Liu Bei came in person, which Zhang Xi did not expect.
Although he knew that Liu Bei was eager for talents, but... was this giving too much face to Lei Xu?
As for Lei Xu, after seeing Liu Bei coming in person, he was so moved that he knelt down on the spot, thinking that he had finally found a wise master.
Naturally, Liu Bei personally helped him up and comforted him, and then asked Zhang Xi to prepare to accept the more than 20,000 people brought by Lei Xu.
As for the three thousand private armed forces brought by Lei Xu, Liu Bei still left them in charge of Lei Xu and had no intention of depriving Lei Xu of his military power.
After doing all this, Liu Bei, Zhang Xi, and Zhuge Liang, who came with him, closed the door to discuss the matter.
It turns out that Liu Bei really didn't come because of Lei Xu, he just happened to catch up with him.
Liu Bei came here because of Zhang Xi's affairs in eastern Jiangxia. It was Zhang Xi's disturbance that made Liu Bei a little uneasy in Wuling.
Although Zhang Xi is the county magistrate of Jiangxia, what he did was indeed within the scope of his authority.
But some veterans wrote to Liu Bei to complain.
Because Zhang Xi had clearly stated the importance of resettling the refugees in Jiangxia in his document to Liu Bei, Liu Bei himself was very supportive of Zhang Xi's land redistribution measures, and ignored the letters from these veterans, which was a disguised statement of his own. manner.
But what Zhang Xi did frightened Zhuge Liang a bit. If it is not handled well, it will cause quite a lot of internal problems.
Zhuge Liang also supported Zhang Xi's move, mainly because he was afraid that Zhang Xi was inexperienced or thought things oversimplified and could not plan well, so he persuaded Liu Bei to go to Qichun and Xiaji in person.
First, help Zhang Xi stand up and warn those veterans who are greedy for enjoyment that now is not the time to let go of Nanshan.
Secondly, this is to help Zhang Xi take a look, check for leaks and fill in the gaps. If Zhang Xi goes too far and offends some people who shouldn't be offended, Liu Bei is in Jiangxia, and these people don't dare to be too presumptuous.
As it turned out, Liu Bei had just arrived at Xiakou by boat, and when he was telling Guan Yu about this, Zhang Xi's urgent document for Guan Yu arrived.
When Liu Bei heard that someone had brought tens of thousands of refugees to seek refuge with him, he was overjoyed.
First, these tens of thousands of refugees can allow Liu Bei to enrich his population instantly.
Second, the refugees in Lujiang did not vote for Cao Cao or Sun Quan, but they came to vote for Liu Bei. Doesn't this explain Liu Bei's personality charm and Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness? !
The political impact is very large.
As for Liu Bei, who this group of people came to divide the land, it is not surprising. There is no benefit at all. Who is willing to join you?
Since then, Liu Bei has become more supportive of Zhang Xi's move to divide the land. He quickly bid farewell to Guan Yu, took a boat down the river, arrived at Qichun City, and gave Zhang Xi a platform.
When Liu Bei came, Zhang Xi felt relieved.
Now that Liu Bei has brought Zhuge Liang, what else is there to say? He can pass the blame.
What kind of existence is Zhuge Dada? !
Chen Shou dared to criticize Zhuge Liang in military affairs, but in politics, Chen Shou said that he was no less than Xiao He. Even Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of Jin Dynasty, was Zhuge Liang's little fanboy in this respect.
As soon as Zhuge Liang came, Zhang Xi immediately passed the blame to Zhuge Liang. You are good at this kind of thing, so you should do it.
Zhuge Liang didn't refuse, he took it over directly, and then he took Zhang Xi to analyze together all night, trying to get rid of the blame, but there was no way, so they helped together.
Then, Zhuge Liang made a series of decisions.
First of all, the tens of thousands of refugees brought by Lei Xu cannot stay in Qichun and Xiaji.
God knows if there are any details from Cao Wei or Soochow in the middle. Qichun Xiaji is very close to Jiangdong and Lujiang, so they cannot be allowed to take root here.
It just so happened that Zhang Xi said in his report to Zhuge Liang a year ago that the three northern counties of Jiangxia were seriously short of people and did not have enough manpower to build water conservancy projects. So they would send these people there first and stay for a while to screen them. It would be fine. If so, just allocate land to them in Beisan County.
As for the land allocation in Qichun and Xiaji, Zhuge Liang has also studied Zhangxi's resettlement strategy. Generally speaking, there is no big problem. At most, the resettlement of some villages is not reasonable and they are a bit far away from the water source.
But this is not a big problem. If it has been allocated, it will be troublesome if it is moved.
The villages that have not yet been allocated can make slight adjustments to reduce the distance between villages, and through some water conservancy facilities, water resources can naturally be shared.
Overall, there is no big problem with Zhang Xi's resettlement and distribution, and some of the strategies Zhang Xi used in clearing and measuring the land are not big problems either. Except for the dissatisfaction of some veterans.
But when it comes to doing things, it's impossible to do everything. I'm always afraid of offending others, so I can't get anything done.
Now Zhang Xi has not offended anyone he shouldn't have offended. As for some people like Liu Yan, they simply can't do any tricks.
However, Zhuge Liang finally wiped Zhang Xi's butt and took Zhang Xi to visit the small aristocratic families in Qichun and Xiaji. He also personally wrote a letter to his father-in-law, telling him that Zhang Xi's actions were only emergency. It was not that Liu Bei wanted to suppress the family, but this matter was completely and satisfactorily resolved.
When cleaning up the nobles, you have to consider the feelings of the aristocratic family. This fish scale atlas is essentially an inventory of the land. How can the aristocratic family be insensitive to this.
Therefore, those who should be appeased should still be appeased.
It's just that Zhuge Liang, a young man in his fifth year, had just written such a letter to his father-in-law, and then turned around and started discussing the fish scale album with Zhang Xi, thinking about promoting it in the four counties of Jingnan.
Zhang Xi, on the other hand, did not take it too seriously to watch the excitement, and directly proposed the idea of the Baojia system and the yellow list of taxes and servitude.
The Fish Scale Atlas is to clear land, the Baojia System is to ensure local stability and strengthen the imperial power, and the Tax and Service Yellow Book is to check the population and ensure population taxation.
Any of these three things will not make the aristocratic family feel at ease, and any one of them will be strongly opposed by the aristocratic family.
Zhuge Liang suddenly became confused.
If these three systems can be implemented, then the government's control over local areas will be greatly enhanced, and public opinion will not be whatever the aristocratic family wants to say.
The most important thing is that these three policies complement each other and can quickly clear land, conduct population censuses, and strengthen the central government's control over local governments.
It can be said that it is a very good policy.
The shortcomings of these three policies are also obvious - the family will never accept them.
If the aristocratic family accepted such a policy, how could they annex land, hide the population, control public opinion, and hoard wealth?
If Liu Bei really implements these three policies, then the aristocratic family will definitely give up on Liu Bei. Even many of the civil and military officials under Liu Bei's current account will probably leave Liu Bei. These territories that were finally established will be easily annexed by others. of.
But Zhuge Liang was a little reluctant to give up such a good policy.
After thinking about it all night, Zhuge Liang didn't have a good idea. He could only ask Zhang Xi to keep it secret and not to tell the truth first to alert the family.
As for these three strategies, if the Fish Scale Atlas can be made in Jiangxia, it should also be possible in the four counties of Jingnan where the family's power is equally weak. This can be used first.
The remaining two will be discussed after Liu Bei's power has stabilized and he has matured his thinking.
When Zhang Xi saw Zhuge Liang's cautious virtue, he finally chose to accept it, and somehow did not say anything about "reforming from the soil and returning to the countryside" and "officials and gentry receiving food from one body".
There are quite a few barbarian or Shanyue leaders around the four counties of Jingnan, and they often rebel when there is nothing wrong. If you change your country and return to your hometown, it will really bring peace to the four counties.
It's even more difficult for the officials and the gentry to pay taxes together. Zhang Xi himself does not pay taxes. If this is brought up, no matter how benevolent Liu Bei is, he will have to "kill Zhang Xi with tears" in order to appease the public anger.
Therefore, not all policies are suitable for all dynasties, and specific situations must be analyzed in detail.
However, Zhang Xi's first three suggestions still gave Zhuge Liang some ideas. Some things were not suitable, but if the situation changed or if they were modified, they might be suitable.
Anyway, the more Zhuge Liang looked at Zhang Xi, the more he liked him.
Although this guy sometimes seems a little impatient, he can distinguish between priorities and is much more stable than that big-faced guy.
That big face is really hard to describe.
Before, he first persuaded the lord to get firewood and ask for oil at the mouth of the river. In such a dangerous situation, this guy actually said that "nothing big can happen without taking risks".
Sun Quan, who had suffered a loss, did not break the covenant and took advantage of the opportunity to strike. The lord finally returned to Wuling unharmed.
Even better now, this guy actually gave the lord a plan, asking the lord to send people to conquer the Shanyue and barbarian kings around the four counties of Jingnan, so as to enrich the population and the army with barbarians.
To be honest, it's not a bad strategy, but you score the situation.
Now that the four counties in Jingnan have just accepted the lord's rule, it is time to recuperate and develop.
The reason why the lord has been running around all these years is because he doesn't have a stable territory.
Now we finally have such a large territory. If you don't consolidate your rule and develop the place first, where will you get the money and food to fight the war? !
When the four counties in Jingnan mature, there will be no need to send troops, and those barbarians will take the initiative to surrender. When the time comes, they will be appeased and they can be used by me when necessary.
Why bother to mobilize troops to conquer? If the campaign fails and is delayed, the four counties in Jingnan will be on fire everywhere, and there will be no peace.
The current lord does not lack troops. What he lacks is strength, population, and money and food. These must be developed slowly to accumulate.
That Pang Shiyuan was too eager to do things after all.
(End of chapter)
