The Weiyang court debated for two hours, discussing the establishment of counties in Shuofang, and the solution to the relocation of Shuofang's population was very complicated, so it also deliberately formulated regulations for the relocation of people.

The newly established Shuofang County encompasses the west of Yunzhong County, and Guanzhong Neishi County encompasses a large area of the Yellow River Hukou Waterfall to the north and extends to Yinshan, where the sparsely populated climate is dry and cold, and is more suitable for grazing than farming, and most Han people are reluctant to live in the bitter cold land of the north unless there are very lucrative interests.

Liu Che's attitude is clear, let Li have to go if he doesn't move, if he doesn't go, he will be sentenced for crime, and in the end he will still have to move over if he becomes a criminal, and the emperor's implementation strategy is more inclined to be simple and rude, without the slightest emphasis on the art of political compromise, and he can't even consider everyone's needs with his heart.

Cao Shi was resolutely opposed to this, and he came up with various examples to tell the Son of Heaven that the farming enthusiasm of the Han people in the border counties was very poor, and in some areas it was even less than 1 stone, which was basically equivalent to sprinkling seeds and letting them grow, and eating as much grain as they could harvest in the autumn, and not eating grain if they did not harvest.

The Son of Heaven was furious: "Nonsense! How could Hermes-Epitek be so lazy! ”

"Your Majesty, don't be impatient and listen to me, the poor enthusiasm for planting in the border counties is related to the poor water and soil, and it is difficult to receive 2 stone of grain no matter how hard the barren land is cultivated, and the Han people must try their best to graze in order to have enough to eat, but how many people are willing to graze in the border counties for a living? Raising pigs in the inner county △ ~ long △ ~ wind △ ~ Wen △ ~ learning, w◎@, grazing in the border county is another thing, in the border county for a long time and the Xiongnu herdsmen on the grassland to deal with, it will not take ten years to gradually Hu, many herdsmen in the border county in order to fight against Huhua. will take the initiative to provoke a fight with the Xiongnu tribes, and the perennial troubles of the Han and Hungarian borders have a lot to do with this. Whether we set up border counties for sinicization or Huhua is worth pondering. ”

Liu Che paced irritably. He seemed very disgusted to hear unpleasant arguments, but he quickly calmed down and showed the high quality of a ruler: "Since you talked about the influence of grazing and Huhua, is there any way to solve it?" ”

"Yes, yes, there is, we have to start from several aspects, first of all, the imperial court must vigorously support the spread of Thai monotheistic beliefs in the border counties, the reason why the Han civilization is strong is that our culture is very strong, even the powerful Huns are very envious of the developed Han culture, as long as the missionary work of the border counties is solid to ensure that the Han people's belief in the Thai monotheistic remains unchanged, and the status of Chang'an City as a religious center remains unchanged. Hermes-Epitek will not generate a large centrifugal force.

For example, the Han people who moved to Shuofang County were exempted from the whole family tax for five years, including the tax and calculation, and all the Han people who were naturalized in the border counties were given the promotion of the civil lord according to the head of each household, and the 5th level doctor and below were uniformly promoted to the doctor, and the 9th level and above the 5th level of the five doctors were each promoted to the first level, and the military merit of the five doctors and above was awarded the actual position in the county and the township, and received the imperial court subsidy. ”

Cao Shi made a compromise. It is allowed to promote the lord at the expense of migration, anyway, the court will also give the lord of the world the gift of promotion, which is better than to buy the hearts of the migrating people, but he has a fatal flaw in this system. That is, there is no shortage but unevenness, and Shuofang set up a county to allow the people who moved out to enjoy privileges, so how should the border people of Yanmen County, Yunzhong County, and Shanggu County be dealt with.

Then there is how to arrange border counties such as Beidi County and Daiguo that are relatively small under the threat of the Xiongnu. Strictly speaking, they are also counted as border counties, and the border people also have the obligation to fight against the Xiongnu. The same land is barren and the climate is bitterly cold, at most it is slightly better than Yanmen, Yunzhong, Shuofang and other counties. Compared with Guanzhong and Sanhe, it is much worse.

The Son of Heaven also raised this sharp question: "If Shuofang is given a county, it will be given to Yanmen, Shanggu, Yunzhong, Yuyang, Youbeiping, Liaoxi, Liaodong, and the Sanyue border counties in the new south, as well as the second-level Beidi, Daiguo, Lingling, Guiyang, and even Shuzhong are also counted as border counties, you must understand that it is impossible for the imperial court to come up with so many welfare benefits to popularize the border counties of the world." ”

"Your Majesty, don't be impatient, and listen to the minister's words."

Cao Shi patiently said: "Your Majesty might as well let the southern Sanyue also enjoy the same treatment, and in the future, the southwest Yi can also follow suit, revise the scale of the border counties every five years, and list the counties and counties that are more than 200 miles away from the border as inner counties. As long as there is no huge crisis of strong enemy ring feeding, no matter whether the people are farming or grazing, they can do whatever their personal wishes, people who are lazy and lazy will starve to death in Beijing, and hard-working and brave people can live in the grassland and desert can also live a prosperous life, I heard that Dr. Gongsun Hong once herded pigs to earn money to support self-study poetry and books, which shows that grazing in the inner county is not a profession without money, and there are thousands of truths for the people of Qianshou to make a living by themselves, as long as they do not violate the Han law, there is no need for the imperial court to control them one by one. ”

Liu Che understood his hint, the imperial court held the right to divide the border counties and the inner counties, and only those close to the border were called border counties, rather than being divided by the barren land and bitter cold climate, and in one sentence suppressed most of the complaints of the border people.

"But how can the border people of Yanmen, Shanggu, and Yunzhong counties solve it?"

Cao Shi said: "You might as well give the same treatment, anyway, the people of these border counties are living a very hard life, but the date will be delayed for more than a year, and it is very urgent for the imperial court to prepare for the establishment of Shuofang County, at least to ensure that Shuofang County has 60,000 households and about 300,000 people before it can stand firmly, and announce the date of the implementation of preferential policies in other border counties, and stipulate that the border people who enjoy the treatment of border counties when the border counties are abolished have the obligation to follow the orders of the imperial court to move to farther border counties, and the imperial court will further establish new border counties in the future to give tax exemption and preferential treatment." ”

The details will be discussed later, whether the preferential policy is suitable for three years or five years, the Son of Heaven is reluctant to let the people take advantage, especially the scale of the Tijue, and the improvement is also very large, but they were all persuaded by Cao Shi one by one.

The original intention of the imperial court to each head of the household is to legally occupy 5 hectares of land according to the Han law lord, each family has the right to develop 500 acres of wasteland, and the number of cattle and sheep grazing is not limited for the time being, even if the Han people are not enthusiastic about farming, they can receive 750 stone of grain a year.

In the first year, only one-third of the grain production will be produced, but in the second and third years, it will gradually increase to the ideal value of 750 stones, and the three-year tax holiday will allow a family to save at least 500 stones, and at the same time, it can also raise hundreds of cattle and sheep, and there is no need to worry about starving if taxes are collected later.

In addition, the development of animal husbandry in the border county ensures sufficient meat supply, the rapid development opportunities brought by the expansion of Chang'an City, the new urban population of more than 200,000 makes Chang'an City become full of vitality, and at the same time, the supply of non-staple foods such as meat, poultry and eggs is insufficient, the price of beef and mutton in the east city has risen year after year, even if the breeding can not meet the demand, the rich Chang'an people prefer to eat meat food, and the development of the border county can also solve the difficulty of meat supply.

"The general of the Che Cavalry is still at an excellent level of governance, and I can rest assured that you can go to Longxi County to pass through Hexi."

Cao Shi's eyes widened incredulously and said, "Your Majesty......"

"The imperial court discussed the arrangement of the Che Cavalry General before, and I felt that it would be a waste of talent to let you stay in Chang'an, so I decided to let the Che Cavalry General go to Jingluo Hexi and give the Right Xian King a hard stab, do you have confidence?"

The matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, Cao Shi chose to bow his head: "The minister obeys the holy order!" ”

……

"Father?"

Cao Xiang looked at the tall man with wide eyes and curiosity, he had just learned to speak and parted with his relatives a year ago, and his memory of his father was only a little hazy, and he vaguely remembered this figure in his impression.

Liu Wan gently hugged the child, and said gently: "Xiang'er is her father, don't you like to listen to your father's story the most?" Father was right in front of him. ”

With an unfamiliar embrace and broad shoulders, Xiao Cao Xiang stretched out his immature hand to touch the stubble on the man's face, and said innocently: "Mother, my father's skin is so dark and his beard is so hard." ”

Liu Wan leaned on her husband's eyes as gentle as water, time flew by in the blink of an eye, and the couple were separated for a long time, so that the children did not recognize their father, and there were thousands of words to tell in their hearts, but the words could not be said in her mouth, and she was very afraid that she would cry.

Wei Junru walked with the child in his arms, the little Cao Yan, who had just turned one year old, was asleep, and there was no reaction when he was held in Cao Shi's arms, his small mouth smacked and he didn't know what good things he was dreaming about, and his palm-sized little face was four points like Cao Shi and six points like Wei Junru, which was much better than the wrinkled little baby a year ago.

The more Xiao Cao Xiang grows, the more he looks like his father, the double eyelids, big eyes and tan eyes are what the couple have in common, the snow-white skin follows his mother Liu Wan, but the facial features inherit Cao Shi's appearance, the facial features of the Cao family are all the same, and the facial features of several distant relatives of the Cao family are very similar to Cao Shi's facial features.

Cao Shi slept sweetly, Cao Shi couldn't bear to disturb his daughter's good dreams, Cao Xiang accompanied the adults to sit for a while and then bored to play, Cao Shi let the maid hold the chubby son and daughter to rest.

"Recently, the concubine has heard a lot of bad rumors, and many people say that our Cao family is too powerful, and the concubine is very worried."

"What's your rumor?"

"The attitude of the Son of Heaven made the concubine incomprehensible, and she went to Weiyang Palace several times to talk to the Son of Heaven less enthusiastically than before."

Liu Wanxiu frowned slightly, the younger brother who grew up knows best, living in the complex environment of the palace Everyone has to be a little careful, Liu Che is a personal idea and idea, the positive meaning of the character is similar to the first emperor's resoluteness and decisiveness, and the negative meaning is also the first emperor's stubbornness and self-use, not particularly good at accepting advice and being a fluent person.

Cao Shi smiled slightly: "What can I do when the wind comes out?" It would be a big mistake to think that I am Zhou Yafu. ”

"Gentleman ......"

"No one can bear Zhou Yafu's bull temper, do you think I look like a cow temper?"

Liu Wan and Wei Junru shook their heads, their husbands have been marching and fighting outside all the year round, and the two women are guarding the foundation of the Cao family so that they are not afraid of being bullied, but the more time passes, the more knowledge they come into contact with, and their understanding of Han family politics has improved a lot, especially Liu Wan, the princess of Yangnobunaga, who knows the most about palace politics.

"What the concubine is worried about is not repeating the mistakes of the past, but that the gentleman's high merit is jealous of the Son of Heaven, Zhou Yafu died of an incompatible temperament, what if it is Zhou Bo?"

Cao Shi shook his head: "Don't think too much about my own opinions, the suspicion of the Son of Heaven will not last long, and there will always be a way out." (To be continued......)