It's not a matter of a day or two if there is a shortage of people in Yunzhong County. As for the current potential of Yunzhong County, it's not a big problem to raise 100,000 people. Especially if you expand the recruitment of thousands of soldiers, you can better defend this place.

Just to be honest, the military expenditure seems to be a bit large. As expected, if there is conditions, I will find a way to destroy Bu Dugen and Ke Bien...

"Speaking of it..." Thinking of this, Liu Tao seemed to remember something, "The second border trade has been underway, right? Didn't some slaves be sent to Budugen?"

"I guess I'm still reserved arms before I can attack the Kebineng team. As long as I can't fight, it's certainly not that easy to acquire prisoners of war." Lu Yan shook his head and replied.

After thinking about it, he and Xun Yu expressed his concerns: "If our side continues to prosper, they will probably give priority to attacking us. Even if the border trade can bring them more benefits, they will not directly grab the convenience."

"That's right, the so-called war does not depend on the interests, but on the costs. If you attack us, the benefits you get are more than the price you pay for attacking us. Then unless there is a problem with Bu Dugen, he will not attack us. The only result of attacking us is that even if you can really gain some benefits, Ke Bi will take the opportunity to take it away in the end." Liu Tao was not worried about this.

But when it's time to hit him, he naturally won't be polite. It's just that compared to Budugen or Kebineng, Xihe County and Shang County, it's more valuable to be strategic.

"Just being with evil neighbors is a hidden danger, and brother must not slackewer." Lu Yan reminded.

"Of course I know, the problem is just as you said, there are too few people in our country..." Liu Tao sighed, "I can't supervise the battle on the front line personally, and I can't really think that with thousands of cavalry, can you advance rapidly on the grassland?"

Seeing that the food problem has basically been solved, and even the weapons and equipment problem can be solved one after another. In terms of the population problem, we can no longer rely on Zhang Yan’s blood transfusion, right?

After a few more days, the harvest season began to enter. Yunzhong County still had a bumper harvest, and the output was far beyond the past. After learning about the harvest situation here, all counties were very interested and wanted to learn new farming techniques.

"Didn't my brother say that the gentry actually wished to reduce grain production. Do they control the price of grain?" Zhang Fei looked at so many gentry coming to visit, and was a little confused, so he found Liu Tao and asked.

"If the trade route is blocked and everyone's output is similar, and they can easily control the price of food, of course they wish to reduce food production; if the production is reduced, there is also the risk of reducing production, that is, they may also be at risk of insufficient food.

Now that the business road is open, and the grain output in the cloud may overflow in the future. They know that they cannot control the grain price, so the only way is to produce more grain and then transport it to other places, with small profits and high sales in exchange for profits." Liu Tao probably understood their thoughts.

Of course there will be risks, but it is better than losing food in your own hands, or working hard a year to reap more food, but the result is no more than before.

Of course, in order to avoid risks, you can also give up farming and plant hemp and other cash crops. By selling high-value cash crops, you can get more funds and pay taxes, and the remaining food can be exchanged for some food.

They may even use excess grain to make wine, which will drive the winemaking industry. After all, the profit of selling wine is greater than purely selling grain. However, this thing can be taxed to limit the infinite expansion of the winemaking industry.

"I didn't expect that there are so many ways to govern the country. I thought that as long as the people live and work in peace and contentment, it would be great..." Zhang Fei sighed.

According to him, the county magistrates of each county in Zhuo County are almost the same. Even the county magistrates just live by and often don’t consider how to make Zhuo County develop better and more prosperous. Perhaps in their opinion, as long as public security is handled well and taxes are collected regularly, the rest can be given to each county for spontaneous development.

The so-called pastoral guardian is actually nothing more than managing the public security of the party, then levying taxes and levying corvee. As for how to improve the breed of livestock, how to make livestock eat more fatter in winter and not freeze to death... These are not what they consider, and that is what the master (Your Majesty) needs to consider.

"There's no way..." Liu Tao patted his shoulder, "I treat Yunzhong County as my own nest to run it. If I don't worry, who will worry?!"

"Oh..." After Liu Tao said that, Zhang Fei thought about it and thought it was the same. As the actual controller of Yunzhong County, it was natural for Liu Tao to think about these issues and do these things.

"Besides, for ordinary county officials, it takes certain experience and means to successfully control power when they take office. Otherwise, the county magistrate and county magistrate, and those who are engaged in it, can undermine him.

After taking control of the county town, you have to consider the feelings of the gentry. If something goes wrong, then the official position that you finally get may be lost. It is too difficult to become an official, and the local gentry is too powerful. It is not that you don’t want to reform, but that the reform is very difficult and the failure rate is also very high!" Liu Tao thought about it and explained further.

Just talk about the assessment of the Han Dynasty. As long as the people live and work in peace and contentment, urban and rural areas are prosperous, the people do not pick up their own relics on the road and do not close their doors at night, then it is almost excellent.

If you can get promoted in a few years, it is so convenient. Why do you have to risk being dismissed from your post and meddle in other people's business?

In other words, the official assessment system itself has certain problems. It is basically just a rough ‘appearance’ and does not require any specific data or even statistics.

Without data and statistics assessment, it is unqualified. It is just how to create a system that meets his requirements. This requires him to negotiate with everyone before he can know the result.

In fact, if it is possible, he even plans to include the officials in the official system and then carry out the civil service system. So the question now is, when will Liu Hong die?

Not long ago, Liu Ge wrote a letter saying that Liu Hong's body seems to have become much weaker recently, and even did not participate in the Grand Dynasty once. It is hard to say whether it is too much indulgence or sudden weakening of the body.

When Liu Tao saw this letter, he knew that someone had started to take action, but sometimes he really felt that they were too conservative.

After ten days of this, when July was approaching and the weather began to get hot, the imperial reward team came to Yunzhong, leading the team of old acquaintance Qian Fu. More than 2,000 palace maids and more than 5,000 refugees, most of whom were young and strong.
Chapter completed!