Chapter 506: Difficult Liu Bei
After Tao Qian died, Xuzhou would definitely change drastically.
Mi Zhu really didn't go back, but he sent several people to write to Mi Fang, asking him to lead people to guard the barracks, if possible, bring people out.
The Mi family is a big family in Xuzhou with solid foundations. As long as Liu Bei has not fully controlled Xuzhou, he will not do anything, so they still have time.
The situation changed very quickly, and Liu Bei finally had a territory.
A few days later, Liu Bei buried Tao Qian and formally took over Xuzhou Mu.
When Liu Bei took office, half of the soldiers and horses were in his hands, and the other soldiers and horses were divided into several factions, and Liu Bei's family dominated.
These people are old officials left behind by Tao Qian, and they are also from the Xuzhou wealthy family. Liu Bei can't do anything to them, at least not in a short time.
The first thing Liu Bei had to deal with was Mi Fang. He wanted to stabilize Cao Bao and Zang Ba, and first seized Mi Fang's military power.
Mi Fang had 30,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and there were followers of the Mi family in Xuzhou, so Liu Bei handled it very carefully.
In fact, Liu Bei is most afraid of Zhang Yu.
How to say Mi Fang is also Zhang Yu's second uncle, if Zhang Yu uses this as an excuse to attack Liu Bei, Liu Bei's foothold is not stable, and it is indeed dangerous.
Liu Bei didn't have many useful aides, and he was very passive. He only had Jian Yong, who was useless before, because Xuzhou was not Liu Bei's master, so he couldn't deploy people.
"My lord, my subordinates suggest that we negotiate with Zhang Yu and let the Mi family move out of Xuzhou, otherwise we will be afraid, and Mi Fang's stay in Xuzhou will be a danger." Jian Yong suggested.
At this time, Jian Yong was the person Liu Bei relied on most, and many things were left to him to handle.
Zhang Fei on the side couldn't give him any advice other than leading the troops, and Guan Yu could only give some unimportant suggestions. Liu Bei could only discuss such important matters with Jian Yong.
Liu Bei was so angry that he wanted to curse, but there was nothing he could do.
It seems that we can only compromise for the time being.
"Zhang Yu, one day, I will expel all your businessmen and confiscate all your property in Xuzhou." Liu Bei hated in his heart. After becoming Xuzhou Mu, he still had nothing to do with Zhang Yu.
Liu Bei's new official took office,
It is natural to set a few fires.
However, after he checked Xuzhou's information and treasury, he didn't let out a fire.
"To win people's hearts, there must be construction, but now, there are only hundreds of thousands in the treasury, and even the usual expenses are tight." Liu Bei said anxiously.
Hundreds of thousands, for a state, what is enough.
But that's all Tao Qian left him.
After the war, restoring places, especially recruiting soldiers and horses, required too much money.
However, although Xuzhou is rich, it cannot afford to consume so much in a short period of time.
Tao Qian didn't worry about it when he was here, because with his prestige, it was easy to raise the money he needed if he wanted to borrow some money or exchange other interests.
So even though the treasury was empty, Tao Qian did not worry.
But Liu Bei is not Tao Qian, he just came to Xuzhou, who would ignore him.
It would be fine to loot those aristocratic families like Zhang Yu did.
"Xianhe (Jian Yongzi), hundreds of thousands of dollars, we may not be able to survive for a few days, we must find a way." Liu Bei said.
"My lord, there should be a lot of money in the treasuries of other counties and counties. The tax was collected not long ago. At the beginning, Tao Qian only asked people to bring some of it back, and kept the other part for their own use. Now that it is difficult, the lord can give this part of the money first. I need it urgently." Jian Yong said.
Liu Bei sighed and said: "Just as I took office, I wanted to implement a benevolent government and win the hearts of the people, but in this way, wouldn't it be the opposite."
Liu Bei is determined to buy people's hearts, which requires money, but now there is no money.
Under such circumstances, it would be very dangerous if you want to fight against Zhang Yu. If you don’t have money, you can’t fight. If the army moves, it’s worth ten thousand taels of gold. If you don’t have money, the army can’t move.
Liu Bei spent a few days investigating treasuries in various places. Fortunately, the tax was just collected, and the money was not much, but there was a lot of food.
"How much food, how did you deal with it before?" Liu Bei asked the officials before he came to Xuzhou.
"Xuzhou Mu, in the past, Taozhou Mu gave some of the food to Mi's family and asked them to sell it for money." The man replied.
Liu Bei nodded and asked people to go down. It was impossible to hand over the food to the Mi family, so he had to sell it himself.
What he didn't know was that the Mi family also withdrew a lot, and most of the shops were sold through Zhang Yu's hands, and then the assets were brought to Jiangdong.
It was difficult for Liu Bei's new official to take office. First of all, the money barrier was not easy to get through.
He shipped back a batch of money from other counties, but it was not much, and it was only enough for him to survive the current crisis.
People in those counties and counties were also quite dissatisfied with Liu Bei's actions, but after all Liu Bei had 100,000 troops in his hands and dared not fight against him, but it was still very easy to cause Liu Bei some trouble in private.
Liu Bei did not have enough talents to replace all the officials in Xuzhou.
If he has the ability, he will suppress all the aristocratic families, replace them all with his own people like Zhang Yu, and firmly control the counties.
But no one has the ability, and can only rely on these aristocratic families to govern the world.
So, Liu Bei began to win over these families.
After the Mi family was eliminated, he went to win over the Chen family.
The Chen family is the number one family in Xuzhou, and the Mi family is the number one business family in Xuzhou.
The power of the family is of course strong.
Chen Gui despises Liu Bei, but Liu Bei is currently in power, so he can only deal with it temporarily.
Cao Bao and others also refused to accept Liu Bei, because Liu Bei was an outsider.
In this way, after Liu Bei took office, he encountered various difficulties.
Those who supported him more were those salt merchants.
Now these salt merchants are rich and powerful, and they are very powerful, but they also know that salt is more sensitive, and they must establish a good relationship with the government, otherwise it will be difficult for them to monopolize the salt.
"It's still these salt merchants who know each other." If someone supports him, he will have money, and Liu Bei can exchange other resources for their support.
These salt merchants, people from Xudu's family, were promoted, and they also gave Liu Bei a considerable sum of money to stabilize the situation.
However, the matter of the Mi family must be resolved, so Liu Bei decided to send Jian Yong to Jiangdong to negotiate with the Mi family and Zhang Yu to find a solution.
It's really not easy for Liu Bei to be a shepherd in Xuzhou. He has to worry about a little money.
Xuzhou changed hands, and Cao Cao also saw an opportunity, but he is still unable to conquer again, but he has already begun preparations.
On the other hand, Yang Hong went back and told Yuan Shu that he would not negotiate.
"If you don't know people, then don't talk about it, what can he do if he directly occupies Poyang Lake." Yuan Shu said angrily.
Yang Hong hurriedly dissuaded him and said, "My lord, absolutely not. Zhang Yu is not what he used to be. We don't know how many troops he has. According to Zhang Yu's personality, it's not good to mess with him. Why don't we use other methods?" solve."
Yuan Shu's face was gloomy, and he didn't continue to say that he would directly confront Zhang Yu. The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms