Before leaving Luoyang, Liu Bei found Zhang Rang and asked him if he had any reliable interpersonal relationships in the land of Sanfu.
Liu Bei considered the food dilemma he might face when he first arrived in Liangzhou, and hoped to purchase cheap and large quantities of food through their relationship. Zhang Rang thought about it and recommended a man named Meng Tuo to him.
He said that this man was a wealthy man in Sanfu with a lot of property. He got the position of governor of Liangzhou by giving him many things. He made a lot of money while in office. Later, he was dismissed from office due to some circumstances and spent a lot of money. He escaped unscathed and continued to go home to become a rich man.
He owns land in Sanfu and runs a business. Over the years, he has never forgotten to send gifts to Zhang Rang to communicate with him. He is a reliable person. If Liu Bei needs it, he can contact him on his behalf.
Of course, it's a favor.
Liu Bei accepted.
Before the start of the five-county conquest plan, he arranged for Zhen Yan to go to Youfufeng to meet Meng Tuo and discuss with him a long-term, large-scale, and stable business plan for purchasing grain, hoping to get the best price from him.
Meng Tuo had received Zhang Rang's warning in advance and did not dare to be petty towards people like Liu Bei, so he sold grain to Liu Bei at a price of one hundred coins and one stone, which was much cheaper than the price Liu Bei paid to buy grain in the land of three rivers.
It is estimated that even if it is not the cost price, it is not far from the cost price. Buying grain at this price is definitely profitable for Liu Bei.
Therefore, Liu Bei did not intend to treat Meng Tuo badly. In order to let him do his best to provide food for himself, Liu Bei promised to him that when the Pu Tao Garden and Pu Tao wine production workshop were established later, he would give him a franchise and allow him to use preferential treatment. Price to get goods.
You pour cheap grain for me, and I give you cheap peach wine, which will definitely make you money.
This matter really made Meng Tuo very happy.
Rose peach wine is expensive and has no market price in many places. Since the Liangzhou War, many of the original ways to obtain rose peach wine have been cut off. There has been no way to obtain goods for a long time. Through this transaction, he He actually managed to establish a relationship with Liangzhou Mu, which was a blessing from heaven.
As a result, nearly 100,000 people who had returned their household registrations and those captured during the war in various counties arrived at the stalls in Hanyang County. The first batch of grain purchased from Sanfu Land was also transported to Hanyang County in a mighty manner.
Seeing so much food being shipped, people in the state and county suddenly stabilized.
Gai Xun, Yan Zhong, Yan Wen and others lamented that Liu Bei's extraordinary methods could always get what he needed from other places and bring it to Liangzhou to save the situation. This situation meant that he could not have effective contact with the outside world for a long time. It is difficult for Liangzhou people to see it.
They realized that those who wanted to confront Liu Bei on policy might be facing not just Liu Bei, but all the social connections from Luoyang behind him.
There, Liu Bei had very efficient connections that they could not imagine, and the aspects involved in these connections were beyond what they could contend with.
The significance of Liu Bei's political identity in Luoyang is far beyond what most people can imagine. Liu Bei's status as the inheritor of classics has brought him things far beyond what the people of Liangzhou can imagine.
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Liu Bei really came to Liangzhou to be the state herdsman.
They felt bursts of surprise, and then bursts of joy.
As locals, they certainly hope to see Liu Bei bring urgently needed money and supplies to the local area, so that Liangzhou, which has been in trouble for a long time, can regain its vitality.
Therefore, after the grain brought by Liu Bei arrived, Gai Xun, Yan Zhong, Yan Wen and other local people who were widely respected in the area personally came forward and contacted a group of local figures in Hanyang County. Let's get together and give it. The state capital donated a batch of food.
Not too much, but it counts as an attitude.
We have seen your great power, and we accept it. Whatever you say in the future will be whatever you say. As long as it is not excessive, even if it harms our interests a little, as long as there is some compensation, we are willing to cooperate. How about it? Interesting enough?
At this point, Liu Bei was sure that at least in Hanyang County, he had initially established the authority to speak out.
So Liu Bei began to prepare to establish Liangzhou's political, military and economic system with Hanyang County as the center, and to revive Liangzhou, which had been in trouble for a long time.
Make Liangzhou great again!
He has the manpower.
He has the funds.
He has food.
Authority, he had it.
What are you waiting for?
Let’s get started!
Starting from Hanyang County, Liu Bei began to arrange a comprehensive statistics and rectification of abandoned land, and then prepared to promote the construction of collective farms.
The main targets are the more than 100,000 Hu-Han population gained through the war.
Needless to say, promoting the construction of collective farms in border areas like Liangzhou has a realistic basis.
Because frontier areas like Liangzhou had a tradition of collective military and civilian villages in the early days and the large-scale promotion of farm production, military and civilian villages were in a sense the prototype of collective farms. It was precisely because of this collective production model that , only then can there be a basis for the implementation of Daida Law.
During the Western Han Dynasty, in order to fight against the Xiongnu, the Western Han Dynasty promoted the border immigration plan, carried out large-scale immigration to the border, and implemented the policy of farming to provide food for the army.
Therefore, collective production has no tradition in inland counties, but in border areas such as Liangzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou, there is a certain tradition in order to provide military rations for the army.
Based on this, Liu Bei announced that he would re-promote the "Mintun Law" in Liangzhou, but he would change the name and turn it into a "collective farm".
The main content is to re-compile the household registration of the captured people, break them up into production groups, and use the number of strong laborers and family units as reference. The government will grant land to them, but not to individuals, but to collectives. Farm] this collective.
When farmers belong to a collective farm, they have the right to use and harvest the allocated land. When they do not belong to a collective farm, they automatically lose all rights to the land.
Therefore, individual farmers do not have the authority to sell or purchase land. They need to apply collectively to the land department of the county government. Land transactions can only be carried out under the auspices of the government. Land transactions will be strictly restricted.
As for harvest distribution, Liu Bei said that the government would formulate a concept of "agricultural points" based on calculations and actual conditions.
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Generally speaking, agricultural points are accumulated based on each farmer's working time. After harvesting, agricultural products are distributed according to the amount of agricultural points. Finally, a basic concept of more work, more gain is implemented to promote farmers' enthusiasm for production.
After the farm is established, detailed explanations will be given to the farmers so that they all understand the rules here.
Peasants paid taxes to the government as a collective farm and also participated as a collective in a series of government activities such as military recruitment, corvee labor, and construction employment.
The most advantageous aspect of this strategy is that through collective production, the production risks of individual families under the small-scale farmer production model can be hedged.
Because the land belongs to the collective, production also belongs to the collective. When an individual labor force is recruited by the government to engage in military service, corvee labor, and other construction labor activities, the agricultural work within his own scope of responsibility will be assigned by the collective farm to other people to work on his behalf, ensuring that the land Not wasted.
In addition, the government must ensure a balance between agricultural production and manpower utilization in this process, and must not arbitrarily recruit excessive labor on the farm to engage in non-agricultural production activities.
Liu Bei also took out the detailed regulations in this area and discussed them with everyone. He made adjustments based on a series of production plans from the Liangzhou Prefectural Mufu and calculated a more appropriate guideline for allocating manpower. Under the government's management The collective farms were promoted in this way.
Regarding the questions raised by some officials for various purposes, Liu Bei waved his hand and laughed.
"Mintun has existed since ancient times, and the results are indeed good. However, management problems have led to gradual neglect. Now, for us, it is just to use the wisdom of the ancients and correct the mistakes of the ancients. If it is not done well, Then don’t do it. If it’s done well, it can be promoted. Practice is the only criterion for testing truth.”
