The conversation was divided into two parts. While Xu Huang's military guarantee against Guanzhong Food Road was victorious, the civilized governance encirclement prepared by Liu Bei and Li Su in Chang'an City also progressed smoothly.

How many days will go back to the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday on August 15th, it is also the day when the Grand Marshal Yang Biao’s mansion treats guests and celebrates the promotion of the dog.

Of course, there was no "Mid-Autumn Festival" at the end of the Han Dynasty. It was just that according to the "Book of Rites" that "the emperor's spring sun, autumn moon" was the custom of celebrating the autumn harvest casually. However, this year is a year of great disasters, and there is nothing to celebrate even a bumper harvest. At most, the counties in Guanzhong only collected half of the food.

Yang Xiu was a person who couldn't help showing off his heart. Although his father advised him to restrain himself and not to waste it, which violated the guiding ideology of "frugality and self-restraint" of the King of Hanzhong to govern Guanzhong, Yang Xiu could not help but make some careful thoughts and arranged some dishes and refreshments in entertaining guests that "do not waste food, but you can definitely see the exquisite lifestyle."

One feature of the food tonight is that the main ingredients are relatively cheap. Many of the crumbs that were not allowed to eat in previous years were served on the table for guests. However, the seasonings and spices were used very well and made very exquisitely, which was also in line with the year of this year.

Even the dishes invited to Liu Bei and Li Su were arranged in this way, and there was no special specialization.

After all, Liu Bei's camp was not really poor, but the Guanzhong area was short of food, and the transportation difficulties of Shu Road were difficult. From a global perspective, the financial situation and saving wealth of Liu Bei's camp were still very good. Yizhou's internal affairs were well organized under the governance of Zhuge Jin and others, and Liu Ba's foundation was also very good before leaving.

The "Five-Year Plan for Hydraulic Industrialization" that Li Su had already implemented has been implemented for the third year.

When the original plan expires in five years, the textile industry alone can rely on new crossbow looms, hydraulic spindles and other industrial equipment to achieve the ambitious goal of "increasing production and widening Shujin's annual output of 500,000 looms, deploying 100,000 looms, and an additional annual output value of 3 billion yuan."

Now that the third year has been implemented, it has an annual output of more than 200,000 pieces, with an output value of more than 1.5 billion yuan. If all of this money is really exchanged for grain, even if it is paid at the 2,000 yuan per stone, it can be exchanged for 800,000 stone of grain. What's more, iron, porcelain, and well salt industries will bloom everywhere later.

Therefore, relying on Chengdu’s wealth to help Chang’an was no problem, but the transportation capacity was insufficient, so we could only choose things with high value density to transfer luck to each other thousands of miles.

In this case, since Li Su became the Jingzhao Yin in May, he has planned his transportation capacity many times. On the premise of ensuring that he does not starve to death, he should tilt the transportation capacity of Chengdu North Transportation materials as much as possible toward high-value density. Since Li Su ruled Sichuan, he vigorously promoted the pepper and pepper planted in mountain slope fields. The unit price was originally expensive, but now they have been continuously transported to Guanzhong.

The precious spices that originally cost thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan per stone can take up the fortune of one stone, but after arriving in Guanzhong, they can cover up the odor of the originally discarded junk ingredients dozens or even hundreds of times the weight, making them edible meat dishes. This is very cost-effective.

Isn’t it beautiful to save a hundred stones of cattle, sheep and sheep?

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So, at the Yang Mansion banquet tonight, the civil servants attending the meeting saw various rinse-pickled rinse, yellow-throated sheep intestines with spices, and peppery noodles and lungs as the staple food.

Many of the sources of cattle and sheep are sold to Li Su after the Huchuquan in Beidi County and exchanged for military supplies to Li Su for continued combat. As we all know, the grassland livestock before the beginning of winter is the most plump, and considering that after the grassland dies in winter, the livestock ownership will decline, many nomadic peoples will concentrate on slaughtering a batch of excess livestock that are destined to be unsustainable in late autumn.

Therefore, Huchuquan's robbery is now the busiest season of the year. It starts robbing in August and ends at the end of September. Every day he has the opportunity to rob. A few days ago, he just caught a small Xianbei tribe with six or seven hundred households, and then surrounded it with his own Shanyu guards and massacred all the Xianbei tribes of three or four thousand people.

He snatched more than 2,000 cows and nearly 10,000 sheep. In addition to the part he left behind, most of them were sold to Li Su first to cash out. Who made the purchase price of Li Su's livestock now high? Of course, Huchuquan had to take advantage of the many selling points in the price. His own tribe's family could eat slowly during the winter. Anyway, there was still time to grab it later.

Even white rice was bought in Chang'an City for two or three thousand coins per stone. Even if the slaughtered sheep did not remove the internal organs and just shed their hair, they could directly purchase it for two thousand coins per piece. This kind of sheep can only cut out 60% of the clean meat, 100% of the bones and 20% of the mixed pieces, so four sheep can produce one stone of clean meat. The purchase price is equivalent to 8,000 yuan per piece of pure mutton, which is very expensive.

In addition, it also requires a lot of salt to process beef and mutton to make air-dried and cured meat. It also requires salt to clean and process the miscellaneous parts. However, this urgent problem was just right and was solved by Xu Huang in time.

When Xu Huang just sent troops to Hedong in early August, he used suspicious military tactics to trick Liang County and Yishi County to the south. As mentioned earlier, these two counties happen to be the counties where Yuncheng Salt Lake is located. The salt industry in the pool is very developed and it always needs to supply salt demand in the core areas of Guanzhong. There are also nomadic Hu people from the northern part of the five Hetao counties and the three southern counties such as Hexi, and will also come to Hedong to buy salt.

Because Xu Huang was much more decisive when he took Jie Liang than Anyi, he didn't even have time to give the enemy a retreat, so he forced him to surrender directly. The people of Han Xian naturally had no time to transport the remaining supplies from Yuncheng Salt Lake Salt Field, so all the salt inventory that was not enough to be sold was seized by Xu Huang.

After the Hedong Salt Lake was in the hands of Liu Bei's camp, it now only needs to focus on supplying salt from Guanzhong, even Han Xian and Guo Tai cannot eat salt. At the same time, it will not sell it to the pseudo-Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei tribes in the five Hetao counties in order to pursue profits like the Baibo thief.

Of course, Li Su was also afraid that the dog would jump over the wall and force the enemy to get angry, so he left a hole for each of the grassland divisions - Li Su dealt with part of the salt that Xu Huang brought back to Hu Chuquan at a high price, so that Hu Chuquan could control the monopoly of selling salt to the Hu people of the grassland tribes of the five counties in Hetao County. This would facilitate Hu Chuquan to differentiate and disintegrate the five counties in the grassland divisions, allowing them to kill each other.

Only when you have a good relationship with Huchuquan can you get trade. In the murder of Qiangqu Shanyu, the tribes with less sin and fewer interventions can they wash the merits and then exchange the heads and livestock of those dead and hard tribes for salt. Not to mention, not to mention, not long after this move was implemented, the grassland tribes used the heads and cattle and sheep of the herdsmen from Xiutu tribes to exchange supplies.

The extra salt from Liu Beijun made a large amount of cured meat and dried meat for winter, and stored the cattle and sheep sold in Huchuquan to ensure food security.

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Many officials from aristocratic families who attended the banquet tonight have eaten such things for the first time. Although they also knew that similar food had appeared in the restaurants in the poor and humble living areas in Chang'an City more than a month ago, they had never stuttered it in person for face.

Seeing Yang Xiu's arrangement like this, they became more and more convinced that Yang Xiu was losing face and determined to surrender to Liu Bei and give him a gesture of apology.

"What is this staple food? It looks like a crust-packed bread, which is a bit tough, but occasionally it is thick and sandy, which is very refreshing. The peppery taste is quite heavy and elegant."

Du Ji, who had just returned to Chang'an from Nanyang, whispered to his cousin who lived in the local area while eating a bowl of round sliced ​​pasta.

Brother Du answered his question and said, "This is called the face lung. It is said that it was the method of eating the right general invented. There are poor people in the market. First, blow the sheep lungs and cow lungs with clean water, blow 70% to 80% of the blood foam and filthy mucus inside, then wash it with salt water with some salt, and pour the dough into the dough powder for the third time. The poor man will make the dough powder a little thinner, and thicken it if he can afford it. Blow it into the sheep lungs and fill the voids inside. The sheep lungs cooked in this way do not have the taste of bubbles and sand.

This item is troublesome. If it weren't for the waste years to save food, who would have done this? And there was also wastewater. Generally, a family would be too lazy to deal with it if they killed a sheep alone. It was slaughtered and purchased by the official and businessmen in batches, and they were blown away by the river and sold to the poor.

People who are not particular about things want to be cheap, even if they can blow salt water, they can blow it directly with river water. The dough is not necessarily filled with white flour. The Yang family is particular about it. The white flour that is stuffed today is the cheapest sold on the market. The 15-cent bowl of noodles is made of flour, which is ground into the oak tree on the mountain.

In previous years, hungry people took the acorns to eat directly, which was very coarse and difficult to swallow. Unexpectedly, in the "Agricultural Technique" written by the Right General, there was a record of how to eat acorns. They were used like coarse wheat and placed on a stone mill pulled by a cart to draw water and grind into noodles, and they could also be mixed with wheat noodles and acorn noodles.

As long as the mix is ​​less, acorn noodles account for less than 30%, and they basically cannot taste coarseness and save some white noodles. Especially in recent days, the ministers and ministers who eat pasta have taken the lead in mixing acorn noodles to show frugality, and there are more and more. Who told the right general to eat acorn noodles himself?"

As Du Jizhi spoke, his tone was full of disdain for Li Su's acting, but he had to admit that Li Su did take the lead in demonstrating and enduring hardships.

Although the ratio of acorn noodles to white noodles in the noodles that Li Su ate is actually one to nine, he claimed to be "at least 30% acorn noodles mixed."

Jingzhao Yin has taken the lead in saving food. Other officials under 2,000 stones are so embarrassed to eat pure white flour?

The farmers in the late Han Dynasty had a relatively low level of development of edible native species, at least far less than the inclination level of even "Guanyin soil" developed in the late Ming Dynasty. There were large areas of wild oak trees on the Qinling Mountains. If you pick them along the edge of the mountain, you could find some uneasy fruits that were originally ignored.

In fact, Li Su did not deliberately pursue the historical achievements of this "low-fitting version of Shennong", but when he found that there was something to do, he did it casually. Later generations of dough were originally a special snack in Lanzhou. In the years of famine, the people around Chang'an could also accept this taste.

After the guests had eaten the white flour and lungs, they tasted the pepper and mutton soup provided by Yang Xiu's family and rinse the tripe. Although the ingredients looked vulgar and low, the spleen and stomach of Guanzhong people could adapt to this taste. After eliminating the psychological factors, they could still make it really fragrant.

After a while, the guests were amazed and accepted these low-cost food half-swer and half-spoken - at least those guests who had some money at home and did not respond to Li Su's call, are now amazed. If the family was poor, Li Su could not stand the food without the call, and there was nothing to be surprised.

In addition to soup, vegetables and sautéed vegetables, Yang Xiu also provided charcoal-grilled chicken ribs as snacks, and beef and goat milk products sold in Huchuquan as after-meal desserts. Everything is not expensive, it seems frugal, but the taste is not inferior.

"The king is so clear and the prefectural governor is well-organized. The people of Guanzhong are enough to survive the desolate years and sing with praises."

Du Ji, Wei Huang and others told Liu Bei that they would learn from Yang Xingling's noble character after returning, practice frugality within the Wei family, and share the joys and sorrows with the poor to survive the famine.

Du Ji also wrote a poem on the spot, praising the Hanzhong King for understanding the sufferings of the people, and the right general also had the style of Shennong.

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While the aristocratic families and court officials praised him, Liu Bei was not at all. After Du Ji finished reciting the praise fu, he stroked his beard and said with a smile:

"I have already understood everyone's intentions, but I hope everyone does not say one thing and do another. When we work hard to overcome difficulties together, some people are not calm. Today, I will let everyone know."

When Liu Bei said this, the atmosphere in the venue was a little cold in an instant. Everyone was suspicious and worried, and they thought someone had stepped on the pit.

Liu Bei waited for everyone to have an almost equal atmosphere and continued to smile and say, "Don't be suspicious. I am not talking about everyone here tonight - those who do things that are not conducive to the court, there will be no chance to come to the banquet tonight. Come on, Yang Xiu, you are eloquent and are today's host, so give me this letter."

After saying that, Liu Bei took out a silk book from his arms.

Yang Xiu opened it and looked a little embarrassed, but it didn't matter, so he read it out.

It turned out that this was a secret letter expressing his effectiveness to other princes. If Cao Wushang heard it in the Heavenly Spirit, he would definitely call him an expert.

Because the letter was written to Yuan Shao by Wei Ji, the content was to tell Yuan Shao that "The thieves in Hedong, are not afraid of it. If Mr. Yuan hopes, we are willing to help the Ming Duke's army, cooperate with the inside and outside, and restore Hedong County to the court from the Baibo thieves."

Of course, Wei Ji's letter was definitely much lighter than the "Pei Gong wants to be a king of Guanzhong" that Cao Wushang told Xiang Yu, and it was not a treason for the country, but just helped another Han minister to expel the rebels.

Because Yuan Shao first reached a secret agreement with Yang Xiu, he must firmly adhere to the route of "first joining Liu Killing Cao, leading the world to a world without the current saints", so he did not care about the gains and losses of each county and revealed Wei Ji's surrender to Liu Bei in a very gentlemanly manner. That was much more noble than Xiang Yu's words, "This is the left-right Sima Cao of Pei Gong, and at least it is not considered selling insiders, but he abides by the previous gentleman's agreement.

At best, it can only be considered similar to Zhang Su's letter to Liu Zhang in history.

Yuan Shao knew what was going on in Wei Ji's mind. He simply felt that Yuan Shao's rule could ensure the continued possession of the existing arable land by the landlords, and would allow the aristocratic families to buy more land for the poor in the years of desolation, and would not suppress and oppose land annexation like Liu Bei. But there was only 200,000 people left in Hedong, and Yuan Shao had no need to destroy the already reached alliance for this chess piece that jumped out.

Other Guanzhong families and court officials read the letters read by Yang Xiu, and were curiously wondering how Liu Bei was dealing with them.

Liu Bei glanced at the audience and said, "Wei Ji was distracted from Mu Shou, uneasy to the court. He had already confiscated all the land property of Wei in Fengyi County, and part of it was distributed to the landless tenants on it according to the original tenant rights. Do you think there is nothing wrong with it?"

This operation is probably the land of two counties in Fengyi County. In the future, it will also take out a large area of ​​unlimited land to send to farmers to win people's hearts, and then recruit a large number of highly motivated dead soldiers to join the army.

"There is nothing wrong, there is nothing wrong with it. Wei Ji is dead, and the king has dealt with it too well." A number of families expressed their opinions. Wei Ji was directly caught and had a serious handle, so what else can I say.

At the same time, the Guanzhong family also lowered a lot of expectations for Yuan Shao, and secretly said that Yang Xiu didn't know what he said to Yuan Shao, but the order of priorities was like this, and he attached so much importance to his current superficial brothers with Liu Bei.

It can be said to be an unbreakable alliance as reliable and unbreakable as signing the "Non-Aggression Treaty".

After Liu Bei beat Wei Ji about his affairs, he left Li Su with the opportunity to perform tonight, indicating that Li Su also told him that he had been illegal in the disaster relief process that he had recently caught.

Of course, Li Su would not disappoint Liu Bei, nor would he miss the opportunity. He took advantage of the Hongmen Banquet tonight and said that Wei and Du were a few minor mistakes from other families - this is the new handle he had just caught since he started opening an official warehouse to release rice and porridge to provide disaster relief.

Li Su cleared his throat: "Since the king mentioned his recent illegal acts, I would like to say a few words - since ten days ago, Yuan Shao's first batch of relief grain arrived in Chang'an, eight days ago, Jingzhao Yin had opened a warehouse to cook porridge to help the victims. I made it clear in the announcement that only landless tenants, servants, and self-cultivated poor farmers who did not hire helpers can queue up to receive the porridge.

Moreover, they are not allowed to collect on their behalf or falsely. If they do not have any needs, even if they meet the conditions for collection, as long as they do not want to queue up, their qualifications will be invalid. Anyone who does not meet these conditions should buy rice and flour at the official price to make a living.

But the porridge was only eight days after the implementation of the porridge, and I have counted a lot of illegal acts that have taken advantage of - Wei Huang, I want to ask, are Wei Bian and Wei Si, the two of you, the other ones, the other? Du Kang and Du Yu, also come to claim it. And..."

Li Su called out his name and reported it in succession. Of course, the family that was called was as beautiful as the earth, and those who should claim it quickly claimed it.

Li Su then said that the faults of these people were different. Some organized the tenant farmers who had not originally wanted to queue up to receive the porridge, while some simply organized the people who did not meet the above conditions and were not poor enough to cheat subsidies. In fact, there is no need to say much about the specific methods. Anyway, it is similar to those of later generations who obviously did not meet the five-guarantee households but insisted on "drive a luxury car to receive the minimum living allowance."

But the methods are definitely not as clever as those liars in later generations.

Li Su had seen the despicable means of "driven luxury cars to cheat the minimum living allowance" in later generations. As long as he wanted to check, it was not easy to check the methods of cashing out and fraud in the Han Dynasty. There was a lot of evidence that Li Su could think of assuming fraud in the Han Dynasty.

The reason why he insisted that "grain prices must be expensive, but at the same time, the government also had to provide porridge free of charge to ensure extreme poverty and not starve to death" was actually to curb land annexation during the disaster year and to restrain the rich from forcing the poor to sell land and change food to survive for a while.

So he is using high grain prices and subsidies to rob the rich and help the poor. He can increase the price of 80% of the grain for selling 20%, but he can spread the cost of 20% of the porridge and grain for free.

Those families whose children in the clans are not good at making a fuss to make up for their advantage, and they are suddenly disappointed. How come there are so many people who are so strong and unsavvy that they dare to take advantage of the Right General, the King of Hell?

But since the children are not strictly managed, they have to be punished. Fortunately, such trivial matters are not as serious as Wei Ji provoked Yuan Shao, and they probably only have to be fined for some money, grain and land.

Everyone expressed their opinions and asked the prefect to deal with it impartially.

Li Su glanced at Liu Bei and was affirmed by Liu Bei. He said: "Since that's the case, after all, this mansion is not a vicious person. I think if they were not discovered, I would probably do this for the rest of this year and cheat it.

So, even though they only received eight days of porridge, we also thought they had received a whole year - so, based on the price of white rice of 5,000 yuan per stone, how many people they brought, and then multiplied it three times as a punishment. Then, according to the price of the land in normal years, we should convert the land into confiscation and confiscation."

Aren’t the big landlords reluctant to sell land to buy high-priced rice in the year of disaster? Then let them eat for eight days and have a full year of food, and they will be forced to pay off their debts!

The people attending the banquet were speechless, but the tickets issued by Li Su were indeed legitimate, because they all knew that those who took advantage of policy dividends and cheated on subsidies, if they were not caught, they would probably keep cheating on subsidies and take advantage.

Everyone was very painful, but there was no way. This family had been cut off half of the land in the county, and the other family had been cut off several townships and villages. All those who cheated on the unclean butts were fucked by Li Su.

Finally, Li Su took the opportunity to suggest: "King, given the smooth governance of Jingzhao this year and the severe disaster caused severe fluctuations in grain prices, although the people are exempted from taxes this year, they still have to pay taxes next year. If the people are asked to force their money or serve, they may exploit the people extra.

Therefore, I suggest that it is better to take the opportunity to implement the reform of renting and mediocre revision in the five counties in Guanzhong - of course, the first two years can be used as a transition period, and only mutual replacement between mediocre and household revision is allowed. However, grain tax cannot be replaced with the first two, and can only be replaced in one direction, that is, whether to pay grain or pay grain, and one monday cannot be used for grain. However, if the grain harvest is bumper and the price is reduced, the people themselves think it is cost-effective to pay more grain, so they are allowed to pay more grain without paying money or serving.

Anyway, the Guanzhong treasury is extremely empty and there is almost no savings in the granary, so the collection of grain must be guaranteed. There is no need to worry about paying more grain. Even if you pay more than two consecutive years, the Chang'an granary will not be in liquidation. Tonight, all my colleagues are here. If my suggestions are immature, please point them out, so that we will avoid quarrels in the court tomorrow..."

Everyone looked at Li Su and Liu Bei. Damn it has been laid for so long, and he has sharpened his sword and punished so many people according to the law and confiscated so much land. Who else can jump out to oppose reform at this time?

Besides, Yizhou has implemented the rent and mediocre adjustment law for a year, and this year has continued, and it is the second year. It is also very difficult to find out the bad policy.

This year, the economic lifeline of Guanzhong is all controlled by Liu Bei's official business and foreign trade grain purchases, and the local tyrants are simply unable to resist.

What's more, I heard that many usury tyrants who opposed the reform of the renting and mediocre law in Yizhou last year had no good endings in the end, and they could not beat Liu Bei and Li Su at all.

"The right general has a great vision and is impressed by this method that benefits the country and the people." Yang Xiu, Du Ji and Wei Huang praised them one after another.

Liu Bei then spoke happily: "Since everyone has suggested that, I will follow the public opinion. It is rare that everyone is united and moral tonight, so I will talk about something else.

Now Jingzhao disaster relief and trade, as well as harmony with Yuan Shao, have all been on the right track. The five counties in Guanzhong have also decided to implement the rent-in-one regime. Boya was the Jingzhao Yin in just over three months and had great achievements. It is rare that Guanzhong is stable now, and the rear is full of chaos. I decided to show Boya as the governor of Yizhou and let him general lead the rectification of the rear. For the future plans, after Boya leaves, all local affairs should be taken seriously."

Everyone looked at each other: This was to let Li Su burn out all the three fires that offended people, pull all the hatred values ​​away, and then transfer him away? However, Liu Bei did not seem to need his subordinates to bear the hatred values. Could it be that Li Su was transferred back to Yizhou to continue to deepen other reforms and governance, and he felt that there would be no more military difficulties within a year or two?
Chapter completed!