Jagged hegemony of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 360: Youzhou Acquired (2)

In the next few days, the enhanced version of the Italian artillery showed its power again, blasting open the gates of Wuzhong County and Junmi County in Youbeiping County in succession. The Liaozhou Army Commander drove straight in and quickly occupied the entire Youbeiping County.

However, the people in Youbeiping County were not dissatisfied in the slightest. Liu Wei's kindness to the people was well known to women and children. Although Yuan Jun was not cruel, he did not treat the people as human beings and robbed poultry and livestock.Beating the people, bullying men and women, on the other hand, the Liaozhou Army not only did not beat and scold the people, but also helped the people and distributed food and grass to the victims.

In contrast, the arrival of the Liaozhou Army is a great thing.

Although the common people think so, those local tyrants don’t think so. They are very clear about what Liu Wei did in Liaozhou. .Not so much a landlord.It would be better to say that they are slave owners, because they are all slaves of foreign races.

In Wuzhong County, in the Ma family compound, a group of local tyrants and landlords gathered together.

"Everyone, everyone who should come has come, and it's time for us to discuss important matters!"

As the initiator of this meeting, Mr. Ma saw that there were almost everyone, so he stood up and spoke.

"Cough cough!"

Mr. Ma cleared his throat.Then he opened his mouth and said: "I think you all understand that now Youbeiping County has changed, and the surname is no longer Yuan and Liu! How do you feel?"

As soon as Mr. Ma finished speaking, a discordant voice rang out: "What is the surname Liu? He Liu Wei has taken You Beiping, but can he sit still? I heard from merchants that Yuan Shao has given up on fighting with Cao Cao." Let's face the enemy, no longer attack Yanzhou, 50 troops have already crossed the Yellow River, ready to return to the army to retake the territory occupied by Liu Wei, if possible, it is possible to fight to Liaozhou!"

Mr. Ma raised his head and looked at it, the person who spoke was Wan Yu, the young head of the Wan family.

"It turned out to be Master Wan, but I don't agree with what Master Wan said. Yuan's army is no more than 80 to [-]. Can they be stronger than the alien race on the grassland? Liu Wei beat the alien race to death , still be afraid of Yuan Shao?"

Another young man stood up and said.

Everyone regarded it as Guo Nan, the young master of the Guo family.

Seeing that Guo Nan was contradicting himself, Wan Yu snorted coldly and said, "So, you are going to betray the general and join the traitor Liu Wei?"

"Hehe, why did you talk about betrayal? Our Guo family has always been for ourselves, and we have never been Yuan Shao's dog legs, and if we don't take refuge in Liu Wei, those wealthy families in Liaozhou will be a lesson for us, especially your Wan family. The Qian family, from Xiangping, ended up with a whole family of robbers!"

Guo Nan sneered.

"Hehe, I won't bother you about this, I still have great confidence in Yuan Gong! Everyone, if we disagree, we will not conspire with each other, so farewell!"

After finishing speaking, Wan Yu bowed his hands proudly to everyone, and walked away.

After Wan Yu left, Mr. Ma said again: "If there are still people who don't want to take refuge in King Liao, I won't stay any longer, you can leave on your own!"

After finishing speaking, Mr. Ma stopped talking, but stared at everyone present to see if anyone was leaving.

Sure enough, as soon as Mr. Ma said this, three or four people stood up immediately, bowed to everyone present, and then said: "In comparison, we are still optimistic about Yuan Gong and Liu Wei. Although they are powerful, But it may not be Yuan Gong's opponent."

After speaking, several people left one after another.

After these people left, Mr. Ma asked several times, and after confirming that no one wanted to leave, Mr. Ma said slowly: "To be honest, my Ma family has already taken refuge in His Highness King Liao. Although King Liao is not cruel, , but they are definitely not soft-hearted people, I am afraid that the few families who left today will not have any good fruit to eat, and at worst they will be demoted to the common people, serious, like the Wan family, their families may be ruined!"

Mr. Ma sighed, then shook his head.

There were also smart people present, so they asked, "Uncle Ma, if you have anything to say, just say it!"

"Okay, then I'll just say it straight, the king of Liao wants to divide the land equally, and distribute our land to the people!"

Mr. Ma said.

"What? Divide our land? Are you kidding me? Our land is gone. Where can we go to collect the rent? Let us drink the northwest wind?"

A middle-aged man with a big belly said.

"Han Lao Liu, listen to me!"

Mr. Ma glanced at Han Laoliu who was talking in vain, and then said: "The prince said that we will not take everyone's land for nothing. Each family will have fifty slaves. Let us reclaim wasteland, and we will do as much as we want." How much belongs to us, but there is also an upper limit. For example, Han Laoliu, your family has 120 people. You can own up to [-] acres of land, that is, everyone who has a household registration in the government You can own fifty acres of land, and you don’t need slaves, but cattle, sheep and other livestock!”

"Oh, this is a good thing. My family now only has more than 1000 mu of land. I don't take all the income from the land every year and pay the wages to those long-term workers. It's different when we have slaves. We only need to give slaves food and drink. Don’t worry about the rest! Uncle Ma, can you give me more slaves? You said that if the slaves are exhausted, don’t I have to hire long-term workers?”

Han Laoliu asked.

"Death? Hehe, it depends on how the slave died. If you are beaten to death, exhausted or starved to death, then you have a big problem. If you abuse a slave, you will be demoted to a commoner, and if it is serious, you will be punished." Put into prison, and suffer from prison! According to the words of the king of Liao, slaves can be used, but slaves are not allowed to be abused!"

Mr. Ma said.

"Um, but with thousands of acres of land, even fifty slaves can't handle it!"

Han Laoliu asked.

"It depends on your own ability. Buy slaves, Gu Changgong, or your own family to work. Anyway, in the first year, I advise you not to be too greedy. Although there is no need to pay taxes in the first year. But the newly reclaimed Who knows the yield of the land. If the yield is not high, you bought hundreds of slaves, and there is no food for them to eat, so you must eat up your family's surplus grain!"

Mr. Ma stroked his beard and said with a smile.

"Well, Uncle Ma is right. King Liao is not a man who does not keep his word. Since he has said it, he will definitely not let us suffer, and we can get a lot of land masters. It's just a hard time. When the time comes Who doesn't have thousands of acres of land!"

A group of people nodded in satisfaction, feeling that they were not at a disadvantage.

Seeing that the task Liu Wei entrusted to him has been completed, Mr. Ma also heaved a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that this group of people would disagree, and he would be out of character by then.

(End of this chapter)