"Have the Han family's food and goods been collected?"

"All of them have been confiscated and have been handed over to the chief clerk of Tian."

Liu He nodded and said, "Tell Mr. Tian, ​​and after counting, he will hand it over to the county government."

"Are the goods transferred to the county government?"

"I asked Mr. Tian to divide the wealth into two parts, one to the county government, leaving one as military funds."

The Han family is the top tyrant in Shanggu County and is rich. This time, the pursuit of the rioters was conquered. Sheng many wealth and goods were seized, and Liu He could not eat alone, so he sent half of it to Chen Ying. As for how Chen Ying divided it to the officials in the administrative system, such as the county magistrate Dou Hong, the chief magistrate Zhao Chang, etc., that was Chen Ying's business.

Xu Rong and others agreed.

"Although the rioters are determined, there are still thousands of refugees outside the county. The camp defense should not be relaxed. Bo Yu, Han Sheng, you two personally stay in the camp, Deran, Lu Da, you two assist the military advisor in arranging the city defense."

Everyone agreed and accepted the order to leave.

Liu He walked around the case and walked to the hall. He looked at the dense snowy sky with his hands behind his back. The miserable scene of thousands of chaotic people crossing the corpse of the road appeared in front of him. He closed his eyes, pressed down his compassion and whispered: "It's not because I want to kill you, it's because of the food shortage."

However, he also knew that this sentence was self-deception.

In Mencius, King Hui of Liang said to Mencius: "If I am in the country, I will be able to do my best. If I am in the wrong place, then I will move my people to Hedong and move my grain to Henoi; the same is true for Hedong. If I observe the policies of neighboring countries, there is no such thing as my intention. If I do not add more people to my neighboring countries, why don’t I increase more people? "

Mencius answered him a lot, and finally said, "If a person dies, he says, 'It's not me, it's the year." What's the difference between stabbing someone and killing him, saying, 'It's not me, it's the army.' The king is not guilty, and the people in the world are here." It means: When the famine is in the morning, the people starve to death, and they say, "It's not me, it's the year of hard work." What's the difference between this and killing someone with a knife and saying, "It's not me who killed him, it's the knife." If you don't blame Nian Cheng for starving to Nian Cheng, then the people of the world will submit to you.

Liu He has read this passage, so he knows that the four words "caused by food shortage" are actually a cover-up call.

He thought to himself, "But, although I am a 2,000-stone official, I am a military chief, and it is easy to talk outside the pass. The civil affairs of Shanggu cannot be controlled, and the military orders cannot be exported to Youzhou, so what can I do?"

Far away from the brazier in the hall, the cold snow in the yard was soaked into the bones.

He opened his eyes, watched the snow scene, and chanted softly: "The north wind is cool, and the rain is snowy." These two sentences are from "The Book of Songs - North Wind". On the surface, they describe wind and snow, but in fact they are metaphorical about the violent violence of the tyranny of the government, just like the cold power of the wind and snow. In the present Han court, eunuchs are everywhere in the palace and deceitful officials are everywhere. If you want to not hide your ears and steal the bells and want to "not guilty", you can only wash them out.

In recent years, there have been constant natural disasters in the empire. Only since today, since Zi ascended the throne, there have been dozens of earthquakes, including epidemics, floods, locust plagues, and Qiang people have been invading the border every year. In addition, people in various prefectures and counties have been in constant trouble, and the buildings are about to collapse, internal and external affairs are in trouble, and the court is already in short supply, and the treasury is empty. When Emperor Huan was in court, Chen Fan once said: "In today's world, there are three empty disasters." What is the three empty? The fields are empty, the court is empty, and the warehouse is empty. What's today? Two years ago, the emperor issued an edict to clearly mark the price and sell officials in the west garden. This is inherently the cause of greed and wealth accumulation, but it cannot be ruled out that the treasury is empty.

Chen Ying also had difficulties. Although the county magistrate had financial power, except for the provisions assigned to the county government for use, the rest should not be used without authorization. Relief from the people and poverty alleviation needs to be reported and can only be done after obtaining permission from the court. Even if he asked the court for instructions, he still supported his good governance. However, there is only so much food in the government treasury, and it cannot be taken out. What if it happens again in the disaster year? Only part of it can be taken out. This part is distributed to eight counties, and then each county will be distributed to each township under the rule. One county, dozens of townships, and how many can a township be divided into? Very few.

The next morning, Liu Bei and Zhao Chang were ordered to leave the city and travel to the counties within the county.

Zhao Chang was the chief minister of the county government, and his status was a little higher than that of the Liao Gongcao. Zhao Chang's carriage was in front and Liu Bei's carriage was behind. Their purpose of this trip to the county was to inspect the officials of the county government to see if there were any illegal things such as corruption. The accompanying them were also capable officials who were drawn from the county government and the general's cadres, and Jian Yong was among them.

Liu Xiu rode a horse in armor and led twenty spears and soldiers to walk around Liu Bei's carriage. Zhao Chang's carriage also had guards from the county government.

There were many cyclists and many instincts, with all kinds of characters, and almost eighty or ninety people.

Liu He came out to see Liu Bei off and sent them to the end outside the county gate.

Before leaving, Liu He held Liu Bei's hand and repeatedly told him to take care of the road. When traveling in the autumn wind, he should pay attention to keeping warm and try to add more meals: "You and Mr. Zhao inspected eight counties. You should know who should give to whom and who should not give to whom. A charter is established. Anyone with a big family, a family, and who have surplus grains are not allowed to borrow money. Make sure that the grain is lent to the poor households who really need it."

Relief is divided into two categories: one is relief, and is given free of charge; the other is loan, that is, fake loan, and the grain loan must be repaid in full or partially. "Fake food", fake means fake loan, which is lent to the people, and it still needs to be repaid after the harvest in the coming year. Although it has to be repaid, the conditions for "fake food" this time are very favorable. Chen Ying did a good job and did not need to repay all, only half of it is needed. In this way, it is very likely that a large household and a township official collude to get the grain that should be lent to the poor. If you buy a bucket of grain, you will pay half a bucket of food in the next year and earn half a bucket of money. - In previous years, such things are often caused.

Liu Bei replied: "No."

Zhao Chang was prejudiced to Liu He and always believed that he would invade Chen Ying's county power. Based on the idea of ​​"regardlessness and loyalty", he had almost no contact with Liu He. At this time, he got into the car early and did not answer with Liu He, as if he was "drawing a clear line".

Liu He looked at the grain truck loading, and then said to Liu Bei: "'High rats and rats, I have no food for my millet'. Today, there are many disasters in the four seas. Over the past ten years, the five prefectures have suffered two major epidemics, and the people have been in trouble, and the counties and counties are incomplete. You are a countryside, and you should know the affairs of the countryside, only one township in Zhuo County. How many people have died due to the disease and no food in recent years? Xuande, if any officials in the township dare to be a big rat, greedy for public and private, and make money for this, you should report it to me immediately. I will report it to the county and counties and behead him."

Liu He's words were heartfelt, and they were different from his previous ideas that won the hearts of the people.

In the past, when he was a white sandalwood, he also did things such as pension and widows, buying seedlings, vegetable seedlings for the people, etc., but those things were more for the sake of the city to be kind to the people, to be able to die for the people, and to "gather the crowd to save their lives."

Now, after hard work, he has been in a position of 2,000 stone, with more than 20,000 infantry and cavalry under his command. He has a little team in command of the defense of the northern border. Although "saving his life" is still the top priority, he is no longer as anxious as before.

Since he was not in a hurry, he had the heart to think about other things. In fact, since the end of last year, his thoughts began to change. While continuing to gather, he also began to pay attention to the people. People are not plants and trees, so who can be ruthless? Seeing that poor households in the village live in such a difficult situation, while the big households in the village, big surnames and rich households are all extravagant, all of whom are furious, and they are not ruthless. How could he not sigh for this that the world is unkind?

He had thought before that the people were living so hard, they could not keep warm, they could not fill their stomachs, and they had epidemics and disasters, and they were frequent and they were in danger. How could they not rebel? Anyway, it was a death, so why didn’t they die? As the folk songs said: “The hair is like a leek, cut back; the head is like a chicken, cut back and crow again. The officials do not need to be afraid, and the people should never be careless.” Instead of being hungry on the side of enlightenment, it is better to rebel and die.

If he put himself in the poor households, if it were him, he would have rebelled. On the one hand, he understood why the Yellow Turbans had caused trouble. On the other hand, he could not participate in it. The Yellow Turbans would be defeated. If he participated in it, he would seek death.

Recently, for some reason, he always remembered a sentence he learned in school in his previous life: "People are class-oriented, and every class has class interests." He was unclear because he had no feelings when he was in school. But now he has feelings and feelings. He is a "relative clan" and a "genius". The genius can love the people, but the genius and the people in Guizhou are by no means the same class.
Chapter completed!