A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 930 An urgent message
"Prime Minister Wu, there are fewer and fewer immigrants coming to the island. Please help me find a way."

As soon as Wu Huaiyu returned to Dongning City, the governor Wang Da came to find him. His face looked very haggard and his lips were dry and peeling.

"I have thought of what I should think of," Wu Huaiyu spread his hands.
Since Zhenguan, Tian Khan has displayed great martial arts, Pingshuofang has destroyed the Turks, Xi Qi has surrendered, Goguryeo has been honest, Tuyuhun has been restrained, and even the southwestern barbarians and southeastern beasts have been beaten honestly. The emperor's great martial arts have stabilized the border and also The imperial court under its command emigrated in large numbers to all directions.

Now Liuqiu wants to immigrate, but there are not so many people to move.

In addition, the people's hometown is so peaceful that the world is peaceful. Even if many people work as tenants for powerful landlords, as long as they can live safely, they dare not leave the comfort zone of their hometown and are not willing to immigrate to the border areas.

Dividing and conferring land is not that attractive to them.

Unless there is such a benefit right at your doorstep,

They don't dare to take risks when they are hundreds of miles away from home.

Wu Huaiyu had previously given advice to Wanda, pulling people from prisons in the mainland, and even asked for favors from the governors in various places, willing to take in those thieves and ruffians, etc. They were also willing to cooperate, and sent the people here half-tempted and half forced.
But after all, these people are limited.

Unless the local government is willing to send away those heinous rat excrements, no local official is willing to give away the people under his control to others.

The archers of the Bow and Arrow Club are newly established in Liuzhou.

Now in Liuzhou, the most regular army is naturally the Liuzhou Guard Camp, then the unity camp of the rural soldiers, and then the self-defense organization Bow and Arrow Club.

The people unite themselves and form a bow and arrow society. Regardless of their family fortune, one person from each household, who is convinced by his family's wealth and martial arts skills, is the head of the society, the deputy of the society, the recorder and other leaders. Patrols are divided into separate groups, with auxiliary houses facing each other.

If the tribes and villages resist, then mobilize the united troops; if the village resists and cannot be defeated through unity, then mobilize the troops to defend and capture the camp."

The reason for its establishment is the special circumstances of the development here. There are many Yi tribes and few immigrants. However, there are no town soldiers or government soldiers stationed in Liuzhou yet. There is only one guarding camp, and they are on duty in turns. There are only more than 200 people in one camp. people.

"Don't we have an agreement with each tribe? We will do it as agreed. Whether it is stealing or looting, we can deal with it how we want.

"Discuss the matter as it stands,"

Arrest when you need to arrest, kill when you need to kill, get the evidence first, then notify the tribe, and ask the tribal village elders and village chiefs to hand over the person. If they don't hand over the person, let the county captain bring the archers to pick up the person.

Wanda goes to the dock every day,
But the people on the waiting ship were either hired workers or slaves. Wanda was very worried.
"How about we launch a raid before the summer harvest. Recently, some barbarians have robbed our caravans and destroyed our farmland and salt fields. Let's kill them," Wanda gritted his teeth.

Do things with reason and evidence,
You can't just cover your face when you come up.

Wu Huaiyu looked at the anxious and acne-prone governor and knew that he was trying to rob someone.

That's about political performance.

Although conflicts with the tribesmen did always exist, in general there were no major conflicts, just small conflicts. In this case, Wu Huaiyu was not willing to send troops to fight.

One pole brought many people back, but it was only one pole.

The people who come now are basically hired workers led by the Wu family, or slaves brought by them. Basically, the people from the mainland who came to settle here are gone.

It is said that the Bow and Arrow Society and the United Army are both militiamen.
It's just that the emphasis is different,
All the prefectures and counties in Liuzhou have unity camps. Click on Unity and conduct regular training. The principle of selecting unity soldiers is that wealthy households return to farming in the spring and summer, and gather in autumn and winter to assist the state and town officials in defending the territory, or to cooperate in combat; Being separated from production for a long time, they are somewhere between government soldiers and conscripted soldiers.

If we can't get any immigrants, we will beat the island tribes and plunder the island tribes to make slaves.

A teacher will give you a good reputation,
It cannot be said that because of a chicken or a caravan, we must gather troops and go to war. Although we have the confidence and ability now,

But that's not how it works.

For ordinary conflicts, follow normal procedures. This is the responsibility of the county captain.

Basically we won’t be able to attract immigrants later.

Although there are unity camps in one state and two counties, the number of unity camps is also limited.

Therefore, Wu Huaiyu set up bow and arrow societies in various immigrant villages, merchant villages, and mines in Liuzhou.

There must be at least one person per household.
The Bow and Arrow Club is a rural martial arts training ground. It not only practices bow and arrow shooting, but also practices spears, swords and shields and other weapons. It is basically organized and trained on a village basis.
Archers also have many tasks, mainly maintaining local security, such as hunting down thieves, chasing deserters, exterminating pirates and bandits, guarding criminals in prisons, administering security in counties, towns and markets, and responsible for coastal defense.

They are mainly responsible for public security.

The Unity Battalion is more like a reserve force. One is an auxiliary and reserve force for the regular army, and the other is a local security maintenance force.

The archers are also directly under the command of the county captain, and there is even a team of archers working in the county for a long time.

It is their duty to arrest prisoners, suppress thieves, and guard prisoners.

Wanda is short of people, and like Xiao Mao, he wants to go to war directly.
But Wu Huaiyu disagreed.
Those who have been recruited and surrendered can no longer be beaten. Of course, if there are some random individuals, then they must follow the law.
If you should be punished, you should be punished with punishment; if you should be sentenced to labor reform, you should be punished with labor; if you should be beheaded, be beheaded; if you should be exiled, you should be punished with forced labor; if you should be sentenced to imprisonment, you should be punished with forced labor. If the tribe wants to protect or block it, or even trigger a rebellion, then it will follow the rules of counter-insurgency.
Step by step, follow the rules.
Wanda could only nod helplessly after hearing this.

"Wang Gong, don't worry. There are already so many people in Liuzhou in such a short time, which is already very good. As long as we plant plane trees, are we afraid that we won't be able to attract the golden phoenix?"

"I walked around below and found that the people who came to the island, whether they were immigrants, hired workers, or even the tribesmen who had surrendered, were very satisfied with their current lives and full of expectations for the future.

Slowly, the reputation spread. As water flows to lower places and people move to higher places, people naturally come. Take Lingnan for example. Nowadays, there are more and more people there every year. People naturally go south, isn’t it because they see the real benefits? "

"The same goes for Liuzhou in the morning and evening, don't be in a hurry."

Wanda sighed. He actually saw that there were more and more commercial villages and manors on the island, and he was a little anxious when he saw them staking their claim.

If these nobles and powerful men enclose land like this, then all the good land will be taken over by them. When subsequent immigrants come, there won't be that much land left to divide.

"Wang Gong, in fact, we want to thank everyone who is willing to come to the island now, no matter whether it is a noble, powerful or a businessman, and don't worry about them taking advantage.

How big is Liuqiu Island? How much land do we occupy now? We have only established one prefecture and two counties now. Yiliuqiu Island is so big. In the future, it will be no problem to establish four or five prefectures and twenty or thirty counties.

After the distribution is completed in Anping, just distribute it to other places. "

In fact, this is what the Wu family is doing now. They have already taken the initiative to explore other places, established strongholds and manors, and even started to go deep into the mountainous areas to cooperate with the natives in mining and boiling camphor. The Wu family also taught the native tribes to grow sugar cane seeds. Where are the peanuts?

Wu Huaiyu is still more willing to cooperate. Harmony brings wealth, and cooperation can benefit both sides. They fight and kill all day long. Although the natives are very weak, it will actually be a headache if they focus on causing destruction.

The island is so big, even if it is fully developed, it will be enough for several generations to continue to develop, so there is no need to rush.

A ship sailed into Anping Port,

Several people jumped off the boat and hurried into the city.

An urgent letter was delivered to Wu Huaiyu,

"The Huanghuai flood caused great disasters in thirty states."

Wu Huaiyu was surprised. He handed the letter to Wanda. Wanda frowned after reading it, "Prime Minister Wu, last year's Huanghuai flood hit Forty Prefectures. Afterwards, didn't the court already pull out the money and grain and start building the embankments of the Yellow and Huaihe Rivers?" Well, why is there another big flood this summer?”

Wu Huaiyu sighed, "The embankment cannot be repaired in a short time. The court originally planned to spend three to five years renovating the Huanghuai Embankment, but who would have thought that there was a flood last year and extreme weather this summer,"

Last year, the Huanghuai Flood occurred. Although the imperial court had early warning and provided timely rescue and relief efforts, the losses were still huge. This year, it happened again.
The people in the Huanghuai area were really unlucky.

Wanda stared at the letter in his hand and turned it over for a long time. "Prime Minister Wu, this Huanghuai flood is an opportunity for us in Liuzhou."

"You want to go over there and recruit people?"

"Well, in less than a year, there have been two major disasters in succession. Even if the imperial court provides relief, there will still be countless people who cannot survive. This is a time of drought, and now there are floods. What will the people do next? Just rely on the imperial court to provide relief. Not even,"

Wang Da became more and more excited as he talked. He proposed to prepare a batch of disaster relief materials, food, medicine, etc., and transport them to Huanghuai by ship, and then transport them back to the victims to ask for help.

"We paid them settlement fees and transported them all the way. When they came, we divided the fields for them, helped them build fences, gave them interest-free green crop loans, and rented them cattle seeds and farming tools..."

For the victims of the Huanghuai Thirty Prefectures who are suffering from a major disaster, many of them have nothing now. Even if the court provides food relief, what will they do later?
If Liuzhou extends a helping hand at this time,

First of all, the court will support it, and the disaster-stricken states and counties will definitely not care about keeping people. Originally, the normal operation in disaster years is to let the people go out to eat, that is, let them go out to beg.

Although Liuzhou came to poach and immigrate people, they took advantage of the opportunity to rob people, but it was not easy to stop them in the disaster areas. The more victims there were, the greater the relief pressure.

"Immigration and employment can be a two-pronged approach," Wu Huaiyu suggested. "Those who are willing to immigrate directly can directly allocate land and provide resettlement allowance.

As for those who are hesitant, we can first hire them to settle the land, and provide them with food, accommodation, and wages. After signing the contract, we can give them food. This can also solve their urgent needs. In the future, they will be paid quarterly or monthly. Can support a family,

Of course, we also welcome them to bring their families with them to work. "

As long as they come, even if they only plan to work for a year or two at first, they will know how good it is here after they come, and there will definitely be many people willing to stay.

after all,

Well-known people stay in their place of origin, while poor people go to other places.

Let’s get the people here first.
The more Wanda thought about it, the more excited she became, "I'm going to make arrangements now. We must get 8,000 people to come this time."

"Wang Gong, you need to be more courageous. Eighteen thousand is not enough to fill your teeth. Opportunities are rare. If you want to do it, do it harder. I fully support you to go ahead and do it. I have specially allocated a number for you from the Lingnan Observatory. Let the Fuzhou Governor's Office allocate another amount of money and food to you, and then go and rob people!"

(End of this chapter)