Chapter 871: Another way of immigration
In Liangzhou in March of the 10th year of Jianxing, the snow has basically melted, and the impact of last year’s white disaster has been almost eliminated.
The most important work of the year, preparations for spring plowing are in full swing.
In addition to spring plowing, Liangzhou has one more important job than Shu, and that is animal husbandry.
Liangzhou’s livestock farming is the best in the world, and Liangzhou’s horses are even more popular in the world.
At that time, Emperor Xiaowu ordered Li Guangli to conquer Dawan and seize the **** horse.
Most of the horses obtained were raised in Liangzhou, which greatly improved the horse breeds in Liangzhou.
It can be said that the quality of the war horses produced in Liangzhou is indeed higher than that of the war horses produced in Bingzhou and Youzhou.
At this time, the environment in Liangzhou was many times better than that in later generations.
The mountains stretching on both sides of the Hexi Corridor provide snow water to the plains below the mountains every year.
And all four counties have a river with a large flow, providing sufficient irrigation water for farming.
“This is probably the fertile land given by God in the legend, right?”
Feng Yong looked at the rough map and said with some emotion.
I have only been in Liangzhou for a few months, and I have been busy, so the maps I have on hand are all those found in the former governor's mansion.
The drawing is very rough, it is a topographic map.
Da Han has long been able to draw different maps according to different needs.
For example, topographic maps focus on mapping mountains, rivers, roads and residential areas.
There are also garrison maps. As the name suggests, they are maps of garrison garrisons in various places. This top-secret map is even painted.
However, the garrison map of Liangzhou is not of great value to Feng Yong.
There is also an important map called a city map.
The specific situation of the city such as the city wall range, city gates and forts, pavilions on the city wall, city streets, palace buildings and so on are plotted above.
The city map is also a top secret map.
But to Feng the governor, the city map was of less value than the garrison map.
The Liangzhou garrison map can at least provide a rough idea of the local fortresses and gateways, but the Liangzhou city map has no value at all.
Because you are already in the city, what better way to observe on the ground than to look at the map?
In the future, the maps of Liangzhou's major cities will definitely need to be redrawn. These city maps are, at most, a rough reference.
On the contrary, it is a topographic map that is not as top-secret as the two, and is most useful to Feng Yong now.
“A land of plenty indeed.”
General Guan can't go to the army in person now, so he can only enjoy the map. "So where does Alang plan to place the Bald Department?"
As she said that, she pointed at Duyeze, the northernmost part of Wuwei County, "How about here?"
Let the barbarians act as watchdogs. This has been a policy of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years.
Even Cao Cao couldn't escape this inherent thinking. No wonder Guan Ji had such thoughts.
Feng Yong shook his head and refused, "Definitely not."
In the past, the Han Dynasty asked the Huns to guard the frontier, which was something that could not be done if the productivity could not reach it.
Even in recent years, the Hu people have continued to move inland, which is a manifestation of the continuous shrinking of the power of the Han family.
It’s different now.
With sufficient motivation for expansion, the Han Dynasty can drive aristocratic families, powerful people, and emerging capital to absorb those frontier lands.
With a better way out for the frontier barbarians, they can speed up their integration into the Han Dynasty and work together to revitalize the Han Dynasty, right?
What's more, Duyeze in the north of Wuwei is the smaller Juyanze.
The valley water flowing through Guzang almost runs through the entire Wuwei County and finally flows into Duyeze.
To the north of Duyezawa, there is also a Great Wall built by the Han Dynasty. Outside the Great Wall is the desert.
“Whether it’s Juyanze or Duyeze, it’s impossible for me to allow barbarian tribes like Tufabu to go there to herd livestock.”
It’s okay to move various small tribes there and work as handymen on the pasture.
But tribes like the Bald Tribe will never allow it.
Both Juyanze and Duyeze are considered borderlands, and they are closely connected to the desert in the north.
Letting the Hu tribes go will cultivate the future Qiang-Hu rebellion.
Having the financial source of hugely profitable industries and not having to worry about food problems, who would be so crazy and crazy to cultivate the barbarian tribe like this?
But such an important and rich strategic place cannot be left empty, otherwise more and more barbarians from the desert will flow in.
So let the aristocratic families take the resources they have accumulated for more than a hundred years, or even hundreds of years, to develop there.
became Feng Yong’s choice.
Only in this way can it be possible to leave indelible Han culture there and turn them into real Han lands.
In order to achieve this goal, it is worthwhile to give up some benefits to Hao You.
"If possible, what I want to do most is to let Xinghanhui bring enough manpower to open up pastures and reclaim wasteland there."
Speaking of this, Feng Yong shook his head, "Unfortunately, Xinghanhui currently does not have this strength."
“Now that Juyanze has been given to the aristocratic family, the capital of Yeze will be left to the Xinghan Hui.”
The Battle of Longyou, the arrangements for the Longyou Qiang and Hu, plus the reconstruction of Feng Yong's camps after the Battle of Xiaoguan, and the rescue of Liangzhou White Disaster, etc.
Xinghanhui has had too much blood drawn.
Had it not been for Yuexun County's current prosperity, it would have been able to provide a large amount of food, silk and horses every year.
Had it not been for the good development of Nanzhong, huge profits would have been delivered every year.
If the president hadn't become a big man now, everyone would see a bright future.
It remains to be seen whether the Xinghan Association can remain united despite excessive allocation of resources.
The truth of the matter is that Xinghanhui now has no energy left to eat the fat piece of Tonozawa.
In order to compensate them, Governor Feng had no choice but to use his authority to obtain this benefit for them first, and then digest it later.
There is someone in the court who is ready to be an official!
However, whether the aristocratic family develops Juyanze or the Xinghan Society develops Duyeze, they are actually emigration to Shibian in disguise.
This has been China’s national policy since ancient times.
In the pre-Qin period, the Chu State moved its nobles to the border to open up wasteland, develop the border economy, and strengthen national defense.
The First Emperor once "sent out the people who had died, and the sons-in-law and Jia people to seize the land of Luliang and make it Guilin, Xiangjun, and Nanhai, so that they could be dispatched for garrison duty."
When he arrived in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowu immigrated more than 700,000 people at once to strengthen the northern border defense and enrich the northern counties.
Even later generations, no matter what dynasty or generation, had different ways of solidifying borders.
Exiling criminal officials is also a kind of practice.
It is precisely thanks to this national policy that has lasted for thousands of years that even if the power of the Han family temporarily declines in these places, the centripetal force of Han culture can still leave ideas for future generations.
If future generations can be more ambitious, they can say "since ancient times" grandly.
Now Feng Jishi is just picking up people's wits. The difference is that he has changed the method and used inducement rather than force.
Furthermore, the ways in which Shijia and Xinghan will enrich their frontiers will be more violent and efficient.
Today's big men can't wait that long, they just need this kind of violence and this kind of efficiency.
“So I want the Baldness Department to move here.”
Feng Yong pointed at the area between Guzang County and Manyin County, "Before coming to Liangzhou, we had already decided that this is a pasture, and we can allocate part of it to the Tufa Department."
When Feng Yong was appointed as the Colonel Protecting Qiang, he originally started from Pingxiang and vigorously expanded to the north.
Zu Li to the north of Pingxiang and An Yin to the northwest of Zu Li are both under the jurisdiction of Wuwei County.
In other words, in the past few years, at least half of the area operated by the Protector Qiang Xiaowei Mansion belonged to Liangzhou.
When the Manyin County on the bank of the river was planned, hundreds of thousands of acres of land on the east side of the river were used for farming, most of which were planted with beans as food for livestock.
Now it’s finally time to really make a difference.
The Bald Hair Ministry was placed here, and the east and west sides were cultivated by the Han family.
A few years later, if the Bald Tribe can still maintain its current appearance, King Feng Gui will stand on his head and have diarrhea to eat and drink!
In any case, King Feng Gui did not believe how long the barbarians, who had not even developed their own writing, could persist under his own sugar-coated bullets.
Relatively speaking, the other Qianghu in Liangzhou are relatively scattered.
The premise is that the large-scale influx of Xianbei from Hexi to Liangzhou must be prevented in a short period of time.
Hence, the governance of Juyanze and Duyeze is particularly important.
Only by filling up these two gaps for the Hu people to move south into Liangzhou can Liangzhou take the initiative and selectively integrate with the Han-Hu issue.
“In the future, the Han and Hu people in Liangzhou, regardless of whether they are living, farming or raising animals, must follow the principle of ‘living in large groups and living in small groups’. Hu people from a single tribe must not be allowed to stick together.”
Feng Jishi set the tone for the resettlement of the Qiang and Hu tribes in Liangzhou.
Zhang Xingyi's eyes lit up slightly: "If there are conflicting tribes, they can be placed adjacent to each other..."
Governor Feng glanced at this woman who was full of calculations, said "tsk", and said dissatisfiedly:
“We are governing Liangzhou now. The stability of Liangzhou is our goal. Why are you instigating a vendetta if nothing else matters?”
Zhang Xingyi suddenly said "Oh" and glanced at Feng Jishi strangely:
“I also thought you wanted to be like Nanzhong...well, hehe..."
Guan Ji hit Zhang Xingyi’s head reproachfully:
“Don’t talk nonsense, Alang has a good reputation in Liangzhou!”
Zhang Xingyi did not dare to resist, so she could only cover her head, but she still said with all her heart:
"Since the Hu people are arranged in this way, what should we do with the aristocratic families in Xihai County? We must make some arrangements for them, right?"
“Otherwise, if they really take root there and control part of the pastures in Liangzhou, some things may not be easy to deal with.”
After hearing this, Guan Ji glanced at Feng Yong.
When the Liangzhou family came to buy land, Governor Feng came to tell her the good news. The two had already discussed this issue.
"What are you afraid of?" Governor Feng said confidently, "Who said we should let them have trouble in Xihai County? What we are selling is pasture, not cultivated land."
"Besides, haven't the arrangements for the students I brought here not been made yet? Let them go to Xihai County when the time comes."
In the land of Mu Yizhou, there was suddenly a shortage of reserve grassroots cadres on hand.
At this time, the army is being reorganized, and there is also a shortage of veterans in the army. Who is willing to let them withdraw from the army unless it is absolutely necessary?
Hence, it is impossible to control Liangzhou from top to bottom like Yuexun.
In the past two or three years, it has been an unexpected surprise to have been able to pick out some useful talents through the examination.
The aristocratic families in other counties are deeply rooted in the local area. If you send a few students there, they will be eaten by others. It is better to concentrate them in one county.
After regaining Xihai County, how to plan the grassroots level? Isn’t it the governor’s office that has the final say?
Just like Nanxiang Yuexun and Pingxiang, white paper is the best for painting.
Knowing that Governor Feng had already made arrangements, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but sneer secretly.
She didn’t dare to provoke the Feng family’s wife, but she gave Governor Feng a look of disdain behind her back: Where is the good reputation that she promised?
Feng Jishi expressed that he had received it, and then continued to say slowly:
“Last year, both Han and Hu suffered greatly from the White Disaster, so I decided to move some of the people who were unable to live to settle in Xihai County.”
“At that time, the government will lend cattle, farm tools, and grain seeds, exempt them from corvee labor, provide them with winter and summer clothing, food, etc., and then collect taxes normally when they can be self-sufficient.”
“When there is surplus grain, the government will purchase it at a price that is 30% higher than the current year’s grain price for five consecutive years.”
Most of the Qiang and Hu people in Liangzhou are part-farmers and part-grazers. When there is no way to survive, giving them a place to live and letting them cultivate is the greatest kindness.
I am a good person!
Feng Jishi thought to himself.
"How much food will this cost..."
Mrs. Zhang, the chief housekeeper of the Governor's Mansion, subconsciously felt distressed.
"You will come back after a thousand pieces of gold have been dispersed! What are you afraid of? Not to mention that the Wei thieves in Guanzhong do not dare to act rashly now. Even if they have the strength to spare, there is Longyou blocking them in the east."
“With the help of the Zhang family in Dunhuang, caravans traveling to the Western Regions will soon be normalized. Are you still worried about running out of money and food?”
The Silk Road is the golden road.
What's more, Xinghanhui still has so many resources.
Having already raised most of the money and food from selling the land, plus the materials that will be supported by the Xinghan Association later, there is actually no need to worry too much this year.
As for next year, with the Silk Road, are you still worried about running out of money?
“You’ll come back after all your money is gone?”
Not to mention General Guan, even Secretary Zhang no longer cared about money and food. They both repeated in unison, "Good sentence!"
“Alang hasn’t written an article for a long time...”
Guan Ji stroked her belly and said, "I heard that if children listen to some good literature early, they will be smarter in the future!"
"We are discussing national affairs. How can we think of anything to write about at this meeting?" Governor Feng flatly refused, "Let's talk about it later."
“Haven’t we finished talking? What else is there?”
Zhang Xingyi said dissatisfiedly, and at the same time flipped through the folder on his hand, indicating that the meeting topic had come to an end and that we could talk about the article.
“Come here, call Liu Liang over.”
Feng Yong was too lazy to pay attention to her. He turned around angrily and shouted at the door.
Pregnant women have the privilege to come up with whatever they want.
You're not pregnant, so why are you joining in the fun if you don't do anything serious?
Liu Liang came in quickly: "I've met my brother, sister-in-law, and Secretary Zhang."
Feng Yong nodded slightly:
“Honglang, there are two things you need to do now.”
“Brother, please give me instructions.”
"Aren't you married to that Bald-Faded Khotan? Now go to Jiuquan and tell Bald-Faded Khotan that I am going to set aside a pasture here for the Bald-Faded Khotan to settle down."
Feng Yong pointed out on the map as he spoke.
“At that time, the government will send people to help them build green storage towers so that their people will not be cold in the winter and protected from the sun in the summer. The wool and other products produced will be purchased by the government in exchange for food.”
“Of course, if their people want to learn farming, I can allocate more land for them.”
Want to farm? It’s definitely a good idea to go to Juyanze and Duyezawa.
As long as you don’t go there to graze.
Let the Han people raise sheep and let the barbarians farm the land. Feng Governor felt that he was a genius.
“It’s much more comfortable there than in the cold and cold West Sea. It can also be regarded as a reward for them fighting for the Han Dynasty in the past few years.”
Liu Liang responded quickly.
"The second thing is, don't you have a good relationship with the tribes in Liangzhou? After finishing the matter in Jiuquan, I will trouble you to find those Qiang Hu who have farming habits."
“Just say that the government is planning to cultivate land in Juyanze and Duyeze. You can see which tribe is willing to farm there. You can write it down.”
Liu Liang spent a year in Liangzhou, and he learned all about the details of many tribes.
Coupled with the aura of Liu Dahanzi, the Qiang and Hu people naturally have some trust in him.
He explained the preferential policies of the government and then emphasized:
"Remember, just go to the small tribes. The more the merrier, don't go to the big tribes."
Hearing this, Liu Liang looked at Feng Yong with some surprise, then bowed his head deeply and responded: "I understand, little brother."
Preparing for spring plowing, arranging the resettlement land for the Hu people in Liangzhou, and formulating policy policies for the next few years...
When the governor's office was very busy, the first group of barbarians who set off from Juyanze and headed south against the weak river finally appeared in the distance.
(End of this chapter)