Previously, in order to avoid his own reform, papermaking, imperial examinations and a series of actions were obstructed by the family, Yuan Shu directly spread out the affairs of the southwestern countries, which was a complete showdown with the family. And the families understood that Yuan Shu had achieved the general trend, and they were powerless to stop it, and they didn't want to break the net, not to mention that there was such a temptation in front of them, so they threw all their energy into the southwestern countries.

For the past few months, the families have been acting frantically in the southwestern countries under the guise of merchants. In the southwestern countries and even tribes of Yizhou, there are family caravans and shops everywhere.

However, for the arrival of these outsiders, the local people gradually changed from the initial vigilance to envy and greed, and now to awe and yearning.

No way, as a group of hungry natives, anyone who encounters a group of people who are much richer and stronger than you, you will be defeated by them without any power to fight back, and then let you work as coolies for a period of time, but at the same time, you can eat delicious food every day, and the people who let you go after a while will feel helpless and yearning.

Seeing that these merchants were so rich and generous, many of the local people who were fierce and fierce had crooked ideas, but they were decisively beaten down by these families.

The local kings and patriarchs wanted to take care of this, but they didn't take care of it, and the 30,000 elites led by Zhang Ren have been wandering around for several months, eliminating many disobedient countries, and many kings have been invited to watch the battle.

The sheer disparity in strength made these kings feel extreme fear and despair. However, the Han people are a kind people, and they do not care about their country and the position of king, as long as they do not contradict, there will be no danger. On the contrary, assisting these "businessmen" who came to Da Chu can not only gain the favor of Da Chu, but also make the country strong, the people live better, and the most important thing is that they can live more comfortably.

Sitting on a luxurious and comfortable sofa, drinking delicious and refreshing fruit juice and coconut water or mellow wine, eating a variety of carefully cooked delicious food and delicacies, admiring exquisite porcelain, wearing gorgeous silk, and rubbing the popular mahjong of Dachu. These kings and patriarchs felt that they had all lived to dogs before, and that was what a pleasure!

All the kings and patriarchs of the southwestern countries were extremely obedient under the dual means of 30,000 troops and sugar-coated cannonballs, and of course there were some who did not, but those people disappeared, and some of the radical and excessive actions were directly erased the whole country.

The upper echelons surrendered, and the lower small organizations were no match for the private soldiers of the families, and the transactions of the families in the southwestern countries could be described as extremely smooth.

At first, because the families treated their captives too well, many local people began to play a "suicidal" attack. Many people in the family saw a group of villains armed with wooden sticks and mallets shouting unknown words and rushing to their caravan violently, and then they had just lined up to prepare to attack, and this group of goods fell to the ground collectively in front of them to "touch porcelain" and felt crying and laughing.

Later, through various practical actions and propaganda, they finally persuaded the local people, telling them that they did not need to do such "dangerous" behavior, they directly recruited workers in the local area, the number of people is not limited, anyone can come to work, not only to eat enough, but also to give a house and wages.

The families are really too rich, and the savings of tens or hundreds of years, coupled with the rapid development of Dachu during this period of time, and the large amount of wealth they have earned by taking advantage of the situation, are not too generous to these small countries with tens of thousands of people, even if they eat and drink for nothing, they can support them for a few years.

In feudal society, especially in the late Han Dynasty, when the power of the previous family reached its limit, the concentration of power and wealth was completely unimaginable for later generations. Roughly quantify, if the wealth of the entire Han Dynasty is counted as 100 yuan, at least 40 yuan are buried in the ground, the royal family has 5 yuan, the wealthy gentry have more than 50 yuan, and the remaining more than ninety percent of the people have less than one or two yuan of wealth left.

Don't think that this figure is exaggerated, you must know that even in modern times, there are situations where one percent of the people occupy more than 30 percent of the wealth, not to mention the ancient times where production was backward and power and financial resources were concentrated. The wealth that the people can share can only be less, not more, and the real proportion may be even more exaggerated, and it would be good if the people could maintain basic food and clothing.

As an example, the Yuan family, where Yuan Shu is located, does not say much, as the overlord of Yuzhou, one of the four great families, the protégés and former officials are all over the world, and there are still three-thirds of the wealth in the world. Otherwise, how could Yuan Shu have raised the entire Jiangdong in the first place?

Yuan Shu was able to support Jiangdong with a population of millions when he was isolated and helpless, and how could they, who had the support of the materially rich Great Chu behind them, not even be able to carry a few small countries? It's not too easy, you can earn back most of it with a little specialty along the way.

As for what so many people are hired for, it will be of great use. These kinds of barren land are not what these families want, just like Yuan Shu at the beginning, building roads, cities, and water conservancy. It seems that the managers of the entire Dachu like to engage in infrastructure construction, and there are indeed many benefits to cash-for-work.

In addition, planting, animal husbandry, building factories, etc., do not require too many manpower. The families are still suspected of not having enough manpower, and all kinds of cheats and abductions try to recruit people from the families of other surrounding countries. There is no way, Zhuge Liang, or should it be said that Xun Yue, in order to prevent vicious competition, has stipulated the highest standards of salary and treatment, and how many people can be recruited depends purely on eloquence and communication with each other.

Many weak families were unable to resist the "borrowing" of the population of the surrounding powerful families, and their own population was insufficient, and they even did not hesitate to spend high salaries and great efforts to recruit people and literate teachers from Jiangdong.

Yuan Shu is currently temporarily allowed to dig into the corners of the Great Chu Wall to develop himself, but only Jingzhou and Yangzhou, which have a large population, are open, and the upper limit of the number of people, treatment and relevant laws are strictly stipulated, and the existence of deception and forced buying and selling is absolutely not allowed.

There is no way, the territory of the southwestern countries is not small, much larger than the land of a state, and the local people are too few, and there are almost no Han people, and the hidden population of the family is no longer enough.

These families used to hide a lot of people, but they can't stand the fact that a lot of people have been stationed in Yizhou, Zhu Yizhou and other places, coupled with the strict household registration system in Dachu now, and the fewer and fewer displaced people, it is now overstretched. If Yuan Shu did not temporarily open up some restrictions, the time required for the sinicization and development of the southwestern countries would have taken too long. Therefore, Yuan Shu opened up the recruitment behavior during this time.

Yuan Shu is also short of people! The newly acquired Xiliang, Sili, and Yuzhou are all sparsely populated. Not to mention Xiliang, there are not many people, the Qiang people are even more than the Han people, and there is no economic value in the original, but now the large-scale sheep herding and horse herding requires a lot of people. Si Li has been deserted since Dong Zhuo's rebellion. The only better Yuzhou was forcibly transferred by Liu Bei when he left, and the population was also small.

With development and economic development, the importance and value of population will only become more apparent. In the territory of Dachu, there is no trace of the appearance of human life in the troubled world, on the contrary, the value of the population has grown wildly. This is also the reason why Yuan Shu is reluctant to recruit too many soldiers, and the value that the lost soldiers can create by themselves is far more than the money and food he needs to spend. The money wasted by recruiting one more soldier is enough for Yuan Shu to equip more than a dozen soldiers, and it is not as cost-effective as upgrading equipment and strengthening training to recruit more soldiers.

Yuan Shu is almost crazy thinking about the population now, every time he sees the countries around the territory of the Han Dynasty on the map, the large grasslands in the north, the Western Regions, the Kushan, and the southwestern countries, and many islands in the south, Yuan Shu has to sigh.

These places are easy to lay and difficult to occupy! Each area is a large number of people in Yuan Shu's eyes, and now the population of twenty or thirty million in Dachu is extremely terrifying in the eyes of Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others, but in Yuan Shu's heart, it is too little. If you want to expand the territory of Dachu to your ideal area, you need at least nearly 100 million people, plus the population needed to support the families to go out, and this number needs to be increased by another three to fifty percent.

At this time, Yuan Shu was eager to turn all the people under his command into man-making machines, and every night if he didn't have anything to do, he would make people for me, and each family would have ten or eight children.