It's all abstract destiny, you're one emperor through the ages

Chapter 111 Forced or voluntary?
[Princes and generals have a kindness: You have a strong appeal to people with low status]

It may be a bit abstract to use this appeal to make farmers rebel against themselves.

But if it is combined with [Flicker]'s destiny and calls on them to bring out some food, it's still pretty good.

At least judging from people's reactions, under Liu Ke's rhetoric, many people are really ready to move.

However, Liu Ke did not stop there, but continued:
"Trouble elders, try to raise as much food and grass as possible according to your ability, even arrows, carts and other objects, have also contributed to this battle."

"The pressure is indeed a bit greater, but in a few days it will be the autumn harvest. As long as the Jiaozhi soldiers and horses are kept out of Qiongzhou, a lot of grain can be harvested. This year's tax can be reduced or exempted."

"As the saying goes, you rely on mountains to eat mountains, and you rely on water to eat water."

"The coast of Qiongzhou has a natural advantage, and it is able to go fishing."

"Now the South China Sea bandits have been completely wiped out, and the sea is rich in aquatic products, which is a rare treasure."

"Raise some dried fish as a meat supplement for the soldiers, and it can also relieve the pressure on food and grass."

During the conversation, Liu Ke asked Hua Chengyu to post a list.

Focusing on pictures, the artist who painted the beautiful girls had two brushes.

Kelp, dried shrimps, and crabs are all beautifully painted.

In fact, because of the collapse of the Donghu Navy and the South China Sea pirates were recruited, the best way to obtain extra food and grass was fishing.

Seafood lacks oil and water, and the taste is so-so under rough cooking.

But as a military ration, it is still qualified.

Especially those auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands, for this group of people, it can be said to be a delicious meal.

The waters from Qiongzhou to Yizhou can be fished blindly, and there are no environmental protection organizations to ban fishing.

There is also a Luoji Island in the middle, which can be used as an interim station for replenishing fresh water and supplies.

It's a pity that the Han army's navy is also the main force, and they have no time to do it, so they can only let the common people do it for them.

Seeing the pictures on the list, the onlookers had more thoughts in their hearts.

This time the emperor was much quieter, not as excited as before.

But the more this is the case, the more it seems that the situation is more serious than before.

A small list, but densely packed with various supplies.

As small as a wheel, as long as you can donate, the imperial court wants it.

It is enough to show that the imperial court is impatient and will not refuse anyone who comes.

This just shows the current difficulties of the imperial court!

So, immediately, a big man with delicate feelings squeezed forward and said:
"I would like to offer food."

But as soon as he opened his mouth, he was pulled back.

Donating grain and donating food sounds nice, but isn’t it actually equivalent to paying more taxes?

These days, how can anyone voluntarily pay more money to the court?
No matter how many reasons there are, no matter how unfavorable the situation is, the emperor is changing his direction and bestowing blessings on the people!
"Two two!"

The big man was a little more sensible, if he only donated two taels to the court, he would not be scolded by his wife at home.

After that, a few scattered people came forward, but most of them donated only a few plants or two or two.

Xiao Yuanchang sighed in his heart.

The emperor's idea is good, soliciting donations from the people.

And it did it to the extreme.

Even as the king of a country, he was willing to walk in the streets and alleys, almost face to face with the people in the head of Guizhou, to state his interests and to persuade him with kind words.

Charisma and speech skills are also first-class.

But the emperor didn't understand the people.

The common people regard this bite as more important than their lives.

Just relying on voluntary donations of food, dozens of hundreds of people can't donate much at all, it's just a drop in the bucket.

If you want to alleviate the food and grass pressure of the army, you must mobilize a sufficient number of people.

Can.
Not at all realistic.

But Liu Ke moved again.

He raised his hand to signal for Turning into Rain, and Turning into Rain made people stop the few people who were the first to donate food.

Those few people were still thinking about how to tell their mother-in-law when they got home, when they suddenly saw a few more burly imperial guards in front of them.

This? ? ?
If you don’t donate enough, you won’t be allowed to leave, right?
Just catch weak little fat sheep like them?
What is the difference between being forced to donate food and forcibly requisitioning food? !

You might as well be straightforward!

But those imperial guards just stopped them, and then took out a few wooden chips and distributed them to everyone.

Liu Ke said loudly:
"This piece of wood is called a stock chip. If you hold a stock chip, you will be considered a stock in this battle."

"If you win this battle, you will also be able to share the profits from the imperial court with the shares raised in this battle."

"Long shares are counted as a share of one stone of grain and grass, and short shares are counted as one tael."

The big man looked at the long stock on hand and asked puzzledly:

"Grass, grass people only donated two taels, why can they get a long share?"

Liu Ke walked up to the big man in person, his eyes full of respect, he stared at the big man, held his hand, and said in an eloquent voice:
"Two taels of food can allow the soldiers to stab one more spear, kill one more enemy, and protect one more Han."

"The food and grass that Qing donated seems to be only a couple of taels, but this heart to contribute to the country is more than a stone?"

The big man limped immediately, almost crying on the spot.

This is the emperor? !
What is the emperor doing?
Are you holding his hand and approving his muddy legs?

Just because of contributing to the country? !

Or is it just two or two efforts? ?
How can ordinary people with their faces facing the loess soil and their backs facing the sky withstand this kind of rhetoric? !
Liu Ke turned to the people and continued:
"Seized after the war, calculated according to the stock price, the minimum profit is [-]%."

"That is to say, if you donate 110 shi of grain and grass, at least after the war, you can exchange [-] shi of grain and grass from the court with the help of stock chips, or other conversions."

"If more were captured in this battle, the more grain and grass will be exchanged, just a lot more."

"Even if it is defeated, even if it is not enough to make ends meet after the war, even if I emptied the treasury, I will make up for it."

After Liu Ke finished speaking, he quietly waited for the reactions of the people.

He is not afraid that the common people will not donate, this is deceit, and this is how the appeal comes from.

Even Chen Sheng and Wu Guang did not raise their arms, but acted in a planned way.

This process is divided into three stages.

One is to state interests and incite calls with words.

The second is to present the facts to inform the dilemma of this matter and deepen the impact.

The third is to promise great profits to seduce people's hearts.

Progressing layer by layer, each time it is constantly breaking the psychological defense line of the people.

Unlimited shows the predicament of the court, lowers the expectations of the people, and makes them faintly willing to donate food.

Then tell them that it is not for you to donate without compensation. Not only is it profitable, but the profit may also be quite large!

As for whether it is really quite big, it depends on the wishes of the court. Anyway, if you have intercourse, there is a guarantee of [-]% profit.

This is a bit like war bonds, except that Liu Ke calls them stock chips.

Dahan's reputation has basically been exhausted in the past 20 years.

Even if the emperor is changed, it will have to be erected again, and it will take time to wear it down.

It is useless to simply collect food and grass from the people.

So Liu Ke chose stock chips.

And what he pays is his personal reputation, the prestige that he has never failed in the past six months.

If he wants to continue doing this, he cannot be defeated.

At the same time, it tied the stock chip with a noble and sacred act.

That is, patriotic behavior.

Moreover, it also joined the protection of the Qiongzhou land, ensuring the success of the autumn harvest, etc., and various actions directly related to the interests of the people.

With multiple kidnappings, the common people have more reasons to donate food in exchange for stocks.

According to Liu Ke's idea, if it can develop smoothly, the people's recognition of the big man will become higher and higher.

To put it simply, I will love Dahan more and more.

Wait until the people regard the taxes they pay as glory.

Thinking of a mast on a large ship, a spear in the hands of the Han army, and a donkey driven by the emperor, all of them are taxed, and they are proud of it, and their hegemony can be expected.

This will be an extremely indispensable part in the process of Liu Ke's future restoration of the Han Dynasty and its return to the old capital.

Compared with Donghu, the big man has only one victory, and that is the human heart.

He must do this to the extreme.

Unsurprisingly, under Liu Ke's unbelievable series of victories, he cooperated with the call of "the prince and general Xiangning have a kindness", and the words of "fudge".

This extremely complex stock chip has completely won the trust of the people.

People began to donate food and grass.

But at this time, there is no preferential treatment for the first batch of people. One tael is one tael, and two taels is two taels.

Countless people regret it too late.

If I had known that I would have rushed up just now, even if it was just a moment of enthusiasm, I could still make a net profit of a stone of rice!

There are not many, but as long as it is something that comes for free, who doesn't love it?
More people who couldn't squeeze forward chose to spread the news.

Who doesn't have any relatives or friends?

Even if it's not for relatives and friends to donate food in exchange for stock chips, it's good to discuss with multiple people.

Of course, there are Donghu secret agents in the crowd.

They even pulled people back just now to prevent them from going up to donate food, that's what they did.

But at this time, don't talk about pulling people.

The ghosts like them who don't want to donate food are about to be squeezed out of the crowd!

And the imperial guards were already overwhelmed and couldn't handle it.

He is good at fighting, digging tunnels, and plundering pirate ships. He is also good at setting fires to prevent fire.

It can't be counted.

Ever since, Xiao Yuan often took over the matter of stock raising with a half-knowledge, leading the little officials.

Even though he had been counting the food and grass donated by the people and distributing shares, he didn't think much about it.

Can you still play like this?
The battle has not yet started, and we don't even know if we can win, so we can bring food with empty gloves?
But as he watched the people swarming in, he gradually understood.

First of all, the emperor has never lost.

Secondly, Jiaozhi is not Donghu. People may be afraid of Donghu who pushed Da Hanping to Qiongzhou, but they are unlikely to be afraid of Jiaozhi who has not fought for several years.

Even if the emperor really wanted to lose, it would be to Donghu.

If you lose even Cochin, you will lose to Myanmar and Siam in the next step. In the end, there is nothing to lose, and the country will simply perish.

It is the most basic thing for the common people to have the confidence to win the battle.

Other than that, Cochin is rich enough.

The Cochin State has not had a war for many years, and after several developments, because of its favorable location, it is already a land of grain production like Qiongzhou.

If the emperor can really fight, even if it's just to grab a wave, those who donate food to fight the war will definitely earn money.

Besides, the court just had no food, not money.

Even if you lose, you can exchange gold and silver for stock chips.

And these grains have little impact on the people.

After all, the autumn harvest is coming soon, and there will be food on hand soon.

At most, they took out the surplus food.

If you lose or lose, you won't be hungry.

But what puzzled Xiao Yuan the most was the emperor's charisma.

Even if the emperor is close to the people and goes to the street to collect donations in person, it will not make the people like this.

Is it because the emperor was also born in the common people, and the two can empathize?
This made him think of what the emperor had said during the Yuwen clan's rebellion.

With this kind of ability, he can indeed abandon his high position and go down to the people, and raise an army with a single call!

All in all, food is good.

Xiao Yuan often looked at the more and more food and grass donated, even though the dark circles under his eyes deepened a little, he was still very happy on his face.

This is only a part of the people in Qiongzhou City.

What if we wait until Qiongzhou City is mobilized?

Or what about the other three counties?

Even the various villages, all the way to Qiongzhou? !
If the surplus food on hand of the common people can be utilized, it will definitely not be less than copying a few aristocratic families!

The emperor is not extorting food by force, but enticing it, but the common people have not yet resisted the temptation!
In a daze, Xiao Yuan often looked at a few familiar faces.

"Isn't this from the Wang family?"

I saw that member of the Wang clan, licking his lips, and asked cautiously:

"Lord Xiao, I, the Wang family, would like to donate ten thousand stones, this stock"

"Ten thousand stones dare to play the idea of ​​stock raising? Fuck you!"

This one was Jiang Yinlu himself, and after pushing away Wang's servants, the handsome old man said kindly:

"Master Xiao, I, Mrs. Jiang, are willing to donate [-] stones!"

Not to mention Xiao Yuanchang.

Even the imperial guards who have been standing by the side and are responsible for maintaining order can't help but click their tongues.

Although there are many people donating one by two, two by two, there is no such a large amount of shock from the family.

In the morning it was said that there was a shortage of food, but this time it was good. During the nap time, the emperor went to the street and there was no shortage.

"My Zhao family is also willing to donate [-] stones!"

"I, Mrs. Qian, would like to donate [-] shi. Hey, don't squeeze me, I'll add food!"

The people are okay, the emperor's appeal is really strong, and the people are easy to get excited for a while.

But Xiao Yuanchang knew the aristocratic family well.

The aristocratic family had a lot of thoughts, and they definitely wouldn't be tempted by Shi Lezhi just because of the emperor's words.

Even if you are tempted, you have to call the elders at home and discuss again.

Moreover, the use of large sums of food and grass cannot be decided by one or two people.

He couldn't help asking a familiar family member:

"Are you forced or voluntary?"

Although the family members were actively donating food, they showed a smile that was more embarrassing than crying:

"It was forced voluntarily."

With such a description, Xiao Yuanchang understood.

The people are so active in donating food, can the aristocratic families stand and watch?

Donate now, just like ordinary people, hold stock chips and share the profits captured after the war.

If you don't donate now, the common people will save their clothes and donate food. If you don't donate from a dignified family, it's hard to guarantee that the imperial court will not trip you up in secret.

Rather than being donated by Jia Wuji, it's better to take the initiative.

And this time, there are indeed certain benefits, the Cochin Kingdom is really fat!

(End of this chapter)