(Wrong statement: It was written before that Huiji County was located in Wu County, but it was written incorrectly here, Wu County belonged to Wu County, and the Huiji County was indeed Wu County in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, and later separated, divided into Wu County and Huiji County, and the Huiji County Office moved south to Shanyin County, now Shaoxing, Zhejiang.) ）

(I'm sorry for the mistake, but I'll change it now.) ）

Zhang Yu also felt strange, how could the people in Wu County be so busy.

Zhang Yu led the team to the south and headed to Huiji County.

"Quick, quick, line up, come one by one."

"Each person receives two flatbreads first, and you can also receive food along the way, and when you arrive in Huiji County, you will have food to eat."

"Don't crowd, line up, and go to Huiji County together."

Zhang Yu saw a lot of people in an open field, about a thousand people, and there were people there who organized the distribution of food.

Zhang Yu also heard about Huiji County several times, obviously this is related to Huiji County.

Zhang Yu dismounted and walked over.

"This little brother, what are you doing here?" Zhang Yu asked.

"Hey, you don't look like a refugee, passing by. This is the place where we recruit refugees, and if there are refugees who are willing to go to Huiji, we will arrange food along the way so that they can reach Huiji County. The man replied to Zhang Yudao.

Zhang Yu nodded secretly, recruiting refugees has always been what he insisted, and it seems that Zhang Zhao and they have been doing it.

Zhang Yu didn't continue to bother, and led people to continue to hurry.

On the way, Zhang Yu saw several places that recruited refugees.

Huiji County is the largest county in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the population is very small and requires a large number of people.

The cavalry quickly whipped up, and two days later, Zhang Yu and the others arrived in the territory of Shanyin County.

"Lord, this is Huiji County, and it's not very desolate here." Dian Wei heard Zhang Yu say that there are no 200,000 people in this county, and the land is large and sparsely populated.

Zhang Yu naturally knew what the situation was in Huiji County before.

Now they see many settlements along the road, and there are people who are clearing wasteland and preparing to grow crops.

"It seems that Zibu has achieved a lot of results, and it may be more than I imagined to recruit homeless people." Zhang Yu said expectantly.

"Let's go to the county guard's mansion and see what our territory has changed now." Zhang Yu said happily, and urged the war horse to speed forward.

Entering the county seat, the population on the street has also increased a lot, but it is not an exaggeration.

Speeding up, Zhang Yu arrived outside the county guard's mansion.

"Lord, my lord is back, go and tell all my lords."

As soon as he arrived outside the county guard's mansion, a soldier recognized Zhang Yu.

These soldiers were soldiers brought back by Zhang Yu from Guangzong City, and they all knew Zhang Yu.

Zhang Yu took Dian Wei in, and the other soldiers were tired all the way and arranged for them to go to the barracks to rest.

"Meet my lord."

Xi Zhicai, Zhang Zhao, and Xiang Heng were in the ranks, and hurried to meet Zhang Yu.

And Ling Cao, Zhou Cang and others were training in the military camp, but they were not in the county guard.

"In the days of my absence, I have worked hard everyone, go in and speak." Zhang Yu picked up a few subordinates and went in together.

"Zibu, let's talk about it first, what kind of situation is it in Huiji County now." Zhang Yu is looking forward to the changes in Huiji.

Zhang Zhao first sorted out his thoughts, and then saluted everyone and said: "My lord, the biggest change is the population, the entire Huiji County used to have a population of less than 200,000, but now it has a population of more than 500,000, and the population of each county has been greatly enriched. ”

Zhang Yu nodded, and said happily: "A few of you are doing well, on the way back, I also saw that you have set up a place to recruit displaced people, population is the foundation of a place, and there must be enough population to develop." ”

Several people agreed.

Zhang Zhao said again: "My lord, although we have a population of more than 500,000, Huiji County is too large, and this population is still too small. In addition, now that the war is over, there are fewer and fewer displaced people, and it will not be long before we can increase the population by recruiting displaced people. ”

"There is no need to worry about this matter, I will solve the population matter, and now that the displaced people are recruited, do they have the ability to resettle well, and what is the burden on the county?"

Population growth is a good thing, but it's useless if they can't be well housed.

Zhang Zhao then reported: "My lord, the refugees recruited have been properly settled, but a lot of money and food have been consumed, if it weren't for the lord's capture on the battlefield, I'm afraid our county would not be able to function." ”

After Zhang Zhao finished speaking, he simply calculated the account for Zhang Yu.

If you recruit 300,000 displaced people, and each person spends 100 copper coins to settle them, it will cost 30 million yuan.

This is still as much as possible to save the situation.

These displaced people have to eat and drink along the road, and when they get to the place, they need to build them houses, and they also need to give them farm tools and seeds to produce.

Therefore, the average cost of 100 copper coins per person is very, very small.

"My lord, now the finances of our county are almost bottoming out, and the tax revenue is hundreds of thousands of copper dollars a year, which is not enough for the county's expenses for a few days." Zhang Zhao said.

Zhang Yu suddenly felt that it would cost so much to run a territory.

recruited 300,000 people, which made Zhang Yu's tens of millions earned on the battlefield squander.

However, Zhang Yu is not very anxious about money, he still has a system, although it feels very bad to exchange points for big money, but when there is no way, it can only be so.

Then Zhang Yu learned about all aspects of Huiji County.

After understanding, Zhang Yu felt that there was a long way to go to run Huiji County.

First of all, the income of the entire Huiji County is so much agricultural tax, and now Zhang Yu still has to raise soldiers and horses, and that money is only enough to raise soldiers and horses, and there is no extra money for development at all.

At this time, Zhang Yu was in need of a large amount of money to invest.

"Okay, I've got a general idea of the situation, and now I'm going to assign some tasks for everyone to arrange immediately." Zhang Yu said.

Several people sat upright, ready to listen to Zhang Yu's arrangement.

"Next we have an important thing, that is, to set up counties, the more the better, if there are conditions, we will set up counties, and if there are no conditions, we will create conditions." Zhang Yu said.

A few people wondered what Zhang Yu was going to do, and Zhang Yu suddenly proposed to set up a county.

"My lord, we set up a county privately, this court?" Xiang Heng reminded.

Zhang Yu raised his hand to stop it, and then said: "Don't worry about the court, no one will come to trouble us, and besides, we set it up in private, and we don't report it to the court." ”

"My lord, now that our population and talents are there, it is not only meaningless to set up redundant counties, but also a waste of resources." Xi Zhicai said.

Zhang Yu did not answer Xi Zhicai's question, but said: "It is of great significance to set up a county, Patriarch Xiang, you have to come forward to arrange it, now I lack talents here, how many Xiang clan people can be arranged to manage a county?" ”

Xiang Heng stroked his beard and began to calculate.

The reason why Zhang Yu set up a large number of counties is very simple, he still has four times that the rewards of the base population have not been redeemed.

According to the rules of the system, each county added a thousand to its population.

At present, there are only 15 counties in Huiji County, which can increase the population by 15,000.

It's too little, and Zhang Yu can get more people by setting up more counties.