Facing Liu Bei's use of strong force to force others to obey him, not to mention people in other areas, even those collaborators and allies in the Luoyang court who were close to Liu Bei felt a strange feeling.
During this period, many people gradually felt the intensity of Liu Bei's power and realized Liu Bei's powerful strength hidden under his humble appearance.
He is a being who can restrain his desire for power, but this restraint comes from his own heart. It is hard to say when it fails and when he becomes a dictator.
The powerful people in the past were more or less a little arrogant and weak. They dominated the Sili area and had limited influence on the local area, such as the great eunuchs and generals in the past.
But Liu Bei is different. Liu Bei really has a strong influence and even execution ability internally and externally. His special status allows him to have a large number of disciples and former officials who must obey his orders.
It takes several generations to spread the disciples and old officials all over the world, but it took Liu Bei ten years.
This special situation is unexpected by many people.
Originally, they felt that it was a pleasure to lean against Liu Bei. Liu Bei, who held power, exuded a gentle and warm light. They leaned against Liu Bei like people who lacked clothes warming themselves by a fire. They only felt warm.
But as time went by, as the slave restriction order was further implemented, as Liu Bei's army crushed the local powerful, and as Liu Bei's local officials showed their ability to act, they gradually felt that Liu Bei was exuding
The light became a little too dazzling and scorching. The closer I got, the more unbearable burning pain I felt all over my body.
More than one person lamented when communicating with others in private - Is General Liu's power a bit too strong?
A subtle political atmosphere pervades Luoyang City and beyond.
I don’t know if he felt this, but in order to appease the fearful people, Liu Bei made some profits from a series of lands obtained by wiping out the powerful.
He gave a wave of rewards to some of his cronies and bureaucrats who cooperated with him. He gave them some land confiscated from the powerful and also gave them a wave of property.
This was the time when the implementation of the slave restriction order in the Sili and Bingzhou areas achieved great success in August of the second year of Jian'an. Liu Bei held a summary meeting of the implementation phase of the slave restriction order in Luoyang and publicly addressed the people who supported him.
Bo rewarded them and gave them part of the land.
At the same time, Liu Bei used the great increase in the court's income as an excuse to go to Emperor Liu Xie to increase the salaries of officials in the Sili, Bingzhou and Liangzhou areas, increasing their salaries by one and a half percent on the original basis.
What he means is that this is a reward for implementing the slave restriction order. In the future, as long as the slave restriction order is implemented well, officials in other places can also get promotions and salary increases!
This approach aroused admiration from both the government and the public, and everyone praised Liu Bei for "ruling the country well."
Liu Bei's attitude is also very clear. Those who help me will be rewarded heavily. Those who don't help me will have grass on their graves three meters high. So everyone, you understand what I should do when I implement the new policy in the future.
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Just when many people inexplicably felt that the light on Liu Bei was a little too hot, this wave of "rain and dew" caused the ruling class to change some of their views on Liu Bei.
After all, no one likes to deal with money.
They felt that Liu Bei might just be dissatisfied with the arrogance and arrogance of the common people, but he was still very good to the scholars and officials. He not only gave land to those who supported him, but also gave all officials a salary increase, which was a real benefit.
In the hand, it is always comfortable.
As a result, Liu Bei's reputation has been greatly improved, and the subtle political atmosphere has been swept away. It has become a concern in the hearts of a very few people and is no longer mentioned publicly.
With the successful implementation of the slave restriction order in the Sili and Bingzhou areas, Liu Bei launched a set of combos that increased his power and reputation within the ruling class.
On this basis, Liu Bei did not continue to fuss throughout the second year of Jian'an, but settled down to deal with the existing matters.
He fought against the powerful in the Sili and Bingzhou areas, and devoted most of his energy to settling the 1.2 million liberated slaves, 400,000 mountain people in the Black Mountains, and 150,000 Southern Xiongnu tribesmen.
Liu Bei mobilized a large amount of resources, manpower and transportation capacity, and settled them in Bingzhou, Liangzhou and Youzhou, adding a wave of fresh blood to the three border states that lacked population.
According to the plan, this wave of additions will bring Liangzhou’s registered population to 1.8 million, Youzhou’s registered population to 1.5 million, and Bingzhou’s registered population to 1.4 million.
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For the three major border states with vast territories and sparsely populated areas, this is a huge population reinforcement.
Liangzhou, which has the best collective farm construction and infrastructure construction, is the most powerful state in absorbing the population. Hundreds of thousands of relocated people were properly resettled in five months. Liangzhou's bureaucratic team made a lot of efforts for this.
His hard work was praised by Liu Bei.
By the end of the second year of Jian'an, the situation in Liangzhou had stabilized, and the relocated people had gradually started their new lives under Liangzhou's comprehensive resettlement policy.
The advantages of Liangzhou’s New Deal are undoubtedly revealed.
Youzhou is also good. Although construction in all aspects was difficult not long after the war, the hundreds of thousands of relocated people it absorbed were properly resettled within five months.
Xiahou Dun personally led the team to carry out the mission, leading the young officials in the state capital to rush around, and was so busy that he could not sleep.
As a military general, he can only be said to be mediocre in fighting, but his military characteristics of obeying orders and executing them efficiently and with strong execution ability give him a special advantage when handling civil affairs.
Wherever there is unrest, he will send troops to solve the problem. Wherever there is a cluster of epidemics, he will also send people to immediately implement an isolation policy to avoid the expansion of the scope of the plague.
He handled the immigrants' food, shelter, medicine and other matters in an orderly manner without any mistakes. He used the official slaves in the Youzhou area to repair a large number of infrastructure, which brought great surprises to the households who had just escaped from slavery.
Originally they thought that this trip to the north was a death march, but unexpectedly, the government was very well prepared for this trip to the north. Some people were injured and died along the way, but the number was indeed very small.
Some people arrived in Youzhou safely and started a new life.
It has to be said that this wave of Xiahou Dun's contribution was indeed great, so at the end of the year, Liu Bei also announced that Xiahou Dun would be promoted to the title of nobility and named Marquis of Jianping County, with a settlement of 3,800 households.
As for Bingzhou, which is the most dilapidated state waiting to be revitalized, the situation faced by Manchong is the most severe.
Due to the lack of manpower and the shortage of experienced bureaucrats, Man Chong is under the greatest pressure. He has the most things to do and many emergencies to deal with.
Fortunately, Guan Yu and Qianzhao's army were there, so after thinking about it, Man Chong decided to use the power of the army to implement military control in Bingzhou.
The efficiency of the army is very high. Relying on military control, Manchong managed to survive this wave of crisis of sudden increase in households and maintained the order of Bingzhou.
Of course, the support from Luoyang is indispensable.
Liu Bei transported 60% of all the grain he raised to Bingzhou, and mobilized forces from Jizhou and Qingzhou to transport grain to Bingzhou. He also asked the salt interest groups around him to use large-scale transportation capacity to provide salt to Bingzhou.
Relying on sufficient food and salt, the various households in Bingzhou finally got through this winter without large-scale epidemics or deaths from cold and starvation. It was the most dangerous winter in Bingzhou and also the most dangerous in Manchong.
It's past.
After the spring of the second year, Bingzhou organized large-scale collective reclamation and planting activities, and agricultural production began to become the mainstream of Bingzhou.
At this point, the situation in Bingzhou has truly stabilized.
Outside the three border states, all the land obtained by cracking down on the powerful landlords was returned to the imperial court. Under Liu Bei's instructions, these lands were used for the construction of collective farms.
Relying on these lands, many places absorbed part of the slave population on the spot and converted them into civilian households in various states and counties in the Sili region, causing the population of the Sili region to increase by hundreds of thousands.
It is much easier to absorb this part of the population. It is much cheaper to absorb and settle them locally than to send them to the three border states.
During this period, Cao Cao of Henan Yin settled more than 80,000 slaves in the area under the jurisdiction of Henan Yin. He was the one who settled the largest number of slaves in the Sili area and had the most outstanding political achievements. He was specially commended by Liu Bei.
Time entered the third year of Jian'an, and Man Chong seemed to have sublimated. He dealt with various things in an orderly manner. He was no longer in a hurry, and he no longer cried and asked Liu Bei for people and supplies. He was much calmer and calmer.
More, the whole person seems to be enlightened.
Liu Bei also put the finishing touches on the slave restriction order in the Sili area and Bingzhou, announcing that the slave restriction order had achieved good results, so the slave restriction order in the Sili area and Bingzhou came to an end at this stage.
The turbulent second year of Jian'an has come to an end.
At the end of the year, the officials in the Luoyang court who were very tired from being too busy all thought that Liu Bei would live in peace for a while and would do nothing for the third or fourth year of Jian'an, rest with the people, govern conservatively, and not do anything extraordinary.
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But Liu Bei was obviously not the kind of person who liked a comfortable life as they thought.
In other words, Liu Bei also likes a comfortable life, but there are some conditions.
He is a person who can only be happy physically if his mind is happy. If his heart is unhappy, no matter how idle his body is, he will ultimately be unhappy.
The actions of Liangzhou, Sili and Bingzhou have come to an end, but slave restrictions have not been implemented in other places. There are still many, many slaves in other places working hard on the land of their slave owners!