My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 72 Slow is Fast (First update, thanks to Ang Yang Xin for the 100-point reward)
"What? Am I hallucinating because I'm so hungry and deaf? Lu Yi is actually raising the price to buy it?"

"I suspect I heard it wrong. Wouldn't it be foolish to do this?"

"Aunt Wang, why are you running?"

"No, she wants to rush home to get the land deeds and the child's mother. We have to run away quickly. If we come back too late, Lu Yi will be out of money. Wouldn't that be a big loss?"

The common people struggle with hunger and cold all day long, although there are also some who are willing to die in the face of major issues.

However, most people can only see the small piece of land in front of them due to their vision and status.

Now the sun is rising from the west, and a big fool comes and wants to buy the land at a premium. Where can you find such a good thing?
As long as I can sell the land, I can go to the county government to buy more. There are so many fertile wastelands in Jiuhe. Are you afraid of having no land to farm?

This round trip means a premium of several thousand dollars per acre!

Could there be another fool who would come to this sparsely populated Jiuhe and buy up all the wasteland?
So, under Lu Yi's bloody tactics.

The people in Jiuhe all expressed their willingness to submit to Lu Yi.

Not only did they run home like crazy to take out all the land deeds, they were also scrambling to sell them to Lu Yi.

They were also afraid of falling behind. If the money of Lu Yi, the great philanthropist, was spent, there would be no other fool willing to redeem their land deeds at a premium.

However, Lu Yi had a huge sum of 20 million yuan with him this time. Not to mention a small Jiuheyuan, even buying all of Jiuyuanli nearby would not be a problem!
However, the fellows from Jiuyuan who had already joined Lu Yi's caravan looked at each other in dismay.

Otherwise, reincarnation is a technical job?
The two places are only ten or twenty miles apart, but the treatment is worlds apart.

Their mediocre and inferior fields were worthless even if they were given for free, let alone at the price listed by the Han Dynasty. People were afraid that the Huns or Xianbei people would come one day and rob them of their money, food, and people.

The population of Jiuheli is similar to that of Jiuyuanli, with more than a hundred households. However, the average amount of farmland per household is far less than that of Jiuyuanli, only about six or seven acres.

But with the land deeds, Lu Yi also acquired about seven hectares of land. Based on the price of about ten thousand coins per mu, that would be a full seven million coins.

"Brother, we only spent a little over five million to buy the fifty-plus hectares of prime land in Jiuyuanhewan."

"Now, we have spent seven million dollars on these poorer fields. Isn't it too wasteful?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yi looked at everyone and found that not only Lu Bu had a look of regret on his face, but even Gao Shun and Cheng Lian also looked confused. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Although these three are all great generals who have left their names in history, their political thinking cannot match their status at the peak of history. They need to be further trained and polished in the future."

"Give and take, give and take, only by giving can you gain. The three of you only saw the money we lost, but failed to see the benefits we gained. If you could see the huge benefits like me, perhaps you would not say so."

Lu Yi sighed lightly and started to teach the three people a lesson.

"What do you mean, brother?"

Upon hearing this, the three of them frowned and fell into deep thought.

Lu Yi looked at the three people who were lost in thought and did not disturb them, letting them think on their own. Some things cannot be understood by just relying on others' teachings. Only when you are enlightened can you understand the mystery.

They were not the only three who thought so.

Even the former Jiuyuan County Magistrate Huang Huan had hinted to him that he could use the power of the Jiuyuan County Government to help him clear the obstacles and connect all the places he chose.

But Lu Yi declined.

It’s not that Lu Yi is too willing to spend money, nor is it that Lu Yi doesn’t understand the value of seven million dollars.

Seven million yuan was enough for him to support a cavalry of 800 people for a full six months.

However, even so, Lu Yi still did not hesitate and chose to pay a high price for the redemption instead of using crooked ideas to take shortcuts.

Some things are not only time-consuming and laborious to build, but also difficult to produce results in a short period of time.

But once it is built, it will bring great benefits to those who spend effort, energy, time, money and hard work to build and maintain it.

This is the human heart that cannot be seen or touched, but is everywhere!
Sometimes, slow is fast, and fast is slow.

No matter whether it was Cao Cao, Liu Bei or Sun Ce, after they first became local lords and had the power of life and death over the people of a state, a massive rebellion against them almost always broke out within a few years.

Cao Cao conquered Xuzhou to avenge his father but was attacked by Lu Bu in Yanzhou from behind. Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others surrendered one state, and only two small cities were left in the entire Yanzhou that were still loyal to Cao Cao.

Liu Bei helped Tao Qian resist Cao Cao, and Tao Qian gave him Xuzhou. In an instant, he went from being an unknown poor boy to owning a state and becoming one of the top ten princes in the late Han Dynasty. How free and happy was that? However, the first time he led troops on an expedition, a fire broke out in his backyard. The entire Xuzhou changed hands again overnight. When he returned, he could only continue to be trapped in the isolated city of Xiaopei, continuing to experience the poverty of his ancestors.

Sun Ce used the imperial seal as a pledge to borrow several thousand of his father's former subordinates from Yuan Shu, crossed the river and marched eastward, and easily captured the six counties of Jiangdong. How cool and dashing it was as a young man with a thousand helmets, but he was killed by an assassin not long after. His ambition of attacking Xuchang and welcoming the emperor was shattered in an instant.

This is because the territory was conquered too quickly and people's hearts were not stable.

But it was still the same person, so why did Yanzhou become Cao Cao's heartland after he took it back? Even when Yuan Shao sent troops from Hebei to attack, there was no large-scale rebellion?
After Liu Bei entered Shu, he was defeated and died. After entrusting his son to Zhuge Liang in Baidi City, he was able to allow Shu Han to continue to survive in the weak southwest Shu for decades. If Deng Ai had not risked his life to sneak across Yinping, the subsequent outcome would be even more predictable!
After Sun Ce, his younger brother Sun Quan succeeded to the throne of Wu at a young age. During his fifty years in power, Jiangdong became as solid as a rock. How could he be able to control the southeast?

In fact, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Ce's successors learned a bitter lesson from this and began to pay attention to the hearts of the people in their territory.

Although they all attach great importance to it, their coping methods are fundamentally different.

Cao Cao chose to stop the rebellion by killing. After taking back Yanzhou, he carried out a large-scale purge, killing everyone so that no one dared to show up again.

Zhuge Liang ruled Shu with strict laws, worked hard to govern, appointed people based on their merits, and clearly distinguished between rewards and punishments. He won the support of the people in Shu, and even the barbarians in the south came to submit to him. There was no rebellion in Zhuge Liang's life.

However, Sun Quan chose to share Jiangdong with his ministers and Jiangdong nobles. Although this move allowed him to maintain his position in Jiangdong, the dispersion of power and the lower levels led to the Jiangdong ministers being cautious and fearful. From then on, Jiangdong no longer had the public awareness of advancing north to the Central Plains.

How could Lu Yi not make preparations early when he learned from history?

(End of this chapter)