Chapter 290: Three Degrees to the North

The matter of relocation can be said to be extraordinary, only a month of preparation time is undoubtedly very hasty, many issues need Liu Zhang to personally make decisions, coordination, from time to time to do ideological work for those who are nostalgic for their homeland, busy all day long like a spinning top, he even has time to accompany his mother to have a meal, play a round of mahjong......

Liu Zhang often comforts himself that long pain is better than short pain, and it is only a month to persevere......

Maybe it's really self-anesthesia that plays a role, don't be busy, a month is like a white horse passing by, fleeting.

In 196 AD, in the third year of Han Xingping, on February 15, Liu Zhang, his mother, wife, children, and three brothers worshiped the tomb of his father Liu Yan, and left Chengdu to go north with a group of civil and military forces and 100,000 troops and 100,000 people.

Except for some of these people, who are the families of officials and soldiers, most of them are barbarians who have walked out of the deep mountains and old forests, and the cultivated land in Yizhou is limited. No, after hundreds or even thousands of years of hard work, a large amount of wasteland with reclamation value has already been reclaimed by the people who love the land deeply, and the rest are some poor and barren land, and it is difficult to get a good harvest after planting crops after reclamation. Moreover, Liu Zhang is well aware of how serious the soil erosion caused by a large number of land reclamation will be, so he has never advocated uncontrolled land reclamation. Over the years, Liu Zhang has obtained a lot of land by means of government acquisition and raiding of criminal officials and ordinary people, and he has taken out all of this land and rented it to the people who have lost their land and the barbarians who have gone out of the mountains.

However, since Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the land annexation was serious, a large number of people lost their land and became rich and powerful tenants, and hundreds of thousands, millions of barbarians went out of the mountains, so the land in his hands has been very tight, although the limited land has realized Liu Zhang's desire to have his own land, but the per capita land area of these people is very different from what others want to compare, and the limited land can only allow these people and barbarians to barely maintain food and clothing.

Confucius sage left a wise saying hundreds of years ago - do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from inequality! In the past, they often couldn't eat enough, but now they are satisfied with a full meal, but after a few years, they see their neighbors fish and meat all day long, and they only have brown rice to fill their stomachs, can they still maintain the satisfaction they are now? No, they will only feel strong resentment and anger, why are they also Han people, but they only have two acres of thin land to survive, but the neighbor's family has ten acres of fertile land? This is almost equivalent to planting the seeds of chaos, and the slightest spark will burst out! It's not unfounded, it's human nature, we often think that being insatiable and insatiable is a curse, but in fact it's just human nature! He has been committed to extinguishing this hidden danger, he opened a workshop, so that many people into the workshop, no longer rely on the field can also support their families, but now the scale of the workshop is not large, can not accommodate such a huge number, to completely solve this problem, there must be more land to distribute to others, the gap between per capita ownership of land narrowed, but he can't change the land, and he can't forcibly buy the land in the hands of the rich and lease it to others, because that will inevitably be the fierce opposition of the entire Haoqiang and the Shi clan, once the entire Haoqiang, The noble class, then his rule has basically come to an end! Xiliang and Guanzhong have been killed by Dong Zhuo's tyranny, a large number of innocent people were killed, and many lands became borderless, coupled with the exploitation of the rulers, the land was highly concentrated in the hands of the Xiliang high-level, and Liu Zhang swept away the Xiliang Group and then took all these lands into his own hands. After returning to Chengdu, Liu Zhang ordered people to mobilize the people to move to Guanzhong, and Liu Zhang stipulated that every person who moved to Guanzhong, regardless of men, women, and children, could get ten acres of land, and exempt all taxes in the first year, and collect taxes at the rate of 20 taxes after one year. Take a family of four as an example, you can get 40 acres of land, with the current harvest, if you plant millet, the yield per mu is about three stones, the wheat is slightly less, but there are more than two stones, after the harvest every year, you can also plant a season of pumpkin, gourd, radish and other vegetables and fruits, each mu can also harvest about two stones, so that each mu can produce about five stones of grain per year. A family of four can harvest coarse grains and fine grains totaling about 200 stones, that is, 24,000 catties, and the land at this time does not need to buy chemical fertilizers, and does not need to spray pesticides. Calculated with five catties of rations per person per day (don't look at this amount more than soldiers, but the people's meals are different from the army, they are small amounts of fine grains with a large number of melons, gourds, radishes and other coarse grains, a pound of flour can ensure that an adult is not hungry all day, can a pound of pumpkin be? It only eats more than 7,000 catties of grain throughout the year, and can have a surplus of 12,000 catties, that is, 100 stones. At the current grain price in Yizhou, 300 wen and one stone of wheat can get 30,000 wen, that is, 30 yuan. Of course, it is not possible for all the surplus to be fine grain, even if half and half are sold, and all the surplus fine grain is sold, and the money can be fifteen times; Coarse grains can also be used to raise livestock, for example, to feed pigs, you can raise two fat pigs...... With little need for agitation, a large number of people flocked to the local county government to register and move to Guanzhong.

This time, the 100,000 people are just the advance team, and there are hundreds of thousands of people who will move to Guanzhong in batches within this year (in fact, many of the people who moved to Guanzhong were originally Guanzhong people, and were taken in by Liu Zhang a few years ago to escape Dong Zhuo's tyranny, and now Dong Zhuo is dead, and most of them want to return to their hometowns).

Outside Chengdu, Liu Zhang said goodbye to the new Yizhou Thorn Shi, the former Qijun Taishou Zhuge Jin, the new Yizhou Beijia Wang Lei (the chief of staff of the Third Field Corps was promoted by Liu Ye, and Liu Ye's former deputy chief of staff was temporarily vacant), Zheng Xuan, Huo Jun, Lei Tong, and others, the new dean of Shuxue Yizhou College, Zheng Xuan, Huo Jun, Lei Tong and others. As for the original Yizhou don't drive Xun Yu is Liu Zhang's right-hand man, of course, he has to go to Chang'an with him, the former Shu scholar Cai Yong is Liu Zhang's father-in-law, Cai Yong and his wife are old, and there is only one daughter under Cai Yan's knees, Liu Zhang is naturally unwilling to let them be separated, so he asked Cai Yong to relieve himself of the post of Shu scholar and go to Chang'an with him.

"Yizhou is the foundation of my Shu Kingdom, after Lone leaves, everything will have to worry about you, I respect you for a cup!" Liu Zhang raised his wine glass and said to Zhuge and the others.

Zhuge Jin and others said in unison: "The prince is serious, the food of the king, the matter of loyalty to the king, the ministers are Shu ministers, so they naturally bow to the king!" Although Liu Zhang did not officially establish the country, the holy decree of the emperor has been issued, and the matter is a foregone conclusion.

Drink the wine in the cup, take care of each other, Liu Zhang didn't say anything more, the one who wants to be instructed has already been instructed, whether Zhuge Jin or Wang is tired, it is a drum, no need to beat it again, Liu Zhang bowed deeply, turned around and stepped on the chariot given by the emperor, Xun Yu and others also saluted Zhuge Jin and others, and after saying to each other, they stepped on their respective cars and horses.

With Xu Chu's order, the team moved forward slowly......

Zhuge Jin and the others bowed down to see each other, and only returned to Chengdu until Liu Zhang's chariot could no longer be seen. The establishment of Shu is certainly worth rejoicing, but Zhuge Jin does not dare to be careless, because the voice of Yizhou's opposition to relocation has never really disappeared, if these people take advantage of this short chaos after Liu Zhang's departure, it will inevitably cause a major blow to the prestige of the upcoming Shu State, Liu Zhang trusts him so much, with a state to entrust, he naturally wants to work hard to ensure the stability of Yizhou.

Fortunately, Liu Zhang was also worried that there would be turmoil in Yizhou, so he left Zhuge Jin with enough soldiers and horses to deter and deal with it. Huo Junzhi's 13th Division, Lei Tong's 14th Division, and the Fourth Fleet of the Navy were all left behind, and the third cavalry brigade was newly formed to garrison Chengdu, plus as many as 40,000 garrisons, even if the Hanzhong garrison is not counted, Zhuge Jin's soldiers and horses in his hands have reached nearly 100,000, which is enough to deal with the general turmoil. But Zhuge Jin knew that this was not what Liu Zhang wanted to see, and he himself also did not want to see this situation, from Liu Zhang to him, he hoped to prevent trouble before it happened, as the foundation of Shu State, even the slightest turmoil would cause an immeasurable blow to the soon-to-be-successful Shu State! Because of this, Zhuge Jin will not be idle at all in the short term, and he must always be vigilant.

This time to the north, compared with the crusade against Zhang Lu and last year's crusade against Dong Zhuo, Liu Zhang's mood is very different, first, this time the north is not because of the war, second, the founding of the country is imminent, the most important thing is the third point, Liu Zhang is accompanied by Cai Yan and Yaoting, all the way north like a spring, just care about the mountains and rivers, very happy.

Unconsciously, the brigade arrived at the Qinling Mountains, and this time it was not a conquest to go north, so it naturally chose the easiest meridian road. Although the meridian road is the flattest in the four roads of the Qinling Mountains, but only in comparison, in fact, the trek is also very difficult, especially the 100,000 people, the barbarians are better, they have grown in the mountains and forests since childhood, climbing the mountains and crossing the stream like covering the flat ground, but those Han people are suffering, more than 40 people accidentally fell to their deaths in half a month after crossing the Qinling Mountains, plus the people who fell to death on the plank road, this migration trip, a total of nearly 100 people paid for their lives!

Half a month later, Liu Zhang and his entourage of more than 100,000 people finally arrived in Chang'an.

The people in Chang'an City have long known that Liu Zhang will move to Chang'an, and they warmly support this, because they are grateful from the bottom of their hearts for this person who rescued them from the sea of fire and water. When they learned that Liu Zhang's car was about to arrive, tens of thousands of people spontaneously flocked to the outside of the city to welcome the arrival of the young ruler.