Chapter 277: People Go to the Place of Life
Bai Gui originally wanted to pull a group of people from the Chu State to Linquan Castle, but the result was unexpected: the people of the Chu State were unwilling to migrate to the prairie. They said! If they migrated, they would only run deep into the mountains and live in places where the government could not find them.
It's not that they don't obey the government, but! They don't want to be soldiers. He is not willing to die on the battlefield for the supremacy of kings. For the people, the safety of the country seems to be none of their business.
For the people, a stable life is the most important.
Only when others directly affect their survival will they be willing to swear to protect themselves and their families, and they will be willing to kill people and participate in wars.
And the government and the king only care about their own hegemony, and do not care about the life and death of the people at all. So! Naturally, the people are unwilling to go to war, and they are not willing to die on the battlefield for the hegemony of the king.
The country of Chu is vast and has many places to hide. So! The people of Chu are greedy for life and afraid of death. When they heard that the government was coming to recruit soldiers, or that they were recruiting soldiers, they hid their whole family somewhere, and did not come out during the day, but only at night. So! Conscription simply does not recruit them.
But! The people of Chu can do this! In addition to conscription, if the levy came, they were willing to pay the tax. Moreover! They also told the government what kind of people they were.
If the government organizes the people to do water conservancy undertakings, or whatever, they are willing to take the initiative to participate.
In short! Don't do it for conscription! It's okay to let Lao Tzu pay more taxes.
Over time, the officials of the Chu State were too lazy to recruit troops from this place. The official people say! As long as you pay your taxes, we won't come to compulsory conscription.
Neither willing to pay taxes, but also unwilling to be a soldier, thinking anarchist that is not good, the Chu official will "pull a strong ding", as long as you are physically strong, forcibly pull you to be a soldier.
So! The soldiers of the Chu State and the Jiangbei have more soldiers, are stronger, and can fight. And Jiangnan has fewer soldiers, and they can't fight for fear of death. But! The number of soldiers in Jiangnan and the prestige are still okay.
Bai Gui also took into account the situation of the Chu State, but many of his materials had to be transported from the Chu State. So! It is necessary to pull people from Chu to migrate, so as to save some trouble. Otherwise! It was also necessary to hire laborers from the Chu State to transport the materials to the Song State, and then from the Song State to the Zhao State, and then to the Zhongshan State, and then to the Linquan Castle. It's too much trouble, so! He wanted to take people directly from the Chu State.
Outcome! The people of Chu were reluctant to migrate. In desperation! He had to pull people from Wei.
What he didn't expect was that the Wei people had wanted to migrate for a long time, but unfortunately no one accepted it. When the people of Qin heard that you were from Wei, they turned their faces on the spot and wanted to fight with you. Even! Don't say much, just kill people.
Because! The damage that Wei brought to Qin was too great.
It's like the attitude of the Chinese people before the liberation towards the little devils. When I saw the little devil, I felt hatred, and I wanted to go up and kill the devil.
Unfortunately! In less than a few decades, some Chinese people have forgotten their national shame and are very close to the little devils. Even! They all forgot that his grandmother was ...... by the little devil
The hatred of the Qin people towards the Wei people was quite strong.
King Wei Hui wanted to dominate the world and waged wars everywhere, and almost all the surrounding countries were offended. So! Everywhere the people of Wei go, there is that feeling of rats crossing the street, and everyone shouts and fights.
Although the country of Wei was rich, the people did not live well. Although Wei was a victorious country, the Wei people also faced the trauma of war. And! Probably worse than the people of other countries.
Because! The state of Wei waged war almost every year. King Wei Hui relied on winning battles to drive the country's economy.
The concept of King Wei Hui's governance was to make war profits and let the defeated countries cede land and compensate.
So! Although Wei is a victorious country, every time a war comes down, at least a few hundred or thousands of people will die, even! Tens of thousands. Every year! Almost every family dies every year. So! The people of Wei couldn't stand it. So! The war wounds of the Wei people were more severe than those of other countries.
The Wei people had long wanted to migrate, away from the war. But! They have nowhere to go. Qin State, they can't go. The people of South Korea, Zhao and other neighboring countries are very hostile to them.
So! When Bai Gui secretly organized people to migrate to Linquan Castle, he immediately received a response from many Wei people. Outcome! Not alone, but alone! The kind of migration of the whole family, the whole clan. They think! Only when the whole family and the whole clan migrate over can they not be bullied by others, especially by the grassland people.
In the eyes and hearts of the world, the grassland people are synonymous with barbarism.
If it hadn't been discovered in time by the old minister of Wei, more people would have fled from Wei.
On the pretext of visiting relatives, these people left Wei with their families and mouths, and first went to various surrounding countries to meet Bai Gui's people. And then! It was arranged by Bai Gui's people to let them transport the goods to Linquan Castle by the way.
It is not cost-effective for a single family to drag their family to Linquan. Helping Bai Gui deliver goods and taking care of the goods not only solves the problem of travel expenses and safety, but also allows you to get an "escort fee". Working for Bai Gui is always paid, and it will not be in vain.
Bai Gui promised them: When they arrived at Linquan, they would not collect taxes for three or five years of clearing the wasteland and cultivating the land. Later! Only collect taxes that everyone is willing to collect. But one! Military service is mandatory. The soldiers on the side of Linquan Castle did not go out to fight, just to protect their homeland.
On the Linquan side: The land you have cultivated is yours, and there are no landowners, no hereditary nobles, towns, and other leaders.
On the periphery, there are "local taxes" and "national taxes".
Rent! It is the hereditary aristocracy of the landowners everywhere, and they collect taxes.
Irs! It refers to the uniform taxation of the king. The king is the owner of all the land in the country, so! All had to pay taxes to the king.
In general, the national tax is lighter than the local tax. National taxes are collected on a large scale. As for the land tax, the landlord collects it according to the land front and so on.
Of course! When the country is facing war or after the war, the national tax will be increased. But! It is also only to the landowners everywhere, not to the people.
The national tax increased, and the local landlords, that is, the hereditary aristocracy, in order to continue to live a luxurious life, increased the taxes of the people, and the tide rose, and the people were still living in misery.
Bai Gui formulated a loose and liberal land policy, which naturally attracted a large number of Wei people to migrate.
Hometown! They are attached and reluctant to leave. But! It was so hard for them to live anymore, and they had to leave in order to live, to live.
Don't! My Wei State! I'll be back!
When they left the Wei State, these people were a little reluctant to give up the gray wolf.
(End of chapter)