Chapter Forty-Nine: Moving the Capital (Part II)
"According to the order of Wang Yun's servant, all the people of Luoyang must pack up their baggage and itinerary within 20 days, and then move to Chang'an. Also, take everything you can with you, and confiscate it if you can't take it away. ”
And hearing this shout, countless officials and nobles in Luoyang City, down to the ordinary people, began to scold Wang Yun, and the people who moved away from a city within 20 days, not to mention that this is still the people of the capital, this is simply a cheat. With the organizational ability of this period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, if you want to complete a large-scale migration of hundreds of thousands of people within 20 days, although this is theoretically possible, it is inevitable to give up many things. For example, most of the wealth has to be given up, such as land, all kinds of real estate, valuables and so on. Where can ordinary people say that they can take it away, all kinds of things and all kinds of losses are very huge. After all, the time is too urgent, and there is almost no preparation at all, so can you not cheat your father?
However, those who were in charge of supervising the relocation of the capital were not too merciful, and they directly began to persecute the people and officials. Because these soldiers have received orders, if they do not "mobilize" all the people in the area they are responsible for, then they will be beheaded for public display on the charge of delaying the fighter plane. So they are all forced to be anxious, they don't care if the people are willing or not, they also force the people to take them away, and they don't care whether they are willing or not. And in the process, the people left a lot of property, and no one knows where these properties went.
But Fu Shanxiang, a woman, is treacherous, and she made some of her subordinates also say loudly that it was ordered by Wang Yun, so that those people and dignitaries will also hate Wang Yun. Then they all began to scold Wang Yun one after another, and then Wang Yun suddenly became infamous in an instant. And Dong Liang has also gained a lot of wealth because of this, especially in the North District he is in charge of, which are all high-ranking officials and nobles, and as a result, a steady stream of wealth began to be sent to Dong Liang's hands.
"Lord, this is the Dongzhu of the north, and in the current era, it is unimaginable that it can be obtained. This era is not the era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in which I lived, and the Northeast has already been developed. And the Northeast in this era is still very barren, and it is not easy to go to the Northeast to get pearls. But such a large string of Dongzhu, it is definitely priceless! Fu Shanxiang pointed to this large string of Dongzhu and said.
Dong Liang looked at this large string of eastern pearls, each of which was a top-grade pearl with a diameter of eight millimeters. And Dong Liang knew that this era was not a later generation, pearls in this era were one of the very precious gemstones, and the pearls of later generations were all artificially cultivated, not a precious thing. What's more, this is the East Pearl, but in fact, the pearls in the Northeast are more precious than the South Pearl. In this era, the development of the Northeast is actually worse than that of the South. Although the development of the southern Jiaozhou generation is relatively backward, it is more suitable for pearl diving. And the value of this Dongzhu is very high, so this time it is a big profit.
"Okay, Shanxiang, you're going to be busy during this time, I'll give you some rewards first! Besides, you have been working for me during the day and sleeping at night for the last few days, and I should reward you! This Dongzhu is also for you! Dong Liang said.
Dong Liang is not an elegant person, and it is useless to keep pearls, so there is no need for him to keep them. Anyway, as long as he enjoys the beauties, he can command the female generals to fight the country. When the time comes, you will get the country, and you won't get anything, so now this pearl has also been given to Fu Shanxiang.
However, Fu Shanxiang's eyes immediately widened, and the bright crystal was like the luster on this pearl, obviously a woman had no resistance to the things inside this gem. Obviously, Fu Shanxiang quickly took over this large string of Dongzhu, and then went on to introduce the following things to Dong Liang.
"Next, these are all gold and silver, and there is a lot of gold, more than a thousand taels!" Fu Shanxiang said.
"Damn, I'm really rich!" Dong Liang exclaimed.
More than 1,000 taels of gold, if purely in terms of value, it is a lot compared to the tens of millions of soft sister coins in later generations. And just these dignitaries and nobles leaked a little bit of foreign money, and there are actually tens of millions, and they really deserve to be rich people! And this gold was not a currency in this era, but only a valuable ornament. But there is so much gold alone, and I don't know how many more valuable things there are next, which makes Dong Liang feel very excited.
"These, wine bottles from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and all kinds of bronze things, are all very valuable. As for the next things, there are a lot of special things, these precious gems, and so on, which are all priceless! Fu Shanxiang said.
"Anything else?" Dong Liang's eyes were all like Brother Kong Fang and asked.
Fu Shanxiang continued: "Although the next things are not as valuable as these, they are also the best things, that is, food. We also confiscated a large amount of grain, which was obtained from the warehouses of the major scholars, and this grain was piled up, and we could not transport it in a short time! And these grains are the most valuable in this troubled era, and only with grain can we gather troops and feed the people. But with so much grain, it was simply moldy in the storehouse of the scholars. ”
"This is also the so-called Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road. The gentry had a lot of food, but they were unwilling to use it to help the people, and in the end the people were so hungry that they rebelled. This kind of guy is all black-hearted people, they only have interests in their eyes, and they have no humanity. And they can take advantage of this time, when the world is in turmoil, to take away those homeless people, so that they can take these homeless people as slaves, and then expand their own strength, so that the people can do hard labor for them. Hundreds of people disappeared from the government's household registration files, and then entered the private account books of the nobles, becoming their slaves. And the so-called reduction of the population in troubled times, in fact, in many cases, it is just a reduction of the population on paper, but in fact, these populations have entered the hands of the scholars. The gentry took advantage of their privilege of not paying taxes, and then took in large numbers of people without paying taxes. However, these people had to serve the nobles in order to survive. In this way, the so-called 'population' of the country is getting smaller and smaller, and then the nobles are getting richer and richer. And the scholars are eager for the troubled times to come, because in the troubled times, it is actually a good opportunity for them to expand their strength, and then they can in turn blackmail those princes. ”
Fu Shanxiang has also read books and has the so-called governing experience, and he has a lot of research on the history of household registration, so he naturally knows what is going on in this troubled era in history to reduce the population. Although some of the so-called people were indeed killed in the troubled times in history, a large part of them were taken by the scholars as slaves. None of those populations are counted as the official population, which leads to a depopulation. Therefore, once those warriors reach troubled times, not only will they not lose, but a large part of them will take the opportunity to develop and gain a large number of people.
"My lord, this grain cannot be moved at all with our current transportation capacity, and it would be a pity if it was lost like this. So, I think it's time to take advantage of the crowd. After all, if we don't take the opportunity to recruit the population, then those people will also drift away in the troubled times, and in the end they will either die, or they will be recruited by other scholars. And if we recruit these people, we can let them take the opportunity to become our vassals, anyway, they are all going to become other people's vassals, so why can't we take the opportunity to take them? These are all our soldiers, and they will help us in the future, and even make some special arrangements. It won't be long before we can get a piece of land, and then we can make the changes we have to make in this era. We already have a preliminary idea in our minds, and we can formulate a set of household registration systems that are most suitable for our period. This will allow our people to survive in peace and support us. Fu Shanxiang said.
"Give this grain to the people?" Dong Liang asked.
And Fu Shanxiang replied: "Yes, only when the people are fed, then we can live a stable life!" The people live on food, and this is not a joke. We can't carry that much food anyway, so we might as well give some of it to the people, so that they can eat some food, and then they will be completely at home to us. Usually they don't have enough to eat, so now they naturally have to focus on food. This kind of favors to buy the hearts of the people is not done in vain, so of course we have to do it. ”
"Well, yes, the people must be fed. However, I'm hungry right now, and I have to be fed! Dong Liang said.
"Is the lord hungry? I'll go tell the kitchen to make you something to eat!" Fu Shanxiang said.
"No, I'm the little brother below who is hungry, not my hunger! So, you better find a way to feed it! Dong Liang said.
"Ahh
Fu Shanxiang exclaimed in surprise, but was immediately pushed down by Dong Liang's strong hands.
An hour later, Dong Liang and Fu Shanxiang came out of the house like dogs, obviously no one could see that they were finishing a man-making movement just now. And when Dong Liang came to the people who had migrated, he immediately began to speak.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this time the traitors in the Kwantung region attacked Luoyang, but they betrayed the court and rebelled. And this time the capital was moved, so that it could be fought back later. Of course, we moved the capital in a hurry this time, and it inevitably brought some damage to the people. And our government will compensate you, and of course we can't give it directly to the people now, because you can't get the wealth that you have given you. And I plan to compensate you next, and we will first move the capital during this time, and then directly provide you with free food to cook porridge to eat, and you will definitely be able to survive at that time. And we will provide the food, and we don't need you to pay for it. And, after arriving in Chang'an, we will also compensate you for the loss of wealth. If you can't trust us, we can hand over some of our valuables to your people for safekeeping, so that if we can't do it, you will also divide the valuables this time, so that you can all take them and go your own way! Dong Liang said.
Soon, Dong Liang also asked some people to take some boxes containing some valuables, such as gems, gold and silver utensils, and put them in front of these people. Then it was promised to them that the wealth would be something that would be compensated to them, and that it would now be kept by them, but that they could not spend it. If Dong Liang can't compensate them after arriving in Chang'an, then he can also use this wealth to divide and go his own way.
And this method made those poor people feel a lot better very quickly. After all, they didn't have much wealth in the first place, and this loss was really huge. However, Dong Liang promised so, and also took out his wealth as collateral, which was obviously sincere, and in the hearts of the people, Dong Liang's reputation suddenly improved a lot.
And many scholars also want to get compensation, but Dong Liang paid attention to them, because Dong Liang knew that the Dong family must be very bad in the reputation of the scholars, so naturally there was no need to lick the asshole of the scholars, because no matter how to lick it. Asshole, that can't restore the reputation of the scholars. And then Dong Liang is going to carry out a reform, so that ordinary people can get benefits, and then let ordinary people and poor students support themselves, so that Dong Liang can also gain a firm foothold.
"Hmph, I just took out a tenth of my wealth to buy the hearts of the people, these scholars are really rich. But this also shows that the gap between the rich and the poor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was already very large, and the gap between the rich and the poor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was so big, no wonder the people would rebel! Dong Liang thought.
And those scholars looked at Dong Liang, obviously hating it very much, because the scholars could not get Dong Liang's compensation, and Dong Liang would not compensate the secretly thinking scholars. That Dong Liang was completely generous to others, using the "ill-gotten gains" of those scholars to buy the hearts of the people. Anyway, those scholars have also oppressed the people on weekdays, and they have exploited Baixin too much, and there is nothing wrong with taking it from the people this time.
"Okay, then, we can't dig up much oil and water from these scholars, let's go fish for other oil and water!" Dong Liang said.
"Is there any oil or water that can be fished out? There is not much oil and water in Chang'an, where are we going to make money! We must give others a way to live! Fu Shanxiang asked.
"Hahahaha......" Dong Liang immediately laughed, laughing very treacherously, and Fu Shanxiang couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he heard this.