Chapter 435: Nanban Comes to Vote
Xanadu City is preparing for war.
The resettlement of more than two million people who had just arrived was heavy, which made Xun Yu worry about a lot of gray hair. However, the massive increase in population has brought great convenience to the expansion of the army.
These ordinary NPCs who moved from the Central Plains were allocated housing. It's a pity that due to the limited number of people before, the reclamation work did not go smoothly. Now a large number of people have arrived, and most of them have arranged to open up wasteland and build roads. The newly added cities and towns have also taken in the surging population in due course.
But clearing land is not the same as having farmland.
Ordinary NPCs, like the people of ancient times, put the land first. However, before the fertile land was reclaimed, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the old and young families were all borne by the lord's mansion. In this regard, ordinary NPCs lack a sense of security and are quite interested in joining the army.
In just two months, the pace of military expansion was quite slow, and the number of troops jumped from 70,000 to 150,000. Among them, the water army has reached the target and expanded to 100,000. The army was limited by Lu Yao's policy and only reached 50,000.
The smooth progress of the two key tasks of population resettlement and army expansion has caused the rapid consumption of funds, grain and grass. Twenty chambers of commerce, including the Zhen family, had to work overtime to transport a large amount of grain and grass from the Central Plains, barely ensuring that the grain and grass in the territory were retained to more than half of the full value.
Three hundred million.
In just two months, the territory funds have lost 300 million. The corners of Lu Yao's eyes twitched. At this rate, the territory funds will be exhausted in the next month or two.
It's not that he doesn't know. Previously, the eleven chambers of commerce including the Zhen family belonged to private chambers of commerce, and although they obeyed the arrangements of the lord's mansion for most of the time to transport luxury goods and exchange prisoners with various mountains, they did not forget to make a profit the rest of the time. It was through taxation that the finances of Xanadu City worked well, with a slight surplus.
But now the resettlement of the population and the expansion of the army have forced the twenty chambers of commerce to fully assist the lord's mansion. Without taxes, there is naturally no choice but to sit and eat.
"Just get through this time." Lu Yao tried his best to appease Xun Yu, who came to complain.
"Please also think twice." Xun Yu shook his head and smiled bitterly. He also knew that the current trouble was the expansion of the army, which greatly affected other internal affairs. However, the current army has been expanded to 150,000, and it is only half of the troops. The outlook is not so gloomy.
"Report, General Gan is back."
When Lu Yao heard the report from the school, his expression was immediately overjoyed. It has been two months since Gan Ning was sent to pick up the Southern Barbarian tribes such as the vulture bones. Now that he is back, it means that the Nanban tribes have moved to Zhuya.
"My lord." Xun Yu smiled wryly. With the addition of an unknown number of Nanban population, the financial pressure will increase a lot. In the past, he wished that the population would be as large as possible, but now he just wants to slow down and increase the population as little as possible.
"If the text is hard, this king will remember it." Lu Yao sincerely saluted Xun Yu. It's about the overall situation, and now I can only grieve Xun Yu.
"The minister will do his best, and then die." Xun Yu hurriedly turned sideways to avoid it and returned the salute.
Lu Yao smiled with relief, and then rushed to the dock city dock with Xun Yu. When I arrived at the dock, it happened that Nanban, who had moved in, had just gotten out of bed. He swept his gaze and immediately felt his scalp tingle.
The Nanban who are gathering are unkempt and unkempt, no different from beggars. In each person's hand is a small package of animal skins. Nothing else.
Xun Yu pills.
Lu Yao secretly thought in his heart, and secretly glanced back. Sure enough, Xun Yu's eyes were wide open, his chest rose and fell, and he was obviously angry. The cost of relocating such a Nanban alone is higher than the resettlement of five people. What's more, there are countless ships waiting to dock on the sea, and roughly calculated, there are more than one million Nanban who have moved in.
Gan Ning brought with him 50 Qiankunlou ships, 500 warships, and 20,000 sailors. Not to mention each warp, it was nothing more than two or three hundred more Nanban. But the capacity of the Qiankun Lou ship is extraordinary.
The volume of ordinary building ships is only 1,000 troops, while the volume of Qiankun building ships is 10,000. This is not counting the weight of grain and grass carried with the ship. This time, we only seek to transport people, and we do not fight. The maximum capacity of each Qiankunlou ship has reached 20,000 people. Aside from the 10 Qiankun Lou ships that carefully kept to transport grain, the remaining 40 Qiankun Lou ships brought a total of 800,000 Nanban, plus the warships, this time nearly 900,000 Nanban were transported.
"My lord." Mrs. Zhurong hurriedly walked over, wanting to speak and stopping.
"What?" Lu Yao's expression froze, and he hurriedly asked. Looking at Mrs. Zhurong's appearance, it seems that there is something abnormal in this great migration.
"The concubine begs the prince to be gracious." Mrs. Zhurong's face turned red and lowered her head weakly.
The sudden change of title made Lu Yao stunned. At this time, the vulture strode over, hugged his fists and said, "Lord, when can you set off?" ”
"What's the departure?" Lu Yao was stunned again.
This time when I went back, the Nanban tribes learned that the lord was merciful and rushed to vote. There are still three million Nanban waiting there. "The vulture bones are happy to return.
"And three million Nanban?" Lu Yao was surprised and delighted, and cried out.
"The mountains and rivers in southern Xinjiang are poor, and the mountains are willing to accept it, so they ......," Mrs. Zhu Rong explained.
When she went back this time, she wanted to bring the Eight Divisions with her. Who knew that the younger brother brought the lord back to his hometown, and he was so happy that he leaked the news. As a result, the surrounding mountains heard that they could move to the rich Zhuya Prefecture, and they came from all over the world to vote. In the blink of an eye, the eight divisions, which were already only more than 30,000, instantly skyrocketed to more than 200,000.
When she joined the southern barbarian generals such as the vulture bones, she learned that the others were similar, and those who came did not refuse, and more or less took the opportunity to expand the clan. The most exaggerated is the vulture.
The country of Ugo is not large, with a population of only more than 300,000. But as soon as the vulture bones returned, the country of Ugo immediately became a sweet and sweet, and its population skyrocketed to one million.
In the end, it became like this, and the population that could have been transported at one time had to be divided into multiple times, with a total of 4 million Nanban migrating.
Suddenly accepting four million Nanban, Mrs. Zhurong didn't dare to imagine such a wonderful scene. With this alone, the population of Xanadu City has almost tripled to more than six million people. Most of them were poor Nanbans.
Lu Yao was so excited.
Made, though, desperately want to eat it. The four million brave Nanbans are much better than the four million people when used well. Not to mention anything else, the barbarian is an ordinary class of super infantry, twice as strong as ordinary infantry.
The Nanban can be said to be a soldier for all the people, putting aside the old, weak, sick and disabled, the four million Nanban can recruit at least more than two million barbarian soldiers. Among them, you can even recruit a special class of Nanban, vine armor soldiers.
The rattan armor soldiers are known as the strongest infantry. A rattan armor is invulnerable. A team of 500 rattan armor soldiers was not afraid to break into the large array of 3,000 soldiers and horses.
Earned.
Lu Yao immediately turned around, ready to tell Xun Yu Haosheng to settle the relocated Nanban. I didn't think about it, but I saw Xun Yu's face pale and his lips trembling. He couldn't help but be amazed.
With four million poor Nanban, Xun Yu is afraid that it is really a pill. As the so-called good woman is difficult to cook without rice. There is no money in the territory, so what kind of resettlement is there to talk about.
It seems that we can't use those treasures without using them.