The income from the de facto salt and iron monopoly greatly enriched the fiscal revenue of Liangzhou Prefecture. Using this income, Liu Bei began to further plan the production and construction of Liangzhou.
He planned to further promote the construction of collective farms in Liangzhou and convert a large number of people registered with the government into production units within the collective farms.
This is of great significance for improving production efficiency and enhancing the mobilization efficiency of the Liangzhou government.
Before, I didn't have much spare money, so it was difficult to make arrangements. But now that I have money, I am a big business owner, and I can work hard.
And needless to say, after a period of testing, this policy has indeed proved to be very effective, and the response from civil affairs officials has been very good.
Because the county government directly accepts the management of the county government, if there is any matter, the county government will directly send people to the collective farm to talk to the person in charge of the collective farm to convey the spirit of the county government. Many intermediate links are eliminated, and the previously costly communication costs are greatly reduced. .
Under the collective farm model, no matter what the government needs farmers to do or what they need farmers to do, whether it is hiring workers, collecting corvees, or recruiting temporary laborers, they can send the news to the collective farm as quickly as possible, and then rely on the collective farm Internal mechanism to achieve rapid mobilization.
And under this model, agricultural production within the collective farms can also be taken into account.
The number of manpower to be transferred is clearly defined and cannot exceed a certain number, and the impact on individual farmers will be minimal.
For example, Liu Bei tested this model for the first time when he launched troops to attack the Xianbei people.
Facts have proved that the impact on collective farms and the impact on normal villages are two completely different concepts when the same number of people are selected as laborers to help transport food.
Those with institutional guarantees are better than those without institutional guarantees.
Faced with this situation, Liu Bei found his number one fan and literary professional Ruan Yu, and asked Ruan Yu to go deep into the folklore of Liangzhou, have close contact with ordinary farmers in Liangzhou, understand their language and customs, and then compile a poem to promote the collective farm. Propaganda ballad.
"There is no need to pile up gorgeous rhetoric. The people you are facing are farmers who cannot read a word. You have to make up songs that they can understand and spread them widely, letting them know that collective farms are better than collective farms. Their lifestyle is much better now, and that’s the most important thing for them to feel attracted to the collective farms.”
Ruan Yu always responded to Liu Bei's needs.
Idols have demands, and fans must do their best to meet them. The publicity department is full of energy and is ready to do something great.
Following Liu Bei's instructions, Ruan Yu personally went to the farm in Hanyang County, tried to communicate with the farmers in the fields, and learned about some of the "culture" that the locals loved to hear and see.
Ruan Yu worked hard and used his actions to implement his admiration and loyalty to Liu Bei.
In fact, throughout Liangzhou, not to mention ordinary people, even officials, there are many people who admire and worship Liu Bei. In their view, Liu Bei is simply an omnipotent superman, and it is normal to worship him. things.
It is precisely because of this that the big salt and iron companies and the forces behind them did not dare to show their teeth to Liu Bei when faced with Liu Bei's obvious behavior of grabbing jobs. They could only blame themselves and feel that their fate was bad and inferior to others, and they fell directly into depression. There are also quite a few.
It's not that no one thought about sending out assassins and the like to deliver a set of physical attacks on Liu Bei, but they were rejected by their own people at the planning stage.
There was no way, I was really afraid, Liu Bei was too fierce, too capable of fighting, and too capable of manipulation, which directly changed the situation in Liangzhou.
It can be said that he changed Liangzhou.
As a result, a considerable number of central and local forces in Liangzhou, headed by Gai Xun, reached a balance under Liu Bei's powerful ability. In fact, they abandoned the previous swing line and unified their interests and demands towards Liu Bei.
They will obey Liu Bei, implement all his orders, in fact be loyal to him and safeguard his interests.
If they can obtain benefits in the normal way, they don't want to completely break up with the center of the Han Empire.
They also identify as Han people and yearn for the prosperity of Luoyang. They do not want to lose all this, nor do they want to lose their Han nationality and nationality.
Together, they fell into Liu Bei's arms and helped Liu Bei actually subvert and reorganize Liangzhou's previous interest structure.
Those who followed Liu Bei received huge profit sharing and Liu Bei's political commitment. Those who did not follow Liu Bei suffered a huge loss. They suffered a huge defeat in this round of asymmetrical games and directly lost their identity as chess players.
There is only one chess player in Liangzhou now, and that is Liu Bei.
To put it bluntly, Liu Bei could just establish a kingdom here if he wanted to.
The original vested interests in Liangzhou either took advantage of the situation and fell into Liu Bei's arms, or they became losers under Liu Bei's manipulation, losing everything and their ability to control the situation in Liangzhou.
Of course, it is not that there are no families in Liangzhou that dare not cooperate with Liu Bei.
The Huangfu family living in Anding County are extremely rare non-violent non-cooperators in Liangzhou.
They did not confront Liu Bei head-on, but they also did not cooperate with Liu Bei. The family's salt and iron interests were not sold to Liu Bei, nor did they respond to any of Liu Bei's policies. They would rather stop production and take nothing than negotiate with Liu Bei.
They didn't seem to be worried about Liu Bei's iron fist attack.
After all, they are different from other families.
Other families did not have the interests and power outside Liangzhou, so they had no choice but to surrender to Liu Bei, but the Huangfu family had something to rely on.
For example, Huangfu Song played a major role in the conquest war, and the Jinwen School behind Huangfu Song was so arrogant.
Accordingly, the Huangfu family showed no fear towards Liu Bei. Faced with Liu Bei's many attempts to negotiate with them, they all refused and refused to cooperate.
It has to be said that Huangfu Song is somewhat capable when it comes to using troops, and Liu Bei also admits this.
At the end of April in the fourth year of Zhongping, Huangfu Song led his army across the Yellow River and marched towards Taiyuan County. He sent a message to the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu Qiangqu in advance, asking Qiangqu to join forces with him to jointly attack the Southern Xiongnu rebels.
Qiangqu was overjoyed to finally receive reinforcements from the imperial court.
At that time, due to the strength of the rebels, Qiangqu's first wave of crusade had failed, so he had no choice but to take a group of southern Xiongnu dignitaries with him and move south to the Pingzhou County area.
Huangfu Song led his army to Yong'an County in the north of Hedong County in early May, and contacted Qiang Qu. Qiang Qu was even more happy, and immediately moved further south with the remaining defeated soldiers, and joined forces with Huangfu Song to fight against the Southern Huns again. Chanyu's banner.
With the support of Huangfu Song and 50,000 Han troops, Qiangqu proudly claimed to those wavers that he had the protection of the Han troops and would be able to put down the rebellion.
When the time comes, those who follow the rebels and disobey orders will be punished. Now, if you correct your mistakes in time and follow orders, you can still be forgiven.
It can be said that the power of the Han army is still there.
The Qiang Qu raised the banner like a tiger skin, which frightened some of the wavering forces within the Southern Xiongnu. They then entered a state of sitting back and watching the success or failure of the Han army and the Southern Xiongnu rebels. .
They help whoever wins.
The Southern Xiongnu rebels faced the Han army's attack, which was quite difficult, but they had already killed many people, and Qiangqu would never forgive them. They had no way out and could only resist stubbornly.
At that time, the Southern Xiongnu rebels only had 20,000 to 30,000 combatable troops, and most of the remaining troops were women and children. After several battles with the leading troops of the Han army, the situation was unfavorable and the situation was in a relatively dangerous state.
Both Huangfu Song and Qiang Qu felt that it would not be difficult to eliminate the rebel army, and they were about to win.
But what they never expected was that the "Bingzhou bandits" in their eyes would take action.
Zhang Yan, the commander-in-chief of the Black Mountain Army and the spokesman for the Bingzhou Mountain Bandits, learned about the rebellion of the Southern Huns, and learned through the channels of fighting in the Hedong area that the 50,000 men under Huangfu Song of the Han Army were preparing to go north to attack them.
It was precisely because the Han army wanted to recruit the Southern Xiongnu army to help them conquer Bingzhou, and some people within the Southern Xiongnu were unwilling to work for the Luoyang court, that it triggered the Southern Xiongnu civil strife.
Considering the problem from this perspective, Zhang Yan quickly came to her own conclusion.
He considered the Southern Huns rebels to be his friends.
When a friend is in trouble, if he doesn't help or protect his friend, then he will be the unlucky one in the next step.
