Xuande

Chapter 287 You Are Not My Subordinate!
Although he is excellent in martial arts, Xiahou Dun is not very good at fighting in military affairs.

In other words, he fought well.

Whatever Liu Bei said, he fought as he wanted. He looked like an executor, and he would never go beyond Liu Bei's orders, and he was quite cautious.

So entrust him with some specific and standard battles, and he will definitely be able to complete the task perfectly and meticulously.

However, Xiahou Dun was obviously unable to handle the arduous combat that required the generals to perform on their own.

In short, he is a consummate battlefield performer.

Leaving the battlefield, Xiahoudun seemed relatively confident in the work of the county guard to govern the local area, and he was personally involved in everything. Even though he had never experienced many things, he quickly got started, and then dealt with them even more than a professional government team faster.

In just over a month, he was very familiar with the work of the county guard, and soon led the team to select the construction site of the collective farm and started a large-scale construction campaign.

He went into battle himself, picked soil and hoeed the ground, dug trenches, set an example, and led everyone to work together, and gained a good reputation in the local area in a short period of time.

The feedback from the members of the Ministry of General Affairs and the local people who partnered with him is quite good.

It was the first time Liu Bei discovered that Xiahou Dun had a talent for administrative work.

In short, according to the information brought back by the people Liu Bei sent to observe the administration, these five people are not only able to serve as generals and fight wars, but also qualified for the duties of prefects in one county. We are steadily advancing.

In terms of salt production, which Liu Bei is most concerned about, the first batch of fine salt produced has been sent to Ji County by Sun Gan, ready to be inspected by Liu Bei.

The salt-making workshop in the Great Salt Pond of Qinghai Lake has gradually entered the right track. Sun Qian suggested that Liu Bei can further increase the number of craftsmen and expand the scale of production.

In terms of the iron and steel industry, Liu Bei has already controlled all the abandoned or unabandoned iron ore production areas that originally belonged to the Liangzhou government, and then sent people to investigate and rectify them. In addition, he has also controlled all the coal mines that can be collected.

According to statistics, the current scale of iron ore and coal mines is not large, and the output is estimated to not be very large. However, these coal mines and iron mines are not fully developed. According to local experienced people, if we continue to mine them can be expanded.

Liu Bei asked to further expand the scale of coal mining, and the scale of iron ore mining can be put aside a little bit. The coal mined in the coal mine must be made into a honeycomb shape according to his method, and then divided into two groups, one is used for ironmaking, and the other is used to smelt iron. Used to boil salt.

In terms of the apple apple industry, the people Liu Bei sent to investigate the overall apple apple planting situation in Liangzhou brought back news that the previous wars had greatly damaged apple apple cultivation, and many rose apple orchards were abandoned, and no one could be found.

At present, there are only a few private rose apple orchards in Liangzhou that are still growing and producing. If it is fully restarted, the government may need to invest funds to take over those abandoned rose apple orchards, and find suitable farmers to plant rose apples. It will take a lot of time and money .

In this regard, Liu Bei thought it was possible, so he immediately signed an order to take the abandoned Pu Tao orchard back to the government, invest funds, and recruit farmers to plant it, with a view to resuming production as soon as possible.

In terms of livestock industry, Ji Jian personally traveled to some places in Hanyang County, Longxi County and Jincheng County. After seeing the excellent pastures in these places, he decided to place the more than 20 cattle, sheep and horses he had captured before in Hanyang County, Longxi County and Jincheng County respectively. The three counties of Jincheng County set up state-owned livestock camps.

Of course, the number of more than 20 is still relatively small, especially the number of horses is only more than 5, less than [-]. Ji Jian thinks that the number is not enough and needs to be increased.

There is still a big difference between pure horses and trained war horses. Ji Jian believes that if Liu Bei wants to have a sufficient number of war horses, he needs to increase the number of horses and increase the number of his subordinates who are engaged in animal husbandry.

Of course Liu Bei is clear about this.

However, in terms of increasing the number of cattle, sheep and horses, war is obviously the best and fastest way, but now there are basically no people who dare to oppose him in the area under his direct control, Qianghu people and local Han people are powerful All the armed separatist forces have been wiped out by him, and there is nothing to fight.

So Liu Bei logically set his sights on Wuwei County, Zhangye County, Jiuquan County and Dunhuang County, as well as the two vassal states of Zhangye and Zhangye Juyan.

It can be said that these six places were obedient to him after his military and political actions were launched, and they would do whatever he asked them to do. To be honest, I have a sincere and sincere attitude towards Liu Bei.

But to say that they completely met Liu Bei's needs because of this, that's not true.

Although Liu Bei's authority is extremely high, the prefects of the four counties and the captains of the two countries dare not slack off on Liu Bei, but when Liu Bei wants to do practical things in these places, their ability to pull down will hinder Liu Bei.

For example, there are many coal mines in Wuwei County, which is the core of coal production in Liangzhou, but its mining efficiency and production efficiency are very low, and the government management is very stretched.

So Liu Bei asked Wuwei County to improve within a limited time to increase production efficiency and production volume, at least not to hinder the smelting department, otherwise Liu Bei would be very angry.

Liu Bei felt that with his own authority, the prefect of Wuwei dared not take it seriously, but this was not the case.

After another inspection, the inspection team found that the coal production in Wuwei County is still very slow, and the improvement effect is very poor, almost equal to no.

When Sun Xiang, who was in charge of Wuwei County, went to observe the results of the rectification in Wuwei County, he found that the so-called rectification was to order the miners in charge of mining to work overtime.

Then the salary remains the same, the food remains the same, and the production tools remain the same, but the workload has increased a lot.

So not surprisingly, several miners were killed in the mine.

The tragic deaths of these miners aroused public outrage and led to the resistance of the miners. They seized the mine manager, whipped him, and killed him for revenge. Huang Zhong, the governor of Wuwei County, was furious when he learned about it, and directly ordered the county guards to organize Rise and arm.

His original intention was to kill a few people to frighten the miners, but he didn't expect that the soldiers under his command were not well organized, and they went up to the head with steel knives in their hands. He killed more than 20 miners, and directly shut down the coal mine. up.

Liu Bei was furious when he heard the news, and personally rushed to Xingshi, Wuwei County to question the crime.

The prefect Huang Zhong faced Liu Bei and expressed tremblingly that he would be able to resume coal mining in the shortest possible time.

"The unruly people are ignorant and dare to disobey the government's orders. The subordinates will solve the matter in the shortest possible time and resume production. They will definitely meet the requirements of the envoy!"

This request was rejected by Liu Bei, who had witnessed the mess of the coal mine.

Liu Bei scolded him sharply.

"If I ask you to reform, you will kill me? Can killing solve the problem? I don't have a subordinate like you who ignores human life! Cold-blooded people who ignore human life are not my subordinates!"

Liu Bei left in a huff, and instead ordered the state government to be directly responsible for the rectification and management of Wuwei Coal Mine.

The reform measures include but are not limited to improving the treatment of miners, reducing the working hours and threats encountered by miners, so as to recruit more miners to restore and expand the production scale of Wuwei Coal Mine as soon as possible.

Then he wrote a letter to the imperial court to impeach Huang Zhong, the prefect of Wuwei County, and planned to urge Liu Hong and Zhang Rang to dismiss him on charges of "incompetence" and "destroying coal mine production so that the salt production process was forced to be delayed", and then replaced him with his favorite candidate—— Cao Cao.

(End of this chapter)