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Chapter 366 Admiration

"Liu Bei..." Liu Jing received a letter from Liu Bei within a few days after returning to Linxiang.As a modern person who is familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms, he knew that Liu Bei would defect to Liu Biao after the Battle of Guandu, so he was not too surprised.

In Liu Beixin's letter, he regarded himself as the elder of the clan, and he mercilessly accused Liu Jing of disregarding the danger of the country and provoking Xiao Qiang.

In the letter, he repeatedly urged Liu Jing to settle his suspicions with Liu Biao as soon as possible, and then lead his troops northward to fight against the traitor Cao Cao with righteous men all over the world.

Liu Jing couldn't help sneering in his heart, unless he was crazy, he would abandon Jingnan and go north.Liu Bei is simply standing up and talking without hurting his back, and it is not his interests that are harmed. Of course, he can stand on the moral high ground and speak a lot of high-sounding nonsense.

However, although Liu Bei is currently living in Jingzhou and is very down and out, Liu Jing's inner fear of him is far beyond Liu Biao's comparison.

Liu Biao was also considered a momentary hero. In the past, he rode alone into Jingzhou, crossed Hannan, and created a foundation for thousands of miles, which is very rare.

But Liu Jing stepped on Liu Biao and rose in Jingnan. The two sides fought many times over the years, and Liu Jing won a complete victory.

In Liu Jing's view, Liu Biao is already a tiger who has lost his claws and claws, and there is nothing he can do.

Liu Bei is not the case. He is magnanimous and generous, unyielding, has the style of a great ancestor, and is a hero's weapon. He is a true life-giving talent.

When he was in Xuzhou, it only took Liu Bei one year to make Tao Qian and officials in Xuzhou believe that Liu Bei could not settle down in Xuzhou.After arriving in Jingzhou, many heroes and wise men also returned.Later, when they entered Yizhou, whether they were from Shu or Dongzhou scholars, they all joined their ranks one after another, and they won the hearts of the people so far.

If Liu Bei is allowed to conquer people's hearts and accumulate strength, he will definitely become a serious problem to his confidants in the future, so the Northern Expedition must not be delayed for a long time.

Liu Jing had thought about it before, but now he has made up his mind. Next year, he will send troops from the four counties to attack Liu Biao in the north.

For this reason, Liu Jing sent an urgent letter to Liu Zong of Wuling, ordering him to suspend the encirclement and suppression of the Wuxi Man, and instead focus on appeasement, supplemented by suppression, so as to avoid expanding the war and plunge himself into the quagmire of war, which will affect the Northern Expedition next year. .

Then Liu Jing focused on government affairs again. This year Jingnan had a bumper harvest and the food crisis was resolved. Now Liu Jing has a little spare energy and can do things that he has always wanted to do but couldn't do, such as providing free breakfast for officials.

Liu Jing used to be a city official and knew the suffering of officials. Take meals as an example. In the Han Dynasty, there were generally two meals a day.Officials with rich families have their own servants to deliver meals, but most of them prepare their own pots of meals, and most of them are overnight meals.

Liu Jing provided the officials with a free breakfast of one meat and two vegetables. Even though meat dishes were only the most common fish products, they were unanimously welcomed by the officials.

Liu Jing's move not only solved the food problem of the officials, but also reduced the pressure on the officials' lives.

You must know that the monthly salary of the vast majority of officials is no more than two dendrobium rice and three hundred and sixty dollars, which is more than enough to support one person, but it is difficult to support a family. Liu Jing waived the breakfast fee for them. Over the years, it is not a small sum.

In addition, officials usually live alone in official houses, and only on holidays can they return home and reunite with their families.

Liu Jing used to be alone in the official house, and often regretted it, so he decided to break this tradition and allow the official's wives and sons to live in the official house.

In view of the fact that some official houses were dilapidated, Liu Jing specially ordered people to renovate the official houses to ensure that the officials and their families would not suffer from the cold.

It's just that those who are wives have the duty to serve their uncles and aunts, and with all kinds of scruples, only [-] to [-]% of the wives and sons of officials live in official houses.

"Guanzi" says: "A farmer has a regular job, and a woman has a regular job. If a farmer does not plow, the people will be hungry; if a woman does not weave, the people will suffer from the cold."

As mentioned earlier, the salaries of officials are not enough to support their families, and most of the wives of officials need to spin and weave clothes to supplement their families.

There are more than [-] people from poor families. Liu Jing set up a spinning room to provide them with raw materials such as hemp and silk cocoons, as well as tools for spinning, weaving and weaving, paying wages, and collecting cloth and silk.

In the Han Dynasty, the queen was respected, and she also wanted to "pro-mulberry", and set it as an example for the world. Although Deng Yuan and Lai Ci came from famous families, they were all accustomed to female workers. They went to the spinning room on weekdays to weave clothes and shoes.

Liu Jing's approach did not cause controversy, because the Han Dynasty has always had the tradition of "women in the same alley, and follow each other at night". .

To be honest, for Liu Jing, these two things were just a little effort, and he paid only a little money and grain, but they established his incomparably lofty status in the hearts of the officials in one fell swoop.

Liu Jing worked for the welfare of the officials, and he did not forget the common people. In fact, since he governed Jingnan, Liu Jing has promulgated a number of policies to benefit the people, such as tax reduction and exemption, abolishment of money and so on.This time, he focused on the corvee.

Corvée is the most difficult thing for the common people, especially during the period of war, when the common people are exhausted and miserable, even children and children are affected.

"Han Feizi" has a saying: "If there are fewer corvees, the people will be safe." Liu Jing strictly ordered the counties and counties in southern Jing not to play dramas on the people if it is not necessary.

Of course, Liu Jing himself was the most important constable. In the past years, he fought against Zhangjin in the south and Wuling in the west, and recruited civilians to transport military supplies many times.Moreover, he will attack Liu Biao in the north next year, and he will definitely conscript a large number of people at that time.

However, this is unavoidable. The only thing he can do is to strictly restrict counties and counties from arbitrarily recruiting people into corvee labor like in the past.

In mid-September, a stack of paper about half a foot high was placed on Liu Jing's desk.This paper is exactly the bamboo paper produced by papermakers in Linxiang and Leiyang following the process described by Liu Jing over several months.

This bamboo paper is earthy yellow in color, dense and dense, smooth and smooth, but the texture is slightly brittle, and the bamboo material is not processed finely, so there are many bamboo tendons on the paper surface, and there are many impurities.

Liu Jing regards bamboo paper with the standard of modern industrial paper, which is naturally unsatisfactory. However, the reality is that the bamboo paper made by the methods of later generations is far better than today's paper.

The most important thing is that bamboo as a raw material can be seen everywhere in Jingnan. It is no exaggeration to say that it is inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

Liu Ba, Huan Jie, Jiang Wan, Xu Shu, Deng Zhi, Lai Gong and others who sat again were all full of praise for bamboo paper. When they learned from the mouth of the paper maker, there are now more than a hundred craftsmen and children in the paper workshop. , Japan can produce tens of thousands of bamboo paper, everyone was shocked and surprised.

A hundred years ago, Cai Lun improved papermaking technology, making the world realize that paper will replace bamboo and silk in the future, but after a hundred years, paper has been developing continuously, but it is far from the expectations of the world.But Liu Jing solved a problem that could not be solved for hundreds of years in just a few months.

For Liu Jing, everyone could only admire him.

(End of this chapter)