Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has reached the summer harvest.

On the land of Wei, there is a busy scene. The fields were full of people who were busy harvesting. The bazaars, except for the morning market, are almost empty.

The hereditary aristocrats everywhere, looking at the scene of the harvest, are just like the contractor foremen, private enterprise leaders, and individual small bosses in modern society, and they are all thinking in their hearts whether to increase taxes during the harvest year. Or! Thinking about how to live the good life they imagined after collecting taxes.

The harvest belongs to theirs, not to the hard-working farmers. In a good harvest year, they want to overtax. In the year of natural and man-made disasters, they also want to collect as much tax as possible. Only then will they be able to maintain a happy life forever. And the part-time workers! Forever the object of their enslavement.

Suddenly, one day, someone noticed that the local population was suddenly decreasing. There are many people who harvest not their own crops, but other people's crops. Driven by curiosity, I stepped forward and typed it.

"They've all moved away! Went to the country of Chu! and their crops were given to us. So! We reap their harvest. ”

The situation was similar everywhere else, with most people moving to Chu, Korea, and Zhao. They exchanged their crops for the passage of their crops that had not yet been harvested, sold the only possessions they had, and left.

"What? What the? When King Wei Hui learned that nearly 10,000 people in Wei had left Wei and gone to Chu, Korea and Zhao, he couldn't help but scold again.

"Why did they move out? Why move out? Why? King Wei Hui asked with a roar.

The ministers under the court hurriedly reported: "Lord! I heard from the people that the reason why those people left Wei was that Wei would start wars almost every year, and hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people would die every year. They didn't want to live in fear, so they all migrated to the state of Chu. They said! There was no war in the state of Chu. Migrating to the south of the Yangtze River in the Chu State and living in the mountains, as long as you pay taxes to the Chu State in the future, you can be exempted from military service......"

"Fart!" King Wei Hui interrupted: "Isn't there no war in the Chu State? ”

"Back to the Lord's Word! There is a war in the state of Chu, but the state of Chu has a large land area and a large population. The conscription of the Chu State only recruited people who were tall and strong. And those who are short in stature and have no strength don't want to be military officials. The taxes of the state of Chu are collected according to the population, so! As long as you have the strength, you can do it in a variety of ways, without paying taxes. So! They think! Life is stable in the country of Chu and you can live a good life! Lord! ……”

"Fart!" King Wei Hui interrupted: "What about Zhao and Korea? Are they better than our Wei State? They are poorer than our Wei country! And! Isn't there a war the same? ”

Regarding the policy of the Chu State, King Wei Hui is irrefutable, the Chu State has a large land area and a large population, and on the whole, the life of the people of the Chu State is indeed better than that of other countries. It is precisely for this reason that the combat effectiveness of the army of Chu is not strong, and the soldiers of Chu are afraid of death......

The people in the northern part of the Chu State lived almost the same as other countries because of the war. So! On the territory north of the Chu River, the population is as sparse. Most of the people of Chu fled to the mountains south of the Yangtze River.

The south of the Yangtze River in the Chu State is full of mountains and rivers, and the terrain is complex, and it is difficult to manage the government. So! Able to hide a lot of people.

There are many mountains, and when something happens, the people hide in the mountains. There are many rivers, the transportation is inconvenient, and the people of the government cannot control the situation in time. So! Jiangnan adapts to the lives of the people. So! Many people have migrated to Jiangnan.

Not only the people of Chu like to migrate to the south of the Yangtze River, but even foreigners like to run to the mountains south of the Yangtze River in the Chu State.

The reason for the large population of Chu is also because of this.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, as long as the Chu State recruited troops, it could recruit many soldiers. It's just that! The soldiers of the Chu State were generally afraid of death and did not have much combat effectiveness. Unlike other vassal states, conscription is a big problem, and sometimes there are not many people at all. But! Probably because of poverty and food, northerners are tough, savage, and not afraid of death.

"Back to the Lord's words!" An old minister stood at the front, bowed down to King Wei Hui and bowed, and said, "The old minister listens to the people below! The great migration of the population of Wei this time is not accidental, but the result of Bai Gui's return! ”

"What do you mean by that?" King Wei Hui's eyes widened and he asked.

"The old minister heard about it! Baekyu built a city in the middle of the steppe......"

"Building a city?" King Wei Hui asked in disbelief: "In the Great Zhou world, if all the vassal states want to build a city, they have to gather the strength of a country and accumulate for many years before they dare to build a city, and only then can they have the ability to build a city." He Baigui, a merchant, can he build a city on the prairie? ”

King Wei Hui thought to himself: There is nothing but blue sky and grass on the vast prairie, what will he take to build a city? Everything depends on buying, and it has to be transported from the surrounding land, why did he build a city? Swallows build nests, and mud! Why did he build the city?

"As far as Lao Chen knows, these people are not going to Chu State, Zhao State or South Korea, but! All of them will go to the Linquan Castle in Baigui......"

"Linquan Castle?"

"Linquan Castle!" Lao Chen continued: "Bai Gui named it 'Linquan', and he has already built a city there. These people ostensibly migrated to Chu, Zhao or Korea, but in fact! Just to not attract the attention of Wei and go abroad smoothly.

According to Lao Chen's understanding, these people will set off from Chu, Zhao or Korea, and help Bai Gui deliver goods while going to Linquan Castle. All the materials for the construction of the city were transported from the Zhoudi, and these migrants will help transport them......"

"Smack!" King Wei Hui kicked at the roll of bamboo slips at his feet and shouted, "Since you know that Bai Gui did it behind your back, why don't you stop it?" Why don't you report it to the widow? ”

"Back to the Lord!" Seeing that King Wei Hui lost his temper before he could finish speaking, the old minister quickly knelt down, kowtowed, and said, "The old minister has ordered that all people who may migrate are not allowed to leave the Wei country. The old minister is preparing to report this to the Lord! ”

"Oh?" When King Wei Hui heard this, he became a little less angry.

"According to the preliminary statistics of the old minister, Bai Gui took more than 12,000 people from our Wei State this time. But! There is not much real labor force, and it is generally the migration of entire families and clans. And! In some families, people with disabilities are still in charge. Lord! They are not exactly able-bodied. So! There are not many truly sound people, two or three thousand people in the sky. Lord! ”

"Two or three thousand? Is two or three thousand still less? King Wei Hui shouted: "What about those babies? When you grow up, you are all able-bodied! And also! What about the women? They can still give birth! Bear! They can give birth to countless babies for Bai Gui! ”

"Lord!" Seeing that King Wei Hui didn't mean to praise him at all, the old minister seemed to be trying to trouble him, so he was so frightened that he lay there trembling.

After King Wei Hui finished roaring, he sat down on the throne and trembled as if he was angry with Bai Gui.

"Lord!"

"Lord!"

"Lord!"

When all the ministers saw this, they all knelt down and shouted.

Half a day later, King Wei Hui waved his arms and sighed: "The widowed Wei Kingdom! Compared to other countries, it's still very rich and powerful, right? Why is it not good to live in the Wei State? ”

"Lord! They said! By following the white officials, they can live a happy and stable life, they don't want to die on the battlefield, they don't want to war......"

"Smack!" Wei Hui threw down a roll of bamboo slips from below.

Suddenly! There was silence in the court.

(End of chapter)