Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 335 Great Construction ([-])
four months later
Liaodong
Buqi County (formerly Buqi County, Dongnae County/now Qingdao City)

port

"Line up one by one, don't be crowded!"

"Those without a [Pass] are not allowed to board the ship."

"Go to the medical clinic in the county to get the pass card."

A month ago, Cao Cao and Lu Bu fought in Yanzhou, and the blood flowed from both sides.

Because of the lack of food, Cheng Yu, Cao Cao's advisor, turned his fellow villagers into food. Lu Bu was a little bit human. Although he was also short of food, he just kept robbing the rich and powerful in the city, and did not directly make food from the common people. .

After all, Lv Bu's army is much smaller, and it is enough to support them by robbing wealthy businessmen and powerful men. There is no need to be like Cao Cao, who has too many Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou.

Under such a war, many people in Yanzhou fled Yanzhou to save their lives, and went to Qingzhou, which was sparsely populated and had a large area of ​​wasteland. It is said that as long as you get a "pass card" there, you can lie down and eat pickled fish.

Qingzhou originally had a population of more than 300 million, but hundreds of thousands died during the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Later, another 100 million people became the Yellow Turban Army and went to Yanzhou to join Cao Cao. In addition, the plague killed hundreds of thousands more.

The huge Qingzhou now only has a population of 150 million.

There are many vacant fields that no one cultivates, so these refugees from Yanzhou simply moved to Qingzhou with their families, turning these uncultivated wastelands into their own land for farming.

During the period of Emperor Huanling, there were many people and little land in the whole world, and the world was full of refugees who had no land to cultivate.

After more than ten years of war, hunger, plague, massacres and other factors, the population has been greatly reduced.

In this way, the world that used to be populated with a lot of people and little land now has almost as many people as land, which is just enough.

Also because the problem of more people and less land was solved (a lot of people died, the number of people decreased, and the problem was solved), so the remaining people's desire to rebel was not as strong as during the period of Emperor Ling.

After discussing with the nine family ministers, Wang Yi, the prime minister of the family, decided to restart the large-scale construction plan.

The Wang family began to make money from the beginning of Emperor An's accession to the throne, and the annual "Liao Pay" alone was one billion yuan, which was obtained from the princes before the Emperor An's period.

Even in the first year when Dong Zhuo was a power minister, in order to please the Wang family, he took the initiative to increase the Liao salary to 20 billion, but the Liao salary was completely abolished in the second year because Dong Zhuo had no money.

The main reason why the Wang family participated in asking for Dong was because Dong Zhuo refused to give money.

The Liao pay lasted for a full 70 years, and the Han court accumulatively spent 710 billion yuan in Liao pay.

This is a terrible expense. You must know that during the reign of Emperor An, only 240 billion yuan was spent to eradicate the Qiang rebellion. Even so, it made the court feel distressed.

The total cost of the five Qiang rebellions was only 600 billion yuan, while Liao's payment consumed 710 billion yuan!
Cao Song, Cao Cao's father, had a total of [-] million worth of goods in the convoy when he moved, so Tao Qian couldn't help but do something wrong.

You can imagine what the concept of 710 billion money is.

Of the 710 billion yuan, 530 billion was distributed to the Wang family, 80 billion to the Zhang family, and 80 billion to the Li family.

Later, in order to repair the border defense and prevent the invasion of Goguryeo and grassland people, the three major families each contributed 30 billion yuan to block the entrances of Liaodong, and even transformed the plain into a swamp.

The remaining money of Zhang Li's family was naturally used for land annexation, annexing all the fields and acres within their sphere of influence.

Now, their two families have also begun to absorb refugees from the Central Plains to reclaim wasteland in their ruled area, and the Wang family is also investing this money in land reclamation.

There is still a lot of wasteland in Liaodong, but the cost of reclaiming wasteland is much higher than the cost of land merger.

With the same money, only ten acres of land can be cultivated, but hundreds of acres of land can be merged. Under normal circumstances, land mergers are definitely the choice.

But since ten years ago, there is not even a single self-cultivator in Liaodong, and there is no place to annex them if they want to. heritage.

Coupled with the rise in food prices in recent years, the three major families have begun to transform the grasslands in Liaodong into cultivated land.

Decades ago, because the price of food was not very high, and the profit of wool was relatively high, the three major families transformed the cultivated land in Liaodong into grassland.

Now, due to the war, no one is farming in many areas, but many princes need food to fight, so the price of food keeps rising, so the three major families have changed the grassland back to arable land.

As for the extra sheep, they were all transported to Cowherd Island.

Affected not only Liaodong mainland, but also overseas areas, such as the Ryukyu Islands, a large number of sugarcane fields were destroyed and then transformed into rice terraces.

Cane sugar, a luxury, was not easy to sell during the war years. The workers in the sugar workshops lost their jobs, and most of them chose to go to the sugarcane islands in the south to open up wasteland.

The current population in the area ruled by the royal family is 350 million, with a natural increase of [-] each year.

Nowadays, as many as 6 pioneers go to Sugarcane Island every year, including more than 3 immigrants in the area ruled by the royal family, and more than [-] immigrants from Qingzhou.

There are as many as [-] ships transporting immigrants and land reclamation materials every year alone, while the Wang family has only [-] ships in total.

In order to support a large number of land reclamation population and speed up the land reclamation of Sugarcane Island, at the family council held in the spring of this year, the Wang family once again banned the trade of grain, the sale of grain to the Central Plains, and the prohibition of making wine from grain.

Whenever there is large-scale land reclamation, these measures will be taken to prevent food shortages during land reclamation.

Although 4000 people immigrate to Sugarcane Island every year, only [-] or [-] people can really live to the end of land reclamation, and most of them are wasted due to various reasons, the main reason being miasma.

The natives on Sugarcane Island who hold stones as weapons are really not much of a threat. They attack and kill less than a hundred immigrants every year, while the miasma on the island kills tens of thousands of people every year.

Even Gan Ling died of miasma for more than a dozen generations, and many children of the Wang family died on Gan Cane Island because of the unacceptable climate.

Without finding a solution to the miasma, the Wang family forcibly opened up wasteland under the high mortality rate of the miasma. Although the land reclamation can be done in this way, it is somewhat labor-intensive.

In order to find a solution to the miasma, the Doctor of Medicine ordered Zhang Zhongjing to suspend the research on [Golden Elixir (Gunpowder)], and now he is personally leading [-] medical doctors with excellent medical skills to explore various miasma-filled areas in the world to understand how the local people have no Killed by miasma.

When the genius doctor Zhang Zhongjing was leading the doctors to visit the aborigines in Sugarcane Island and Linyi Country (now southern Vietnam) to learn about the indigenous people's solution to miasma, another genius doctor Hua Tuo was checking the physical conditions of the refugees in Linqi County. Those who are healthy will be issued a [pass card], and those who are sick can only go back and forth. After all, the Wang family's migration is for land reclamation, not for charity. Migrating sick patients to overseas is not a waste of time. Food?
For the refugees who have received the [Pass Pass], they are eligible to go to the county office to receive daily rations with the wooden card in their hands, and wait for the royal fleet to transport them away.

"Mother, hurry up, as long as we get that wooden sign, we can eat free fish." Lu Lingqi dragged her mother Yan Shi to the back of the line, and started to line up according to the rules.

Lv Bu fought a bloody battle with Cao Cao and was defeated. He once again used his qualities as a parachutist to escape from the battlefield. In the process of escaping, he accidentally separated from his wife and daughter.

But what he didn't expect was that his wife and daughter followed the refugee wave from Yanzhou to Buqi County, Qingzhou.

(End of this chapter)