Xu Wei saw the city walls in Chengdu being demolished and said with a smile: "How could you think of demolishing the city walls in Chengdu?"
Zhang Baiqi said: "Being in power does not mean finding ways to make the people in Shu believe that we are our own. In the past two years, there has been war in central Shu. Even in a wealthy place like Chengdu, the people's fields have been laid waste and their houses have collapsed."
"I want to use Chengdu city wall bricks to help the people of Chengdu build houses first. When they trust us, officials from Daqian will also come to Chengdu. I will allocate fields to the people in Chengdu. According to my experience in Daqian, as long as I give them When the people are given land, they will support us! I am using the city wall bricks of Chengdu to win the trust of the people!"
Xu Wei said with a smile: "This is a good idea! As long as the people of Yizhou trust us, it is impossible for the hundreds of thousands of Yizhou nobles to overturn the world!"
Now is the age of firearms. The largest artillery of the Daqian Army can already shoot hundreds of kilograms of projectiles. It cannot be said that the city wall is useless now, but it is no longer as important as the cold weapon era. Instead, the city wall has begun to become a restriction. There are obstacles to urban development, especially the fast-growing big cities. Now many big cities in Daganjun's territory have quickly demolished these city walls.
Then everyone entered the inner city of Chengdu. Zhang Baiqi wanted to receive Xu Wei in the palace, but Xu Wei rejected Zhang Baiqi's proposal and said: "We did not drive away the emperor to make a new emperor." You live in it! You are not trying to resettle the victims of the disaster in Shu. This palace is quite big and can accommodate at least tens of thousands of people!"
The imperial palace in the Qin and Han Dynasties can be compared to a small city. Although the palace in Chengdu is only a temporary palace, it can also be compared to a county town.
Zhang Baiqi smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid no common people dare to live in this palace!"
Not to mention ordinary people, even Zhang Baiqi was shocked by the momentum of the palace when he first came to it.
Xu Wei thought about the fact that the Forbidden City has become a tourist attraction in later generations, so he smiled and said: "People dare not enter the palace because the emperor has not been removed from their hearts. We simply open the palace in Chengdu and build a museum so that people can enter in the future." Here you can learn about the lives of emperors and Han officials. As long as you see more, the fear in your heart will naturally disappear! And you can also get a charge item for sitting on the dragon chair, and you can sit on it for 100 yuan!"
These methods that Xu Wei had used in modern times, Xu Wei remembered that they could be used here, and he was even more imaginative: "Are there a group of maids and eunuchs in the palace?"
Zhang Baiqi was shocked by Xu Wei's unconventional ideas, and subconsciously said: "Although my subordinates have asked them to go home, most of them have families and it is difficult to return, especially the eunuchs in the palace. They didn't even have family members. In order to give them life skills, their subordinates set up a textile factory in Chengdu. The palace ladies could do a job here to support themselves, while most of the eunuchs were kept in the palace under their care. Palace, clean up!”
"My subordinates plan to get a share for them after the land is divided in Chengdu, and then find some orphans for them to adopt. In this way, the orphans' future lives will be guaranteed, and these eunuchs will also have people to take care of them in the future!" Zhang Baiqi's idea is very good, in all aspects. All taken care of.
But Xu Wei smiled and said: "I thought of a job suitable for them. In addition to cleaning the palace, these eunuchs can also perform dramas in the palace and sell tickets for a living. I think there will be many people who are willing to know the emperor."
In addition to government affairs, how to live, and even local tycoons can pay to become emperors. These eunuchs can pretend to be ministers to satisfy their desire to be emperors. When the emperor charges one hundred thousand yuan a day, there is such a good project, and then don’t
Speaking of supporting these eunuchs, I'm afraid it will also be a big income for your Yizhou finance."
Zhang Baiqi's views were shattered by Xu Wei's thoughts. How much do you want to trample the emperor under your feet? You actually have such an idea! At the same time, he also clearly understood once again how his rule was against the emperor.
A bit dismissive.
Zhang Baiqi could only smile bitterly and said: "I'll give it a try!"
Then Xu Wei and the others came to live in a government office in Chengdu!
Then Zhang Baiqi introduced the current situation of Shu County to Xu Wei: "Shu County is indeed the richest county in Yizhou, with 280,000 households. The population of the entire Shu County exceeds one million, and there may even be
1.5 million, while the entire Yizhou has one million households and a population of 5 million.
However, according to the greed of the noble families in Shu, my subordinates estimate that the entire Shu may have a population of 7 million, or even more. After all, Yizhou had such a large population more than 50 years ago. And Yizhou has not experienced the melee in the Central Plains at all.
, that is to say, more people have died in the past two years, but it cannot be compared with the Central Plains War. It can be said that Yizhou has been stable for 200 years, and the wealthy gentry must have hidden a large number of people!"
Then Zhang Baiqi smiled bitterly and said: "I don't know how much I can trust the household registration of the Chengdu government office. But according to my many years of experience, the population density in Shu is several times higher than that in the Central Plains. Even the population of Chengdu alone may be
It’s close to one million. If we really want to find out how many people there are in Shu, we need to come to Yizhou to count them!”
Xu Wei mocked: "I didn't expect that the powerful nobles in Shu are so powerful. Liu Bei is already digging deep into the population, but he can only get an army of 100,000 from Shu at most!"
Xu Wei originally thought that Yizhou had hundreds of thousands of households and a population of three to four million, or even less. After all, when he was watching The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Xu Wei was deeply impressed by Adou's surrender in Shu, which had a population of less than one million. He remembered at that time
It seems that the population of the entire world is only about 6 million, which is 90% less than that of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Everyone uses this data to illustrate the cruelty of the war in the late Han Dynasty!
Of course Xu Wei knew that the powerful nobles must have hidden their population, but Liu Bei has also been digging deep into the south in recent years. The powerful people in Shuzhong should not be able to hide much, but Xu Wei never expected that they would actually hide more than half of the population. According to
50 years ago, there were 7 million people in Yizhou. Xu Wei would not be shocked even if tens of millions of people pop up in Yizhou now!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xu Wei said angrily: "If we don't drive these wealthy nobles out of Yizhou, we can't really know how many people there are in Yizhou! It seems that we want to deal with them more severely.
, and such a large population in Shu is not conducive to local balance!"
"Starting from today, we will find the largest noble family in Sichuan to migrate. If any family dares to ask for a toast without being fined, let's see if their fortress can withstand our artillery!" We really think they are doing it! Even a big man can't hold them!
Zhang Baiqi nodded solemnly and said: "It is true that if we don't remove these local snakes in Shu, it will be difficult for us to govern Yizhou. Now I understand why the nobles in Shu are unwilling to go to Sili. Other places are not willing to go." It is said that in Chengdu and Dujiangyan, all the fertile land was occupied by these noble families. Even if these fields were not fertilized, the yield per mu was more than 4 dan. It can be said to be the most fertile land in the world. Chengdu is worthy of being a land of abundance. It is a pity that this is the case. The Land of Abundance has nothing to do with the people of Chengdu!”
"Even under the oppression of Liu Bei, the wealthy nobles in Shu paid more taxes at most, but the land was not given away. The people of Chengdu could only have some barren mountainous land!"
Xu Wei said seriously: "I will do what Liu Bei dare not do! As long as all the noble families in Shu are cleared out of Yizhou, the land will be known! These people actually like to occupy the land so much, let them go to the west Liangzhan is enough!"
Then Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "It is best to move out the villages in the mountains in central Sichuan. It is too difficult to develop in mountainous areas. If these people want to be rich, they can only move out of the mountainous areas and resettle them in plain areas. We need to make these mountain people They have all moved to the Central Plains. With the population density in Shuzhong, it is very difficult to get hundreds of acres of land for each household. It is better to let them immigrate to the sparsely populated Guanzhong and Xiliang!"
According to the population of Shuzhong at this time, there were probably more than 7 million people. Clearing out hundreds of thousands of people from noble families would free up a lot of land for the people. However, the population of Shuzhong was still too large, and they were relocated from the mountainous areas. Millions of people fill the Central Plains, so that the people in the mountainous areas of central Sichuan can get fertile land, and the Central Plains can also speed up its recovery. It can be said to be a good thing that kills two birds with one stone. This is a good thing that happened just after the world was unified!
After a few years when the population increases, even if Xu Wei wants to relocate these people, he is afraid that there will be no land! Only a country with vast land and sparse population can do such a thing!
Zhang Baiqi smiled and said: "Sichuan has a large population. This should be considered a bad thing or a good thing. The people in power don't even know that we don't need to pay for the immigration!"
Xu Wei was surprised and said: "Someone is coming to Shuzhong so soon to rob people? You can't transport some people to your subordinates yourself, right?"
Of course Xu Wei knew that in recent years, the governors and governors in various places in Daqian were competing for people. Letters of complaint were piled up on Xu Wei's desk. Now the general trend in Daqian is that the population is migrating from the inland to the coast. Under Xu Wei's development, the ocean The potential of the economy has been developed, and people begin to go where there is money!
Zhang Baiqi cried out: "This is an injustice to my subordinates. The people who came here are all businessmen and officials from Xiliang, and they are also the most active. After my subordinates conquered Chengdu, they began to make preparations. The ruler was still chasing Liu Bei in Bajun." When the time came, they came to Chengdu to recruit people! At that time, the whole Chengdu was in a mess, and they took away many people!"
Xu Wei asked curiously: "A businessman from Xiliang?"
Zhang Baiqi said: "Xiliang now has a lot of cotton fields, and this cotton requires a lot of manpower, whether it is planting or harvesting, and businessmen in Xiliang have also set up many textile factories to weave cotton cloth.
It requires a lot of manpower, and cotton is also profitable.
Even though cotton has been produced in large quantities in the past two years, because cotton has good texture, is soft, and absorbs sweat, it is the best fabric for making clothes. The price of a piece of cotton is still more than 5,000 yuan, and the price of the best cotton is even more than that of Shu brocade.
The price! And how can these businessmen look rich but not make money!"
"But as you know when you are in power, Xiliang only has a population of over 2 million, and you can't even farm and stock the land. How can there be manpower to work on cotton fields and weave? Now they recruit a large number of manpower every year during the cotton harvest.
Picking cotton in Xiliang! But this is not only expensive, but also extremely troublesome. After all, every time people move, it is a huge expense, and accidents are easy to happen on the road!"
"These merchants all know that Shuzhongdu has a large population. After their subordinates conquered Chengdu, they immediately came to recruit people! If it weren't for the fact that these people brought a lot of food and cloth, I would have driven them away.
!”
Just kidding, now Zhang Baiqi is the governor of Yizhou. He only dislikes the small population in Shuzhong, not the large population in Shuzhong. He wants to drive out such poachers.
Just after he looked at the household registration in Shuzhong and then inspected the entire Shu county, Zhang Baiqi, based on his many years of political experience, realized that the wealthy noble families in Shuzhong were hiding at least more than half of the population of Yizhou. He actually discovered that Chengdu
The population is not much less than that of Ji County, which has a population of one million.
In this case, Yizhou has not only a small population, but also too many people. It is so large that each household cannot be allocated 100 acres of land, so Zhang Baiqi does not care about Xiliang merchants recruiting some people. Of course, high-quality
The populous Zhang Baiqi would not give up easily. He asked these businessmen to mobilize many people from noble families to go to Xiliang! After all, even if these people stay here now, they will still be driven away in the future!
Xu Wei heard this and wanted to know about the situation in Xiliang, so he asked Zhang Baiqi to find a Xiliang businessman!
Half a day later, a young man came to Xu Wei and said: "The grassroots Yan Xing pays homage to the governor!"
Xu Wei asked: "A member of the Yan family?"
Yan Xing immediately said: "There are no wealthy families in our country. The common people are only surnamed Yan. Of course, according to the ruling theory, they are members of the Yan family. Of course, everyone with the surname Yan is a member of the Yan family!"
Xu Wei's words almost scared Yan Xing into a cold sweat. He stayed in Chengdu to recruit people, but he could already sense that the atmosphere in Chengdu was tense. The wealthy nobles in Chengdu were so arrogant that they actually wanted to use the same methods as the Han Dynasty to resist
Great army.
This is simply asking for death. It is a complete waste of their opportunity to betray the emperor and join Daqian. Based on his understanding of Daqian's army and Lei Gong, if ordinary people do this, Lei Gong may still listen to the people's words, but the nobles and nobles dare to gather people to make trouble.
, Lei Gong will definitely exert strong positive pressure. This is a lesson learned by millions of noble families in the Central Plains.
There are hundreds of thousands of such people in Xiliang, and they were all exiled from the government. You must know that at the beginning, these people were the children of the top nobles and nobles who were difficult for the small wealthy family in Xiliang to reach. But now these people only exist in Xiliang. Those who can become farmers and herdsmen are lucky! Those who can become teachers are considered lucky.
In the old days, Yan Xing had seen Yan Xing fly into the homes of ordinary people.
Then he was extremely lucky that when they rebelled in Xiliang, they were at the same time as Lei Gong, so Lei Gong regarded them as one of his own and believed that they had made contributions in guarding the territory of the Han Dynasty. People from their family could normally enter the military and political system of Da Qian. No one discriminates against them as barbarians from Xiliang. Instead, there are more and more senior officials from their Xiliang clan. In the past few years, there have been several prefects, and their futures are bright.