Chapter 63: The Temple of Sin

Outside Xiapi City, Zang Ba left nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses to begin demolishing the Futu Temple. This floating soil temple doesn't know how much people's fat and ointment have been wasted, and it has encroached on hundreds of acres of fertile land, which makes Tao Ying simply intolerable. Tao Ying also ordered that the land occupied by the demolished Futu Temple should also be distributed to the people, and the soldiers cheered after hearing it, because Tao Ying had ordered that all Xuzhou families with children and grandchildren who joined the army should be given some additional fertile land!

The great migration of tens of thousands of people traveled back and forth between Xiapi and Pengchengguo, and it was not until the end of June that Tao Ying returned to Pengchengguo. As soon as Xiapi entered the boundary of Pengcheng State, the originally narrow road suddenly widened several times, and a big road from Lu County, the people were still busy.

Seeing Tao Ying's arrival, the people all greeted each other, and more officials came to visit. Tao Ying asked Zang Ba to lead the troops forward, and he followed the mayor who came to accompany him to inspect, this town is called Pinan Town, because it is at the southern foot of Xiapi, so it was named.

The town belongs to Lu County, which has nearly 30 townships and more than 300 villages with a population of nearly 150,000. Tao Ying listened to the mayor's introduction and was surprised in his heart. A town already has a population of more than 100,000, which can be regarded as a small city in the Han Dynasty, where the population is not as large as that of later generations, so this is something he did not expect.

Although it is not surprising that in Xuzhou in later generations, the population of a town reached four or five hundred thousand, but after all, this is the end of the Han Dynasty, and the population is not so much.

The mayor of the town saw that Tao Ying did not believe it, and hurriedly introduced, it turned out that Pinan Town was located between Xiapi and Pengchengguo, when he heard that Pengcheng began to distribute land for the poor people, the people who had no land to plant in Xiapi came to take refuge, so for a time, the people of Xiapi, plus the people who fled from the East China Sea, hundreds of thousands of people kept migrating to Pengchengguo.

Everyone heard that Tao Ying was a general sent by God, he could protect the people from the suffering of war again, and he also represented God to give the poor people a way to live, and distributed the land occupied by the family to the ordinary people, so the people of the surrounding counties ran to tell each other, one spread ten, ten spread hundreds, and even the people of Yuzhou, Yangzhou, Yanzhou, Donghai, and Langya began to move south.

Because the annexation of land by the late Han dynasty was too serious, it was too serious to stay and die, and there was a way to live in Pengcheng. Listening to the people's stories, looking at the faces that longed for peace and wanted to live, Tao Ying couldn't help but shed tears for the first time.

Tao Ying also wanted to go around to see those villages, Chen Deng came to find Tao Ying, Tao Ying looked at the farmland in the distance and said to Chen Deng: "Yuanlong, you are the best at agriculture, agriculture is the foundation of the people, after I go back, I will reorganize my official position, and agriculture will depend on you in the future." After returning home, he issued an edict to mix the grain and grass seized in Xiapi with the grain and grass in Pengcheng, and those people who were given land and had no seeds to cultivate must be given the grain they eat today, as well as the land that was given to them to cultivate. Then the first year's taxes are all exempt! ”

"This ......"

Chen Deng was a little unbelievable, if he divided the grain and grass, if his year was a disaster year, Pengcheng had no grain and grass, and Yuan Shu or Cao Cao would attack again, wouldn't Pengcheng be finished? What's more, now that they have offended the East China Sea family, they will definitely come to take revenge once they recuperate!

"Lord, this must not be done!"

Tao Ying knew what he wanted to say, so he just patted him on the shoulder, and the two turned over and said goodbye to the mayor of Pinan, and soon followed the large army.

Looking at Chen Deng's anxious face, Tao Ying comforted him: "Don't worry Yuanlong, Donghai won't attack us in the past two years, neither will Yanzhou, and neither will Yuan Shu." ”

Chen Deng knew that Tao Ying seemed to be able to calculate everything, so he could only nod. Starting from Pinan Town into the boundary of Pengcheng State, the road is very wide, it is built according to Tao Ying's requirements, such a road can at least pass five carriages side by side, as if it is a national highway in later generations.

It's just that the national highways at this time were dirt roads, and the national roads in later generations were all cement roads.

There are more and more villages, sometimes there will be a piece of villages that cannot be seen at a glance on the side of the road, and some villages are still under construction, Tao Ying panicked and thought that it was a new county seat, and finally found that it was originally a town that was built.

The more you go to Pengcheng, the denser the villages become, and when you arrive in Lu County, the villages around Lu County are built that are not in sight, and with the increase in population, those fertile fields are getting less and less, and Tao Ying is faintly worried.

Pointing to Lu County in the distance, Tao Ying asked Chen Deng, who had been in charge of this work, Chen Deng looked at Lu County, he had always been in the Pengcheng area, but he had never been to Lu County a few times, and he didn't know that Lu County had such a large population.

So Chen Deng went to ask people to call the county order of Lu County, and after more than 30,000 troops entered Lu County, the county commander of Lu County hurriedly came to meet him, and he was also recommended by the squires and became the county order.

The county magistrate looked nearly forty years old, he didn't look like a traitor, and he spoke very fluently, seeing a young descendant dressed in satin, the county magistrate hurriedly knelt on the ground and shouted: "Lu County Commander Zhang Dabai kowtows to the Prime Minister!" ”

Tao Ying hurriedly helped him up and said, "Zhang County Order, please get up, and you are not allowed to salute again in the future!" ”

Zhang Dabai was a little at a loss, what does it mean not to bow in the future, Tao Ying has been here for almost a year, he can't stand it anymore, he is kneeling everywhere, some people are already white-haired and bearded lords want to worship him, Tao Ying always feels that as soon as they kneel themselves, they will lose their lives!

"Zhang County Order, I once ordered, a county has jurisdiction over fifteen towns, but I have passed all the way, Lu County seems to be more than fifteen counties, there are so many people, but there are many fields, how can the people survive after they can't have fields?"

Zhang Dabai hurriedly knelt on the ground and complained: "Your Excellency has clearly investigated, I didn't want to accept so many people, but after the people came, they didn't want to leave, hundreds of people gathered together to elect a village head, and the village chief led them to occupy a vacant land, and more than a dozen village chiefs elected a township head, and the township chief elected the town head, and the town mayor came to me to report. I wanted to reason with them, but the people are all sons of the Tao, and they are the savior gods from heaven, and they are all your people, and besides, they do not violate the legal system you said, all ......"

After Zhang Dabai finished speaking, Tao Ying sighed, but turned his head and thought, there are more people, this is a good thing, although the land is not enough, but he can reclaim the land!

So Tao Ying helped Zhang Dabai up and said: "Since Zhang County's order is like this, I don't blame you, Lu County is so big, even if there are millions of people, it can be tolerated, but from today on, Zhang County's order should personally go to measure the land, after the town is divided, if the people come again, let them go to reclaim the forest, after the forest is cut down, the trees will be transported to Pengcheng, and the reclaimed land will be distributed to the people!" ”

After hearing this, Zhang Dabai hurriedly nodded and agreed, and Tao Ying asked him to do his own thing quickly. From Lu County to the south, that is to the boundary of Pengcheng, only a month apart, the crowded people in Pengcheng are countless, if there are still people in Lu County can get some heaven and earth, then the people outside Pengcheng are different.