In midsummer and May, Mianbei is a lively scene, especially the big cities in the city are even more overcrowded.
As various workshops are continuously built and put into production, various commodities are continuously produced, attracting customers from all over the world to gather here to choose and buy. As the origin of commodities, people in Jingzhou also enjoy high-quality prices.
Advantages of being cheap.
Jingzhou City is located in the east of the city. There are hundreds of dungeon shops scattered among them, and there are countless small stalls opened directly on the ground. The dungeon shops often sell exquisite goods that are sold in distant places, and they do not receive many retail customers.
Customers. And those street stalls sell daily necessities, attracting many people to stop and choose.
Today's Jingzhou has long gone from the chaos and depression of previous years. There are tens of thousands of permanent residents in Rangcheng and the surrounding areas alone, and the number of households has exceeded 20,000. This is only the registered population of one city, and there is no
Together with the data from subordinate counties, the number of people doing business and trade can exceed tens of thousands every quarter.
The gathering of so many people in one city reflects not only the strict and comprehensive municipal management and household registration system. How so many people make a living, food supply and other matters reflect all aspects of the social structure.
The population explosion in Rangcheng is actually a relatively special situation. Although it is also due to the administrative skills of the general manager, it is also related to the special characteristics of the place and its people.
Guan Zhong has been in power for so many years, and under the hard work of Yu Wentai and Su Chuo, only Chang'an and Huazhou City have reached this level of population. And there are very few civilians living in these two cities, and most of them are
Clan, officials and their subordinates' slaves, as well as scholars and craftsmen households affiliated with the palace and government, etc. For example, Huazhou City still has a large number of family members of the government and soldiers living there, and there are very few real free people.
This is because Guanzhong was heavily cultivated and Yu Wentai was really frightened by the famine, so the focus of the Ba government's policy was to encourage farmers to reclaim wasteland, which became the first criterion for assessing the performance of county officials.
Therefore, the newly added households in Guanzhong were basically scattered in the countryside through land equalization. In addition, the large manor farming model that was already prevalent in Guanzhong also meant that the people did not have the need to gather in cities on a large scale.
Although there is some development of handicraft industry, the degree of marketization is also very small. Putting aside the government's military industry or supply and imperial production, the real folk handicraft production is mainly a series of handicraft workshops with Shangyuan Qumeng as the core.
Although the Jingzhou General Administration also puts the development of agriculture in the first place, it does not ignore the development of handicrafts and commerce. After all, the geographical advantage of the Nanyang Basin is too prominent, and it is different from the relatively isolated terrain of Guanzhong. Even if we talk about
It is not well connected in all directions, but its connections and interactions with surrounding areas are very comprehensive. It is an important hub for east-west communication and north-south communication.
Especially as the Jingzhou General Administration directly controls the Yangtze River port, this geographical advantage becomes more obvious. In addition, the internal politics of the Jingzhou General Administration is stable, public security is good, and all industries are prosperous, which has a great impact on the surrounding areas.
Attraction.
The various cities set up under the Jingzhou Governor's Office to receive immigrants were often overcrowded. Since the General Governor's Office began to systematically accept immigrants, the number of immigrants who entered the country from various places has been estimated at more than 200,000. In addition to various other channels,
The influx of people is conservatively estimated to have increased by more than 300,000 people.
Such a huge number is extremely astonishing, and even far exceeds the population originally controlled by the General Manager's Office in Jingzhou. It is not that everything under the General Manager's Office is desolate, but that there are still a large number of people hiding in various places, such as Shannan, Han, etc.
Dongfang and other places have not carried out systematic household expansion and reorganization.
The inflow of such a large population is also an important reason for the rapid development of the Jingzhou General Administration Office. The high efficiency of the General Administration Office in resettling displaced persons is also amazing. Within half a year, the number of displaced persons resettled exceeded 80% of the inflow population.
This number is of course very impressive. After all, the immigrants who immigrate are in an extremely chaotic state. Whether they are healthy, obedient, detained for shelter, or intend to stay for a long time, etc., various situations are different. It can be said that all kinds of accidents aside
Factors, as long as those who enter the territory of Jingzhou General Administration and are willing to accept resettlement can settle down within half a year, obtain a piece of land or learn a craft, and thus have basic livelihood capabilities.
In order to avoid conflicts between natives and guests as much as possible, the main focus of the General Administration's resettlement of these immigrants is to divert them to handicraft industries. After all, even the General Administration does not have full say in the existing land resources.
Now the population migration dividend brought by Hou Jing's Rebellion has not ended yet. If the fundamental contradiction of land resource redistribution is rashly set off, it will be tantamount to a continuation of Hou Jing's Rebellion. Moreover, it is wise to mess with yourself. The most important thing is to retain people.
fundamental priority.
Under this background, Rangcheng became the base camp for the development of Mianbei's handicraft industry. Local powerful people from Guanzhong and Jingzhou were attracted to invest in building factories, and the General Administration provided them with space and qualified workers for production. And these investments
Building a factory is not about blindly expanding production capacity. Not to mention the external market, there is a huge demand within the General Administration alone, and numerous government orders can absorb most of the workshop's production capacity.
If you are in Guanzhong, this model may not work well. The old Shaanxi people have a very fierce demand for land. If they don't have fertile land, they have to give at least a piece of wasteland to retain people.
However, the immigrants accepted by the General Administration are mainly from Nanliang people, and these Liang people are relatively receptive to production methods other than farming and weaving, and their own market economy is relatively prosperous. Even rural farmers have some farming in their families.
It is normal for the by-product surplus to be used to exchange for some needles and thread.
In large cities such as Xiangyang, daily seasonings such as onions, ginger, and garlic are sold in specialized shops. This is unimaginable in Guanzhong. To eat a green onion, you have to go to the market to buy it? What kind of prodigal would do such a thing!
Where can’t I plant a few green onions in front of and behind my house?
Therefore, the immigrants do not have much resistance to workshop work, and are even more enthusiastic about reclaiming wasteland and cultivating fields. Because once you learn a craft, you can take it with you, and if you do a day's work in exchange for a day's meal, one day if you go to Mianbei
If the situation is bad, or the war in your hometown ends, you can just pack up and leave. However, once you are naturalized and granted land, you will have the burden of industry, and you will lose your freedom of advancement and retreat.
After all, these southerners were still forced by the war, and they came to Mianbei just for a temporary residence. The nostalgia for their hometown cannot be easily cut off in their hearts.
Most of the immigrants who have technical skills or can pass short-term training are transported into workshops. As for the others, they are organized by local governments and unified to carry out reclamation work to expand the area of cultivated land and meet the basic food supply.
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No matter in any period, population is the most precious. Even if there is rebellion, more people must be coerced to gain greater momentum.
While accepting a large number of displaced people, Li Tai also knew that although this kind of resettlement method was efficient and quick, it would also make people feel attached to each other, and they might not live in peace for a long time. After all, the gap between the Southern and Northern Dynasties was deep, not just in terms of emotions.
In terms of habits and habits, even the basic ideology needs to be integrated.
Therefore, in order to avoid a wave of population returning home after the war, resulting in a large loss of labor force and interrupting the current prosperity and development rhythm of Jingzhou General Mansion, Li Tai also made a lot of preparations.
On the one hand, he strengthened the control over the outflow of people at various border crossings. In principle, large-scale outflows of people were not allowed without orders from state and county officials.
However, border control cannot be comprehensive, and if the blockade is too strict, it will affect commerce with surrounding areas and cause certain obstacles to the inflow of people. Therefore, this ban is limited to the intimidation brought by the legislation to the interior. In fact,
Enforcement is not strict.
There is another way to prevent immigrants from leaving the country, and that is to bribe the other side. The entry of immigrants will always have a negative impact on local people's livelihood. In addition, not all local powerful people are keen on sheltering the population and accumulating food to become kings.
People who cross the border are mainly expelled and rarely taken in.
Such people can become the eyes and ears of the government. Through their monitoring of the village, they can prevent the refugees from fleeing. They can protect the village from intrusion and at the same time obtain a reward from the government.
Of course, in the face of such a large-scale refugee group, any coercive means are actually low-cost. The wages are sufficient to ensure the fruits of their labor, the public security is good to ensure the safety of their personal and property, and the material supply is sufficient to ensure food consumption. As long as this
A few things that can be done well can appease most people.
Coupled with some public relations measures to create a benevolent image of the General Manager's Office, these immigrants will gradually settle down and will no longer mess around looking for trouble.
After entering May, Mianbei is not only busy with business and people's livelihood, but also another activity has become lively, that is, Jiangling people return to their hometown to worship their ancestors.
Li Tai had decided on this project as early as the beginning of last year, and ordered Liu Guangde, Liu Zhilin's son from Nanyang, to compile a book called "Where Are the Ancestors?"
In the middle of last year, this book named "Nanyang Shicui" was compiled, and with the blessing of printing technology, thousands of copies were printed in a short period of time. Through different channels, Jiangling and other
It spread throughout the country and soon became the focus of public opinion.
However, at that time Jiangling was busy counterattacking Jiankang, and Xiao Yi, the king of eastern Hunan, declared martial law on personnel, which greatly restricted Jiangling's personnel exchanges with the outside world. It was not until Jiangling was recaptured and the news of Hou Jing's conferment of the head came that martial law was declared in Jiangling
It was then revoked, so those filial sons and grandsons went north to search for the location of their ancestral graves.
"We must treat these Gangneung Shiliu who come to the north to find their roots with all our heart. If their search does not go smoothly, the state government can also come forward to help."
Li Tai seriously explained to the officials that no matter how he felt about these Jiangling people, these people still had appeal in the eyes of the people of Nanliang. The movements of their group to come north were regarded as a piece of cake in the eyes of these people.
an emotional comfort.
As for Li Tai himself, he had no time to entertain these Jiangling celebrities in person. It was rare that Wang Sengbian still remembered to send Hou Jing's hands and feet, so he had to send them back to Guanzhong for everyone to see before they were dry. Of course.
The most important thing is that the Chinese and Foreign Government summoned him to return to the government to discuss the conquest of Shu.