At the beginning of October in the fifth year of Jianyuan, on the occasion of the turn of the new year, the turn of the old and the new, the lights inside and outside Chang'an City, the laughter and laughter of the east and west cities, the original Spring Festival celebration comes from the celebration of the beginning of October, not only to hold a sacrifice to celebrate the New Year, but also to celebrate the harvest of the year. ￠￡

At this time, the imperial court issued an edict to set up a county, and it was not uncommon to set up a new county, and in the early Han Dynasty, each generation of emperors would make a fuss about the division of administrative regions, and the replacement of counties would come once every ten or twenty years, and the changes in administrative regions involving the middle level of the empire would affect the interests of the specific chief officials of a county at most.

Not to mention that the impact on the common people is minimal, and the grassroots officials at all levels from the county to the township do not have much impact, and the removal and merger of the newly added counties and counties will not affect their income, and the directly affected county taishou and county commanders, county governors, county lieutenants, and the like will not reduce their income, and the imperial court will not reduce their salaries because of the removal of administrative regions, unless the bureaucrat loses his official position and is dismissed from his title for the first time in violation of the criminal law.

The core content of the decree is to add a new county, and it is not an ordinary border county, but a large border county with a population of 300,000 people in the vast area south of the Hetao Plain surrounded by Yinshan and Yang Mountains.

Throughout the world's counties, there is no border county with a population of more than 300,000, Yanmen County and Longxi County as the representative of the large county has a population of about 250,000, Yunzhong County and Shanggu County and other 200,000 people are relatively reluctant, the agricultural environment of the border county is far inferior to the inner county is part of the reason, in the face of the threat of the Xiongnu invasion of the day and day is another part of the reason.

As for the forcible relocation of the people by the imperial court, it is inconvenient to talk about the reasons why the people in the border counties generally lack farming**, and they can get by. No one dares to discuss similar topics in public, and they are not comfortable talking about it. will also be kicked by the county lieutenant to the border county as a criminal, since you are so sympathetic to the people who go to the border county. Why don't you go there and experience the bitter cold life of the lower county?

"The people of Guanzhong are going to migrate?"

The villagers of Nanzhuang sat on the pier in a daze: "We are living well, our ancestors have lived in Guanzhong for generations, why do we want to migrate?" ”

"Why? The reason is that we are Guanzhong people! ”

The Guanzhong Migration Order posted at the door of Luli is not the only one in Nanzhuang to enjoy special treatment, and the same imperial edict is posted in the seventy-five counties of Guanzhong, which calls on the people of Guanzhong to spontaneously migrate to Shuofang County with a sense of responsibility, and the imperial court will give great love and care to the migrants.

"The whole family is exempt from tax for five years, and each head of household will be given different promotions according to their titles, which is lower than the promotion of the eldest doctor to the eldest doctor. If the duke is higher than or equal to the eldest lord, he will be promoted by one level, and the maximum shall not exceed the duke, and the duke shall give the whole family three years of compensation and care from forced labor, and compensate one township official, and the five dukes and above can choose to serve as county bureaucrats as compensation. ”

This decree has been greatly modified from the original version, and can be regarded as an act of betraying officials in disguise, but the people of Guanzhong did not think that there was anything wrong with the imperial edict, and it was not a joke to migrate to the border counties, especially from Guanzhong to the Hetao Plain south of Yinshan. It is almost equivalent to moving to a remote area in a first-tier city, and the barren land with inconvenient transportation is a trivial matter, and the murderous Huns who are adjacent to the border are even more deadly.

Few of the honest peasants wanted to go to the border to suffer, and the Huns had been fighting the northern border for sixty or seventy years. Even though the Han army defeated the Huns again and again, it was difficult for ordinary people to get a little glory, in case the Huns suddenly entered the border in the coming year to take revenge. It was not the black armor feather forest riders of the Han army who died, but their honest peasants.

There is no shame in being afraid of death. The genes in the body tell us that sometimes we must learn to endure, and not all people who inherit the gene of not being afraid of death die in the mouth of a wild beast. Died under the butcher's knife of a competitor, and most of the survivors chose to protect themselves, so the living human beings are the descendants of the wise, and the fear of death does not mean that they are cowards, but they are not willing to die senselessly.

It is not so easy to let the people of Guanzhong go to Kanto, so they can only pick those Luzuo floating people to start, and even coax and scare them to drive them to Kanto, on the other hand, the 400,000 powerful landlords forcibly relocated from Kanto to Chang'an Lingyi made a big mistake, Shaofu Cao Shi was taken captive by Guandong Haoqiang to South Vietnam and almost failed to escape, just because of this matter, the imperial court almost abolished the Lingyi migration system.

Fortunately, Cao Shifu fled back and made a speech in the imperial court to firmly support the ancestral system of the Han family, and listed the important role of the Lingyi system in regulating the gap between the rich and the poor and reducing social contradictions, so as to maintain the few social lubricants in the Han imperial system.

The villagers of Nanzhuang were not happy.

His own small life is very good, and he suddenly called on the people of Guanzhong to live in the bitter cold land on the edge of the grassland desert, even if he was given favorable conditions, he was not happy, he would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix tail, after all, there are few, and he would rather be a small citizen of the metropolis than a local tyrant and a poor gentry in the countryside.

Yuan Chong is here.

He knew that the imperial decree would inevitably cause a backlash, and he came with a major mission: "Folks, don't be impatient, I'm here to answer your questions, this decree is actually from the hands of the prince." ”

"Mr. Yuan, don't laugh, we don't have some opinions, it's not for the prince."

"No, no, I'm telling the truth, the Son of Heaven asked the prince for the strategy of setting up Shuofang County, so there was a Shuofang County relocation order, the original intention of the prince is to consolidate national defense security, the border county lives and guards 300,000 people to ensure absolute security, and the security of the border county has the ability to protect the inner county from threats, but the people who are willing to move into the border county are very few after all, so the prince proposed to send a heavy reward to the whole world, after all, there must be brave men under the heavy reward."

Reward and migration.

The villagers of Nanzhuang are on the move, and it is difficult to make a choice.

If you think about it carefully, such a generous treatment is indeed very similar to the handwriting of the Marquis of Pingyang, according to the practice of the imperial court, how can you calmly propose a generous compensation in exchange for the people to voluntarily go north to the border, usually an edict to let a certain county move north, the process must be the army escorted before and after the mighty crowd, and the people who were escorted waved goodbye to their hometown with tears in their eyes.

The difference in the thinking of government decrees and the different ways of dealing with it, the court is more willing to exchange the support of the people in a voluntary form, and the appeasement compensation effectively makes up for the potential contradictions between the grassroots and the court.

"The motion of the prince is to move the people to live in Shuofang County, and give each family five years of tax exemption plus the preferential treatment of the lord, there are not many opportunities to improve the title without fighting, and give ordinary people thirty years step by step, don't think about exceeding the 5th level doctor, the reason why the military merit lord is difficult is that it is difficult to kill the enemy and make meritorious service, this time you can promote the civil lord without killing the enemy and making meritorious service, and the opportunity must not be lost and not come again."

Zheng Lao said anxiously: "Do you want us to move to Shuofang County?" ”

"No, the prince is ready to let you wait, Shuofang County needs at most 65,000 households and more than 300,000 people, Guanzhong has 1.3 million households and nearly 6.4 million people, and the newborn baby boom has brought 600,000 newborn people in the past two years, plus the non-resident two million floating population has been active near Jingshi for a long time, with the current urban foundation, Guanzhong has long been overcrowded."

"In recent years, we have had a bumper harvest, and our farmers know that grain production has increased greatly, can't Chang'an City feed millions of people?"

"Raise, but the infrastructure can not keep up, investment in the construction of a new county is by no means a simple sentence, imitation of Chang'an City down a few grades of miniature cities also have to spend at least 100 million money, Chang'an City 75 counties at least 7.5 billion, rebuild the road to renovate water conservancy facilities also cost 5 billion money, although the imperial court is very rich, the annual income is also very high, but we still have a strong enemy in the north to block the way, the future for a long time to fight with the Huns, there are too many places to spend money really can not squeeze out excess money to repair Guanzhong."

Yuan Chong briefly mentioned this year's foreign war, since the beginning of the year Tian Wei led the army failure, the Han and Hungarian armies fought for seven or eight months before stopping, the losses of the Huns aside, the Han army killed tens of thousands of soldiers on all fronts, more than 30,000 wounded soldiers, the imperial court invested in grain, ordnance, medicine, manpower and livestock transportation costs add up to more than 10 billion yuan, this is not the previous more cheap three baht money, four baht money, but a higher market value of five baht money, a war will be the financial revenue of the Great Agricultural Decree Mansion that year.

Fortunately, the capture of cattle and sheep from the Xiongnu, the occupation of territories, the conquest of tribes, and the rescue of compatriots brought huge hidden benefits, but the two large-scale rewards for the three armies, especially the great heroes of the Yulin Cavalry, came and went and consumed the hidden benefits obtained.

The war is very money-burning, fighting South Vietnam has gold, silver and jewelry, precious products to make up for the loss, fighting the Huns in addition to the bare grassland, the cattle, sheep and livestock running all over the ground are almost unprofitable, the hundreds of officials and ministers in the court have not recovered much cost for a few months, the Huns cattle are beef cattle can not be cultivated, the cattle that cannot be cultivated cannot be sold at a high price, the price of selling beef is not worth 3,000 money at all, let any businessman calculate the account, 10 million cattle and sheep can not be sold for a billion dollars.

Only rely on cattle and sheep to make a fortune, at least from each cow to dig out the bezoar, but in fact it is impossible to do, a thousand cattle can have a bezoar is not easy, the Hun horse is a big source of income, but there is the Qinghai Skull in the Hehuang Valley, the value of the Hun horse is far less high than before, how to count this war is a loss-making business.

"The old man probably understands, the imperial court means that Guanzhong is overcrowded, it is better to send 300,000 people to Shuofang County to garrison the border, so what can we do?"

"This batch of Shuofang counties doesn't need you, the next few batches of counties will probably have the opportunity to move, you should practice equestrian archery as soon as possible, and do it immediately from now on, young people of appropriate age get married as soon as possible, every family will have more children and raise more people, and the imperial court will have a larger war that needs to be mobilized, and there is one more thing for Zheng Lao to do, contact your old brother in Guanzhong, and let them prepare more."

Zheng Lao nodded: "Mr. Yuan, don't worry!" The old decay must live up to the kindness of the court and the trust of the prince! (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and faster!)