"Order, a brand new order!" Zhou Xing was overjoyed, and he kept talking: "There is still disorder along the Wuchi Road. There are hundreds of large and small robber groups, ranging from several to several. Hundreds of people, ranging from dozens to dozens, some were looking for money, some were seeking death, some were just robbing part of them, and some were robbing them all. What I have to do is to unify the standards, not to prevent the big guys from robbing again, but to not let the big guys rob again. This kind of snatching needs to be changed. After you join me, I will give you a certain monthly salary, and you no longer need to rob merchants, but you will also crack down on those who dare to rob our designated merchants. Bandits. Send your children to my fief to study. If any of you are sick or injured, you can go to my fief for treatment. If any of you don't want to live in the mountains, you can also move to my fief... "
While Zhou Xing was subduing Yong Kai and others, there was also a man taking his slaves by boat to a small island offshore, which was thousands of miles away from him in the easternmost part of Qingzhou. On the way, he defected to a group of pirates numbering five hundred people.
He was not as verbose as Zhou Xing. He just revealed his identity as Tinghou and showed his superb martial arts skills. The bandits all bowed down and bowed down.
"Hahahaha," Qingzhou Leopard King Bi laughed and said to the pirates: "Follow me, Wang Bi, and you will become a general and a marquis in the future."
Since then, Wang Bi first conquered pirates on several islands, and then began to lead this group of mainland abandoned people who had to flee to the sea for various reasons to continuously attack the counties and counties along the Qingzhou coast. The years of his professional rebellion began.
"Father-in-law, my son-in-law has completed the statistics on the spiritual fields and monks in Shu County." Jordan's handsome face showed a tired look, but his eyes were still very firm. In these days, he took advantage of the east wind of public opinion to break through many obstacles and led his subordinates to work day and night with an unimaginable enthusiasm for work. Today, he finally completed the statistics of Shu County.
“There are 3,473 monks registered in Shu County, including two county marquises, eleven township marquises, thirty-seven pavilion marquises, and one hundred and ten Guannei marquises. Two people. There are 1,931 male cultivators without titles and 1,360 female cultivators. According to the new measures, the above-mentioned monks should occupy a total of 43,433 spiritual fields. Ten acres. The spiritual land in Shu County (excluding cd country) is more than 221,300 acres, which means that the spiritual land that can be used as mine fields is more than 177,800 acres."
After saying this, Jordan showed an excited look on his face, and his voice couldn't help but become louder. "This is such a huge number! There are so many spiritual fields in the prefectures and counties. Even if there is no need to collect taxes every year, it is enough to support the use for several years. Judging from my son-in-law's investigation over the past month, there are many spiritual fields among poor families. There are many people who fail to become monks due to lack of grain. As long as the prefectures and counties have such abundant spiritual fields, it will be easy to double the number of monks in Yizhou in the next few years. This is the case for even Shu counties., not to mention the entire Yizhou, let alone the entire Jin Dynasty. "
"Okay," Luo Shang listened to Jordan's description. Even though he had been in the officialdom for a long time, he was also very energetic. In the past month or so, the people who came to him to talk about it were almost broken. He has reached the threshold of the governor's office, and these people are either his old friends or family members who are also officials. Even though he is in a high position, he has really felt the layers of resistance. With your detailed report, I think more people will support us. "
"Father-in-law, I recently heard a rumor that after we built the mine fields, we would let the refugees farm them. "
"Humph, these are all rumors spread by people with ulterior motives. "Luo Shang also heard this message recently, but he did not take any measures other than ignoring it.
"My father-in-law and son-in-law also know that this must be spread deliberately by someone to prevent the New Deal. But now everyone outside is panicked, and everyone is asking why our spiritual fields in Shu should be cultivated by these refugees from Yong and Qin. According to my son-in-law, our new policy originally made many people resentful. If the factor of refugees is added to the mix, my son-in-law is worried that the subsequent work of reclaiming spiritual lands will be more difficult to implement. The best solution now is to repatriate the refugees as soon as possible, so that these rumors will be self-defeating. "
When Luo Shang heard what Jordan said, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
There are many reasons why he did not repatriate the refugees.
Yizhou had just passed by During Zhao Min's Rebellion, the state army was devastated, and even Yizhou's treasury was plundered by the refugees. Although Li Xiang later came to complain and claimed to have returned all the weapons, armor, grain, grass, grain, and other items robbed in the treasury, there was no trace in the accounts. Since they have been destroyed, it is impossible to verify these things.
It is easy to ask the gods but difficult to send them away. He doesn't want to return to Yongqin anymore. In fact, in his heart, Luo Shang does not agree with the repatriation of refugees. With the vast and fertile land of Liangzhou and Yizhou, and the current population of Liangzhou and Yizhou, there will be twice as many refugees. The two states can easily accommodate them. Whether they are in Yongzhou or Yizhou in Liangzhou, they are all subjects of the Jin Dynasty. When he was in Liangzhou, he made a petition to the imperial court. Allowing the refugees scattered in Liangzhou and Yizhou to be registered as local households. His old boss Wang Rong supported his proposal, but the then kings of Zhao, Huangfulun and Shen Xiu were firmly opposed to it. After the governor of the state learned of the news, he immediately impeached Luo Shang, saying that he deliberately undermined the court system.
Luo Shang knew clearly that the reason why those people disagreed with his proposal was not because of it. They destroyed the imperial system, but because of their respective interests.
Yong and Qin prefectures did not originally have a large number of households. They have experienced two turmoils and several consecutive years of drought. The population is dying and fleeing. Although he doesn't know the specific data, he has heard that some areas with serious population loss during the Yong and Qin Dynasties only have the same population as when the Jin Dynasty was first established.One tenth. Changing places, if he were the governor of Yongzhou in Qinzhou, he would never allow his exiled refugees to completely become registered households in other states.
Forcibly repatriating refugees is not easy!
Last time, he followed the plan of Yan Shi, a refugee, and asked Yong and Qin states to send people to take back their respective refugees. There was another quarrel at the court, and finally Yong and Qin states Now that the population is sparse, he is still asked to take charge of the work of repatriating refugees from Yizhou and Liangzhou, which gives Luo Shang a headache.
We know our own difficulties best.
Really forced to rebel against the refugees, with Yizhou’s current dilapidated military strength, victory or defeat is still a matter of uncertainty. What's more, among the refugees there is a hero like Li Xiang who is very popular among the refugees.
If it were not for Li Xiang, the refugees would be a mess. Luo Shang would naturally send people to forcibly repatriate these refugees without any hesitation. But Li Xiang has been doing things for so long that most of the refugees are willing to accept him as their master. Especially after Li Xiang defeated Zhao Min and looted the CD, the refugees who defected to him gathered around him like thousands of people returning to the sea. The number of refugees in his Mianzhu camp more than doubled than before.
The guest overpowers the host!
His long history, Song Kuo, once suggested to him that he should imitate the story of Shang Gaozu's capture of Chu King Han Xin, summon Li Xiang and other refugee leaders when he went to Dujiangyan to observe the water, and then capture them all in one fell swoop. Take it down, so there is nothing to be afraid of when the refugees are leaderless.
However, when things came to a head, Luo Shang did not break the cup as a signal and let the warriors who were ambushing around swarm him. Instead, he and Li Xiang went sightseeing and talked happily.
"In my life, I, Luo Shang, have the most admiration for the former Lord of Shu Shang and Zhuge Wuhou. Faith and integrity should be the basis of conduct and work. I, Luo Shang, disdain to use such conspiracy methods."
p>"I don't know who spread this rumor. It is really vicious." Luo Shang sighed in his heart. Now that things have happened, he can no longer hesitate. I hope Li Xiang can be grateful for having supported the refugees in Shu for more than a year, and can return to his hometown with a clear understanding of justice.
"Deng'er, go and summon Chen Sima. Pass my order and order the refugees to pack up and prepare to return home. Anyone who doesn't obey this order will be killed!"
But Mianzhu said In the refugee camp, Li Te was eating with his family. When he received the order given by Luo Shang, his face changed drastically and the chopsticks in his hands fell to the ground.
As mentioned earlier, Li Xiang and the others are descendants of the Ba people. The State of Ba was destroyed by the State of Chu, and the land of Ba returned to Chu. Later, the Qin State first destroyed the Shu State, and then occupied Ba Di, and established Shu County to control the people of the original Shu State and Ba State. Later, after the former Shang Emperor and other princes destroyed the Qin Kingdom, he was sealed in Hanzhong by the Chu Overlord. Later, when Shang Gaozu and Chu Overlord were fighting for the world, almost all the men over the age of fifteen in every household of their Ba people fought for Shang Gaozu, and they were famous for being brave and not afraid of death. According to the legend passed down through generations in Li Xiang's family, the Ba Kingdom has been living in Badi for more than 600 years. ChuPeople are greedy for the richness of Pakistan, and have been at war with Pakistan for many years. Although the people of Ba are brave and good at fighting, Chu is a big country. Chu's repeated defeats are not hurt, but Ba's defeat will never gain the upper hand again. After more than two hundred years of war and peace between the two countries, the Ba State was finally destroyed by the Chu State. So when Shang Gaozu fought against the Chu Overlord, the original people of Ba joined Shang Gaozu's army to fight the Chu army with the determination to avenge their past humiliation. Finally, when Shang Gaozu unified the world, the Ba people made great contributions and ordered Badi never to pay taxes. It is also said that Shang Gaozu liked the dances and songs of the Ba people the most. After he gained the world, he specially asked Yuefu to go to Badi to learn Ba people. People's dance songs and then often perform them to themselves.
This is the history that the Ba people talk about the most, and they have always been proud of it.
During the last two hundred years of the Shang Dynasty, the only areas that never paid taxes were Bajun and Peixian, the hometown of Shang Emperor Gaozu.
In their view, they are the closest disciples of Emperor Liu of the Great Shang family.
After Shang Zhaolie re-erected the banner of Great Shang in Shu, the people of Badi had huge differences. Some people say that the Shang Dynasty was still in Shangluo, and the one in cd was rebellious. But some people say that the Great Zhou Dynasty is about to usurp Houshang. It is simply known to everyone. As the closest disciples of the Liu family of the great businessman, we should work hard for the Liu family clan in CD. The business has been in the world for more than four hundred years, and the Liu family has never treated us Ba people badly, so naturally we Ba people cannot let down the old Liu family.
Some of the Ba people finally chose to fight for the Shu merchants, and some, such as Li Xiang's great-grandfather, chose to join Emperor Wu of Zhou. Of course, more people are drifting and fighting for whoever occupies Badi.
"You must keep in mind the history of our Ba people and the Li family, and understand that the imperial court in the Central Plains is extremely powerful, far beyond what we Ba people can fight against. No matter how brave and skilled we Ba people are, our numbers are At this point, compared with the Central Plains, it is just like a drop in the ocean. No matter what time you go against the court, you must uphold the concept of loyalty."
Li Xiang's great-grandfather was in the chaos of the Zhou, Shang and Wu kingdoms. First, he led more than 500 tribesmen from Bajun to Hanzhong. During the war between Zhou, Shang and Hanzhong, his great-grandfather chose to defect to the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains and was worshiped as a general by Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty, Sima Cao. After Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty failed in the Hanzhong War, he moved these people to Lueyang.
Whenever businessmen from Yongzhou and Qinzhou disparagingly call them Ba Di, they will retort: You are the Qiang Di, and your whole family is Qiang Di! We are from Ba, and we are the soldiers of the great merchants.
However, these are of no use. The people there still call them that. By the time Li Xiang came, even the original Ba people who had moved far away and lived for hundreds of years all acquiesced to Ba Di's call. Title
We are not Di people, we are Ba people!
Li Xiang has always been full of resentment towards Ba Di's title.
The State of Ba was a vassal state of the Yin royal family at that time, let alone the harmonious state of Chu and Qin.The only vassal state that the Yin royal family has no relationship with is Qi State and Wu State, which is not as close as the relationship between Ba State and Dayin. According to what has been passed down by the elders of Li Te's family since ancient times, the body-refining techniques he practiced came from the Yin royal family. Although the Li family is not the direct descendant of Bawang's royal family, they are also descendants of Bawang's royal family.
Although Da Yin has been dead for more than 600 years, and although it has been almost 1,500 years since the Ba Kingdom was enfeoffed, Li Xiang has always been proud of being a descendant of the Da Yin royal family. pride.
The reason why he made up his mind not to return to Lueyang County in Qinzhou was not only due to the water, soil and climate there, but also this was more important.
I cannot let my descendants be regarded as barbaric and backward Di people in a few years. We are the descendants of the noble Ba people. If we had not been regarded as uncivilized Di barbarians in Da Yin back then, Descendants.
He knew in his heart that no matter who you were, as long as you were born in Lueyang, no matter who your ancestors were, you would be despised as a Di person. Even if those people know that you are not a traitor, the advantages you talk about are in vain.
You are savages, rubes, and uncivilized people!
If you don’t say so, you won’t be happy. As long as I am happy, I don't care whether you are a traitor or a country bumpkin. And the more you say this, the blusher you blush, the happier he becomes and the more he likes to say this.
Di dog, wild pig, these are the two words that the descendants of the Ba people in Lueyang hear most often when they argue with others.
Li Xiang often thought that if he was really a descendant of the Di barbarians, he would admit it. But I really am not a descendant of Di barbarians!