The population of Daqian is huge, and the land of Zhuxia is becoming more and more crowded, and according to the 50 to 100 acres of farmland per household in this era, in recent years there is no longer enough land to be allocated to the adult young and strong.

Each household is divided into 50 to 100 acres of farmland, mainly because the grain output in this era is not high, there are two to three stones of fertile land, and ordinary fields are more than one stone, and there are no dozens of acres of farmland, and ordinary people cannot afford to feed their families at all.

And even if the land is divided, with the growth of the population, there will still be no land to divide.

Although the migratory Haoqiang has obtained a lot of land, he can only save the moment, and when the land is allocated, he will fall into this situation again.

After discussing with Zhang Liang, Xiao He and others, Wang Jing felt that it was still necessary to relocate the people on a large scale. The population was migrated from the Central Plains to Hexi, Liaodong, and Western Regions with low population density.

It has never been easy to migrate people, and it is not to say that it is difficult to give up the homeland and that people are cheap when they leave their homeland. In this era, unless they were fleeing from a catastrophe or being exiled by the imperial court, the people would not easily leave their homeland.

Wang Jing migrated a large number of powerful and large families to the four counties of Hexi, and these big families were basically guilty of this, and the original big family was also demolished by the imperial court.

At the same time, an edict was issued to persuade the people who did not have farmland to relocate. Those who agreed to the migration were given 200 acres of farmland, as well as three years of tax exemption and three and a half years of tax.

At first, many people were very excited when they heard that the land was divided into 200 acres, and they came to ask where they had migrated, but after learning that it was the farmland of the four counties of Hexi, the vast majority of people were reluctant to go, and only a small number of people were willing to go.

Wang Jing was very worried when he saw the report sent below. Forced relocation is also possible, but doing so can easily pitilate the people against the imperial court.

Even if the forced migration passes, a large number of people will flee, unless Wang Jing decides to spend a lot of manpower to monitor them.

And once this is done, at least for three or five years, the court and the local people will have a confrontation, although it will not rebel, but it will be much more difficult for the court to manage, and Wang Jing does not plan to do this unless it is absolutely necessary.

"How is it good that people don't want to move?" Wang Jing looked at the newspaper in his hand and frowned.

Seeing Jiang Shuo, the personal servant who was busy next to him, Wang Jing suddenly spoke: "Jiang Shuo, if you are one of those people, would you like to give you two hundred acres of land now for you to go to the four counties of Hexi?" ”

"Your Majesty, the old slave is unwilling." Jiang Shuo, the personal attendant, shook his head and said.

Why is that? Two hundred acres of land is already twice as much as the Central Plains, why don't you want to go? Wang Jing asked.

Jiang Shuo said: "Your Majesty, although two hundred acres of land is a lot, but the distance is too far, not to mention that he can't cultivate so much land, and after six years, he will have to pay two hundred acres of tax."

Wang Jing nodded, he took it for granted, a strong man would not be able to cultivate two hundred acres of farmland if he was tired to death.

"Then do you have a way to make those people willing to migrate to the four counties of Hexi?" Wang Jing asked.

"Your Majesty, as the saying goes, people die for money, and birds die for food, so it's better to increase the reward." Jiang Shuo said.

"A greater reward? Although the imperial court is rich, it can't come up with a lot of money to reward the hundreds of thousands of people who have migrated. Wang Jing said.

At least 300,000 people had to migrate from the four counties of Hexi, and so many people all gave money, and it was difficult for the imperial court to bear it.

"Your Majesty, you can do it another way." Jiang Shuo continued:

"You can order that the people who sign up for the first three days and are willing to go to the four counties of Hexi can get a hundred acres of land, a ploughing ox, and all kinds of iron farm tools and grain.

Then in the next three days, the people who are willing to sign up to go to the four counties of Hexi can be divided into 100 acres of land, a ploughing ox, and grain.

In the next three days, the people who were willing to sign up to go to the four counties of Hexi only had 100 acres of land and grain. To put it simply, the sooner you agree, the more rewards you will get, and the fewer you will get later.

In this way, the imperial court did not need to spend much to move a large number of people. ”

Wang Jing thought about it for a while, and immediately understood that this was definitely a good way, and this method could be said to be an insight into human nature. As the saying goes, we don't suffer from few, but we suffer from unevenness.

If they see that the people in front of them have ploughing cattle and farms, but the people in the next generation do not, they will rush to sign up.

"Jiang Shuo, your method is indeed good, I will leave the matter of migrating the people to you, are you willing to give it a try?" Wang Jing said.

Jiang Shuo was overjoyed, knowing that as an internal servant, he had no chance to be in power, and now he actually had the opportunity to participate in state affairs, this was his opportunity, so he immediately bowed down and said: "Minister Jiang Shuo, I am willing to share your worries for Your Majesty." ”

"Good!" Wang Jing said with a smile: "Today, you are crowned as the Governor of Immigration, responsible for immigration affairs, and the Jiuqing of the Imperial Court will not shirk if you can complete the immigration, I will not hesitate to reward you!" ”

"The minister will do his best to repay Your Majesty!" Jiang Shuo thanked him again.

Wang Jing's edict was issued, and the outer court was in an uproar, after all, Wang Jing openly appointed a high position of eunuch and asked Jiuqing to cooperate, which was difficult for them to accept.

But Wang Jing's prestige was growing, and no one dared to openly disobey the edict. However, many ministers wrote to persuade Wang Jing to take back his life, but Wang Jing directly scolded him back: "If you don't appoint him, then you can emigrate!" ”

These officials were directly dumbfounded when they heard this, they couldn't do it, if they could do it, would they even let Wang Jing send an inner servant to preside over the big thing?

The courtiers looked at each other, they wanted to say that they couldn't do it, but they didn't dare to say it.

"If you can't, shut up!" Wang Jing glared at them fiercely.

After being appointed, Jiang Shuo immediately led people to other states and counties in the Central Plains without stopping.

Jiang Shuo first went to Yingchuan County, which is located in the Central Plains and has a prosperous population, and it has long been a situation of more people and less land. Even if the imperial court migrated a lot of powerful people, it was far from enough to distribute it to the people.

Jiang Shuo plans to start here.

As soon as he came to Yingchuan County, Jiang Shuo did not let the government announce it directly, but personally went to the people to check it, and after determining that there were indeed a large number of landless people here, he secretly found two people, gave them benefits, and asked these two people to cooperate with him to act in a play.

After everything was ready, Jiang Shuo came to the county guard's mansion and asked the county guard to announce the list according to his wishes.

"Governor Jiang, a family gives 100 acres of land, as well as ploughing cattle, farm tools, grain and salt. Isn't that too much? "The county guard is embarrassed.

"Don't worry, these things are all agreed by His Majesty, and it won't cost much." Jiang Shuo said with a smile.

Seeing Jiang Shuo's insistence, the county guard had to agree.

Soon, officials from the county guard office went to post the notice, and after a while, a large number of people came to watch, and the officials next to them began to read the contents of the notice aloud.

"Do you want to recruit people to move to the four counties of Hexi?"

"Third brother, where are the four counties in Hexi? Far from it? ”

"The four counties of Hexi, the distance is far away, one or two thousand miles in the northwest. Further north are the Huns! ”

"So far, and the Huns? Don't go, don't go! ”

"I'm afraid that the Huns have already been beaten away, but they have to migrate two thousand miles away, isn't this exile? I'm not going to die! ”

"Are you willing to go to the four counties of Hexi to distribute a ploughing cow each? And farm tools, salt, grain, real and fake? ”

"Such a generous reward, I'm afraid this is not fake!"

"It's not like after you trick us out, there's nothing! Anyway, if you don't know the place well, we won't even be able to come back! ”

"Yes, this is trying to trick us!"

Before the notice, many people talked about it, and instead of being moved, they felt that it was deceiving.

Although the notice had been announced, and even the surrounding villages had received the news, no one dared to sign up.

The next day was the same, and on the third day, in the evening, the two people hesitated for a while and finally went to the government to register.

The people around them were dissuaded that it was a deception not to go, but after waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the two of them walked out of the government with a cow on it, and the cow was also hung with grain, salt, and iron farming tools.

After seeing that the two of them had really received something, the surrounding people were in an uproar and asked, "Brother Quan, are your cattle and tools really given by the government?" ”

The man said excitedly: "Really, when I went in, I said that I signed up to go to the four counties of Hexi, but the government really gave ploughing cattle, iron farming tools, salt and grain, you see Brother Li is the same as me, he also has it!" ”

Hearing the two admit, the surrounding people exploded in an instant, and hurriedly rushed to the mansion. But before they could rush to the gate, they saw that the messenger had closed the gate, and shouted, "Today's release is over, and if you want to sign up, hurry up tomorrow!" ”

No matter how the people outside cried and begged, these servants still closed the door.

After seeing this situation, many people hurriedly ran home to inform their relatives without delay.

The news that the government had really distributed the cattle spread quickly, and the people outside the city were eager to try it one by one, and even many people who had already divided the farmland at home planned to try it tomorrow. If they really gave the cattle to plough, they would give up the fields here and go to the four counties of Hexi.

In the age of farming, a ploughing ox played too much of a role.

(End of chapter)