Wang Lie asked Yanbei what he thought about governing the land of Liaodong?

This is not a chicken and a duck, what long-term ideas can Yanbei have, take a step at a time. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info But since even the sage who was praised and admired by the frustrated professor, and the elder who was highly respected, Yan Bei naturally could only reply stubbornly: "Actually, Yan has no idea, Liaodong is a good place, but you must also know the current situation of the elders...... Waiting for rejuvenation, Qianshou is poor, and all Yan can do is to restrain the soldiers and prevent them from interfering with the lives of the people. ”

Wang Lie took a deep breath with a smile, as if he had thought that Yan Bei would say this. Who doesn't know that Yanbei is now the recognized overlord of Liaodong in Youzhou, and Taishou is his subordinate, but he didn't expect Yanbei to really care about the face of the frustrated professor so much, he nodded and responded: "It's good that the general can restrain the soldiers, but the old man sees that what the general wants to do is not just to restrain the soldiers, you built a water village in Wenxian County to appease the Qingzhou refugees, opened a salt field to place salt officials, and even reopened the mines in Anping Township, and assigned the army to run rampant in the county...... But you didn't have a salt and iron tax officer, so you didn't plan to pay taxes to the state capital, did you? ”

Wang Lie had already held back these words, and in his opinion, it was not like a false surrender to Yanbei to reattach to the Han land, so he tried his best to use these gentle ways that might touch Yanbei's tiger whiskers to remind him not to be suspicious by the state capital, otherwise the road left for him in the future would not be wide.

"Haha! Let the elder say yes. What Wang Lie and Bing Yuan didn't expect was that Yan Bei actually admitted it generously, nodded and said: "It's not a secret, Yan opened salt wells and dug mines, all he did was just a money word." Naturally, these taxes will not be handed over to the state capital, and the profits from salt and iron will be used to raise soldiers and the county government for its own use. ”

Bing Yuan wanted to speak, but he opened his mouth but didn't say it, but just looked at Yan Bei with a little unhappiness, as if he wanted him to explain; And Wang Lie was much more straightforward, and asked gently: "Why does the general plan to do this, your military might is second to none in Youzhou, if you blindly strengthen the army and do not cultivate virtue, isn't it short-sighted?" The old man would like to hear about it. ”

"Wangjun, this is ......"

Frustrated Zhu wanted to defend Yan Bei, but Yan Bei raised his hand and pressed down, and then arched his hand and said: "The elders ask each other, and they will not hide it in the future." This is not short-sighted, it has to be! You also said that Yan has some soldiers, and people eat and eat horses and chew hundreds of stones a day, if Yan has no money and food, how can he restrain the soldiers not to compete for the people's goods. ”

For Yanbei, it is already a rare move to be able to restrain many generals and tens of thousands of soldiers under him. This is also thanks to his thin family background, more than a dozen Yellow Turban remnants and nearly a thousand Black Mountain bandits, in addition to the majority of their troops are county soldiers from all over Jizhou, and then there are Han'er slaves who were exchanged from the Wuhuan people during the Erzhang Rebellion...... It is precisely because these people account for the majority that he only needs to manage these people not to go hungry, so that he will not harass the people.

General Yan didn't kill people often, but the soldiers who participated in the siege of Handan in the early years all remembered that on the day the city was broken, Yan Bei used a knife to kill a meritorious pawn who bullied the people.

Bing Yuan did not remain silent this time, and said after bowing his hand slightly: "Since Your Excellency has returned to the Han family, the county soldiers should also be reduced as appropriate, if you disperse the soldiers and horses, how can you still have the pain of money and food?" ”

Yan Bei smiled bitterly, there are so many enemies in the enemy, what do you use to scare people when you disperse the soldiers and horses? Of course, he couldn't say this to Bing Yuan, so he had to make an excuse and say: "In the past, Chen Sheng had a villager Zeng Yun, don't forget the wealth and wealth...... The soldier Gong Weiyan returned to the Han Dynasty, how could he disperse the soldiers and chill the hearts of the people now? What's more, under Yan, they are soldiers, and they can still provide food and drink. If there is no Yan, it is difficult to return to Jizhou due to the impassable road, and in the end I am afraid that I will be a bandit and a thief, if this is the case in the future, then whose sin is it? ”

Saying that, Yan Bei suddenly understood the meaning of what these two people were saying, and the detective continued: "I'm afraid that the two elders don't know, although Liaodong County belongs to the state capital, but the state capital has been short of resources recently, and it is also powerful to the officials and soldiers and horses in Liaodong...... Yan could only try his best to share Liu Gong's worries, so he had to rely on the benefits of salt and iron in the county, which is also the reason why there was no tax official in the county, and the salt and iron were all bought and sold by the county. ”

As soon as they said this, Wang Lie and Bing Yuan understood. If the state capital does not allocate money to the county to transport grain, the gap in Liaodong County is really not small! Not to mention anything else, a rough calculation does not mention raising soldiers, just now the officials of Liaodong County need 40,000 stone of grain and grass a year, even if it is half a penny and half a grain, it will cost 20,000 stone of grain and 5 million yuan.

If you count the raising of soldiers, Yanbei, who really rules a county in eastern Liaodong, not only cannot enjoy the life of a county chief, but also has to paste 50,000 or 60,000 stone grain and grass and tens of millions of money into it every year.

Bing Yuan was helpless for a while, but he had nothing to say, "This, this ......"

What really surprised Wang Liebing Yuan was not that Yanbei was burdened with a huge gap in money and food, but that Yanbei was burdened with such a large gap in money and food, but all he made long-term plans and never interfered with the lives of ordinary people in Liaodong.

They had been in Liaodong for a while, and they saw that the county government had ordered the county governments to measure the land, and later dispersed the soldiers and horses to garrison various places, and every few days there were carts and horses transporting agricultural tools to and from various places, obviously to open up wasteland and reclaim land, and then to dig mines, expand salt ponds and shake salt and iron. Even if you look at it smaller, the counties in various places have urged the people to farm and raise mulberry, which has some results.

Although at times this method of encouragement was somewhat arbitrary.

As far as Sun Qing and Chen Zuo were to kill the Han as county orders, the password of the main family Yanbei and the official seal of Tai Shou were pressed, and they naturally had to carry it out. But who can expect these few people who only know bows, horses, and long knives to do any good things? He sent troops to keep an eye on the peasants and cultivate their own land.

I heard that in Wenxian County, there were even soldiers and horses under Sun Qing who injured the people because they were lazy by nature and unwilling to plow the land...... Who is in the way of people not cultivating their own land?

But these days when Yanbei is in Liaodong, money and food are so difficult. He did not set up a false name to extort miscellaneous taxes, and neither the rebels before the annexation nor the Han army after the annexation never instructed the soldiers to set up arson and rob the people. Even his soldiers and horses had never seen anything like this anywhere.

Wang Lie originally saw that Yan Bei, who was covered in dirt, was still a little contemptuous in his heart, but his gaze at him at this time was a little complicated, and he asked: "Your Excellency has thousands of soldiers, and you have never harmed the people with money and food, but you can afford to be the general of Liaodong Yan in people's mouths!" But I don't know who you studied from? ”

As soon as these words came out, Bing Yuan was also curious. None of them have heard of Yan Bei's disciple, people say that General Yan of Liaodong used to be a slave-born Liaodong cub, but a slave-born cub can govern the land of a county without learning, and he can command all the soldiers?

Not to mention the slave, even if he is an ordinary Qiantou, how much insight does he have in his head?

There were so many people in the Han Dynasty, why did they rely on the upper and lower inspections to select officials? On the one hand, the talents who can be observed by the imperial court must have a great reputation and talent, and they can restrain the people with moral conduct; On the other hand, if they are recommended by the local government, they will naturally have a large voice in the county, so that they can better control the people after taking office.

"I can't hide it, I was taught "Urgent Chapter" by Zhongshan Zhen's brother in Xia, and after becoming literate, I read Ban Dingyuan's "Book of Han", the "Seven Strategies" of Liu Zijun, a Confucian scholar in the early Han Dynasty, and the twelve articles of "Sun Wuzi" and some military books." Yan Bei thought about the books he had read before, and added, "I am currently reading "Huainan Honglie" by King Huainan of the Han Dynasty, but it is obscure and too broad, I am afraid it will take a long time to read it." ”

Wang Lie nodded, just by Yan Bei's experience of studying, he could see how much effort a son of a man slave had put into gaining the knowledge to reach the upper ranks. The books Yan Bei read were inclusive, but he did not delve into any of the military, politics, history, and Confucianism, but dabbled in too wide and too miscellaneous...... Obviously, he obtained these books by chance, and it was difficult for him to study them in a way that is common to the scholarly class today.

After listening to Yanbei, Wang Lie stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Your Excellency is no less difficult to learn the Tao than to learn from the roots." ”

Bing Yuan also nodded secretly on the side, after seeing Yanbei, he had a lot of good feelings for this person. Yanbei is not like an ordinary vulgar martial artist, although he is in turmoil, he does not forget to learn, and he is more sympathetic to the people, and it is indeed in vain that people call him a general.

Seeing Yan Bei's puzzled face about the 'root moment crying learning', Wang Lie said: "When the root moment was young, his family was poor, and he lost his parents. There is a village school next door to his house, and he always cries when he passes by the school. Mr. Xiangzhong asked him, "What is the sorrow of a child?" He replied, "Orphans are vulnerable to injury, and poverty is susceptible." Those who study must be people who have both father and brother, one is envious that they have not become orphans, and the other is envious that they can learn, and their hearts are sad, so they shed tears. Because he said this, Mr. Xiangzhong later accepted him as a disciple, and later traveled to study in many ways to have today's knowledge. ”

When Yan Bei heard this, he hugged his fist at Bing Yuan, and he also felt a sense of being there. They are all orphans, but he had his brother with him in his early years, so he was happier than Bing Yuan.

Seeing that they understood each other about the same, and because he felt that these two had no ill feelings towards him, Yan Bei said with some caution: "Now that the two sages have arrived in Liaodong, can a certain generation of people invite you two to serve as the scholar Peng and the county Peng's sacrificial wine...... The county school, county school, and township school in the county are resting, and Yan also hopes that more people can get the opportunity to learn, so please don't shirk! ”

Xueguan Peng and Junpeng sacrificial wine are both official positions in charge of education in the county, one is in charge of education and the other is the chief official of the county school.

After talking about the official position, Yan Bei didn't wait for the two to answer, and then said to the two of them and then to Bing Yuan: "If you two are willing to stay and educate the people, Yan is willing to take out millions of dollars from private wealth every year to provide poor children like you when you were young to study, and provide them with food, clothing, housing and transportation and study tours after graduation." ”

The more children in the county have the opportunity to be educated, the more talents there will be, in addition to Yanbei's selfishness...... He also hopes that more children who want to study but have no resources like he did when he was a child can change the fate of poverty without such violent means!