Relying on the power and connections he had created previously, Liu Bei began to make all-round changes to Liangzhou.
He vowed to build a capable and efficient team of officials in Liangzhou, create a series of smoothly operating industrial chains, and revitalize Liangzhou's politics, economy, and military.
Liu Bei also has plans for the next step.
Through Liangzhou fine salt, Liangzhou peach wine, Liangzhou livestock and Liangzhou ironware, we will use Liu Hong and Zhang Rang's personal connections to enter the Sanfu and Sanhe markets, further promoting the areas of Liangzhou, Sanfu and Sanhe. Economic market connections.
He needs a lot of leading products, and then uses these leading products to enter new markets, gain enough market share, and revitalize the local economy.
He plans to change the barriers between the three regions economically, and take the lead in integrating the three regions that are most likely to be integrated through economic means, and use economic benefits to gain a group of powerful people who are willing to cooperate in Sanfu and Sanhe. Fans.
Then, we can further promote mutual political understanding on the basis of economy, so that Liangzhou can get rid of the colonial status of second-class citizens and integrate into the circulation system of Sanfu and Sanhe, making Liangzhou, Sanfu and Sanhe become In the future, he will take charge of Luoyang's basic market that dominates the world.
Liangzhou, Sanfu, and Sanhe, together, have a population of tens of millions, a military mobilization potential of millions, and ample room for early development. They are the foundation of the Qin, Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties.
These advantages were enough for Liu Bei to establish a terrifying deterrent against the remaining states and counties of the Han Empire.
Once such a terrifying political deterrent is successfully established, for Liu Bei, his original purpose will be achieved.
The world can be chaotic, but in troubled times, it cannot come.
And the starting point of it all is right in front of you, right under your feet.
So there are more things to do next.
Liu Bei began to equip Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Dong Huang, Xiahou Dun and Xia Houyuan with a suitable administrative team, so that each of them could bring a capable and determined team to take office locally, and then cooperate with some of the original local forces , to form a balance as soon as possible.
The administrative team that followed the five of them was naturally members of the former Ministry of General Affairs.
They worked hard at the Prefectural Mufu for almost half a year, accumulated a lot of administrative experience, got two big dark circles under their eyes, lost a lot of hair, and their complexions also became a little rough.
However, they are all qualified officials now, with qualified political abilities, and can form strong political support for Guan Yu and the other five people. Guan Yu and the other five people themselves have sufficient military capabilities, and they have strong financial support from Liu Bei. Basically, local political power will not be left aside.
They themselves also received the promise fulfilled by Liu Bei and gave them official positions. After everyone passed the test, they could become officials, but the official position was small or large.
Moreover, as a member of the Yuancong Group who followed Liu Bei, their future is far brighter than others.
Don't you know this just by looking at Guan Yu and Zhang Fei?
The six counties of Liangzhou outside the Hexi Corridor have been basically under Liu Bei's control since then.
Previously, in the collective farm construction plan promoted by Hanyang County, the planned collective farms had almost allocated the abandoned land in Hanyang County, housing more than 40,000 people in total.
There were almost 60,000 people left to be distributed, so Liu Bei divided the remaining 60,000 people equally among Guan Yu and the other five people according to their household registration units, and asked them to take them away and settle them in the local area, and continue to implement the construction of collective farms in those places. plan.
After the local collective farms were built, it was not only the economic fundamentals of the newly established county government, but also their first test after taking office.
Next, in terms of county governance and population governance throughout Liangzhou, Liu Bei decided to reorganize the land owned by the government and establish more collective farms.
Putting the collective farms under the control of the government is tantamount to directly controlling the population. It can not only quickly restore agricultural production, but also make them a direct force that the government can mobilize.
Liu Bei's plan was to create an existence close to Qin's farming and warfare system during a special period, or another form of military system, but more moderate, retaining military overtones while reducing administrative intervention in production.
Liangzhou has been in chaos for too long. In the early days of establishing this new order, it requires the intervention of coercive force, military overtones, and strict rules and regulations to maintain stability.
When the new order is completely established, this transitional system will be able to complete its historical mission.
This is not a process that can be accomplished overnight. It requires a certain amount of time and a large amount of capital investment. It is not simple, but Liu Bei is confident that he can complete it all.
And his subordinates, the officials from Liangzhou who he brought and recruited and promoted, also had some confidence in Liu Bei's series of actions.
In other words, they couldn't help but believe Liu Bei.
The people of Liangzhou know who is more trustworthy, compared with the previous officers who can only bring big troubles to Liangzhou, who can bring benefits to Liangzhou.
They must and can only trust Liu Bei. Like Liu Bei, they have no choice but to hug each other tightly and keep each other warm. There is no other way.
A few days later, before officially assuming the post of governor of Jincheng, Guan Yu made a special trip back to meet Liu Bei to accept the seal and express his gratitude to Liu Bei.
He looked relatively calm, but his flushed face still revealed his inner excitement.
Liu Bei didn't have many instructions for Guan Yu regarding his appointment as prefect. He believed that Guan Yu could do a good job as prefect. His only instruction was to pay more attention to salt affairs, especially to strictly control the salt production technology.
"Salt-making technology is not difficult. It is not difficult for outsiders to learn it. Once it is learned by outsiders, we will not have much advantage. So you must remember that according to my instructions, the salt-making workshop is established After getting up, the salt-making craftsmen should be managed in batches.
People responsible for different processes cannot work in the same place, and they must not come into contact with each other. They must be monitored by the military, and they need your personal care. You must not slack off. In the future, the success of my ambitions will initially depend on these salts. "
Guan Yu nodded and said that he would definitely keep an eye on the salt production personally. He would care about everything big and small and would never slack off.
Afterwards, the two chatted for a while, and Guan Yu began to talk to Liu Bei about selling salt.
Regarding the inside story of salt production and selling, Liu Bei did not fully disclose it, but only disclosed it to his core team, explaining that this business was that he followed the emperor's route through his identity as a clan member of the Han Dynasty, and received the emperor's personal care, so You can definitely make a lot of money.
Sixty percent of the money earned belonged to the emperor, and the remaining 40% belonged to Liangzhou.
Liu Bei took 10% for himself and gave 30% to the Liangzhou government to use it to subsidize expenses and solve Liangzhou's financial shortage problem.
When they learned about this, many people in the core team were shocked. They never expected that Liu Bei would join forces with the emperor to do business. No wonder he was so sure and confident.
Indeed, based on their many years of experience, those who hindered the emperor from making money would generally end badly. The emperor at that time had a kind of obsessive obsession with making money, which made people confused as to why he pursued wealth so much. .
To be able to offer such huge benefits to attract the emperor to do something personally, not to mention the relationship between Liu Bei and the emperor, this business could be really big and good.
Will Liangzhou still be short of money?
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PS: I have diarrhea, and the feeling of flying down three thousand feet is not good, so I won’t update it today.
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