Chapter 4 Overcrowding

Whether it was the so-called orthodox Jin Dynasty in which Shi Jingtang occupied the Central Plains, or the puppet dynasties in various feudal towns, the change of regime was basically caused by the rebellion of the generals who held military power.

At this time, the soldiers of the army basically had no faith and morality, and even the most basic morality of being a man no longer existed, and the only thing that drove them to follow the general was food and rewards.

On several occasions, there were incidents in which the soldiers were not fed with the flesh of the dead because of the lack of food for the soldiers, and even killed people to take meat for food, and made human flesh into jerky and sold it for 100 yuan a catty.

Officers and soldiers robbed and brutally killed the people from time to time, and it can be said that except for the Gyeongju Black Flag Army, there were no soldiers who did not disturb the people.

On the occasion of the five generations, the way of the monarch, the ministers, the father, and the son is obedient, and the temple court, the people and ghosts are out of order, and they can be described as those in troubled times! It has never been seen since ancient times.

The existence of Gyeongju has become the focus of attention of all parties at this time, because Gyeongju is too different from other countries.

Because of the encouragement of trade, merchants from the surrounding four countries, as well as merchants from the Southern Han and even Liao countries, came to Gyeongju to do business, and the result was that merchants from all over the country brought what they saw and heard in Gyeongju to various places, and then became familiar and expected by the people.

Things in the world are often like this, and people are content to live with the status quo when there is no comparison, but once there is a comparison, their minds will come alive.

Hearing the rumors of the merchants, and then through their own imagination, so in the minds of the people everywhere, Gyeongju has become a paradise-like existence, the people there will never know that they are hungry, the people there do not have to pay high taxes, the people there do not need to be conscripted, they will not be conscripted into military service, the people there have a place to redress their grievances, the people there can freely discuss policies and even become officials, the merchants there can trade freely and even be protected by the government, the army there will not rob the people, and the soldiers there will be a hundred .......

After hearing that the people of Gyeongju had another bumper sweet potato harvest this year, the people who could not survive at the bottom of the country began to rush to Gyeongju. On the official roads and the waterways of the Yangtze River, there are endless streams of people dragging their children and daughters, and they have only one goal - Gyeongju.

Baili Wuji and Xu Shiming obviously did not prevent this kind of population explosion, and by the time the situation became clear, it had reached the point of being out of control.

The streets of the entire Gyeongju prefecture are already overcrowded, and even the countryside and fields are full of people.

The Gyeongju government hurriedly ordered each county to actively arrange for the people who had migrated, but the speed of the arrangements was far from keeping up with the speed of the immigrants from all over the country, and the government was still unable to control the situation.

The sudden explosion of the population has caused a rapid decline in social security, and thieves and robbers, buying and selling human beings, and forcing good people to become prostitutes...... Cases are frequent.

All the forces snickered and watched the jokes of Baili Wuji, although the loss of population also worried them, but as long as they thought of the land of Jingnan District and several states, their hearts were relieved, indeed, even if those states were all crowded with people, how many people could fit in, and how to let them eat their stomachs.

Baili Wuji talked with Xu Shiming and Bailiren all night behind closed doors.

Early the next morning, the Gyeongju government issued seven orders in a row. 1. Recruit the able-bodied of the migrants into the army, and if one member of the family joins the army, the whole family will be given priority to settle down and be given a share of the land. 2. The government will provide food and lodging for the construction of the new port, official road, and city wall of Gyeongju, and after the construction is completed, the government will arrange for priority to settle down and get the land. 3. Those who have the ability to work and enter the Padang iron ore mining area for one year will be given priority by the government to settle down and be allocated land. 4. Set up temporary detention centers outside the city, and all children under the age of 12 and over 60 years old who have no one to take care of them will be placed in temporary detention centers, and the government will provide food every day. 5. All vagrants who wander on the streets shall be detained and deported. 6. Anyone who commits a crime will be punished severely. 7. All those who recommend themselves as officials shall go to the local yamen to register and wait for candidates.

After issuing seven orders, after arresting, killing, and expelling a group, Baili Wuji ordered the Black Flag Army to patrol the official streets of the state every day.

This move did not harm the interests of the original residents of Gyeongju, so it was supported and cooperated by the original residents, so after more than ten days, the law and order in Gyeongju quickly returned to stability.

Those who wanted to see the jokes of Baili Wuji were shocked by the Gyeongju government's ability to execute so efficiently and admired the military discipline of the Black Flag Army. Compared to the Black Flag Army, the team under his command is undoubtedly a group of bandits.

Baili Wuji has been taught by his father since he was a child. Therefore, Baili Wuji is most concerned about the military discipline of the Black Flag Army and the loyalty of the soldiers, once anyone violates military discipline, Baili Wuji will be dealt with severely, of course, for meritorious service, it will also be rewarded.

And the most important thing is the loyalty of the generals, to completely change the status quo of this kind of soldiers belonging to generals, then the only way to let the soldiers belong only to themselves.

Therefore, the Black Flag Army only knows that they are loyal to Baili Wuji.

Baili Wuji knows that this is not a good thing, because once he has three longs and two shorts, then the Black Flag Army will fall into a situation where the dragons are leaderless, but Baili Wuji currently has no better way, and he can no longer let the generals of the unified army make waves with the soldiers in his hands, and the best way is to completely put the military power under his own control.

This sudden riot of displaced people gradually subsided under a series of measures. It also swelled the Black Flag Army to 120 battalions in 10 chambers and 30 battalions, each battalion of 450 men, a total of 54,000 men. The Black Flag Army, which had just completed training, was once again transferred to the state of training, and those veterans of the former Black Flag Army were promoted one level out of thin air without merit, so the morale of the training troops was also high.

After a preliminary estimate of a year, the grain was still good, but the money was stretched thin, and the money and goods looted from the treasury of the original four states were slowly bottoming out, and after they ran out, they could only use the money used by various countries to buy firearms in an emergency.

The tax rate for agriculture has been lowered to 15 revenues, and the tax rate for commerce has also been reduced to 12 revenues.

It is urgent to develop financial resources.

But Baili Wuji did not expect it, because the military salary set by his recruited soldiers was much higher than that of the surrounding forces, and the second wave of immigration was imminent.

Which of these migrants who have been properly resettled has no family or friends.

Sending letters or sending letters, like a spider web, there was another wave of immigrants on the official roads in various places.

And this time the number is bigger and more ferocious than the first.

The massive loss of the people brought all kinds of hidden dangers to the entire rule, the desolation of the land, the decay of the towns, and the collapse of the regime.