Zizhi Tongjian: Liu Bei actually robbed the army this time!

During the siege of Chengdu, Liu Bei promised his subordinates:

If chengdu is attacked this time, then everyone can take all the property in the official warehouse at will, and I will never interfere.

His men cheered and shouted, and with lightning speed, they quickly broke through the city.

After the city was destroyed, the soldiers threw away their weapons and ran to the warehouses, scrambling for belongings, and everyone got a lot of treasures.

However, when it came time to issue military expenses, there was no money, and Liu Bei was afraid that the soldiers would disobey and there would be disturbances.

A man named Liu Ba gave Liu Bei an idea and said:

Lord, this is easy to solve, as long as a coin with a face value of one hundred dollars is minted to stabilize prices, and the officials are ordered to set up an official market.

Liu Bei adopted this suggestion, and after a few months, the treasury was sufficient.

At that time, it was suggested that the land and residences in Chengdu be distributed to the generals.

Zhao Yun said:

Huo fuyi once believed that the Xiongnu had not yet been eliminated and should not consider their own family property. The current thieves are far from being comparable to the Huns, and we cannot covet happiness.

When the whole world is settled, the soldiers return to their hometowns and cultivate their own fields, so that they will get their own place.

The people of Yizhou, who have just suffered the scourge of war and war, should return the land and land to their original owners, so that the people can settle down safely and resume production, and then they can levy military service from them, collect taxes, and gain their favor; they should not take their property and property to personally favor their beloved generals.

Liu Bei accepted Zhao Yun's advice.

Refer to the Zizhi Tongjian

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Why did Liu Bei, who was so clever, promise his subordinates that they would be allowed to rob the treasury of Chengdu?

Did he really think he was still a bandit?

Liu Bei's doing of this can be compared with the incident in which Li Zicheng revolted into the capital at the end of the late Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Li Zicheng shouted the slogan that the king would not pay for grain! The people of the capital happily let them in.

However, after coming in, king Chuang did not regard himself as king, and allowed his subordinates to rob the people of the capital, and his behavior was no different from that of the bandits, so the people of the capital were extremely disappointed in him.

But for the subordinates of the king of Chuang, if they rob arbitrarily in the capital, they can get rich immediately, which is the reward that should be obtained by following the king of Chuang, and Li Zicheng's heart should also think so, so he acquiesced and did not make any constraints!

Liu Bei entered Chengdu this time, but also allowed his subordinates to rob at will, which should also be the meaning, his brothers have followed themselves for decades, and finally have the opportunity to get rich, Liu Bei of course can not stop them from getting rich!

Unlike Li Zicheng, after Liu Bei let it go, he immediately took remedial measures, that is, to exchange all the property they had stolen with large denominations of coins, thus stabilizing the situation.

Li Zicheng did not learn this from Liu Bei, so he did not stabilize the situation, and finally the game collapsed, empty joy!

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