Mi Han

Chapter 190 Hidden Population Segmentation

On the second day after Mi Yang's meeting with Shen Yi, Shen Yi, in order to test Mi Yang, took the initiative to send the household registration and field records in the west city to the boat for Mi Yang to check.

Mi Yang is the prefect of Hanxing County, and Shen Yi is currently the magistrate of Xicheng County. It is the right thing for him to hand over the county's household registration and field records to Mi Yang for inspection.

It's just that what Shen Yi handed over to Mi Yang for inspection was just an overall figure.

After all, the specific and detailed household registers were recorded in bamboo slips, which almost filled the entire file library, and it was impossible to move them all to the building boat for Mi Yang to check.

When Mi Yang was inspecting the household registration and the total number of farmland in Xicheng, Shen Yi had been carefully observing Mi Yang's expression.

He saw that Mi Yang just casually flipped through the household registration and field records in his hand, with a look of indifference to these.

After quickly looking through the household registration and the total number of field books in his hand, Mi Yang just asked Shen Yi if he could supply food and grass when he led the army to go out in the future.

Shen Yi is a fine person, he heard the meaning behind Mi Yang's questioning.

During Mi Yang's questioning, Shen Yi seemed to notice that Mi Yang didn't care about the number of people and farmland under his rule.

He only cares about whether Xicheng can afford part of the military rations when he goes out in the future.

Seeing that Mi Yang was really concerned about this, Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as he didn't have any thoughts about the population and farmland in the west city, he would be a good prefect in Shen Yi's mind.

As for Mi Yang's request, Shen Yi can certainly satisfy it.

Although he will not use all the food stored in the mansion to supply Mi Yang's army to go out.

But as long as a part is taken out, it should be able to meet the needs of Mi Yang's army.

And Mi Yang's performance fell into Shen Yi's eyes, which made Shen Yi feel reasonable.

After all, Mi Yang is close to him, so it can be said that Mi Yang is approachable, but it is impossible for a person who can defeat the [-] Jiangdong army to be as easy to deceive as ordinary noble sons.

If Mi Yang shows that he doesn't care about anything, it will arouse Shen Yi's suspicion.

Maybe Mi Yang saw some problems with the population and the total number of farmland in his report, but as Mi Yang, his stage should be a battlefield of gold and iron horses.

The small Hanxing County may be just a short-term foothold for him, so he is most concerned about the supply of military rations.

As long as he, Shen Yi, can provide military rations for Mi Yang's army to go out in the future, then Mi Yang can naturally not interfere too much in government affairs.

The two parties took what they needed, and got along peacefully in Hanxing County.

After Mi Yang leads the army to leave Hanxing County in the future, everything will be back to normal.

This is a deal, and this kind of deal is something Shen Yi can't wait for.

It can be said that the growth of the Shen family in Hanxing County was achieved through transactions with various forces step by step.

So after Mi Yang's questioning, Shen Yi immediately solemnly promised that when Mi Yang needs military rations in the future, he will definitely supply them with all his heart, and never let Mi Yang's army be in danger of food shortage.

After Shen Yi made such an assurance, Mi Yang also assured Shen Yi, "I will go east today, and I will not return west."

Hearing Mi Yang's assurance, Shen Yi had a satisfied smile on her face.

Mi Yang's words are a guarantee that as long as you can provide my army with rations so that I will have no worries in the future, then I will not easily interfere in the government affairs of Xicheng in the future.

Under the mutual assurance of Mi Yang and Shen Yi, both of them are very satisfied.

So on the day Shen Yi left the boat, Mi Yang fulfilled his promise and led the army to go along the river.

After seeing that Mi Yang really led the army to leave, a big stone in Shen Yi's heart was finally let go.

After all, there is an army of unknown significance stationed outside his home base camp, and anyone will feel the pressure.

What Shen Yi didn't know was that just after he got off the boat, Mi Yang on the boat threw the Xicheng household registration and field records he left behind heavily on the ground.

There was a crisp sound when the bamboo slip hit the deck.

Mi Yang resentfully said to Zhang Yi and Deng Aiyan who were at the side: "The thief Shen deceives people too much!"

"Are you tricking me into being a three-year-old?"

Seeing Mi Yang's anger, Zhang Yi and Deng Ai picked up the bamboo slips under Mi Yang's feet and looked at them carefully.

When Mi Yang and Shen Yi met just now, they didn't see the content on the bamboo slip.

So they didn't know what kind of content it was, which made Mi Yang feel angry.

And when Zhang Yi and Deng Ai picked up the bamboo slips on the ground and looked at them, both of them frowned deeply.

Leaving aside the total amount of farmland recorded in this bamboo slip, the number of household registrations recorded in this book alone is somewhat unusually low.

There are only more than 3000 households!
The standard for a household in the Han Dynasty was about five members, so the current population of Xicheng County is only about [-] at most.

Such a population, not to mention Deng Ai and Zhang Yi expressing doubts, even Mi Yang, who has never been in contact with political affairs, feels that this kind of population must be inaccurate.

The three counties of Hanxing County were originally separated from Hanzhong County. According to the records in the later "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", in the fifth year of Emperor Yonghe of Hanshun Emperor, Hanzhong County had more than 5 households and a population of nearly 30. [-] people.

That was almost 80 years ago!

There were nine counties under the original jurisdiction of Hanzhong County, namely: Nanzheng County, Chenggu County, Xicheng County, Baozhong County, Mianyang County, Anyang County, Xi County, Shangyong County, and Fangling County.

Due to the special geographical location of Hanzhong County, there has been no major war in the nearly 20 years since the fifth year of Yonghe to the 70th year of Jian'an when Cao Cao conquered Hanzhong. The population should continue to grow.

In addition, Han Sui and Ma Chao in Guanzhong rose up to fight against Cao, and many people in Guanzhong fled to the relatively stable Hanzhong area.

There are records that tens of thousands of Guanxi people fled from Ziwu Valley to Hanzhong.

The people who can escape thousands of miles must be mostly young and strong.

And Ziwu Valley is near Xicheng, once you get out of Ziwu Road, you can come to Hanshui, and Xicheng is not far downstream of Hanshui.

Under such circumstances, many of the tens of thousands of families who fled back then must have flowed into the West City.

When Zhang Lu ruled Hanzhong, some subordinates persuaded him to call him King Ning of Han. His meritorious Cao Yanpu advised him: "The people of Hanchuan have hundreds of thousands of households, and their wealth is fertile, and they are surrounded by danger;"

Judging from Yan Pu's words and facts, the number of households in Hanzhong County had exceeded [-].

However, there are only nine counties under the jurisdiction of Hanzhong County. Most of the counties that are not the capital of a big country can only accommodate more than [-] households, and they will move to other counties.

Moreover, during the Chuping period, the Shen brothers had been sending envoys to communicate with Zhang Lu. At that time, a large number of people from Guanzhong poured into Hanzhong.

Under such circumstances, the Shen brothers who ruled Xicheng and Shangyong counties were most likely making a deal with Zhang Lu. Zhang Lu gave them a population, and they chose to obey Zhang Lu's rule.

Although it is said that Cao Cao moved a lot of people from Hanzhong at the beginning, it was mainly the population of several counties in Nanzheng.

The population here in Hanxing County is easy to enter and difficult to exit due to the terrain.

Therefore, judging from Cao Cao's emergency evacuation of the population at that time, there was not much time for Cao Cao to relocate the population to Hanxing County.

In addition, Xicheng had become an independent county at that time, and the historical records only recorded the fact that the population migrated from Hanzhong County, and did not record the population migrating from Xicheng County.

Based on all these inferences, the population of Xicheng is actually only [-] households?

I am afraid that 80 years ago, during the period of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, it was more than this number.

A large number of household accounts must have been concealed by Shen Yi, and the household accounts concealed by Shen Yi may be several times more than what he reported.

Mi Yang looked at Zhang Yi and Deng Aiyan and said:
"I originally thought that Shen Yi was just a powerful man with an evil heart. I never expected that he would be so bold and hide so many people. If this thief is not eliminated, Hanxing County will be in chaos sooner or later."

When he was in Chengdu, one of the crimes Liu Bei executed Zhou Qun was that Zhou Qun hid his household with a population of more than 1000 and did not participate in corvee labor.

But judging from the current situation, if Zhou Qun should be killed, then according to the law of "Shu Ke", Shen Yi should be killed!

Originally, Mi Yang wanted to get rid of Shen Yi, mostly because Shen Yi was a double-faced and three-faced swordsman in history. This kind of hidden danger that could set off a rebellion at any time could not put him in his heart.

But now it seems that if Shen Yi is not removed, let alone build Hanxing County into his base for the Northern Expedition in the future.

I'm afraid that in the near future, the rations and supplies of his army will be tightly jammed by Shen Yi.

After all, there is no population, so what kind of fields are there to grow.

Seeing that Mi Yang's murderous intent was getting stronger and stronger, Zhang Ni hurriedly persuaded Mi Yang, saying: "The army has not practiced, and its combat power is not yet strong. I hope the Lord will be patient for the time being."

Of course Mi Yang understands what Zhang Ni said.

Historically, when Shen Yi rebelled this year, before the army Cao Pi sent to attack Liu Feng arrived, Shen Yi led his private soldiers to defeat Liu Feng alone.

Although Liu Feng has serious personality weaknesses, he is still quite good at fighting, and most of his men are elite soldiers.

In this case, he, who has the advantage of defending the city, can still be defeated by Shen Yi head-on.

This is enough to show that Shen Yi currently has a powerful private soldier in his hands, not counting the possible private soldiers in his elder brother Shen Dan's hands.

Although Mi Yang currently has more than [-] soldiers in his hands, these [-] soldiers have not yet been practiced, and the orders have not yet been unified. Now is not the time to use force rashly.

After Zhang Ni persuaded, Mi Yang told Zhang Ni and Deng Ai: "You two should step up your army training, and you must train a battle-ready soldier as soon as possible."

Deng Ai has the qualifications of a famous general at a young age, and when Zhang Ni was in charge of the state, he was in charge of training recruits.

With the cooperation of these two people, the training speed of the tens of thousands of troops will be much faster.

Under Mi Yang's order, Zhang Ni and Deng Ai retreated.

After Zhang Yi and Deng Ai left, Mi Yang sat alone in the attic on the boat, thinking about the next step.

Compared with Zhang Yi and Deng Ai, his biggest advantage is knowing history.

Although history has changed a lot now, history will change, but people's hearts will not change.

Just like Cao Pi, even if Ji Han's power in this life has not been severely damaged, he will still become emperor if he wants to become emperor.

The history of the East Three Counties Rebellion, the overall development process is as follows:
Meng Da, who was stationed in the three eastern counties with Liu Feng, was worried that Liu Bei would blame him because of the death of Guan Yu and Fazheng, so he first led more than [-] families to surrender to Cao Pi.

After Meng Da surrendered, Cao Pi believed that the three east counties had an opportunity, so he ordered Xia Houshang, Xu Huang and Meng Da to lead the army to attack Liu Feng in the three east counties.

At this time, Shen Yi, one of the Shen brothers, took the lead in raising the rebel flag and sent troops to attack Liu Feng.

Caught off guard, Liu Feng was defeated by Shen Yi, and Xia Houshang's army had arrived at that time, so in desperation, Liu Feng could only flee back to Chengdu.

From the facts that happened in history, we can see that Shen Yi is an exquisite egoist. Once he sees a profit, he will not hesitate to launch a rebellion.

Later, when Meng Da wanted to return to Ji Han, it was also Shen Yi who cut off the West Road and blocked Zhuge Liang's reinforcements.

Shen Yi is like a venomous snake that is ready to move at any time. It does not repeat itself. As long as his interests are infringed, he will bite you without hesitation.

For the poisonous snake, the best way is not to invade his territory for the time being, so that he can temporarily put down his guard, which is why Mi Yang made the "promise" just now.

When thinking about what happened in history, Mi Yang suddenly discovered a very crucial point.

In history, when Shen Yi launched a rebellion, Shen Dan was forced to send troops under coercion, which means that Shen Dan had no intention of rebelling against Liu Bei at the beginning.

The rebellion in the three eastern counties in history is not far from the current time point, so it has a strong reference value.

It is very likely that in the current period of time, the Shen brothers have already disagreed because of their different ideas.

That being the case, Mi Yang can take advantage of this and make a good plan.

On the second day after Mi Yang led his army to leave Xicheng, Shen Yi received a reply from Shen Dan.

Among the two Shen brothers, the elder brother Shen Dan is more peaceful than Shen Yi.

Therefore, most of the letters he wrote to Shen Yi contained words to advise Shen Yi to be quiet.

When this letter was delivered to Shen Yi, Shen Yi felt that Shen Dan was a little too weak.

He intended to write the letter to inform Shen Dan of Mi Yang's performance, and wanted to discuss with him whether Mi Yang's performance was true or not.

Unexpectedly, Shen Dan didn't care about Mi Yang's performance, but instead advised him to keep his own place, which made Shen Yi even more dissatisfied with his elder brother.

When Meng Da and Liu Feng attacked Hanxing County, among the Shen brothers, Shen Dan was the one who insisted on surrendering, while Shen Yi was more inclined to support the troops and self-proclaim themselves.

Because Shen Yi believed that the position of Hanxing County was very important, it would be too worthless to surrender directly without negotiating a price first.

Moreover, after Shen Dan surrendered, he also moved his wife's clan to Chengdu, which made Shen Yi even more dissatisfied.

It's just that at that time the prefect of Shangyong was Shen Dan. Although Shen Yi criticized Shen Dan's behavior, she was powerless to resist.

But it's different now. Under Liu Bei's seal, Shen Yi occupies the west city alone, and her brother Shen Dan each occupies a city.

Under such circumstances, Shen Yi was not as obedient to Shen Dan as before.

After reading Shen Dan's letter, Shen Yi threw the letter into the brazier and burned it.

Seeing her brother's kind words of warning turned into ashes in the flames, Shen Yi's eyes were mixed with an unknown meaning.

In troubled times, there is no such thing as loyalty at all, only seeking profit is the right way!
　The great cause of farming in the Han Dynasty must first start with cleaning up the local restless wealthy families.

　　Otherwise, there is no way to liberate a lot of manpower and farmland.

　　Ori to.

　　Today is just one chapter, there are some personal matters in life that need to be dealt with.

　　I'm so sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)