During the Great Changqiu period, Zhang Ji, the regular attendant of Jia Zhong, took dozens of kilograms of garlic from the chef of Luoyi Palace, loaded it on a diesel truck, and went to Baijun Mansion to discuss "business" with Chen Yuanlong.
Liu Xie, Yang Xiu, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Yu, Hou Zhe, Tai Chong, and Feng Shuo were having dinner and discussing important matters.
For dinner, Liu Xie personally taught the chef the "Fish and Sheep Fresh" recipe with bacon and mustard rice. The "Fish and Sheep Fresh" lamb uses mutton chops from Yellow River Tan sheep, and also uses Sichuan pepper, pepper and sun-dried white rice. Make soup with radish to remove the smell. For the fish, fresh Yellow River carp was used, cleaned inside and out, and the fishy tendons were removed. After frying in lard until the aroma was fragrant, the mutton soup that had been cooked for a long time was added, and then cooked over high heat... ...This taste is truly unique!
Bacon pork and mustard rice is made from salted pork and dog meat pickled with Sichuan peppercorns and salt, cut into dices and salted mustard dices, washed and cooked with Jingzhou white rice, and then eaten with lard... .If this way of eating was known to Cao Cao, it would probably be included in the "Four Seasons Food System".
These seven people were either young or in their prime, and they all had good appetites. First, each of them had a bowl of vegetable rice and a bowl of fish and mutton soup. They ate and snored until they felt comfortable. Then they served warm white wine and drank it. While talking about things.
Nowadays, the food provided in Luoyi Palace is quite good! It's not that rich, and there aren't any songs or dances to add to the fun. But the taste of the three meals a day is not mentioned - they are all arranged by the gourmet emperor Liu Xie himself, and many dishes are taught to the chef by him himself!
But Liu Xie also knows that in today's era, those who can eat three meals a day are not ordinary people. If you can have half-full meals for two meals a day, you can be considered a middle-class family, and you must have not encountered any military disasters or natural disasters.
If we really encounter some catastrophic disaster, even the officials and even the emperor himself will starve!
So now that the imperial court has settled down in Luoyang, everyone can be said to have no worries about food and clothing, but this food and clothing worry is based on Liu Biao and Cao Cao's supply of food to Luoyang. Once the supply is interrupted for any reason, the good days are over.
And now Cao Cao is planning to use troops against Wancheng!
It was said that they were asking for Zhang Xiu, and Chun Yuqiong took Yuan Shao's documents to discuss with Liu Biao... But who knows what the fight will be like?
Therefore, the matter of farmland reclamation outside Luoyang City must start moving forward now.
"Dezu, Gongjin," Liu Xie first asked his top confidant Yang Xiu and Zhou Yu, who took over as the Luoyang order half a month ago, "How many people and military dependents do we have on hand? Between the Luohe River and Yishui River outside the city How much land can be reclaimed quickly?"
"Zi Tianjia," Yang Xiuxian replied, "the population currently under the jurisdiction of Huben Zhonglang General, Yulin Zhonglang General, Left and Right Duhou, Bujun Xiaowei, Changshui Xiaowei and Luoyang Order respectively is about 10,000 There are more than a thousand households and a population of more than 56,000."
The current emperor of Luoyi is actually a "county official" (county official is also one of the names for the emperor of the Han Dynasty), Yang Xiu is the county magistrate, Zhou Yu is actually the county captain, Zhuge Liang is probably the chief registrar, and Xu Huang , Fengqi, Tai Chong, Hou Zhe, Feng Shuo and Gan Ning are equivalent to the pavilion chiefs.
By the way, that Huang Zhong is currently under the jurisdiction of the Northern Army Zhonghou Liu Qi, and cannot be regarded as Liu Xie's person.
As for the soldiers and civilians who followed Liu Xie to Luoyang, except for the subordinates of Cao Cao, Dong Cheng, Liu Qi, Fu Wan and others, the rest and the people who have moved into Luoyang one after another these days are now led by Zhou Yu, Xu Huang, Feng Feng Seven people including Qi, Tai Chong, Hou Zhe, Feng Shuo and Gan Ning were in charge.
Among them, Xu Huang, Feng Qi, Tai Chong, Hou Zhe, Feng Shuo, and Gan Ning were in charge of the military families of their generals, while the other common people were in charge of the Luoyang official temple managed by Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu took over the topic and said with a smile: "Zi Tianjia, when I took over the official temple in Luoyang County, I checked the household registration. There are about 8,000 households... many of them are one-person households, and most of them are strong men. One person per household should have come to Luoyang to join the army. If we recruit them all into the army, we can get hundreds more people."
Zhou Yu is quite proud now. Although he is still the "Second Minister" under "County Magistrate" Liu Xie, Yang Xiu, who ranks first, is the young master of the Hongnong Yang family. Having said that, and Hongnong is still next door to Luoyang, the young emperor will have to rely on the Yang family to lead the way when he goes back to invade Hongnong! Therefore, Yang Xiu's position as "No. 1" was based on his family background, while Zhou Gongjin's position as "Second Minister" was based solely on his true talents and learning.
But Zhou Yu still felt threatened...it was the young man named Zhuge Liang!
Thinking of this, Zhou Yu secretly glanced at Zhuge Liang - what a beautiful young man with a beautiful tree facing the wind! He is even comparable to Zhou Gongjin!
Moreover, although this young man was just a halberd-wielding doctor, he was doing the job of "a regular attendant" and always followed the emperor. Together with the Emperor, he became a disciple of Yang Xiu’s father, Yang Biao, and was the Emperor’s classmate!
In addition, this Zhuge Liang is indeed very smart and seems to be very talented in military science. These days, he "plays horse riding and fights" with the emperor every day. Judging from their "game level"... they are almost catching up with him Zhou Yu Got it!
It seems that the emperor is imitating Emperor Xiaowu and training Zhuge Liang in the direction of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing!
"Gong Jin, please pacify them first, and then arrange for them to enlist in the army after General Cao leaves." While Liu Xie was speaking, he was sizing up Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang at the same time - this was a real moment of Yuliang!
Go back to Wen County to invite Sima Yi, and then ask Zhuge Liang to recommend Pang Tong and Pang Shiyuan.
The four great gods with the highest "intelligence" in "Three Kingdoms" have been collected!
"Wei." Zhou Yu quickly regained his composure, agreed, and then said, "There are also strong men among the other more than 7,000 households. Do you want to..."
"Not yet." Liu Xie shook his head, "Ah Liang, including Xing Ba and Gong Jin's troops, how many troops do we have already?"
Gan Ning's troops numbered eight hundred, and they were elite men under Liu Xie comparable to Bai Bobing! Zhou Yu also brought two hundred pieces of music, otherwise he would not be able to accept Luoyang's order.
"We already have three thousand elite soldiers!" said Zhuge Liang, "Master Chief", "including 2,800 infantry and 200 cavalry!"
"How much does it cost to raise troops? How much does it cost for military food?" Liu Xie asked again.
"Report back to Tianjia," Zhuge Liang continued, "the total amount of food and salary for three thousand elite soldiers for one month is at least 30,000 hu, half of which is money and grain. We need to spend 15,000 hu of rice or wheat, which is two million yuan!"
Fifteen thousand dendrobium grains per month equals 180,000 dendrobium grains per year! Two hundred and five dollars a month, that's 24 million a year... This is just personnel costs, not including equipment and horses!
The equipment of the 3,000 men Liu Xie had on hand were basically brought with him when he came here, and some of the horses were brought with him and some were brought by Liu Biao and Cao Cao. In addition, the loyal minister Liu Biao also sponsored some equipment for Liu Xie, but these equipment were not enough to arm all the strong men in Luoyang.
There are so many soldiers that we can’t afford to raise them or equip them!
Liu Xie suppressed his thoughts of "violent soldiers" and continued to ask: "How much relief will be given to the people?"
"Excluding the three thousand military households and the six hundred one-person households, there are still about 7,400 civilian households that need to distribute grain," Zhuge Liang said. "Depending on the population, two to four bushels of grain will be distributed a month. The total is Twenty thousand dendrobium per month.”
"Where are the officials and their staff?" Liu Xie asked again.
He still maintains a rather "streamlined" court, which really only has "a hundred officials"...just a hundred ministers! Of course, they don't eat for free. They are the "sales" and "front desk" of the Han Dynasty. They are responsible for selling officials and entertaining local officials and planners in Shangluo!
However, these ministers are very "expensive", and just one of them can cost you two thousand dan!
In addition, many ministers also have the power to appoint their own staff. These staff also had to be paid by the court, and the number of staff recruited by hundreds of ministers exceeded a thousand...
"Tianjia," it was Yang Xiu who answered this question again. Now the head of the imperial court's hundred officials is Taiwei Yang Biao, his father, so he is also responsible for distributing salaries to the officials. "The hundred officials The monthly expenses for him and his staff are no less than 20,000 hu mimai and 3 million yuan... In addition, various official temples also need some public funds, and they also need to spend 2 million yuan every month."
That's 240,000 hu of rice and flour and 60 million yuan a year... Liu Xie will figure it out soon. The people's relief grain will cost 240,000 hu of rice and flour a year, and 3,000 elite soldiers will cost 100 million yuan a year. Eighty thousand grains and twenty-four million coins. The total is 760,000 grains and 84 million yuan!
This does not include the expenses of Liu Xie's own court! If you include the expenses in the palace, you will need 800,000 grains and 10 million yuan a year... It's a lot of pressure!
Liu Xie regretted his decision to become the "Emperor of Luoyi"... The emperor of Luoyi's territory was too small and he couldn't afford to support him!
But there is no regret medicine in the world. Now he has become the emperor with three thousand troops, and Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu are assisting him. How can he retreat? If I really retreat, I'm afraid I will be controlled even more severely by Cao Zhaixiong!
After all, this Cao Zhaixiong already knows that Liu Xie has ambitions and means!
So now we can only make progress, not go backwards! We have to work hard in the direction of "eight points of the world"!
Once you have the "eight points of the world", you should be able to lie down...
Thinking of this, Liu Xie took a deep breath, then looked at his confidants and said with great solemnity: "I can't sit back and rest in vain now, I must work hard and be self-reliant!"
Hard work? How painful is it?
Several of his confidants didn't quite understand what the emperor meant, and just looked at Liu Xie.
Liu Xie explained: "What I mean is that during this period before and after New Year's Day, let's all work hard, don't take five days off and one day off. I will work overtime with you to try to get the land allocation matter done. As long as we Once the farm work is done, the wasteland outside the city will become fertile farmland by next autumn... The imperial court should be able to be self-reliant! Then, we can seek to expand westward!"
What Liu Xie said was like a highly motivated boss of a start-up company, encouraging his employees to follow him as "007"!
However, Liu Xie's "employees" didn't seem to accept this, and no one got excited. Instead, they taught Liu Xie how to do things.
"Tianjia, most of the land outside Luoyang City has owners, so it wouldn't be appropriate to divide it up like this, right?"
"Tianjia, why don't we restore the 20th-level nobility system in the country? Only in this way can our name be justified, and it can also inspire the people to join the army and fight!"
"Tianjia, do you want to give some to the officials and various official temples in the city? This way, the descendants of the ministers and members of the aristocratic family can also join the army and defend the country in wartime!"
"Tianjia, the court should still take care of the interests of the Sili family when re-implementing the twenty-level nobility system, so that they have the hope of regaining their hometown and reviving their family business... As long as the Sili family is the Tianjia Why should the great man worry that he cannot be revived?"
"Yes, yes, I am a big man who shares the world with aristocratic families!"
