I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 72: It doesn’t matter who you recognize as your master.
With the help of Duze to cover up, the existence of armed personnel in Liangzhuang seems very reasonable.

Of course, Yuan Shu did not reveal all of his family's assets to Du Ze.

The technicians under the Yixin Society had already mastered the manufacturing methods of crossbows and armor, so he privately ordered the production of more than fifty armors and more than three hundred crossbows.

Ten times!

They are just stored and hidden well, unknown to outsiders.

Yuan Shu also discussed this matter with Lu Zhi and others, and decided to use public accounts. However, the contents of the accounts had to be slightly modified and covered up, and bows, crossbows, armor, and the like could not be clearly written down.

Lu Zhi and the Thirteen Guardians also strongly supported this point.

After this round of life-and-death battles, they also hated the court dominated by eunuchs and treacherous ministers. Even Lu Zhi, who was the most loyal to the emperor, showed a certain distrust of the Luoyang court, believing that they valued fighting for power more than the safety of their country and family, and turned to trust Yuan Shu's judgment more.

The arming and training of the Isshinkai's military organization thus became one of the most important things.

Formal members train every day to build up their strength and learn military tactics. Because the training intensity is high, they are allowed to eat three meals a day to enhance their physical fitness.

Peripheral members must receive military training whenever they have time, and as long as they receive military training, they can eat three meals a day, two dry meals and one liquid meal.

By improving the quality of food, Yuan Shu successfully attracted more farmers in Liangzhuang to participate in military training.

It is worth mentioning that the Qiang people, Xiongnu people and miscellaneous Hu people of unknown origin who surrendered to Yuan Shu also actively participated in Liangzhuang’s armed system.

Most of them had a basic knowledge of riding, and most of them became cavalrymen within the Liangzhuang tribe, becoming a force that could not be ignored.

So strictly speaking, by the third year of Jianning, Yuan Shu had been able to mobilize 3,300 well-equipped and well-trained armed forces to ensure the safety of Liangzhuang and Maoling County.

Back then, Confucius had only three thousand disciples who could travel around the countries. Yuan Shu does not have only three thousand disciples, but more than three thousand well-equipped armed forces, which are absolutely enough to protect himself and his industry.

Now that it has everything it needs, Liangzhuang will naturally become more prosperous and more attractive. Forty-five thousand people is not the end, but rather the beginning.

More and more "refugees" came from all directions like pilgrims to Liangzhuang and joined Liangzhuang, making the foundation of Liangzhuang more solid.

Yes, refugees. No matter whether they were real refugees or not, as long as they came to Liangzhuang to seek asylum, Yuan Shu registered them all as “refugees.”

As for whether there are really so many refugees...

If you really ask Yuan Shu, he will just laugh it off and say he doesn't really know.

However, in private, Yuan Shu would still admit that the source of the population in Liangzhuang was not just the refugees who voluntarily wandered here.

Yuan Shu was very concerned about the population issue, so he secretly instructed the personnel department in charge of population management to make full use of the social connections of those who came to him, explore their potential value, and induce them to a certain extent.

Yuan Shu can guarantee that the lives of ordinary farmers and even farmers and herdsmen in Qiang area will definitely not be as good as those in their own villages.

Even if there is, it is extremely rare.

Most of the masters are not human, and the few who are human cannot be regarded as all, so human settlements like Liangzhuang must be very attractive to the cattle and horses who are living in dire straits.

So the question is, how can they learn about the existence of Liangzhuang and come up with the idea of joining?
That depends on publicity.

Following Yuan Shu's instructions, the Personnel Department assigned tasks to those farmers who had a good life and had a sense of identity and belonging to Liangzhuang. They asked them to find their living relatives and persuade them to join Liangzhuang and live a good life together.

The registered population of Youfufeng government is less than 100,000, but the actual population is definitely more than this number.

According to Yuan Shu's estimation, the actual number is at least doubled. It is very normal for most of the population to join the local aristocratic system in order to avoid war and heavy taxes.

The Cai family, which has only been prosperous for two generations, has 693 tenant farmers. So how many people have been hidden by the relatively old money families that are even larger than the Cai family?

It cannot be said that the lives of these tenants in the hands of local tyrants are worse than those of self-employed farmers, otherwise no one would give up their freedom and choose to become someone else's tenant and allow themselves to be exploited.

But to say that life is good is to treat these gentlemen too much like human beings.

Similar to corrupt officials, who are equally inhuman, as long as they show a little bit of humanity, they can naturally attract farmers to join them with their own fields.

Similarly, people have feet, and if life is really unbearable, or if you know there is obviously a better place to go, why not live a better life?

It doesn't matter who you farm for.
It doesn't matter who you recognize as your master.
After a deliberate propaganda campaign, many tenants from not only Maoling County, but also Huaili County, Pingling County and even Jingzhao area fled to Liangzhuang to join the army.

In fact, fleeing is nothing new. When people can't make ends meet, they will naturally flee. These powerful families will often send people to chase them, but as for the efficiency, it can only be said to be very limited.

Often these people would hide in the mountains and forests for two or three days, and even if they managed to escape, they would be responsible for their own life and death. After all, people can leave, but the land cannot.

Yuan Shu has no shortage of land, but he lacks people, so his goal is to find ways to get people.

Of course, what he did was like sucking blood from other people's wounds, and some powerful families would definitely be dissatisfied with this.

However, faced with the huge size of the Yuan family and the government's disregard, they really had no other choice but to work hard on themselves, increase security forces, and prevent people from escaping.

But if they really had to, they didn't dare to cause trouble for Liangzhuang.

In addition to rescuing people from the hands of various local gentry, Yuan Shu would also use some conventional means, such as buying them openly and honestly, purchasing them from government officials and local gentry who were willing to trade, which was also considered a good deal.

The main population sources of Liangzhuang are spontaneous exiles, refugees who fled, induced refugees, and people who purchased their own homes. These three together make up the main population sources of Liangzhuang.

In addition, Yuan Shu did not even spare the Qiang people and the Southern Xiongnu people.

The lower-class Han people lived a miserable life, and the lives of the Qiang and Xiongnu people were even more miserable than those of the Han people.

They lived in a bitterly cold border area, and their agricultural production technology was not up to standard. They could only produce a few grains of food from one acre of land. When the weather got cold, they had no place to graze, and they were so hungry that they had to chew on stones.

If you think about it carefully, you will understand that if they could feed themselves, why would they risk a brutal counterattack from the Han Empire and come to plunder?
Therefore, their lives were more difficult than those of ordinary Han farmers. This was also the reason why more and more Qiang and Xiongnu people came to seek refuge with their families after Yuan Shu’s Liangzhuang was willing to take them in.

The Qiang and the Xiongnu people also lived in a class society and there was oppression. The lower classes were like cattle and horses, not like human beings. It was not that the situation was different for different ethnic groups. Being able to farm the land and live in houses was a complete privilege for them.

In fact, even if we don't say that they had completely followed Yuan Shu's example, if the officials who governed the Qiang people who migrated to Liangzhou could have provided these Qiang people with one-tenth or even one-twentieth of Yuan Shu's resettlement measures, there would not have been a hundred years of Qiang rebellion.

What Yuan Shu did was actually very simple.

The Qiang and Xiongnu people who entered Liangzhuang were treated slightly inferior to the Han people, and the land and houses they were granted were inferior in quantity and quality.

But basically, the amount of land and houses granted is arranged according to the number of able-bodied laborers and family population, which is equivalent to giving them a sum of start-up capital. Then they will be asked to work hard to farm and earn their own food from the land.

The Yixin Society only gave them some subsidized food in the initial stage to prevent them from starving to death.

After the land was able to produce crops, there were no more subsidies. They had to pay agricultural taxes to the government and resettlement taxes and protection fees to the Yi Xin Society.

The farming techniques of these Qiang and Xiongnu people were often not as good as those of Han farmers, so their harvests were more limited at the beginning, and they received less grain than Han farmers, and their tax amounts were even higher than those of Han farmers.

The same treatment as Han farmers is often only given as a reward to those activists who work hard to learn farming and try to assimilate into the Han culture.

If they don't work harder, they won't be treated the same as Han farmers.

But despite this, these Qiang and Xiongnu people were still grateful, feeling that they had met the gods from heaven who had given them a god-like life.

Compared with their past experiences of being so hungry that they had to chew on stones, the days now are truly like those of a god.

When the Human Resources Department found them and asked them whether they had any relatives and whether they could bring their relatives to Liangzhuang, they felt that this was not a plot, but rather the kindness of the gods.

Good days also allow them to bring more people to enjoy together?
With the active activities of these free or even self-funded propagandists, more people from the Eastern Qiang in the west and the Southern Xiongnu in the north fled to Youfufeng and then joined Liangzhuang.

After receiving the report, Yuan Shu believed that this measure could be carried forward, so he rewarded the "propagandists" who induced more population among the Han farmers, Qiang farmers, and Xiongnu farmers, and gave them certain material rewards.

Then he took the opportunity to set up a propaganda team under the Personnel Department, incorporated these talented inducers into the team, gave them additional allowances and rations, and increased their work enthusiasm.

As a result, Yuan Shu used very few resources to leverage a large population, and his input-output ratio was so high that it was unmatched. If it were in modern times, angel investors would be able to break in his door.

As for the risks that followed, Yuan Shu was of course prepared in advance.

Why was the Isshinkai Security Department established?
What do the eight hundred elite soldiers do?
After the induction policy was issued, there were indeed some incidents where the Qiang tribes and the Southern Xiongnu tribes tracked down the fugitives and tried to cause trouble for Liangzhuang.

Then they were all killed by members of the Yi Xin Hui Security Department led by Lu Zhi, Lian Da, and Shao Yuan.

With excellent training and superior equipment, the members of the Security Department repeatedly defeated these small-scale pursuit teams and forced them to flee in panic.

In terms of treatment, you are not as good as me.

In a fight, you can’t beat me.

Aren't you just going to just accept the defeat?
(End of this chapter)