In midsummer May, the northern part of the city is full of life, especially the big cities in the city are even more overcrowded.

With the continuous construction and production of various workshops, all kinds of commodities have also been continuously produced, attracting customers from all walks of life to gather here to pick and buy. As the origin of goods, the people of Jingzhou have also enjoyed the benefits of good quality and low price.

Jingzhou City is located in the east of the city, and there are hundreds of mansions and shops scattered among them, and there are countless small stalls that open directly on the ground. The shops often sell exquisite commercial goods that are marketed far away, and do not receive many individual customers. The stalls selling daily necessities attract many people to linger and choose.

Today's Jingzhou has long since regained the chaos and depression of previous years, and there are tens of thousands of long-term residents in the city and its surrounding areas alone, and the number of households has exceeded 20,000 early. This is only the registered population of a city, and does not add the data of the subordinate counties. As for the number of people who come and go to do business and trade, it can also exceed tens of thousands of people every quarter.

The fact that such a large population is concentrated in one city is not only reflected in the strict and thorough municipal management and household registration system. The mere fact that so many people survive and feed is a reflection of all aspects of the social structure.

The population of the city is actually a relatively special situation, although there are also reasons for the governor's government's skill, but it is also related to the particularity of its people.

Guan Zhongli has ruled for so many years, and under the hard work of Yuwentai and Su Xuanli, there are only Chang'an and Huazhou City whose population has reached this scale. And there are very few civilians living in these two cities, most of them are clans, officials and their subordinates, and there are also scholars and craftsmen who belong to the court and the government, etc., like Huazhou City, there are still a large number of government soldiers and families, and there are very few real free people.

This is because Guanzhong is heavily cultivated, and Yuwentai is really frightened by the famine, so the focus of the overlord's governance is to persuade farmers to reclaim the famine, which has also become the first criterion for assessing the performance of county officials.

Therefore, the new households in Guanzhong are basically scattered in the countryside through the land equalization, and the large manor farming mode that is already prevalent in Guanzhong also makes the people have no need to gather in the city on a large scale.

Although there is some development of handicraft industry, but the degree of marketization is also very small, aside from the government's military industry or supply to the imperial production, the real folk handicraft production is mainly a series of handicraft workshops with Shangyuan Qumeng as the core.

Although the Jingzhou Governor's Office also put the development of agriculture in the first place, but also did not ignore the development of handicrafts and commerce, after all, the geographical advantages of the Nanyang Basin are too prominent, and different from the relatively closed terrain of Guanzhong, even if it is not accessible in all directions, it can be connected and interacted with the surrounding areas is also very aspect, and it is an important hub for east-west exchanges and north-south communication.

Especially with the direct control of the Yangtze River port by the Jingzhou Governor's Office, this geographical advantage is more obvious. Coupled with the internal political stability, good law and order of the Jingzhou Governor's Office, and the prosperity of all industries, it has a great attraction to the surrounding areas.

Since the Governor's Office began to systematically accept the migrants, there have been more than 200,000 people entering the country from all sides. Combined with the inflow of people from various other sources, it is conservatively estimated that the increase should be more than 300,000.

Such a huge number is extremely staggering, and even far exceeds the population originally controlled by the Jingzhou Governor's Office. It is not that all the governors are desolate, but that there are still a large number of people in various places, such as Shannan, Handong and other places have not carried out systematic expansion and reorganization.

The inflow of such a large number of people is also an important reason for the rapid development of the Jingzhou Governor's Office, and the high efficiency of the Governor's Office in the resettlement of displaced people is also amazing, and the number of displaced people resettled exceeded eighty percent of the inflow population within half a year.

Of course, this number is very remarkable, after all, the people who move in are in an extremely chaotic state, whether they are healthy, obedient, detained in the shade or intend to live for a long time, etc., it can be said that aside from various unexpected factors, as long as they enter the territory of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion and are willing to accept the resettlement, they can settle down within half a year, and obtain a piece of land or learn a craft, so as to have the basic ability to make a living.

In order to avoid the contradiction between the local and the guest as much as possible, the Governor's Office mainly diverted the resettlement of these displaced people to the handicraft industry, after all, even the Governor's Office could not fully grasp the right to speak on the existing land resources.

Now that the population migration dividend brought about by the Hou Jing Rebellion has not ended, if the fundamental contradiction of redistribution of land resources is rashly set off, it is tantamount to the continuation of the Hou Jing Rebellion, and it is still a great wisdom to mess with oneself, and keeping people is the fundamental task at the moment.

In this context, the city has become the base camp for the development of the handicraft industry in the north. The local tycoons of the Guanzhong and Jingzhou governors were attracted to invest in the construction of factories, and the governor's offices provided them with sites and qualified workers to carry out production. And these investments and factories are not blindly expanding production capacity, not to mention the external market, there is a large amount of demand within the governor's office alone, and many government orders can eat most of the workshop capacity.

If it's in Guanzhong, such a mode may not be able to play. The demand for land is very hot, and if there is no fertile land, at least a piece of wasteland must be given in order to keep people.

However, the people accepted by the governor's office are mainly from the Southern Liang people, and these Liang people are relatively receptive to production methods other than farming and weaving, and the market economy itself is relatively prosperous.

In Dayi such as Xiangyang, daily seasonings such as onions, ginger and garlic are sold in special shops. It's unthinkable to put this in Guanzhong, and you have to buy it in the market to eat a green onion? What kind of loser would do such a thing! Where can I not grow a few green onions in front of the house and behind the house?

Therefore, the people do not have much resistance to the work of the workshop, and they are even more active than cultivating the land. Because the craft can be taken with you, do a day's work in exchange for a day's meal, one day if the situation in the north is not good, or the hometown war is over, roll up the cover can leave. However, once naturalized and granted land, with the drag of industry, there is no freedom of advance and retreat.

In the final analysis, these southerners are still forced by the war, and they only come to the north to live temporarily, and their nostalgia for the countryside in their hearts cannot be easily cut off.

Most of the people who have the skills or can pass the short-term training are sent to the workshop. As for the rest, the local government will reorganize and carry out the work of reclamation in a unified manner, so as to expand the area of cultivated land and meet the basic food supply.

Population is the most valuable thing in any period. Even if it is a rebellion, it is necessary to coerce more people to become stronger.

While accepting a large number of displaced people, Li Tai also knows that although this kind of resettlement method is efficient and effective, it will also make people feel detached from their hearts, and they may not live in peace for a long time. After all, there was a deep gap between the Southern and Northern Dynasties, not only in terms of feelings and habits, but even the fundamental ideology had yet to be integrated.

Therefore, in order to avoid the return of people after the war, which would lead to a large loss of labor and interrupt the current prosperity and development rhythm of the Jingzhou Governor's Office, Li Tai also made a lot of preparations.

On the one hand, he strengthened the control of the outflow of people at the border gates, and in principle, no large-scale outflow of people out of the country was allowed without an order from the state and county governments.

However, border control cannot be exhaustive, and if the blockade is too strict, it will affect trade with the surrounding area, and will cause a certain obstacle to the flow of people. Therefore, this ban is limited to the internal intimidation brought by the legislation, and the actual implementation is not strict.

There is another way to prevent the displacement of people from leaving the country, and that is to buy off the other side. The entry of displaced people will always have a negative impact on the local people's livelihood, and in addition, not all local tycoons are keen to shelter the population and accumulate food to become kings, so they mainly use expulsion for transit refugees and rarely take them in.

Such people can become the eyes and ears of the government, and through their monitoring of the township, they can prevent the exodus of the homeless, protect the township from intrusion, and at the same time get a reward from the government.

Of course, in the face of such a large group of displaced people, any coercive means are actually inferior. Wages are sufficient to ensure the fruits of their labor, good law and order ensure the safety of their persons and property, and sufficient supplies to ensure food and drink, as long as these things can be done well, most of the people can be appeased.

Coupled with some public relations means to create a benevolent image of the governor's office, these rooks will gradually settle down and will no longer have nothing to do.

After entering May, it is not only the business and people's livelihood that is lively in the north of the city, but also an activity that has become lively, that is, the people of Jiangling return to their hometowns to worship their ancestors.

This project was determined by Li Tai as early as the beginning of last year, and he ordered Liu Guangde, the son of Liu Zhixuan of Nanyang, to be responsible for compiling a book "Where Are the Ancestors".

In the middle of last year, this book, named "Nanyang Shicui", was compiled, and with the blessing of printing, thousands of copies were printed in a short period of time, and it was disseminated to Gangneung and other places through different channels, and soon became the focus of public opinion.

It's just that at that time, Jiangling was busy counterattacking Jiankang, and Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong, declared personnel martial law, which greatly restricted the personnel exchanges between Jiangling and the outside world. It was not until the news of the recovery of Jiangling and the conferral of Hou Jing that the martial law in Jiangling was lifted, so those filial sons and grandsons went north to find the location of their ancestral graves.

"We must be attentive to entertain these Jiangling streams who come north to find their roots, and if their search is not smooth, the state capital can also come forward to help."

Li Tai seriously explained to the government officials, regardless of his opinion of these Jiangling times, but these people still have appeal in the eyes of the people of Nanliang, and their deeds in the north fell in the eyes of these people, which can be regarded as an emotional comfort.

As for Li Tai himself, he had no time to personally come forward to entertain these Jiangling Shiliu, and it was rare that Wang Shengbi still remembered to send Hou Jing hand and foot, and he had to send it back to Guanzhong to show everyone before it was dry. Of course, the most important thing is that the Chinese and foreign governments summoned him to return to the government to discuss the matter of destroying Shu.

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