The Three Kingdoms began with island farming

Chapter 591 Population Problem
In the following year, the countries in Sindhu fully felt the dimensionality reduction attack from the great power of Central Plains.

The troops of the Three Kingdoms swept across the land of Sindhu as if they were in an empty land.

The so-called powerful Chola Kingdom in Sindhu did not even last half a month before it was declared destroyed by the attack of Sun Ce's army of 100,000 both by sea and by land.

The armies of Liu Bei and Liu Fan were equally unstoppable.

Those scattered tribes and small states were powerless to resist the powerful bows and crossbows and strict military discipline of the Han army.

After investigating the character of the local natives, Liu Bei and Sun Ce, who had originally been hoping for a lucky break, finally chose to send them to Da Qi as slaves, just like Liu Fan did.

With a population of nearly 30 million, except for a few relatively obedient and hardworking slaves who were left behind to help with farming, even half of the women were sent to Da Qi.

There's nothing we can do, the population is too large.

The women who stayed behind during the Three Kingdoms period were also selected, and this was also a condition to attract Han people from the Central Plains to come.

There is no way, the gap in the Han population is too big.

In order to gather the four million people required for the exchange between the three countries, Chen Gong and others put in a lot of effort.

Liu Bei and others also had to shout slogans directly.

When a Han man came, he was given two hundred acres of land, a house, three foreign women, and many other guarantees.

It is with such generous treatment that we can barely gather enough people.

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In Chang'an City, the exhausted Chen Gong, Zhang Zhao and others breathed a sigh of relief as they watched the population migration issue finally come to a temporary end.

"This won't work. I must suggest to Your Majesty that the population exchange ratio be changed to at least one to ten, otherwise it will become even more difficult going forward." Zhang Zhao said in a deep voice.

Chen Gong shook his head helplessly: "Don't let your imagination run wild. Don't you know what kind of character His Majesty is?"

"Your Majesty values ​​credibility the most. We have advised you many times before but to no avail. Let's not waste our efforts on it again."

Zhang Zhao frowned upon hearing this: "Then what should we do next? Kushan and the northwest of Sindhu still have a population of no less than 20 million!"

"We haven't filled the vacancies in the Central Plains and the South yet, so where can we find another four million people?"

Zhang Zhao originally thought that now that the country was stable, the population problem would no longer be a problem.

After all, in today's Da Qi, the registered population in the country alone has exceeded 70 million.

As the seven kings fought, they discovered that this was still a bottomless pit!
The seven kings attacked too quickly, and the populations of Southeast, Sindhu and other countries were so large that even with an exchange ratio of one to five, they just couldn't squeeze out enough people to exchange.

After all, there was peace in the Great Qi, with enough land and abundant supplies. Although the people's lives could not be said to be rich, at least they had no problem getting enough to eat, and it was okay to have some meat occasionally.

The people living under the rule of Da Qi had even been able to eat meat every meal.

It has always been the tradition of the Han people to be rooted in their native land.

Life is so good, who would have nothing better to do and go out to explore the world?
In other words, it was because the Da Qi government had been constantly calling for rewards that some young and strong people who trusted the country and had a certain spirit of adventure were willing to go out.

"Compared to this, I am more worried about another problem. Places like the Northern Xiongnu, the Southeast, and Sindhu will eventually be under our rule."

"And considering the attack speed of the Seven Kings, I estimate that it won't take three to five years for us to take over. Otherwise, the Seven Kings will reach Parthia and won't be able to take care of these places at all." Chen Gong said.

Tian Ze's previous plans and promises certainly played a good motivating role, but they were also not without potential side effects.

Since places like Sindhu and the southeast were destined not to be owned by the Seven Kings, they naturally would not over-exploit them.

Because their population is also limited.

It's fine when there is no suitable territory.

Once they conquer Anxi, they will definitely focus on Anxi and abandon these places.

After all, there are enough fields, so where can you not plant? It is always more cost-effective to plant in your own home than to manage the fields for Tianze, and the fat water will not flow to outsiders. Even if they are divided internally in the end, and some of them have to leave Anxi, they will definitely be able to get extra benefits from other countries.

Upon hearing this, all the ministers remained silent.

Only Dong Zhao seemed to be thinking about something.

"Gongren, what do you think?" Chen Gong asked.

"Gongtai, if we want to relocate the people to Sindhu and the southeast, I'm afraid we have to relocate them by village." Dong Zhao did not give a direct answer, but asked first.

Chen Gong nodded: "Of course."

As the smallest administrative unit besides households, the village is actually the entire world for the vast majority of people.

Because most of them will never go far away from the village in their entire lives, and at most they will go to the county town once.

It is too difficult to relocate households or individuals.

This is only possible if we take the village as the unit.

After all, everyone knows each other, and interpersonal relationships are stable and predictable, so if we move there as a whole, there will be much fewer concerns.

It's just like living in a different place, nothing will change.

"Then if we let some people from the village go over and take a look at the situation first, will there be less resistance to relocation?"

Chen Gong nodded again.

"You mean, we should send some people that the village trusts to find out the situation first? This is a good idea, but I'm afraid it won't be very effective."

"Not only that." Dong Zhao smiled.

"What if we promise them official positions? Or give them certain extra points for future promotions?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Gong and Zhang Zhao frowned slightly and pondered the pros and cons of this strategy.

"Your Majesty has decided to focus on the people of this village and lead the development of this village after careful study."

"We were planning to implement this policy after we had dealt with the problems of the village clan. There are still a few years before the population relocation, so the time should be about right."

"So doing so is just a matter of going with the flow, and there shouldn't be too many hidden dangers. However, we still need to give certain compensation to the officials in terms of their corresponding treatment and promotion." Dong Zhao explained in detail.

After a brief discussion, the ministers nodded.

Dong Zhao was best at taking advantage of situations, and his calculations and grasp of this matter were indeed good.

Because the propaganda and rectification work for the people in Daqi village has not been fully implemented, the local clan forces are still a considerable hidden danger.

These clans use family rules instead of national laws, and it can be said that their words are more effective than those of officials in the village. Naturally, it is impossible for Tian Ze to approve it.

After all, human hearts are the most untrustworthy.

If there is a problem with the leader of this kind of clan, the whole village will be plunged into dire straits and will become an explosion barrel.

Therefore, appointing people from other villages as village officials is the option that Da Qi has chosen after weighing the pros and cons in the current situation.

But after investigation, Tian Ze finally realized that having the people of the village govern the village was the best option after all.

The prerequisite is to solve the problem that many clans are too large and the people only know clan laws but not national laws.

What Dong Zhao did was not considered breaking the rules.

"Moreover, sending these people out can also help us solve the problem of population exchange." Dong Zhao continued.

This remark immediately attracted everyone's attention.

(End of this chapter)