When Pan Geng moved to Yin, I initiated Jian Shang

For the next month, Xin Qu stayed in Datong, where he presided over the spring plowing and formally integrated the five counties of Datong, Yanggao, Weixian, Shanyin and Shuofang with the four states of Guangling, Pingcheng, Huairen and Yingcheng into Daifang County.

The core defense area of ​​Yan State in Bingzhou was formally established.

Of course, the structure of five counties and four states is essentially a trade-off, because this time when the Zhenxi Army returned from the southern expedition, a group of generals would not be suitable to be transferred back to the east. The main general Dai Bingjia and a group of deputy generals would be transferred away, and then other generals would lead their troops to take over.

However, in order to prevent the combat effectiveness of Zhenxi Bafu from deteriorating seriously, Xinqu could only retain some of the generals and forces who had marched south, allowing them to stay in the local area and become feudal lords, thus completely establishing the parallel system of counties and kingdoms in Yan State.

Of course, Xin Qu's behavior was also quite sophisticated. He clearly stipulated that officials in the state could make their own decisions and report, and if the number of people was insufficient, they could apply for transfer.

However, the prime minister and his subordinate officials had to accept assessment by the Prime Minister's Office, and all of them would be promoted or demoted to the same level as counties and prefectures.

It means to control the administrative system of local states to a certain extent.

Xin Qu was not worried that this group of people would object, because among the four states' feudal lords this time, only two came from big families, and the other two were typical early tribal naturalized people who were promoted and rewarded.

They don't have enough staff.

Now Xin Qu is going to help cover the bottom, and they are still very happy.

As for whether state affairs will be controlled by the imperial court, they actually don’t bother to care, because many of them really don’t know how to govern a country.

Moreover, the only people who could be truly supervised by the feudal lords were the common people in the state, while slaves had to be supervised by the Tongpan. Slaves were both private property and public property.

A feudal lord was not allowed to kill slaves without permission. If he did, he had to pay compensation or use his title to atone for his crime.

This is where Xin Qu’s intentions are most sinister.

He did not care about the life and death of the common people in the state. The reason was very simple. Behind the feudal lords at this stage, there must be clan elites, and the common people must have been former clan relatives, so they were more or less related by blood.

During the three generations, the object of their concern could only be the local area, not the imperial court.

Even with the military merit system in place, it would be impossible to reverse this bond in the short term.

Therefore, the focus should be placed on the slaves at the bottom of the hierarchy. Even if it is just a benchmark on the surface, the power of legitimacy is still there.

Nowadays, the rentier classes in Yan State generally lack slaves to help with land reclamation and construction. If you don't make good use of slaves and waste labor, then don't blame others for taking your place.

This is also politically correct in a sense.

You can kill them, but you have to fill the labor gap.

Not to mention that Xin Qu has assigned a lot of task targets, and everyone has to do them. If they do a good job, they will be promoted, and if they don't, they will be replaced by someone else. There are performance evaluations for everyone, from top to bottom.

So much so that after the establishment of Daifang County, the first Daifang governor, Fu Tu, went straight to Xin Qu and said bitterly: "Qu, aren't you making things difficult for me?"

Fu Tu took a roll of documents and slammed it on the table.

Below, many people leaned forward and looked at the situation curiously.

Xin Qu was looking at a map. When he heard Fu Tu's death, he raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "It's just a 800-li Great Wall, and you can't handle it? They didn't say it would be completed in three years. I gave you twenty years!"

"Can it be the same?" Fu Tu's face was solemn. "The five counties and four states of Daifang County, the common people, naturalized people, and slaves together only have 60,000 people. Not only do they have to manage the reclamation and water conservancy of a large area of ​​land, but they also have to guard against the south. At the same time, they have to complete the Great Wall and the supporting highways. This amount of work is not something that 60,000 people can handle.

Twenty years? I think these things can't be completed even if we arrange them for fifty years.

There's no need to arrange so many things at once, right? "

Xin Qu took the teaching stick and walked along the defense line of the later Ming Great Wall. After thinking for a while, he said: "First build a fortress along the mountain pass, and then gradually connect them.

Since the imperial court has handed over the local county governance to you, it allows you to exercise your abilities to a certain extent.

Population is never constant.

Daifang County has excellent geographical conditions, and it is impossible to avoid it when traveling from the south to the north.

From the collected taxes, you should keep enough for the government to pay, and use the rest to purchase slaves from foreigners and other members of the merchant alliance.

There are also some illegal outsiders who will be reduced to slavery if they are caught.”

"But if you do this, aren't you afraid of competition?" Fu Tu said quickly, "I can't say anything else, but once Daifang County's trade reaches a certain scale, with such huge profits, the neighboring Xuanhua County will definitely want to get involved, right?

Not to mention Beijing."

Xin Qu turned around and put down his teaching stick: "You don't have to worry. Xuanhua County will be the area directly under the charge of the court in the future. The trade over there is just a transit point. Their main role is to open up wasteland for Youzhou Youwei and focus on garrisoning."

Xin Qu divided Youzhou into six prefectures and counties: Xuanhua County, Beijing Prefecture, Chengde County, Yongping County, Dading County, and Liaoxi County.

Among them, Xuanhua, Chengde and the eastern clans of the Wuhuan vassal state were garrisoned by the Youwei Army of Youzhou, so the terminal of the trade line here would be directly gathered in Beijing Prefecture.

The three counties of Yongping, Dading and Liaoxi, plus some tribes on the eastern foothills of the Greater Khingan Range, were under the jurisdiction of the Youzhou Zuowei garrison.

As for the development of Beijing Prefecture, it will be centered on Peking and Tianjin and will be carried out at full strength.

Therefore, in terms of trade, Fu Tu is only worried about the siphoning of funds from Beijing, but there is no need to worry so much.

Xin Qu said directly: "I will ask Xuanhua Prefecture to increase the number of banknotes. When they transport them to Peking, they will be skinned. I believe they will not be stupid enough to transport them to Peking."

"Well... okay." When Fu Tu heard that Xin Qu had already made up his mind, he stopped talking about it and said, "The purchase of slaves is definitely not enough.

Moreover, Daifang County also has to help control the military intelligence of Jiuyuan County, and with only 60,000 people, it is still not enough.

Otherwise, you must approve another 10,000 people for me."

"Get lost." Xin Qu spat in anger when he heard this. "Do you think I don't want to share some of the burden with you? There are five counties in Youzhou, and each county has less than 50,000 people. There are only about 100,000 people in Beijing.

But there are 18 counties under the Beijing Prefecture, and each county has less than 10,000 people.

If you want me to share your wealth with you, you'd better encourage your people to have children. For every child born, regardless of their status, I will give them one dan of grain.

If a child has three children, he will be exempted from one year of labor service.

I guarantee that within ten years, you can increase the number of people from 60,000 to 100,000."

"You can think about it. One hundred thousand people are not enough for your project. I'd better consider the south. When are you going to stir up unrest there?"

Futu asked hopefully.

Xin Qu's eyes flickered once or twice, then he shook his head: "Don't worry. We can't and shouldn't provoke the unrest in the south. There are people who are more suitable than us."

"Dayi merchants? They can, but will it be a good thing to really let them in?"

"Who said it was them?" Xin Qu turned around, took a look at the current situation map, picked up the teaching stick and pointed at the remnants of the Jin Tian clan who had occupied Tianshui, Longxian and Baoji, and said: "Hongshang, we have already conquered this place. We have directly cut off the connection between the Western Qiang (Hehuang area) and the Northern Jiang (Qingyang area), the Southern Si (Hanzhong area), and the Ji Zhou (Binqi area)."

"So fast!" As a member of the group that returned from the Western Expedition, Fu Tu personally followed Xin Qu to sweep across Hexi. However, he did not expect that Hong Shang was such a good fighter.

“He is the ruler of the Jintian clan after all. Even though he was beaten up by us, this sweep of Hexi allowed him to recover some of his strength in a very short time.

In addition, given the status of Jin Tianshi, it was reasonable for the people in Tianshui, Longxian and Baoji to cooperate with him to fight against the three growing Ji clans.

What's more, the three tribes of the Ji surname were flirting with Dayi Shang. These forces might think that the three tribes of the Ji surname had betrayed the alliance of the Guanlong tribes.

Therefore, the three tribes of the Ji clan would inevitably turn against them in order to survive.

The three clans of the Ji clan: Zhao clan, Bin clan, and Zhou clan, have only one path to take in recent years. "

Xin Qu knocked on Anyi Youxia (Yuncheng, Shanxi), and knocked on Dayi Shang and Heluo lords on the Luo River: "These places will attack Anyi Youxia tribes together to cooperate with Dayi Shang's pincer attack on Tufang.

Especially, the big city of Shang in the south, King He of Shang only had a good life in these few years.

Zixun needed an excuse, an excuse to weaken the Shandong nobles.

The Shang Dynasty had a tradition of moving its capital.

Therefore, moving the capital was an inevitable and necessary decision after Zixun came to power.

And his relocation of the capital means that our game with Dayi Shang will enter the next stage.

The locals will have to block the knife for us for a few more years.

But before that, we can make use of Hongshang, the three tribes of the Ji clan, Nansi, the philosophers of Heluo, Anyi Youxia, and Tufang to gain the greatest benefits for ourselves.

Especially manpower.”

"But how do we provoke unrest among them?" Fu Tu frowned and watched for a while.

Suddenly, I noticed a small area with the words "Zhennan General's Mansion, Lu Fu" written on it.

"Axe." Fu Tu called out Lu's father's former name, and his eyes suddenly became eager.

The tentacles of Lu Fu have extended to Shangluo Road, where the Danshan Rong, Lantian Rong and other Rong tribes are entrenched, and Baipu and Hufang are also fighting here.

"It's not time to use the power of the axe yet." Xin Qu interrupted him, "Axe is planning to contact Chongfang (living in the area of ​​Huyi District in Xi'an today)"

The Chong clan has a long history and existed during the reign of Emperor Yao. The clans of Gun and Yu were here.

They originally lived in Yi and Luo. When Shang Tang destroyed Xia, the Chong clan fled westward with King Jie of Xia and moved to Guanzhong. They were destroyed by King Wen of Zhou at the end of the Shang Dynasty.

Therefore, this is a very prestigious and old clan.

Of course, what is more important is that the Si clan has a respected status in Guanzhong, and it is unknown how Chongfang views the fact that the three tribes of the Ji clan are colluding with Dayi Shang.

If possible, Xin Qu still hopes to win over one or two people.

Lu Fu's job along the way was to try to contact Chongfang, and then connect Hanzhong and Shu through Chongfang.

This place was contemptuously called Southern Qiang by the Shang people of Dayi, and it is even possible that Hanzhong and Sichuan have always been the place where people from the Central Plains migrated south to take refuge.

According to the feudal system in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, after Xia Jie lost the Heluo Central Plains, he should have fled to Yuncheng and Guanlong, and then part of him moved south to Hanzhong, and then entered the Chengdu Plain through Hanzhong.

The two countries of Bashu may be the product of the confluence of Baipu and Xiahou.

At least the upper class of nobles should be united and have close intermarriages with each other.

Xin Qu was serious about discussing how to defeat Dayi Shang, so he recalled many story blueprints. The most useful one should be the story of King Wu of Zhou uniting the princes of the world to destroy Dayi Shang.

The struggle for the Central Plains between the descendants of the Xia Dynasty and the descendants of Shang Tang has never stopped.

This is a blood feud.

Therefore, no matter how Dayi Shang struggles, Miao Suan must make as many friends as possible and it is inevitable that he will win over allies and go to war.

Therefore, the core force that will provoke the chaos in Heluo and even the Central Plains will not be Hongshang, nor the Heluo philosophers, but the three tribes of the Ji clan.

The three tribes with the surname Ji are the anomalies between Guanlong and even Heluo today, and they must not be allowed to develop slowly as they did in history.

They must be transformed into fast-growing bamboos and trees, which grow and fall in the same year.

As one of the four realms, although the three tribes of the Ji clan are just knives in the hands of Dayi Shang, it does not mean that he cannot use them.

Thinking of this, Xin Qu said: "In short, you should manage Daifang County well first. This place is really important."

"Okay. I'll think of a way." Fu Tu said bitterly. Since he couldn't get Qiu Feng, he had to find a way himself. How could he get more people? (End of this chapter)