At the beginning, Liu Bei did not realize that he had to separate the technical staff in Liangzhou, so except for women of childbearing age, all other prisoners were beaten as coolies.
Later, Liu Bei received a report that some coolies were overwhelmed by the heavy work and secretly collected raw materials to make weapons to resist, killed some supervisors, and caused some minor troubles.
Fortunately, the army suppressed it in time, otherwise it is hard to say whether it would have triggered a series of chain resistance in the mining area.
From this, Liu Bei realized that the grassland tribes also had skilled craftsmen. They could also forge iron and make weapons. Although their skills were not as good as those of the Central Plains craftsmen, the weapons they produced could still kill people.
So Liu Bei began to adjust his prisoner strategy, and singled out the technical personnel among the prisoners for different treatment. He included them in household registrations, took them for his own use, and gave them relatively generous treatment.
So these technicians began to be used by Liu Bei.
After losing these technicians, the coolies have become much more honest and have no way to obtain weapons to resist. Even if they want to resist, the harm is greatly reduced.
So later on, after Liu Bei defeated the enemy and captured the prisoners, he would always pay attention to selecting the technical talents among them and use them for his own use, using guys without any special skills as coolies. As long as there was a skill, he would see if it was useful.
The population of this wave of captives was relatively large, including Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and all kinds of miscellaneous people whose ethnic groups could not be distinguished. There were more than 700,000 people in total, and their number had almost caught up with the number of Han people in Youzhou. Therefore, the number of women of childbearing age is about 210,000.
If all these 2.12 million women were included in the Youzhou household registration, it would certainly be a great supplement to the population of Youzhou.
In addition to the more than 30,000 special skills personnel selected later, the total number will be close to 250,000.
Of course these people are of great help, but how to distribute them specifically, how to feed so many mouths to eat, and the subsequent development of Youzhou also require supporting measures.
Of course Liu Bei also had a plan.
Use this war to build Youzhou into the second Liangzhou and completely transplant the Liangzhou model to Youzhou.
For the Liu Bei Group, this is not a strange thing. Rather, it is a very normal thing. Now the land of Youzhou has been severely damaged. After the chaos, there must be great governance. If there is a big change, it will For Youzhou people, this is no longer unacceptable.
In times of peace, people don't like to fuss and are generally conservative, but in times of war, everything is different.
After thinking about it, Liu Bei thought about the people under his command who were trustworthy and trustworthy, and then he thought of Xiahou Dun, who was serving as the governor of Anding County in Liangzhou.
He has been the prefect of Anding County for several years, and has accumulated some experience in politics. He has excellent political performance, a good official reputation, and is honest and self-responsible. Every year in Liangzhou's official assessment, Xiahou Dun always ranks at the top and is deeply loved. Zhizhong engaged in the company's praise.
Among the series of subordinates who first followed Liu Bei, Xiahou Dun is currently the only one who is still serving as the governor of Anding County. Except for Guan Yu, who is still guarding Liangzhou, only Xiahou Dun has not changed. He is a person with junior qualifications. They were all promoted to generals, but Xiahou Dun was still a captain and had not been promoted.
Despite this, Xiahou Dun did not have any emotions and would not fight if there was no battle. He just did what he had to do. Therefore, the development of Anding County is the fastest among the counties in Liangzhou, and the population is also the fastest growing. one.
Liu Bei admired Xiahou Dun's political ability, so he now needed a Youzhou governor who had strong execution ability and was willing to obey orders. This person must be Xiahou Dun.
He did what he said. On the one hand, Liu Bei wrote to Xiahou Dun to ask him to make preparations for the handover. On the other hand, he wrote a memorial to the court, noting that Xiahou Dun would be appointed governor of Youzhou.
At the same time, Liu Bei did not intend to give in this time. Youzhou was beaten to a semi-disabled state and needed strong manpower to clean up the situation. At this time, allowing the imperial court to settle the insects in Youzhou would harm Youzhou. Liu Bei planned to all People use their own hands to rectify Youzhou and implement Youzhou's reform plan.
Not to mention other places, Liu Bei will recommend his old Liangzhou troops to serve as governors and captains of the five counties and one vassal state of Liaodong. Choose the smart and capable ones among them.
The remaining grassroots officials will also be selected from among his disciples and former officials. On the one hand, they will strengthen the political power under their control, and on the other hand, they will ensure that Youzhou is properly governed. Otherwise, Youzhou will collapse and the entire Hebei region will be unlucky.
In the next period of time, Liu Bei did not rush back to Luoyang. Instead, he inspected suitable officials in Youzhou, and decided on governance measures and procedures one by one, ready to be handed over to Xiahou Dun for implementation.
How to settle the population, how to establish collective farms step by step to restore agricultural production in Youzhou, how to control the large number of captured foreigners, how to use them to renovate Youzhou's infrastructure, and some preparations for the future, etc.
Anyway, he has done a lot of things that he should do, so he takes advantage of all the time.
By the time he was ready to lead his army in triumph on March 29, many things in Youzhou had already been put on the agenda and on the right track. Officials and people were performing their duties, and there was peace and stability, and no conflicts broke out.
Man Chong was retained by Liu Bei as the temporary acting governor of Youzhou, and was specifically responsible for continuing the governance of Youzhou before Xiahou Dun arrived.
The army followed Liu Bei from Yuyang County all the way south. When passing through Zhuo County, Liu Bei went back to the Liu clan. Under the warm welcome of the clan members, he returned to the place where he and his mother had lived for more than fifteen years. That ancestral house.
Fortunately, when Yuan Shao led the rebels to attack Zhuoxian, the Liu family's settlement was not completely destroyed, especially the house where Liu Bei lived, but it escaped the disaster because it was relatively remote.
When he went back to look, the house was still intact, and the old mulberry tree in the yard was still there, and it looked even better than when he left.
"Uncle, this..."
Liu Bei looked at Liu Bo who was standing aside.
Liu Bo smiled.
"After you became successful, your tribe respected you very much, so the place where you lived was renovated at the expense of the tribe. After that, you hired people to clean and maintain it every day. As the second most important place in the Liu clan after the ancestral hall, ordinary people can't Come in."
"Hi!"
Liu Bei laughed out loud and said: "What's not allowed here? It's not a place where ghosts and gods live. If you want to come in and have a look, you can have a look. What's the point of sealing it so that no one can see it?"
"That's what I say, but you should be treated a little more specially."
Liu Bo whispered: "Because of you, the Liu family has a chance to turn over, to further study, and to become a high-ranking family. This room is of great significance to the clan members. This time, it was not occupied by Yuan The thief destroyed it and everyone was happy.”
Liu Bei nodded without saying anything. He walked into the house and took a look. His eyes were filled with memories of the past. When he blinked, he seemed to still be able to see the time when he and his mother were sitting together drinking porridge to satisfy their hunger.
When he came to his mother's room, Liu Bei sat down next to the small table and reached out to touch the small table.
"Back then, my family was very poor and had no food to eat. We could only drink some porridge and eat some pickles at every meal, which was a rare delicacy. I still remember that at that time, I was growing tall and could not always eat enough. When I was eating, my mother said Use a small bowl, I use a large bowl.
Every time I finished eating my big bowl, my mother's small bowl had only a small half left, so my mother said she was full and gave me the remaining half. I always happily ate the small half. The food was clean, but then I thought about it, how could my mother have enough to eat?
She just gave me the last bit of food to make me a little full, but even so, I couldn't fill my stomach. I was hungry. I was hungry all the time. I wanted a big fish all the time. The big meat fills my stomach, and there is almost nothing in my head except eating.
Uncle, if you hadn't helped us and our son from time to time and sent us some food, we, our mother and our son, might have died of cold and starvation on a certain winter day. You were our savior. . "
(End of chapter)
