Chapter 555: A Warning for the Wanderers
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Looking at the twists and turns, Su Tiancheng frowned, looking very helpless.
Qu Qingze, who was sitting on the side, saw Su Tiancheng's expression and spoke.
"My lord, the lower officials think that such a situation is not a bad thing, but there has just been a bumper harvest in various parts of Shaanxi, and it still takes some time and energy to deal with such a situation.
"Lao Qu, it's not that simple, to say that all parts of Shaanxi, the people are not rich at all, and the government has no ability to deal with such things, Shaanxi has just begun to recover, and the people have just been able to settle down, and this incident suddenly appears, it is possible to make everything that has been done before completely lose its effect."
"But if you ignore such a thing, there may be problems."
"Yes, this makes me think, if only Shaanxi is committed to the construction of people's livelihood, I'm afraid it will be a drop in the bucket, Zhang Pu of Henan Province has also written to me many times, telling me about the difficulties, I still don't believe it, and now I am beginning to understand that Zhang Pu is really a little unbearable, look at Jiangning County, for what can deal with this kind of situation, that is because the general conditions in Nanzhili are good, and the people can basically maintain their lives, but the situation here is not the case."
Su Tiancheng said this, and Qu Qingze was also speechless.
Ningxiawei, Yulinwei, Yan'an, Hanzhong, Pingliang, Qingyang, Lintao and other places all sent urgent memoranda, saying that a large number of displaced people had entered, and the government suddenly felt the pressure and could not cope with it, and the situation of these displaced people was very bad. Relief is urgently needed, otherwise it will be difficult to maintain, and the government in several places is struggling to maintain, buying grain and setting up porridge farms. But the number of displaced people is really huge, and it will definitely not work for a long time.
Through the investigation of the dark line, the main sources of the displaced people are three aspects, the first is the Han people who have been plundered by the Mongolian tribes, because of the beginning of the mutual market, because of the rise of the Jiangning camp and the new army, eager to return to their hometowns, plus the Mongolian tribes worship the strong. Several times with the Jiangning battalion, the new army clashed, suffered a heavy defeat, began to be a little in awe of the Han people, and the governor of Shaanxi Su Tiancheng and the new army commanded Lu Xiangsheng once warned the leaders of the Mongolian tribes that they must not abuse the Han people, otherwise they will raise troops to destroy their tribes, so the Mongolian tribes relaxed their control over the Han people, and the vast majority of the Han people. They all set off to return to their hometowns, but these people. Some of them have been away from their hometowns for a long time, and some even their entire families have been looted to Mongolia, and suddenly they return to their hometowns, without relatives, unable to make ends meet, and can only rely on government relief.
The second is the displaced people in Sichuan. After Liukou entered Sichuan, although it was said that Qin Liangyu, the chief military officer of Sichuan and the general of Zhendong, led the army to conquer and suppress many times, the effect was not very obvious, and Sichuan was already a poor place. Because of the sudden war, a large number of people were displaced, close to Hanzhong Mansion in Sichuan, which instantly became a hard-hit area, tens of thousands of ordinary people in Sichuan, poured into Hanzhong Mansion, these Sichuan displaced people, the quality is still good, especially able to endure hardships, but they have nothing, can only rely on the relief of the government, to survive.
The third is the peasants in Shanxi and Beizhili who have suffered disasters, and their hometowns have suffered disasters and have no food to eat, and these people have heard that the situation in Shaanxi is good, so they have brought their families and mouths to Shaanxi, as long as they can survive, these people are not ready to stay in Shaanxi for a long time, and once they have spent this time, they will return to their hometowns.
It is said that this is a good situation, years of war, the population in Shaanxi, greatly reduced, although it did not reach the scene of thousands of miles of red land, but it is also a few people, after Su Tiancheng came to Shaanxi, he thought of a lot of ways to promote the population of Shaanxi to increase, the abolition of the guard army, to a large extent to solve this problem, the guard army is very few, most of them have fled, but when the army is dismantled, there is no responsibility for the deserters, and the land is promised, so a large number of escaped sergeants returned to the guard, It was also really allocated arable land, and this trick quickly increased the population of Shaanxi.
Shaanxi's foundation is too thin, need to calm down, slowly develop for a few years, although the winter wheat and summer crops have been harvested, but the common people have only solved the problem of eating, far from being rich in food and clothing, the government is even poorer and white, some local officials, poor people can't even afford to buy official uniforms, now the situation is slightly better, there are a large number of displaced people, which obviously disrupted Su Tiancheng's deployment.
Su Tiancheng has long understood a truth, just the development of Shaanxi, or the development of Henan Province, it is difficult to turn things around, even if Shaanxi and Henan Province are rich, they will be overwhelmed by the surrounding places, and even poverty again, development must be balanced, if we can generally adjust the policy in the north, limit the privileges of the gentry and wealthy households, and care about the lives of the people, so as to be able to fundamentally solve the problem.
It's a pity that Su Tiancheng can't do it in this regard, after all, he is doing things locally, and he has not been able to enter the capital, and he has not been able to grasp the power to regulate the overall situation.
The south is generally richer, but the imperial court is almost controlled by the students in the south, even if Zhu Youzhen and Sun Chengzong, thinking of mobilizing the wealth of the south to aid the north, they are also lacking in spare strength, and they do not do well, the gentry and rich households in the south collectively rebound, and the ministers in the court make a fuss, this is not a joke, people are selfish, these ministers, all of them want to maintain the interests of the family and the locality.
Su Tiancheng thought of these problems, but he could only take them step by step, it was impossible to take a big stride, and he could only use iron-blooded means to implement comprehensive reforms.
Seeing that Su Tiancheng hadn't spoken for a long time, Qu Qingze spoke again.
"My lord, the lower officials think that these displaced people, is it treated differently, the displaced people who came back from the Mongolian tribe, the government still needs relief, they are from Shaanxi, they finally returned to their hometown, there is nothing, if the government does not help, they will have no way to live, the lower officials think, not only to help them, but also to let them be able to settle down, can make the lieutenant, the head of the first to verify the situation, report the solution, as for the Sichuan, Shanxi, North Zhili area of the displaced people, after a little relief, It can bring them back to their hometowns. ”
"It's easy to say, how can it be done, according to what you said, the displaced people who came back from the Mongolian tribe, this must be resettled, in terms of land, Fuzhou County Yamen can find a way, and part of the official field, in Fuzhou County Yamen, this time it is also separated, but the displaced people from Sichuan, Shanxi, and Beizhili, after a little relief, let them go back, where do they go back, if they are not desperate, who wants to be a homeless, go back is not waiting for death."
"This, my lord, the lower officials can't think of a good way, there are so many displaced people, the yamen of Fuzhou County really can't settle all of them."
"I have an idea, you see, the mutual market between Andingbao and Jingbian has driven a large number of merchants, these merchants, for the convenience of business, in addition to the shops in Andingbao and Jingbian, have also opened shops in Xi'an, Yan'an, Qingyang, Pingliang and even Ningxia, Yulin and other places, they need a large number of manpower, but most of the guys are brought from their hometowns, whether the government can tell these merchants that they are required to hire some of the displaced people, I didn't pay attention to it, I thought that businessmen didn't need a lot of manpower, but a few days ago I figured out that the trafficking of businessmen requires a large number of people, and according to statistics, they need to know at least 30,000 people, and if you can convince them, you can solve a big problem. ”
Qu Qingze nodded, persuaded the merchants, the problem is not very big, since the beginning of the mutual market, to protect the safety of the merchants in Shaanxi, has become one of the responsibilities of the Jiangning battalion, after the Jiangning battalion all-round suppression, the bandits in Shaanxi have disappeared without a trace, the safety of the goods has been guaranteed to the greatest extent, as long as the goods enter the territory of Shaanxi, the merchants are basically not worried, these merchants, for the government is very grateful, such a request, will definitely agree.
"In addition, it is to ask the gentry and wealthy households in Shaanxi to help, and ask them to hire as many farmers as possible to rent land, so that they can also digest a part of the displaced people, according to my judgment, the displaced people in Shanxi and Northern Zhili, after a period of time, may return to their hometowns, but those from Sichuan are not necessarily."
Su Tiancheng can make such a judgment, but also a few hundred years later, Sichuan people can go to various places to take root, and hardworking and simple, if you can stay this group of Sichuan people, become the labor force of Shaanxi, why not, today's conditions are difficult, there is not so much exquisiteness, as long as there is food, you can keep people.
The governor's yamen soon issued a notice to the yamen of Fuzhou and county, asking all localities to properly resettle the displaced people and try not to starve to death.
In less than a month, the situation reported back from various places gradually stabilized, and the displaced people were basically resettled, especially the Han people who returned from the Mongolian tribes.
In the face of such a situation, Su Tiancheng did not feel happy, the general situation does not improve, such a situation will continue to appear, for a long time, Shaanxi can not face such a situation, the only thing is to comprehensively change the situation in the northern provinces, only when the situation is generally improved, can basically put an end to such a situation. (To be continued......)