Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 590

The teacher and the student sat opposite each other and had breakfast.

A bowl of boiled wide noodles and a bowl of haggis soup are very simple.Li Jing was wearing a purple robe, but eating breakfast was no different from an ordinary old man, "It would be the most delicious if you can have a few flax pancakes, especially the kind of flax pancakes sold by Hu merchants in the Western Regions in Daxing City, they are delicious. "

Luo Cheng laughed and said, "I'm afraid the teacher is more concerned about the exotic style of the orchids in the Western Regions, and you like their unrestrained enthusiasm?"

"Hahaha, it's true that orchids from the Western Regions are unrestrained and enthusiastic, but their cakes are also good. In the past, Persian orchids sold the most delicious salamander, but since you made that baijiu, now no one can beat it when it comes to spirits Your baijiu is on the right side, but it has reduced a lot of business for the orchids in the Western Regions who sell liquor."

"The war in the Central Plains caused fewer Hu merchants from the Western Regions to come, and many Hu merchants who lived in the Central Plains for a long time also started to run back." Luo Cheng said.

Li Jing sighed, indeed.

In the early years, the Western Turks controlled the Western Regions. Later, Emperor Wen managed to let the Turkic civil strife and defeat the Western Regions, which made Hu merchants from the Western Regions and more western Persia, Fulin and other countries come to the Central Plains for business.

And when today's son succeeded to the throne, he conquered Tuyuhun, defeated the Turks, and even destroyed Yiwu, so that Gaochang and other countries came to congratulate him. The emperor also entertained envoys from all parties in Luoyang, the eastern capital, and made the inns and restaurants along the way not accept Hu. With the money from the merchants, even the dead trees in Luoyang City were wrapped in silk and decorated, which shocked the barbarians.

Everyone thinks that the Central Plains people have a lot of money, so Hu merchants keep pouring in, and even in several markets in Luoyang and Daxing City, there are special Hu markets, where Hu merchants trade.

It's just that since the seventh year of the great cause, the number of Hu merchants has gradually decreased, and even many Hu merchants who used to be resident in the Central Plains have begun to run back.

"You gave me a big problem, Shicheng."

Li Jing told Luo Chengdao that he was going to take away 10,000+ people from Hebei at once, and he was a little helpless as a pacifier.

Luo Cheng didn't think so.

"I'm here to help you solve your troubles, teacher. In recent years, during several expeditions, Hebei and Henan have all rushed forward. Countless civilians and soldiers have been conscripted from here. Even a few years ago, the people of Hebei and Henan were raised because of His Majesty's horses. It’s painful, not to mention the excavation of canals, the repair of Luoyang, the eastern capital, and the shipbuilding in Donglai.”

"The people in Hebei have been suffering for a long time, and the flood of the Yellow River the year before last, the severe drought on both sides of the bank last year, followed by the plague of locusts, the people of more than forty counties on both sides of the Yellow River have suffered from the military service and bandit chaos. Countless people have lost their homes. !"

Counties such as Wuyang and Qinghe in Hebei are extremely densely populated, each with a population of 30 million households, but the area is not large. Although they are all flat plains, there are still many people and little land.

In addition, since the construction of the Eastern Capital, a large number of noble officials have begun to buy land in Henan and Hebei.Land annexation has become more and more serious. A county with a large population such as Qinghe County has not even granted land by equalization for several years.

Whether it is a middle-aged man in his teens or a young man who has grown up, there is no place to separate them.

Even after repeated floods and droughts, many people who still had a little land had to sell their land again and again, and finally became landless farmers.

If there were no disasters and famines during the Taiping period, the family would rent land to the landlord and do odd jobs, and they could barely get by.But in case of a famine, the price of food soars, and the crops in the fields fail, the people cannot survive at all.

Why is there civil unrest everywhere, but Hebei and Henan are the most violent?

Because the population here is the largest and densest, and the land in the hands of the people is the least, so when there is a disturbance, famine will occur, and the people have no food to eat, so they can only rebel or wander around.

"After Zhang Jinzhi was destroyed, if the more than [-] people in Gaojibo were handed over to Hebei, would the teacher be able to digest them? How would you settle them? They have nothing now, neither money, food, nor houses. Although it is already spring now, the summer harvest is still far away, and it is the time when the crops are not harvested, and there is a shortage of food everywhere, what should the teacher do?"

"Even if it can last until the summer harvest, what about the future? There are bandits everywhere, and they will not be able to calm down for a while. It is impossible to let them go back to their hometown, and they will not be able to stay there. They will still run out, and then they will become a The source of unrest in Hebei."

Li Jing had nothing to refute.

"You took it to Liaodong, can it be settled? There are so many people?"

"Try to resettle. I am better off than the teacher because there are a lot of vacant land in Liaodong. The powerful and noble landlords in Goguryeo were all overthrown. Family members, there is still a lot of land left, and there is even a lot of uncultivated land that can be reclaimed, what Liaodong needs is people."

As long as people are brought there, Luo Cheng can set up military and civilian settlements first, and collectively reclaim wasteland and farmland, and when he came out this time, he also received an imperial decree from the emperor.

For the Wujiedu Road in the frontier, the three-year rent adjustment can be exempted, and for the newly reclaimed land, the ten-year rent adjustment can be exempted.

With this will, Luo Chengcheng can let go of his hands and cultivate wasteland.

The only difficulty is the start-up cost. Seeds and tillage tools are also needed for reclaiming wasteland and farming. Fortunately, after the destruction of Goguryeo, a lot of land was seized, and there were also a lot of grain and livestock.

"These refugees will go to Liaodong with me. At that time, I will set up villages and let them reclaim wasteland and farmland together. They will plant seeds, farm tools and livestock, and the Jiedushi Yamen will be pulled down. I will also organize them to build water conservancy projects. They can keep the harvest. Thirty percent is self-sufficient, and the rest will be handed over to the Jiedu Shiya. Ten years later, the land they reclaimed will be distributed to the villagers in various villages, and half will be awarded as their permanent land, and half will be divided into mouths. , Yongyetian can be passed on to their descendants. I believe that with these as incentives, they are willing to leave their hometown and take root in Liaodong."

Li Jing said worriedly, "The Central Plains is in great chaos and there are endless turmoil. Liaodong may not be able to become a pure land. You want to settle down and cultivate, but it's not so easy. The Yuan family still owns the land of four counties, and Yang Wanchun also owns one. In the county, they will not let it go. If the war resumes, can you keep the peace of Liaodong?"

"If you can keep it, you have to keep it. If you can't keep it, you have to keep it. This stability and peace are not achieved by asking. This time when I return to Liaodong, I will also farm and fight. I will bring all Liaodong back into the territory of my Han family."

Li Jing was moved by the pride of the students.

"Okay, you convinced me, you take everyone away, but I can't support you with other money, food and materials. Now everything is not peaceful, and the appeasement office is also stretched."

"Understandable, I have no shortage of food for the time being. After conquering Gaojibo, I copied Zhang Jincheng's lair and obtained a lot of treasures, enough for us to use all the way to Liaodong."

(End of this chapter)