Liu Bei was a man of his word, he said he would kill people, but he actually killed people. He had the feeling that the ruthless officials in the Western Han Dynasty slaughtered powerful families to enjoy their good years.
The major county guards in Liangzhou slaughtered thirty to fifty powerful families in this wave. Not only the killings were heavy, but also many people were killed in fear. They quickly stopped those inappropriate thoughts and actions for fear of being caught by Liu Bei. Live the opportunity and take it away in a wave.
It’s not easy for everyone to accumulate family property over generations, and we don’t want to have it confiscated by the government just like this.
So after mid-August, those who wanted to take advantage of the situation disappeared, and the real returnees began to live their lives again in a serious manner.
The number of people recorded in Liangzhou's official household registration was increasing, and the household registration files were becoming more and more complete. Liu Bei was overjoyed.
And everyone knows that Liangzhou is the Liangzhou of the Han Dynasty, and it is also the Liangzhou of Liu Bei.
The number of collective farms officially put into production in Liangzhou has grown from more than ten at the beginning to more than fifty now.
In addition, more than 100 are under construction and renovation, and more than 200 are under planning. The construction of collective farms will be spread across the ten counties and two tributary states of Liangzhou.
As Liangzhou farm songs compiled by Ruan Yu and others began to be sung among Liangzhou farmers, things about collective farms gradually spread among Liangzhou farmers.
They knew about the existence of this thing and that many people lived in it and helped each other. If one person was fed, others would not starve.
They learned that these people also helped each other when doing corvee work. One group of people worked, another group plowed the land, and all the land was plowed together. No piece of land was left uncultivated.
Then everyone enjoys the joy of the harvest together.
Farm songs promoted the benefits of collective farms and the superiority of collective life and collective labor, which made some farmers very interested.
However, the collectivization of these farmers who own land is different from that of the refugees who do not have land and need to be granted land by the government.
Refugees do not have land.
The government signed a contract with them in a collective manner, and the land was not really given to them as private individuals, but was handed over to the collective farm, which was easier for them to accept.
They had no land to begin with, and for hungry people, having enough to eat was the most important thing.
Give them a bite to eat and they will be willing to join collective farms and accept land collectivization. They will also be more receptive to subsequent policies and will not be so easily dissatisfied.
However, if you talk about this matter with these farmers who own land, collectivizing their land is very difficult and the resistance is not small. They are most unwilling to accept that their land no longer belongs to them in nature.
Therefore, Liu Bei made a compromise plan, retaining their final right to dispose of the land and allowing them to withdraw from the collective farm with the land when they were dissatisfied with the collective farm. The collective farm could not stop them.
But inside the collective farm, everything is done according to the collective production method, there is no difference.
The only requirement is that once you exit, you cannot enter again. A farmer only has this one chance.
After establishing this exit mechanism, Liu Bei believed that this strategy was relatively complete, and he could start trying to negotiate with farmers in certain areas to get them to accept this policy.
Interestingly, when promoting this policy, Gai Xun, Yan Wen and others believed that Liu Bei was too gentle and too reasonable in his administration of peasants, and he considered everything for them.
This is not benevolent government; it is a policy that only saints would implement.
Since ancient times, who would reason with those mud-legged people who don’t know a word of Chinese characters?
According to their ideas and consistent practices, what are we talking about? Anyway, we have already discussed it among ourselves. The farmers don’t understand anything and can just follow orders.
Since Liu Bei wants to establish collective farms throughout Liangzhou as soon as possible, then let’s do it!
A government order was issued. With Liu Bei's prestige, which farmer would dare to refuse Liu Bei's request?
In less than a year, the major bureaucrats were rushing around Liangzhou, and after a lot of troubles, they ensured that the entire Liangzhou was a collective farm, not a single loose village, and the effect Liu Bei wanted to achieve could be achieved in an instant.
After all, everyone has been doing this for so long, so why not?
Liu Bei said this couldn't be done.
This is unpopular.
Farmers may be afraid and succumb, but they will not respect them. In addition to fear, they also have resentment in their hearts. They will not do their best, and will find ways to make money by working as foreigners instead of working hard to produce, which will have a huge negative impact on subsequent governance. .
In doing so, the cost of government governance will be very high, and the gain will outweigh the loss.
He said that we should reason with the farmers, send people to summon them to preach the policy, talk to them, compare their situation before and after joining, let them see it, let them be convinced and join the collective farm voluntarily, and resolutely not engage in collective farming. One-size-fits-all administrative approach.
It doesn’t matter if we are a little tired or troublesome, we will control people’s hearts.
Human hearts are the most important.
Nothing can stand in the way of what people want.
Liu Bei stood on the moral high ground and shouted to his subordinates - we must pay attention to people's hearts!
Gai Xun and Yan Wen looked at each other and secretly murmured - you are so thorough with those powerful people, you don't say anything, you are all about physics, and you don't seem to care about their "people's hearts".
Wouldn't they be angry?
How can you just be open to a bunch of idiots?
The two thought for a while and felt that this might have something to do with Liu Bei's early life at the bottom, or some of his feelings, so they didn't argue, as long as Liu Bei was happy, it was fine.
Anyway, people who have already bound their interests with Liu Bei will not care about it. This kind of thing will not harm their actual interests, but will only allow them to develop to a certain extent along with Liu Bei's development.
The benefits are long-term.
Liu Bei was very sure that he was doing something good, and that this good thing was also the right thing to do. If you do the right thing, you will definitely gain something.
Not only the expected gains in strength, but also some unexpected gains.
It is very difficult and important to push farmers who have no trust in Liangzhou government to trust Liangzhou government again. Liu Bei attaches great importance to these things.
Therefore, the ministers and secretaries under his command always traveled between counties and counties, constantly conveying Liu Bei's orders, supervising the execution of the orders, and bringing back the latest trends in each county.
These officials and assistants are like Liu Bei's eyes and ears. They are Liu Bei's whip to promote the implementation of policies. They are also an important reference for assessing the performance of officials and implementing the last elimination system.
Therefore, the counties and counties did not dare to slack off in these affairs and assistants.
Liu Bei also has very high requirements for these people, and he also has an assessment plan for them, which is different from administrative officials.
Their task is not easy. If they want to pass the assessment and get a high-level score, they often need to do it themselves and contribute to their report.
In order to carry out the tasks assigned by Liu Bei, Zhou Qian, an official of the Anding County, acted seriously and responsibly, and personally participated in the work of distributing benefits to eligible peasant families.
At that time, he was registering a farmer's family living in a mud and thatched house.
While registering, I looked at their bare living environment and felt quite emotional.
"Two husband and wife, two children, raising two children these years has not been easy. According to the regulations, let me see... Well, three thousand dollars and three sheep! I will give it now. I still have two children. how old are you?"
The honest and dull peasant couple just shook their heads.
"Can not remember?"
The peasant couple nodded.
Zhou Qian scratched his face and didn't feel strange.
(End of chapter)
