Chapter 930: Migration
In the sixth year of Taixing, the drought broke out in some areas of Yongliang.
It spreads from Longyou to Guanzhong.
The imperial court and the local government have long been accustomed to setting up porridge sheds, providing relief for work, eating Hanzhong, etc., and have dealt with them properly, and there has been no large-scale starvation of people.
God seems to be ready to play big this time, and the scale of the drought spreads to Jingzhao, Feng Yi, and Hanzhong.
The long-term drought in Liangzhou has caused a locust plague of a certain scale, which has reduced grain production in other areas that have not been affected by drought.
Fortunately, there are more than two million stone of grain stored in the Guangtong warehouse, and it can barely cope with it.
However, it is not a matter to sit and eat empty mountains like this, the population of Daqin ushered in a small outbreak, Guanzhong bore the brunt, and the demand for food also increased, Yang Zheng was ready to eat Luoyang again.
Wei Qian admonished: "Guanzhong has a large population, so it is better to migrate part of it to fill Jianghuai and Liaodong. ”
In the past two years, the hottest areas are Jianghuai and Liaodong, the land is fertile, and the survival pressure is small, especially Jianghuai, after the introduction of Zhancheng rice, it immediately became the granary of Daqin, and one city after another rose from the ground, which attracted the people of Henan, Yanjing, and Sanzhou to come and beg for a living.
And Liaodong is also changing with each passing day after introducing a large number of Sanhan slaves.
Da Qin Ming has no class on his face, but this thing is an eternal unspoken rule.
Where there are people, there will be discrimination and hierarchy.
There is no doubt that the noble clan Haoqiang, who attaches great importance to inheritance, is the top of the pyramid in Liaodong, the Qin people at the bottom layer, the Xianbei and Wuhuan tribes naturalized in Liaodong at the bottom, and the slaves of Sanhan at the bottom.
The Qin people became landlords one by one, and every household raised a few male and female slaves.
The government not only divided the fields, but also helped them build small dock forts next to the fields.
Don't be too happy on this kind of day, watch the slaves work during the day, or go hunting in the mountains and old forests, and sleep with the slaves at night......
There's no way, it's a little dark in autumn and winter in Liaodong, and there are only a few kinds of entertainment......
In just two or three years, Liaodong, a bitter cold place, has attracted a wave of baby booms......
After all, the population of Samhan was limited, so the powerful people decided to fight the Wa Kingdom on the other side of the sea.
The slave trade was in full swing, and although the Japanese were short and thin, they were very obedient and would not resist no matter how hard they worked......
I don't know who released the news, but three big gold mountains were found in the Wa Kingdom, each of which is as high as Mount Tai, and there is no need to dig it, just pick it up with a bag......
Gold, slaves, land......
In an instant, the heroes climaxed.
Don't underestimate their thirst for wealth, there's nothing they don't dare to do.
When the Eastern Han Dynasty was founded, he dared to go against the emperor.
If it weren't for Daqin's methods being too ruthless and cruel, they wouldn't be so honest.
However, after all, the Wa Kingdom was a country, and after discovering that the northern Haoqiang was plundering in the south, it began to resist, and there were several small naval battles with the Haoqiang, and they won and lost each other.
The Wa Kingdom has a tradition of piracy since ancient times.
Although there are many people on the ship, there are few people who are good at water warfare, and the soldiers of Hebei and the Central Plains can stand firm on the swaying deck without getting seasick.
One side of the water and soil to support the other side.
Having lost several times, the Haoqiang learned from their experience and recruited sailors from Koto at a high price.
After the fall of Eastern Wu, a large number of naval troops were dismissed, and there must be brave men under the heavy money, and there was no shortage of outlaws in the land of Wuyue in this era.
Interests are always the best driving force, and Daqin has formed a rule that as long as Qin's laws do not prohibit it, you can do it boldly with confidence.
How keen is the sense of smell of the nobles? Faintly aware that the court seemed to encourage them to go out and plunder...... Pioneering, one by one, is even more unscrupulous.
The East China Sea became busy and lively.
Haoqiang from the Central Plains and Jiangdong also joined in.
Several shipyards in Daqin had a booming business, and the technology of sea vessels was advancing by leaps and bounds.
However, the shipbuilding technology of this era was defective after all, and the ability to resist wind and waves was not strong, but this did not stop the interest of the scholars from going out to "open up".
The imperial court even issued a decree that the discovered islands, within a radius of 100 miles, were directly owned by Haoqiang, and about 500 miles needed to be declared to the imperial court.
This undoubtedly stimulated their enthusiasm even more.
The naval battle with the Wa Kingdom gradually gained the upper hand, but the Wa Kingdom resolutely resisted, and the powerful and powerful fought on their own, and they were in a weak position in terms of military strength, and they were never able to establish a base on the Wa Island.
However, this has intensified their "pioneering" efforts, burning and looting everywhere around Wajima......
During this period, the Han Dynasty was the most fierce in the world, and since the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they have been killing and killing, and they are accustomed to war.
The Wa Kingdom was overwhelmed, and the queen sent envoys to ask Daqin to restrain Haoqiang.
Yang Zheng naturally ignored it.
The powerful asked the Great Qin government to come forward and organize the Qin army to attack the Wa State, and they were willing to pay money, food, and people......
At this time, Daqin's energy was focused on fighting for the Hezhong region, and Guanzhong was in a drought, so he was really not in the mood, so let the heroes figure it out by themselves.
"Immigrating to Jianghuai and Liaodong is better than immigrating to Dawan!" Yang Zheng stared at the sand table.
Now the most important thing to export population is not Liaodong, let alone Jianghuai, but the Western Regions!
Great Qin's control over the Western Regions was also linear, mainly occupying economically valuable areas such as Yanqi, Qiuci, Shule, and other places.
Then there are fertile lands such as Gaochang and the Seven Rivers Valley that can be cultivated.
The Dawan Basin, which is the Uzbekistan of later generations, can be attacked and defended, and the Yaozhishui (Syr Darya) and Wuhu Water (Amu Darya) that meander down from the Tianshan Mountains flow through the river and flow into the Aral Sea.
So Dawan is a strategic highland for the whole of Central Asia.
There are many ethnic groups in Central Asia, which also causes the population of each ethnic group to be small.
If one million Qin people can be migrated, within fifty years, the whole of Central Asia will be bathed in the glory of Great Qin!
In later generations, this basin could accommodate 17 million people, and now it can accommodate 1 million Qin people, which is not a big problem.
"Dawan...... It is so far away, I am afraid that the people are unwilling to resettle the land. Wei Qian worried.
"Then give them more land and livestock, build mansions for them, and proclaim righteousness to create momentum, and migrate in batches for a long time, ten years. Twenty years is fine, but this must be done! "Yang Zheng didn't expect to get a million people at one time, and the migration of millions of people is not a trivial matter......
Lu Zhi said: "The minister suggested that the post station from Gaochang to Dawan be built to prepare for future migration. ”
"It's still the uncle's thoughtfulness!"
The post station can greatly strengthen the connection between the Western Regions and Guanzhong, and at the same time can also create a large number of jobs, a post station is less than 100 people, more than 300 people, standing on the throat artery, providing accommodation, food, water, carriages and horses and other services for business travel.
If you have business travel, you can basically take care of your own profits and losses, and even make a profit.
At the same time, it undertakes the fast riding of the imperial court, and it can also burn wolf smoke like the beacon tower.
To use an inappropriate analogy, the post station of this era is the high-speed rail of later generations......
Isn't Yongliang suffering?
It's just cash-for-work.
(End of chapter)