In Liangzhou, Liu Bei's rule was to process the captured prisoners of war in batches, dragging all the men to do hard labor, while the women of school age were left to give birth to children to increase the population.
This seemingly unbenevolent approach was exaggerated by Liu Bei into a benevolent and righteous approach, and he also had a complete set of logic for this.
Because the Xianbei people don't pay taxes to me, but the people of Liangzhou pay taxes to me, so there is no need to follow the rules when dealing with the Xianbei people, but you need to follow the rules when dealing with the people of Liangzhou.
I will do my best to create a better living environment for the registered people who pay taxes to me. The government must consider their feelings in everything, treat them with benevolence and righteousness, implement benevolent government, be more reasonable and less disputed when encountering problems.
Because the government is using their money for development, and the salaries that officials in the government receive come from the taxes they pay. Everyone must have this awareness of who gets the money and works for whom.
The enemies who don’t pay my taxes and want to destroy my tax base...
Do you dare to destroy my basic system?
Do you dare to steal my money?
Sorry, then I have to ask you to serve me my taxpayers.
To deal with them, a completely new method can be adopted, which basically does not involve any internal laws and regulations in Liangzhou. How to do it as efficiently as possible.
Liu Bei set a tone for this style of conduct, calling it "Inner Saint and External King", and it was widely publicized.
Internally, the principles of sages and sages are used as the program for governing the world, and benevolent governance is the highest pursuit.
Externally, we must promote the royal way, the royal way of combining hardness and softness, use both suppression and appeasement, and never promise not to use force to solve problems.
As a result, a large number of prisoners of war took on a large number of corvee-related tasks that originally required the government to recruit people to do.
As a result, farmers who are under heavy pressure in life have gained very direct benefits.
Their corvee service has been replaced, and they no longer need to perform corvee service for the time being. All government projects have been completed. They have a lot of free time to rest, or work intensively to increase food production.
And the government doesn't need to pay anything.
When it comes to prisoners of war doing hard labor, Liu Bei's rule is to just give them enough food to eat and ensure that they don't die. To maintain this level, there is no need to pay for anything else.
What's left is supervision, so that they can work for the Liangzhou capital as long as possible, and don't die so quickly, causing disaster to everyone, which is not a good thing for Liangzhou.
We must take a sustainable path to catch all the water.
In this way, more and more farmers in Liangzhou can produce and have children without having to perform corvee labor.
This is a great benevolent policy for them, and it is also a kind of sharing of development results. Liangzhou's originally sharp social conflicts were instantly alleviated, and it was still that kind of great relief.
It can be said that people from all over Liangzhou, from officials to civilians, have praised this, believing that this set of practices of inner saints and outer kings is truly suitable for the Han Dynasty, and should be continued and widely promoted, so that Great rule of the world.
In the capital of Liangzhou, the ruling team headed by Liu Bei has accumulated a great reputation among the people of Liangzhou and has a very high degree of credibility. Even an old farmer who cannot read a lot of Chinese characters mentions "Shijun Liu" and "General Liu" , that is also a compliment, nodding repeatedly.
This extremely high credibility has greatly reduced the administrative costs of Liu Bei's ruling team in Liangzhou.
According to Xun You's observation, the administrative work of Liangzhou Prefecture has now entered a positive cycle.
Even things like encouraging childbirth and paying taxes on behalf of the government, Liu Bei's ruling team was able to promote it in Liangzhou with its perseverance and make farmers accept it, thus basically solving the problem of abandonment in Liangzhou. Baby issues.
This shows the service ability of his team and his credibility in Liangzhou.
Many serious and unsolvable problems in the Central Plains have been solved in Liangzhou, and it seems that Liu Bei's ruling team is able to handle them with ease.
They can still do a lot of things and accomplish more, and they are still ambitiously planning more things to make Liangzhou better.
Although many of the things they have accomplished would have been unthinkable elsewhere.
Seeing all this, Xun You couldn't help but wonder, if one day, Liu Bei could rule in Luoyang with the same spirit, would he be able to solve all similar problems in the entire world, leaving this clay-footed giant full of ills and dying? What about standing up again and taking on new life?
It should be ok?
Even the broken Liangzhou has stood up again. Isn't it okay if there is no broken man?
Once this idea appeared, it could never be erased from Xun You's mind.
Liu Bei didn't know what these subordinates thought of him and his behavior. He was very determined and moved forward without any hesitation or confusion.
But he is a little free now.
Yes, he is a bit idle.
The Liangzhou prefectural school will not start until next year, which is the first day of February in the fifth year of Zhongping, and it is only November of the fourth year of Zhongping. There are still more than two months, and it is a bit wasteful to spend all the preparations. , other work is also being advanced step by step.
Because the work was distributed so well and the plan was so complete, Liu Bei, the leader and controller, didn't even have much to do during this period.
The subordinates are used to his work style and have been well educated by him. Everyone is doing things honestly and does not dare to be frivolous. They work very efficiently and have a self-contained system.
The most chaotic period in Liangzhou has passed. The new system has been established in Liangzhou. Everything is in order, leaving little room for Liu Bei to make mistakes.
So Liu Bei actually took some time off.
From the second half of the year, Liu Bei found that he could actually finish his daily work and leave a lot of free time.
There were some days when he even finished a whole day's work in one morning. The whole afternoon was free and there was no more work coming to him. He could do whatever he wanted.
The opposite is a bureaucracy that is constantly busy.
Was it because he was being ignored or for some other reason?
He thought for a while, walked around for a while, and felt that this was not the problem.
The problem is that Liangzhou is too small.
Yes, in the final analysis, Liangzhou is smaller and has a smaller population. When it comes to large-scale development and construction, there are only a few things that break the sky. It seems big and complicated, but you can look at it from another angle.
Under traffic, productivity and time constraints, although they have many things to do, the objective progress of things every day is extremely limited, and the responses they need to make are also limited.
You can't be idealistic when it comes to development. It's not as fast as Liu Bei says.
The development of things always has its own objective laws. No matter how fast a thing is from decision-making to implementation to results, it still takes time. Bankers are not built in a day, and roads are not built in a day. If you don't have time, you won't see it. Effect.
Without any new changes, state officials had nothing new to do, and Liu Bei had nothing new to do. They had to wait until things progressed to the point where they needed to intervene before reacting.
There's only so much you can do, and once you've done it, it's done.
So Liu Bei realized that the actual capabilities of him and his ruling team had exceeded Liangzhou's development speed ceiling at this stage.
The political capacity of this brand-new political team he has built is already full and overflowing.
This is an interesting phenomenon.
This proves that his team has initially developed the ability to expand beyond Liangzhou and expand its governance scope. This is undoubtedly a good thing for him.
Because in the next step, he plans to integrate Sanfu and Sanhe Land, and his team will begin to have stronger political capabilities, which will help his future actions.
Although it is indeed a bit busy.
But this just proves that his decision-making was correct and what he did was correct, which is why his political team achieved transcendent growth so quickly.
Take your time as long as you like, it's only for a while anyway, so you might as well take a good rest. I'm afraid it's impossible to be so leisurely in the days to come.
And just when Liu Bei was thinking this way and was preparing to spend a leisurely time, things just happened to come to his door.
On the first day of November, troops from Longxi County came to report.
During the previous Liangzhou War, the Xianling Qiang rebels from Beidi County formed an alliance with the Shenlang Qiang and Baima Qiang through unknown means after they were expelled from Longxi County by Dong Zhuo.
The three tribes formed a coalition and tens of thousands of people invaded Longxi County.
(End of chapter)
