Li Jie's arrangement in Dengzhou was finally revealed at this time, and after the defeated Xiao family pirates had a dirty relationship with the Xiao family's clan, they finally succumbed to Li Jie's ship, and when the Liang State was destroyed, more than 30,000 core soldiers had to flee to overseas islands to live, plus the later Fu Gongyou, Du Fuwei's remnants, and the three groups of overseas immigrants who were recovered were 60,000 old and young.

The years have worn out the ambitions of their ancestors, the older generation has passed away, and those who remain are tired of life in the wind and waves, and desperate for a stable place.

In the entire Tang Dynasty, there is only Li Jie, the king of Fujian, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, who can take them in so boldly.

After the arrival of the remnants of the former dynasty immediately filled the vacancy in Quanzhou, in addition to the land left for the military government, the fields were divided into large pieces, the essence of these forces is more talented, blacksmiths, carpenters, farmers, shipwrights, plasterers, with the addition of this group of people, Li Jie's progress in the construction of a new port in Quanzhou is a few points faster.

In later generations, Quanzhou Zhang Xiaoquan scissors are famous, there are also good iron mines near Quanzhou, and dozens of small blast furnaces are steaming, steel mills and copper factories are opened almost at the same time, and prosperity is really spreading rapidly.

And it is not only Xiao Man'er who helps Li Jie in the port every day, the rebellion in the north, Liaodong, and Goguryeo is still continuing, and it has become more and more intense after the withdrawal of the Tang army, according to Li Jie's orders, Li You is also transporting refugees to the south by boat, Yang Xinyi's name has spread all over Goguryeo, and with her help, the trembling Goguryeo immigrants have also been quickly settled.

With such a prosperous momentum, several conspirators in Nan'an County couldn't help but be dumbfounded and panicked.

Or the old house of the Chen family, Hu Da, Chen Cheng, and Zhong Yuanhong and other Fujian family bigwigs looked even more gloomy, drank tea in sips, and no one spoke for a long time, and finally Hu Yong, the head of the Hu family, broke the silence with a dry cough.

"What's going on in Chang'an?"

"That's not good!" Zhong Yuanhong broke the silence with a frown, and said with a sigh: "There are still too few people who can help us speak, after the impeachment of the imperial history, the court is almost one-sided, and there are even ministers who impeach us for lawlessness." ”

"King Min is so powerful in the court?" A large group of high-ranking princes of the family who couldn't help but hear these words jumped up like their buttocks, but then Chen Detong stroked his beard with doubts: "Since the King of Min is so powerful, why was he sent to the desolate frontier of Fujian?" ”

"Who knows, maybe it's just that the credit is too great, and the strength is too strong." The head of the Qiu family on the side shrugged his shoulders indifferently. "How do we deal with the current situation? The king of Min is powerful, do you still want to compete with him? ”

"The King of Min will not trust us, more and more Beiyan immigrants have moved into Quanzhou, and in the future, the King of Min will mainly rely on them to rule the land of Fujian, do you want the land that our ancestors fought hard with blood and sweat to be deprived by the King of Min little by little?"

Chen Cheng said in one sentence that a large group of parents are old and silent, and the opposition has been buried, and it seems that they can only go all the way to the dark.

"So what do you say?" Rubbing his head helplessly, Hu Da asked angrily, but Chen Cheng's face immediately turned grim, clenched his fists and shouted viciously: "Aren't the hermits of each family always making trouble? Registered, and drove them all to Quanzhou, just to free up the land for our people to cultivate. ”

"What? Why? Isn't this a living ruin of the ancestral industry? ”

Population has always been the most precious wealth, in addition to the war, some warlords are human life is like a mustard, all families and forces in the past generations have cherished the population as eyes, population is wealth, Chen Cheng This is equivalent to letting everyone cut their flesh alive.

First bloodletting, and then cutting the flesh, the anger and irritability of the various families can be imagined, but unfortunately in the face of the crusade of the public, Chen Cheng's face is still so gloomy, and even more gloomy, against the background of the sparse incense in the house, how to look at Chen Chengduo like a smoking ghost.

"It's only temporary!"

"King Min is too anxious, he now occupies only how much land in Quanzhou, 60,000 people, he has been raising it very hard, the Jianghuai family has just supported the Tang Dynasty to fight the Goguryeo War for two years, how much grain do they have left? The king of Min relied on this to buy grain from Jiangnan alone, even if he had money, cloth, and gold, how much grain could he always buy? ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, success or failure can be done here, as long as the King of Min is brought down, once there is chaos in Quanzhou, we can justifiably drive these half-starved Beiyan into the sea to feed Wang Ba! If we don't fight, we will be slaughtered in the future! ”

"Can you imagine that in the future, we will treat those people from small families like those North Yankees?"

In the last sentence, all the bigwigs of the Fujian family couldn't help but bow their heads, and after a while, Chen Detong muttered: "What if it fails again this time?" ”

"Contact the mountain people."

Chen Cheng said that everyone was trembling, but unfortunately this time no one shouted anymore and did not forget the Central Plains.

In the Governor's Mansion of Fujian, in the newly built study of King Min, Li Jie was constantly writing and painting, and at one end, Yang Yi, Wang Xuance, Lai Ji, Di Renjie and others were constantly reporting the situation in the territory on the side, and they didn't know what Li Jie was writing and painting, even if the daily meetings did not interrupt his work.

"All the people who came from the immigrants have been settled, and all the nearby fields have been managed, it is estimated that those Fujian natives did not expect us to come here, the crops and rice on the ground are still there, but ......"

After a pause, Yang Yicai shook his head in distress: "But the land is still a little small, even if those people are all dirty, according to His Royal Highness's intensive cultivation, manure and fertilization of the fields, plus the later Goguryeo immigrants, there are still more than 20,000 people who can't get the land, and the factories are also full, so let these people have nothing to do, I'm afraid there will be chaos sooner or later." ”

"Also, Your Highness, one very important thing, we don't have much grain in stock, on the other side of Jiangnan, Xiao Lao has already said that he went to Jianghuai to buy grain, and His Royal Highness King Wu has helped us a little, but Wudi's grain stock was originally exhausted because of the Goguryeo War, and it is also a drop in the bucket, is it okay to find a way to fight for some grain from the indigenous families of Fujian, and you can buy it?" On the side, Wang Xuance also said in distress, and he couldn't take precautions for this, Wang Wei suddenly hurried in at the door, and arched his hand and reported: "Your Highness, in the direction of Annan County, Chen Cheng, the assassin of Quanzhou, suddenly sent a roster and a large number of Fujian people, saying that it was according to His Highness's orders, and the people who were recruited and transferred. ”

"Hehe, there are 10,000 people!" Putting down the charcoal this time, Li Jie finally raised his head and took the roster, looked at it twice and said with a smile, but Wang Weike was not happy at all, and even Yang Yi, Wang Xuance and others sighed.

"Most of these people are obviously old and weak, and there are few young and strong, and the minister sees that Chen Cheng deliberately sent it over to consume our grain stockpile, so let's send it back."

Wang Wei shouted in annoyance, even Lao Yang Yi nodded, but Li Jie stood up and waved his hand and refused with a smile: "No, if we drive it back, it will be impossible for us to lead the Fujian natives in the future." ”

"But so many people are idle."

"Who left them idle." Interrupting Wang Wei's words, Li Jie stretched out his hand to sort out the manuscript and said, "Isn't there still a lot of land near Quanzhou that has not been cultivated?" If we continue to divide and reclaim 10 acres, Yongye Tian 5 acres, tax rate 30 taxes and 1, and cancel poll tax and other miscellaneous taxes, it is estimated that many people will be willing to go. ”

"But the field is not enough!"

Fujian is famous for its eight mountains, one water and one field, and there are all kinds of barbarians living scattered in the mountains, in fact, the Tang Dynasty controls only a few rivers near the mouth of the sea less than one-tenth of the plain land, which also allows the Fujian family to occupy nine layers, no wonder Lao Yang Yi can't help but worry.

"That's why this king thought about this."

A charcoal drawing was handed to Lao Yang Yi and the others by Li Jie, looking at the strange contour lines of a staircase stool on the flower, several people were immediately puzzled.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, what is this?"

"Terraces!" Li Jie said quite smugly, stretched out his hand and drew on the map: "From this place all the way to Jiulong Mountain, there are many mountain springs on the mountain, cutting down trees, retaining water for the ridges of hard soil, building reservoirs on the mountain, and cultivating according to the mountain as a ladder, Fujian is mountainous, how many people can eat, especially, the mountain can avoid typhoons!" ”

To put it lightly, just cutting and leveling the land is a hard job, if there is no way, it is estimated that no one is willing to do this hard work, Lao Yang Yi also had to sigh and agree, on the other hand, Wang Xuance was nervous, and quickly reminded depressedly.

"Your Highness, even so, the population has been solved, and the food storage is still not enough! In particular, it takes a lot of labor to open the mountain, and the stored grain is consumed faster, so we can't afford to open it at present! ”

"This." Shaking his head, Li Jie still smiled and said: "This king has already contacted Brother Qi Wang, he has sent someone to set off half a month ago, and he has already sent a letter, it is estimated that a ship will arrive tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and this king also lined up Li to make that fat man go south, if he has no accident and survives this year, we will not be short of food in the future." ”

"Where is the surplus food?" Looking at the huge map of China, a group of strategists looked at each other, and they couldn't imagine that Li Jie was still selling Guanzi, shaking his head and spreading out the map, and a group of smart people were itching their teeth.

"Okay, the matter of food is decided, and now we need to discuss the most important major move of the current Fujian Governor's Office."

Listening to Li Jie's words, everyone looked awe-inspiring, and Li Jie focused on the map of Fujian with his big hand, and fell to a small piece of rare flat land in the ups and downs of the vast mountains.

"Kaizhang!".