After the winter, when the news of tens of thousands of Hu people moving inland to the southwest reached the capital, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked.

No one expected that Hu Ren would not run away after grabbing this time, but moved inward on a large scale, which was unexpected by everyone.

Even civilian officials who are completely amateur to the military know that this matter is not trivial, and it can be said that the situation is serious.

In the past, only 30,000 Hu cavalry invaded the southwest, which had already caused chaos in the southwest and even the entire southern region, and the people were panicked.

Now I have heard that a large number of Hu people have crossed mountains and rivers and dragged their families into the southwest, which does not look like a temporary residence, but looks like they want to settle down, which of course will shock the Manchu officials.

The ferocity of the Hu people has been heard of by almost everyone, and now that so many Hu people are allowed to enter the interior, this will definitely become a big problem for Great Wei.

What's worse is that it is not yet known what the total number of Hu people who have moved inward, and the soldier in charge of reconnaissance only said that so far, more than 70,000 Hu people have entered the southwest. It is still unknown how many will be after that.

For a while, almost all the officials were consciously or unconsciously observing the expressions of An Guogong and the new emperor Shuntian, wanting to see how they reacted.

But An Guogong behaved very calmly, as if he was not surprised by the news, and it was completely unknown whether he had expected such a situation a long time ago.

In contrast, Emperor Shuntian's face was much more ugly, his whole face was tightly tensed, and there was a sense of depression that was about to come.

Knowing that the emperor was in a bad mood, many officials did not dare to propose anything at this sensitive juncture, just when the early dynasty was about to end hastily, Emperor Shuntian, who had not spoken out, suddenly looked at An Guogong meaningfully and asked: "Xie Qingjia, what do you think about the internal relocation of the Hu people?" ”

After An Guogong bowed, he bowed and said, "Back to the emperor, this matter is not a big deal.

As long as we take Jiangkou Mansion in Pingnan as a stronghold, take the Huai River as the boundary, and stick to the southeast line, we can contain the Hu people in Yannan and Zhenyuan.

At that time, we will cooperate with the army to clear them one by one, and the Hu people can be driven back to the southwest. ”

"I still clearly remember that the person who proposed to me to give up Yannan and Zhenyuan provinces was the Xie Qing family.

At that time, the Qing family swore that this move was foolproof, and I would agree to this policy.

I hope it is really as Xie Qing said, otherwise Xie Qing will really become my Great Wei sinner through the ages.

Of course, this is just a joke, don't be surprised by Xie Qing's family. Emperor Shuntian said with a smile.

"The emperor likes to joke, and the ministers have always known about it, so naturally they won't be surprised." An Guogong replied expressionlessly.

"Okay, okay, if the Zhongqing family has nothing else to do, then retreat. I'm tired. After speaking, Emperor Shuntian got up and left the main hall with a pale face.

The officials hurriedly saluted.

After An Guogong left His Royal Highness with a group of confidant officials, the other officials breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time found that they had a cold sweat on their bodies.

The round of dialogue between the emperor and An Guogong just now was really full of wit, and there was even a sense of swords.

No one expected that the emperor would dump the pot to An Guogong in public, to show that it was indeed An Guogong himself who proposed to give up Yannan and Zhenyuan, not the emperor's own will.

This round of the blade sounded a little like tearing your face.

Could it be that the relationship between the emperor and An Guogong has become so bad?

The idea made many officials nervous.

Because once the emperor really breaks with An Guogong, then these non-core officials must choose to take sides.

Although the emperor is the rightful lord of the Great Wei, An Guogong holds the military power of the whole country, and the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and his strength is far above that of Emperor Shuntian.

If a conflict does break out between the two sides, An Guogong will have a much greater chance of winning.

Can't the emperor see this? If he knew, then why did he provoke An Guogong at this juncture?

At this time, in the Anguo Mansion, An Guogong's eldest son Xie Yukun and second son Xie Yuheng were also very angry about this matter.

They didn't expect the emperor to slap their father An Guogong's face in public above the court, how could they, as a member of the Xie family, not be angry.

"This boy is like his father, an ungrateful white-eyed wolf.

Our Xie family worked hard to put him in the position, and he dared to slap us in the face, it was really hateful! ”

"I think there must be someone behind him instigating him, I'll check it out when I go back."

"What is instigating, I think it is this kid's own thoughts.

He felt that his wings were stiff, and he began to think that our Xie family was in the way.

Sure enough, none of the people in the Zhao family can be raised, all of them are a group of white-eyed wolves. ”

Compared with the anger of the two sons, An Guogong himself seemed very calm, as if this matter had nothing to do with him at all.

Seeing this, Xie Yukun couldn't help but ask, "Father, do you really not mind this?" That kid is shaving your eyebrows in public. ”

An Guogong sneered: "It seems that I still underestimated the new emperor, thinking that he was still the second highness who acted impulsively and didn't want the consequences."

Whether he came up with this matter himself or was instigated by others, we have to guard against it. ”

Xie Yuheng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Father, do you mean that the emperor did this on purpose?" ”

An Guogong said with a calm face: "It seems that the new emperor has turned against us.

But the entire capital and outside are full of our people, and he has nothing to do.

If you were the new emperor, what would you do at this time? ”

Xie Yuheng thought for a while before saying, "If it were me, I would find a way to cultivate my henchmen."

The power of the army is the power of the army, and there is no power without soldiers, and only by cultivating one's own forces first can it be possible to reverse the situation in the future. ”

"But what does this have to do with today's events?" Xie Yukun wondered.

Xie Yuheng didn't understand what was going on for a while.

An Guogong glanced at his two sons, and then replied: "The new emperor is doing this to draw a clear line with us in public, showing that he is not the same as our Xie family.

After all, he is still my own grandson in terms of blood, and he relied on our Xie family to support the throne, and everyone will regard him and our Xie family as one.

Although our Xie family controls most of the military power, there are many people inside and outside the capital who want to oppose our Xie family.

What the new emperor wants is to attract those people to join him and deal with our Xie family with him.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to cultivate his own power alone, and he urgently needed help from external forces.

But if he wants those people to take refuge in him, he must show that he is not at odds with our Xie family, otherwise no one will dare to take refuge in him.

This is a strategy to sprinkle bait into the river and wait for the fish to take the bait. ”

Xie Yukun and Xie Yuheng suddenly realized.

An Guogong continued: "It doesn't seem like such an obscure trick of power and scheming that the new emperor can come up with alone, so I tend to the idea of the second child, maybe there are masters behind his back to guide him."

You must pay close attention to the people around the new emperor to see if there is really someone behind his back to give him advice, and you must not let go of any fish that slips through the net. ”

"Yes, father." The two brothers, Xie Yukun and Xie Yuheng, responded in unison.

After talking about the new emperor, the next thing they had to discuss was the major matter of the internal relocation of the Hu people.

An Guogong himself did not expect that the Hu people would move inward on a large scale, which was really unexpected by him.

But it has come to this point, and it is too late to regret it.

The most important thing now is to stick to the provincial capitals in the south and prevent the Hu people from continuing to encroach on the south, otherwise the harm will become greater and greater.

Considering that the guards in the south had almost no experience in fighting, the quality of the soldiers was too poor to resist the attack of the Hu people.

An Guogong decided to temporarily transfer some veterans guarding Jiangnan to reinforcements, which was also a helpless move.

If it had happened before the autumn harvest, he would not have done it anyway.

But now that all the autumn grain has been put into storage, and most of it has been transported to the capital for storage, even if the Northwest Army comes from thousands of miles to sneak attack, it will have limited gains.

In addition, the hundreds of thousands of displaced people he ordered to send over were enough for the Ning family to eat a pot, and he believed that an experienced veteran like Ning Zhiyuan would not choose to send troops in the cold winter.

After all, sending troops in winter is a taboo for soldiers, as long as any general with experience in leading troops will not do this.

Just as the Great Wei Imperial Court, under the command of An Guogong, was actively preparing to deal with the major event of the internal migration of the Hu people, Zhangzhou and Linqi in the northeast were carrying out a mighty movement to burn mountains and build fields.

After several months of hard work by more than 100,000 displaced people and more than 200,000 local villagers, the artificial canal used to divert water was finally dug before the winter began.

Unlike many canals or canals in history that could be transported by boat, the Zhangzhou Canal and the Linqi Canal were purely used for water storage and irrigation, so they were much smaller in size and length than those large canals.

The two artificial canals are divided into two parts: the main canal and the branch canal.

The main canal is excavated directly from the bank of the Wujiang River, and a dam is built at the mouth of the canal to regulate the inflow and exit of the river water and prevent the canal water from flowing back into the Wujiang River during the dry season.

The canal is two zhang wide and one zhang deep, and the upward oblique angle on both sides is inverted trapezoidal, which is convenient for migrant workers to climb down to clean up the silt in the future.

The main canal is then divided into a number of sub-canals, which are only half the width and depth of the main canal, and flow like a spider web to different mountains, each of which is a terraced field.

The end of each branch is generally located near the foot of the hill and is accompanied by a large pond dedicated to storing water.

It is a miracle that such a large project can be completed by manpower alone in just a few months.

After the aqueduct was dug, it was the turn of the biggest part of the project: burning the mountains to create fields.

At this point, the jurisdiction of these hundreds of thousands of displaced people began to be transferred to the local government. Because these displaced people have been officially classified as the rulers of Zhangzhou and Linqi.

Chi Fei sketched the specific appearance of the Longji Terraces he saw on Longji Mountain when he traveled to Longsheng in Guangxi Province, and drew several pictures from different angles to facilitate local officials and craftsmen to understand what the terraces he wanted.

The officials and craftsmen were amazed when they saw Chi Fei's sketches.

Although they had long heard that Mr. Chi Fei was good at playing with gongbi paintings, they didn't expect it to be so detailed, it was simply a must.

Because of Chi Fei's sketches, officials and craftsmen finally had a more intuitive understanding of the terraces.

The terraced rice fields painted by Chi Fei are still different from the mountain fields in the south.

The mountain fields in the south are generally just dug out one or more pieces of wasteland to make fields according to the topography, often one in the east and one in the west, and everything is just for the convenience of farming.

On the other hand, the terraced fields painted by Chi Fei are fields with strips or wavy sections built on hilly slopes like steps.

Each "step" is a circle of fields, which extends up one layer at a time to the top of the slope.

Such a structure is not only conducive to water storage and soil conservation, but also looks orderly and beautiful.

The local officials knew very much about the importance of the land reclamation and did not dare to slack off, so they immediately ordered their subordinates to carry out the plan according to the drawings and organize the displaced people to carry out a large-scale plan to burn the mountains and create fields.

For a time, Zhangzhou and Linqi often saw thick smoke rising from the mountains near the diversion canal, which was the result of burning mountains everywhere.

And the burned plant ash itself is an excellent fertilizer and insecticide, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

When the fires were completely extinguished, local officials began to organize displaced people to start digging up the mountains and making fields.

Since each family had a share of the fields after these terraces were built, all the displaced people were full of energy.

Under the leadership of the local government, all men, women and children joined in this huge agricultural movement.

Far from the hills, there were many new villages, which were the places where the displaced people lived.

The wood used to build the house is the same tree that was cut down before the mountain was burned.

At that time, many people did not understand why Chi Fei had built the village where the displaced people lived so far away from the terraced fields.

The reason was only known after Chi Fei's explanation.

It turned out that Chi Fei was worried about a landslide in the future, which could endanger the local villagers if the village was too far away.

Although terraces can turn the originally useless hillsides into arable fields, in fact, this method of farming is very damaging to the vegetation in the hilly areas.

Due to the lack of trees on the mountain that can stabilize the soil, it is very likely that if it rains heavily for several days in a row, it may cause soil erosion and landslides.

In addition, the cultivation of terraced fields consumes much more manpower than that of the plains, and the yield does not have any advantages, so this farming method has long been gradually eliminated in modern society, and has now become a simple tourist attraction.

Although Zhangzhou and Linqi are as dry and rainless as other northeastern prefectures, there is no guarantee that they will not encounter sudden rain in the future, so it is better to set up the village far away from the terraced fields.

As a decision-maker, you need to be forward-looking.

As the person in charge of this plan, Chi Fei needs to take all aspects into account and prepare in advance.

On this morning, during his routine inspection, Chi Fei looked at the burned and bare hillsides in front of him, which were being transformed little by little, and the homeless people who were working them like ants, Chi Fei sincerely hoped that these newly built terraced fields could feed these people and give these innocent people a glimmer of life.