Chapter 126: Yizhou Population Explosion Jian Yong built three more counties
Just when Liu Bei inspected the counties of the Western Regions, and Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo sent troops to conquer Beigong Boyu, the monthly report of Yizhou Jian Yong also reached Liu Bei.
In fact, not only Jian Yong's monthly report, but also Huiji County and Liaodong County have monthly reports to Liu Bei every month, but due to the chaos in the world, it is becoming more and more difficult to convey the monthly report.
However, Liu Bei can still receive monthly reports every month, and basically the three places are in stable development!
It's just that this time Liu Bei saw Yizhou's monthly report, and Liu Bei was very happy.
Liu Bei led the troops to attack you to fight the Zhangjiao Yellow Turban rebels, and because of Liu Bei's plan and the cooperation of Lu Bu and Gan Ning, Yizhou became the biggest winner.
Since April of the first year of Zhongping, Gan Ning has basically made a round trip between Tanggaogang and Yizhou every two months, and each time he has picked up almost 150,000 people from Tanggaogang!
In this way, four round trips, all the captives of the Battle of Guangzong and their families were relocated to Yizhou, and Yizhou exploded from less than 300,000 people to 1 million at once!
Moreover, in the past few years, due to Liu Bei's policy of encouraging childbirth, the population of the entire Yizhou has increased geometrically.
Originally, there were only about 200,000 people in Yizhou, encouraging childbearing, and at the same time, Xi Zhong led various armies to continuously exterminate the mountain people in Yizhou, so that Yizhou increased its population by nearly 200,000 in just three years.
When Gan Ning migrated the people of Jizhou to Yizhou, Jian Yong and Xi Zhicai led a group of civil and military personnel to begin to settle the people, and originally the entire Yizhou had five county seats: Yizhong County, Chiayi County, Yunmeng County, Xianju County and Yinan County.
The first three groups of people were all arranged by Jian Yong to these five counties, so that Yizhong County had a population of 200,000;
Chiayi County has a population of 150,000; Yunmeng County has a population of 150,000; Xianju County has a population of 150,000; Yinan County has a population of 150,000.
Although these five counties have not yet reached the upper limit of population, considering the future population development, Jian Yong and Xi Zhicai discussed and decided to build three counties.
These three counties are Xianyou County in the north of Yinan County, Xin'an County between Xianyou County and Chiayi County, and Hsinchu County in the northeast of Xianju County, and 60,000 people moved into each of the three counties at the same time!
At the same time, after Jian Yong and Xi Zhong also discussed, they sent Gao Shun to lead the trapping army, He Ting to lead the Tiger Ben army, and Chen Zhi to lead the Long Yan army to organize the construction of the three counties.
After all the people were settled, Jian Yong conveyed the law on behalf of Liu Bei, as long as the people settled in Yizhou could get ten acres of fertile land according to the capita.
In all areas under Liu Bei's rule, including Yizhou and the Western Regions, all the land deeds are in duplicate, and the land nominally belongs to the people, but the land deeds are one for the people and one for the government, and only one land deed cannot be bought and sold!
The tax is only 30 tax one, for such a low tax policy, the people who migrated from Jizhou have applauded. At this time, Yizhou is really a paradise for them!
At the same time, Jian Yong also promulgated that the time for sowing has passed, but the government has solved the problem of food and housing for all the people who have migrated, and what the people need to do is to assist the three armies to build the city and assist the government to reclaim wasteland.
Originally, Yizhou had five million fertile land after Jian Yong's four years of development, but because the number of immigrants was too large this time, the random fertile land was not enough to be allocated, so Jian Yong mobilized the people to continue to reclaim the wasteland!
And for the Yellow Turban captives who have just stepped into Yizhou, what else is there to find fault with such generous conditions? Therefore, they have invested in the construction of cities and the reclamation of wasteland.
The elderly, and children help boil water for cooking. As for the planting of potatoes, Liu Bei had already sent someone to Yizhou to guide the people of Yizhou to plant.
Moreover, in Yizhou, Liu Bei was not worried that this secret would be discovered by other forces, because in the entire Yizhou, only the government had ships, and even the fishing boats were all from the government.
Therefore, Yizhou started planting potatoes early! And at present, a relatively large-scale potato cultivation has been formed. And after several years of development, Yizhou's granaries are full of grain!
After that, Jian Yong slowly conveyed all the laws and regulations of Yizhou to the people of Yizhou. These include a system in which school-age children must attend school, including a system that encourages childbearing, and so on.
In the midst of the fiery city construction, there were gradually some fights, chaos and so on. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there are wars.
Therefore, Xi Zhong made a quick decision, and without asking Liu Bei, he ordered the Trap Army, the Tiger Army, the Long Yan Army and the Jinfan Army to expand their troops.
The trapping army originally had only 10,000 troops, but at this time it was expanded to two armies, 25,000 troops!
The Tiger Ben Army has also expanded from the original 10,000 troops to 25,000 troops of two armies!
Since the Long Yan Army had just been created, it originally had only 5,000 troops, but this time it was expanded by 20,000, and it also reached the point of two armies!
After Gan Ning's Jinfan Army, the Jinfan Army originally had only 4,000 troops of uneven levels when it was under Su Fei. After Gan Ning returned to Yizhou, he focused on rectification, and continued to expand his recruitment, and finally reached the point of 10,000 troops not long ago.
And now it has been expanded again, and it has also reached the level of two armies and 25,000 troops.
So far, the entire Yizhou has a total of 100,000 troops, including 75,000 army and 25,000 navy troops.
Similarly, in recent years, due to the continuous trade between Liaodong and Xianbei, and at the same time, the horse farm in Yizhou has also reached a certain scale, so the entire Yizhou can also support 10,000 war horses.
Then Liu Bei provided the horseshoe to Yizhou, and after this expansion, each army in the entire Yizhou had 2,500 cavalry, but of course, Ganning's Jinfan Army did not need cavalry!
In the end, Jian Yong and Xi Zhong also asked Liu Bei at the end of the report when he arrived in Yizhou and when Yizhou would be able to expand externally!
After reading this report, Liu Bei was overjoyed from the bottom of his heart, although he had not returned to Yizhou for two years, Liu Bei's loyalty to Yizhou was still very relieved!
First of all, Jian Yong is Liu Bei's diehard loyalist, and he has followed Liu Bei since he was a child, and he has been following him for more than 20 years. Xi Zhong is also a loyal and righteous person, and more importantly, Xi Zhong has had a platform to use force since he followed Liu Bei!
As for the generals, Gao Shun, although he was once Liu Bei's general, Gao Shun was a loyal and righteous person, starting from the beginning;
He Ting, Liu Bei is not worried, because He Ting's family is all controlled by Liu Bei in the Western Regions;
Chen Dao, with Jian Yong, Chen Zhi will not have two hearts; In the end, as for Gan Ning, even if Gan Ning was unjust, he could only take away 25,000 troops, and it would not have an impact on Yizhou at all!
But even so, Liu Bei still planned to go back to Yizhou as soon as possible to set the tone for the future development!
Thinking about this, Liu Bei took up the pen and wrote a reply letter to Jian Yong and Xi Zhong respectively.
The content is roughly, comfort the two of them, and the two of them have worked hard to run Yizhou. Affirm what the two of them did in Yizhou!
At the same time, tell the two that the day of Yizhou's expansion is not far off. Let Xi Zhong train his soldiers, and let Jian Yong govern the people's livelihood!
Finally, inform the two that he, Liu Bei, will return to Yizhou as soon as possible!
After that, Liu Bei took out the monthly reports of Zhong Xuan of Huiji County and Xun Yu of Liaodong County, which were probably similar to the usual.
The Liaodong Yellow Turban Rebellion was affected, but the overall situation was not bad.
In this regard, Liu Bei replied to Xun You, there is no need to stick to Liaodong, when he feels that Liaodong is undefendable, bring as many people back to Yizhou as possible, if it is really not possible, he and Zhou Cang will lead the family to return to Yizhou!
As for Huiji County, Liu Bei didn't want to give up, in the past two years, Wei Chizhan led the county soldiers to win a hundred battles, defeated all the Shanyue in the territory, and most of them migrated to Yizhou!
After that, Liu Bei asked Zhong Xuan to stabilize the governance of Huiji County as much as possible, because in the future, Huiji County will be an important part of Liu Bei's power!
After replying to the four of them, Liu Bei's heart was also relieved, and he began to focus on the affairs of the Western Regions again!