A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 539 The Era of Wilderness and Development

Southern Xinjiang has always been unsettled, especially after the last time General Zhennan suppressed Southern Xinjiang and returned victoriously, the barbarians did not completely surrender. There have been various movements, but Southern Xinjiang has only become more stable on the surface.

But just in the past few years, several large families from the Central Plains suddenly moved in. These families were powerful, each with hundreds of elite soldiers. After repairing the frontiers here for more than half a year, they began to build up the land in those wild lands. Build towns.

After several towns were established, the barbarians in southern Xinjiang naturally did not remain indifferent. For a time, the two sides fought more than ten battles, large and small. One side came prepared, while the other side raised troops in anger, coupled with the gap in weapons and equipment. The losses suffered by these barbarians in southern Xinjiang were not small. Those wealthy families have successfully established a foothold.

With no more harassment from the barbarians, these people left and took advantage of this time to carry out construction.

Wealthy families built Wubao, and then relied on Wubao to cooperate with each other to cultivate the land, train soldiers, and then defeat the barbarians to expand their territory bit by bit.

The first ten families in Daqian who purchased the pioneering order, with the support of the royal family, finally succeeded in establishing a foothold and then developed rapidly.

After seeing the success of the first batch of crab eaters, the rich and powerful people who were still waiting and watching immediately started to take action. Many times more people than the first time came to ask for the development order.

Although the royal family is very happy about this situation, it does not intend to issue too many development orders. After all, they knew the risks of pioneering very well, and all these noble families rushed forward. Without careful preparation, the final failure rate will be astonishingly high.

The royal family doesn't want the situation they just opened to be ruined by these people.

The number of the second batch of development orders is twenty, covering all over the world, including the Western Regions, Southern Xinjiang, Lingnan Islands, Liaodong, the Korean Peninsula, etc.

After seeing the first batch of pioneering families take a firm foothold, these noble and wealthy families were eager to start pioneering, but they were still stopped by the court.

The pioneering preparations prepared by the imperial court must be studied. Various subject materials must be studied completely, and then the family's private soldiers will also receive special training.

Of course, these trainings are not as good as the elites of the imperial court, and the imperial court will not teach everything.

At the same time, the imperial court also took this opportunity to sell a large number of forged weapons and armors. Although the armor weapons sold by Wang are good, their defense and durability are much weaker than those used by the imperial court.

After undergoing transformation training, the second batch of twenty noble and wealthy families also began to develop. In the next few years, more than twenty pioneering strongholds and fortresses appeared near the territory of the Daqian court.

These strongholds and fortresses can hold tens of thousands of people in large ones and thousands of people in small ones. A constant stream of manpower and materials were transported from Daqian to strengthen the strength of these strongholds.

Although some strongholds and fortresses were breached, more strongholds were established in these places.

With the establishment of strongholds and fortresses, the demand for various supplies has become increasingly strong, and commerce has become prosperous. More importantly, these strongholds and fortresses have accommodated a large number of refugees.

Without land, jobs, and no food to eat, these refugees had no choice but to follow the pioneering wealthy families to various places in order to survive.

At the same time, due to the strong demand for various materials, there are more and more workshops in various places, and the increase in workshops has also begun to absorb the unemployed.

After those nobles and powerful men moved away, they also vacated a large area of ​​land. These lands were not distributed directly by the imperial court, but replaced by the imperial village model. The imperial court was worried about distributing these lands directly to the people, fearing that within ten years these lands would belong to other powerful people.

Ordinary people have no backing, and too many places are being manipulated. As long as they are manipulated, those fields will be annexed sooner or later. In comparison, Huangzhuang is different. No one in Daqian dares to take advantage of Huangzhuang.

Huangzhuang recruited a large number of common people and tenants to farm and collected tenant rent. Tenancy rent is not high and is lower than taxes. Farmers still need to pay taxes after paying rent.

Although they pay more money and food than ordinary people, they will not be bullied. The country's fiscal revenue is also guaranteed.

After the emergence of a large number of pioneering lands, more and more noble families began to explore the wild lands. In order to replenish their strength, these nobles and powerful men continued to recruit soldiers.

Rangers from all over the country who were once rampant in the countryside were recruited to go to the border areas to develop territories.

After the initial success in developing territories, the imperial court began to grant titles to those territories. The reason why the reward was not given at first was because the court was not sure whether these people could establish themselves in the wilderness and develop. In order to prevent the imperial court from being embarrassed every two years after being awarded a title, the territory opened up would be breached.

After seeing that these people blocked the barbarian attack and grew stronger, the court began to award rewards. Of course, the titles given by the court were not high, and most of them were barons and viscounts.

After all, the territories these people developed were reserved for themselves rather than handed over to the court. Therefore, the titles given by the court were not high, and there was no salary.

After the success of the first two developments, more and more people wanted to participate in the development. Seeing how active these people were, the imperial court released the development order and set up a special development training process to train those people. .

At the same time, various weapons and equipment also began to be sold in large quantities. In this era, weapons and armor were not cheap. The weapons are okay, and any piece of armor costs dozens of pieces.

None of those pioneering nobles had to buy hundreds of collars. The court could make a lot of money by selling weapons and armor. In Daqian, only the imperial court can forge armor, and anyone else who forges armor is deliberately treason.

Therefore, armor can only be purchased from the imperial court, which can be said to be a monopoly industry. Moreover, armor is a consumable item. Every time you go into battle, the armor will be damaged. Although it can be repaired, if the damage is serious, you can only replace it with a new one.

Five hundred pieces of armor cost tens of thousands of pieces. Even if the court sells them at a discount, they won't be much cheaper. The imperial court can make a lot of money by selling weapons and equipment.

After the royal family issued more development orders, expanding overseas and becoming a fiefdom noble has become the hottest topic among nobles and officials.

Even if you get the title of marquis in the court, if you don't have an official position, your real power is not as great as that of a county magistrate. But if you become a noble in a fief, everything in the fief is up to you, whether by life or death.

Although the title of the feudal nobles was low, if those people were to be replaced, they would not be willing to be given a marquis.

More and more people are willing to go and develop, and the imperial court's development plan is very successful.

(End of this chapter)