imperial psychologist

Chapter 422

In the winter of the third year of Shengming.

Da Zhou spent three years of ups and downs.

The winter of this year came especially early. In the south of Jian'an River, almost all the state capitals were faced with the problem of how to resettle the refugees who moved south.

In fact, with the vast territory of the south, it is not difficult to accommodate these people.

The most troublesome thing about the word refugee is not "people", but "flow".

However, the only good news is that as early as the 45th year of Jianxi, there were already several sets of solutions that had been practiced in the Pingjing area.

The main principle of these programs is to take the refugees to live in unexplored mountains and forests, and to provide as much tax exemption and resettlement support as possible.

Therefore, starting from the first year of Ming Dynasty, each state government implemented its own refugee resettlement strategy-on the one hand, it can consume the labor force of the refugees, so that they have something to do, and on the other hand, they can actually build houses. and Nitta.

The new residents have brought new troubles, and there are many differences between the north and the south beyond people's imagination, from whether to eat rice or noodles in daily life, to whether to wash your back after taking a bath...all are different.

Take bathing as an example, northerners must bring a very rough towel to the bathhouse, rub it first and then wash it, and don’t stop until it turns red all over. This custom of bathing, except for Pingjing and Huizhou, where northerners often come and go Besides, the south side is basically invisible.

Therefore, the southerners often see the northerners flushed after taking a bath, which is completely incomprehensible. After they know that they are used to taking a bath, they privately laugh at the northerners as "red-skinned men";
The northerners also soon discovered that the southerners really only soaked in the baths but not rubbed them, and they always liked to throw a lot of flowers and plants into the soup pool, calling it medicinal baths-but how could they wash cleanly?

So the northerners called the southerners "Southern mud monkeys" in private.

After the initial curiosity, because of disputes over fields or forests or water sources, the northerners who first settled down soon "fighted" with the locals.

If you want to live, you have to fight for it. The southerners are generally shorter than the northerners, but they have more local relatives. When they encounter injustice, they ask their relatives to join them. get together.

So from the initial one-on-one fight, it later developed into a joint fight in several villages.

Things are getting worse and worse. Looking at it from above, is it okay?

But this is also really difficult.

In the face of the differences between the North and the South, the magistrates of various places have not had much experience for a while——

If you favor the southerners, then the northerners are still living and working in this place. What a waste of time. I just pat my ass and leave. It’s not like we haven’t been there.

If you favor the northerners, then the local gentry will point their noses and scold you, and turn their elbows outward. Are you a motherfucker or not our parent officer?
If you want to do business, well, then people from the south and the north share the same hatred, thinking that you must have taken money from the other party.

So in the middle of that year, the prefects of various prefectures came to Pingjing to report on their duties. Everyone, one head and two elders, hugged each other and cried, discussing ways.

Zheng Mi waved his hand—what's so difficult about it?Intermarriage!
Therefore, in the second half of the year, various state governments came up with different new policies one after another. As long as there is a family in a southern village that intermarries with a family in a northern village, the whole village can enjoy different degrees of tax relief, and the intermarried family You can also get plaques and real gold and silver rewards from the government.

By the second year of Ming Dynasty, many villages had men and women with foreign accents.

Now things will be easy to handle.

On the one hand, we have a relationship of in-laws, and many conflicts can be resolved by mediation first by going to the local ancestral hall to find the elders;

On the other hand, even if the ancestral hall of the village ceremony cannot be suppressed, and the trouble comes to the government, the county magistrate will have sufficient experience in making peace—even if you are from the south and the north, you are all one family now.

For all matters of etiquette and morality, the lower-ranked ones have to give way to the higher-ranked ones; for money matters, the higher-ranked ones have to give way to the lower-ranked ones...

As for the fact that there is no in-law relationship in the family - it can be seen how unwilling your lineage is to respond to the call of the superiors. Such unscrupulous people dare to come to the Yamen to file a complaint. It is a shame that the official does not beat you [-] boards first. Ashamed of the ancestors and the emperor!

In this way, after the first batch of pilot villages settle down, there will be places for refugees to go to when they come.

With relatives and fellow villagers, the refugees became civilians and began to settle down.

New terraced fields appeared on the rolling mountain forests, and farmers and craftsmen stepped on new trails. From time to time, the sending-off team passing by the farmers plowed the fields, attracting a burst of laughter and chasing by children.

Countless Zhou people are like seeds blown by the wind, slowly taking root here.

The North has become their hometown that they can't go back to, but there are always more important things to do in life than nostalgia - there is no freezing winter in the south, rice can be harvested twice a year, and the work in the fields is busier .

They quickly adapted to the solar terms here and brought new customs and habits with them.

In the autumn of the third year of Shengming, Zhuozhou resisted the autumn criminals of the Jin people for the first time in these three years. Some of the people who escaped from death went south, and some returned to live here again.

This place was not only severely damaged in the autumn of Jianxi 45th year, but also became a battlefield attacked by Jin people in the autumn of the first year of Shengming and the second year of Shengming.

The gold thieves seem to come here once a year—after all, Zhuozhou's terrain and old city walls have suffered, making it the weakest breakthrough point among the four northern states.

Thanks to the sudden drop in temperature this year, the soldiers carried water and poured it on the stone wall overnight, and the entire city wall froze into lumps of ice the next morning. Although this would bring near-destructive damage to the already fragile wall, it didn’t matter. , When the weather permits in late spring next year, everything can be repaired.

Their time is very limited, but when the weather gets warmer, troops from Yanzhou and Fuzhou will also come to help.

Arslan, the suzerain, was quite different from the previous suzerains or tribal leaders who had invaded Zhoudi several times.

He has no nostalgia for the city of the Zhou people. He kills the men, robs the women and food, and then lets the Zhou people recuperate here, and wait until the next autumn to harvest.

In the 45th year of Jianxi, after Arslan personally led his troops deep into the hinterland of the Great Zhou, he lost a lot of favor with it—the Zhou people like farming, and the plains are full of farmland, and there are few pastures.

The city here is full of stone and wood houses, and the ground is full of bricks...

Not suitable for herding cattle and sheep at all.

So the weak Zhou was temporarily designated by Arslan as his rear supply depot - the battle that really made him feel passionate was further west, where there was a vast and endless prairie, and there were brave warriors who were as eager as he was.

Conquering lions was more pleasurable, and more urgent, than conquering sheep.

The young emperor in Pingjing was also able to breathe a little bit.

The enemy in the north was suddenly so strong that it almost gave everyone a blow, and woke up everyone's confusion.

All the forced life and death in the flames of war were written into libretto, sung from north to south, from east to west, singing so that all Zhou people burst into tears and all Zhou people's teeth tightened.

This year, Bo Ling was 14 years old, Bai Yi was 20 years old, and Chen Yicong was 17 years old.

(End of this chapter)