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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 273 Living up to the great trust

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    In early October of the fifth year of Jianyuan, at the turn of the new year, the city of Chang'an was decorated with lanterns and streamers, and the east and west cities were filled with laughter. The original Spring Festival celebrations originated from the celebrations in early October. Sacrifices were held to celebrate the new year.  It is also a celebration of a good harvest year.  ¡é¡ê At this time, the imperial court issued an edict to establish a county in Shuofang. It was not unusual to establish a new county. In the past seventy years since the founding of the Han Dynasty, every emperor would make a fuss about the division of administrative divisions, replacing counties every ten years.  It would happen once every twenty years, and changes in the administrative regions involving the middle levels of the empire would at most affect the specific interests of a certain county.  Not to mention that the impact on ordinary people is minimal, grassroots officials at all levels from counties to villages have not been affected much. The removal and merger of new counties will not affect their salaries. The directly affected county magistrates, county magistrates, and county captains  County captains and the like will not have their income reduced, and the imperial court will not reduce their salary due to the change of administrative districts, unless the bureaucrat is dismissed from office or title for his first offense of criminal law.  The changes brought about by the addition of Shuofang County are very small. The only impact can be said to be the impact on the minds of the people in the border counties. The core content of the decree is to add a brand new county, and it is not an ordinary border county, but in Yinshanyang.  The vast area south of the Hetao Plain surrounded by mountains is a large border county with a population of 300,000.  Looking at all the counties in the world, none of the border counties has a population of more than 300,000. The large counties represented by Yanmen County and Longxi County have a population of about 250,000. Yunzhong County and Shanggu County have a population of 200,000, which is relatively small.  Part of the reason is that the agricultural environment in the border counties is far inferior to that in the inner counties, and part of the reason is the lack of interest in farming in the face of the threat of Xiongnu invasion.  As for the reasons why the imperial court forcibly relocated the people, which resulted in the people in the border counties generally lacking the ability to farm and living a life of muddle-through, it is inconvenient to talk about it.  No one dares to discuss similar topics in public, unless they feel uncomfortable.  You will also be kicked by the county captain to the border county as a criminal, since you are so sympathetic to the people who go to the border county.  Why not go there and experience the harsh and cold life in Xiabian County.  "Guanzhong people want to migrate?" The villagers of Nanzhuang sat on the pier in a daze: "We are living a good life. Our ancestors have lived in Guanzhong for generations, why should we migrate?" "Why? The reason is that we are Guanzhong people!" Guanzhong Migration Order  Posted at the door of Luli, Nanzhuang is not the only one to enjoy special treatment. The seventy-five counties in Guanzhong have posted the same imperial edict, which calls on the people of Guanzhong to spontaneously and responsibly migrate to Shuofang County, and the imperial court will give them special treatment.  Migrants are treated with great love and care.  "The whole family will be exempted from tax for five years. Each household head will be given different promotions according to the title. Those who are lower than the Grand Duke will be promoted to the Grand Duke. If they are higher than the Grand Duke, they will be promoted to one level. The highest cannot be higher than the Duke of Duke. The Duke of Duke will exempt the whole family from corvee for three years.  The government will provide compensation and care for one official in the township, and the five nobles and above can choose to serve as county bureaucrats as compensation. "This decree has been significantly modified from the original version, and can be regarded as a disguised act of selling officials and titles, but the people in Guanzhong do not think that the imperial court.  There is something wrong with the imperial edict. Moving to the border counties is no joke, especially moving from Guanzhong to the Hetao Plain south of Yinshan Mountain.  It is almost equivalent to moving from a first-tier big city to a remote area. It is a trivial matter to live in a barren land with inconvenient transportation. It is even more dangerous to have the ferocious Huns on the opposite side of the border.  ¡°Few honest farmers in Badajiao want to go to the border and suffer hardship. The Huns have been wreaking havoc on the border in northern Xinjiang for sixty or seventy years and have accumulated great power.  Even though the Han army defeated the Huns again and again, it would be difficult for ordinary people to get some glory, in case the Huns suddenly rush to the border to avenge themselves in the coming year.  It was not the Han army's black-armored Yulin cavalry who died, but their honest peasants.  There is no shame in being afraid of death.  The genes in our body tell us that sometimes we must learn to endure. Not all people who inherit the gene that is not afraid of death die in the mouths of wild beasts.  They died under the butcher's knife of their competitors, and most of the survivors chose to protect themselves wisely. Therefore, all living humans are the descendants of wise people. Being afraid of death does not mean that they are cowards, but they are just unwilling to die needlessly.  It is not that easy to get the people of Guanzhong to go to Guandong. We can only target the floating population of Luzuo and drive them to Guandong with coaxing and frightening. On the other hand, we forcefully move 400,000 powerful landowners from Guandong to Chang'an Mausoleum, which will cause a big problem.  , Shaofu Cao Shi was kidnapped by Guandong tyrants to South Vietnam and almost failed to escape. Because of this, the imperial court almost abolished the tomb-to-city migration system.  Fortunately, Cao Shifu came back after his death and gave a speech in the court to firmly support the Han family's ancestral system, and cited the important role of the mausoleum system in adjusting the gap between rich and poor and reducing social conflicts, so that the few societies in the Han imperial system could be preserved.  Lubricant.  The villagers of Nanzhuang were unhappy.  My family was living a good life, but suddenly the people of Guanzhong were called upon to live in the bitter cold land on the edge of the grassland and desert. Even if they were given generous terms, they were not willing to do so. After all, there are few who would rather have the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. They would rather live in a big city.  Small bourgeois people should not be treated like local tyrants and evil gentry in remote areas.??The most.  Yuan Zhong is here.  He knew that the imperial decree would inevitably cause backlash, and he came here with a major mission: "Folks, please be patient. I'm here to answer your questions. This decree actually came from the hands of the monarch." "Mr. Yuan, don't be ridiculous.  "Our opinions are not directed at the prince." "No, no, I am telling the truth. The emperor asked the prince about the strategy of setting up Shuofang County, so there was an order to move Shuofang County.  The original intention is to consolidate national defense and security. Only by residing and garrisoning 300,000 people in the border counties can we ensure absolute security. Only the security of the border counties can protect the inner counties from threats. However, there are very few people who are willing to move to the border counties, so Junhou proposed  Use the policy of heavy rewards to spread all over the world. After all, there will be brave men under heavy rewards. " Heavy rewards and migration.  The villagers of Nanzhuang are hesitant and find it difficult to make a choice.  Thinking about it carefully, such generous treatment is indeed very similar to the work of Pingyang Marquis. According to the court's practice, how could he calmly offer generous compensation in exchange for the people voluntarily going north to guard the border. It is usually an edict asking a certain county to move north. The process must be  There was a huge crowd in front of and behind the army escort, and the people being escorted burst into tears and waved goodbye to their hometown.  The gap in political thinking determines the difference in handling methods. The imperial court is more willing to use voluntary means to exchange for the support of the people. Soothing compensation can effectively make up for the potential conflicts between the grassroots and the imperial court.  How can you win the support of the people if there is no benefit at all?  "The Lord's initiative is to move the common people to guard the frontier in Shuofang County, and to give each household five years of tax exemption and generous treatment for promotion. There are not many opportunities for everyone to be promoted without going to war. It is impossible to give ordinary people thirty years step by step.  The reason why it is difficult to achieve the rank of military meritorious officer after level 5 is that it is difficult to kill the enemy and perform meritorious service. This time, you can be promoted to civilian nobility without killing the enemy and meritorious service. This opportunity must not be missed again." Mr. Zheng said anxiously: "Should we move here?  "To Shuofang County?" "No, Junhou is going to ask you to wait. Shuofang County needs at most 65,000 households with a population of more than 300,000, and Guanzhong has a population of 1.3 million households with nearly 6.4 million people. In the past two years, there has been a baby boom.  With the new population of 600,000, plus the non-resident migrant population of 2 million who have been moving around the capital for a long time, Guanzhong is already overcrowded based on the current urban foundation. "" In recent years, there have been continuous bumper harvests, and our farmers all know the grain output.  If there is a huge increase, can't Chang'an City afford to feed millions of people? " "It can afford it, but the infrastructure cannot keep up. Investing in the construction of a new county town is not a simple matter. It is a miniature city that is modeled after Chang'an City and downgraded a few levels.  It will also cost at least 100 million yuan. The 75 counties of Chang'an City will cost at least 7.5 billion yuan. It will cost another 5 billion yuan to rebuild Chidao and renovate water conservancy facilities. Although the court is very rich and has a very high annual income, we still have strong enemies from the north.  On the way, we will have to fight the Huns for a long time in the future. There are too many places to spend money and there is no way to squeeze out the extra money to repair Guanzhong. " Yuan Zhong briefly mentioned this year's foreign war, since Tian Fu failed to lead the army at the beginning of the year.  , the Han and Hungarian armies fought for seven or eight months before stopping. Regardless of the losses of the Huns, tens of thousands of Han soldiers were killed on various fronts, and more than 30,000 soldiers were injured. The imperial court invested in food, weapons, medicine, and manpower.  The total cost of livestock transportation exceeds 10 billion. This is not the more humble three or four baht in the past, but the five baht with a higher market value. A war wiped out the fiscal revenue of the Da Nong Lingfu that year.  .  Fortunately, plundering cattle and sheep from the Xiongnu, occupying territory, conquering tribes, and rescuing compatriots brought huge hidden benefits. However, two large-scale rewards were given to the three armies, especially the great heroes of the Yulin Cavalry, and the hidden benefits were consumed by seven times.  Seven or eight.  Fighting in the South is very expensive. At least you can make up for the losses with gold, silver, jewels and precious products. Fighting against the Xiongnu is nothing but bare grassland, and there is almost no profit from the cattle and sheep running all over the land. Hundreds of officials in the imperial court are planning on life and death for several months.  Not much cost has been recovered. Xiongnu cattle are beef cattle and cannot plow the land. Cattle that cannot plow cannot be sold at a high price. The selling price of beef is not worth 3,000 yuan at all. Let any businessman do the math. Ten million cattle and sheep cannot be sold for ten  Billions of money.  To make a fortune by relying only on cattle and sheep, you must at least dig out the bezoar from each cow, but in fact that is impossible. It is not easy to have one bezoar in a thousand cows. The Huns have a lot of horses.  source of income, but with the Qinghai Cong base in Hehuang Valley, the value of Xiongnu horses is far not as high as before. This war is a loss-making business no matter what.  "I probably understand. What the imperial court means is that Guanzhong is overcrowded. It is better to send 300,000 people to Shuofang County to guard the border. Then what can we do?" "This batch of Shuofang County does not need you. There will probably be some in the next few batches of counties.  As soon as the opportunity arises, you should practice equestrian archery as soon as possible. Do it immediately from now on. Young people of the right age will get married as soon as possible. Every family will have more children and raise more people. The court will also have larger-scale wars that need to be mobilized.With all your strength, there is one more thing for Mr. Zheng to do. Contact your old brothers in Guanzhong and ask them to make more preparations.  Mr. Zheng nodded: "Don't worry, Mr. Yuan!"  The old man must live up to the court's kindness and the great trust of the king!  "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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