Chapter 21 has other ideas
Of course, the huge Xuzhou cannot rely on Liu Bei’s military strength. In fact, there are another 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses in the state, but these soldiers and horses do not listen to Liu Bei, and They are also stationed in various counties, so Liu Bei doesn't have to worry about them for the time being.
Most of Liu Bei's less than 30,000 troops are infantry, which consumes less.
A soldier needs about two stones of food per month. If food is tight and you save a little, one and a half stones can be enough.
But if there is not even a stone, the soldiers will definitely be affected by hunger, which will affect their training, their combat effectiveness will decline, and they will feel resentful.
The consumption of horses is relatively large, about 3 to 5 infantry. Fortunately, Liu Beijun only has two or three hundred horses in total. Including the horses raised in the state capital, the total is less than 500, which is equivalent to the food of two thousand infantry. .
In addition, in Tan County, the food needed by officials at the state, county and county levels is almost 30,000 people.
In this case, even if the medium consumption is one and a half stones per person per month, it will take at least seven months for Liu Bei to persist until the summer harvest.
This man eats horse chews. Based on the consumption of 30,000 people, he needs at least 320,000 shi of grain.
In the measurement units of the Han Dynasty, there were big stones and small stones. A small stone was about three-fifths of a large stone, but the calculation here is based on big stones.
Liu Bei just said that there are still 400,000 shi of grain in the state and county treasury in Tan County. After deducting the bottom line of 320,000 shi of military rations, even if Liu Bei doesn't keep a grain of grain, he can only squeeze out 30,000 shi at most. .
With this small amount of food, both as seed and as rations, I am afraid that at most, we can only recruit a thousand people.
In Liu Bei's opinion, instead of making such a small fuss, it is better to keep 30,000 grains in hand, just in case.
Liu Bei's idea was absolutely right, but he didn't know how big Liu Feng's calculations and appetite were.
This time when he went to Mi's house, he had to get at least 100,000 shi of food and a million dollars of supplies to prepare for the lion's opening.
"Father, there's no rush now. We'll talk about it after I visit you."
Liu Feng kindly hid it from Liu Bei and didn't tell him his plans, otherwise he would be really worried that Big Ear Brother would be frightened to jump up and beat him. Own.
In order to change the topic, Liu Feng took the initiative to ask Liu Bei: "Father, what is the third thing?"
Liu Bei replied: "It is a matter of Xiangben County. What you suggested before My father’s cousin, Zilong, went to Chengxian, and the state minister went to Lanling. What should I do with Xiangben County?” A must pass.
If Xiangben County is cut off, Chengxian County and Lanling County will stand out and be cut off from Tancheng County.
Liu Bei continued: "Besides, you now suggest that my father should farm in Cheng County and Lanling County. However, Xiangben County is more important than these two counties. It is the gateway to the west of Tancheng County. Feng'er There shouldn't be any considerations, right? "
Of course Liu Feng has considerations, he is too thoughtful, because Xiangben County is basically the territory he wants to leave to himself for selfish purposes.
Liu Feng had already thought about it, and pushed Zhao Yun and Tian Yu to the front, while he retreated to Xiangben County, with Liu Bei's Tancheng at his back. He could advance, attack, retreat or defend, and he could be protected by Liu Bei's group at any time. , and being able to get rid of Liu Bei's interference is simply killing multiple birds with one stone.
But Liu Feng also knew that it would be very difficult for him to achieve this goal.
No matter how much Big Ear Brother values him now, respects his suggestions, and even takes the initiative to ask him for advice, he is only a ten-year-old child after all.
Not to mention in the officialdom, it is impossible to hand over the head of a county to an uncrowned child.
Don't say Liu Bei won't agree. Even if he agrees, there will only be one result, and that is to be turned into a pig's head by Chen Deng, Chen Qun and the others.
In fact, it was extremely difficult for the two county magistrates, Zhao Yun and Tian Yu, to come. It was the result of multiple coincidences.
In normal and peaceful times, the official position of county magistrate must be directly held by a talented person with Maocai status.
What is Maocai's role?
You can understand that there is only one provincial champion in a year. In peacetime, there were no state pastors, only state governors, and the state governor could recommend one to the court every year.
As for the county governor, we can only recommend Xiaolian.
Xiaolian is also closely related to the population. For every 200,000 people, only one can be recommended every year.
If the population is less than 200,000, the recommendation time will be extended.
For example, if there are 100,000 people, one can be recommended every two years, and if there are 50,000 people, it can take three years to recommend one.
You can imagine the dignity of this status.
But even Xiaolian needs to go to Luoyang to further his studies before he has the opportunity to be assigned to the county magistrate.
In most cases, if Xiaolian wants to be the chief official of a county, he must first be gilded in Luoyang and serve as an official in the Central Lang Department.
What are the identities of Zhao Yun and Tian Yu? They are really low-level scholars.
It completely borrowed the legacy of Cao Cao’s massacre of Xuzhou.
Cao Cao slaughtered all the local scholars in Xuzhou, leaving no grass growing, which greatly reduced the competition for Zhao Yun and Tian Yu.
Secondly, because of Cao Cao's massacre, Chengxian and Lanling counties were in a mess, and they were also very dangerous.
To put it bluntly, these two places are now overrun with wild beasts and bandits, and the people are in dire straits, not to mention no one knows when Cao Cao will come over again and kill them again.
Even if the scholars of this era were not rotten to the core, few would compete with Zhao Yun and Tian Yu for these two county magistrates.
It is also because of this that high-ranking nobles such as Chen Deng, Chen Qun, and Mi Zhu raised their hands and did not object to Liu Bei's appointment of Zhao Yun and Tian Yu.
If you change to a place that has not suffered from Cao Cao's military disaster, you can give it a try.
Even if Chen Yuanlong becomes friends with Liu Bei again, he will definitely oppose it, and in Chen Deng’s heart, what he objects to is still your Liu Bei’s chaos. The more fierce his opposition, the more it reflects his love for you. Liu Bei's loyalty.
Therefore, Liu Feng had already made plans for a backdoor listing.
He planned to select one of the several scholars to be the county magistrate.
Liu Feng's first plan was to let Lu Su be the county magistrate, but later he discovered that if Lu Su was to be the county magistrate, Liu Bei would probably let Chen Deng also serve as the captain of the Diannong school.
Because in Xuzhou during the Tao Qian era, Chen Deng once served as the Diannong captain and promoted farming in Xuzhou with great success.
When Chen Dengdeng took office, he "inspected the soil and fields and made full use of the benefits of irrigation", which restored and developed Xuzhou's agricultural production, harvested "abundant japonica rice", made the people rich, and the grains were abundant and the warehouses were full.
Unfortunately, this also stimulated Tao Qian's ambition, causing him to alienate capable scholars such as Chen Deng and Zhao Yu, and reuse trusted villains such as Cao Hong to provoke provocations on all sides. Although at the beginning He took some advantages, but in the end he lost miserably and died of illness in panic.
Faced with Liu Bei's question, Liu Feng replied with an upright face: "Father, because Xiangben County is located in a strategic location and is the gateway to Tancheng County, you must be extremely careful in hiring people. I kindly ask my father to put it aside for a few days. It is better to be short than to waste." , we can’t act too hastily.”
Liu Bei glanced at Liu Feng and nodded: “Okay, Yuanlong and the others also said they would discuss it after a year. For now, they are just gathering the refugees and persuading the rich to provide food relief. The victims were already so busy that they really couldn't care about it for a while."
After that, Liu Bei pointed to his head, closed his eyes and said, "Feng'er's technique just now was really good. I’ll press it on my father for a while longer.”
Liu Feng was murmuring. Could it be that Brother Big Ear saw that he had other plans?
But despite all the murmurs, the man still started massaging Big Ear Brother honestly.
(End of this chapter)