Chapter 94 The village may be small, but it holds many secrets.

Faced with more than three hundred impeachment memorials, Liu Shan was on the verge of tears.

He had no choice but to submit a memorial of apology to Liu Laowu, and then wrote a letter to his father, the emperor, asking how to govern the fiefdom.

When Liu Laowu saw the mountain of memorials piled up before him, several large stacks of them all impeaching his eldest son, Liu Shan, he couldn't help but feel a pang of emotion.

“The eldest son has been farming with us since he was a child. He is kind-hearted and honest, and it would be too much of a burden for him to become the king of a fiefdom.”

But as the emperor of a country, even if you know that the powerful clans and aristocratic families are the ones who bring disaster to the country and its people, you must still take action against their interests.

But how to act? How to act legitimately without giving them any reason to object? This is a difficult problem.

The Later Han Dynasty was a court that valued the law. If the law was not upheld, what would be the point of having laws?

Even when eliminating evildoers, it must be done legally and in accordance with the law. The boss was just trying to take action against those big shots without any real charges. If they impeach him, there's nothing he can do.

Liu Laowu had no choice but to issue a decree in public, scolding his eldest son Liu Shan and telling him to correct his ways.

Then he secretly sent a letter home, telling him to act in accordance with the law and not to be reckless. However, there was very little Liu Laowu could give Liu Shan. At this moment, Liu Laowu couldn't help but think of Liu Fu:

"Among all our sons, the eighth one has the most clever ideas. Alas, sons really can't be compared. The eldest is far inferior to the eighth one!"

After sighing, Liu Laowu's eyes lit up, and he immediately told Liu Shan to go and find Liu Fu for ideas.

Liu Shan immediately wrote a letter of divorce and ordered someone to send it to Liaodong.

At this time, the second son, Liu Dai, was enfeoffed in Nanjun, which was also a prosperous place. Like his eldest son, the second son was honest and simple, and was given the title of Prince Fu.

This Prince Fu also encountered trouble; he was a kind-hearted man!

He couldn't bear to see the people suffer, so as soon as he arrived in Nanjun, he used his salary and money to build soup kitchens and provided some food for the people who had no food.

How much money does Kefu Wang have?

Liu Dai quickly became penniless. When he went to ask wealthy people for help, they all started pleading poverty. Liu Dai, being an honest man, was actually softened by their tears and snot.

Liu Dai wandered around his fiefdom for almost a month. He became a king and had his own fiefdom, but no court. He couldn't even pay the wages for his thousands of soldiers. When he went to see the common people, they were poor. When he went to ask the wealthy households for money, they kept crying poverty, leaving Liu Dai full of questions.

If ordinary people have no money, and wealthy families have no money, then where did all the money go?

Helpless, Liu had no choice but to write a letter home to his father to ask for money.

Liu Laowu was truly at his wit's end. He had given his two uneducated sons the two easiest places to establish their fiefdoms, and this was the result?

That's it?

"Sigh, those two silly boys!"

Now let's look at Liaodong, specifically Liu Fu's place.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Ma Liang was the one who dealt with the barbarians from the very beginning. His abilities far surpassed those of Ma Su, and he was naturally very experienced.

Ma Liang had previously sent people to inquire about several mountain villages. Despite the fact that these places were close to the activity areas of the barbarians, and those guys had a cannibalistic custom, these mountain villages were actually quite safe.

At this time, a dozen or so people entered a small village. After inquiring with the village chief, they learned that there was also a custom of intermarriage in this village.

“My son married a barbarian woman, but not all barbarians are so uncivilized; there are still some who know etiquette.”

Liu Fu then looked at the clan chief's son and daughter-in-law. His son was really not good-looking, and it was hard to say whether he could find a wife with that appearance.

But this woman is very beautiful. Apart from her slightly dark skin, her looks would make even wealthy men in some county towns swoon.

Upon further inquiry, it was discovered that marrying a barbarian girl cost little money, and the girls were beautiful. These barbarians were strong and capable of doing any kind of work. Because the food they made in the mountains and forests didn't taste very good, many barbarians preferred Han Chinese food.

Some of the bolder barbarians came out to interact with the Han people and gradually established contact. Now there are seventy or eighty households in this village, and more than half of them have married barbarian women.

Liu Fu also went straight to the point and asked them:

Why do you all love marrying barbarian girls?

The men in these villages all chuckled, secretly delighted.

"The barbarian girls are beautiful and lovely, and they don't bind their feet. How wonderful!"

After figuring things out, Liu Fu and Ma Liang went to investigate the other villages. Ma Liang had a photographic memory, and while accompanying them, he quietly learned some of the barbarians' sign language and simple communication and prophecy.

After Liu Fu and his group finished visiting several villages, Ma Liang was now able to chat with some of the barbarian women who had married into the village.

Although they couldn't communicate fluently, the moment Ma Liang opened his mouth and spoke in the barbarian language, the barbarian daughter-in-law was shocked. The two immediately began to communicate, and Ma Liang quickly obtained some information.

"My lord, we now have a chance to subdue the Liaodong barbarians."

"Oh? Tell me quickly," Liu Fu asked impatiently.

"The barbarians here regard the monkeys and apes in the forest as messengers of the gods, and the totem they worship is that of the ancient ape-man. If you, my lord, can release the Vajra, you will surely be worshipped as a god by these barbarians, and they will definitely submit to you."

Upon hearing this, Liu Fu was also excited.

"My lord, there are two large tribes in the Liaodong Mountains, with a total of about 150,000 barbarians. In addition, there are barbarians in the depths of the Liaodong Mountains, but they are too far away to be known."

Liu Fu nodded:

"Let's put everything else aside for now and find a way to get these 150,000 barbarians to submit before we consider anything else."

Wang Ping then clasped his hands in a fist salute and said:

"My lord, subduing 150,000 barbarians requires a great deal of resources, and integrating them into the Han tribes will be very difficult. It's a huge project. We need to start with the simplest things, like building houses and getting them to move out of the mountains. We also need to teach them farming, but many of the barbarians are uncivilized and difficult to control..."

Liu Fu understood what he meant:

"Don't worry, I'll leave one of the Vajra here to keep watch afterward, and make it obey your orders."

Wang Ping and Ma Liang were overjoyed:

"That's great, then we won't have to worry about the barbarians causing trouble."

At this moment, Ma Liang said again:

"My lord, I urgently need some food and meat. I need to cook a few good meals to persuade the barbarians to stay and forge our way out of the mountains..."

Before Ma Liang could finish speaking, Liu Fu asked directly:

"Would 100,000 shi of grain and 50,000 jin of beef and mutton be enough?"

Ma Liang was taken aback:

"Our lord is indeed wealthy and powerful!"

"Enough with the nonsense. You all get ready here. Once that's done, I'll come right away and release King Kong to lure all the barbarians out!"