Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1574 Tangdi

After Liu Bei and Zhengxi General Fei Qian separated, they did not immediately go to their temporary residence, but wandered around the street for a while, looking at the shops on both sides of the street and the pedestrians passing by, and bought something in a wine shop. After some cooked food, he slowly moved into his own residence.

Liu Bei now, of course, does not have many servants and guards. Except for the few who are close to him, they are all taken back. For things outside of him, what Liu Bei values ​​more is what he has learned from Zheng Xi these days.

  Fei Qian, General of Zhengxi, has many things that Liu Bei has never seen before, but after seeing it, he feels that it must be like this, which makes Liu Bei a little confused...

Speaking of which, Liu Bei has been to many places. Of course, this cannot be blamed on Liu Bei, but in the Han Dynasty, those who could travel thousands of miles without moving were rare. Naturally, he gained a lot of knowledge, but Liu Bei still felt that this knowledge was not enough, because he was in all places. Among the princes, there has never been a governance method like Fei Qian's.

Not to mention Gongsun Zan, that guy can't even manage his own army well, let alone manage the people's livelihood. If we talk about it, with Gongsun Zan's personal ability, he should be almost at the top as a school lieutenant. no.

  Yuan Shao, although Liu Bei didn't see it with his own eyes, he generally knew something. Liu Bei can't use this guy's way. There are many people in Yuan Shao's tent, so if there are any things that need to be done separately, it will be gone, but Yuan Shao's subordinates are very fierce in all aspects, it seems that Yuan Shao doesn't care, or it is intentional...

  As for Cao Cao, it may be because of Cao Cao’s background, so many court ministers were not very cooperative with Cao Cao, and Han Emperor Liu Xie seemed not very satisfied with Cao Cao, and Cao Cao’s calculations also made Liu Bei uncomfortable. And Liu Biao, hehe, not to mention...

   Now, Liu Bei has a very strange feeling at Zhengxi General Feiqian. Everything seems to be on the surface, but if you look carefully, you can taste some strategies, but this kind of strategy...

   "Brother!!"

  Stop drinking, scared the original? The noisy cricket lying in the crack of the stone immediately stopped, and then stuck into the crack of the stone desperately, trying to avoid the sudden sound wave damage.

   "Ah!" Liu Bei was just about to get off the horse, almost sprained his foot, staggered and stood firm, "Third brother! Why are you here... this... can you wait until I get off the horse next time to say hello..."

   Zhang Fei was very happy to see Liu Bei, and he spun around Liu Bei's left and right sides to look up and down, "Brother, you lost weight! Ah?! What did you just say, brother?"

   "..." Liu Bei smiled, "Why are you here? How is your second brother's injury now? You need someone to take care of you..."

"It's much better! Most of the wounds are healed now! The second brother was worried about the eldest brother, so he asked me to come here first, and said that he would be fine with Ping'er, and he also said that he would come over after the injury healed..." Zhang Fei laughed, and then turned into He muttered, "The golden sore medicine of Zhengxi thief is not bad... I don't know how to make it..."

For Zhang Fei who often fights on the battlefield, Zhang Fei is very surprised and admired by Zhengxi's healing and healing speed, but Zhang Fei has always been dissatisfied even if he is convinced in his heart. So to be able to say something good is already very remarkable.

Liu Bei also nodded, and said as he walked in: "I also heard about it. It is said that on Zhengxi's side, if the wounded soldiers were not fatally wounded, generally many of them would survive... Have you seen the patrolling horses in the city? ? I heard that in Guanzhong, some wounded soldiers retreated, and many of them survived with severed limbs..."

   "Big brother, you can survive with a broken limb? No, I mean, there are many of them?" Zhang Fei widened his eyes. Because there are few people like Zhengxi who pay attention to disinfection and first aid after all, and the wounds of severed hands and feet are very large, so many people have complications of one kind or another during the healing process. Therefore, under the rule of general princes, Based on the crude medical conditions, most of such soldiers could not live for a few months after leaving the battlefield.

  Liu Bei nodded, entered the hall, sat down, and was silent for a moment, as if his thoughts drifted to those years before...

  Zhang Fei was also a little sad.

Although it is said that you must have a heart of stone on the battlefield, but people are not grass and trees, especially some guards who have been with them for a long time, and then they will leave some imprints on their hearts to some extent. After a long time, these imprints There are more and more. If you think about it carefully and look through it, it is simply horrible.

"However, speaking of it, this Zhengxi is really well-deserved...I have learned a lot these days..." Liu Bei quickly cleared up his mood, and said to Zhang Fei, "I won't talk about military affairs, just civil affairs. , It's all intertwined, it's quite amazing... Third brother, when you entered the city, did you find anything different from before?"

   "Hey! Of course there is!" Zhang Fei curled his lips and said, "Everyone is in high spirits, and they are all decorating and preparing for the New Year..." How could my old Zhang not see such an obvious act of flattering?

  Liu Bei was not in a hurry, he guided and said, "What else?"

   "And..." Zhang Fei wondered, "There are more people than before..."

   "And then?" Liu Bei continued to ask.

  Zhang Fei thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "Are all the big households in Sichuan coming?"

  Liu Bei nodded and said, "Most of them have come, which is what it should be... But, third brother, have you noticed that the streets in this city are much cleaner? This smell..."

   "This...Brother said so, it seems to be true..." Zhang Fei rubbed the beard on his chin, like rubbing a brush, "No wonder it looks a little uncomfortable..."

In ancient times, well, until the Republic of China, there were still no public toilets in many places, even indoors. Every morning, someone dragged a large wooden barrel cart out to collect night incense. Needless to say, there was no system in the Han Dynasty , Human and horse excrement everywhere is simply an inevitable accessory of a city...

   "Aha, I didn't expect General Zhengxi to care about this?" Zhang Fei raised his eyebrows and said, as if he was planning to give General Zhengxi a title about the Three Corpses of Shit, Pee and Fart.

  Liu Bei said seriously: "The small sees the big... If this matter, let the third brother handle it, what should you do?"

  Zhang Fei rolled his eyes and said, "Isn't it like Zheng Xi, sending some soldiers to patrol the streets, and punishing one if caught?"

But Liu Bei smiled, shook his head and said: "Inspecting on the main street, um, yes, what about the ones in the workshop? Also, if you can't enter the city, you have to wait for this matter? There must be a source, How to arrange it? If the third brother handles it, how will it be arranged and how long will it take?"

   "This..." Zhang Fei really didn't think about such a small thing.

Liu Bei held up a finger and said: "Zhengxi just called together the big households in the city, and only said one thing, war belongs to gold, and plague belongs to water, so there are more wars in autumn and winter, and more plagues in spring and summer. If there is water, it is easy to have serious diseases, but water also produces wood, so these filthy things are of great benefit to Zhuanghe..."

   Zhang Fei widened his eyes: "This...really?"

Liu Bei let out a sigh and said, "The key is that Zhengxi also said at the same time that the fertile field method used in Guanzhong and the north can increase production by 20%...and whoever collects these filthy things will belong to them and can be used to accumulate fertility. Tian, ​​Zhengxi also sent a bachelor of agriculture to guide one or two... So, all over the city, a single soldier in Zhengxi did not move, and it didn't cost a single cent. They just sent some patrol cavalry, and with the help of big households, Within three days, it was cleaned up..."

Liu Bei sighed faintly and said, "Third brother, do you still remember what we asked these big households to do when we were here before, it was difficult to say this, and it was not easy to say that, collecting taxes would have to be done over and over again...and This Zhengxi is just a sentence... This is the magic of it... Another example is the method of Shiwu, which was also used in the pre-Qin period, but later because the big family hid, it was so exhausting... By the way, Zhengxi is going to implement Shiwu Lianzu The method of ordering a certain master... If it is usual, the big households often hide and do not report... However, Zhengxi wants to open up new fields, do some kind of mountain plowing and water cart method, and then these cultivated fields will be awarded to households without land. How dare the big households not report? After all, if these hidden households under the big households don’t know about it, it’s fine if they know that these big households have cut off the benefits of granting land, ha ha..."

   Liu Bei looked out of the hall and said, "...In this way, the population in Sichuan will be increased for no reason, and the tax will be increased...This levy, alas..."

   It has always been a Chinese tradition to hide the population. Even in later generations, there are still many black households. These populations become the best targets of exploitation, but if these people hear that they have the opportunity to divide the fields and houses, will they be willing to hide under the big family? Coupled with the law of continuous sitting, rewards for reporting, and covering up for the same crime, the original balance of interests was immediately broken...

  Zhang Fei frowned and said: "In this way, how can these big households agree?"

Liu Bei nodded and said: "This is exactly my worry... However, Zhengxi will announce his appointment tomorrow... And according to Zhengxi's temperament, I'm afraid there are follow-up measures... Zhengxi is a man who loves to use conspiracy. Under the conspiracy, alas..."

Liu Bei felt that these days, he sighed more than in the most difficult time before: "In the Qingyang Temple, Zhengxi asked me what my ambitions are? Do you want to be the place, or be in the third rank, or Want to be king... third brother, tell me, how can I choose? If I choose to be king, Zhengxi will probably immediately designate a vassal state, such as a dilapidated place like Mianzhu, and arrange a state minister..."

"Choose the third prince? If I want the position of the three princes, why should I leave Xu County?" Liu Bei shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It seems that there are three roads on the surface, but in fact there is only one... However, if I choose the position of the herdsman, I will follow With this Shiwu method, how could I not know that this matter will be evil to the big family in Sichuan and Shu..."

   "Aww!" Zhang Fei was obviously about to stand up and groan, but he shrank back under Liu Bei's stare, and also turned down the volume, "The little thief Zhengxi...is really... treacherous..."

  Liu Bei said: "But these are all on the bright side...General Zhengxi even said that this is not easy. If you do it well, you will naturally know how to be a herdsman..."

   "Zhengxi also said the same?" Zhang Fei was a little at a loss, "Is that what I told my elder brother? Then what does he mean?"

  Liu Bei was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "Mostly I think I can't do this well, and I don't even have the qualifications of a herdsman..."

   "Bastard!" Zhang Fei said angrily, "How dare you underestimate big brother!"

"But I think what Zhengxi said is reasonable..." Liu Bei shook his head and said, "Zhengxi asked me what I did for so long in Xinye? Did I build water conservancy roads and bridges, did I clear up the surrounding bandits and bandits, and did I rectify them? The market expands trade, does it guide Nongsang to gather refugees..."

   "Ah... this..." Zhang Fei was also a little confused, and then he said stubbornly, "Xinye is a small place, where money and people are needed. How do you do it? Who can do it?"

"But Zhengxi can do it!" Liu Bei sighed, "When Zhengxi arrived in Bingbei, at that time, the land of Shangjun was either Baibo or Huren, with no more than a thousand soldiers, and no more than three people... But this is how it started. ..."

"Uh..." Zhang Fei was speechless. He wanted to open his mouth to say something several times, but found that he couldn't say anything. In the end, he could only hold his mouth, his beard shaking and shaking, like a bird with a thorn in its back. hedgehog.

Liu Bei smiled and said softly, his voice was still full of hope, "In retrospect, it's not that we didn't have a chance, but we really didn't do well... It's not too late to learn now, it's better than waiting until we can't learn anymore , come to discover these problems again? Third brother, since you are here, you also have to learn..."

   "Huh? Me?" Zhang Fei pointed to his nose, "I want to learn too?"

  Liu Bei nodded, and suddenly said: "By the way, how are our soldiers now?" No matter what, as a Danyang soldier who lives and works, he is still the most important thing in Liu Bei's heart.

"In Kaitian..." Zhang Fei curled his lips, "What Xu Yuan over there said bluntly, soldiers can't be idle, and there will be more disputes when they are idle, so they are pulled to open up new fields, so that they will be rationed to those without land in the spring of the coming year... "

   "Only our Danyang soldiers go?" Liu Bei frowned.

"No, they all go, they come in turn..." Zhang Fei said, "It's fair to say that people from Sichuan, Dongzhou, Jingxiang, and even Zhengxi himself went, so..." Because of this, Zhang Fei had no way to say anything, everyone went, so everyone had nothing to complain about.

   "Hmm... don't worry about being few, but about unevenness..." Liu Bei muttered and nodded. Soldiers can also be used to farm fields, well, this method is also good.

   "By the way, does Zhengxi have arrangements for you to do?" Liu Bei asked again.

  Zhang Fei shook his head and said, "Not for the time being, but tomorrow we will gather to discuss matters, and we will probably talk about anything...Brother, if Zhengxi really arranges something, this...do it or not?"

  Liu Bei pondered for a while, and said: "If it doesn't hurt yourself, then do it... There are too many things here in Zhengxi that I can't see clearly. Do more, maybe you can understand more..."

   Liu Bei turned his eyes to the hall, and there was a tangdi slanted in a corner of the courtyard. Because it was still the twelfth lunar month, the upward branches stretched alone. I don’t know when it will sprout again and bloom bright flowers again...

  (end of this chapter)