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Chapter 24

After Liu Bu persuaded several other officials of the households not to interfere in his actions, everyone divided the interest cakes to ensure that these people did not ruin his good deeds, he began to concentrate on reforming the Qianhu Institute.

He has guaranteed the military households that everyone has food and clothing. It is impossible for everyone to stay here without moving. They eat, drink and die every day. He hopes to make this place active, let people have enough food and clothing, and as long as these people have food, they will not ruin their good things.

Liu Bu was a man who did it at will. He immediately organized a youth and strong reclamation team and went to the north to reclaim hundreds of acres of wasteland. These wastelands used to be wasteland, with weeds and thorns growing everywhere, mosquitoes and ants everywhere, and poisonous insects rage. They first eliminated the weeds, then found firewood to burn the wasteland, and finally opened ditches and diverted water into them to make good fields.

Why didn't they do this before? Because the wastelands in the surrounding area were from a large family of Wang before, if you dare to use them to open the land, they would become theirs. But now, the family of Wang's family was killed due to the Wuqiao mutiny, and then they became the ownerless wasteland. Since it was the ownerless wasteland, they could use it to open the land.

Even in a land without a border, not everyone dares to open up land or use it. Even Zhang Shunshi was worried that once the deserted land was created, someone would rob it, and some people would send people to collect taxes. This is called "the thin land is no one to plow, and there are people who fight for it if it is plowed."

But Liu Bu is not afraid. He has money and power, and has soldiers under his command, so he is not afraid of this. If I drive it out, it is mine. I don’t care if you are the county magistrate or the descendants of Mr. Wang. If I drive it out, it is mine.

On the one hand, Liu Bu organized people to open land, and on the other hand, he built a farm in the garrison. He spent money to buy sows, opened a pig farm, and then bought a lot of chickens and ducks, and opened a large chicken farm. What should we do after these chickens and ducks are raised? Then we will resell them all to the army, and Liu Bu is responsible for collecting them.

The elderly, weak elderly and women in the Thousand Houses were responsible for feeding them. They were good at doing such things, so that everyone had work to do it. This also ensured that everyone had work to do it and made the most of the labor and manpower here.

Everyone went to work, went to work, and then it became active. When these military households and farmers had money, they would start to consume, and in the end the whole place would be revitalized.

The Thousand Houses in Fushan are busy, and everyone is working, opening land, opening chicken farms and pig farms, and there are people who go to the sea to catch fish. The fish they catch can be sold to Liu Bu. Liu Bu's army needs a lot of meat. Everyone knows that Liu Bu's army has a good meal and is a meat-eating army that needs to buy a lot of meat.

As long as you have the goods, you can sell them. The price is very reasonable and you have always settled it on the spot, so you can be honest.

The Qianhu House in Fushan is busy, and the happiest thing is the local military households. Everyone has something to do and feel at ease. Although Qianhu Lords guarantee that everyone has food to eat, it is better to have work to do in the end. Everyone understands the principle that it is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish.

But the happiest person was Li Wu, the tax officer of Jimo County Government, located in Fushan. He saw these people working so hard and working so hard, which meant that tax revenue was very good.

Li Wu, a relative of the county magistrate, was responsible for collecting taxes in this area. He was so happy that he said, "How great is these mud-legged and foolish people working hard."

Chang Sui beside him said, "In the end, it's not for the master. When the taxes are collected, you can marry a few more concubines."

Li Wu said: "Your benefits will naturally be indispensable at that time. Master, I will eat meat, you drink soup, and everyone will be happy together."

If Liu Bu knew that these people were thinking this way and treated him as a sucker, he would not think about what he would think, and the pride and arrogant Liu family would not be able to pay taxes to these fools.

After the Ming Dynasty entered the past few decades, there were many kinds of tyrants and miscellaneous taxes. The most domineering tax officials in the townships were these tax officials. They were arrogant and could make various tax collections by clever names. This tax official Liu Wu was just a small official who was not a good official. He was not counted as a formal official, but he had gathered hundreds of people around him, clever names, set up checkpoints, and collects them if he wanted to.

They wanted to collect taxes and put them on the head of the Liu family. How crazy do you think they are? In the eyes of ordinary people, this is lawless.

When Liu Bu saw that the base camp was gradually getting on track, he began to prepare to recruit his servants. He had great high hopes for his servants.

They quickly received a reply from Liu Yuanqiao, with just a few words: "Do it cheaply."

The butler Liu Fuqi said: "With the experience of the old slave serving adults for many years, we can know that adults mean that they can do it, but how to save money? This is called doing things cheaply?"

Liu Bu said: "My young master understands that he will do whatever he wants?"

They immediately recruited people, and more than a thousand people had already been recruited here, but these people still had to pass the exam, three or four exams, and it was not an exaggeration to describe them as passing five levels and killing six generals.

When others recruit soldiers, they are forced to join the army, and they will pick them when they see them, but when they recruit soldiers, they are as carefully selected as others choose their wives.

The more the Liu family set the threshold high like this, the more it attracted refugees from ten villages and eight miles or hundreds of miles nearby to come over, hoping to join the Liu family's servants' troops. Once they join, it would be equivalent to the whole family finding a job, and this attraction is quite great.

This thing is a bit taboo, so they did not do it in Qianhuyuan, but instead set up the training headquarters of the servants in the Fushan Valley behind their Liu family mansion.

Where this place does not belong to the government, they can choose and train troops more unscrupulously.

Liu Zhongyong, Liu Yu, Liu Ning and others are responsible for the recruitment work.

At the beginning, more than 1,000 people were selected from 3,000 people, and they would eliminate the remaining 500 people, and only recruit up to 500 people.

When Liu Bu saw such an amazing elimination rate, he was a little surprised. Is it a recruitment or a son-in-law?

However, the advantage of the Liu family's wealth is reflected. They directly include food and accommodation, allowing people to come here to choose. Even those who fail to choose will give them dozens of kilograms of grain as travel expenses for them to go back. If they are selected, it will be amazing. Let your family work in the farm set up in the nearby area of ​​the Liu family. This is truly a true way of gaining the power of one person, and the chickens and dogs have ascended to heaven.

Such conditions can be said to be quite rare in the Ming Dynasty. Countless people rushed in to join the Liu family and become a member of the Liu family's army.

Liu Bu went to the valley to see that the lively scene was extremely gratifying.

This candidate not only needs to be innocent, but also young, strong and agile. The beginning is to run ten miles in one go, and then do various complex military actions. Only after success can you enter the next level.

This alone has successfully mobilized many people, making many people sigh. They run ten miles in one breath and do these military actions. They are not first-class elite soldiers. Who can do it?

However, they relaxed the restrictions. If you have other specialties, you can also join in. This is riding and shooting. If you have a good player who is proficient in riding and shooting, you can run ten kilometers without running and perform direct assessment.

Someone sighed: "I have been doing this in the martial arts exam."

When Liu Bu saw that the 1,000 people they selected first, he was very satisfied. He was many times better than the ones in their garrison. He wanted to just take care of all the more than 1,000 people.

But Liu Zhongyong refused: "I still want to choose one."

This is what Liu Fuqi means.

Why did he pull Liu Fuqi in again? It was because he kept recruiting people in the past few days, and the grain flowed out like water, and trucks of grain were pulled out from the Liu family grain warehouse.

If you take to the camp, to the garrison, to the farm, there will be in and out of the way. Such consumption will be like eating up the mountains and the old housekeeper is worried.

Liu Bu was not in charge of the family and did not know that the food and food were expensive, so he just tried his best to ask the housekeeper for money and food.

He dared not to obey the young master's instructions, and all the pressure was on Liu Fuqi. He said worriedly: "Even if the Liu family has mountains of gold and silver, they can't stand this bottomless pit."

Liu Bu said: "Butler Liu, why are you worried about? You have been suppressed for several years if you don't eat these foods. If you don't eat them, you will get moldy. You will feed them to pigs. You don't eat them. Now you are taking this opportunity to consume them. There are many forms of wealth. A well-trained elite soldier is also one of them. With these people, our Liu family will not have to be afraid of bullying in the future."

Butler Liu Fuqi said: We are not afraid of being bullied now. The world is not good now. Once the world is peaceful, nothing will happen. These people are just a wolf. If you raise a wolf, if you don’t have meat for him to eat, they will eat your meat."

Liu Bu said: "No problem, I don't have to worry about this. Isn't our family still rich? Raising one or two thousand people is not a problem. I promise you that if I sell my carriage, I will never spend money on women like buying beauty Chen. Moreover, my monthly money cannot exceed ten taels. Is it okay? I'm calling you uncle, don't worry? OK?"

Liu Fuji said: "There is a difference between the master and the servant, how can you call me uncle? How can the old slave bear it?"

Liu Bu said, "I trust you and think you can bear it. Uncle Liu, there is one thing I want to tell you, you must not tell others."

Liu Fuqi said: "Please tell me, I have an advantage of being a close friend."

Liu Bu said: "I can tell you a secret, that is, I hanged myself in the Linqing mansion."

Liu Fuqi said: "Young Master, don't do anything like this in the future. This will scare the Empress Dowager to death, Master!"
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