Some people may be surprised: How could Yuan Huan easily be shaken because of Liu Bei's righteous attitude? Isn't he Yuan Shu's confidant? Isn't he the other person as the governor of Yuzhou? Isn't he also the surname Yuan?

But in fact, there is a misunderstanding here, which must be explained - although Yuan Huan's surname is Yuan, he is not very close to Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao's "Runan Yuan Family".

Yuan Huan comes from the "Yuan Family of Chen County" next door. It is just because his father Yuan Pang worked as a Grand Secretary when he was Emperor Huan and a Situ during Emperor Ling, so it is easy to remind people whether his father is also an integral part of the "Four Generations and Three Dukes".

In addition, the character Yuan Huan is too famous, so many people often don’t notice this detail when they see the Three Kingdoms. Seeing that he was having sex with Yuan Shu in the early days, he mistakenly thought it was a relative.

In fact, the Yuan family in Runan was only the three dukes of four generations, and the Yuan family in Chen County had only the three dukes of Yuan Pang in this lifetime.

In addition, although Yuan Huan is a low-profile person, there were some strange things in his original history: he first became an official in Yuan Shu because Chen County belonged to Yuzhou and Yuzhou belonged to Yuan Shu.

However, when Liu Bei was falsely represented as the governor of Yuzhou, Yuan Huan was selected and Yuan Huan had a good relationship with Liu Bei, but Liu Bei was soon attacked and wandered, and Yuan Huan had nowhere to join him. Later, Lu Bu fought with Yuan Shu and arrested Yuan Huan, and asked Yuan Huan to write a letter to insult Liu Bei, but he refused to surrender.

(Note: This refers to the Yuzhou governor who was conferred by Tao Qian in 194 when Liu Bei was stationed in Xiaopei. He actually had only one county territory. He was not the Yuzhou governor who was later granted by the emperor. Therefore, Liu Bei's Maocai, who was conferred by Yuan Huan, actually had little value in his opinion. Liu Bei himself was indifferent at that time)

Of course, none of this happened now.

So at this moment, Yuan Huan just felt that Liu Bei was quite righteous and did not tempt for the benefit of the "noble decree", so he developed some admiration.

But no matter what, Liu Bei is still very powerful inspiring the personality of diplomats in other camps.

For example, an important handle for Liu Bei to be called a "hero" in history was that no matter where Liu Bei was exiled, the local princes received him in order to fulfill the friendship of the landlords. As a result, after drinking a few drinks, they became Liu Bei's inner supporter.

Tao Qian's other person is Mi Zhu, Yuan Shu's other person is Yuan Huan, Liu Biao's other person is Yi Ji, and Liu Zhang's other person is Zhang Song... At the least, he fled, and at the worst, he became an insider.

In this life, I have to add another thing that did not exist in history: Liu Yu’s unique destiny is Li Su.

It can be imagined that this is equivalent to an exiled government flowing to other countries' lands. The local head of state sent his foreign minister to treat you to a meal, but he ended up bidding after dinner. This is even more terrifying than the halo of "100% being left empty-handed and killed".

So later, the princes thought that the king was a high-risk profession to surrender to the enemy, and they would no longer send the king to Liu Bei as an envoy.

Fortunately, people in the late Han Dynasty had never played the Red Alert, otherwise they would have thought that Liu Bei had Yuri Mind Control Technology.

...

In addition to Liu Bei's aura of righteousness, another unstable factor in Yuan Huan's trip was the mission itself.

When Yuan Shu sent envoys to Yuan Shao, Liu Bei and Liu Biao to sell the wills, he actually knew that the envoys sent to Liu Bei were the most dangerous, and he was easily caught and killed by Liu Bei in anger. Therefore, Yuan Shu never found anyone to take the initiative to claim this task.

Later, it was discovered that Yuan Huan was a relatively famous person in his camp, and he had previously served as an envoy to the Luoyang court, and had a good relationship with the ministers of Luoyang. The most important thing was that when Yuan Huan heard that Yuan Shu could not find anyone, he took the initiative to ask for the most dangerous task. Yuan Shu was overjoyed and immediately sent him, saying, "One day, if he ascended the throne, please be the Great Emperor."

In fact, when Yuan Huan asked for his appointment, he realized that following Yuan Shu, the liar, would continue to mingle, and would damage his reputation for half a lifetime, so he wanted to find a way to escape.

Because Yuan Shu once deceived Yuan Huan, he asked him to implement a strategy of "stop the emperor from withdrawing back to Luoyang the day before the emperor died."

At that time, Yuan Huan actually didn't know what Yuan Shu was going to do. What Yuan Shu told him was, "I really wanted to confirm whether the emperor was real or not, and if it was really not hostage by Dong Cheng, if it was real, then retreat." So Yuan Huan went to meet the emperor to negotiate terms.

But the result was that Yuan Shu just wanted to stabilize the day, and then took advantage of the time difference of that night to send Liang Gang, Le bypassed the hillside near Luoshui and Taigu Pass, climbed the mountain behind the Longmen Valley of Yique Pass, blocked the retreat route of Dong Cheng and the Emperor's personal guards.

Then, fierce battles broke out and the emperor died.

Yuan Huan, as a civil servant, certainly would not have seen the process of the final battle of regicide with his own eyes. But he knew that "Yuan Shu had clearly confirmed that the emperor was in the army, but when he launched the offensive, he once told the soldiers that the emperor was a puppet that Dong Cheng had pretended to be, and he did not have to throw himself into a harsh weapon."

If this is true, wouldn’t Yuan Huan become an important accomplice of Yuan Shu’s lord? I’m afraid the fate will be as miserable as Le!

"Looking at Liu Bei's army is strict and has abundant military supplies. On the way he came, he passed by Xinfeng and other places, and saw that the people of Jingzhao were also living and working in peace and contentment, unlike the troubled times. Could it be that Liu Bei could really end the troubled times?

If he could really win the world, it would be great to use him to clear my involvement in the regicide incident. I am afraid that he would not be able to catch it. In the future, the world still has the surname Yuan, so he would not die well..."

Yuan Huan chatted with Liu Bei for a while, but after being scolded by Liu Bei for a while, he couldn't help but feel a little shaken.

So he decided to test Liu Bei's administrative character and make the final decision.

Yuan Huan took a deep breath: "Hanzhong King Gao Yi, he did not confuse right and wrong with selfishness. Foreign ministers were deeply impressed. However, the Hanzhong King kept saying that he was the people of the world as his thoughts, and Huan was still puzzled. Can you ask some questions about civil affairs and ask the King of Hanzhong or Xun Gong to solve the doubts?"

Liu Bei was scolding Yuan Shu for his greed behavior. The envoy suddenly changed the subject and wanted to discuss civil affairs. He talked with him about the experiences and experiences of the people under his rule along the way, and was surprised.

However, Xun You seemed to have understood something and took the initiative to take the topic: "Yuan Biejia, what do you mean? Whether the people under the rule of the king live and work in peace and contentment has nothing to do with you."

Yuan Huan: "The foreign ministers have no malice, they are just curious, and they feel that the king's so-called love for the people seems to be inconsistent."

Xun You wanted to refute directly, but Liu Bei raised his hand and signaled Xun You to stop for the time being:

"Your Maha, don't worry, I, Liu Bei, are sitting upright, not afraid of catching things. Yuan Huan, you are afraid that you have heard along the way oppose the people who have started to implement the reforms last year, just ask if you have any questions.

Gu knew that in just a few days when His Majesty was killed, many nobles and nobles in the court chose to defect to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao's ninth-rank official law reform is the "good law" that attracts the children of aristocratic families. Gu's reforms that benefit the poor are despised."

Yuan Huan seemed to feel that his personality was insulted:

"Why did the King of Hanzhong say this? Although the ancestor was once the Situ, Yuan never regarded himself as a child of aristocratic family, and he never felt that Yuan Shao had implemented the ninth-rank official law for half a year had improved. My question today is that on the way here, I really saw that some profit-seeking evil policies under the rule of Hanzhong were not done by the benevolent lord."

Liu Bei couldn't help but find it funny: It's all your business to be lonely or evil or evil? You are Yuan Shu. The more evil or evil or evil, Yuan Shu shouldn't be happier? Could it be that this person wants to join me...

Thinking of this, Liu Bei suddenly became serious because he felt that this was not impossible. He has inspired others to vote many times over the years, and he has a lot of experience in this area.

Liu Bei restrained his previous attitude of criticism and changed his attitude of being a polite and a polite person to discuss: "It's okay to say it."

Yuan Huan sorted out his thoughts: "The foreign ministers came here and did not know that the king's army was stationed in Huayin, so they first sailed along the Wei River and walked over, went to Xinfeng, and saw Chang'an.

However, in Xinfeng and other places, I discovered some bad policies: from the three counties north of Xinfeng, Gaolu, Chiyang and Chang'an, the fields were connected to the fields and stretched for more than a hundred miles, but the people did not grow rice and wheat, but they only planted radishes and vegetables.

When I passed by, I felt very uneasy and asked the people not to be afraid of going hungry. But the people said: Vegetables in Chang'an City are expensive, and radish is sold to Chang'an. The profit per acre is higher than that of growing wheat. So they didn't even grow the food they wanted to eat. They used the money from selling vegetables to buy wheat and even directly bought ground noodles!

Later, I conducted in-depth investigations and the people said that it was not easy for them to make this money. Later, the reform of renting and transferring money was implemented by the King of Hanzhong, which led to the wealthy merchant Zhen opening a fleet of caravans and flew along the Jingwei City. After half a year, farmers within a hundred miles began to count money and no longer plant food. Zhen also took advantage of the reduction of the population in Guanzhong in the past few years to acquire land...

Guan Zhong lured people from Lu to pursue profits and specializes in sericulture, weaving Lu silk, and finally helping Qi to cut Lu. The lessons of the emperor are not far away. If the king loves the people, why would he still induce people to pursue profits like this? Are you not afraid that people's hearts will be the same? If there is another great famine like three years ago, wouldn't the people of Guanzhong be hungry all over the world? I heard that the king worked hard to help the people in disaster relief, but now it has only been three years, and it has come here."

It turned out that what Yuan Huan mentioned involved another chain reaction of Liu Bei's camp's tax reform last year.

That is, since Li Su encouraged the Zhen family and Zhuge family to organize a "logistics company" that "let the cargo owner bear the profit and loss, and the carrier only charges standard freight", the trade form in Guanzhong area has naturally undergone some changes.

Some of these tricks were taught to Zhen Yao casually before Li Su left. In addition, the youngest young lady in Zhen Yao's family is also 14 years old this year, and she can barely help manage some business, so the Zhen family's logistics industry in Guanzhong is no less than that of the Zhuge family.

With the official logistics company and the freight rates were very stable, farmers in several counties around Chang'an (mainly large educated farmers, powerful families, with broad vision. Poor farmers were completely unaware of the numbers and probably would not be able to calculate the accounts, and would only follow the trend slowly) found that because the vegetables in Chang'an were very expensive, if they could sell the vegetables in their fields to Chang'an, it would be much more cost-effective than growing grain.

The reason for this situation is actually related to the fact that the transportation in ancient times was very inconvenient - the shelf life of grain was very long and it would be fine if it could be stored for several years. Therefore, the large-scale centralized dispatch of grain was very convenient, and the grain prices in big cities would not be particularly deformed and expensive due to the concentration of population.

If meat is eaten, it can drive the livestock alive to the city where meat is to be supplied and then slaughtered, so it will not suddenly become expensive due to the gathering of people.

But vegetables are different. Vegetables are prone to rot and transport is inconvenient. When they are unstable, vegetables in big cities are very expensive. Because the total arable land area in Jingzhao area feeds up to 600,000 or 700,000 people, while the total population of Jingzhao exceeds 1.6 million, and Chang'an alone has more than 1 million people.

If the farmers in Jingzhao grow vegetables and the grain they eat in proportion, the vegetables will only be enough for up to 600,000 people to eat. No matter how far away Fufeng is, Fengyi can transport meat and food to support Chang'an, but the vegetables will rot if they are not shipped.

One hundred and six hundred and seven hundred thousand people were competing to eat vegetables that could only serve 600,000 people. Of course, vegetables became so expensive that Chang'an citizens were not much more cost-effective than eating meat.

When commerce and transportation were not developed enough, most of the land close to the metropolis was occupied by grain crops because "they had to grow their own food." This supply was unsolvable.

In fact, in history, after the Song Dynasty's commercial environment was highly developed, the land around the metropolis was concentrated on growing vegetables, and farmers' food was also asked to buy grain from other places. This production model would be popularized and the industrial structure optimization of "farmers around the metropolis also eat commercial grain."

At this moment, after hearing Yuan Huan's condemnation of such reasonable commercialization progress and resource optimization, Xun You couldn't help but feel funny and directly educated the other party with a sense of superiority:

"Yuan Biejia, we don't blame you if you don't know. The wonderful use of the rent-and-me-tutoring method of the reform was the wonderful method that the right general visited Xiliang last year and thought about how to reduce the loss of equal transportation. It was used by the king.

If we really ignore people's livelihood, then the fields in the counties around Chang'an will not be used to grow vegetables, and we can grow more and sell more things for money. Even if we cannot grow mulberry trees in the north, we can still grow cotton and weave cotton cloth. Although the output is lower than that in the west, it is also higher than that in the current grain prices.

The Zhen family and some responsible families in Jingzhao are very restrained, and they are willing to guide the people to grow vegetables. It is important to know that the yield per mu of wheat is not more than four stones per mu. But if you plant radish and taro, in terms of the harvest, it is more than the amount of wheat.

Rice wheat has been favored by monarchs and princes since ancient times, but because the surplus yield is easy to store and can be stored for many years. However, the yield of rice wheat is not as good as some high-yield vegetables.

The poor people must eat rice and wheat, but it is just because in the cold winter and spring famine, the vegetables and wild vegetables are not ripe, so the rice and wheat must be kept in the green and yellow. Also, because there is no guarantee of transportation, it is not certain whether there is enough rice and wheat in other places to be shipped to sell every year when the green and yellow is not ripe.

Now with the method of renting and transferring, the freight rate controlled by the imperial court clearly marked the price and gave the people a stable freight rate, promising to buy the surplus grains of Chencang and Mei County by adding these freight rates. Only the people of Jingzhao County dared to let go of all the freight rates and plant the higher yields, and ensure that they could be sold, but things with shorter fresh-keeping time.

This is to benefit the people! How can it be compared with Guan Zhong's poisonous plan to slash Lu! You Guandong scholars live in the Huanghuai Plain, with an even population, a fertile field, and self-sufficient area. How can you understand the efforts of the king to provide security for the remote western border and the dangerous mountainous areas."

Yuan Huan was interpreted by Xun You for a while and spoke speechlessly.

Although he was not good at math and could not calculate it completely for the time being, he at least knew right or wrong, and knew that there was something wrong with his condemnation on the moral high ground at the beginning.

Liu Bei was undoubtedly a pragmatic benevolent monarch who adopted Li Su's series of economic reform suggestions.

Another benefit that the foreign princes did not expect was to "provide the people with a bottom guarantee on logistics costs", so that the people could feel at ease to allocate land output because they believed that "as long as the freight is given, anyone can get enough foreign goods."

Since both grain and vegetables are grown, it is more difficult to keep fresh in densely populated areas and have a shorter shelf life, in exchange for a variety of grains in remote and sparsely populated areas, and to make up for the share of the grain area that is less planted in densely populated areas. What's wrong with this?

What's more, the total yield of some vegetables is higher, so that the proportion of vegetables in the recipes increases, which means saving more arable land-

For example, a city resident needs eight acres of grain fields and two acres of vegetable fields to support it in total, but the output of one acre of vegetable fields is 15 times that of grain fields. If it is converted into five acres of grain fields and four acres of vegetable fields, it can also support it. Wouldn’t it be useless to save one acre of land?

After being patiently explained by Xun You, Yuan Huan had only one thought left in his heart: For Liu Bei, he was not worthy of being an official because he was not good at math... That was all delaying the people's livelihood! He would not even persuade the farmers.

After asking for advice for a while, Yuan Huan was completely ashamed and admired: "The foreign minister was ignorant. He just said something wrong. I am really ashamed. I ask the King of Hanzhong to forgive his crimes. The king has a far-reaching vision and knowledge, loves the people as his son, and does not avoid slander in the world. This is a blessing for the people in the world.

Huan came here this time and there was another major secret, wanting to get the wise ruler to tell him. Now seeing that the people under the rule of the king live and work in peace and contentment, I hope that all of them will be told, and I only hope that the king will forgive Huan for being exploited first."

Liu Bei did not do anything more: "Whoever has no fault? Could it be that the troubles caused by Your Majesty before? Yuan Biejia also has faults? If it is an unintentional mistake, you can naturally forgive it-

Gu never said anything falsely, so a few days ago, Gu sent an envoy to surrender General Pingdong, and Duan Wei, the guard Duan Wei, anyway. General Duan regretted that he had not resolutely rescued the emperor, but Gu knew that he could not tell whether His Majesty was hostage by Dong Cheng at that time, so he could not blame him. He had already agreed to a complete pardon and told him not to doubt him. Gu also promised him to live in Yinchuan County forever. What's the terrible thing about you?"

Yuan Huan took a deep breath, knelt down and kowtowed to repent: "I have never witnessed the battle of His Majesty's murder, but the night before His Majesty was killed, Yuan Shu deceived me and used me to go to Luoyang to pay homage to him and let me go to Yique Pass to meet His Majesty and Dong Cheng to confirm whether His Majesty was hostage.

Yuan Shu also told me that if His Majesty was not hostage, he would tell His Majesty that he was willing to withdraw his troops, and only asked His Majesty to give him a condition to relieve the suspicion of the monarch and his subjects. His Majesty was confused by Yuan Shu's remarks that day that he did not flee back to Luoyang from Yique Pass.

Unexpectedly, those changes happened the next day... Moreover, when General Ji Ling and others were fighting, they did not announce to the soldiers that His Majesty was in Yique Pass, and only said that the person in the Pass was pretended by Dong Cheng. But after I went back on the envoy the night before, when I told Yuan Shu, I told Yuan Shu that His Majesty was really in the Pass...

Huan dared not sell his master for honor, but was unwilling to bear the charge of conspiring with Yuan Shu and taking Your Majesty in danger. Please investigate the case of the King of Hanzhong!"

After hearing this, Liu Bei's eyes widened: Damn it! Isn't this equivalent to having an indirect witness of Yuan Shu killing the lord? Although Yuan Huan did not see the final battlefield, he was the envoy sent by Yuan Shu to identify the authenticity of the emperor!

Of course, other princes could also bite to death and say that Yuan Huan was selling his owner for honor and lied. However, Yuan Huan had no friendship with Liu Bei. He was the envoy sent by Yuan Shu to talk about secret and dirty conditions with Liu Bei. Such an envoy turned aside, and outsiders would definitely think that Yuan Shu was so dirty and unpopular. Even his diplomat was afraid that he would be implicated and defiled, and could not bear it. He was eager to draw a clear line.

It may also have a huge blow to Yuan Shujun's morale and the people's hearts of Yuan Shu's camp.
Chapter completed!