After this round of merit discussion and rewards, everyone was generally satisfied.
It was Xu Huang who was so angry that he went to Liu Bei and told Liu Bei about the embarrassing things on the battlefield, accusing Pound of not stealing his head, and believed that he should still have a share of the credit.
Pound expressed his innocence.
He didn't see Xu Huang at that time, but he saw the dead ghost in front of him, and the enemy chieftain was wandering in front of him. As a general, how could he not stab him under his horse with his spear?
It can only be said that Xu Huang is not fast enough, or that Xu Huang is not as fast as him.
Pang De looked embarrassed.
Xu Huang gritted his teeth angrily, wanting to hit Pang De in the face.
Liu Bei laughed at this and told Pang De not to be embarrassed. Then he patted Xu Huang on the shoulder and told him that he was still young and there would be plenty of opportunities in the future, and a short while would not matter.
The victory was indeed won by Pound. Later, Liu Bei told Xu Huang that he had the same experience as him, that is, being killed by Guan Yu. He was very unhappy at the time, but it didn't matter later.
They are all comrades in arms. As long as the enemy is dead and the results are obtained, nothing else matters. Just look away.
Xu Huang suffered this loss. Although he was still dissatisfied, he had to listen to Liu Bei's words.
So Xu Huang could only give Pang De a hard look and let it go.
After the internal problems were resolved, Liu Bei reported the results of the war to the Luoyang court, loaded some of the trophies on the table and sent them to Liu Hong, preparing to exchange them for more rewards for his group.
From then until the first day of February, Liu Bei was dealing with the placement of the 140,000 prisoners of war captured this time.
Still following the previous method of dealing with the Xianbei people, the strong men were all recruited into the government's servants, and were managed by the Craftsman Department, responsible for performing heavy manual labor such as corvées on behalf of the people registered in Liangzhou.
The rewards that should be given to women of appropriate age will be given to those who claim them, in order to promote the population growth of Liangzhou.
This wave of Qiang women registered in Liangzhou household registrations numbered approximately 40,000. In addition to the loss of Han citizens reported by various counties in the previous period who re-entered Liangzhou household registrations, there were approximately 40,000 Han people. By the end of January of the fifth year of Zhongping, Liangzhou The state's registered population officially exceeded the 800,000 mark, reaching more than 810,000.
Coupled with the number of official slaves in the Liangzhou craftsmen's list, the overall manpower available to the Liangzhou government has exceeded one million, and as time goes by, this number is still rising.
At present, with the strong promotion and implementation of many welfare policies such as encouraging childbirth, the diaspora population in Liangzhou has an obvious return trend. The number of people who have been re-registered as household registrations reported by counties and counties is still increasing. Liangzhou's population work has made great progress. development of.
So Liu Bei wrote a plan report on Liangzhou's population and long-term development and submitted it to Emperor Liu Hong. He informed Liu Hong of his governance achievements and showed off his ability in local governance.
When you want to do something, you also have to say what you have done.
Brilliant military exploits are one thing, and success in local governance is another. Putting one's abilities on the map will only be good for controlling the Luoyang court in the future, not bad.
In addition to the achievements in governing Liangzhou, the promotion of salt sales in Sanfu Land has also achieved initial success.
After Liu Bei removed Ma's biggest obstacle, Ma joined the salt-trading alliance in a very agile manner. He also made full use of his connections in Youfufeng and even Jingzhaoyin to help the salt-trading alliance. After opening up a lot of joints, I finally handed in my certificate of surrender.
Therefore, with the cooperation of Liu Bei, the emperor, eunuchs, Ma family and other parties, the local forces and the government tax system in the three auxiliary areas have received certain lessons and management.
In addition, Liangzhou fine salt has quietly become a "tribute" to the royal family. It is transported along the way as a tribute, not as a commodity.
When passing through the checkpoints and ferries set up by the government, Liangzhou Fine Salt does not need to pay the high toll of 10% to 30% and can pass without any damage. This minimizes the cost and quickly increases the local salt supply. The shop established a firm foothold and quickly took the market by storm.
To sell salt, you only need to pay the salt tax to the local salt official, which can save a lot of meaningless checkpoint taxes and increase the profits of the sellers.
At the same time, by limiting the cost, the sales price can be lowered, which is also conducive to the purchase of ordinary people.
The taste of Liangzhou fine salt is far better than the salt that everyone ate before, and now the price is relatively moderate, so it is a very simple thing to win people's favor and conquer people's taste buds.
No one likes the taste of salt in the past. In the past, in order to get the salty taste, we had to eat salt with a bitter taste. Now that we have the new Liangzhou fine salt, who will pursue that bad taste? What about the taste?
Every household is switching to Liangzhou fine salt very quickly, and it’s hard not to think quickly because the old salt is no longer on sale.
While using Liangzhou fine salt to seize the market, the original salt that had been made was also packed into trucks, put on ships, and collectively transported to Liangzhou and handed over to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei's newly established "Liangzhou Fine Salt Processing Factory" in Hanyang County carried out the "recasting" operation to remove impurities, complete a gorgeous turn, and then continue to sell and sell money.
Since the middle of the first month of the fifth year of Zhongping, Liangzhou fine salt has successfully swept the salt market in Youfufeng, Zuofengyi and Jingzhaoyin.
After the disobedient salt households and protective umbrellas in the Sanfu Land were beaten and annexed by the eunuchs, the interests of this salt were completely stabilized in the Sanfu Land and divided up by all parties involved.
People involved in the salt trade all knew how profitable it was, so they were not worried at all that their interests would not be protected. Rather, they began to worry about how to spend the money they earned.
Especially Liu Hong, he will have the largest share of the interests. The specific income this interest will bring to him will be an astronomical figure that makes him laugh in his dreams. With this astronomical wealth, he can do whatever he wants. .
So he began to imagine building a brand new palace complex for himself, filling it with rare treasures, including the most beautiful women in the world, and introducing the most fragrant rose peach wine, and then he would have the most beautiful woman in the peach wine. Have fun in the pool.
He also had a more grand dream, which was to recreate the legendary Wine Pond and Meat Forest in his palace. Although he didn’t know whether King Zhou of Shang had built a Wine Pond and Meat Forest, but when he heard that description, he felt that “a real man should be like this.”
Thinking about how he could live luxuriously and happily in the wine pond and meat forest in the future, he felt that his mood was about to fly with joy.
Liu Bei didn't have so many ideas. He mainly wanted to use the money to make some improvements to Liangzhou in terms of transportation, especially the roads for transporting salt, which needed to be rectified.
From Qinghai Lake to Ji County, and then from Ji County to Chang'an, there are waterways that can be used. Water transportation is far more convenient and efficient than land transportation, so the ancients would give priority to waterways no matter what long-distance operations they carried out. Not by land.
The transportation route planned by Liu Bei also made full use of the three water systems of Huangshui, Taoshui and Weishui, and used water as much as possible to transport salt, thereby greatly reducing the transportation cost of salt.
In places where land transportation had to be used, Liu Bei planned road repairs and built strong, durable and smooth roads in places that could not be reached by water transportation to further reduce transportation costs.
This part of the planning can be left to the captured Qiang prisoners of war, so that they can pay the price for what they have done and build bridges and pave roads!
After completing a series of plans, on the first day of February in the fifth year of Zhongping, the Liangzhou Prefecture School established by Liu Bei opened successfully.
The first batch of enrollment in Liangzhou Prefecture School was 1,527 students, and then there were more than 500 students in the Prefecture Preparatory School. The total number of students in total exceeded 2,000.
The group of Liu's disciples suddenly became so big.
The first thing after school starts is to conduct further examinations to divide students into two groups: ordinary classes and elite classes.
In order to save bamboo slips and pen and ink, the examination was mostly conducted in the form of face-to-face questions and answers. Liu Bei's officials with certain cultural literacy were pulled over to serve as interviewers. They interviewed these candidates one by one and asked them some slightly in-depth questions. Soon, It can be judged whether these candidates can enter the elite class or the ordinary class.
The final results show that Liangzhou is called a cultural desert for good reason.
(End of chapter)
