Chapter 24: The Future of Liaodong
According to Li Yu's scheme, anyone in Liaodong who supported or had someone in his family participated in the rebellion had his family property confiscated and his family was reduced to slavery. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the young and strong will be taken to the mines, the old and weak will be used as serfs, and the young and beautiful women will be rewarded to the meritorious soldiers as concubines.
The land of the Goryeo who had been confiscated from their homes was to be distributed to all the soldiers as a reward according to Li Yu's prior promise.
In the last few years, the natural disasters of the Tang Dynasty have continued, last year, floods and droughts, more than 40 states lacked food, and this year there are dozens of states with drought and frost insects, the people are hungry and poor, and the imperial court ordered that the people of the affected states should be allowed to eat in various places.
Since March, there has been a great drought in the world, and the father has changed the yuan to Xianheng, just to hope for a good omen, but God does not seem to understand the father's intentions, and the affected states and counties have not changed for the better because of the change of yuan, but with the passage of time, the affected areas are expanding.
Li Yu wanted to implement this policy as soon as possible, regardless of the fact that the Goryeo people in Liaodong had just been silent, not only for the land promised to the soldiers in advance, but also for the sake of the people who were suffering from disasters in the Central Plains.
Since the imperial court ordered the people of the affected states and counties to eat in other states, why not directly write to the emperor to take all these victims to Liaodong, and distribute land to each of them to settle here?
It is important to know that during the Qin and Western Han dynasties, whenever Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered a piece of land inhabited by non-Chinese people, the first thing was to build a city and garrison, and then forcibly immigrate to Shibian from areas with many people and little land. This is why today's Hexi, Lingnan and Shuofang are found. If it weren't for the rise of Goguryeo, the land of the five Han counties in the northeast would not have become what it is today.
Thinking of this, Li Yu wrote a "On the East Table of Public Security" to his father. Talking about the situation in Anton, it is difficult for Anton to calm down the root causes of the current great rebellion for several years.
The Nainai people are unwilling to die in the country, and there are many Goryeo relics in the Andong area. Under the convening of the former Goryeo remnants, tens of thousands of soldiers who can still fight can still be obtained.
Outside, Silla coveted the land of the former Goryeo, and was dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty's establishment of the Andong Protectorate on the land of the former Goryeo. It is intended to consume the strength of our Tang Andong garrison by supporting the Goryeo rebels, and take advantage of the chaos to seize the land of Goryeo.
At present, if you want Andong to be stable, in addition to exterminating the rebels led by Jian Mucen and An Sun, it is also necessary to raise troops to rebuild Silla, dispel their undeserved greed and disobedience, and stabilize Silla by supporting the new king of Silla who is close to the Tang Dynasty.
For the old land of the original Goryeo, the law of the Qin and Han dynasties was revived, and a large number of its remnants were moved to Hexi, Longyou, and Anxi, which were widely and prosperous. The people who had moved from Guanzhong, Hebei, Hedong, Henan and other places with many people and little land and the people who were now affected by the disaster settled in Andong to divide their fields, and after a few years, Andong would no longer rebel.
The Andong area, especially in Liaodong, has fertile soil and good rain every year. Although the winter is a bit longer and colder than that of the Central Plains, due to the fertile soil, the rivers are scattered and will not face drought and water shortages like the Central Plains.
Nuo immigrated to Andong to cultivate the wilderness, and a few years later, Andong would become the granary of the northeast of the Tang Dynasty, which was also the root of Goguryeo's prosperity for 800 years.
Anton has mountain ginseng, mink, deer antler velvet and other precious fur medicinal materials that are not available in the Central Plains, and the immigrants stabilize Anton, and the wealth here will surely become another source of wealth and tribute to the Tang Dynasty.
I hope that the Lord will give great consideration to this suggestion, and promise to do so to save thousands of people affected by the disaster in the Central Plains.
Li Yu picked up the written table, dried the ink, folded it and put it in an envelope.
"Someone."
"What does Your Highness command?" The guards outside the door heard Li Yu's summons and immediately entered the house to obey the order.
"Send this watch to Xue Sima and ask him to send someone to Beijing as soon as possible."
"No."
Looking at the back of the guards leaving, Li Yu showed a smug smile. Even if my father did not agree with my suggestion, I had already instructed the trading houses scattered throughout the Tang Dynasty to collect the victims of the disaster in various places. This was merely a matter of legalizing it and gaining the support of the imperial court to implement it more quickly.
In charge of three meals a day, he bought the deed of sale of the victims' families, as long as they were ordered to be escorted to Liaodong by the trading house, and the fields were distributed according to their mouths. After three years of cultivation, the merchant house would exempt them from the status of slaves and maids, and the fields they cultivated would be registered by the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate for them and returned to their own names. During these three years, all the income from land cultivation belonged to him.
This strategy can be seen from the recent news sent by commercial banks in various places, and the effect is very good.
In particular, in the Guanzhong area, which was more severely affected, local commercial banks came to report to recruit tens of thousands of victims, and they are taking boats along the Yellow River into the Bohai Sea through the Weihe River ferry in batches, changing boats near the estuary to Wuhu Island to land and stop, and then transferring ships to the mouth of the Liaohe River. In summer, when the water of the Liao River rises, you can directly take a boat to the vicinity of Anshi to land.
When Li Yu completely controls the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, the immigrants can enter Andong in three ways. In addition to the existing road, you can directly land in Liaodong in Duli Town, southern Liaoning, and after pacifying the south bank of Yalu Water, immigrants can take a boat to the mouth of the Datong River to land on the Korean Peninsula.
According to Li Yu's estimate, immigrants to Andong would require at least 800,000 immigrants north of Silla to establish stable rule in Liaodong and the southern shore of Yalu River, excluding Baekje and Silla.
The upcoming demand for migrant transportation has put forward a lot of requirements for Jiaolong Haixing, Li Yu's maritime merchant fleet.
At present, Jiaolong Haixing is responsible for the transportation of grain, grass, ordnance and soldiers of Li Yu's tens of thousands of troops, and can only transfer various commodities produced by various workshops from Youzhou Port to the outlets of various commercial banks in the south when he returns. Even to undertake other merchants' cargo transportation business, the capacity is really a little tight.
The shipyard in Youzhou is limited in size and shipbuilding capacity due to poor port conditions, and there is a long ice period in winter. As a result, Youzhou Shipyard has been in the stage of technology accumulation and small-scale shipbuilding for a long time.
Li Yu had already come to Liaodong to understand the port conditions of Duli Town, which was after all the location of Dalian in later generations and the best port in Northeast China.
In the past, it was only the governor of Youzhou and Goguryeo who were not pacified and could not be managed here, but now as the protector of the capital of Andong, after the arrival of the chief officials of the cities in southern Liaoning, he will begin to rectify the Andong region according to his own will. In particular, after reorganizing all the armies in each city, it was completely controlled by Li Yu, and then sent his henchmen to garrison Duli Town, Qingnipu, Beisha City, Jili Prefecture and other important towns in southern Liaoning.
This Anton has become a place controlled by him Li Yu himself.
Among the 500 craftsmen brought by Li Yuan, 150 were excellent craftsmen drawn from the Youzhou shipyard, and in less than a month, they would be able to build a port and shipbuilding workshop in Duli Town.
During this time, the required timber was cut down by the slave laborers and transported to the shore of Anshui near Anshi to be dried, just to be loaded onto a ship and transported away.
The land route from Anshi City to Tori Town only needs to be widened and leveled. Now after 5,000 slave laborers rush to work day and night to repair to Jili Prefecture, and in half a month it will be repaired to Duli Town.
This time coincided with the completion of the military and political rectification in Liaodong.
At that time, Li Yu had planned that the world's largest and most advanced shipyard would be born in Duli Town.