Xuande

Chapter 357
After this round of rewards for meritorious deeds, everyone is generally satisfied.

It was Xu Huang who was aggrieved. He found Liu Bei and told about the embarrassing things on the battlefield, accusing Pang De of taking his head, thinking that he should still have his own share of the credit.

Pound expressed his innocence.

He didn't see Xu Huang at that time, he just saw the dead ghost in front of him, and the enemy chieftain swaying in front of him. As a general, how could he not stab him under the horse with a spear?
It can only be said that Xu Huang is not fast enough, or that Xu Huang is not as fast as him.

Pound looked terrified.

Xu Huang gritted his teeth angrily, wanting to slap Pang De in the face.

Liu Bei laughed out loud at this, telling Pang De not to be embarrassed again, then patted Xu Huang on the shoulder, and told him that he was still young, and there would be opportunities in the future, and it was nothing for a while.

The capture was indeed won by Pang De, and then Liu Bei told Xu Huang that he had the same experience as him, that is, being robbed of the head by Guan Yu before.

They are all comrades-in-arms, as long as the enemy is dead and the result is obtained, nothing else matters, just look at it a little better.

Xu Huang suffered from this loss, although he was still dissatisfied, but he had to listen to Liu Bei's words.

So Xu Huang could only give Pound a hard look, and let it go.

After the internal problems were resolved, Liu Bei reported the results of the war to the Luoyang court, loaded some loot that had been brought on the table, and sent them to Liu Hong, intending to exchange for more rewards for his own group.

From then until the first day of February, Liu Bei was dealing with the placement of the 14 prisoners of war captured this time.

In the same way as the Xianbei people were dealt with before, the strong men were dragged into the ranks of government servants, and the craftsmen were in charge of unified management, and were responsible for replacing the registered population of Liangzhou in corvee and other heavy physical labor.

The rewards that women of the right age should be rewarded will be distributed to the applicants if someone applies for it, so as to promote the population growth of Liangzhou.

The number of Qiang women registered in Liangzhou household registration this time was about 80. In addition to the report of the lost Han people who re-entered Liangzhou household registration in the previous period, there were about 81 people. By the end of January of the fifth year of Zhongping, Liangzhou The registered population of the state officially exceeded the [-] mark, reaching more than [-].

Coupled with the number of officials and slaves in the register of Liangzhou craftsmen, the overall manpower available to the Liangzhou government has exceeded the million mark, and this number is still rising as time goes by.

At present, with the vigorous promotion and implementation of many welfare policies such as encouraging childbirth, Liangzhou's diaspora population is showing a clear trend of returning. The number of people re-registered as reported by counties and counties is still increasing, and Liangzhou's population work has made great progress. development of.

So Liu Bei wrote a plan report on Liangzhou's population and long-term development and submitted it to Emperor Liu Hong. He informed Liu Hong of his governance achievements and showed off his ability in governing the local area.

To do something, say what you did.

Brilliant military achievements are one thing, and success in governing the region is another. Putting one's own abilities on the bright side will only benefit and not harm the Luoyang court in the future.

In addition to the results of governing Liangzhou, the promotion of salt sales in Sansuke has also initially succeeded.

After Liu Bei removed the biggest obstacle, Mrs. Ma, Mrs. Ma joined the salt trade alliance with a very agile attitude. He also made full use of his personal connections in Youfufeng and even Jing Zhaoyin to help the salt trade alliance A lot of joints have been opened up, and it can be regarded as a certificate of merit.

Therefore, with the cooperation of Liu Bei, the emperor, the eunuch, and the Ma family, the local forces and the government's taxation system in Sansuke's land have been taught and managed to a certain extent.

In addition, Liangzhou fine salt has quietly become a "tribute" of the royal family, and it is transported all the way as a tribute, not as a commodity.

When passing through the checkpoints and ferries set up by the government, Liangzhou Fine Salt does not need to pay [-]% to [-]% of the high tolls, and can pass without injury. Puli gained a firm foothold and quickly swept the market.

Salt sellers only need to pay salt tax to the local salt officials, which can save a lot of meaningless checkpoint taxes and increase the profits of sellers.

At the same time, by limiting the cost, the sales price can be lowered, which is also conducive to the purchase of ordinary people.

The taste of Liangzhou Fine Salt is far better than the salt that everyone ate before, and the price is relatively moderate now, so it is very simple to win people's favor and conquer people's taste buds.

No one likes the taste of the salt in the past, but in the past, in order to obtain the salty taste, they had to eat salt with a bitter taste, but now with the brand new Liangzhou fine salt, who would pursue that bad taste? What about the taste?

Every household changed to eat Liangzhou fine salt very quickly, and it didn't matter if they didn't want to, because the old table salt was no longer for sale.

While using Liangzhou fine salt to seize the market, the original table salt that had been made was packed into trucks, boarded ships, and collectively transported to Liangzhou to be handed over to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei's newly established "Liangzhou Fine Salt Processing Factory" in Hanyang County carried out the operation of "remelting and recasting" to remove impurities, complete a gorgeous turn, and then continue to sell and sell for money.

Since the middle of the first month of the fifth year of Zhongping, Liangzhou fine salt has successfully swept the salt market in Youfufeng, Zuofengyi and Jingzhaoyin.

After the disobedient Yanhu and the protective umbrella in the Sansuke Land were annexed by the eunuchs, the benefits of this share of salt were completely stabilized in the Sansuke Land, and were divided among the various forces involved.

The people involved in the sale of salt have a little understanding of how big the benefits are, so they don't worry at all that their interests will not be protected. Rather, they start to worry about how to spend the too much money they earn.

Especially Liu Hong, he will have the biggest interest, and the specific income brought to him by this interest will be an astronomical figure that he would wake up with a smile in his dreams. With this astronomical amount of wealth, he can do whatever he wants .

So he began to imagine building a brand new palace complex for himself, filling it with all the rare treasures in the world, including the most beautiful woman in the world, introducing the most fragrant rose peach wine, and then he would drink rose peach wine with the most beautiful woman Have fun in the pool.

He also has an even grander dream, which is to recreate the legendary Jiuchi Meat Forest in his palace. Although he doesn't know whether King Zhou of Shang built the Jiuchi Meat Forest, he felt that "a man should be like this" when he heard the description.

Thinking about being able to spend his days luxuriously and happily in the wine pool and meat forest in the future, he felt that his mood was about to fly with joy.

But Liu Bei didn't have so many ideas. He mainly wanted to use the money to improve Liangzhou's transportation, especially the roads for transporting salt, which needed to be rectified.

From Qinghai Lake to Jixian County, and then from Jixian County to Chang'an, there are waterways available for these two sections of the road. Water transportation is far more convenient and efficient than land transportation. Therefore, no matter what long-distance operations the ancients did, they would give priority to waterways. Not overland.

The transportation route planned by Liu Bei also made full use of the three water systems of Huangshui, Taoshui and Weishui, and transported by water as much as possible, thereby greatly reducing the transportation cost of salt.

In places where land transportation has to be used, Liu Bei planned road repairs to repair durable and smooth roads in places that cannot be reached by water transportation, further reducing transportation costs.

This part of the planning can just be handed over to the captured Qiang prisoners of war, let them pay the price for what they did, and build bridges and pave the way!

After completing a series of plans, on the first day of February in the fifth year of Zhongping, the Liangzhou State School established by Liu Bei started smoothly.

Liangzhou State School enrolled 520 seven students in the first batch, and then there were more than 500 students in the state preparatory school, adding up to a total of more than 2000 students.

The group of Liu's disciples suddenly became very large.

The first thing after the school starts is to conduct further examinations and divide the students into two groups, the ordinary class and the elite class.

In order to save bamboo slips and pen and ink, the exams are mostly conducted in the form of face-to-face questions and answers. Officials under Liu Bei with certain cultural literacy were pulled over to be interview examiners. They met these candidates one by one and asked them some slightly in-depth questions. It can be judged whether these candidates can enter the elite class or the ordinary class.

The final result shows that Liangzhou is not unreasonably called a cultural desert.

(End of this chapter)