After a long time, Shang Chengcai finally brought his scattered thoughts back together. However, at this time, he no longer had the heart to look at the official documents, so he leaned back in his chair and carefully examined the large geographical map of Yanshan hanging on the opposite wall.

The hand-drawn map is very simple, and it only uses different symbols and characters to roughly mark the distribution of rivers, passes, large military villages, and the county capital and county seat in the exit, which cannot make people have any intuitive impression of the geographical environment of Yanshan. On the half-walled map, from the bottom to the middle and upper part of the map, there are large blank spaces in many places, and the dotted lines representing rivers and the circles representing cities are as sparse as the paw prints left by hungry birds on snowy fields in the winter months.

If you just look at the map and don't really understand the actual situation of these places, then the Yan Shanwei shown on the map is undoubtedly tempting, looking at so many plains one by one, you can fully imagine what a vast and rich land it is, and how rich and happy the people living in this land should be......

But what is the actual situation? Except for the three state cities of Yanduanfang and the three or four counties that can be counted on one hand in the southeast, most of the other county towns in Yanshan are built on the mountain valleys washed out by the river, and the only difference is the length and width of the valley. And the life of the farmers living in these places will not be much better than that of the farmers in the villages around Huojiabao, who have to work for food and clothing all year round. What's worse is that the backward production technology still makes the farmers stay in the stage of relying on the sky for food, which means that after they have put in hard work and labor, they often do not get the harvest and return they deserve......

He took off his blindfold and continued to look at the map with a solemn expression, his gaze slowly moving to the upper part of the map. Here, the words and circles suddenly become dense, and there is a prominent and eye-catching place in each of the three directions. From the bottom to the top, the icons are next to each other, and the text labels next to them are almost overlapping. Immediately next to these words is a simple "mountain" glyph pattern, indicating that this is a mountainous area. Those are the three roads leading from Yanshan to the northern grasslands, and they are also the three "passages" that go south. The dense text and black circles on the map represent the dozens of military camps and fortresses set up by the Great Zhao to prevent the Turks.

The situation there is even worse. That area is almost all mountainous, if it weren't for the fact that Da Zhao has been implementing a compulsory and semi-compulsory immigration reclamation policy since the beginning of his founding, maybe Yanbei will not be inhabited near the grassland. Even though the imperial court had preferential policies for immigrants to reduce taxes and reduce taxes, and invested a large amount of money and grain subsidies every year, the continuous drought for two or three decades brought the agricultural development in these places to a standstill, and the successive years of war and war made the situation worse. Putting aside the damage caused by the war, the population of the northern counties has been in a state of negative growth for more than a decade, and the population is still slowly declining, even as hundreds of convicts are added to the army and convicted families every year. In the aftermath of the war that has just passed, many farmers would rather give up the various preferential treatments formulated by the government and work as tenant farmers in the local area, or sell themselves without a nationality, rather than return to their hometowns; Many border households would rather go to a hard labor camp than go back to their homes and become ordinary people.

This is the Yan Shanwei he took over. The glitz of Yanzhou can't hide the Yanshanwei. Yan Shanwei who can't be sung by the kataka in the wine shop and song building. Yan Shanwei, who relied on the continuous delivery of money and grain from the Central Plains to support the situation, but could not fundamentally solve the problem. Yanshanwei, where most of the population is struggling below the subsistence line......

With a heavy heart, he stared at the map for a long time.

He has a lot to do.

The aftermath of the war has basically ended, and now the situation in all aspects of Yanshan is getting better and more stable. On the one hand, most of the refugees have returned to their hometowns and have been relatively well resettled and pacified, and are seizing the time to carry out spring ploughing. On the other hand, at the insistence of him and the officials of the head of Yanshan, the imperial court and the health department are doing everything possible to raise money, food, and materials from Nanyanshan and the Central Plains further south, and to step up the mobilization and transportation to the northern prefectures and counties, so as to strive to give the refugees who can rebuild their homes to the greatest extent. But he felt that this was not enough! If we cannot properly solve the problem of feeding the majority of people and completely solve the problem of military threats on the grassland, there will absolutely be no real stability and development in Yanshan!

For the first question, after a month of thinking, he already has some preliminary ideas and plans. Although the plan is still rudimentary and the details are very crude, he is not a theoretician, so he does not need to have meticulous arguments and arguments, and he can constantly adjust and improve the plan through practice and exploration in the process of implementation.

He was going to do three things right away. The first is to revitalize water conservancy; the second is to renovate roads; The third is to suppress bandits.

The reasons and benefits of building water conservancy projects are all obvious, and there is no need for him to persuade them, as long as he solves the problem of money and food for water conservancy construction, others will naturally support him. He also has plans for this share of money and food. He is ready to copy the experience he had when he was engaged in water conservancy in West Malaysia. The money and grain are divided into three parts, the Health Department issues policies, and also contributes a part of the money to start the project; The local government is responsible for planning and construction management, and also contributes a part of the money; The rest of the money and grain will be paid by the beneficiary farmers. If the farmers can't make up their share, then they can use the income from the land in the next few years as collateral to borrow from the government, and the government will add a little interest according to the number of years of loan repayment, so that the official treasury is full, and the farmers can also get benefits, and everyone is happy when they have their own income. As for whether there will be any officials who enrich their pockets in this process, he is not too worried that the inspection department will eat this meal, Di Xu has a cold face to himself, and it is impossible to be polite to those who commit crimes, right? Besides, even if Di Xu is polite, isn't there still him, a "rough admiral with a pile of heads"?

Road renovation is also a matter closely related to people's livelihood. As far as he knew, most of Yanshanwei's official roads had been in disrepair for many years, especially the former Tang post road network that traversed Yanbei and several official roads connecting the Central Plains, all of which were dilapidated. This not only affected the material exchange between Yanshan and the Central Plains, but also affected the material deployment in Yanshan, and even more affected the military mobilization of the Wei army. At the end of last year, two battalions of Qian Lao's third division reinforced, stayed in the town from Beizheng through the former Tang Dynasty, and walked for 20 days for 300 miles, and the battle in Yanzhong was over, and the team rushed to Guangliangzhai......

He has a way to solve the money and food for repairing the official road, and one by one, he can directly reach out to several large military depots and ask for them! He is not afraid that they will not give one by one, this is a regular military expenditure, neither the Wei Mansion nor the Wei Mu Mansion can find a fault, even the Ministry of War has no reason to oppose it. As for the manpower required for the project, he also considered that he could recruit refugees who were unwilling to return to their hometowns, and he could also recruit farmers who had lost their land, and he also had a large source of manpower for the bandits to atone for their crimes!

Yes, he was already determined to completely eradicate the Yanshan bandits, and he had spent far more thought on this matter than on the previous two things.

The Yanshan bandits have been plagued for a long time, so long that no one can tell the specific origin, so he has consulted many people, but whether it is the officials of the Health Department or the locals who have passed it down from generation to generation, they cannot clearly point out when the earliest banditry started. Some people say that "Historical Records of the First Emperor" mentions that when Qin swept Liuhe, the remnants of Yan State continued to rebel and "blaze the chaotic side"; That is probably the earliest record of the Yanshan bandits in the history books. After the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, this land was unstable in all dynasties. Especially after the Middle and Tang Dynasty, Ganggang often collapsed and divided the feudal towns, and the banditry became more and more intense. When Taizu founded the country, he soothed and suppressed the bandits, but at most it was calm for three or five years, and as soon as natural and man-made disasters or a war broke out with the sudden exhaustion, the desperate victims and the rout army colluded and took risks, and new bandits immediately breeded. This is precisely the reason for the frequent bandits that occur in various parts of Yanshan. In addition, the geographical location of Yanshan also provided convenience to the bandits. One is the Yanshan Mountain. The officers and troops entered and suppressed, and the bandits disappeared as soon as they drilled into the mountains; As soon as the officers and soldiers left, the bandits came out again to cause trouble. Second, it is close to the grassland. The officers and soldiers were in a hurry, and the bandits ran towards the grassland, and then came back when the limelight passed. With these two items, the bandits are like a hillside that has passed through the fire, looking bare and it seems that the grass is all dry and the trees are withered, but together with the spring breeze, the grass immediately grows and the forest grows again. And there are some "Diao people", who are good farmers in ordinary years, and are villains and bandits in drought years, and the two identities change back and forth, and even the local head of the household "salutes them for three points". In some barren mountainous areas in the east and north of Yanbei, there are villages and villages where every household is full of bandits. It is precisely because of these reasons that many officials who have suffered hardships say in private that unless the sun comes out of the west, it will never be possible for the bandits in Yanshan to be truly eliminated.

After finding out about the situation with many people and exchanging opinions and opinions with the people around him, Shang Cheng quickly realized the enormity of the problem. At the same time, he also realized that the scourge of bandits had seriously hindered the development of Yanshan; The Yanshan people's hatred for bandits has reached the point of deep hatred! He was determined that no matter how difficult it was, he must first solve this tumor that grew on Yan Shan's body!

He knew that it would be difficult to really solve this matter. But difficulties are not terrible, what is not difficult to do? As long as the army and the people of the whole Yanshan Mountain share the same hatred for the enemy, what difficulties can not be overcome?

He had drawn up a draft and sent it to the Wei Mansion to make a plan, and at the same time wrote down the draft and his plan for a series of subsequent actions, and submitted it to the military headquarters in six hundred miles as soon as it was approved, and now he had to start arranging it as long as the approval of the imperial court came down. He estimated that the reply from Beijing would be delivered to him within two or three days.

He believed that once this plan was successfully implemented, even if it could not solve the problem of bandits in Yanshan once and for all, he would be able to win a peaceful life for a long time. That way he can free up his hands to do something else.

There are so many things that his ex left him......

That's when he heard a knock on the door. He asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Commander," one of the soldiers asked for instructions outside the door, "the second lady is here, saying that she wants to find you." ”

The second lady is the second lady. Shang Cheng didn't know why she came to him so late. However, the stone said that she had been looking for herself for an afternoon, maybe something happened to the girl, and it was not good to tell her father, so she came to find herself and come up with ideas. He put away a few official documents on the table and said, "You let her in." ”