guannei, to be the prefect of Hanxing, and ruled Shangyong.

The third way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, appointed Chen Dao as the general of Zhendong and the prefect of Nanjun to rule Jiangling.

The fourth way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, appointed General Yamen Guan Ping as the prefect of Wuling to manage the public security.

The fifth way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, ordered General Fu Xun to be the prefect of Changsha to govern Changsha.

The sixth way: Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, ordered the captain of the northern part of Lingling and the general Xi Zhen to be promoted to the prefect of Guiyang to govern Chen County
Liu Bei issued a total of several royal orders to arrange the defense and personnel affairs of Jingzhou's counties.

In February of the 25th year of Han Jian'an, Liu Bei issued an order for Wang Jia to return to Yizhou.

In order not to delay the spring plowing in Yizhou, Liu Bei had arranged for most of the soldiers in Shuzhong to withdraw to Yizhou one after another. Now there are not many soldiers who follow Liu Bei to return to Chengdu.

Among them are mainly Zhao Yun's Bai Mubing and Mi Yang's [-] recruits.

After Mi Yang was appointed by Liu Bei as the prefect of Hanxing, he should have led the army to take office.

However, most of Mi Yang's [-] recruits did not have any armor or weapons, so Liu Bei ordered Mi Yang to go back to Chengdu with him first. After obtaining a large amount of ordnance from the arsenal in Chengdu, he traveled northward from Chengdu to serve in Shangyongzhong.

At the gate of Xiangyang City, a huge team of kings is docking outside the south gate of Xiangyang City.

On top of the magnificent king's car in the team of more than ten thousand people, Liu Bei sat in the king's car and looked at Guan Yu below, and the reluctance in his heart began to rippling again.

Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu, who had gray hair on his temples, and entrusted him, "Yun Chang, my brother is leaving, and Jingzhou will be handed over to you."

Facing Liu Bei's entrustment, Guan Yu's face was solemn, and he solemnly clasped his fists under the king's car and said: "Your Majesty, please rest assured, Jingzhou will never lose if you have a minister."

Guan Yu's solemn promise sounded in his ears, but Liu Bei was not completely relieved when he heard it.

He said to Guan Yu: "You are proud of the scholar-bureaucrats because you treat the soldiers well, although being kind to the soldiers can give you the morale of the army, you will be invincible.

However, there are many aristocratic families in Jingzhou, and the power of the aristocratic families in Jingzhou is also very important if Jingzhou is to be stabilized. "

"There is a gap between Pan Jun and you. Although this is Pan Jun's fault, you must take this as a warning to avoid being hurt by backstabbing in the future."

"Pan Jun will be brought back to Yizhou. Ji Chang will stay in Jingzhou to assist you. Ji Chang is calm and resourceful, and he comes from the Jingxiang family. You should discuss everything with him."

Faced with Liu Bei's reminder, Guan Yu's face showed obedience.

Seeing this scene, a smile appeared on Liu Bei's face.

Liu Bei finally said to Guan Yu: "Go back to the city, brother should go."

It's just that Guan Yu didn't obey Liu Bei's "Wang Order".

Guan Yu's face showed a look of reluctance, which was rare for Guan Yu who was always calm.

Guan Yu bowed to Liu Bei and said, "My minister, send the king off for a while."

Facing Guan Yu's request, Liu Bei smiled.

There is always a banquet in the world, Guan Yu has a heavy responsibility, how far can he send it?

"Train your soldiers well, hoard food and grass, and meet you in Chang'an alone in the future."

After speaking, Liu Bei ordered the king to drive away.

Under Liu Bei's Wang Ling, among the tens of thousands of troops, the military drums sounded instantly, and the tens of thousands of soldiers began to move.

After the sound of the military drum, Mi Yang bid farewell to Guan Ping and the others in another place, and immediately turned to look at the team of ten thousand people who started to move.

After seeing that Liu Bei's Wang Jia had started his journey, Mi Yang immediately bowed to Guan Ping who was opposite him, "Frankly, I'm leaving."

"See you in the future."

After speaking, Mi Yang pulled the reins, then turned the horse's head, and headed towards the royal team ahead.

Seeing the back of Mi Yang leaving, Guan Ping stood behind Mi Yang and shouted: "Zi Sheng, take care!"

Guan Ping's voice drifted to Mi Yang's ears along the breeze, and Mi Yang didn't look back after hearing this entrustment, he just raised the whip in his hand and waved it as a farewell.

Under the rays of the rising sun, Mi Yang's whip-raising figure turned into a blur of light and shadow, and finally disappeared above the horizon of Jingbei land.

Departing from Xiangyang City, they went south to Jiangling, and joined Li Yan's army who had been waiting outside Jiangling City. The two armies finally formed a long queue of nearly 2 people and headed towards Yizhou.

After more than half a month of long-distance marching, after crossing numerous hills and mountains, this huge returning home army finally stepped into the vast Chengdu Plain.

When he first entered the Chengdu Plain, Mi Yang in the army felt a completely different scene from Jingzhou.

In the vast plain, there is a newly repaired official road with a width of tens of feet leading directly to the distant city of Chengdu.

And on both sides of the official road, there are tens of thousands of acres of fields, and among the tens of thousands of acres of fields, many canals are interspersed among these tens of thousands of acres under Zhuge Liang's personal planning.

In order to ensure a bumper harvest, Zhuge Liang attached great importance to irrigation and water conservancy.

There is Dujiangyan outside Chengdu, which was built by Li Bing, the prefect of Qinshu County during the Warring States Period. Since the completion of Dujiangyan, it has been the lifeblood of Sichuan and Shu agriculture.

After Liu Bei took charge of Chengdu, Zhuge Liang made on-the-spot investigations and ordered people to repair and improve Dujiangyan.

On the other hand, Zhuge Liang regarded Dujiangyan as the lifeline of agriculture in central Sichuan, recruited 1000 and [-] soldiers to guard it, and set up weir officials.

Mi Yang's cousin Mi Wei served as the first Dujiangyan official, responsible for guarding the safety of Dujiangyan.

This move can be described as unprecedented.

And Zhuge Liang's move has a profound background.

Since the completion of Dujiangyan: the common people enjoy it, divert water for irrigation when it is dry, and block the water gate when it is rainy. Therefore, Shu, with fertile fields and thousands of miles, is called Tianfu in the world.

But this scene changed after Liu Zhang and his son came to power.

Liu Yan, the first Yizhou shepherd, was an outsider. In order to gain the support of the rich people in the middle of Shu, he indulged them very much. However, Liu Zhang's character was inherently soft, which was even more obvious after he succeeded the Yizhou shepherd.

Under the continuous tolerance and indulgence of Liu Yan and Liu Zhang, the behavior of the nobles in central Shu became more and more excessive.

Everyone knows that Dujiangyan is the lifeblood of agriculture in central Sichuan. In order to control this lifeline, those powerful families in central Sichuan have united and dispatched their families to drive away ordinary people near Dujiangyan.

Originally, Dujiangyan was: when there is drought, water will be diverted for irrigation, and when it is rainy, the water gate will be blocked.

But under the control of those powerful families in central Shu, Dujiangyan completely violated the original design intention and became their private weapon for profit.

"If you follow it, you will divert water for irrigation, and if you go against it, you will be dusai water gate."

What's more, in order to expand their own interests, those big clans in central Sichuan actually dug water canals everywhere after introducing the water from Dujiangyan into the Chengdu Plain, and channeled all the water into their own fields.

Originally, the water from the Minjiang River "passed through the Chengdu of the Erjiang River" under the action of Dujiangyan, but it became "passed through the private fields of the Erjiang River" under the coquettish manipulation of those wealthy families in central Sichuan.

In the situation where the wealthy families in central Shu controlled Dujiangyan, because many people's farmland could not be replenished with water, a large number of fields were barren.

Under the barrenness, the people had no food income, so they could only sell their fields to the rich families in central Shu.

In the end, the fields were sold out, and the people could only sell their families and themselves to the big clans in central Shu as slaves and vassals in order to survive.

After Liu Bei captured Chengdu, the Yizhou clan maintained their ownership of the local Dujiangyan in order to please Liu Bei.

They all suggested that the houses in Chengdu and the mulberry fields outside the city should be distributed to the soldiers, hoping to block the mouths of Liu Bei's ministers by sharing the benefits.

But it is a pity that the proposals of those big families were opposed by a group of ministers headed by Zhao Yun:

"The people of Yizhou, who first suffered from the military revolution, can return all their fields and houses, so that they can live in peace and resume their businesses, and then they can be transferred to service, which is their favor."

After that, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang, who gradually spread their tentacles of power throughout the Chengdu Plain, gradually discovered the rampant actions of the local big clans.

This move is obviously absolutely unacceptable to Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's monarchs and ministers.

The purpose of the two monarchs and ministers is to let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and it is impossible to remain indifferent to the destruction of many people's homes.

Ever since, a "Shu Ke" came into being under the auspices of Zhuge Liang.

As soon as this law, which mainly attacks the interests of powerful people, is issued, those powerful people who occupied Dujiangyan in the past and the fish and meat of the common people were instantly wiped out.

Before the promulgation of "Shu Ke", most of the powerful scholar-bureaucrats in the middle of Shu used their wealth and power to bully the common people, making the people in the middle of Shu think of chaos, as many as eight out of ten households.

After the promulgation of "Shu Ke", Zhuge Liang deviated from his mildness and normalcy, and he strictly implemented the strategy of "treat the strong first, and then treat the weak".

Liqiang means practicing the rule of law, restricting and combating bureaucrats and tyrannical powers who are "authoritative and self-indulgent".

Weakness in reason means working hard to support farmers and develop production.

With the help of the law "Shu Ke", Zhuge Liang swept through the powerful families who occupied Dujiangyan with the method of "convict first, then send troops", liberated Dujiangyan again, and finally sent troops to guard it.

Since then, Zhuge Liang has personally re-planned the water canals in various parts of the Chengdu Plain, so that the water from Dujiangyan can be truly used for local people's livelihood again.

In addition, Zhuge Liang took advantage of the opportunity to clean up some tyrants to rescue a large number of fields and population that had been bought and sold by force, thus gradually stabilizing the livelihood of the people near the Chengdu Plain.

Since then, the people in central Shu have enjoyed great happiness, and they are all grateful for Duke Zhuge's benevolent government.

Under Zhuge Liang's administration, the Chengdu Plain reappeared a prosperous scene with "scattered ditches and scattered veins, erroneous borders, millet oil, and japonica rice."

The land of Shu was originally rich and fertile, with fertile rivers and fertile fields. With Zhuge Liang's careful management, the agricultural output was very high.

The paddy fields in Mianzhu and Guanghan in the Dujiangyan Irrigation District have maintained a record of more than [-] Dendrobium per mu.

At the same time, under the rule of Cao Wei and Sun Quan, the highest record per mu of paddy field was less than half.
In Mi Yang's sight, many people in sackcloth were working in the fields beneath their feet.

If you look closely, they all have more or less happy smiles on their faces.

What does it mean to live and work in peace and contentment?

With fields under your feet and food in your hands, this is what all people yearn for most to live and work in peace and contentment.

And all of this was given to them by Zhuge Liang.

Before Zhuge Liang came to power, most of these people were still tenants of powerful families and had no personal freedom.

They have worked hard all their lives, and may not have a grain of their own.

But now it is different, they themselves become the masters of the fields.

Zhuge Liang devoted his whole life to restoring the prosperity and prosperity of the world during the reign of Wenjing in the pre-Han Dynasty.

So even though Zhuge Liang knew that farming would yield more food and grass, since he came to power, he has not carried out a large-scale strategy of farming in central Shu.

If we talk about farming, there are thousands of miles of fertile fields in the middle of Shu, and because of the previous wars, a large number of landless people escaped from Guanzhong, it really has all the natural conditions for farming.

But Zhuge Liang knew very well that once the policy of farming was implemented, the supervision would be abolished and the government invaded the interests of the people in the long run, which would definitely cause great harm to the people in the end, which completely violated his original intention of coming out of the mountain.

After the army entered the boundary of the Chengdu Plain, the outline of the majestic and majestic Chengdu City in the distance was already looming.

Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to Chengdu City, Mi Yang felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.

In the 16th year of Jian'an, when Liu Bei entered Shu, the young Mi Yang who was favored by Liu Bei was also brought into Shu by him.

Then in the 23rd year of Jian'an, Mi Yang was recalled to Jingzhou because Mi Fang missed his son.

During the eight years from the 16th year of Jian'an to the 23rd year of Jian'an, Mi Yang lived in Shuzhong all the time.

This period of time happened to be the time when Mi Yang's mind and personality gradually took shape, so it can be said that Shuzhong is Mi Yang's second hometown.

Mi Yang is very familiar with everything here.

He said to Deng Ai who was beside him: "Shizai, what do you think of the people's livelihood in Sichuan?"

When Mi Yang finished speaking, he had a proud smile on his face.

Although there is such a scene of living and working in peace and contentment in Sichuan, most of them came from the hands of Zhuge Liang, Fazheng, and Liu Ba.

But among these three sages, two are his teachers, which makes Mi Yang feel honored.

Deng Ai looked in surprise at the hard-working people on both sides of the official road, and the water canals in the farmland that looked like a source of life. He spontaneously praised: "It's really a scene in the book."

Deng Ai has been a farmer since he was a child, so he has his own views on agricultural development.

It is not the first time Deng Ai has seen these tens of thousands of acres of fields. He grew up in the Central Plains, and he has seen scenes of tens of thousands of acres of fields connected.

He has even seen hundreds of thousands of people bowing their heads and working in the fields together, which is the foundation of the national power of the Central Plains.

But compared to what he saw in the Central Plains, maybe the scene of the handover of fields outside Chengdu was not as strong as under Cao Cao's rule, but he felt a very different feeling from the fields here.

That is to be angry.

The north is dominated by the farming system, although farming can collect a lot of grain and grass for Cao Cao in a short period of time.

However, under the system of tuntian, the people were oppressed by the government and lived a miserable life. Most of their faces were numb when they were working.

As for the people in Sichuan outside the city of Chengdu, when they bowed their heads to work, their faces were filled with hopeful smiles for the future, which was enough to make Deng Ai feel novel.

The fields and acres are criss-crossed and connected to the sky, and the people are working and laughing constantly.

In the past, Deng Ai thought that similar scenes were the imagination of the ancients, but he never thought that all this could come true.

Isn't this the prosperous age?
According to the general, all this is due to Duke Zhuge.

Then if one day the whole world is governed by Duke Zhuge, will the prosperity of the world come?
Deng Ai became deeply curious about what kind of person Zhuge Gong was.

As the King of Hanzhong's team continued to drive, a group of civil and military ministers were already waiting ten miles outside Chengdu.

Under the leadership of a minister from Yuan Ting Yue Zhi, they were preparing to welcome the return of their king.

　Zhuge Liang's benevolent government is not just a slogan, he has really done a lot of practical things with the people.

　　The second volume will start the plot of farming, and then use the protagonist's vision to systematically describe the people's livelihood, politics, economy, military and other aspects of that era from many aspects.

　　Of course there will be wars.

　　Continue to code words, there will be two chapters in a while, and they will all be in the early morning.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)