Xuande

Chapter 644
Faced with Liu Bei's forceful force to force others to obey him, not to mention people in other regions, even those collaborators and allies who were close to Liu Bei in the Luoyang court felt a strange feeling.

During this period, many people gradually felt the enthusiasm of Liu Bei's power and realized Liu Bei's powerful strength hidden under his humble appearance.

He is an existence capable of restraining his desire for power, but this restraint comes from his own heart. It is hard to say when it fails or when he becomes a dictator.

The powerful guys in the past were more or less floating and a little vain, so they were domineering in the Sili area and had limited influence on the local area, such as those great eunuchs and generals in the past.

But Liu Bei is different. Liu Bei really has a strong internal and external influence and even executive power. His special status makes him have a large number of disciples who must obey his orders.

It takes several generations for a family's disciples and old officials to spread all over the world, but it took Liu Bei ten years.

This particular situation is unexpected by many people.

Originally, they felt that it was a kind of enjoyment to lean against Liu Bei. Liu Bei, who held power, exuded a gentle and warm light all over his body. They leaned against Liu Bei like people who lacked clothes warming by the fire, and they only felt warm.

But as time goes by, with the in-depth implementation of the slavery restriction order, with Liu Bei's army crushing the local tyrants, and with the action displayed by Liu Bei's local officials, they gradually feel that Liu Bei is exuding The light became a bit too dazzling and scorching hot, the closer you got, the more you felt the burning pain all over your body.

More than one person sighed when communicating with others in private——Is General Liu's power a little too strong?

A delicate political atmosphere pervades Luoyang City.

I don't know if he has a feeling for this, but in order to appease the frightened people, Liu Bei distributed some of the land obtained from the extermination of the powerful.

He gave a wave of rewards to some cronies and bureaucrats who cooperated with him, gave them some land confiscated from the powerful, and also rewarded them with a wave of property.

This was in August of the second year of Jian'an, when the implementation of the slavery restriction order in the Sili area and Bingzhou area was a great success. Bo rewarded them with a part of the land.

At the same time, Liu Bei, on the grounds of the great increase in the income of the imperial court, went to the emperor Liu Xie to increase the salaries of officials in the Sili area, Bingzhou area, and Liangzhou area by [-]% on the original basis.

What he meant was that this is a reward for enforcing the slavery restriction order. In the future, as long as the slavery restriction order is implemented well, officials in other places can also be promoted and raise their salaries!

This approach has attracted admiration from the ruling and opposition parties, and everyone is praising Liu Bei for "governing the country well".

Then Liu Bei's attitude is also very clear, those who help me will be rewarded heavily, those who don't help me, the grass on the grave is already three meters high, so everyone, when I implement the New Deal in the future, what should I do, you understand ?

Just when many people inexplicably felt that the light on Liu Bei was a bit too hot, this wave of "rain and dew" made the ruling class reverse some of their views on Liu Bei.

After all, no one likes fighting money.

They felt that Liu Bei might just dislike the arrogance of common people, but he was very kind to scholars and officials. He not only gave land to those who supported him, but also raised the salaries of all officials. In the hand, it is always comfortable.

As a result, Liu Bei's reputation has been greatly improved again, and the subtle political atmosphere has been swept away. It has become a worry in the hearts of very few people and is no longer publicly mentioned.

With the successful implementation of the slavery ban in Sili and Bingzhou areas, Liu Bei played a set of combined punches, which made his power and prestige within the ruling class even higher.

On this basis, Liu Bei did not continue to toss about throughout the second year of Jian'an, but dealt with the existing things with peace of mind.

He fought against tyrants in the Sili area and Bingzhou area, and devoted most of his energy to settling the 120 million freed slaves, 40 mountain people in Montenegro, and 15 Southern Huns.

Liu Bei mobilized a large amount of resources, manpower, and transport capacity, and settled them in Bingzhou, Liangzhou, and Youzhou, adding a wave of fresh blood to the three border states that lacked population.

According to the plan, this wave of additions will bring Liangzhou's registered population to 180 million, Youzhou's registered population to 150 million, and Bingzhou's registered population to 140 million.

For the three border states with vast land and sparse population, this is a great population reinforcement.

Liangzhou, which has the best construction of collective farms and infrastructure, is the state that absorbs the most powerful population. Hundreds of thousands of relocated people have been properly resettled within five months. The bureaucratic team in Liangzhou has paid a lot for this. The hard work was praised by Liu Bei.

By the end of the second year of Jian'an, the situation in Liangzhou had stabilized, and the relocated population had gradually started their new lives under Liangzhou's sound resettlement policy.

The advantages of the Liangzhou New Deal are obvious.

Youzhou is also good. Although it was not long after the war and construction was difficult in all aspects, the hundreds of thousands of migrants it absorbed were properly resettled within five months.

Xiahou Dun personally led the team to carry out the task, and led the young officials in the state capital to run around, so busy that they couldn't sleep.

As a general, he can only be said to be mediocre in combat, but his military characteristics of obeying orders and executing affairs with high efficiency and strong execution ability give him special advantages when handling civil affairs.

Where there is turmoil, he will send troops to solve the problem, and where there is a cluster of epidemics, he will also send people to implement the isolation policy immediately to prevent the spread of the plague.

He handled the food, housing, medicine and other affairs of the immigrants in an orderly manner without any mistakes. He used the official slaves in the Youzhou area to repair a large number of infrastructures, which brought great surprises to the households who had just escaped slavery.

Originally they thought that going north this time was a journey of death, but to their surprise, the government was very well prepared for this time going north. Some people were injured, sick and died along the way, but the number was indeed very small. Some people arrived in Youzhou safely and started a new life.

It has to be said that this wave of Xiahou Dun's contribution was indeed great, so at the end of the year, Liu Bei also announced that Xiahou Dun would be promoted to the title, and he was granted the title of Jianping County Marquis with [-] households.

As for Bingzhou, which is the most dilapidated state, Manchong is facing the most severe situation.

Because of the lack of manpower and the shortage of experienced bureaucrats, Man Chong is under the greatest pressure. He has to do the most things and deal with a lot of emergencies.

Fortunately, Guan Yu and Qianzhao's troops were there, so after thinking about it, Man Chong decided to use the power of the army to implement military control over Bingzhou.

The efficiency of the army is very high. Relying on military control, Man Chong barely survived the crisis of the surge of civilian households and maintained the order of Bingzhou.

Of course, the support from Luoyang is indispensable.

Liu Bei transported [-]% of all the grain raised to Bingzhou, and mobilized forces from Jizhou and Qingzhou to transport grain to Bingzhou, and also asked the salt interest groups around him to use large-scale transport capacity to provide salt to Bingzhou.

Relying on sufficient food and salt, those households with different ideas in Bingzhou finally survived this winter. There were no large-scale epidemics, freezing and starvation to death, and the most dangerous winter in Bingzhou, and also the most dangerous winter for Man Chong, can be regarded as an enduring passed.

After the spring of the second year, Bingzhou organized large-scale collective land reclamation and planting actions, and agricultural production began to become the mainstream of Bingzhou.

So far, the situation in Bingzhou has truly stabilized.

Outside of the three frontier states, all the land acquired by fighting against the powerful landlords was also taken over by the imperial court. Under Liu Bei's instructions, these lands were used for the construction of collective farms.

Relying on these lands, many places absorbed part of the slave population on the spot and turned them into private households in the states and counties of the Sili area, which increased the population of the Sili area by hundreds of thousands.

It is much easier to absorb this part of the population. It is much cheaper to absorb and settle on the spot than sending them to the three border states.

During this period, Henan Yin Cao Cao settled more than [-] slaves in Henan Yin's jurisdiction. He was the one who settled the largest number of slaves in the Sili area and had the most outstanding political achievements, and was specially commended by Liu Bei.

Time has entered Jian'an for three years, and Man Chong seems to have sublimated, dealing with all kinds of things in an orderly manner, no longer in a hurry, and no longer crying and asking Liu Bei for supplies, much more calm and calm More, the whole person seems to be enlightened.

Liu Bei also completed the finishing work for the slavery restriction order in the Sili area and Bingzhou, and announced that the slavery restriction order has achieved good results, so this stage of the slavery restriction order for the Sili area and Bingzhou has come to an end.

The turbulent second year of Jian'an has come to an end.

At the end of the year, the officials of the Luoyang court who were too busy and exhausted thought that Liu Bei would live in peace for a while, and would do nothing in the third or fourth year of Jian'an, rest with the people, govern conservatively, and do nothing out of the ordinary. matter.

But Liu Bei is obviously not the kind of person they think who likes to live a comfortable life.

In other words, Liu Bei also likes a comfortable life, but there are some prerequisites.

He is a person who can only be happy when his mind is happy. If his heart is not happy, no matter how idle his body is, he will be unhappy after all.

The actions in Liangzhou, Sili and Bingzhou have come to an end, but other places have not promoted the slavery restriction. There are still many slaves working hard on the land of the slave owners in other places!
For example, Yizhou.

(End of this chapter)