Han officials

Chapter 112 Pig teammates

As the old saying goes: The crying child gets the milk.

Now Wei Zhe found that this sentence really made sense.

The emperor waved his hand and reduced a lot of pressure on him.

However, there must be a reason why the current emperor Liu Hong was able to make the world what it is today.

After the autumn harvest, before Wei Zhe could be happy for a few days, he received a letter from Gongsun Zhao.

However, this time Wei Zhe was helpless.

……

Late at night, in the inner room.

When the pregnant Guan Yan woke up from her sleep because of calf cramps, she found that Wei Zhe was still awake.

However, the soreness in her calves made her unable to speak. It was not until Wei Zhe carefully massaged her for a while that Guan Yan, who had recovered, asked worriedly, "What's wrong? Is the treasury empty? I still have some dowry..."

Wei Zhe couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard this. This rich young woman was really generous.

But after laughing, Wei Zhe felt much better.

Wei Zhe was seen massaging Guan Yan's calves while sighing softly, "Don't worry, everything is going smoothly in Liaodong County. It's Yangming who has problems."

"Dongming County?"

"Yes, the refugees from Dongming County have stopped... Alas~"

It is said that when the court established counties in the land of the Three Han States, it decided to relocate 300,000 Han people to fill them.

It’s not that the nobles in Luoyang were particularly far-sighted, but that this was the custom of the Han Dynasty.

In the first month of spring in the second year of Yuanshuo (127 BC), after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Wei Qing to defeat the Xiongnu and take over Henan, he established Shuofang Commandery and Wuyuan Commandery in this area. Later, he moved more than people from Guandong to settle and guard the border, and finally took over the Hetao area step by step.

If not for this, the Han people would probably still be using the Qin Great Wall as the boundary, and Bingzhou would be missing half.

It can be said that it was the more than 100,000 immigrants from Guandong that completely stabilized Shuofang County and Wuyuan County.

Of course, there were also special social conditions during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han.

In other dynasties, after several years of disaster, there would generally be more than ten years of peace.

But the Western Han Dynasty was rather unlucky, with 215 disasters, including floods, droughts, locusts, borers, earthquakes, epidemics, winds, cold spells, and fires. Of these, 206 occurred between the first year of Emperor Taizu's reign (157 BC) and the seventh year of Emperor Wen's reign (38 BC), and this was still considered a small number.

From the first year of Emperor Jingdi (156 BC) to the second year of Emperor Wudi's reign (87 BC), various disasters occurred 73 times, with Emperor Wudi's reign seeing the most, at 52. Sometimes floods, droughts, locusts, and cold weather occurred alternately or even simultaneously.

Under such circumstances, there were actually a large number of disaster-stricken poor people in the Western Han Dynasty.

Ban Gu wrote in the Book of Han: “In the fourth year of Yuanshou (119 BC), Shandong suffered from floods and many people were starving… More than people were displaced… In the fourth year of Yuanfeng, there were million displaced people in Guandong, and the number of unidentified people was .”

Hundreds of thousands of refugees appeared in the heartland of the Central Plains, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which was undoubtedly a huge hidden danger to the court at that time.

Therefore, Emperor Wu of Han had no choice but to move immigrants to the border areas.

For example, when Shandong suffered a flood in the fourth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of Han relocated the poor to Xinqinzhong. More than 700,000 people relied on the county officials for food and clothing. A few years later, the government even lent them some property to help them settle down.

In the spring of the first year of Taishi, Emperor Wu of Han established agricultural officials in Shangjun, Shuofang, Xihe, and Hexi, and sent 600,000 soldiers to guard the fields.

It can be said that it was thanks to Emperor Wu of Han's immigration of hundreds of thousands of people to the border that most of the results of territorial expansion were absorbed.

The ready-made answer was in front of them, and no matter how stupid the Luoyang officials were, they knew what to do.

However, the ideal is very full and the reality is very skinny.

Emperor Wu of Han could fight the Huns while relocating millions of refugees to the border, but the current court cannot do it.

The original plan was to relocate 300,000 Han people to populate Dongming County, but the plan was stopped after only moving over 100,000 people.

By the way, according to the imperial edict, the cost of this migration was originally to be borne by You and Qing states.

But now that the chaos in Youzhou has not been resolved, Qingzhou can only bear the responsibility alone.

But Qingzhou couldn't bear it, not because there were no refugees, but because they had no money.

Even though Qi and Lu have many plains and fertile farmland, the cost of migrating and resettling hundreds of thousands of refugees would amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Relocating over 100,000 refugees to Dongming County was already the maximum Qingzhou could bear. Yet, the Luoyang court actually let Qingzhou's disguised defiance of the imperial order go unresolved.

After all, although Dongming County is important, the court does not want to force the six counties of Qingzhou to rebel.

After all this, Gongsun Zhao, who was waiting in Dongming County, was so sad that he could not even cry.

An immigration project of this magnitude was left unfinished, and as the governor of Dongming County, he was naturally under great pressure.

So, I can only write a letter to Wei Zhe to complain.

……

"How could the world suddenly become like this?"

After listening to Wei Zhe's explanation, Guan Yan leaned against Wei Zhe's arms and couldn't help muttering:

"The court is so reckless, it's too..."

But before she finished speaking, she covered her mouth and smiled embarrassedly.

Wei Zhe, however, didn't take it seriously. Instead, he sighed softly, "This is not the only case of the court going back on their word!"

"What about Dongming County?"

"Alas! We can only take it slowly!" Wei Zhe said helplessly: "Five years will become ten, one generation will become two. As long as the Han people are strong enough, they will be able to digest this place within a hundred years."

However, despite this, Wei Zhe still felt aggrieved.

How to say it, it was as if he was fighting the enemy in the front, but his comrades in the rear were just watching from the sidelines, even closing the camp tightly, turning a deaf ear to his cries for help, and watching him trapped in the mortal enemy.

Maybe this is why bad teammates are more hateful than enemies!

……

Not to mention how much of a headache Gongsun Zhao had at the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula.

Everything is going smoothly in Liaodong County.

Especially after the autumn harvest this year, the speed of popularization of iron plows and harrow carts has greatly accelerated.

Because no rhetoric is as convincing as actual production.

Of course, Wei Zhe also understands the "stubbornness" of some people.

After all, food is the most important thing for the people and agriculture is the foundation of the country, so anything related to agriculture should not be neglected.

If the reform fails, Wei Zhe, the governor of Liaodong, will at most be dismissed from office, but the affected people will lose a year's harvest, and an entire family may even be wiped out.

So it’s not that the old farmers in Qian are stubborn, but that they dare not gamble and do not have the confidence to gamble.

But now it's good. With this year's example, I believe that the "one person, one cow" farming model will be fully popularized during next year's spring plowing season. By then, the entire Liaodong region will have released half of its productivity.

To put it more simply, the young and middle-aged population in Liaodong has doubled in disguise.

However, before Wei Zhe could be happy for a while, the beacon fire at the Xuansuo border was lit as a warning.

Wei Zhe was not surprised by this. Even if Goguryeo was stupid, it should have reacted by now.

After all, the five-way capture army was only a superficial symptom. If Goguryeo wanted to solve the problem, it could only start from the root.

So although he arrived at the prefect's mansion quickly, he did not show any sign of panic.

"Your Excellency, Goguryeo has invaded Xuanchu County."

"how many people?"

"According to the report from Fenghuotang, there should be more than 20,000 people."

Hearing this, Wei Zhe nodded slightly.

It’s okay, this amount of troops is nothing, Wei Zhe even thinks it’s a bit too little.

As for Xuanshou County, it must be saved. The Han people in Liaodong share weal and woe!

But a moment later, another piece of news came, and Wei Zhe could no longer remain calm...

(End of this chapter)