To be honest, Huang Quan was really uneasy when he expressed his thoughts.
If not for anything else, he was afraid that Liu Bei would think that he had some other small thoughts.
Huang Quan admired Liu Bei's character, but Huang Quan also had no objection to Liu Bei as a qualified political figure.
However, the advice Huang Quan wanted to give Liu Bei today seemed to be very selfish, but in fact, Huang Quan really didn't have much selfish advice.
In Huang Quan's view, the biggest problem in Guanzhong's current predicament is the lack of people. At least half of the population is missing. Cao Wei's move is indeed quite cruel.
If we can't find a way to make up for this half of the Dingkou, then whether Zhang Xi's deployment of troops from three states to defend the border or Pang Tong's strategic defense first, they are just temporary strategies and cannot fundamentally solve the problem.
The shortage of more than 400,000 children cannot be solved in one or two years. Even if the people of Guanzhong are allowed to have children, it will take more than twenty years to return to the one million children in Guanzhong's heyday. number.
That was a matter of one or two generations.
Since Guanzhong itself cannot double its population in a short period of time, the only solution is to bring in the population from outside.
Under Liu Bei's control, there were only five states, including the newly established Qinzhou. This Qinzhou only had three counties, and Liangzhou next door had five counties. However, these two states were actually the same, and they were famous for their vast territory. The sparse population, if not for the sparse land area, these two states themselves would be desperately short of people.
The only two states with wealthy populations are Jingzhou and Yizhou.
But Jingzhou is located at the intersection of the three forces. As long as the people within Liu Bei's group are not collectively crazy, they will never easily migrate people from there to Guanzhong. If you can draw some people to enrich Guanzhong, you can't do it. There is only one Yizhou left.
But the question is, as a native of Yizhou, how can Huang Quan not know the virtues of the Yizhou family? !
Even the Dongzhou faction cannot tolerate xenophobes. How can they easily let Liu Bei transfer civilians from Yizhou to go north to enrich Guanzhong? !
It definitely requires Liu Bei to take the initiative to give certain benefits and exchange benefits.
As for the land of Guanzhong, the only thing that can tempt these Yizhou locals is the fertile land that has been cultivated for hundreds of years.
Anyway, you have land and people in Guanzhong, so it is better to use the land to attract the local powerful people in Yizhou to go north to buy land and expand the family size.
But for Liu Bei, could he simply allow Yizhou powerful men to interfere with the land in Guanzhong? !
If there are not enough benefits, why would Liu Bei relax the restrictions on the local powerful people in Yizhou? !
You know, what is Zhuge Liang's purpose of returning to Chengdu now? !
Isn't it to punish those powerful Yizhou families who still refuse to give in?
However, Liu Bei's tough attitude made Huang Quan, who was born in the Yizhou family, feel that he had gone too far and wanted to help buffer him in the middle. Really, Liu Bei has won Guanzhong now, but you The basic base is still in Yizhou. In this current situation, it is actually not good for everyone to fall out with the Yizhou families.
Therefore, Huang Quan's idea was to ask Liu Bei to give up part of the land in Guanzhong and allow the Yizhou powerful to go north to Guanzhong, expand his family's influence, and leave another path for the family's development.
As for the Yizhou aristocratic families, Huang Quan can also rely on the land released by Liu Bei to persuade the Yizhou aristocratic families to give up the soft confrontation with Liu Bei and choose to cooperate with the Liu Bei Group to spit out some hidden Yizhou Dingkou and use it. To enrich Hanzhong.
In Huang Quan's view, with the deepening of the Liu Bei Group's fish scale album system, it is no longer realistic for the Yizhou families to continue to embezzle land in Yizhou. If they continue to hide so many people, they will be powerful to Yizhou. The aristocratic families are also a big burden.
It would be better to release some of these Dingkou in exchange for Liu Bei allowing Yizhou powerful people to go north to purchase land, so that the aristocratic families can get the land they dream of, and Liu Bei can get the Dingkou he urgently needs, and at the same time it can ease the tension between Liu Bei and the Chengdu family. Relationships serve multiple purposes.
So, Huang Quan's idea is true. Publicity is greater than selfishness. Even if there is some selfishness, it is just because he doesn't want the Yizhou family to fall out with the Liu Bei Group at this time.
The idea is actually a good idea, but when it was said by Huang Quan, a native of Yizhou, Liu Bei heard that it was selfish and had disadvantages.
If Liu Bei hadn't been familiar with Huang Quan's character and moral character, it's hard to say where he would have gone.
For example, Zhang Xi and Pang Tong, from the first time they heard Huang Quan say this, they thought that Huang Quan was looking for an excuse to give the Yizhou family an opportunity to intervene in Yongzhou affairs.
Zhang Xi was almost the first to object. He didn't want to suddenly have so many unmanageable thorn-headed families in the Yongzhou Governor's Department.
In Zhang Xi's eyes, the aristocratic families these days are not interesting, and Zhang Xi has always been quite wary of them.
With the help of Man Chong, Yongzhou has almost eliminated all the influential families, and there are no longer so many concerns in the implementation of many government affairs. If the Yizhou family intervenes, things will be troublesome again.
As for Pang Tong, he was actually not happy for Yizhou locals to come to Yongzhou to develop.
Pang Tong knew the actual situation in Jingzhou, and he also knew that the aristocratic families in Jingzhou currently had no spare capacity to interfere in Yongzhou affairs.
After all, the Jingzhou family has entered Yizhou first. If they want to interfere in Yongzhou affairs now, Pang Tong will not understand the consequences of greed.
But the Jingzhou family cannot interfere in Yongzhou affairs, which does not mean that the Jingzhou family is willing to see the Yizhou family go to Yongzhou to develop.
In the past, one could still laugh at the Yizhou family as southwestern thugs. Now, if they develop in Yongzhou Guanzhong, they will have to ridicule the Jingzhou family as southern barbarian thugs.
You must know that the current Jingzhou is actually the location of the Chu Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period, while Yizhou is the location of the Ba Kingdom and the Shu Kingdom.
Chu State mocked Ba and Shu as barbarians, and everyone in the world recognized it. However, once the Yizhou natives went to Guanzhong Qin, they turned into Guanzhong people, and in turn mocked the Jingchu family as southern barbarians, and everyone in the world recognized it. Bar! ! !
By the way, these people in the world are the aristocratic families from the Central Plains, Hebei and other places.
Anyway, being unhappy is part of it.
On the other hand, Pang Tong was also worried that once the Yizhou families were allowed to enter Guanzhong, the strength of the Yizhou families would further increase.
Pang Tong is also very clear about the Liu Bei Group's internal attitude towards the aristocratic families. Regarding the aristocratic families, the Liu Bei Group has always adopted the method of recruiting some groups, suppressing some groups, and resolutely not allowing the aristocratic families to become big.
The Yizhou family was originally trapped in Yizhou. As long as Liu Bei continued to defend Yizhou so tightly and did not give the Yizhou family a chance, in the end the Yizhou family would inevitably bow to Liu Bei, otherwise they would not have any chance of success.
But once the suppression of the Yizhou aristocratic families is released, they are even allowed to go north to Guanzhong to seek development. Once these Yizhou aristocratic families escape from their cages, will they still be as obedient as before? !
If something really happens, it won't be a good thing for the Liu Bei Group! ! !
In the final analysis, although Huang Quan's suggestion was more public-minded than selfish, Huang Quan himself also knew that the biggest beneficiaries of his suggestion were the Yizhou families.
If he hadn't proposed to let the Yizhou family release the hidden Dingkou in exchange for the qualification to go north to Guanzhong, maybe even Liu Bei would have doubted Huang Quan's intentions.
But now Liu Bei has an even bigger headache.
Although Zhang Xi and Pang Tong's strategies for dealing with Zuo Fengyi each had their own shortcomings, they were still treatable for a while.
Although Huang Quan's strategy for dealing with Zuo Fengyi could cure the root cause, the residual poison was too great.
In addition, his health has not been very good during this period of time. Liu Bei always feels that his mind is in chaos. No matter how he thinks, he feels like a ball of mush and his brain is buzzing.
Liu Bei was forced to have no choice but to sit down slowly and think calmly for a long time. At this time, Liu Bei missed it very much. It would be great if Zhuge Liang was by his side.
No matter how troublesome or complicated the matter is, Zhuge Liang can analyze it in an orderly manner and give himself a very reasonable suggestion.
When he thought of Zhuge Liang in Chengdu, Liu Bei suddenly thought of something that had been hidden in his heart for a long time and he had never made a decision.
Maybe it's time to do this.
When I think about my body, my energy state, and the age and experience of my heir. With little Adou's current level, what will I do if this continues? !
Thinking of this, Liu Bei seemed to suddenly make up his mind and sat up.
Liu Bei's sudden change of attitude also made Zhang Xi and the other three people, who were sitting at attention, think that Liu Bei had made a decision about Zuo Fengyi's military camp.
But what Liu Bei said next was a bit intriguing.
"Let's not mention the matter of Zuo Fengyi for now. After we worship our ancestors in the future, we will recruit Liu Ba from Hanzhong and Fa Zheng. Zhuge Liang from Chengdu will come to Chang'an to discuss the matter and then make a decision!"
Is this temporarily put on hold? !
Well, that's normal.
No matter whose strategy is adopted, it actually involves the military and political affairs of the three states, which cannot be decided in a short while. It is not a surprise to wait for Zhuge Liang, Fazheng, Liu Ba and others to come together to discuss.
And then, something truly surprising happened.
"I have one more thing. I would like to hear the opinions of the three noble families."
When Liu Bei said this, Zhang Xi, Pang Tong, and Huang Quan all felt their hearts tremble at the same time.
Why did my lord, who was speaking so well just now, suddenly start speaking in such a formal tone? !
No matter what, the emperor spoke in a formal court tone, and Zhang Xi and the others could not just deal with it casually. According to court etiquette, they respectfully asked the emperor for instructions.
Then Liu Bei dropped a bomb.
"I want to imitate the ancestors of the Han Dynasty and re-establish the position of prime minister, commanding three provinces and six ministries, as well as three ministers of government affairs. What do you think?!"
Well, this bomb directly blew up Zhang Xi and the three of them, and they started to get confused.
(End of chapter)
