Chapter 96: Killing chickens to scare monkeys (the sixth update broke out, please be the first to order!)
Gu Jiang is from Qixian County. When Cao Cao first conquered Xuzhou, he fled from his hometown and was lucky enough to avoid the butcher knife of Cao Jun. Live until now.
Gu Jiang had good luck since he was a child. When he grew up, under the arrangement of his parents, he married his mother-in-law and had a baby. He originally thought that his whole life would pass like this.
But Cao Jun’s bloodshed changed his world.
But judging from the results, he was still lucky. After all, not many people could escape from Qi County, not to mention that Gu Jiang still brought his family with him, and he was more successful in finding it in Tancheng County. Working alone, he could barely support his elderly father, wife and children.
When he learned that the new governor of Xuzhou, Liu Shijun, wanted to farm and gather households, Gu Jiang hesitated again and again, and finally quit his job as a laborer and chose to sign up.
After all, land is engraved in the bones of the Han people. For Gu Jiang, an opportunity to own land is worth everything.
Gu Jiang’s family consists of four, three adults and one child.
The Gu family who met the requirements were quickly notified that they had passed the requirements and were assigned to farmland in Xiangben County.
When Gu Jiang heard this, he was a little happy. After all, Xiangben is right next to Tancheng. If he is closer to Master Zhou Mu, he will always feel safer.
Gu Jiang was even more overjoyed when he heard that it was the son of Mr. Zhou Mu who personally escorted them.
If Mr. Zhou Mu is stationed in Xiangbi, there will be nothing to worry about.
On the third day of February, after a day's trek, Gu Jiang and his family came to Xiangben County under the escort of the prince of Zhou Mujia.
There are good houses for them to live in, and a meal of rice porridge is provided in the evening. Firewood and straw are actually prepared in the house for them to keep warm.
Gu Jiang felt that everything was so beautiful that he couldn't help but think of the beautiful scenery of cooking his own fields.
The next day, the officials under Lu Su began to walk through the streets and told them about the villages they had arranged.
Liu Feng specifically explained that everyone should be disrupted and the distribution should be staggered to avoid the situation where one surname dominates the village.
Lu Su implemented this very well, and Gu Jiang was quickly incorporated into Xishan Village.
This village is not far from the county seat. In fact, all villages are not far away now. After all, there are only so many people.
More than five hundred households were temporarily divided into ten villages, and two pavilions were set up, ten miles long.
Gu Jiang came to Xishan Village very smoothly and was assigned fields very smoothly. There were ten acres of paddy fields and twenty acres of irrigated land. Most of the remaining dry land was middle fields, with only ten acres of land. acres of fields.
This made Gu Jiang overjoyed. This is enough to pass down the family roots.
Prefecture government propaganda said that each household could be allocated 80 acres of land, but he didn't really believe it. He thought that being able to get half or even 30 acres was God's blessing.
I didn’t expect that what the state government said was so accurate, and there was no shortage at all.
No wonder people in the state capital say that the newly arrived Commander Liu is a good official. Not only did he defeat Cao Yanzhou who massacred Xuzhou people, he was also selfless and considerate of the common people.
Hearing that there was no food in the state capital, Liu Shijun insisted on borrowing food from wealthy men to give porridge.
Many victims said that without Ambassador Liu, they would have starved to death outside the city and fed wild animals.
Although Gu Jiang did not drink the life-saving porridge, he still had a good impression of Liu Shijun.
As a commoner, he has no power and power, so he can only wish Liu Shijun a long life and many children.
Soon, the promised seeds, grains, and farm tools were distributed, and even a thin quilt was given. As long as dry straw was stuffed inside, it was extremely warm.
Seeing that life was getting better day by day, Gu Jiang naturally felt indescribably beautiful.
But there was only one thing that gave him a headache.
This troublesome thing is his wife.
Gu Jiang’s wife’s original surname was Chen. After marrying Gu Jiang, she became the Gu Chen family.
This woman is good at everything. She is filial to her parents-in-law, considerate of her husband, and loves her children.
But the spirit is too small to suffer a loss.
Whenever someone takes advantage of you, it's like a thunderstorm, and you have to make a big fuss.
This time, the government released grain. It was originally agreed that a family like theirs would be given four and a half dan of grain every month, and two strong laborers would receive one and a half dan each. Gu Jiang’s father would give one dan. Give half a stone to the child.
This kind of food is enough for them to eat and have the strength to farm.
But when it was distributed, Gu Jiang and his family only received three stones and three buckets of food, and one stone of food was missing. , and the other two buckets were given to the officials who came to distribute the grain.
Without this little thing, it would be hard to get this food.
Gu Jiang is a little depressed, why doesn’t his wife understand this?
Look at the forty or fifty households in Xishan Village. Which one dares to cause trouble?
Didn’t everyone obediently pay the tax and just receive inadequate grain?
Although without the two buckets of food per stone, it is indeed not enough to eat.
It's freezing outside now, and there are no wild vegetables.
But at worst, I’ll just take one less bite.
Spring has not yet arrived anyway, and the farm work is not heavy. I can still cope with it by slowly digging into the ground.
When spring comes, there will be more wild vegetables. If you eat more wild vegetables then, you will be able to sustain food until the summer harvest.
But if you blather and anger the gentlemen, there will be no good fruit.
The whole family was killed silently because of the kindness of this gentleman.
While Gu Jiang was squatting at the door, drinking water slowly and thinking wildly, a dozen people came from a distance.
The leader is a young man with delicate and tender skin. He looks young, like a child of a wealthy family, but his clothes are quite ordinary.
After a long distance, the young master’s entourage shouted in this direction.
“Brother, can you ask for a bowl of water?”
There's nothing wrong with this.
Lao Gu stood up, waved to the other party, then went back to the house and filled up the water again.
Drinking cold water in this weather will definitely be too cold, and it is impossible for Lao Gu’s family to waste firewood just to drink hot water. It is for this reason that Lao Gu drank the water slowly just now, but it was actually too cold to drink. Go down.
Soon, the group of people came over, and Gu Chen didn’t say much now and hid in the house.
One of the men came over first and handed over a few copper coins: "Brother, I'm really not used to drinking cold water. Please give me a vat of hot tea."
Gu Jiang confiscated the money and replied with a smile: "It's just a few bowls of hot tea. If you don't want these, wait a minute and I'll ask my mother-in-law to light a fire right now."
Gu Chen inside also obviously heard what he said. There was no need for Gu Jiang to urge him, and he went straight to the kitchen to make a fire.
While waiting for hot water, I was just idle when someone came and started chatting with Gu Jiang.
When the topic of land allocation came up, the corners of Gu Jiang’s mouth turned up and he couldn’t hold it down no matter how hard he tried.
But the other party suddenly changed the subject and asked if the food was enough. He also said that the state capital had put in a lot of effort to provide them with sufficient food.
Gu Jiang was slightly startled, lowering his head and pretending not to hear.
Gu Jiang didn't say anything, but his mother-in-law couldn't help it and directly lifted the door curtain and walked out.
“We agreed on four stones and five buckets of grain, but we only got three stones and three buckets. There is no field to dig wild vegetables this winter, so we should eat less now, but when spring comes to work, we will not be able to serve when we are hungry. What a good field.”
“Three stones and three buckets?”
The young master became interested and asked curiously: “The state government clearly promised one and a half rations for each adult laborer. , the elderly and children over eight years old receive one stone ration, and the children under eight years old receive half a stone."
Gu Jiang glared at his mother-in-law, but she had already said what she said, and there was no point in covering it up now.
After hearing the young master's question, he could only nod with a grimace and said: "I gave you three stones and five buckets of grain. When receiving the grain, each family must wipe out the loss of two buckets."
The young master understands, isn’t this the Eastern Han Dynasty version of Piao Mei?
Yes, this young master is Liu Feng.
This time I left Xiangben County with Pan Zhang and several guards, just to visit various villages and ask about the distribution of land, food and various materials.
It's just that the situation is very unsatisfactory.
After visiting, it turns out that the village of Gujiang provides the best food.
A minimum of even prime-age labor can get one stone of grain, and non-prime-age labor can get no grain.
Even so, these people are still happy. Although they are also worried about whether they can handle the heavy farm work after spring, at least life seems to have hope.
It seems that the repeated orders from my father and I, as well as Zijing’s earnest teachings, are still not worth the temptation of money and goods.
Liu Feng had also thought before that with such a large distribution of supplies, there would inevitably be people who wanted to profit from it. This was inevitable. It's just that he always felt that after the state government paid such a heavy price and repeatedly warned these officials, it would have some effect, right?
But as a result, no one really took him and Liu Bei seriously.
Liu Feng's heart boiled with murderous intent, but with a smile on his face, he continued chatting with Gu Jiang's family. After the hot water boiled, he drank a bowl of tea and left ten copper coins before turning around and leaving.
After Liu Feng left, Gu Jiang couldn't help but want to blame his wife for talking too much: "What are you talking about? Aren't you afraid of bringing trouble to the family by talking too much?"
Gu Chen, who was still stubborn after hearing the word "disaster", suddenly became discouraged and muttered: "It's not that there is not enough food to eat. How can you resist when spring starts to work?"
Gu Jiang originally planned to scold him a few more times, but after hearing his wife's words of concern for him, he could only sigh bitterly.
On the other side, Liu Feng, who left, was ready to return to the county.
This time he came out and visited two nearby villages.
In addition to the eight villages he has visited before, as of today, Liu Feng has visited all the first ten villages.
As a result, only one village, Xiashan Village, received full ration subsidies.
Other than that, the best situation is that we just went to Xishan Village, where three stones and three buckets were given out, and the worst situation is Shuize Village, where only two stones were given out.
Such a result made him helpless, angry, and also a little bit bitterly relieved.
The reason Liu Feng was helpless was because the occurrence of these situations had long been expected by him, but it was difficult to avoid them. He could only watch it happen.
Therefore, at the beginning of the transfer, he specifically ordered to screen out some officials with relatively deep backgrounds and from big families in Xuzhou. Some petty officials with no background and poor backgrounds were specially selected.
Unfortunately, even though he knew how corrupt officials were in this era, he still gave many orders and even took the initiative to subsidize the salaries of these officials.
But the result still disappointed him. Even if he didn't want to kill anyone, he might have to go on a killing spree this time.
The only bit of relief is that the official from Xiashan Village finally has a person with a conscience.
After Liu Feng returned to Xiangben County, he went directly to Lu Su and told him about the situation.
Lu Su was immediately furious and wished he could kill all the thieves immediately.
Immediately, Lu Su prostrated himself on the ground and asked Liu Feng to plead guilty, saying: "It is Su's responsibility to farm the fields. Such a big case has occurred. The fault lies with Su. Please report it to Duke Mingming, so that Su can be dealt with together."
Liu Feng hurriedly stepped forward and helped Lu Su up: "Where did Mr. Zijing start from saying this? My father asked Mr. Zijing to take charge of the overall situation, and I am specifically responsible for Xiangben County. Not only are these officials I chose it, and the decentralization of food was also the process arranged by me. What does it have to do with my husband?"
Lu Su was very moved by Liu Feng's taking all the responsibility on himself.
But in fact, Liu Feng did not tell lies. This matter indeed had nothing to do with Lu Su.
Lu Su has neither transfer power nor prosecutorial power. How can he be held accountable?
In fact, this was Liu Feng's deliberate move. If the officials selected this time were all honest, then now would be the time for Liu Feng to come to Lu Su to hand over power.
But they disappointed Liu Feng, so what Liu Feng had to do next was to replace Lu Su as a villain and kill people to establish his authority.
I believe that with this batch of dead chickens, we should be able to scare the monkeys behind for a while.
"Mr. Zijing, please leave this matter to me. I will give you an explanation in a few days."
After Liu Feng comforted Lu Su, the topic suddenly Change: "By the way, during this visit, I found a good talent."
"This person's surname is Jin Mingrui, and he is the chief official of Tancheng County. He is responsible for the distribution of materials in Xiashan Village. As far as I know, this person is neither greedy nor embezzling. He distributes all the materials, and there is no additional loss during the transportation of materials. It can be said that A good official."
Lu Su nodded: "Okay, I already know this person, and Su will promote him as appropriate."
Lu Su had to say what he felt about Liu Feng's series of actions. Without displeasure, it is certainly unrealistic.
He is the real magistrate of Xiangben County awarded by Liu Bei, and he is also the military commander of the field.
The things Liu Feng did were all what he should have done. In fact, if Liu Feng hadn't taken away his powers, he would have gone down to investigate privately.
Just considering that Liu Feng had always respected him, and Liu Bei specifically arranged him to be here, it was natural that he had high regard and expectations for him.
In order to repay the Lord's trust, what does it mean to suffer a little injustice?
Lu Su's city is extremely deep, but what he thinks in his heart is not revealed at all on his face.
After all, this was a ruthless figure in the Xiangshui Alliance who was able to persuade Liu Bei to continue to maintain the alliance after successfully attacking the three counties in Jingnan.
In history, it was not Er Ye who went to the meeting alone, but Lu Su. He also spoke uprightly at the meeting and avoided a big battle between the two sides.
Although the final peace alliance relied on Liu Bei's concession to maintain the alliance, this was inseparable from Lu Su's strategic vision in urging Sun Quan to agree to peace talks and maintain the alliance.
You must know that Sun Quan already wanted to tear up the alliance and start a war, and Lü Meng was there to support him, but in the end both of them were persuaded by Lu Su, which shows how strong Lu Su's eloquence and vision are. .
In the end, the Sun and Liu families used the Xiang River as the dividing line, once again stabilized the Sun and Liu alliance, and fought against Cao together. The greatest contribution was undoubtedly made by Lu Su.
The same is a sneak attack, the same is a backstab.
Why did no one attack or insult Lu Su in history, but many people hated Lu Meng?
Here's why.
Because no matter what conflicts the two sides had before, even if it was Liu Bei's fault, then all problems should be resolved in the Xiangshui Alliance.
The covenant between the two parties was witnessed by Liu Bei and Sun Quan, and it is legally binding.
Of course, this does not mean that this covenant cannot be torn up, but if you tear up the Xiangshui Covenant with a sneak attack, you will definitely be on the pillar of shame.
Not to mention Lu Meng's short-sightedness, which made it impossible to see the emptiness of Cao Wei in the Yuzhou war zone at that time. His once again backstabbing completely shattered Soochow and Ji Han's last hope of overturning Cao Wei.
This shows Lu Su's city, mind, ability and vision.
Unfortunately, the person standing in front of Lu Su was Liu Feng.
He knew clearly that Lu Su must have opinions about himself.
Precisely because Lu Su is an extremely capable and talented person, such a person will not willingly let others erode his authority.
Even if this person is the son of the Lord.
But Liu Feng is not in a hurry. He will wait until he handles the matter and then return the power to Lu Su. I'm afraid that by then, Lu Zijing's face will look very good.
But now, it’s still important to do business.
"Wen Xiang, Wen Gui."
"My subordinates are here!"
Xu Sheng and Pan Zhang stood up.
Liu Feng ordered: "You two, take your warriors and capture all the officials except Xiashan Village."
"Yes!"
Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang obeyed the order, and then began to allocate his troops to separate operations.
At this time, Xiangben County was almost an empty city. Most of the farming households had dispersed. In addition to the garrison, only officials at all levels remained in the city.
“What are you doing!?”
"Come here, the Danyang army has rebelled!"
"I am a descendant of the Chen family, let me go, let me go!"
After a while, various noises came from the county government Shrilling curses, begging for mercy, and warnings.
But soon, these voices gathered in front of Liu Feng.
Nine chief officials, together with twenty-seven government officials, were tied up and sent to Liu Biao.
"Master, Master, what crime do we have?"
"Master, spare my life."
Liu Feng looked at these insects and nodded towards Xian Yulan and Zou Kai beside him.
During this period, he asked Saheli to transfer forty young men from Liuerying to prepare to participate in farm work and accumulate management experience.
Now it seems that it can just take the place of these worms.
Xian Yulan and Zou Kai are the most outstanding among this group of teenagers, and assume the responsibility of captain.
After seeing Liu Feng's actions, the two put the criminal evidence collected during this period in front of these officials.
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