Chapter 408 Dungeon
Compared to the active recruitment of nobles and powerful bastards, the Qin family’s recruitment of ordinary people has not been effective. When they heard that Wu’an Prefecture is five thousand miles away from Chang’an, they immediately shook their heads like drums.
Even if the Qin family sent people to the countryside to publicize, covered all the expenses on the road, and promised to distribute more land after they arrived in the fiefdom, they still couldn't impress them. In the end, the Qin family had to add another condition of settlement expenses. As long as you are willing to go to Wu'an Prefecture, you will be given a settling fee by mouth, ten guans for strong men, five guans for young women and teenagers, and two guans for old people and children.
This is almost equivalent to the Qin family spending money to buy someone.
But there are still very few people interested.
Finally helpless, Qin Lang had no choice but to visit Xiajing Zhaoyin's eldest grandson Wuji.
"I would like to ask my eldest grandson for a favor."
Changsun Wuji was sitting in the yamen office of Jingzhao Mansion in Guangdefang, smiling and entertaining Qin Lang who came to the door, he didn't care if this niece and son-in-law didn't call him uncle, after all, this was in the yamen office.
"Sanlang, do you still need my help?"
"Lack of people!" Qin Lang didn't hide it, he came to see Changsun Wuji today, and still wanted to cooperate with Jingzhao Mansion. "Now the fiefdom in Wu'an Prefecture actually puts me in a dilemma, but I dare not disobey His Majesty's will, so I have no choice but to find a way, but no one, everything is empty, castles in the air!"
The eldest grandson poured a cup of tea for Qin Lang, and he was quite happy to see him in trouble. He firmly opposed the system of secular feudalism, because according to the emperor's plan, after the policy of secular feudalism was implemented, the vassals would be If you have to live in the kingdom of vassals, you have to guard the frontiers for the Tang Dynasty. Those who govern the region cannot stay in Chang'an.
Not only his eldest grandson Wuji had to leave the prosperous place of Chang'an, but his family members also had to leave Chang'an to go to the fief, and according to the secular system, no emperor's decree was allowed to leave the fief, let alone return to Chang'an.
How many generations of the grandson family have struggled. From the Northern Wei Dynasty to the Western Wei Dynasty to the Northern Zhou Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. After five dynasties, they finally changed from a nomadic barbarian outside the Great Wall to a famous family in the Central Plains. Who wants to go to southern Xinjiang again? Be a barbarian?
Changsun Wuji couldn't figure out why Qin Lang liked this feudal system so much, a wild fief is nothing? In the eyes of Changsun Wuji, it is worthless, but Qin Lang thinks it is a sweet pastry.
Now this guy is in trouble here, he is very happy, really gloating.
"Sanlang is short of people, I can't help it, I can't change people. Besides, I didn't hear that Sanlang, you are recruiting soldiers everywhere recently. How many wealthy **** came to sign up as soon as you tweeted and sealed the knight again Ah, I heard that you recruited eight hundred, but three thousand?"
"Elder Grandson is joking, how can it be so exaggerated, and although the knight recruitment effect is good, Wu'an Prefecture cannot rely on only these people. They are the mainstay of Wu'an Prefecture in the future, but they are far from enough. We need to seal the land It cannot be built without the cultivation of farmers, the manufacture of artisans, and the circulation of merchants. What I need most now are the common people, farmers and artisans!"
Changsun Wuji smiled, "I have no one."
"Actually, there are."
As the capital, Chang'an has a large population. Such a capital city, with a population of hundreds of thousands, together with the surrounding counties, is a home of millions.
There are many benefits of having more people, but more people will inevitably lead to many things.
For example, Huanghuang Chang'an City is not only glamorous and majestic, but also has many dark and dirty corners. In addition to those officials and dignitaries in rich clothes and jade belts, there are also many traffickers and pawns, and there are many disheveled The poor are even beggars and black households.
Chang'an City has many underground waterways, and these waterways are densely distributed, like an underground city.
In fact, Chang'an's underground waterway has indeed gradually developed an underground city. In this underground city, it is a place where the sun cannot shine, and it is a place where the glory of the Tang Dynasty cannot be reflected.
Beggars are everywhere here, there are many fugitives, fugitive slaves, and even many prostitutes, underground gambling houses, etc. This is an underground world, where countless shady people and shady businesses are here.
Because the underground channels are complex and dirty, the government can rarely manage this place, so it is controlled by many community halls, operating many dark businesses, and many people live here struggling to survive.
Especially in the early two years, after Qin Lang led the Zhenfu Division to crack down on Chang'an City several times, many clubs and gangs that were originally rooted in Lifang, those city foxes and rats, also fled to the underground city.
This led to the abnormal prosperity of the underground city, and gave birth to many underground businesses.
Underground gambling houses, underground money houses, underground slave markets, underground smuggling, etc.
Qin Lang once planned to sweep the ground first, and then sweep the underground, to wipe out all these snakes and rats, but later he left the Zhenfu Department, and the successor Zhang Liang did not show any action against the dungeon.
Changsun Wuji frowned.
He is the governor of Jingzhao Prefecture, the de facto chief official of the twenty-two counties of Chang'an.
He has also heard a lot about the situation in this underground city. He once planned to clean up and rectify the underground world, but the underground world is too complicated, and there are many people with interests, so this plan has not been carried out.
"You fell in love with this group of guys? This is a group of rotten people!"
Qin Lang nodded.
"I know that the vast majority of these people are criminals. There are also many prostitutes, escaped slaves, and some barbarians stranded in Beijing. Of course, there are also many poor homeless people, beggars, and escaped households. These People in Chang'an are indeed a group of rotten people, they are the cancer of Chang'an, their existence has always affected the stability and prosperity of Chang'an, so if they are arrested, they will all be exiled to Wu'an Prefecture, and handed over to me for management, I believe this is a serious matter. A win-win thing."
"You really want these people, can you manage them well? In the wilderness, the sky is high and the earth is far away, I'm afraid these people will become even more lawless and difficult to restrain."
Qin Lang felt that this was a solution to gain population right now.
In fact, in the Age of Discovery, many early settlers in the colonies were actually criminals from the overlord countries of the colonies.
For example, in Australia, it was because the British prisons were overcrowded at the time, so they figured out a way to transport these people to Australia and throw them on the island. The whole of Australia is equivalent to a huge prison, so don’t worry. They are jailbroken and have low administrative costs.
Later, these criminals gradually raised sheep and mined mines, and began to produce a lot of income, which greatly benefited the UK. Only then did more and more immigrants later, and the British began to move many poor people there, even During the Great Famine in Ireland, the British also selected many young girls from the disaster area to Australia to be wives and have children for the new immigrants.
"Grandfather Chang, the rotten people of Chang'an City, I will give them a chance to start again when they arrive in the fiefdom New World. Of course, how to manage them and prevent them from fleeing back to Chang'an is my duty."
Changsun Wuji smiled.
"I still can't believe it, you dare to want such a group of rotten people."
"No matter how rotten a rotten person is, after all, he is also a citizen of my Tang Dynasty, a descendant of my Han family, so he is better than those barbarians, right?"
"Really?"
"I want as much as I have!"
Changsun Wuji laughed, sincerely admired Qin Lang, he could think of anything, and he dared to think, if it was him, a fief far away, even if there was a lack of people, he would not want to throw away these scum swept over.
"Okay, I can organize a cleanup, but the dungeon is complicated."
Qin Lang proposed to organize a comprehensive operation in the name of the crown prince, and call the Jingzhao Mansion, the Zhenfu Division and other departments to jointly act together.
No matter how complicated the dungeon is, it is only relative. If only Chang'an or Wannian counties are dispatched by themselves, it is indeed difficult to sweep this dungeon, but if the Zhen Fusi is also transferred, with the left and right Jinwu guards joining, how can these people resist?
As long as the good news is blocked in advance, and the time comes, mobilize troops to block the exits of the underground canals in the dungeon first, and then send troops in to sweep them one by one, and arrest anyone they see. It will take less than three days to sweep him clean.
To deal with them, the key is to have the unified determination of the upper echelons, and secondly, high-level mobilization. It can't just be done by some bad people in Chang'an and Wannian County. After all, these bad people have complicated relationships with the people in the underground world. Well, whenever there is trouble, someone among these bad people must tip them off.
Moreover, the underground city is so big that even the power of a county government cannot block all the entrances and exits, and go deep into the bottom to sweep them clean.
"Let the prince take the lead?"
"Elder Grandson, the hazards of the dungeon are becoming more and more serious. If this operation can wipe them out, although I dare not say that they will not resurface in the future, at least it can keep Chang'an peaceful for three to five years. Isn't that a great achievement? One, won't it be praised by Chang'an officials and people?" Qin Lang asked.
Changsun Wuji savored it carefully, and it was really good. This matter was done, so for Yu Chengqian, it was indeed another achievement, and another virtuous name.
This kid is really good at planning and calculating, and Changsun Wuji admires him.
"I'll go to ask His Majesty for instructions first. Then I might have to ask you, the crown prince, to preside over the raid."
Qin Lang did not refuse, after all, those who were swept out could be sent to Wu'an Prefecture at that time, and these would be the basis for the development of the fief in the future.
(end of this chapter)