Three Kingdoms

That's right, Liu Bei is also considering a new path.

"Brother, there is no need to be too humble, lest you destroy your own morale!" ” Guan Yu said in a deep voice, “During the past few days, some heroes came from Zhuya to surrender, which shows that my brother’s reputation is growing...”

Liu Bei stroked his beard and said, "What about this? Haha, these people may not all have good intentions." 』

Zhang Fei's eyes widened, "Brother, are you saying these people have ulterior motives?" Then just kill him! 』

Liu Bei still smiled gently, "It's okay, let's take a look and talk about it later." As long as we are not anxious or chaotic, others will be confused..."

Unlike Sun Quan, who was thinking about the Northern Expedition, Liu Bei, who was kicked out of the finals by Fei Qian early, did not have any regrets for the Central Plains in his heart. He just knew the limitations of his own strength, so he had to look away.

Among the three heroes of the Three Kingdoms in history, the one who knows the current affairs the most is none other than Liu Daer. ​​As the saying goes, he can stretch and bend, he can be big and small, he can be soft and he can be hard...

Well, there seems to be something wrong... Never mind, as long as the meaning is correct.

Therefore, what Liu Bei considered after establishing a firm foothold in Jiaozhi was not to immediately counterattack Sichuan or the Central Plains, but to accumulate strength.

This is almost an instinct of Liu Bei, or an experience and lesson he has learned in his life.

He has no strength, and even his words sound like farts. He can't hear them at all from a distance, and it's annoying when he's up close.

"Most of the people in Zhuya are pirates..." Liu Bei smiled, "But it doesn't matter. As long as I can use it... pirates are nothing. We also gathered the Yellow Turban pirates back then, right?" I'm afraid these guys have bad intentions..."

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes and snorted softly.

Liu Bei smiled and said, "However, there may be something we want in Zhuya..."

Zhang Fei scratched his head and said, "What can be in that ghost place?" I think the Zhan people here are as poor as ghosts. Could it be that the place in Zhuya is any better? 』

Liu Bei waved his hand and said, "This is really different." Taking advantage of people..."

Liu Bei turned around slightly, looked in the direction of Zhanren's village in the distance, and then said with a smile: "Unless Zhanren intends to show weakness...otherwise, what do you think of Zhanren?" 』

Guan Yu shook his head.

Zhang Fei said a few words, "Local chickens and tile dogs." 』

"Hahahaha..." Liu Bei laughed, and then sighed leisurely, "Rinan, Rinan...do you know why this place is called Rinan?" 』

Zhang Fei shook his head.

Liu Bei pointed to the sun in the sky and said, "The sun's shadow here is in the south in the middle of the year, so it is called Rinan." 』

In the middle of the year, it’s summer.

Guan Yu looked up at the sun and nodded, "That's it." 』

Liu Bei still smiled, "Do you know when this name came about?" During the time of Xiaowu, it was probably the Yuanding or Yuanfeng years. At that time, Emperor Xiaowu conquered many places, so he changed the name from Ding to Feng..."

"Oh, what happens next?" ” Zhang Fei asked, obviously he was quite interested in these things.

Liu Bei thought for a while, "I forgot how it was written specifically... But in my impression, when Zhan Ren was in Yuan Ding Yuan Feng, it was like this... "Humans are like animals, there is no difference between old and young"... ...Think about it, after so many years, these people who are occupying people...haha...still look like this..."

"It is said that farming has been practiced in the land of Rinan for more than 600 years. In fact, its farming methods were no different from those of the Spring and Autumn Period at the earliest. They were all cultivated with fire and slash, but the crops matured quickly. You also know this. ..." Liu Bei said, "The fire is in July, and it can be ripe in October. There are also fires in December, and then it will be ripe in April of the following year. This is the land of two ripeness that Hussar said... 』

"Such a good piece of land, but you have seen it..." Liu Bei shook his head and sighed, "It seems like nothing has changed in these hundreds of years... It shows that these people are occupying people... Humph..."

Guan Yu nodded and said, "Brother insisted on coming in person to meet with the leader of the Zhan people. So it turned out that he wanted to see with his own eyes whether the Zhan people were real or not?" 』

Liu Bei nodded and said, "This is one of the purposes." The hussar has a saying, even if the language is different and the customs are different, as long as he can be called a "human", he can be educated, otherwise..."

The "person" Liu Bei talks about is, of course, not just the concept of a physical person.

Guan Yu stroked his long beard and nodded, "I understand." 』

"ah? Understand what? Zhang Fei's eyes widened, "Brother, second brother, what are you talking about?" 』

Liu Bei laughed and said, "Second brother, please tell third brother. 』

Guan Yu nodded slightly, and then glanced at Zhang Fei with a little disdain, "Zhanren can only be used, and education is difficult to achieve in a short period of time... There has been no decent change for hundreds of years, so naturally it is not worth our while." Why spend too much energy and time... On the contrary, the people in Zhuya Land may be more suitable for us..."

"right. Zhuya was also called barbaric and rude at the time, but now you look at it... the gap is huge... People from Zhuya can come to us by boat, and then these Zhan people just huddle in the mountains..." Liu Bei pointed to the land on both sides of the road and said, "I have seen these lands, and they are actually very suitable for farming, but does it occupy people's farmland... Think about it, there is only a small amount of farmland, and there are no agricultural tools. ...According to people who came to Zhuya, there are millions of acres of cultivated land within Zhuya... This number may be a little watery, but no matter how you put it, it is more than what these people want...With cultivated land , only then can people be able to settle down, and only then can they be passed down in a proper way..."

"What my brother said is true. With cultivated land, we can feed more people..." Guan Yu added, "If we want to rebuild counties in the land south of Jiaozhi Jiuzhenri, repair water conservancy, and build ships, we need more." With too many manpower, if there is not enough food, we cannot guarantee that these projects can be carried out smoothly... This is a complicated matter. We can't expect these people who don't even have clothes to understand such a complicated matter..."

Liu Bei lamented: "This is also what I am worried about... In addition to recruiting people, we must also pay attention to arrangements, allocate money, food and equipment, and epidemic prevention and resettlement. These all need to be solved... The conditions in Zhuya Land are relatively speaking. It will be better..."

To put it simply, even when facing the same indigenous people, Zhuya's degree of Chineseness will be higher than that of Rinan. It is relatively easier to communicate about something, and there will not be the same chicken-and-duck talk with Zhanren. The situation of playing the piano to the cow.

"I'm not here just to occupy people..." Liu Bei said, "I'm also here for the treasure..."

"baby? "Zhang Fei looked around, "Everything but wood is bugs..."

"There are also Han people. Liu Bei said slowly, the smile on his face also disappeared, "Yes, the Han people are more special..."

During the Western Han Dynasty, a county had been established here, but later the country was not strong enough, and Nichinan Jiuzhen only had a few gains and losses. By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, before Liu Bei arrived, Shi Xie and others were huddled in the Jiaozhi Hepu area, with few people. Further south.

But doesn’t it mean that in Jiuzhen Rinan, there are only indigenous people and no Han people?

Not so.

Liu Bei knew that this piece of land was very fertile, and if it could be managed well, the future would be limitless. However, because of his salty population, he could only look at this piece of land with covetous eyes. He obviously had more advanced methods in his hands, and even more Good tools can still only be developed to a limited extent. For now, Liu Bei is short of people everywhere, whether it's plowing fields, mining, or drying salt and building ships. He really wants to split a man into two parts...

Not only was there a shortage of labor force, there were also not many middle-level officials under Liu Bei.

Craftsmen are equally scarce.

All of this made Liu Bei feel overwhelmed and unable to do anything.

Although some schools have been initially set up to convert the people who escaped from the Central Plains and the natives with a higher degree of Chineseness into craftsmen as much as possible and become household registrations under Liu Bei's rule, the results are not fast, and the gap is still obvious .

Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, wars broke out frequently in the Central Plains, and people continued to flee south. Jiaozhi is a vast and sparsely populated area, and most of the area is still in the barbaric era. At that time, the sons of the gentry who were willing to join the Shixie family could go to Shixie to eat and drink. Other ordinary people, or those who were unwilling to find Shixie, could go there. If you hide in the mountains, open up a piece of farmland, grow some food, and become self-sufficient, you can also survive and avoid the disaster of war.

Population, only people can have strength.

Shi Xie claimed at that time that he had 80,000 soldiers, and some said he had 100,000 soldiers, including 30,000 elite soldiers.

Of course, these are all bragging by the Shixie clan.

According to Liu Bei's own statistics, Shi Xie's men, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, had at most 10,000 to 20,000 standing soldiers. These soldiers may be able to dominate the Jiaozhi area, but once they disperse to Jiuzhen Rinan The area was obviously not enough to see, let alone participate in the battle of the Central Plains. Therefore, Jiaozhi Shixie had always tried to be peaceful until Liu Bei came.

If the population is insufficient, there will not be enough food and grass. If there is not enough food and grass, there will be no way to feed more soldiers. So in the final analysis, if we want to develop, it is a matter of population.

In addition to using good conditions to attract barbarians and refugees from the mountains to settle down and increase their household registration, Liu Bei can only use his technological advantages to make up for the problem of insufficient population. But the power of technology is also limited, especially in matters such as population. No matter how much technology Liu Bei has, it will only be exhausted. Those who should conceive in ten months will still have to conceive in ten months. For more than ten years, What technology can be used to replace the growth process?

Liu Bei originally brought some basic officials, but now they have basically dispersed and become local officials. In addition to handling government affairs, these people also serve as school heads, technical advisers, local judges and many other positions. In the occupied areas In the beginning, it was just fine, but as time went on, these people inevitably had various problems.

Some people do their duty diligently, and then they are exhausted to death...

Some people saw other people half dead, so they were scared or tired, so they naturally relaxed.

This is not an adjective, it is truly "half-dead".

Being acclimatized and exhausted for a long time, once you get sick, "half-death" is considered an eye-opener from God.

Fortunately, Liu Bei is still kind, or at least he has retained some kind qualities. Unlike the capitalists in later capitalist countries, he naturally does not preach that 996 is a blessing...

Even Liu Bei felt vaguely anxious. Time is not forgiving, he can wait one year, two years, or three years, but if he has to wait for the next generation to come out, Liu Bei may have lost all his glory and become a hobbled old man who can't walk.

So, Liu Bei came to Rinan, because there was a very special group of Han people here in Rinan.

Those Han Chinese who were exiled.

Throughout the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, Jiaozhi's position was generally awkward. Although he is considered a big man, he is often excluded from the so-called "orthodox" big men. If the entire Han Dynasty is compared to a courtyard of a home, then Zhongyuan is the foyer and lobby, and Jiaozhi is not even a side room, at most it is just a garbage dump in the corner of the courtyard.

Yes, this is where the big man discards his "garbage".

Since the Western Han Dynasty, it seems that this place has become a place for the emperor to dispose of some "garbage". This was true in the Western Han Dynasty, and it was the same in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Not only ordinary families were exiled here, but even relatives of the emperor were not spared. For example, it is the Yin family. Yes, it is the Yin family of Emperor Guangwu. I think back when Emperor Guangwu was still a poor boy...

At first, the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty would throw these people to the Hepu area around Jiaozhi. Then, as these areas became more developed and prosperous, and the living conditions became relatively better, the emperor felt unhappy and said that it was wrong to let these political prisoners go to Jiaozhi and Hepu. Did you enjoy it? So I swayed my arms and threw the "garbage" farther away.

By the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the place where people were basically distributed was Ninan.

To put it simply, it is Hikage County, a county in Nichinan County. The sun is above the head and the scenery is below, so it is called Bijing.

Liu Bei and his party arrived at Bijing County.

Among Bijing County, the most famous "political prisoner" at the moment is the Dou family who was thrown out by Emperor Xiaoling.

In the first year of Jianning, Empress Dowager Dou came to power. His father, Dou Wu, relied on his imperial concubine Chen Fan to preside over the government, and Chen Fan employed a large number of scholars who had been punished during the first party imprisonment. The two of them soon reached an agreement and conspired to eradicate the eunuchs. As a result, the news was leaked. . The eunuchs who gathered in an emergency formed a blood alliance and managed to get everything done in just one night...

Then the entire Dou family and Chen family were exiled to Bijing.

In addition to meeting the leaders of the Zhanren Congress, Liu Bei also came here for the descendants of the Dou family and the Chen family.

Just like many political prisoners in later generations will have a small private room, the descendants of the exiled Dou family and Chen family in Bijing cannot be said to be living a good life, but they are not too miserable. After all, Dou Wu and Chen Fan were considered celebrities back then. As losers in the struggle against the eunuchs who deserved to be cut to pieces, they would also be cared for by others, both covertly and covertly...

Liu Bei dismounted and looked around.

Perhaps because they both suffered the fate of exile, the Dou family and the Chen family hugged each other for warmth and now live in the same manor. Although it is said to be in the land of Rinan, the courtyards where these people of the Dou family and the Chen family live still have the obvious style of the Han Dynasty manor.

Liu Bei looked at the white walls, blue bricks, and Chinese tiles, nodded slightly, and asked his guards to come forward and call the door.

"The emperor of the Han Dynasty, General Zuo, leads the governor of Jiaozhou, and Ambassador Liu is here!" 』

At the gate, the doorman said in a clear voice that I don't remember...

Uh, I went to the wrong set. Let’s do it again.

A middle-aged man came out of the door and bowed his hand to Liu Bei, saying, "It is inconvenient for a sinner to be seen by the envoy." I also hope to envoy Jun Haihan. 』

The magistrate of Bijing County was a little embarrassed. He jumped out, winked at the middle-aged man, and scolded: "Discourteous!" Liu Shijun is a relative of the emperor of the Han Dynasty. He was ordered by the emperor to assassinate Yu Jiaozhou. Now he condescends to come. How can you refuse him rudely? 』

In fact, he was leading the hussar order, but this was not the key, and Liu Bei had no intention of explaining it in particular.

The Dou family and the Chen family were exiled to Rinan Bijing County. They would certainly not be as happy as the later generations of Northeasterners who traveled to Sanya and Southeast Asia to escape the winter. From the first year of Jianning to the present, even the death of Empress Dowager Dou’s mother If you can't move the coffin back to your hometown, it's only strange that your soul has fallen here and has no resentment. But the meaning of Magistrate Bijing is also very clear. Those things happened in the past. If you want to complain, you can only resent the eunuchs at that time, which has nothing to do with the current Liu Bei. What's more, Liu Bei is still the boss of Jiaozhou, and the county magistrate is not as good as now. Whatever!

The middle-aged man was silent and did not speak. He remembered how he had come all the way, from being well-dressed and well-educated to being a prisoner overnight, and then wandering to Ninan, and then how hard it was to rebuild the current manor brick by brick. How can it be possible to let go of all the suffering and hardship involved?

Zhang Fei stared, his eyebrows raised, and he wanted to step forward, but was stopped by Guan Yu, and then turned his head aside angrily.

Liu Bei sighed slightly, and then signaled to the guard beside him. The guard stepped forward, untied a bag on his back, took out an edict sealed in a bamboo tube, and handed it to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei took a step forward, held the edict in his hand, and looked at the middle-aged man, "May I ask what you call me?" 』

"..." The middle-aged man looked at Liu Bei with a gentle smile. He was silent for a while, lowered his head and cupped his hands and replied, "I, Mr. Dou, have a despicable name, and I am not worthy of your inquiry." 』

Does this mean that his name is not worth mentioning, but the surname Dou cannot be despised by anyone? Liu Bei nodded, his smile still unchanged, "It's okay, since it's a bit inconvenient, I won't force it... It's just that I don't know about the edict to pardon the sins of the Dou family and the Chen family..."

The middle-aged man suddenly raised his head and shouted, "What?" ! 』

Liu Bei still smiled gently and handed the edict to the middle-aged man, "Edict from the court, pardon..."

Before Liu Bei finished speaking, the middle-aged man took a step forward, as if he wanted to take the order. He immediately realized that something was wrong, and fell to his knees with a thud, and knelt on the ground with his head. Already he was whimpering, "Caomin...Dou family...wuwu...take the edict..."