Reborn in the Three Kingdoms, I stole Liu Bei's uncle

The next day, after the curved plow was made by the craftsmen, Liu Yu brought everyone to the field to demonstrate how to use the curved plow. When they saw a man pulling the curved plow easily, the doubts in everyone's eyes gradually dissipated.

Liu Bei looked at the curved plow moving easily in the field, his eyes full of enthusiasm.

If this curved plow can be popularized, how much animal power can be saved, how much more land can be cultivated, and how many more people can be fed?

Liu Bei was in high spirits. In his opinion, if the curved plow was promoted throughout the country, the Han Dynasty would be revitalized.

The reform of this agricultural tool will even have an impact for countless years to come.

Liu Yu originally thought that once the curved plow experiment was successful, large tracts of arable land would be cultivated. However, what happened next was far beyond his understanding.

The first problem we face is the shortage of craftsmen. Now all handicrafts are made by hand without any industrialized process.

It takes a craftsman a day to make a curved plow. Liu Yu only has a dozen craftsmen coming back from Yingchuan to make farm tools, which means that if everything goes well, the output of the curved plow is more than a dozen per day.

But things did not go smoothly. Luoyang City was empty and there was no ready-made steel for forging farm tools.

Find the iron blocks from the ruins of Luoyang and melt them down again.

After several days of hard work, the craftsmen finally produced dozens of curved plows.

When he saw dozens of curved plows plowing the land, there was no joy on Liu Yu's face. On the vast barren land, dozens of curved plows were like a drop in the bucket and could not put out the fire at all.

I am still too naive and think things are too simple.

He once naively believed that as long as there was enough food, he could restore Luoyang's former prosperity in a very short period of time.

Now he realized that he was wrong. Even if he had food, it could only solve the current problem of food and clothing. If he wanted to restore the prosperity of Luoyang, he still had a long way to go.

There were so many things to do that Liu Yu didn't know where to start.

He sat on the ground, looking at the busy figures of the craftsmen, and suddenly a sentence flashed through his mind.

Talent is the foundation of great undertakings.

Liu Yu now needs talents from all walks of life in order to restore Luoyang's prosperity.

Liu Yu decided to start with the hundred craftsmen.

He gathered craftsmen together and asked them to pass on their skills.

Liu Yu's passionate speech won a strong response from everyone.

Everyone unanimously expressed their opposition to Liu Yu's speech.

Although Baigong has a low social status, it is a skill that can make a living. With this skill, even in this chaotic world, you can still have a full meal.

You asked us to pass on the skill of eating with just a few words. Why? Because you are the uncle of Emperor Liu. They did not dare to make direct suggestions, but their faces showed the expression of bereaved parents.

Liu Yu looked at everyone's expressions and understood everything.

"Teach one disciple and you will be rewarded with one thousand coins."

One thousand coins. The craftsmen looked at each other, confirming that they saw shock in each other's eyes.

One disciple costs one thousand coins, ten disciples costs ten thousand coins. Ten thousand coins is more than you can spend in your lifetime!

"Uncle Huang is right. I should have passed on this skill a long time ago."

"I can teach ten people."

"I can teach twenty people."

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After Liu Yu finished explaining the standards, he slowly left.

Over the following period of time, a very strange phenomenon occurred in Luoyang City: the craftsmen who usually took great pride in their combing skills wanted to pass on their skills to anyone they saw.

In the eyes of the craftsmen, there is no one left in Luoyang City. They are all walking thousand coins!

Ignoring the excited craftsmen, Liu Yu had something more important to do.

Measure the land around Luoyang City and designate the unowned land as public property.

An order to establish military farms was issued to the whole country, and Liu Yu provided agricultural tools.

Those who bring their own oxen for farming shall be subject to a tax of one tenth.

When Liu Bei heard the idea of ​​issuing military farming orders, his admiration for Liu Yu was like the water of the Yangtze River, which could not be stopped.

When Liu Bei was suppressing the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he had seen too many powerful armies being defeated and scattered due to food and grass problems.

If the military farming order is effective, the supply of food and fodder will be endless, and the young and strong people who come from all over the country to farm can provide a continuous supply of soldiers.

The only thing Liu Bei was worried about was the one-tenth tax. When the world was peaceful, this tax rate was enough. But now that the world was in chaos, wouldn't this tax rate be a little low?

Liu Yu had already made a plan in his mind for Liu Bei's question. What was in short supply in Luoyang now was people, not money or food.

From now on, the profit dividends generated by transparent glass will continue to flow into Luoyang City.

After Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang received Liu Bei's letter and came to Luoyang City, Liu Yu was ready to start selling refined salt. It can be foreseen that the profits generated by refined salt will be far greater than that of transparent glass.

In Liu Yu's plan, taxation was never for the purpose of supporting the army. The business he planned was the real means of supporting the army.

The purpose of collecting taxes was just to attract more people to Luoyang. If Liu Yu had not been afraid of shocking people, he would have even wanted to implement the tax rate of 15% or 130% in the early Han Dynasty.

Liu Yu believed that the tax rate he offered was enough to discourage all the princes in the world. They would not dare to collect such a low tax under any circumstances. The reason was simple: tax was their only means of supporting the army.

Liu Yu could foresee that even if Cao Cao faced the current low tax collection method, he would not dare to easily utter the three words "military farming order".

When Liu Yu and Liu Bei were discussing the military farming order, they received news about Sun Jian, the fierce tiger of Jiangdong.

On his way back to Changsha, Sun Jian was ambushed by Liu Biao's army and died under a hail of arrows.

Liu Yu was not surprised by Sun Jian's death. When he reminded Sun Jian to guard against Liu Biao's sneak attack, Sun Jian showed contempt as usual.

He was a brave warrior, and his generals were all experienced warriors. If it was a head-on fight, Liu Biao would not have much chance of winning. Although Liu Biao had no ambition, he was not incompetent.

He entered Jingzhou alone and pacified the various tribes in Jingzhou in a very short time.

In just a few years in Jingzhou, the Jingzhou army had 100,000 soldiers and became a force that no one could ignore.

"Wen Tai, you didn't listen to me, so you were ambushed by Liu Biao."

"Where will Wen Tai's family go?"

"If my guess is correct, his family will definitely serve under Yuan Shu."

"Will Yuan Shu take them in?"

Liu Yu nodded.

"Yuan Shu is also a local hero. Although Wen Tai is dead, his soldiers are all veterans of many battles. Yuan Shu will definitely be tempted."

"Yuan Shu has gained Sun Jian's troops, and his strength has increased significantly. I believe that it won't be long before his power surpasses that of all the princes."

Nanyang was rich, with sufficient food and grass, and its generals and soldiers were good at fighting. No matter how you looked at it, Yuan Shu was destined to be the protagonist, but how could he lose his life in the end?