Liu Mang's plan to recruit people was carried out after his order to collect land was issued, but the result was not so satisfactory.

Where are the closest places to Shouchun? One is Si and the other is the food. After the difficulty is Pengcheng, these three places belong to Cao Cao. When Cao Cao attacked Tao Qian, he fought on the Si Shui River, which led to Si Shui not leaving it. Not only did Tao Qian's army retreat and retreat to Pengcheng to defend, Lao Cao's own troops also suffered a lot of casualties. In anger, Lao Cao directly left the radius of a hundred miles near Si Shui.

Even if Cao Cao assigned personnel to enrich Xuzhou later, it would not be possible to do it in a day or two. Therefore, the Xuzhou generation could not gather a few people, and two thousand people came to Shouchun City to wait for the distribution of Liu Mang's army. Could it be that there were nearly three thousand people on the way?

The Ruyin of Yingshang was directly detained by Liu Paopao, and the same was Sun Ce from Jiangdong. Only with the population could the army develop. If all the people ran away, what would he take to farm? Cao Cao was unintentionally taken care of. Now he fought with Yuan Shao in a hot battle. He killed Yuan Shao's 100,000 naval troops. Now Yuan Shao has only 150,000 troops left. Old Cao has 40,000 troops to protect one Guandu and can still persist, at least there has been a great improvement in food and grass. He could only last for two or three months, but now it can be delayed for half a year.

"It's just a few thousand people! How enough!" Liu Mang frowned. What he needed was a large population so that he could maintain the war potential of the Lu Bu army in the future. He was not afraid of starving to death, because it had the effect of sweet potatoes, even if he could use Yangzhou to raise most of the population in the world.

"Lord, it's not that the subordinates are not trying their best. But the princes from all sides are blocking the arrival of the people, so it is difficult to meet the standards!" Below was Liu Neng. He gave all the gold and money that belonged to their Liu family to the family who died in battle. Liu Mang saw it in his eyes but remembered it in his heart. As soon as Liu Neng came back, Liu Mang appointed him and asked him to be responsible for the migration of the population.

"The obstruction of all princes?!" Liu Mang was really a little troubled. In the early stages of troubled times, he regarded human life as grass. Even a dog's life is worth more than humans, so it is normal for corpses to be everywhere. The Yellow Turban Rebellion even brought millions of people to conquer cities and land, and countless casualties were killed or injured. It should be said that the people who were wrapped in the Yellow Turban Army were defeated by the government army. The official army, regardless of whether you are a Yellow Turban thief or not, will kill them directly. After the killing, they will be rewarded by the heads. So that period was really hell on earth.

Later, due to the constant wars, all the princes received the taxes under their jurisdiction to the extreme. There were still many places where there were deserted and the grain output was seriously insufficient, and the people could not even have enough food and clothing. Once a famine occurred, a large number of hungry refugees flocked to major cities. In order to avoid chaos in their own rule, those princes drove out these hungry people at the least, and sent troops to kill them at the worst. They were all about driving these hungry people out of their own rule.

Now, there were only a few people left in the eighteen princes, so the princes began to slowly care about the people. Because of the people, you can have someone to farm for you. Originally, before the chaos in the world, the entire Han Dynasty had 40 million people. Now, there were probably less than half of them, and a lot of air and fertile fields were empty, so the gentry and princes began to care about the people again. This is why Liu Neng was responsible for only thousands of people surrendered in these days. Those princes would not easily let their people leave their base!

"Hmph, they thought they could stop it!" Liu Mang snorted coldly. Population is a big problem. If it is not solved, I am afraid that the Lu Bu army will have to be defeated, because the entire Lujiang River has a population of more than 100,000. In this way, even if the whole people have soldiers, there will be only more than 100,000 soldiers. No matter how good the tactics are, the weapons are excellent. In this era of cold weapons, people will be piled up to death.

You should know that Sun Ce has a population of nearly two million under his command in Jiangdong. This is why Sun Ce would not feel too distressed even if he lost a 100,000 army. However, the loss of the 30,000 main force made Sun Ce feel heartbroken for a while, and the 100,000 army was able to be pulled out again after half a year of training.

The three prefectures in Hebei, Yuan Shao’s Jizhou Youzhou Bingzhou, Bingzhou and Youzhou have a smaller population, which is only one million, but Jizhou has a large population, with a total of more than four million, so Yuan Shao could have an army of 300,000. If it were not Cao Cao but Lu Bu’s army to fight against Yuan Shao in Guandu now, he would have been beaten to the point where he would not even have a scumbag left.

Cao Cao's Yanzhou, half of Yuzhou, plus the entire Xuzhou, also has a population of more than three million, mainly concentrated in Yanzhou. Half of Yuzhou has a population of less than one million, Yanzhou has about one million, and Xuzhou is also Xuzhou. During the highest period of Xuzhou, it had a population of three million, but in many years, Cao Cao defeated Tao Qian, Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Lu Bu beat Liu Bei, and Liu Bei beat Cao Cao again. In this way, there were only 500,000 and 600,000 troops left in Xuzhou.

The largest population belongs to Jingzhou. There is a population of five million in one state. Jingzhou is very rich. After all, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, no prince has ever fought in the hinterland of Jingzhou. Even if the little overlord in Jiangdong is strong, he is stuck in Jiangxia and cannot move. Many gentry and people in the Central Plains have taken refuge in Jingzhou. Therefore, Jingzhou is really prosperous now. This is why Cai Mao was able to withdraw 300,000 naval troops when Cao Cao went to Jingzhou in the late Three Kingdoms period.

Liu Zhang in Yizhou also has a large population, with Shuchuan. Although there are many mountains, it is also a natural barrier. The wars are not too raging in Yizhou. Chengdu Hanzhong is even more famous for the world's granary. However, Hanzhong is now in Zhang Lu's hands. If the two are united, they will have a population of about three million.

Next, the most populous ones were the generation of Xiliang and the generation of Liaoxi. Ma Teng and Han Sui were present in Xiliang. The Qiang and Han people in Tianshui in Wu'an also lived in nearly one million people. The reason why Xiliang is strong is that the people and Qiang people there are fighting every year, and almost all the people are soldiers. This is how tens of thousands of cavalrymen are everywhere. Gongsundu in western Liaoning has Liaodong next to it. If Goguryeo can also make up a million people, it is Liu Paopao again. Liu Paopao occupied Runan. Runan is close to Xudu. It is also half of Yuzhou. Cao Cao indirectly helped Liu Paopao.

Running out makes the population of Yuzhou more than 300,000. In addition, Liu Paopao brought about about 500,000 from Xuzhou. The poorest people are probably Lu Bu's army, Wancheng Zhang Xiu, and Zhili area. Zhili was because of the war every year. From the eighteen princes meeting Hulao Pass and Dong Zhuo's battle, Dong Zhuo burned the entire Luoyang with a fire. After Dong Zhuo's death, Li Jue and Guo Si joined forces to fight Lu Bu, beat Wang Yun, and killed Wang Yun and drove away Lu Bu and started an internal fight. It can be said that the generation of Luoyang Chang'an has been completely beaten and destroyed. It would be good to have a population of 200,000!

Zhang Xiu, the people in Wancheng, originally occupied a city, and they didn't care much. Their original plan was to wait for a price. He had 20,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry and 10,000 invaders in his hand, and he was going to see which boss he would follow. He thought it was Cao Cao, but who made Cao Cao have an affair with his aunt!

Finally, there is Lu Bu's army. Lujiang County has a population of more than 100,000, but it is already the best for Shouchun generation to have 20,000 or 30,000 people. Who made an emperor Yuan here? He levyed heavily and received taxes for decades. Only when the people could survive would there be ghosts.

The population of Shouchun is still the families of Danyang soldiers brought by Liu Mang and the families of craftsmen. The population problem is imminent.

Now, if you want to get a large population, there are only two ways. The first is to send troops to rob. Just like those foreign tribes entering the Central Plains to rob, they send troops to rob the areas of the major princes. The Cao Cao and Liu Bei are all areas that can be robbed. Because Sun Ce in Jiangdong is difficult to rob, Jingzhou Liu Biao is only Xinye Yiyang and Zaoyang, which are all places that can be robbed, but now there is a serious problem!

Lao Cao is carrying Yuan Shao in Guandu. You go and rob Lao Cao, don’t make Lao Cao angry and come back to fight desperately. Sun Ce from Jiangdong has just quit with him. Even if he fights, he will have to wait for a while. After all, Liu Mang’s army now has no naval army. Liu Biao in Jingzhou was like the same honeymoon as Lu Bu’s army some time ago. Just fight like this! Only with Liu Bei can bully him, but there is one problem, that is, Liu Bei has a lot of troops, and it is difficult to attack through the Huai River. The most important thing is that there are a lot of new soldiers under Liu Mang’s army, and even if they fight, they will not be easy. Now Liu Mang needs rest and rest. There is no benefit in starting a war. Otherwise, the little turkey will be played, according to Liu Mang’s previous temper, which will be fought long ago.

Then we can only use the second method to improve welfare and increase the welfare of the people in Shouchun generation to a certain extent. Humans die of wealth and birds die of food. As long as they can survive in Shouchun and live better, who would be willing to stay where they are waiting for exploitation?

"Liu Neng, please continue to publish it for me. As long as you come to my Liu Mang army, all the people will reward fertile land with two acres of farming for more than three years and then belong to the people. The tax will be collected. If someone opens up land, the wastelands that are opened will help our army cultivate for five years. After five years, all these fertile land will belong to the people as before!" Liu Mang said to Liu Neng. "By the way, the tax on the fields of those soldiers who were rewarded will become 20%. "Liu Mang cannot favor one or the other.

"Two acres of fertile land?" Liu Neng was also settled the score. If Liu Mang said this, then the family would calculate it as a family of five, one child, four adults, that is nine acres of land, nine acres of land, and 30% of the tax burden would be that there would be six acres of land left. Six acres of fertile land is really a considerable amount of property.

But what should we do if the entire army's expenses are reduced like this? The army not only needs food and grass but also salary, but it only depends on a tax burden of 30% to drink the northwest wind. Even fertile land is only 400 kilograms a year, and one acre of land can only be one stone, which can only be enough to maintain the army's food and drink, and other expenses, such as river embankments, roads and bridges, and disaster relief. If there is no surplus grain, that's a big deal.

"Is this too high for lord?"

"You are not at ease when I do things! As long as you plant the fruits I bring, the yield per acre of land will definitely not be less than 2,000 kilograms." Liu Mang revealed a number to Liu Neng. This number was originally said to Xu Shu, Liu Ye and others, because Liu Mang was not sure.

"What!" Liu Neng's eyes suddenly widened, two thousand kilograms, what kind of figure is this? Even during the bumper harvest, it is at most less than five hundred kilograms. If taxes are included, it is basically difficult for a person to eat enough, while Liu Mang opened his mouth to two thousand kilograms. What is this concept? Why did ancient people have a high birth rate? The family raised seven or eight kids but did not plan for family planning, but even if they were tens of millions, it was less than sixty million. That was because of the food problem. People were not full at all. If they were not full, they would naturally starve to death. The birth rate was high, and the mortality rate was even higher. Later, the population of China reached 100 million for thousands of years, 200 million for hundreds or nearly a hundred years, 300 million for about 40 years, and 400 million for about 300 million for about 300 million. This period was because of the problem of food solved. The first time to solve the problem of food was that these high-yield vegetation, such as sweet potato and wheat, were introduced to China, which led to the population growing.

The second time was Yuan Dada's hybrid rice. He directly solved the problem of eating for more than one billion people. You asked Liu Mang why he didn't bring the hybrid rice back. There is a reason. This kind of thing can only be planted for one phase, and it will be re-produced after the planting is completed. How can it be possible with the scientific level of the late Han Dynasty!

"The two thousand kilograms I mentioned are dry land. If it is fertile land, it should be about 4 thousand kilograms!" Anyway, I told Liu Neng that he might as well say everything Liu Mang guessed! Four thousand kilograms is already Liu Mang's statement as guaranteed, because the normal output of sweet potatoes in dry land is 2,000 kilograms, which is 4,000 kilograms, and it may even reach about 4,000 kilograms in fertile land. However, there is no fertilizer in the land here, so Liu Mang did not dare to guarantee that the output was reduced by a large factor.

"My lord, this!" Liu Neng opened his mouth, and he didn't know what to say. This is not food, it is completely a magical fruit. If it really reaches this level, then Guangyangzhou can support the people of the world.

"Go, I want to see if they can stop us!" Liu Mang waved at Liu Neng. Population is a big problem, and now there are too many issues that Liu Mang needs to think about, because now the Lu Bu army is completely poor and null. Such princes are not called princes, but they can only be considered bandits. What is princes? Not only has their own territory and their own army, but they can also be self-sufficient. This is the real prince and warlord. Like Li Jue and Guo Si, who only have subordinates, but do not know how to work and do business, they can only become dry bones in the tomb. Dong Zhuo left behind Xiliang cavalry with 70,000 to 80,000, plus 100,000 infantry. What a powerful force, but now it has been destroyed. Except for Zhang Xiu, Wancheng, the Xiliang cavalry with 20,000 in the hands of the Xiliang cavalry, the other Xiliang cavalry have disappeared on the stage of history.

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Liu Mang's government order was issued, and this time, just like the recruitment order, it was spread by Yang Hong's intelligence department and scout troops, and it was spread in various cities of the princes.

Under the rule of the little overlord from Jiangdong Wuhu, Jiangdong, "You know! Shouchun, Yangzhou, I heard that His Highness the King of Shu is recruiting the people there!" A mysterious middle-aged man in green suddenly added this sentence among the crowd.

"Recruiting the people? What are the people who are good at recruiting?!" Someone interrupted, and the mysterious man in green suddenly smiled. He was not afraid of people asking questions but was afraid of not asking questions. Other people also looked at the man in green. The people were caught in a lot of people in the world! What are the people who are good at recruiting?

"This is different. His Highness, His Highness, the King of Shu, wants someone to farm for him until he is governed and become his people!" the man in green explained.

"Yangzhou Shouchun, hundreds of miles, and it's still across the Yangtze River. How far is it! Who would like to go there? And Shouchun? Haha, our whole family escaped from Shouchun. That place is deserted and the tax has been received for more than ten years." Another middle-aged man expressed disdain for the man in green who raised the topic.

The mysterious middle-aged man in green seemed a little angry, "What do you know! Shouchun is far away from here, but His Highness of Shu said that as long as he goes, each person can get two acres of fertile land." He said that, he raised two fingers,

"Two acres of fertile land? Haha, that's too much. My family is planting dozens of acres of fertile land now!" The middle-aged man who asked the question was still very disdainful. The family of four had ten acres of land, but the family still couldn't eat enough, so he had to go out to fish and sell the coarse cloth made by his wife in the family.

"Can your fertile fields be compared with His Highness the King of Shu?"

"How can't you compare? Shouchun's fertile fields are not as good as those of me in Jiangdong!" Shouchun belongs to the Anhui area of ​​Jiangsu in Huainan, and Jiangdong in Zhejiang in Anhui, actually there is no difference between the two, but this middle-aged man can only say this in order to save face.

"How much does your family pay?" the mysterious man in green asked instead of refuting.

"Born with the care of the general of the prisoner, Lord Sun Ce of Wu, my family's tax is only 60%!" The middle-aged man was very proud. His family had Sun Ce's soldiers, but he died in battle. Sun Ce would not be too disheartened with his subordinates. But he could not do as big as Liu Mang to reduce taxes by 10% to these dead families. Even so, he could produce two or three hundred kilograms of grain a year, which was really too much! The people around him looked envious and the middle-aged man's vanity increased to a certain extent. He looked at the mysterious man in green with pride, but who knew what he got was a kind of contempt and disdain. "Looking down on my family! Tell me how much tax your family has!"

The mysterious man in green stretched out three fingers and looked at the middle-aged man with a smile.

"Haha, it turns out to be 70%. What qualifications do you have to laugh at my family?" The middle-aged man was disdainful. Didn't three fingers leave 30% of the food rations?

The mysterious man in green smiled and shook his head, "It's 30%, His Highness the King of Shu said. As long as you go to Shouchun, two acres of fertile land will be collected by one person, and you can only get 30% of the taxes, and you will never add taxes!"

"How is it possible! You liar!" The middle-aged man pointed to the mysterious man and cursed, "Your Highness of Shu King is so likely to only charge 30% of the taxes. The collection is so low. How can he support the army? How can he pay his subordinates' salaries?" The taxes of 50% are to love the people as if they are sons, 30%? You really want to drink the northwest wind! Now it is not that the new emperor ascended the throne and amnesty the world, so that it is possible to reduce taxes. The Shu King mentioned by this man not only only charges 30% of the taxes, but also never adds taxes. How is it possible? This is a completely scam.

The people next to him nodded rightly and wrongly, "Yes! How could it be 30%, even Master Qingtian could not be! This must be a liar, who deceived us from afar!"

"Yes, yes, I can't go, I can't go!"

The mysterious man in green listened to the discussions of the crowd and raised his arms, suppressing them, "Your Highness the King of Shu cannot deceive people. Hey, do you still remember the recruitment order from the previous day!" The mysterious man mentioned that the people who were present knew one thing when they mentioned this recruitment order, because Liu Mang was completely offending the gentry in the world because of this recruitment order. The princes were eager to let Liu Mang do this, so Sun Ce did not stop the publicity of the recruitment order. Originally, the recruitment order was for those poor families, so these people knew it.

"It turns out that is His Highness, King of Shu." "It turns out that it's him! I heard that the youngest son of the Zhao Si family went to Shouchun to make a comeback!" The people once again entered and talked about it, throwing out their previous distrust of Liu Mang, but they still did not reduce their defense.

"How can you explain this third level if you are not a lie!" The middle-aged man was very dissatisfied. He just made everyone not believe in His Royal Highness of Shu. Now, everyone doesn't listen to him anymore, which makes him feel very uncomfortable.

"Haha, you said before that Shouchun is now uninhabited, and you also said that you are from Shouchun. Then I ask you, do you know how much land there is in Shouchun?" The mysterious man in green pointed at the middle-aged man and questioned.

"Many, a lot!" How could a middle-aged man know how big the land of Shouchun is? He is just an ordinary citizen, and he can only use a lot of land to explain Shouchun's land.

"Haha, yes, there are a lot, a lot, but now there is no one in the world. No one has planted the fertile land anymore. You are here to sell cloth!" The mysterious man in green looked at the middle-aged man and said, because he was holding a piece of coarse cloth in his hand. Although it was coarse cloth, it could be seen that it was very tightly woven. This was a good cloth, at least it was a good cloth inside the coarse cloth.

"What do you do!" The middle-aged man hugged his cloth tightly.

"How valuable is your cloth?!" The man in green pointed to the cloth and asked.

"Twenty dollars!" The middle-aged man said a price, "Why do you want it?" He came out and sold cloth, and now he almost forgot about it with others.

"Twenty coins? If I pay ten coins, will you sell them?" The mysterious man in green took out ten copper coins from his arms.

"Of course I won't sell it anymore! This is made by my wife. The ones I use are all high-quality hemp and he woven piece by piece. I won't sell anyone without twenty dollars!"

"Not selling? Then what if I snatch it! In this way, you may have no money." The man in green pretended to snatch things.

"You dare!" The middle-aged man held the cloth tightly in his arms. "If you dare to steal my cloth, I will fight you if you want to!"

"Try your best!? I don't want to die yet! What if the government came to collect your cloth!"

"Expropriation?!" The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment. In ancient times, the word "expropriation" sounded good, "expropriation" was robbery. Once the government fought, it naturally came to collect grain and cloth. At that time, the cloth was worthless. "How could it be, Wu Hou could not!" Although the middle-aged man said this, his expression told him that Wu Hou had collected it.

"If you are being collected by the government and sold to me with ten big money, which one should you choose?" asked the mysterious man in green.

"Of course I'm selling it to you!" Although these people have never read books, they still understand some basic interests. They are worthless when they are levied, and the government will not subsidize them. Although only ten big money is left to the man in blue, which is not as high as he expected. However, they have sold it and made ten big money.

"You know this principle, let alone the noble Prince of Shu! Look, your cloth is equivalent to the land of Prince of Shu in Shouchun. If no one cultivates it, it is like your cloth being collected by the government, and it is worthless. If someone goes to farm, just like His Highness Shu said, each person has two acres of fertile land, and the tax burden is only 30%. This is like selling this cloth to me. Although you have lost money, you still have to make a profit, right? And Prince of Shu also said that His Royal Prince of Shu said.

He also said that as long as you have one and a half of your eldest sons left, you will be rewarded with one acre of fertile land, and a girl’s baby will be rewarded with half acre and a hundred dollars. When half a eldest son grows up, you can still get one acre of land. "This is the family planning plan implemented by Liu Mang. As long as you dare to give birth, Liu Mang dares to ask for it. If you have seventeen or eighteen, I will give you seventeen or eighteen acres of fertile land, and girls will give you half acre of land. Only such a reward plan can make the people more motivated to create people. Liu Mang wants to build the entire Yangzhou into a population land.

After comparing the mysterious man in green, the remaining people really understand. If you want to tell the people directly that it is better to have people to grow the fields of His Royal Highness Shu than to have no one. This principle is simple, but it is not very impressive to the people, and the people are prone to hesitation. However, now using such a piece of cloth as an analogy, everyone understands the past.

One person has two acres of land, and their family of four is eight acres. If you pay 30% of the land, you can still have five acres of land left. But all of them belong to his family. Although there are ten acres of land here, only four acres of land should be taught to be his family. Moreover, this land is still the one that Lord Sun Ce cannot buy and sell. This is not the key. The key is that His Highness Shu King said that he will never add taxes and reclaim wasteland for the past five years, and they can have their own land.

"If this is the case, will you still go?" the mysterious man in green said with a smile.

"Go, I'll go!" the middle-aged man said hurriedly. Many people around him were also very moved. The mysterious man in green released the last news and completely overwhelmed their hesitant thoughts.

"I tell you, if you want to go, hurry up. Although Shouchun has many fertile land, it is only given to the first 50,000 people! If you go late, there will be no more." Fifty thousand people? Liu Mang's Shouchun plus Hefei Lujiang can receive even 500,000 people. After all, this is Yangzhou, which is no inferior to Xuzhou and Jizhou. Jizhou now has a population of 4 million (one million of them were taken away by the black bandit Zhang Yan).

According to Liu Mang's prediction, Liu Mang's half Yangzhou should be able to survive a population of 5 million to 7 million. Not only that, it can also export food. Liu Mang does not expect his subordinates to have more people at one time, but only 50,000 people will be soaring to chase each other, and their enthusiasm will be mobilized. If they go too late, there will be no distribution of fertile land. Even under the rule of Sun Ce in Jiangdong, there are few people who starve to death, but most of the people are not full, because Jiangdong has to use troops to Jingzhou every year. In fact, this is Sun Ce's helplessness, because there is only so much food, and using these people to fight can reduce the consumption of food and grass. So now when you see such an opportunity, how can you give up! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!