Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Chapter 100 Opinion Letter on Resettlement and Settlement of Refugees
  Looking at the treasury and granary that were quickly filled with carts of money and grain, Li Ji felt inexplicably relieved and satisfied.

There is food in hand and no panic in mind.

Previously, Liu Bei's operation when he first entered Wu County was entirely dependent on the money and food support of the Mi family. However, it is impossible for such a large Wu County to rely on the Mi family to maintain its operation. What's more, the money and food investment required to develop Wu County in the future will inevitably be astronomical. number.

In this case, even if the entire Mi family is completely emptied, it will be a drop in the bucket.

Now, there is an endless supply of money and food that has been laundered cleanly by the bandits in Wu County.

Li Ji made a brief calculation and found that even if Wu County's grain production could barely maintain its income and expenditure in the next three to five years, it would be enough to support Wu County's continued massive development while continuing to resettle the refugees.

Qi Cheng's aristocratic families in Wu County have accumulated wealth over decades or even centuries, which is more than Li Ji imagined.

Even if Li Ji mobilized his subordinates, he couldn't count it at all for a while. He could only supervise the storage in the treasury first, and then slowly calculate it into the accounts in the future.

'Thank you, my family and bandit friends...'

'And you are the real heroes in the development of Wu County. You are great in life and glorious in death...'

Li Ji admired silently.

Of course, there is no need to say more about the glory of death.

The greatness of life is that the captured bandits will have to work hard to atone for their sins. As for how long they need to atone, it is naturally decided by the judge.

what?
  There are no judges in this era?

Nonsense, isn't Li Ji, who handles various political affairs in Wu County, the chief judge of Wu County?
  Justice is carried out, no need to go to jail, just re-education through labor.

While Guan Yu and others led their troops to transport money and food back, Li Ji had ordered Xiahou Bo to divide the prisoners into ten groups, with 1,500 people in each group, and each group was further divided into ten teams, each with 150 people. people, and then each team is divided into ten columns, with fifteen people in each column.

In addition to the supervision and labor of each group of prisoners by 150 county soldiers, Li Ji also formulated an internal supervision system.

In addition to internally formulating the positions of team leader, captain, and column leader to allow prisoners to supervise themselves internally, the most important thing is that one person who escapes will be punished if he sits in each column. If one person reports and confirms the escape, the reporter will be promoted to column leader.

The entire seemingly simple internal supervision system actually completely eliminated the possibility of anyone escaping, and even the one hundred and fifty county soldiers were solely responsible for their food.

Li Ji also renamed these captives civil laborers, and by the way, he regularly sent scholars to give them ideological education, stating that their current labor was glorious, to atone for the past, and to create a better world. of the world.

Ideological education may not necessarily be useful, but some people will definitely believe it, and it will also give those group leaders, team captains, and column leaders who strictly manage (squeeze) and manage (squeeze) an excuse to comfort themselves.

Li Ji estimated that when Liu Bei is allowed to join the civil engineering workers again, and if he gives some small favors to the lower-level civil engineering workers, he may directly reap the gratitude of a large number of lower-level civil engineering workers and make them willing to do so. The land served for the development of Wujun.

Moreover, this is likely to shift the contradiction among civil workers from “capture and being captured”, “exploitation and being exploited” to the contradiction between “management and being managed”.

After the entire "Civil Worker" plan was implemented by Li Ji, Li Ji didn't know why when he saw the pole on the roadside, he felt like he would be hung up sooner or later.

The most urgent task of these "civil workers" at the moment is to build a large number of private houses to accommodate the initial resettlement of the displaced people.

In addition, there are also repairing city walls, cultivating fertile fields, dredging rivers, and smoothing roads...

It can be said that there are still too many places where they need to exert their strength in Wu County, and the tasks to be performed are almost full for them.

Since Liu Bei only had preliminary control over Wu County to accommodate the people's support and was not suitable for large-scale labor service, he could only rely on these "civil workers".

For a time, the entire Wu County with Wu County as the center seemed to be full of vigor and vitality. Almost everyone in the government office, including Liu Bei, was extremely busy.

Although Liu Bei was mainly concerned about the arrangement of the Wujun family and the refugees, all concerns still left Liu Bei with little free time in his daily schedule.

Each document regarding the arrangements for the refugees will eventually be put into Liu Bei's hands for final review.

And just when Liu Bei thought that today's paperwork was almost done, Jian Yong, who now looked more like Liu Bei's secretary, hurriedly handed over another bamboo slip.

Liu Bei subconsciously took it and spread it out to take a look.

"Opinion Letter on Resettlement and Settlement of Refugees"

Liu Bei's spirit was shaken and he looked at it seriously.

It has been nearly a month since Liu Bei arrived in Wu County. Due to his previous arrangements in Xuzhou, there has been an almost continuous influx of refugees into Wu County.

Liu Bei also took in refugees without hesitation, and has taken in tens of thousands of refugees so far.

And this is just the beginning.

The rate of refugees pouring into Wu County is still increasing, and it can be expected that this number will only continue to rise.

It's just that Liu Bei had only arrived in Wu County for the first time before, and he had only temporarily resettled the tens of thousands of refugees to ensure basic food and clothing. However, Liu Bei had not yet decided on the specific follow-up arrangements.

Nowadays, it is rare to see an opinion letter related to the resettlement of refugees. Liu Bei naturally read it carefully word for word, hoping to be helpful.

However, the more Liu Bei looked at it, the uglier his expression became.

After reading the last sentence, Liu Bei, who rarely got angry, slapped the bamboo slips in his hand on the table and said angrily. "Xianhe, you are so ridiculous. How can you treat the people like this? Many refugees trust Liu Xuande's name and have just come all the way to Wujun. How can it be a kind act to oppress them like this?"

Immediately, Liu Bei threw the bamboo slips in his hand directly in front of Jian Yong and said in a deep voice.

"Xianhe, I pretend that I didn't see this bamboo slip, but that I wrote it in a moment of confusion and took it back."

Jian Yong, who had been frightened to the ground by Liu Bei who suddenly became angry, looked at the bamboo slips in front of him, cold sweat broke out on his forehead unconsciously, and explained quickly.

"My lord, this bamboo slip was not written by me."

Liu Bei was startled and asked. "Didn't you write it? Didn't you just hand it over alone?"

Jian Yong listened to Liu Bei's much softened tone and carefully wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart as the saying goes, "Living the Qi, nourishing the body", I am honest.

The Lord is good when he is gentle on a daily basis, but once he gets angry, his momentum is far from what he used to be, even worse than Liu Yan whom Jian Yong had seen before.

Jian Yong explained.

"When I visited Zikun to learn tea art last night, Zikun asked me to hand it over to the Lord alone today. In order to avoid leaking the secret, I have never read the contents."

Zikun?

Upon hearing this, Liu Bei immediately stood up and walked to Jian Yong. After helping Jian Yong up and comforting him, he picked up the bamboo slips that had just been thrown to the ground, opened them again and read them patiently, muttering.

"Since these are Zikun's words, they must have deep meaning. Is there something that Bei didn't understand clearly? Or maybe Bei made a mistake somewhere?"

Jian Yong looked at the gap between Liu Bei in front of him and when he was angry just now. He couldn't help but secretly lamented Liu Bei's tolerance and trust in Li Ji. He couldn't help but cursed that Li Ji had tricked him and made him suffer in vain. Liu Bei scolded him.

In addition, Jian Yong couldn't help but be quite curious about what Li Ji wrote, so that Liu Bei was so angry at first.

Liu Bei once again turned over the bamboo slips in his hand and carefully considered them several times, but his brows became tighter and tighter, as if he was even more confused.

"Lord, what is the content Zikun wrote?" Jian Yong saw this and asked.

Liu Bei asked. "Xianhe hasn't seen it yet?"

"No."

Jian Yong shook his head and replied.

When Liu Bei heard this, he handed the bamboo slips in his hand to Jian Yong, not forgetting to give a warning and said.

"Then Xianhe, let's take a look, but the content must not be leaked, otherwise it may damage Zikun's reputation."

"Yes."

Jian Yong took the bamboo slips and browsed them quickly, the look of surprise on his face becoming more and more obvious.

After reading the content on the bamboo slips, Jian Yong's expression also changed drastically, and he spoke in shock. "Is this really what Zikun said?"

"Bei also can't believe it. Could it be that Zikun was deceived by others and did not know the specific contents of the bamboo slips?" Liu Bei said speculatively.

When Jian Yong heard this, he shook his head.

This bamboo slip was given by Jian Yong last night as he watched Li Ji write on the desk with his own eyes and then handed it into his own hands.

However, Jian Yong still couldn't believe the content in the bamboo slips.

A brief summary of the content in the bamboo slips is that almost all the costs incurred in resettling the refugees will be passed on to the refugees.

Food, clothing, houses, fields, etc. will all be lent to the refugees for a fee, and the refugees need to repay them bit by bit.

'This... what is the difference between this and taking all the refugees into the government's tenants and taking all the income of the refugees for the rest of their lives as their own? '

Jian Yong unconsciously thought of this sentence, but he didn't dare to say it in front of Liu Bei.

Liu Bei thought for a long time and said.

"That's not right. There must be something wrong. Either Zikun was deceived by a traitor, or there is something on the bamboo slips that we didn't understand correctly."

Jian Yong: "..."

Lord, you are too partial!

As Liu Bei's childhood playmate, Jian Yong couldn't help but feel a little disgusted with Liu Bei's trust.

"Xianhe, let's go!"

Liu Bei collected the bamboo slips and put them in his sleeves, and then said. "Let's go find Zikun and we'll find out if we ask him face to face."

(End of this chapter)