Chapter 374: The Great Migration
When the matter of Fuso was completely completed and transmitted back to China, it was already the end of the sixth year of Tai'an.
In this year, the Great Zhou experienced a lot of things, first the earthquake in Taean Province, then the annexation of Warat, and finally the division of Fuso.
These many things have not had the greatest impact on Zhang Lingyang.
In Zhang Lingyang's view, the greatest impact on the Great Zhou was the large-scale migration of people from Hebei, southern Henan, and Shandong provinces to eastern Liaodong.
Because last year, the imperial court had organized 100,000 households from the three northern provinces to move to Liaodong, so after the autumn of the sixth year of Tai'an, Liaodong achieved an unprecedented bumper harvest.
In addition, the land redeveloped by the Liaodong Zhuwei Institute is enough to feed a million people without any problems.
Needless to say, after Zhang Lingyang learned about the situation in Liaodong, he decided to move a million people to Liaodong this year without saying a word.
The human, material, and financial resources to be consumed during such a large-scale migration are not a small amount at all.
Therefore, a group of ministers led by Chen Yiming, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Cao Rui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, strongly opposed this.
After all, with such a large-scale population migration, if something goes wrong, it's not a joke.
This is not the future generation, and a few more trains will be able to relocate so many people.
Under the current conditions of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it would take at least two months to move the population from the interior, especially from southern Henan in the Central Plains, to eastern Liaodong.
Is the amount of money and food to be consumed during this period a small amount?
At one time, the Ministry of Household Affairs even prevaricated on the grounds that the state treasury was short of money and food, with the aim of putting an end to large-scale migration.
It's not that these ministers are reluctant to move people to Liaodong, but there are too many people who have migrated at once, and in the eyes of these ministers, this is not a normal phenomenon at all.
"Is it normal for people to struggle in the land and not have enough food and clothing every day?" At the court meeting, Zhang Lingyang made a rare slot again.
"Since the household department is unwilling to give this money and grain, then I will pay it! The six departments don't want to take on such a heavy responsibility, and I bear it myself! ”
"But when it comes to the front, in the future, the taxes in Liaodong, even if it is a grain of rice or a penny, the household department will want to receive it!"
Ignoring the minister's opposition and exhortation, Zhang Lingyang resolutely made the decision to migrate the population to Liaodong on a large scale.
Wenchen was unwilling to follow Zhang Lingyang, and Zhang Lingyang was not unavailable.
Zhang Lingyang directly instructed Xiaofuzi to allocate five million taels of silver from the internal treasury to prepare grain and grass and other things.
At first glance, five million taels of silver is not a small amount, but in reality? It's just enough to tip.
Millions of people migrate, and people eat horses and chew, is it a small number?
Besides, the people of this era are all relocated, if they don't give them a little benefit, who wants to go to the strange and distant Liaodong?
Even if the people don't leave their homes, they still know that Liaodong is a bitter cold land.
What's more, who wants to throw away these pots and pans at home? Even if you go to Liaodong, don't you have to buy it again?
Doesn't it cost money?
Therefore, it is not just a matter of talking about the migration of people, and the opposition of ministers is not unreasonable.
But who is Zhang Lingyang?
As an emperor, even if you know that your decision is wrong, sometimes you have to continue with this wrong decision.
Since the people were reluctant to give up the pots and pans at home, Zhang Lingyang directly ordered to wait for the distribution of new pots and pans in Liaodong. In addition, the first part of the family can distribute farming cattle.
Is it okay to pay it back this time? I heard that the imperial court will distribute ploughing cattle at that time, and the people who were reluctant to go before were killed, but at this time they packed up their things faster than anyone else.
Who cares about the rags at home?
Since the civil officials were unwilling to help, Zhang Lingyang simply gave the local health offices and asked them to arrange food and lodging along the way.
However, fortunately, in addition to the direct passage of Shanhaiguan when the people of Hebei were relocated, the people of Shandong went directly from the Jiaodong Peninsula to the Liaodong Peninsula by sea boat, and then landed from the Liaodong Peninsula to various places in Liaodong.
The people of southern Henan gathered in Kaifeng Prefecture, the provincial capital, and took a boat along the Yellow River into the Bohai Sea, and then landed on the Liaodong Peninsula.
So in general, except for the trivial affairs in Hebei, the affairs of southern Henan and Shandong provinces are not so complicated.
What is really complicated is actually the Liaodong side.
This year, the Liaodong Weisu was busy clearing wasteland, how could there be so much time to prepare so many houses for the people to live in?
The winter in Liaodong is extremely cold, and if the house is not up to standard, it is normal for the bad people to freeze.
Not to mention, after the autumn harvest, the only thing that the soldiers of the guards in Liaodong were busy with was to build houses in the places that had been planned for a long time.
But fortunately, the soldiers of the Liaodong Guard Station usually have no combat missions, so they don't have to worry about other things except building houses.
Wei Suo doesn't worry about it, it doesn't prove that Zhang Lingyang, the emperor, doesn't worry about some side things.
Zhang Lingyang does not have to worry about the grain problem, because this year's grain output in Liaodong is enough for one million people to eat for a year.
Zhang Lingyang didn't have to worry about the house, because the soldiers of the guards in Liaodong were busy with this matter.
What Zhang Lingyang has to worry about is actually the problem of daily necessities.
You said that the guards in Liaodong can provide shelter and even rations for the people, but what about pots and pans? What about oil, salt, sauce and vinegar? You can't still worry about it, right?
The point is, even if Zhang Lingyang instructed these things to be done by the guards in various parts of Liaodong, they would still be able to produce them, right?
Needless to say, the commercial supervisor also has to organize a group of merchants to supply these daily necessities to Liaodong on a regular basis.
When 100,000 people migrated to Liaodong last year, these problems were not conspicuous, but now they have really become Zhang Lingyang's biggest headache.
Although 100,000 residents consume a lot of these daily necessities, they can be solved with the support of the local health center.
But the biological items of millions of people, even if the soldiers of the local health center in Liaodong do not eat or drink, and do not consume a little bit of daily necessities, they can't meet the needs of the people!
It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning, and this beginning is indeed a difficult thing.
If these millions of people live in Liaodong for a year or two, they will be able to solve these life problems by themselves.
The key is that when they first went to Liaodong, they were not familiar with the people there, and even if there were many craftsmen among them, the guys who ate did not bring them with them, it would be difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and they could not solve any problems.
But fortunately, over the years, the relationship network of the commercial supervisor has spread all over the Great Zhou, and countless merchants want to obtain the cooperation of the commercial supervisor, so when the eunuch Xiao Wu Zi said that the commercial supervisor was in charge of the seal, those merchants did not say a word, and began to organize caravans to Liaodong.
Of course, since people went to Liaodong, regardless of whether they made money or not, Xiao Wuzi did enough favors and sent people to discuss with the guards along the way......