Just when the surrounding countries, especially Ning Guo, were reacting to Zhou Qing's promotion.

For all this, Lu Yuan is not clear.

However, he had already expected that the countries would reflect on it, and he had already made arrangements for all parties in the country.

The two cities of Xiangyang and Baling, each garrisoned by 40,000 forbidden troops, plus the local county government and county soldiers and militia groups that can be requisitioned, can ensure that when there is an enemy invasion, it can quickly expand a force of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to resist the enemy.

In addition, there is an innate grandmaster guarding it, which is enough to deal with any sudden crisis.

Even if it was invaded by major powers such as Zhou, Liang, and Ning, relying on these strengths, it was enough to hold on until Lu Yuan led his army back to the division and dealt with various countries.

Therefore, for domestic affairs, after making arrangements for all parties before the expedition, he didn't care much.

Now that the power has been delegated to Zhou Qing and Lan Cai'er, in line with the attitude of employing people without doubt, Lu Yuan does not want to interfere in anything.

Compared with China, at this time, he still invested more energy in the territory of Southwest Yi that he had just beaten down.

It's the end of the year, and soon it's the Spring Festival.

The battle on the front line of Lushui, at this time, as the Great Chang and the country continued to build a defensive line, further consolidated the defense here, and gradually began to turn into a pure confrontation.

The fighting gradually subsided, and there were few clashes involving more than 100 people.

And Lu Yuan also saw that he couldn't fight here for the time being, so he temporarily put down his military affairs and took the time to return to the rear from the front line.

Xieh Province, Qingshui County.

When Lu Yuan arrived here with a wave of personal guards, the local county commander hurriedly went out of the city to greet him.

He asked a little about the government affairs of the county, and then without saying much, he asked the county magistrate to take him to inspect the county.

After two months of reorganization, this war-torn town has gradually regained some popularity.

Some of the shops on the street have reopened, with the occasional pedestrian passing through. However, most of the pedestrians on the road are old and weak, mostly women and children, and young and strong men are rare.

All the way out of the county seat, to the official road outside the city, there are more adult men.

On the road outside the city, hundreds of people who had been requisitioned began to clear the road under the supervision of officials.

If you look closely, then people can find that these people who are working, with a lot of different accents and dresses.

One group of people wore a crown of hair, and one group wore a crown of hair, and one side was dressed in strange clothes, with bright patterns, and short-sleeved and wide trousers. On the other side, the long clothes and long shirts sit in the ordinary dress of Dongyang people.

Yes, the people who work here are the Dongyang people and the local Yi people.

Lu Yuan stared at these people for a while, and finally looked at the county magistrate next to him and asked, "How are the Yulin immigrants who have been relocated to Yulin live locally, are they dissatisfied with running away?" The local Yi people are still obedient, have they rebelled? ”

This Qingshui county magistrate can also be regarded as Lu Yuan's protégé.

This person's name is Zhao Xianzhi, in March of the ninth year of the former Yue Hongdao, he participated in the last Enke held by Lu Yuan, and finally won the second yuan, and then the Jinshi after the examination, and finally served as the head of the household department as an official from the eighth grade.

After serving in the household department for one year, he was promoted to a grade, and then transferred to the local government, where he worked as the chief bookkeeper for two years. After the assessment of political performance, he was among the best in the county, so he was promoted to the county from the seventh grade.

Then he worked in the county for more than half a year, and was finally transferred to the newly established Qingshui County to serve as the county commander.

Judging from Zhao Xianzhi's resume, it can be said that the official luck is prosperous. However, in just four years, he was promoted to four grades in a row and became the parent official in charge of a county.

Although there is also the reason for the continuous expansion of the Chu State and the outflow of a large number of official vacancies, it is rare for him to rise so quickly in the same period, and Zhao Xianzhi is quite capable.

Hearing the king's inquiry, Zhao Xianzhi, who was accompanying him, didn't think much about it, and replied smoothly: "Your lord, Qingshui County was newly established this year, and two hundred households of Yulin County immigrants were relocated from the household department, a total of 1,123 people, and now all of them have been allocated houses and fields and settled in the place.

However, most of them have just migrated, and most of them have no money to spare, and their livelihood is also very difficult.

Although the government has relief, it is also hungry, and no one dies of hunger.

Therefore, after the minister arrived, after becoming familiar with the details of the county, he began to clean the roads, build canals, and recruit the best of these immigrants to help them with the work in the form of cash-for-work.

In this way, a large number of sufficient manpower can be obtained to help the local construction and recovery, and the livelihood of these migrants can be solved.

Here in Qingshui County, the Yi people have cultivated a lot of fields before, these are ripe fields, as long as you play a little, you can have a lot of harvest.

In the past few years of war, many Yi people have died, and many fields have been vacated. The king conquered this side and seized a lot, and only half of these fields were taken out, which could be divided into 30 acres for each of the 200 immigrants.

As long as they survive the New Year's festival and wait until the beginning of spring next year, these migrants will be able to cultivate their fields, sow rice and rice, and harvest until June.

In this way, these immigrants can be considered to have weathered the difficulties.

With these hopes, although many immigrants are afraid that they are in a barbarian land, there is still a lot of protection for the king here. And there are people all around, and there are many smoke barriers, so it is even more dangerous to leave here.

There are all kinds of concerns, but there is no escape.

As for the local Yi people, because villages and towns have not yet been set up outside the city, and village mayors have been appointed, it is not clear how many there are for the time being.

The county has not yet recruited county soldiers and recruited small officials, and it is temporarily unable to control those Yiren settlements outside the city.

Therefore, how many Yi people are outside the city, the minister has not yet figured it out, and he needs to stay in the future to slowly investigate and sort out.

However, the Yiren in the city have been cleared out this month.

There were about 300 households and 972 people in the city. Among them, they are basically women who are old and weak, and there are basically few adult men left, all of whom have been conscripted by the king to serve in the front line.

Because there are not many adult men, these Yi people are very honest. With the king here, everyone is very afraid, and they can't afford to make waves.

And like those immigrants, they have experienced several years of war, and their families are destitute, and even food rations are lacking.

Many people can't survive this winter with food stored at home.

Now the minister has recruited the healthy women and old people in the city, and also used the method of work for relief, so that they can help with some work in exchange for life-saving food.

However, these methods are only a temporary solution.

There are no adult men, and even if they farm after the beginning of spring, they will not be able to grow much food.

A year's harvest is enough to feed yourself. If you have to pay taxes, you basically can't live.

Therefore, the minister asked for orders, hoping that the king would temporarily forgive these women and children, and not tax them in the past few years, otherwise they would really be forced to die. ”

When Zhao Xianzhi said this, he couldn't help but bow down and ask Lu Yuan for his life.

Lu Yuan looked at the county order kneeling in front of him, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

This person is indeed a cadre, and he has only been in office for less than two months, and he has already explored the Qingshui County he wants to govern and has done a lot of things.

Let this person come here to be the county order, and the officials have arranged it very properly.

I believe that with this person, in a few years, Qingshui County will be able to be governed.

However, the problems raised by Zhao Xianzhi in the report are indeed serious and need to be solved urgently.

The old, weak, women and children of those people are struggling to make a living at the moment, and it is indeed difficult to persecute them any longer.

Otherwise, these people will be forced to die, and there will be no one in the place.

Lu Yuan has conquered so much territory in the southwest, and if these places rely on immigrants, it is simply unrealistic.

How many immigrants are there?

The fugitives from the Soviet Union who were collected earlier were only more than 200,000. All these people have moved here, and they can't fill this huge territory.

Therefore, the southwest Yi here, while immigrating on a small scale, assimilates and absorbs the local Yi people, which is the best way to quickly digest this territory.

After thinking about it, Lu Yuan said: "What you mentioned, I am accurate. Not only the taxation of the Yi people in Qingshui County, but also all the newly established prefectures and counties in the entire southwest Yi region, those Yi people are also exempt from taxation for three years, just like the immigrants who have migrated.

As for the old and weak women and children of the Yi people, I have asked the household department to recruit single men from all over the country and migrate over. At the same time, the Ministry of War has also begun to recruit prefectural and county soldiers in the interior, and they will soon be transferred.

At that time, your local government will cooperate with the household department and the military department to find out the local women and children who have lost their husbands, and assign them to the single men and the county soldiers who have been recruited.

In this way, it can not only resettle new homes for single men and county soldiers, enrich local household registration, but also solve the livelihood of those women and children who have lost their men, so that their families will have a pillar of support and will not starve to death. ”

When Zhao Xianzhi heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed and said, "The king is benevolent." With the king's edict, the people of all over the country have a way to live, and they don't know how many people can live, and the benevolence of the king is also direct. The ministers will strictly obey the king's edict and personally supervise this matter, so that nothing goes wrong. ”

"Hmm." Lu Yuan nodded slightly and didn't say much.

Recruiting wifeless men and soldiers from the prefecture and county to come to the southwest is Lu Yuan's original strategy of governing the country, and it has been being implemented.

In China, these two personnel are already being recruited, but because the work has just begun, the progress is a little slow.

According to the progress of the work submitted by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households, 5,000 prefectural and county soldiers have been recruited, and 2,000 single men have been recruited.

The two add up to only 7,000 people, which is a small number, to be honest.

What is enough for this person?

If you stand up to the sky, you can only digest 7,000 households of women and children, 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Compared with today's tens of millions of Yi people in various places, it is a fraction, and it is not worth mentioning at all.

And that's why so many people were recruited.

The reason is very simple.

As soon as many people heard that they were coming to Nanxiyi, the officials didn't say what treatment they would have after coming here, and they retreated directly.

Today's three counties of Chu State have just experienced war, and the local population has been reduced to a greater or lesser extent, most of the local people have fields and houses, and those who do not have them can go to the city to work.

In this case, who wants to come to this ruined place where people are everywhere and there is still a war.

Therefore, even the officials of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Household have been patting their chests and assuring that the recruited soldiers and immigrants will divide the fields, houses, wives, and children after they come to the southwest and move southwest, and even exempt you from paying taxes for three years.

But even with such favorable conditions, there are still few people who are willing to come here.

Thinking of the detailed performances presented by the household department and the military department, Lu Yuan had a headache.

No way.

There is a big discrepancy between the reality and his original strategy.

The original plan of relying on garrisons and relocating single men to use them to digest the Yi women and children, and then further digest the entire Yi ethnic group, has fundamentally gone wrong.

No one wants to come to Southwest Yi?

'Is my Da Chu's life really so good?' Those one by one, they would rather squat in the country than come here and fight for wealth. ’

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan was also a little speechless, not knowing whether to be angry or happy.

But whether it's angry or happy, the problem still has to be solved.

Because just two months ago, that is, from the end of September to the beginning of October, seeing that the situation on the front line was stable one after another, and there were also Zhou Qing's breakthroughs, the domestic situation was also stable.

Therefore, there is a high probability that the territory in hand can be preserved, and it will not be lost later.

Lu Yuan ordered that it was in the occupied southwest Yi region that a prefecture and county would be set up for unified management and digestion.

Now the area under his control roughly includes all of the former Wuman, Nongdong and their vassals, as well as the Huichuan State and its vassals.

These areas all add up, about 4,000 li of land, and Lu Yuan divided them into eight prefectures, namely Jinxi Mansion, Qianshi Mansion, Asan Mansion, Fuchuan Mansion, Nanbo Mansion, Shougong Mansion, Dongxie Mansion, and Xixie Mansion.

At the same time, the area of these eight prefectures was established as Qianzhong County.

The establishment of one county and eight prefectures, and then counting the eighty attached counties, suddenly vacated more than 1,000 official positions.

Even though many of the prefectures and counties in the plan still exist only on paper and have not been actually established, the lack of officials still reaches more than 500 words.

So in November this year, as a large number of scholars in the country speculated, this year the imperial court really increased the number of admissions for the imperial examination.

However, instead of selecting officials in the Enko way, the number of admitted officers was raised to 500 in one fell swoop in the county examination in November of that year.

This year, the scholars who participated in the county examination were lucky.

Because of the haste of the matter, no publicity was carried out in advance, so a total of more than 5,000 people from the three counties of Chu participated in this imperial examination.

The admission ratio of one out of ten suddenly made a large number of lucky people pass the examination and get the ticket to be an official.

From then on, he could be an official and truly become a member of the ruling class, and his rise to prominence began here.

But they are also unfortunate.

Because more than ninety percent of the scholars admitted this year are in the southwest of the country that has just been beaten down and is setting up a prefecture and a county.

There are rampant soldiers here, countless barbarians, and even the war has not stopped, which can be described as a first-class dangerous place.

If you come here to be an official, if you are not careful, you may be killed by the Yi people who came out of nowhere. It is also possible that because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, a large number of malaria diseases in this place will be taken and killed.

Therefore, after the position of the appointed official was arranged, a large number of new people who were assigned to the southwest to become officials were so frightened that they would rather be robbed of their fame than go to the post to be an official.

Fortunately, there are not many of these people, only about 20 people.

When these people were dismissed from their posts and punished by deprivation of their merits and fame, some other newcomers, although they were reluctant in their hearts, still chose to obey the order and go to the newly established prefectures and counties to become officials.

But some are afraid, and some rejoice.

When you come to Qianzhong County to be an official, the danger is dangerous, but it is easy to paint in a blank field here.

If you have a little achievement, you can be quickly seen by Shangguan, and then you will be promoted by leapfrogging.

Therefore, for officials who aspire to higher positions, coming to this kind of place is more convenient for their wishes.

Zhao Xianzhi is one of the many officials who have been transferred to Qianzhong County with this idea.

Now it seems that with the approval of the King of Chu, he has indeed got what he wants. Next, as long as he can do a good job here, some will soar in the future.

……

After inspecting Qingshui County, Lu Yuan went to several prefectures and counties one after another to check the local situation one by one, and the final result was generally satisfactory to him.

Although not all officials are as capable as Zhao Xianzhi, they handle many things in the county in an orderly manner. It also took the initiative to help immigrants and people in the prefecture solve their livelihood problems.

But a new dynasty has a new atmosphere.

The officials selected by Da Chu now, although they are a little lacking in ability, are still very good.

When he came to the official position, he was able to complete the basic job requirements, handle various tasks properly according to the orders of his boss, and did not make any big trouble.

It is still very effective in appeasing the local Yi people and immigrants.

As long as these officials can gradually and steadily implement the policies set by Lu Yuan in accordance with the current situation, then I believe that within ten years, the prefectures and counties of Qianzhong County will be generally stable.

After 20 years, most of this county can be king, reaching the level of Jiuzhen County of the Song Kingdom.

In another forty or fifty years, this place should be about the same as an inland county.

At most, there are some rebels similar to the previous Five Poison Sect and Shengmiao, who nest in the mountains and forests and constantly fight guerrillas.

But these are just diseases of moss, although there are occasional pains, but they cannot affect the overall situation, and can be tolerated and controlled.

Therefore, after inspecting this circle, Lu Yuan finally put his mind at ease and led the people back to the front-line camp.

When he returned to the camp, he did not rest, but immediately asked people to draw up an edict.

This edict was sent to Xingbu.

The general content is also very simple, that is, let the criminal department change the criminals who have violated the law in the country, whether they have committed a serious crime with the death penalty, or small and medium-sized criminals who steal and fight, to rebel against Qianzhong County in the future.

Aren't those people in the country afraid of the poverty and danger here, and are unwilling to respond to the call and emigrate here?

Lu Yuan thought about it, and there was no good way to solve the understanding and impression of the people in China.

Because that's what it is.

Compared to China, it is indeed poorer and more dangerous.

So since he couldn't recruit willing people, he simply gave up this path and directly switched to coercion.

But not to force the good people, but to force the criminals.