The harvest work of cracking down on speculators lasted for more than a month before it was completed.

More than a month has also been the busiest period since Li Su returned to Chengdu.

In addition to himself, Xun You, Zhuge Jin, Liu Ba, Yang Hong, Wang Lian and others all joined the liquidation work, each responsible for the specific review of a county, while Li Su himself was responsible for the overall situation.

Strictly speaking, according to Yang Hong's previous trap of undercover luring the enemy, Li Su should wait until next year to completely close the network - because the agreed borrowing period of commercial speculation such as "borrowing grain and selling short selling" can theoretically last for half a year. In this era, private usury loans will borrow grain every year during the winter or when the green and yellow are not accepted, and 30% of the interest will be paid in half a year, and then the grain will be collected and returned again after the autumn next year.

Therefore, Li Su's enforcement was actually a bit too early, but it was not too bad. Because if he left enough money, he could still charge 30% of the interest, but now he has almost no interest, or only 10% of the interest is charged, which is not considered to be bullying those big investors, but just "recruiting loans in advance and waived interest."

Even if they are left until next year, these people who failed to speculate cannot afford to pay back the money, and in the end they have to sell the mortgage to pay back the money. The Han Dynasty did not have civil and commercial laws, so he had a knife in his hand and the reason was roughly reasonable, so no one resisted.

In any case, Li Su's reform is much better than in history trying to "directly divide the land of large households in Shu and reward soldiers" or "directly 100 yuan". He acts completely according to the rules, and everyone has credit.

The reason why Li Su was so anxious was that he would rather make less money than make sure that he would be safe first, which was for the stability of the counties in Yizhou. After all, if all the landlords, old wealth, local tyrants and bad gentry involved were forced to make trouble, they would be very powerful. If all the force was solved, it would be too ugly, and the long-term governance would be in conflict in the future.

If you collect early, you can solve them in batches, divide and disintegrate, and destroy the enemy's internal unity. As long as you give some people the opportunity to "repay loans in advance and reduce interest" and make them "submission and lose half of the loss", the rest will not be able to make a fuss.

It’s really like Chen Jian’s leverage is too high, and almost all the farms are betting on it. After all, it’s a very small number of people who take the lead in the lead.

The second-ranked mortgage ratio was Zhu Bao, the great tyrant of the country, who mortgaged about 60% of his own land. There were also Wang Shang, Gong Yang, Lou Fa mortgage ratios less than half, Zhao Wei and Pang Le mortgaged only 30%, and he accepted it after being executed.

At most, he lamented that "the land that was annexed by five generations of local people returned to two generations in one night" and did not count as uprooted. The land annexed in Shu was reshuffled by Gongsun Shu once in the late Western Han Dynasty and Xinmang, and the annexation began again in the early Eastern Han Dynasty.

After 160 or 70 years, it only took about five or six generations. This time, the local tyrants failed to hoard and speculate, which roughly reversed the land annexation conflicts in the area involved in the case, which was to retreat to the "Clash of the Counterfeit Huan Ling", which was the time of Emperor Shun of Han.

...

The work of dividing the fields continued until early October, and finally there was a general ledger.

Because Jianwei County is the worst-hit area of ​​resistance, Li Su himself was still in Jianwei when the report was submitted.

Moreover, because winter is about to begin, Jianwei has many other matters to deal with, so he is not in a hurry to go back to Chengdu.

For example, after nearly 100,000 manpower investment and intensive construction in Nan'an County, the "Leshan Yan" is finally about to be completely completed after a year of nearly 100,000 manpower investment and intensive construction. Guan Yu's troops also need to be dispatched, resettled, and accepted, and people cannot leave.

During the previous reform game, because all the large households in Jianwei opened warehouses to store grain, the private grain warehouses were empty, but the government had to make wine. The winemaking matter was busy for two or three months, and it was not possible to make wine in winter. This matter must be kept highly confidential, so Li Su had to take charge of Jianwei himself.

The grain is not steamed and added with koji, and it will soon become wine. It takes several months to brew according to traditional crafts. After a certain degree, such as "Zhongshan Winter Brewing", it can only start distillation, and then process it again, seal the jar and aged again. Because many processes have not been tried, it still needs to be explored repeatedly.

If you only distillate one pot of wine, it will be about 38 degrees at most. It will take more than 50 degrees to steam wine twice, which is too much waste. Today's stills only have "steam pots" made of casserole material, and the kind of chicken soup steamed. Even if it is slightly improved and the seal is further strengthened, the wine steaming still has the loss.

In addition, the "green and yellow porcelain" that was just fired in early summer this year has finally been "perfect" after half a year of improvement. The yellow iron oxide variegated colors have been completely restored, reaching a tone similar to sky blue.

Moreover, as the autumn harvest specialties in the southern and central regions gradually transported northward, some newly discovered Southeast Asian tropical species this year were transported northward through the Lushui River that had faded from early winter miasma and transported to the Minjiang River in the Jade Road. Li Su also took the energy to inspect and accept it.

Because there are many things in Jianwei, Li Su has also built a manor in Jianwei County since August, and has built a farm in the forcibly enforced by Chen's profiteer. Li Su paid for the money and was definitely not greedy. In this way, he could take his wife and maids over to live with him.

I went to Jingzhou for three months before, but I had neglected my wife and it was not a good idea to live in two places. Chengdu is only a few hundred miles away from the road, so of course I want to buy another property.

To put it another way, Chen Shi, the former governor of Jianwei, was demoted to the deputy county level because of his mistakes in this incident and was demoted to the deputy county level. This was considered to be tolerant of him because he did not find out that he had colluded with his cousin.

On the contrary, Liu Ba, who made great contributions in the reform and law enforcement process, was promoted on duty and replaced the position of prefect of Jianwei County. After all, Li Su proposed the "Rent and Message Method" through Liu Ba's mouth, and he also needed people like Liu Ba and Yang Hong to raise hatred.

Yang Hong's starting point was too low, and it was already very fast to be promoted from a county magistrate to a deputy county level. Therefore, Liu Ba was transferred from a certain "Cao" under the Hanzhong Palace to the local government to be the prefect, and the level was just right, which also made up for Liu Ba's resume as the governor.

The last nine ministers of the Han Dynasty, that is, those who hold "ministerial positions", basically have to have a local prefecture resume to be reliable and will not be out of touch with the people. Many dynasties later learned about this and only then did they become local leaders can they go deep into the masses.

With Liu Ba as the prefect of Jianwei, Li Su's confidentiality is easier to ensure that Li Su does a lot of things.

...

On the eighth day of the 10th month, on the fifth day after Li Su's memorial arrived in Chengdu, Liu Bei, who could not sit in Chengdu, actually sent several ships to go down the Minjiang River and tour the road to the marches. He also listened to Li Su's face-to-face report and visited the work.

When Liu Bei's fleet arrived at the dock of Jade Port, Li Su received the news and hurriedly took Liu Ba, Zhuge Jin and others to greet him (Zhuge Jin was an official from Shu County, but he was used to being ordered by Li Su, so he was seconded)

"What's the point of coming here for the king?"

"Hey, I am a person who can't stay idle, and I'm so bored if I live for a long time. Don't worry, I came by a boat and didn't bring many soldiers and horses, so I won't be in vain," Liu Bei also defended himself, so as not to be considered by his subordinates to be a labor force to mobilize all the extravagant people.

"Also, you said in your secret message that this 'sauce wine' is about to be prepared. I came here to see it myself, especially if I didn't bring Yide, and I was afraid that he would miss it. Don't transport these things back to Chengdu too quickly, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hold them in."

Li Su welcomed Liu Bei back to his newly-built manor in the north of Jade City, and asked the maid to pour tea and serve as snacks, and then went to the banquet.

After everyone settled down, Liu Bei asked about the detailed account of this reform game: "How much did you actually make in the end when competing with those profiteers this time?"

Liu Ba originally wanted to avoid it, but when Li Su saw Liu Bei ask about this, he gestured to Liu Ba to sit down to show that the matter he was about to report was fair and selfless.

"Actually, there is not much money. We earn a total of 200 million or 300 million yuan. This money is not appropriate to directly count as part of the annual income of the court, or private entry of the royal family. It is not appropriate to calculate the profits of each company. Anyway, the details are all here, so the king will deal with it at will."

Liu Bei was slightly stunned because although 200 million or 300 million was a lot, the scale of the game he remembered and the difference between selling high and buying low was definitely more than that.

If you really make less than 300 million yuan in profits, Li Su can really not have to be greedy.

Liu Beiqi said: "Last time, I didn't say that just for the stock of brocade, I needed more than one billion yuan in principal, so why was the price difference less than three hundred million? Moreover, those profiteers later mortgaged the farm industry to raise grain and sell the food, and the expenses should have increased several times."

Li Su carefully explained: "After a base of more than one billion yuan, the difference between the winning party in the end earnings of 200 million to 300 million is normal. Selling and funding are dynamic, and not all transactions are made at the highest or lowest level.

As for the income from the doubled mortgage of the land, it is not our profit, but most of it is earned by the people - especially the weavers and tenants who participated in the forensic auction of the land mortgage. Because the court could not directly put the land into the warehouse, I did not let all our relatives and nobles take over this time. All the collateral was bought by the landless people. The money paid by the people to buy land was replenished into the treasury to offset the mortgage owed by the profiteering merchants before. This part of the difference would benefit the people."

Liu Bei rubbed his nose: "No wonder Jiang Erzhen'er and the others have looked at each other recently, and Yide's family is also a little resentful - but if they are done well, they really cannot eat the royal palace and the court, and they must make the benefit of the people.

Boya, you are extravagant, but one thing is good, that is, you don’t like to hoard land and compete for profit with the most poor people without land. I also thought about whether you were deliberately learning from Wang Jian’s “seeking land and asking for sacrificiality” and Xiao He’s “greedy for bribery and self-deprecating”. Later, it seems that it is not. You are just doing things in a straightforward manner, and you don’t want to want anything you want, and you don’t want to be even for pretending. It’s rare to have true nature.”

Li Su smiled and said, "The king has been too much. I am very wise and know better ways to make money. I don't want to steal those who are ugly. Even the world is different. In the Middle Ages, wealth and goods are based on agriculture. In today's world, the benefits of industry and commerce are greater than farming. If you want to make money, why should you merge land and exploit the people?

Since ancient times, land has not been beneficial to the country, and green forests, red eyebrows and yellow turbans have often started. People close to the king should pay more attention to this point, and the ministers should start with themselves."

Liu Ba was already a little afraid to listen. He wanted to leave but couldn't, but he wanted to cover his ears but didn't dare. Seeing Liu Bei's expression calm, he sighed sincerely: "The right general has a great knowledge and can speak so quickly and not avoid suspicion, which is amazing."

Liu Bei smiled, but did not explain, but just asked Li Su: "How many people are there who are extremely poor people who benefited from this time?"

Li Su turned the bill: "The five counties added up to a total of 178,000 people. They were originally all completely landless people, mainly weavers, and they obtained land. The fewer ones were more than ten acres, and the more ones were fifty or sixty acres of land." (Note: They are all Han acres)

Liu Bei was shocked: "There are so many people? So many land? Wouldn't it be that the major businessmen and tyrants have lost land a total of... nearly ten million acres? There are so many self-cultivated farmers in the five counties in Shu all at once, and so many servants who make a living?"

Li Su: "It's not like that, because the total number of land has not increased, and the number of people farming will not significantly increase. It's just that many tenants, because the land of the original landlord was mortgaged and auctioned, new landlords became self-cultivated farmers. The tenants' permanent tenant rights were gone, and they became a must for servants to survive.

But don’t worry, I have been sorting out the local area in Zichu and Gongda and others in the past few months, asking the major weaving shop owners, silk reeling shop owners, salt farm owners, etc. who have benefited from the previous ones, to give priority to hiring farmers who have lost their tenant rights because the owner’s land was sold, so that these people can change their careers and become weavers and make a living."

Liu Bei felt a little confused: "You are asking the weaver to save some savings and buy the land to be a self-cultivated farmer? And the tenant farmers who originally rented the land to plant it, go back to be a weaver? Isn't their original craftsmanship in vain. If they want to practice their craftsmanship again, wouldn't that waste people's efforts?"

Li Su: "King, the account cannot be settled like this. Fortunately, the skills required for farming and brocade and salt are not complicated. We will be able to work hard for a few months. We must pay attention to maintaining the court's laws and regulations and cannot mix them with them.

This time, most tenants were not damaged. The reason for the damage was that they paid taxes slowly and were unclear. The court resisted and refused to believe it when reminded with kindness. Then they were exploited by the tyrant merchants, so that when the land of the head of the family was mortgaged and sold, they had no ability to buy it. Even if the government gave them some loans, they could not afford it.

The court always wants to make more people who respond to the court's call and take precedence when encountering trouble, so that those who hesitate and refuse to obey the laws will be slightly frustrated, so that the people will actively learn the law. If they learn to be smart from now on, work hard for the official weaving workshops and save money, they may not have the opportunity to buy land and become a self-cultivated farmer in the future, which is better than the tenant farmers today."

Li Su was persuaded and Liu Bei did not continue to worry about this issue. Liu Bei finally just repeatedly told Li Su to "ensure employment issues". Since some tenants lost their tenant rights, they must hire the Zhen family, Mi family, Li family, Zhuge family, to more than two years to avoid creating social unstable factors.

Of course, Li Su can do this requirement. Anyway, there are no more workers squeezed out than those who have lost them. They can be completely placed, but they have only been transferred.
Chapter completed!