I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 650, Role Playing

Seeing the constantly being demolished city walls in Chengdu, Xu Wei smiled and said, "How did you think of demolishing the city walls of Chengdu?"

Zhang Baiqi said: "Government does not mean finding a way to convince the people in Sichuan that we are our own people. In the past two years of war in Central Sichuan, even in a wealthy place like Chengdu, the fields of the people have been barren and their houses have collapsed."

"I thought about using Chengdu's city wall bricks to help the people in Chengdu build houses first. After they trust us, the officials of Dagan will also come to Chengdu. I am distributing land to the people in Chengdu. According to my experience, as long as they give If the people share the land, the people will support us! I am using the city wall bricks from Chengdu to win the trust of the people!"

Xu Wei smiled and said, "That's a good idea! As long as the people in Yizhou trust us, it's impossible for the hundreds of thousands of Yizhou's elites to overthrow the sky!"

Now is the era of firearms. The largest artillery of the Dagan Army can shoot projectiles weighing hundreds of catties. Now the city walls cannot be said to be useless, but they are no longer as important as in the era of cold weapons. Instead, the city walls have begun to become restrictions. There are obstacles to urban development, especially those fast-growing big cities. Now there are many big cities on the territory of the Dagan Army that have quickly demolished these city walls.

Then everyone entered the inner city of Chengdu. Zhang Baiqi originally wanted to receive Xu Wei in the palace, but Xu Wei rejected Zhang Baiqi's proposal and said: "We drove away the emperor, not to make a new emperor come." Live in it! You don’t want to resettle the disaster victims in the middle of Sichuan, this palace is full, at least it can house tens of thousands of people!”

The imperial palace in the Qin and Han Dynasties was as large as a small city. Although Chengdu is only a temporary imperial palace, it can also be compared to a county town.

Zhang Baiqi smiled wryly and said, "I'm afraid no common people would dare to live in this palace!"

Not to mention ordinary people, even when Zhang Baiqi came to the front of the palace for the first time, he was overwhelmed by the aura of the palace.

Xu Wei thought for a while that the Forbidden City has become a tourist attraction in later generations, so he said with a smile: "People dare not enter the palace because the emperor in their hearts has not been removed. We simply opened the palace in Chengdu and built a museum, so that people can enter in the future." Here you can learn about the life of the emperor and Han officials, as long as you see more, the fear in your heart will naturally disappear! And you can also get a fee for the dragon chair, and you can sit once for 100 yuan!"

These methods that Xu Wei has used in modern novels, Xu Wei remembers that they can be used here, and he even opened his mind: "Are there still a group of court ladies and eunuchs in the palace?"

Zhang Baiqi was already shocked by Xu Wei's unrestrained thoughts, and subconsciously said: "Although my subordinates have already let them go home, most of them have homes that cannot go home, especially the eunuchs in the palace. They don’t even have family members. In order to give them the skills to live, their subordinates set up a textile factory in Chengdu, where the maids can work to support themselves, and most of the eunuchs stay in the palace and are taken care of by them. Palace, clean up!"

"My subordinates plan to give them a share after dividing the land in Chengdu, and then find some orphans for them to adopt, so that the life of the orphans will be guaranteed in the future, and these eunuchs will also have people to take care of them in the future!" Zhang Baiqi's idea is very good, in all aspects It's all taken care of.

But Xu Wei said with a smile: "I thought of a job suitable for them. Apart from cleaning the palace, these eunuchs can also let them perform dramas in the palace and sell tickets for a living. I think there will be many people willing to know about the emperor. In addition to government affairs, how to live, and even local tyrants can pay to become emperors. These eunuchs can pretend to be ministers to satisfy their desire to be emperors. When the emperor receives [-] yuan a day, there is such a good project. Speaking of supporting these eunuchs, I'm afraid it will also bring a lot of income to Yizhou's finances."

Zhang Baiqi's three views were shattered by Xu Wei's thoughts. How much do you want to trample the emperor on the soles of your feet? You actually have such thoughts!At the same time, he once again clearly understood how he dismissed the position of emperor when he was in power.

Zhang Baiqi could only smile wryly and said, "Your subordinates, let's try it!"

Then Xu Wei and the others came to live in the government office in Chengdu!
Then Zhang Baiqi introduced the current situation of Shu County to Xu Wei: "Shu County is the wealthiest county in Yizhou, and there are 28 households. The population of Shu County exceeds one million, and there may even be 150 million, while the entire Yizhou has a million households and a population of 500 million.

However, according to the greed of the aristocracy in central Shu, the subordinates estimate that there may be a population of 700 million or even more in Central Shu. After all, Yizhou had such a large population more than 50 years ago.However, Yizhou did not experience the melee in the Central Plains at all, that is, a little more people died in the past two years, but it cannot be compared with the Central Plains War. It can be said that Yizhou has been stable for 200 years, and the powerful clan must have hidden a large population! "

Then Zhang Baiqi smiled wryly and said, "I don't know how much I can trust the household registration of this Chengdu government office, but according to my many years of experience, the population density in Central Sichuan is several times higher than that in Central Plains, and even the population of Chengdu alone may It’s close to one million, and if we really want to find out how many people there are in Sichuan, we need to come to Yizhou to make statistics!”

Xu Wei sneered: "I didn't expect the nobles and nobles in the middle of Shu to be so capable. Liu Bei is already digging the population, but he can only get 10 troops from the middle of Shu at most!"

Xu Wei originally thought that a Yizhou would be hundreds of thousands of households, with a population of three to four million, or even less. After all, when he was watching the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Xu Wei was deeply impressed by the fact that the population of central Shu was less than one million when Adou surrendered. At that time, he remembered It seems that the population of the entire world is only about 600 million, which is [-]% less than that of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Everyone uses this data to illustrate the cruelty of the war at the end of the Han Dynasty!
Of course Xu Wei knew that the noble clans must have hidden their population, but Liu Bei has also been digging deep into the south for the past few years. The clans in central Shu should not be able to hide much, but Xu Wei never expected that they would hide more than half of the population. According to There were 50 million people 700 years ago, but Xu Wei is not shocked even if there are tens of millions of people in Yizhou now!

Xu Wei said angrily: "If we don't drive these elites out of Yizhou, we won't be able to really know how many people there are in Yizhou! It seems that we need to deal with more of them, and the large population in central Shu is not conducive to local governments. balance!"

"From today onwards, we will migrate to the largest noble families in central Sichuan. If any family dares to toast and refuse to eat fine wine, let's see if their Wubao can withstand our artillery!" It's like a big man who can't pinch them!

Zhang Baiqi nodded solemnly and said: "It is true that if we don't remove these local snakes in the middle of Shu, it will be difficult for us to govern Yizhou. Now, my subordinates understand why the elites in the middle of Shu don't want to go to Sili. Other places don't." It is said that in the generation of Chengdu and Dujiangyan, all the fertile land was occupied by these elite families. Even without fertilization, the yield per mu of these fields was more than 4 shi, which can be said to be the most fertile land in the world. The Land of Abundance has nothing to do with the people of Chengdu!"

"Even under Liu Bei's oppression, the noble families in central Shu paid more taxes at most, but the land was not given up. The people in Chengdu can only have some barren mountainous land!"

Xu Wei said solemnly: "What Liu Bei dare not do, I will do it! As long as all the nobles and nobles in central Shu are cleared out of Yizhou, the land will come out! These people are so fond of occupying land, let them go to the West Cool enough!"

Then Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "It is best to move out the villages in the mountains in central Shu. It is too difficult to develop in the mountains. If these people want to be rich, they can only move out of the mountains and resettle them in the plains. They all migrated to the Central Plains, and with the population density in Central Sichuan, it is very difficult to get hundreds of acres of land for each household, so it is better to let them immigrate to the sparsely populated Guanzhong and Xiliang!"

According to the population of central Shu at this time, there were about 700 million people, and hundreds of thousands of nobles were cleared out, so that a large amount of land could be vacated for the common people. Millions of people fill the Central Plains, so that the people in the mountainous areas of central Shu can get fertile land, and the Central Plains can also speed up recovery. It can be said that it is a good thing that kills two birds with one stone.

After a few years, the population will increase, even if Xu Wei wants to move these people, I'm afraid there will be no land!To be able to do such a thing is only a country with a vast land and sparse population can do it!
Zhang Baiqi said with a smile: "There is a large population in Central Shu. This should be regarded as a bad thing or a good thing. I'm afraid the ruling party doesn't know that we don't need to pay for the immigration expenses!"

Xu Wei was surprised and said: "Someone came to rob people in Sichuan so soon? You can't transport some people to your subordinates yourself!"

Of course Xu Wei knows that the governors and prefects of various places have robbed each other in recent years, and the letters of complaints have filled Xu Wei's desk. Now the general trend of Dagan is that the population is migrating from the inland to the coast. Under Xu Wei's development, the ocean The potential of the economy has been developed, and the people began to go to rich places!

Zhang Baiqi called Qu and said, "This is wronging my subordinates. They are all businessmen and officials from Xiliang, and they are the most active. After the subordinates captured Chengdu, they began to make preparations. The ruler is still chasing Liu Bei in Berkshire. At that time, they came to Chengdu to recruit people! At that time, the whole Chengdu was in a mess, and many people were taken away by them!"

Xu Wei asked strangely, "A businessman from Xiliang?"

Zhang Baiqi said: "Xiliang now has a lot of cotton fields, and this cotton requires a lot of manpower whether it is planted or harvested, and businessmen in Xiliang have also set up a lot of textile factories to weave cotton cloth. A lot of hands are required, and cotton cloth also makes money.

Even though a large amount of cotton cloth has been produced in the past two years, because cotton cloth is good in texture, soft and sweat-absorbent, it is the best cloth for making clothes. Now the price of a piece of cotton cloth still exceeds 5000 yuan, and the price of the best cotton cloth even exceeds Shu brocade. s price!And how can these businessmen look rich but can't make money! "

"But you know that Xiliang has a population of just over 200 million, and it can't handle farming and stocking. There are no manpower for cotton fields and weaving. Now they recruit a large number of people every year when the cotton is harvested. Picking cotton in Xiliang! But this is not only expensive, but also extremely troublesome, after all, every time people move, it is a huge expense, and it is easy to have accidents on the way!"

"These merchants all know that the capital of Central Shu is a large county with a large population. After their subordinates broke through Chengdu, they came here to attract people! If it weren't for the fact that these people brought a lot of food and cloth, I would have driven them away. !"

Just kidding, now Zhang Baiqi is the governor of Yizhou. He only thinks that the population in Shuzhong is small, but he does not think that the population in Shuzhong is large.

Just after he looked at the household registration in central Shu, and then inspected the entire Shu county, Zhang Baiqi, based on his years of experience in politics, realized that at least half of the population of Yizhou was hidden by the aristocrats in central Shu. The population of Jixian County is not much less than that of Jixian County. You must know that Jixian County has a population of one million.

In this case, it is not that Yizhou has a small population, but also has too many people. It is too large to be divided into 100 mu of land for each household, so Zhang Baiqi doesn't care that Xiliang merchants recruit some people. Of course, high-quality Population Zhang Baiqi will not give up easily, he asked these businessmen to mobilize many people from the powerful and noble families to go to Xiliang!After all, even if these people stay here now, they will still be driven away in the future!

Xu Wei heard that he wanted to know about the situation in Xiliang, so he asked Zhang Baiqi to find a Xiliang businessman!
Half a day later, a young man came to Xu Wei and said, "Yan Xing, a grassroots man, pays his respects to the ruler!"

Xu Wei asked, "A member of the Yan family?"

Yan Xing immediately said: "I don't have a powerful family anymore, and the grassroots are only surnamed Yan. Of course, according to the ruling, it is not wrong to say that they are members of the Yan family. People with the surname Yan are of course members of the Yan family!"

Xu Wei's words almost scared Yan Xing into a cold sweat. He stayed in Chengdu to recruit people, but he could already sense that the atmosphere in Chengdu was tense. Great army.

This is simply looking for death, completely wasting their chance of betraying the emperor and gaining refuge with Dagan. Based on his understanding of Daganjun and Lei Gong, if ordinary people do this, Lei Gong may still listen to the people, but the nobles dare to gather crowds to make trouble , Lei Gong will definitely press hard, this is a lesson learned by the millions of nobles in the Central Plains.

There are more than [-] such people in Xiliang, all of whom have been exiled by the ruling party. You must know that these people were all the children of him, a top aristocratic family who was difficult for a small wealthy family in Xiliang.But now these people can only become farmers in Xiliang and herders herding sheep!Anyone who can become a teacher is considered lucky.

In the old days, Wang Xietang's front swallows flew into the homes of ordinary people, and Yan Xing had seen it.

Afterwards, he was very fortunate that their Xiliang rebellion was at the same time as Lei Gong, so Lei Gong regarded them as his own, and believed that they had contributed to the defense of the Han territory, and their family members could normally enter the military and political system of Dagan. No one came to discriminate against these Xiliang people as barbarians. On the contrary, they have more and more senior officials from Xiliang. In the past few years, several prefects have emerged, and they still have a bright future.

(End of this chapter)