A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 500 Disaster

Because Ma Heng pacified the barbarians in the southwest, he was named Zhennan Bo and guarded the southwest.

Time is like water, and the wheel of history will not stop for anyone. Daqian continued to develop the Western Regions, Liaodong, Southern Xinjiang, Ryukyu, Lingnan and other regions. Every year, the imperial court would exile prisoners from various places to these places.

Because many people were unwilling to leave their homes and go to other places, the imperial court would recruit refugees to go to relatively sparsely populated states and counties every year. But the effect is limited. Many people are not willing to come.

The Central Plains, Hebei, and Huainan areas have a large population. Because there is no land, many people have become tenants of those powerful, officials, and nobles. But there are also many restless people wandering around all day long.

Once young people have nothing to do, they will become idle and have various problems. In the real world, flower growers have already experienced this once in the 1980s, when the crime rate was ridiculously high.

And now this situation is also happening in Daqian. A large number of young people who have no jobs and are unwilling to be tenant farmers have begun to wander around the towns and counties and become bad boys.

Then various security problems began to appear in counties, towns and towns, voyeurism and poaching continued to occur, and even vicious incidents occurred in some places. After seeing this situation, Wang Che discussed with the court ministers and decided to use stricter laws to restrict it.

But strict legal restrictions alone do not solve the problem; they merely suppress it. The fundamental contradiction here is still the relationship between people and land, or to put it another way, it is the need to solve the survival problems of these people, that is, to find things for them to do.

Wang Che discussed with the ministers and finally decided to exile all these evil young men. When I first gave you the opportunity to migrate, if you didn’t go, I would be exiled directly.

The imperial court began to severely punish those evil young people who did nothing and disturbed the public order. As long as these evil young people were found to be doing evil, they would be immediately arrested and educated in prison first, and then exiled to the Hehuang Valley, Southern Xinjiang, Liaodong, and the Western Regions. .

Using this method, a large number of prisoners were immediately exiled from prisons across the Central Plains. The imperial court even changed some punishment measures. All those who had previously paid fines, or were just forced to work or be punished with a stick were changed to exile.

These evil boys are all very brave and have practiced martial arts to some extent. Since they are not willing to be tenants, let them go to the frontier to open up wasteland.

The environment and climate in the border areas are harsher and the population is small, but there is plenty of land, enough to accommodate them. Once you reach the border, it will be difficult to go back. The imperial court has a complete household registration system. Once exiled, he will not be able to return to his place of origin for at least twenty years, or even leave the place of exile for life.

The border land is not peaceful, the folk customs are fierce, and there are many barbarians. It is just right to exile these evil young men.

As for whether these evil teenagers will cause trouble in the border areas, there is no need to worry about it. The soldiers guarding the border areas will tell them what to do.

The imperial court imposed severe punishments and sent a large number of prisoners to the frontiers. In total, tens of thousands of people were deported every year in all areas of Daqian. At the peak, more than 50,000 people were exiled. Such forced deportation successfully reduced the population in various parts of the Central Plains, but the reduction was only temporary.

In the spring of the nineteenth year of Emperor Qian Yuan Xing's reign, there was a severe drought in Guanzhong, Hebei Province. Since the beginning of spring, there had not been a single rain. The grain sown by the people had just sprouted, and they withered and died due to lack of water.

Although the imperial court arranged manpower to actively fight the drought, the water sources were dry and insufficient. It was impossible to irrigate the crops just by relying on the people to carry water. On the contrary, large areas of territory and rivers are flooding in the south.

The whole Daqian was in a state of water and fire. However, this situation has not affected Luoyang, the sacred capital. Luoyang, the sacred capital, is still prosperous.

"Hey, hey, hey." There was a rapid sound of horse hoofbeats. Hearing the sound of horse hoofs, pedestrians in the city fled to both sides of the street.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, hurry up for eight hundred miles!" A cavalry messenger shouted while riding on horseback and whipping towards the imperial city.

Seeing the messenger flying away, the people around him started talking a lot.

"Why are there always fast horse messengers these days? What happened somewhere?"

"I heard that there was a severe drought in Hebei, and the land was bare for thousands of miles, and the people had no harvest!" "This is not only the case in Hebei, but also in Guanzhong!"

"What should the local people do?"

"Your Majesty, urgent report from eight hundred miles away!" In the Qianyuan Palace, Wang Che was discussing with ministers the situation of disasters in various places and arranging disaster relief matters. The commander of the Xiuyi Envoy hurried in.

"What happened?" Wang Che asked with a sinking heart.

"Your Majesty's Embroidered Clothes Envoy has reported secretly that there are more than one million hungry people in Hebei, and they are spreading to the surrounding areas. If they are taken advantage of by someone with ulterior motives, the consequences will be disastrous!" the Embroidered Clothes Envoy said respectfully.

"What? Didn't the imperial court order local governments to carry out disaster relief? Why are there millions of hungry people spreading to other places?" Wang Che's expression changed and he asked in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, the food allocated by the imperial court is not enough, and the local governments have no food to deal with it." Xiuyi envoy said.

"Chu Bin! Where are the grain stores stored in the Changping warehouses of various local governments?" Wang Che asked coldly.

A minister next to him quickly said, "Your Majesty, I don't know!"

"I don't know? As the chief officer of the Changping Division and the commander-in-chief of the prefectures and counties of Changpingcang, you actually told me that you didn't know?" Wang Che was furious and stared at him with cold eyes.

Chu Bin was sweating profusely and kneeling in the hall.

"Your Majesty, I really don't know!"

"Your Majesty, there is a severe drought in Guanzhong, Hebei Province, and the local government has no food. Please put the people first, allocate disaster relief first, stabilize the people, and then deal with them!" Prime Minister Peng Yue next to him stepped forward and said.

Wang Che glanced at him coldly, and then said: "Where is the embroiderer?"

"Your Majesty, the general is here!" More than a dozen embroiderers rushed in outside the hall.

"Push the chief officer of Changping Division, Chu Bin, into the sky prison to await interrogation! Chu Bin's whole family is imprisoned and no one is allowed to contact him!"

"Wei!" Immediately, many embroidery envoys took orders and took Chu Bin into the sky prison. At the same time, a group of Tiqi quickly rushed out of the palace gate and headed to the east city to imprison Chu Bin's family.

At the same time, another group of Tiqi rushed directly out of Luoyang and headed towards Nanyang. The Chu family was a big family in Nanyang, so since the imperial court took action, they would not let go of their family.

After taking Chu Bin into custody, Wang Che began to discuss with the ministers, and finally decided to allocate 300,000 shi of grain from Daliang. He ordered Liu Jing, the imperial censor, to go to the disaster relief, and ordered 300 Yulin guards to accompany him.

The imperial court had realized that there was a problem with the local official system, so it made complete preparations. Not only did it send out inspection censors, but it also sent out embroidered clothes envoys and secret guards.

(End of this chapter)