Chapter 59: Duckweed

Yan Bei did not get angry as Sima Lang thought, because he knew that everything Sima Lang said was true, and he didn't want to change the current situation of the people starving and cold, but this matter was difficult to achieve in the short term.

It is only now that the ills of the people who have moved in have become apparent, and they are unprepared. In the past, there were too few households in Liaodong, so he spared no effort to migrate the displaced people to Liaodong and vigorously reclaimed wasteland. Now that the wasteland has been reclaimed, he has even handed over half of the land to the county government for distribution, but there are still great obstacles.

There are simply not enough fields.

This was unimaginable in the past, in the past few years, Liaodong reclaimed tens of thousands of hectares of land, from felling wood to build houses to weeding and opening up fields, has formed an effective reclamation method, but when he handed over to the county government to allocate more than 6,000 hectares of land, it still could not be distributed to the displaced people.

The disadvantages of reckless militarism are extremely clear.

Over the years, he has fought four battles, and his subordinates have lost more than 10,000 soldiers? There are so many family members who need to be supported, and the thousands of dollars as a pension are simply not enough to feed five or more orphans, but his soldiers still have to continue to recruit, so he must dispel his scruples about the aftermath of the soldiers; How many 10,000 people have meritorious service in the battle array? As soon as the land was handed over to the county government, it was distributed in a few decades at a very fast pace, and even the condolences to those who died in the war were not at all heavy.

A human life is only to give his family twenty or thirty acres of land.

This is the reason why Sima Lang said that the state and county were full of warehouses and the people were still starving to death, so he could only take out food or recruit the refugees to build bridges and roads, and take rewards and food to feed them...... But the canals and roads will not be built forever.

After all, it is not a long-term solution.

"Berda, sit down." Yan Bei felt amused when he saw Sima Lang's appearance of always being ready to argue with reason, and couldn't help but beckon him to sit aside, and then said to Sima Lang: "Do you know what Liaodong County has always looked like?" When Yan was young, there were 70,000 households and more than 1,000 county soldiers, just like Xiangping, but there were only 300 garrisons. At that time, Goguryeo was often on the border of Kou, and the county soldiers could not be royal, and every year it was omitted by Donghu, and the Haoqiang clan had to flee into the mountains with their slaves...... Now there are 1780,000 people in Liaodong, even if there are many years of war, there are still 20,000 soldiers who can fight. ”

"Although, Yan still can't feed these 1780,000 people." Yan Bei's words were a little low, but in a blink of an eye, he said highly: "But Liaodong County, Liaodong County can now feed 122300000, much better than before, maybe Liaodong will never be able to feed 200,000 people, but Yan now has more than one Liaodong County." There are also Lelang, Xuansu, Liaoxi, and there will be Youbeiping and Yuyang in the future! Yan can always feed everyone! ”

Yan Bei doesn't care if it's good or bad now, it's his responsibility but it's not his fault, even if there is no Yan Zhongqing, can those who will die survive? No, even without him, no one would be better off than they are now, only more people will die.

He only cares about what is better now than before, and good is really good.

Sima Lang's face was incomprehensible, he didn't know what gave Yanbei confidence, and it seemed that there was nothing difficult in the eyes of the young General Duliao. In his opinion, Liaodong County is like a mess, the people are getting poorer and poorer, but the county government is unable to support it, even if this kind of thing is frustrated and so talented, it can only be helpless, but in the eyes of General Duliao, it doesn't seem to be too much of a problem.

Especially Yan Bei's reaction, it seems that he knows everything he said, and he just accepted it so plainly?

"General, do you know those things?"

"As you think in your heart, Liaodong County is indeed Yan's Liaodong County, don't you know the poisonous sores behind it?" Yan Bei stretched his hand and stroked the mountains and rivers in the distance, "Liaodong is like Yan's hands and feet, the people's suffering is like cutting my skin, how can Yan not know?" Dong Zhongying died at the hands of Prince Bingzhou and Lu Fengxian, do you know? ”

Sima Lang nodded and said: "I already know from the merchants that the prince ordered to punish all the people of Liangzhou, and he is just another Dong Zhongying." ”

Power is like the most bewitching beauty in the world, leading people into the abyss; It will also turn into the most ferocious beast, and choose people to devour. Dong Zhuo was not the first person to die because of this, and he was by no means the last.

But when is your turn?

Sima Lang looked at Yan Bei, who had an ordinary face, and thought in surprise, he really couldn't think of why Yan Bei, who was born recklessly, didn't seem to have any greed for power. He can't see through Yanbei, but what he thinks in his heart will be seen through by Yanbei. As he said, Liaodong is his, Xuansu, Lelang, and Liaoxi are also his, and there will even be Yuyang and Youbeiping in the future, but he never seems to have firmly grasped these powers in his hands.

He is not like Dong Zhuo, who administers affairs with military power, and his political affairs are handed over to Taishou to do, but everyone knows that he is the master.

This point is very powerful in Sima Lang's eyes.

"I heard that the state is engaged in the joint promotion of the general as the pastor of Youzhou, but the general does not seem to be proud of it."

"Wang Zishi can't be Dong Zhongying, he is dead." Yan Bei said cruel words as usual, which was shocking, and said: "Li Dao, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji gathered troops in Chang'an and besieged them for two months. Lu Bu fled to Nanyang, Wang Yun fell from the building and died, and now Li Dao and Guo Yan, who are now in charge of the government, hum, Guo Aduo have become chariot generals...... Does Berta think the state pastor is so easy to do? It's only because Yan didn't save Liu Gong's life, otherwise Youzhou would not be happy to this point! ”

Sima Lang Wenyan was even more hesitant in his heart, Li Dao Guo Yan was not as good as Wang Yun in power, at least Wang Yun was still a scholar, so he was afraid that Hanoi Wen County would still be chaotic, and he would not be able to return to his hometown. On the other hand, the second half of Yan Bei's sentence also surprised him, listening to Yan Bei's meaning, Liu Yu was not killed by him?

Now it is rumored in Youzhou that the person who killed Liu Yu must be one of Yanbei, Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zhan. Now that Gongsun Zhan has conquered Zhuojun and defeated Jixian, it seems that there are many suspicions, and Yanbei is sitting in Liaodong, but he can reap the biggest profit after Liu Yu's death, and it is difficult to escape the involvement, but Yuan Shao looks very aggrieved.

"They recommended Yan Mou, just because their county soldiers alone may not be able to stop Gongsun Zhan, not to mention that others are state pastors, who has the benevolence and virtue of Liu Gong to control Yan? They don't have that kind of virtue. Yan Bei glanced at Sima Lang slowly, this young man who was three years younger than him could see the problem of Liaodong, and he was talented and learned, but he was too angry and not like the son of Jiangmen. Yan Bei said: "If there is still a happy land today, the north, Xiliang, the Central Plains, and the south of the Yangtze River, there are wars everywhere, the world is in chaos, you and I are just duckweed." ”

"Li Guo is in power, the Central Plains is even more chaotic, you Sima clan can't go back in the short term, it's better to go out in Youzhou, I'm willing to ask for Xiangping Order, how about it?" Yan Bei waved his hand and said: "Yan knows that you are busy teaching your younger brothers at home, but it is better to let the Confucianism of Liaodong Academy do better teaching, what do you say?" I heard that your second brother is smart, although he is only twelve, he can help you teach your younger brothers, if he wants, he can also follow the county officials, your Sima brothers always want to be officials, it is better to be earlier, what do you think? ”