After the last time I conquered the cottage of the Shanyue people, a few days have passed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the beginning of next year, the government of Wu County finally completed the compensation work for the soldiers who died in the war and the wounded, and the captured Shanyue women and children were also properly settled, and after the spring of next year, these women will be given to the soldiers who are not married, so that they can stay in Wu County with peace of mind, and what awaits them will be a new life.

When the New Year arrives, the wanderer returns home, and the people in the areas where there is no war can have a good year in peace, but those who are still in chaos are not in such a good mood for the New Year. In order to provide food and clothing, the poor people are still running for a living, and it is common to discuss the sale of children and daughters to spend this New Year.

But there are still many people who really can't get by, but on the occasion of the New Year, they have fled their hometowns with their children and daughters, and there is no place for them in the land where their ancestors lived for hundreds of years.

And most of these people's destinations are the south where there is no war, and compared to the Central Plains, the southern counties that are obviously not in the place of war are a good place for them.

In the more than ten days of the New Year, Wu County has received no less than thousands of refugees, and their arrival is a good thing for Sun Yang, Wu County is not too short of everything now, but the population is something that Sun Yang has been worried about. No matter how much fertile land is cultivated, there are not enough people to cultivate it, which is also a very troublesome thing, and the size of the population is now the criterion for measuring the competitiveness of a county.

In this era of relying entirely on manpower, not only must a large number of people grow food, but even the size of the army must be determined by the base of the population.

Although the current number of soldiers in Wu County is not too much, because the population is not too much, it will be saturated with more than 10,000 people recruited by the sky. This is still a big gap from the minimum of 30,000 soldiers set by Sun Yang, and he cannot forcibly recruit young and strong men into the army to destroy the production balance of Wu County.

Sun Yang's current policy is to encourage more children, and even learn from the Western practice in later generations to reward those families who have more children, and now Wu County also has the capital to have more children, because the family has food! But population growth is not something that can be achieved overnight, and the results will not be seen for at least decades.

Therefore, absorbing more refugees from outside is Sun Yang's only choice now, and only in this way can the population growth be the fastest and most effective.

Naturally, Sun Yang's policy towards these refugees is also very good, not only treating them as the local people in Wu County, but even as long as they settle in Wu County, they can immediately get a lot of fertile land and a sum of money, although it is not much, but it is enough to settle down and survive for a while.

It is precisely because of this that a small number of refugees have almost come to Wu County and become the people of Wu County......

Soon, less than a month after the New Year, Sun Jian left Wu County and returned to Luoyang to resume his life, after all, he is still a Beijing official, and the vacation he got is just this New Year.

After bidding farewell to his father, Sun Yang also began to get busy, the spring ploughing period is approaching, and they will also start to prepare to provide these things for the people who do not have seeds and cultivation tools, and Li Yun, who returned to Wu County in advance, also began to guide some farmers with fast brains in batches to teach them to better carry out farming work......

And because of the New Year, the big market in Wu County, which has fallen into silence, is gradually becoming lively, and the plan of the year lies in the spring, not only the farmers who rely on the sky to eat, but also the merchants. The Wuxian Market has now become a place where they store and trade a large number of goods, and many small traders almost take their goods from the Wuxian Market, because the cost here is even lower!

Of course, the plan to raise the commercial tax that Sun Yang and Xi Zhicai had discussed long ago also went on as promised, and the growth was not much, and it had been passed in advance, so naturally it did not cause any backlash, and the businessmen accepted this adjustment.

It didn't cause any trouble in this regard, and it also saved Sun Yang a lot of heart, the big market in Wu County was already on the right track, no, it was already changing with each passing day, Sun Yang didn't put too much thought into it, he knew that according to this trend, it was natural that it would continue to grow evenly, and there would be an official in charge of this matter.

Now Sun Yang is most concerned about the work of conscription, he used to feel that it was enough for Wu County to have more than 10,000 troops, but now when the army is needed everywhere, Sun Yang naturally hopes that the more the better, with his current financial resources and strength to feed an army of less than 50,000 is still enough, but all kinds of benefits are naturally impossible to have.

For this large-scale expansion of the army, Sun Yang's best expectation is that it would be great to be able to summon 10,000 people, and Sun Yang will be satisfied. His goal for Guo Jia and Zhu Zhi, who were in charge of this matter, naturally required a minimum of 10,000 people, and there was no upper limit for more! In Sun Yang's heart, even if they expand their recruitment crazily, it will only be less than 20,000 people in the sky.

But things were far beyond Sun Yang's expectations, and even said that it had made Sun Yang feel like he was lifting a stone to shoot himself in the foot!

In just one month, Sun Yang got the news that they had recruited an army of more than 20,000 people! And the number is increasing day by day, according to their estimate to Sun Yang, within a month, the number will definitely exceed 30,000!

Sun Yang couldn't sit still, recruiting so many people, he didn't even prepare so many weapons, let alone other things, Sun Yang decided to stop the conscription work immediately, and urgently called Guo Jia over and asked the reason, what he thought was, Guo Jia and they wouldn't even be the old people and children in the barracks, right?

Wu County Taishou Mansion.

"Senior brother, how many people have you recruited now?" Sun Yang asked helplessly.

In the past month or so, I am afraid that Guo Jia is the happiest, he replied with a spring on his face: "Senior brother, since the stop yesterday, there are now more than 23,000 people!" ”

Looking at Guo Jia's proud appearance, Sun Yang asked with some suspicion: "Senior brother, these people you recruit won't be recruited as long as everyone is recruited, right?" I don't want old people in their sixties and seventies and children in their teens! ”

"Nonsense! Senior brother, this time we recruited all young men, as long as a little training may not be impossible to become an elite teacher! Guo Jia replied with some dissatisfaction, these people have all been screened by them, and they are definitely the right age for war!

"This ......" Seeing Guo Jia's confident appearance, Sun Yang was a little shocked, "This is impossible!" Senior brother, you also know the situation in Wu County, how can it be possible to recruit so many people? ”

"Huh!" Guo Jia looked at Sun Yang and smiled a little playfully, "Senior brother, you are smart in vain, who told you that we recruited people from Wu County?" In fact, a lot of them come from the outside! ”

Hearing Guo Jia's explanation, Sun Yang reacted immediately, it turned out that so many people could be recruited, all of them were from other counties, no wonder! Sun Yang was not surprised, the treatment of Wu Jun's soldiers was so good, and the young and strong naturally flocked to it.

Although he knew the reason, Sun Yang still gave Guo Jia an order: "Senior brother, no matter what method you use, these people, we can leave up to 15,000 people to supplement the camp in Wu County!" You can dispose of the rest of the people as you see fit, whether to send them to various places as garrisons or send them back, you decide for yourself. ”

There are so many people, it has exceeded Sun Yang's expectations, although he also wants to leave them all, but considering a lot of things, he still decided to leave only more than 15,000 people, this is his bottom line.

Originally, Guo Jia still had questions, but Sun Yang didn't give him a chance, and in the end, Guo Jia could only pinch his nose and admit it, and went down to make arrangements.

Later, Sun Yang got the news that Guo Jia had selected 15,000 people as regular soldiers, and the rest were all sent to the counties of Wu County as city guards, obviously he didn't want to give up these people! Sun Yang had no choice but to pinch his nose and add another amount of military spending, and he also knew that Guo Jia was preparing for the future......