Chapter 185: Building an Upward Channel

The bureaucrats and scholars had no choice but to find Guo Yan and Fan Chou, praise them in every possible way, and promise to help them contain Li Wei, so that Guo and Fan could sit down and discuss the conditions.

Guo Yan and Fan Chou's conditions were 200,000 stone of grain, and after the matter was completed, they were all the same as Li Dao, and the opening of the palace was the same as the three dukes.

That's an amazing price. 200,000 stone of grain, which is also the wealth of the three auxiliary scholars for half a year. What's even worse is that the two of them also have to open a mansion.

Kaifu was almost the highest substantive treatment that a person with a non-Liu surname could receive in this era. In the eyes of these people, Fan Chou is a villain on the border of Liangzhou, and Guo Yan is a horse thief.

These people are only worthy of the current people of the Shi clan, and now they are asking for the opening of the mansion. It's horrible.

But Guo Yan and Fan Chou were not in a hurry, anyway, the Qiang people did not dare to harass their army, but instead specifically sought revenge on the Shi clan and robbed them of their property. The longer it drags on, the more they will lose, and maybe next year they will become refugees themselves.

On the side of the scholars, Chun Yujia and Zhao Wen were forced by the pressure of the local scholars to reach a reunification with Yang Biao, Shi Sun Rui and others, and helped Guo Yan and Fan Chou to open the mansion. The 200,000 stone of grain can only be the rations of the local scholars and the powerful people who exploit them and take them out.

Guo Yan and Fan Chou were ecstatic when they saw the grain. They led their elite to the fullest, first using cavalry to destroy the rebels along the Wei River, and then gathering the main force to directly fight the main force of Han Chongqiang.

The rare Qiang are mainly lightly armed herdsmen, and the Qiang people are developed by each tribe on their own, and there is no unified organization, so the quantity and quality are not comparable to Guo Yan and Fan Chou.

In addition, they were bent on plundering and neglecting the big battle, but they were defeated by Guo Yan and Fan Chou, and lost more than 2,000 people.

Guo Yan and Fan Chou obtained a large amount of equipment and materials in the first battle, and also rescued tens of thousands of captured civilians.

The bureaucrats and scholars of Chang'an were very trustworthy when they saw the two, and they also kept their previous promises and commended their merits to the imperial court. Under the secret promotion of many parties, Guo Yan and Fan Chou successfully opened the mansion.

In this way, in Chang'an City, Guo Yan, Fan Chou, Li Dao and the Three Dukes opened the mansion together, plus Dong Bai, who was the first to open the mansion outside the town, and no one could match the majesty of the Xiliang Army.

It's a pity that this false brilliance is estimated to last for half a year.

Li Wei saw that Guo Yan and Fan Chou were catching up with him again, and he was already planning how to win over Guo Yan and deal with Fan Chou.

And Emperor Han Xian will not do nothing, and is willing to be a puppet.

Guo Yan and Fan Chou drove the Qiang people to invade and suppressed the Qiang rebellion in Youfufeng, which is indeed worthy of being recorded in the history books and remembered by future generations.

But whether it is the Xiliang Army or the Dashi clan, they can't let Youfufeng develop well. As the fields were badly damaged in the war, and the relief of the imperial court was impossible to see, 50,000 people were selected and forced to join the army of displaced people.

The two counties of Yunyang and Qiyi, located in the northwest of Zuo Fengyi, ushered in 30,000 of them.

Under Tong Yuan's arrangement, this time Hu Lang'er and the Third Cavalry Brigade maintained order, temporarily resettled refugees and opened markets along the Zhengguo Canal, that is, the dividing line between Qiqi County and Wannian County.

Zhang Ji personally sent a group of people from Tuntian in Haoyang and Yaxian counties to be promoted to officials and organize new tuntian here.

There are 20,000 people in the four counties of Qiyi, Yunyang, Pinyang, and Suyi, and a total of more than 700,000 mu of land has been developed.

In other words, at present, in these counties, the per capita area is about 30 mu, and the average household has reached more than 150 mu. This mu is still the mu of later generations, not the mu of the Han Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to say that the land is vast and sparsely populated.

After these counties were traded from Li Wei, the original population was not enough to cope with all the land in the four counties.

In order not to delay the farming work, Zhang did not organize them into a tuntian system, but protected the original large clans and small peasants to resume production normally. A batch of millet was urgently planted with concentrated efforts.

This kind of land is vast and sparsely populated, and the strong labor force is very limited, so it is more convenient to grow millet that is relatively extensive and more familiar to farmers.

However, in the long run, such an approach will certainly not be able to cope with all kinds of changes, and the average supply level of the peasants is only half of that of Tuntian, and it is also unable to support the restoration and annexation of the Xinxi Liang Army.

In this way, after the normal autumn harvest, it is best to adjust the original pattern, arrange for one or two counties to develop tuntian, and maintain the original natural economy.

Considering the environmental carrying capacity, it is better not to exceed 300,000 mu of land in a county, and it is better to control the supply of tun residents within 30,000.

Tong Yuan and Zhang both planned that Suyi County, which is across the Luoshui River from Ya County, is suitable for the development of Tuntian. Suyi County is located in the northern part of Sanfu, with a population of less than 3,000 people, which is indeed a vast and sparsely populated state.

20,000 tun residents can be arranged here, and they will be organized immediately after the autumn harvest. More than 1,000 outstanding tuntian households can also be selected from Yaxian County and promoted to the grassroots officials of Tuntian, imparting experience in tuntian management and helping them to plant slightly finer wheat in tuntian.

In addition, the neighboring Qiqi County, because of its location in the key point of the Qinzhi Road and the Han Straight Road, has its own special advantages, and can comprehensively develop agriculture, animal husbandry, mining, smelting, etc., so it is planned to focus on its development.

At that time, the original southern part of the county will retain the economy of large clans and small farmers, and form a strong alliance close to the mountains. Then, in the northern part of Qiqi County, a tuntian area was expanded, and 10,000 tuntian households were arranged to carry out a variety of industrial production, and military training was carried out to protect the nearby area.

Now that the plan was clear, at the end of the summer, when it was a little less busy, 10,000 of the original peasants who were willing and suitable to join the tuntian were recruited and planned to be resettled in the northern part of the town.

The new influx of refugees is still the same as in the previous rounds, and those who have relatives and tools and certain skills will be arranged to go to Suyi County for 15,000 to be organized according to the county, township, tun, and team.

Tunhu in Suyi County first planted a batch of vegetables, and then dug ditches and turned over the soil to prepare the land for the subsequent wheat planting.

The remaining more than 10,000 refugees were temporarily resettled in the north of Zhuxian County to join the project work and make active preparations for the subsequent large-scale recovery of land.

However, not all people who suffered from famine would obey the arrangement, and there were a few children of the Sanfu Han family, who did not want to work with farmers and villains, and lacked the ability or character, so they could take refuge in the Weiyang Monarch's Mansion.

After Tong Yuan communicated with Zhang Ji and the county officials, he arranged some educational work in the tuntianzhong, in addition to allowing the experts in the tuntian to teach skills, but also absorbing some poor scholars who were not outstanding, so that they could teach literacy and allusions.

Some people with a little more seniority can also be arranged to serve as officials in the county, or they can be transferred to the team of the restored state to do some auxiliary management work.