At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 269, Liu Bang’s apology and search for his ancestors

When Liu Bang went out, he brought back a concubine, and he named her Yan Ji, but this behavior directly angered Lu Pheasant.

"I am not doing this out of necessity for the development of Pei State. Why can't you understand your husband?"

"Liu Laosan has been a couple for so many years, and I still don't understand you. You are just a greedy and lustful person. You used to just play outside, but now you dare to bring someone back. You really think that my Lu family is easy to bully. "

That night, Liu Bang was given a hammer blow. But Liu Bang didn't dare to fight back.

In history, when Liu Bang conquered the world, it would be an exaggeration to say that the Lu family contributed half of his efforts, but he did make great contributions.

Sima Qian's attribution to Lu Ze was "to send troops to help Emperor Gaozu rule the world." This statement is an important basis for Lu Ze to be unique in the military.

Lu Ze's main role in the destruction of Qin and the Chu-Han war was to lead troops to fight. Many important generals in the Han army, such as Chen Xi, Jin She, Ding Fu, Fu Kuan, Gu Feng (also known as Chong Da), Guo Ting, Guo Meng, and Zhu Zhen from Jinyang in the State of Zhao, etc. have deep connections with Lu Ze. Lu Ze's achievements are enough to make him a king.

It is because the mother's family is so powerful that in history Liu Bang, the founding emperor, could not change the prince even if he wanted to.

And now that Liu Bang has established Pei State, the Lu family has invested all their property in Liu Bang. Of Lu Pheasant's two brothers, one helps Liu Bang manage military power, and the other helps Liu Bang manage finances. The Lu family is more powerful, and Liu Bang is even more afraid to offend him. Lu Zhi, let alone this matter, he did something wrong.

And like Zhang Sheng, Lou Jing, Qi Qin disapproved of Liu Bang's behavior, and even thought it was a good thing. With Liu Bang taking the lead, Pei Guo could better integrate Yi people. This time when Liu Bang went out, they had 50 more women in Pei. If the families of these women were brought to Peicheng, they would soon experience a population explosion. With enough population, they could do things like It will be much easier to take care of things.

Then Liu Bang was planning to go out and take the next group of people on a blind date.

Liu Bang said nonchalantly: "This is not about fear of the mother-in-law, but respect. Your Majesty has already said that beating women to achieve success is not what a man does. This is about respecting women."

Lu Zedao: "We want our subordinates to get married, not you to marry a concubine."

But Lu Ze pulled Liu Bang and said, "This time I will lead my tribe to get married."

Zhang Sheng worriedly said: "It's worse than going too far. There are too many people, and it's easy to become the guest."

Lu Ze still didn't know that Liu Bang had an affair with Widow Cao in his hometown, and gave birth to a concubine's eldest son Liu Fei. He spent several months in Guanzhong and spent his free time drinking and drinking. Fortunately, he even brought him back this time. .

Liu Bang said with a smile: "My uncle is already a little excited. If I talk to him a few more times, he should be successful. I have an idea to get a naturalization order. As long as one person in the tribe is a citizen of my country, this tribe will be successful." You can live in Pei Country and become a citizen of Pei Country. I believe that Pei Country has strong walls and sufficient food and cloth. If you can become a citizen of Pei Country, those Hao people will be willing to become savages."

The next day, Liu Bang appeared in front of Lou Jing and others with a pair of panda eyes. They want to laugh but dare not laugh.

Lou Jing said: "We still need to find ways to recruit some people from the Central Plains. They are good at hunting and fishing, but farming and construction are too poor. We also need guidance from the people in the Central Plains. This can also consolidate our foundation."

Lu Ze said angrily: "If you really follow His Majesty's example, then don't take concubines. Just like His Majesty, you will only have one queen."

Zhang Shengdao: "After the princes become in-laws, they should find ways to absorb the Zhuifeng tribe, so that our country, Pei, can quickly grow in strength."

He didn't believe in Liu Bang's fixation on women, and he was really afraid that Liu Bang would bring back a few more concubines. Although such things were very common in this era, he still didn't want his sister to be harmed.

Zhang Sheng and others understood Liu Bang's idea, which was to quickly absorb the Yi people tribe to strengthen the power of Pei.

Qi Qin said: "The military princes can go to Qi State to recruit people. The King of Qi and the King of Liaodong are at odds with each other. A large-scale war will definitely break out in Qi State within two years. This is already known to everyone. , The powerful people and people in Qi have long wanted to escape. If our transport ship arrives in Qi, we may be able to recruit some people who want to flee the battlefield. "

After thinking for a while, Liu Bang said: "Next time our fleet will go to Qi State."

Liu Bang frowned when he heard this. Now that the world is at peace, your majesty has equalized the land again, and the number of refugees in the world has been greatly reduced. If Han people can be recruited, he will not just bring the children of Peixian County. The key is to recruit Unexpectedly, Lu Shizhi went to Guangyang County to purchase goods and had the task of recruiting refugees, but every time he spent a lot of effort, only a few people came with them. There is a long way to go to increase the number of people in the Central Plains.

Strictly speaking, Liu Bang's vassal states were closer to Jiaodong Kingdom and Linzi by sea than to Guangyang County. It's just that Qi State is not the territory of the Han Dynasty, so Liu Bang is still a little worried.

Liu Bang looked at Lu Ze and said, "Isn't this also for the purpose of integrating the Yi people? With someone taking the lead, I think more Yi people will come to join our country of Pei."

Liu Bang said: "Yao Ren woman is so enthusiastic, I couldn't hold it back all of a sudden."

Liu Bang smiled and said: "If the Huns and Donghu people are still worried about this, the Yi people have always been the targets of bullying. Their tribe has not brought them any safety and honor. For these tribesmen, There is no regret in giving up this identity.”

Liu Bang smiled bitterly and said, "Then I'll leave it to you."

Liu Bang didn't want to offend his uncle.

Then he looked at his close advisers and said to Lu Ze: "Yi Ren women are enthusiastic. You can find a few to help the gentlemen and take care of their lives."

Lu Ze said: "No."

So Lu Ze led 50 tribesmen from Pei State to the Bailu Tribe.

And all the people from the Bailu tribe came out to greet them. Liu Bang left 60 pieces of cloth in the Zhuifeng tribe, causing a sensation in the Yiren tribe with a radius of hundreds of miles. This was an extremely huge wealth for them. Now these tribesmen Looking at Pei Guo's tribe, it's like looking at tall, rich and handsome people.

This cannot even be said to be an adjective but to say that now, in this era, the Han Dynasty is the beacon of known civilization.

The people of the Han Dynasty were taller and healthier than the Yi people. Liu Bang gave these people a salary of more than 600 yuan, and promised them that after opening up the fields, they would be given 200 acres of land to each household. If you have land, you are not really rich and handsome in this land of Liaodong.

In the past few months, Liu Bang has been inviting tribal leaders from a hundred miles away to gather, and they have also brought their confidants there, and these Yiren tribe members are extremely envious of the lives of the Peiguo tribe members after seeing them.

These people are well-dressed, without even a patch. They can eat all-you-can-eat plain rice. They don't worry about going hungry at all. They still live in a safe city. The people of Pei State have completely unimaginable clothing, food, housing and transportation.

In the eyes of the Yiren tribe, the life of the Pei tribe is better than that of the leader of their own tribe, and now that their sister has the opportunity to live in the fairy-like Pei country, they are of course excited.

The girl Yi Ren also wanted to marry a member of the Pei Kingdom. On the one hand, she was a tall, rich and handsome man from the Pei Kingdom, and on the other hand, she was a short, poor man from her own tribe. The very realistic girl Yi Ren, of course, knew how to choose.

Therefore, the blind date among the tribesmen of Pei State went smoothly this time, and many tribesmen even won two or three of them, and Lu Ze did not prevent this from happening.

At this time, an accident happened. Four Yiren women fell in love with Lu Ze. After all, Lu Ze was from a noble family, and his temperament was much higher than that of the Pei soldiers. In addition, he was tall and had a majestic appearance, so he was naturally attracted to Lu Ze. These four people even fought against Lu Ze in order to snatch away women. However, Lu Ze couldn't understand what they said, so he could only stop them from fighting in embarrassment.

In the end, the behavior of these people attracted the attention of the leader of the White Deer tribe. He told Lu Ze about the situation, which made Lu Ze even more embarrassed. He could only tell the leader of the White Deer tribe that he had a wife.

But the leader of the Bailu clan said nonchalantly: "You are the general of Pei State. A hero like you should have more wives. Since they all want to marry you, you might as well marry them all. This will be good for the four of them." fair."

"Ah!" Lu Ze's thought at this time was that he would not be ridiculed to death by Liu Bang when he returned to Pei State like this.

Chief Bailu continued: "It is said that Peihou is willing to accept our tribe to live in Peicheng. I don't know if this is true."

Only then did Lu Ze come to his senses and said, "It's true. Peihou welcomes tribal members like you very much." The leader of the Bailu tribe breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good, our whole clan will follow you back to Peicheng."

Lu Ze was surprised: "It's so fast, why don't you prepare?"

Chief Bailu said: "It has been prepared for a long time."

Obviously, the Bailu tribe had long made up their mind to join Liu Bang. The White Deer tribe was so poor that they had nothing. Suddenly, a rich and handsome man wanted to take care of them. What else could they think of? Of course, relying on him, even if it was a scam, he could still have a few good meals first.

So in the evening, with everyone shocked, Lu Ze returned to Peicheng with 500 people from the Bailu tribe.

Then Lu Ze told Liu Bang and the others about the Bailu tribe's surrender.

Zhang Sheng said happily: "So quickly a tribe came to join us."

Qi Qin said: "But our Peicheng is too small to accommodate such a large population."

Lou Jing said: "Although the Hao people are weak, they still need to be vigilant. My subordinates' idea is that we help the Hao people build several villages near Peicheng. Firstly, we can ensure the safety of Peicheng, and secondly, we have The demonstrations of these villages can better attract Hao people to naturalize and absorb more tribesmen.

Liu Bang said: "This is reasonable. I will leave the settlement of the Bailu tribe to you. You must let the surrounding tribes understand that you can have enough food by joining our Pei country."

Lou Jing saluted and said, "No."

Then Liu Bang looked at Zhang Sheng and said: "I leave it to you to educate the White Deer Tribe. You must let these White Deer Tribe wear my Han's clothes, speak my Han's words, and become my Han's subjects."

Zhang Sheng said: "No!"

After talking about the business, Liu Bang looked at Lu Ze and said with a smile: "My uncle is much more powerful than Nai Gong. He got four concubines at one time. He is far inferior to me."

When Lu Ze wanted to refute, it was because the White Deer Tribe forced him to do so. But after all, he didn't say this.

Liu Bang said: "Recruiting the White Deer Tribe, my uncle is a great hero of our Pei Kingdom. I don't need to explain what it means to have four concubines."

Then Liu Bang walked out of the hall and laughed unscrupulously. The laughter seemed to be hitting Lu Ze in the face, making him feel ashamed.

Zhang Sheng shook his head and said: "Junhou is good at everything, but he is too informal."

In the next month, Peiguo continued to marry into surrounding tribes. At the same time, Lou Jingye directed the people of Peiguo to help the Bailu tribe build a model countryside. He guided them to cultivate land and helped them repair their houses. Soon a small village consisting of hundreds of loess houses appeared outside Peicheng.

Every Yiren who came to Peicheng to trade and work was extremely envious when they saw the treatment of the Bailu tribe. Even when they knew that the Bailu tribe could earn 200 yuan a month by working for Peiguo, they immediately became envious and jealous. It was almost twisted. Many people who were unconvinced came to Liu Bang and asked: "Why is there such a big gap between people working the same job?"

Liu Bang said: "Now that the White Deer Tribe is a tribe of a certain person, of course a certain person should treat them better. You should also treat people in your own tribe differently from people outside the tribe."

Everyone was speechless when Liu Bang said this. But they soon thought of a way. Not only did the Bailu tribe live a good life by taking refuge in Pei, they could also live a good life by taking refuge in Peihou. So the surrounding Yiren tribes also came together one after another and found Liu Bang said: "Peihou, we also want to be naturalized and become Han people."

On the desolate and impoverished land of Liaodong, these tribal leaders are very realistic. Whoever can let them survive the cold winter, whoever can let them survive, whoever can give them enough to eat, they will seek refuge with. No leader will Feel embarrassed.

So in May, Pei State welcomed a tribe to join them every few days. The tribes on this land had been oppressed for too long and finally found their backbone.

Liu Bang, on the other hand, settled the tribes that had surrendered to him and established a Yao village near Peicheng, and asked his subordinates to guide them in building houses and lead them to cultivate land.

In less than two months, more than 20 villages of various sizes appeared near Peicheng. Under the rule of Pei State, the number of people exceeded tens of thousands, and more than acres of wasteland were reclaimed.

Peicheng, palace.

Liu Bang poured wine for Lou Jing himself and said: "The land cultivated by our country, Pei, has exceeded 20 acres. From now on, sir, I will be the prime minister of my country."

Although Lou Jing was very excited, he still said: "Junhou, these lands are just raw lands that have just been burned down. Most of them have not been cultivated yet, so it cannot be considered as fulfilling our original agreement. If we really want to cultivate these lands, there will be no more than three or four years." Kung Fu won’t do it.”

In fact, the Hao people also have the habit of farming, but they practice slash-and-burn farming. Basically, they find a piece of pasture every year, burn it clean, then scatter the seeds and bury them on the ground. They forget about it and wait until autumn to harvest the grain to store grain for winter. prepare for.

Now Lou Jing is using the same method as Hao Ren, with at least a little more management, letting Hao people pull weeds and drive away birds and beasts in the fields. The actual cultivated land is only more than 10,000 acres.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Although there were many tribes in Liaodong, most of them were engaged in fishing and hunting. Liu Bang subdued tens of thousands of Yi people, but he did not get a single cattle or a war horse. Liu Bang traded dozens of them with grain from the Donghu tribe. There are only a few large animals to cultivate the land, and iron farm tools are extremely scarce. If we have to cultivate wasteland like Liaodong, the progress will naturally not be fast.

So Lou Jing thought of using quantity to make up for the lack of quality. Liaodong is not the Central Plains. Wastelands are everywhere. Even if slash-and-burn farming is used, as long as the per capita occupation of land is more, the harvest will not be much worse than that of the Central Plains. Therefore, Lou Jing used the slash-and-burn method to allow Pei Guo to acquire 20 acres of land in a very short time. But Lou Jing did not regard these burned-out lands as his own cultivated land.

Liu Bang said with a smile: "This is at least a good start. I believe you, Sir. I didn't let you be the Prime Minister of Pei State before, just because our country has only a thousand people. Having a Prime Minister will make people laugh. But now our country of Pei has There are tens of thousands of people, the foundation has been established, and with the integration of hundreds of thousands of people in the surrounding area, the country of Pei can be considered established, and the husband as the prime minister can be considered justified.

When he heard this, Lou Jing said excitedly: "I am determined to be a prince and reclaim millions of acres of land in Liaodong, lay the foundation for Pei Kingdom, and become the heaven beyond the Great Wall in Liaodong."

Liu Bang said: "You and I encourage each other."

The two drank it all in one gulp, then looked at each other and smiled.

Then Liu Bang came to Zhang Sheng and said: "I would like to apologize to you first. When I was in Chang'an City, I was a frog in the well. I didn't know the vastness of the world, let alone the importance of Confucianism. It is the function of the monarch to use his talents according to his ability. I did it myself." If this is not the case, the talented people will be blamed.”

Zhang Sheng said with a smile: "I, the Confucian school, also have some people who are just like ordinary people."

Liu Bang continued: "In the next ten years, our Pei country will have a very important mission of education. We will make these Yao people speak Chinese, wear Han clothes, and use Han rites, become common people of our Pei country, serve our Pei country, and pay taxes. So I want to ask my husband to recruit some Confucian disciples to the country of Pei to educate the people.

This was Liu Bang's innermost thoughts. He originally looked down on Confucianism, but after coming to Liaodong, he discovered the importance of Confucianism, which could turn savages into one of his own.

Under Zhang Sheng's guidance, the savage tribes who had taken refuge with him had begun to search for their Han ancestors. I don't know what Zhang Sheng said, but he actually made the tribal leaders such as Zhui Feng think that they were descendants of Emperor Yan.

When Liu Bang heard this at first, he thought it was funny. The Yi people were thousands of miles apart from the Central Plains in Liaodong. How could they be descendants of Emperor Yan? Then Liu Bang was still a descendant of Tang Yao.

But he didn't expect Zhui Fengque to be very serious and said to Liu Bang: "The ancestors of our Hao people are Dongyi people. When the Shang and Zhou wars fought, our ancestors were driven to Liaodong, and the Dongyi people were originally subordinates of Emperor Yan, so we Hao people They are also descendants of Emperor Yan.”

Liu Bang was dumbfounded after hearing this reasonable deduction. For the first time, he paid attention to the ability of Confucianism, and this ability was also what he needed most urgently. Now 90% of his subordinates are Yi people and urgently need the support of Confucianism.

Zhang Sheng said: "I will write a letter to my junior brothers now and ask them to serve Peihou."

(End of this chapter)