The elite did not migrate south

Chapter 531 What’s wrong with building some civil engineering?
Pei Xiu was standing in front of Cao Mao at this moment.

After Wang Chang, the second person to be summoned was Pei Xiu.

Among the Nine Ministers, the Taichang was the most important, and among the Shangshu, the Ministry of Rites was the most prestigious.

Besides, Cao Mao was planning to send him to Yongliang.

Pei Xiu probably already knew where he was going next. From the moment he came in, there was no joy on his face and he looked quite melancholy.

Cao Mao smiled and asked him to sit next to him, and asked him many questions about what happened after he left.

Pei Xiu said seriously, "We have already sent people to Bingzhou to assist General Yang in this matter."

"Your Majesty, don't worry. General Deng's previous massacre in Yongliang has already frightened the Hu people. I'm afraid that Liu Bao won't even need to do anything. Those people will agree."

Cao Mao said, "Yes, Deng Ai's actions may have inadvertently helped you."

"Then you have to help him too?"

Pei Xiu had known this would happen.

He was mentally prepared when he went out. Deng Ai's behavior seemed to have solved the problem of education, but in fact, it was a mess.

Who knows how the Governor of Yongliang is cursing Deng Ai now.

In this case, if subsequent matters are not handled properly, it may cause more problems.

But Pei Xiu did not complain, he nodded very readily.

"Your Majesty is right. I have made preparations to go to Yongliang and will certainly not let Your Majesty down."

"Oh? It's rare that Pei Qing would actually volunteer. I wonder how Pei Qing plans to appease the local Qiang and Hu people?"

Pei Xiu said seriously: "Just as your majesty said, first distinguish between the enemy and us."

"Of course, General Deng has already messed up this matter, but it still needs to be carried out. First, distinguish between friend and foe, and then begin to distribute them to various places in Yongliang. According to the many policies we previously implemented towards the Southern Xiongnu, there is no need to send officials. Instead, we can directly hand them over to the county governors and magistrates in different regions and let them take charge of these matters."

"Let them learn farming, change their names and customs. The public lands of Yongliang can support this. Abolish their original leaders and tribes, and make them citizens of the prefectures and counties."

Although Pei Xiu said a lot, it can be summed up in one sentence: register the people into households and turn the wandering tribes into people with households.

According to Pei Xiu's original plan, this would be a gradual process.

Let those tribes that are willing to accept it start to try it out, let them taste the sweetness, and then lead the rest of the people to join. However, after Deng Ai did this, it could only be forced to go ahead. Both Pei Xiu and Cao Mao knew in their hearts that forcing them to do so would certainly lead to more problems, but this was the only way.

Even if there is a risk of rebellion, Malone is still stationed there.

In this battle to destroy Shu, many of Deng Ai's subordinates were promoted, including many marquises. Even ordinary soldiers received many rewards and promotions. Cao Mao decided to leave a group of elite soldiers and let Ma Long establish a new Yongliang border army with them as the main force.

As for the rest of the soldiers, they would of course be assigned to various war zones as officers.

With Ma Long there, Cao Mao was not too worried about any problems, because if any problems did arise, Ma Long could solve them.

Cao Mao also agreed with Pei Xiu's ideas. When Pei Xiu was about to leave, Cao Mao just warned him: "Don't cause trouble like Deng Ai again!"

"only!!"

Pei Xiu turned and left.

Cao Mao began to meet with the next minister.

Cao Mao always had to meet with all the ministers in the court one by one.

But Pei Xiu was already rushing towards his own residence at this moment. He had to go to Yongliang as soon as possible to settle this matter.

When he arrived in front of his own mansion, he saw those young women who were reluctant to leave.

At this moment, Pei Xiu already understood that there was a guest at home.

Sure enough, when Pei Xiu walked in, he saw Pei Kai, with disheveled hair and dirty face, standing shivering in the courtyard.

Pei Xiu glanced at him and asked, "Why don't you go inside and wait?"

"Brother, I have a lot of things to do and I'm leaving soon. I have something to ask you!"

Pei Xiu went straight to the inner room, and Pei Kai followed behind him, "Father asked me to ask you!"

Hearing this, Pei Xiu finally put down what he was doing and looked at his younger brother helplessly, "What's the matter?"

"Xun Gong said he wanted to recommend me to Shu. He said that place."

"Go ahead, that's good."

Pei Xiu interrupted him and turned around to get busy again.

Pei Kai said a little aggrievedly: "You haven't even finished listening."

"You have made great contributions. Shu is in need of talents. Go to Shu and hone your skills for a few years. Then you can come back and serve as Xun Xu's right-hand man."

Pei Kai is now in Youbei Mansion. Cao Mao originally asked Xun Xu to build this mansion specifically for dealing with natural disasters.

Xun Xu actually did a pretty good job. There was no disaster in the third year of Zhengyuan. However, in January of this year, a snowstorm occurred in Bingzhou. Xun Xu prepared in time and no major casualties were caused.

The young men under Xun Xu's command also spent their days studying various disaster response and prevention methods. However, the outside world did not have a high opinion of them.

They thought they were doing useless work. After all, before the rise of metaphysics, people believed that disasters could not be prevented and were caused by human behavior.

Who was it because of? Of course it was because of the ministers or the emperor!

Of course, the emperor could not be deposed or held accountable, so if a natural disaster occurred, it was the ministers' fault.

Or it may be the result of not implementing benevolent policies.

Therefore, if you want to prevent disasters, you must first practice benevolent governance, be close to wise men, and stay away from villains.

Other methods cannot prevent it.

This is the mainstream view in the world.

However, Xun Xu's ideas were obviously different from the mainstream views, and Cao Mao's were also different.

Cao Mao felt that people like Xun Xu had made great contributions.

By the way, Cao Mao also gave many rewards to the people in their mansion. This time, Shu was short of a large number of officials, so Cao Mao naturally gave them a few places in their mansion.

As the most outstanding person in the mansion, Pei Kai also got this opportunity.

With his brother's words, Pei Kai felt more confident.

Although Pei Xiu is not easy to talk to, he never lies to himself.

Pei Kai thanked his brother and left in a hurry.

While Cao Mao was busy summoning his ministers and assigning them tasks, the battle in Jingzhou reached its most intense stage.

Wang Ji's army basically occupied Wuling, while Wen Qin encountered Shi Ji's main force in Yidao. The two sides fought a fierce battle and it was difficult to determine the winner.

But Wang Ji had already started to advance again. He wanted to bypass Shi Ji's main force and launch an attack from Hengyang.

General Ding Feng also led his elite troops here in advance, ready to fight Wang Ji.

The Jingnan region is vast, and Wang Ji has too many directions to attack and more strategies to adopt than the Wu people.

This made Shi Ji extremely uncomfortable.

At this critical moment, Lu Kang finally arrived at the front line.

The first thing the young man did after arriving at the front line was to write letters to Shi Ji and Ding Feng.

Lu Kang told the two that if they wanted to hold on to the enemy without losing an inch of land, the final result would be the loss of both people and land. They could give up some plain areas, such as the large plains near the lakes in southern Jing. They could not be led by the enemy and had to gather superior forces to guard important intersections.

At the same time, he ordered county governors in various places to relocate the people, destroy roads, and complete the concentration of resources and troops as soon as possible.

Soon, Wang Ji and Wen Qin discovered that the enemy had changed their battle strategy. They no longer followed the Wei army's marching route to defend. They began to gather scattered troops from all over the place and stationed them in important areas. At the same time, warships also began to gather towards Wuchang.

Wang Ji did not tolerate the other side and soon occupied most of Jianping County and the northern part of Wuling County.

However, they were unable to break through the three important intersections leading to Lingling County, Hengyang County, and Nan County.

Wen Qin bypassed Yidao and attempted to directly attack Hengyang, but he encountered a strong counterattack again in Lexiang and was unable to continue advancing the front.

The war was no longer as smooth as it was at the beginning, and the Wei army's fighting spirit gradually disappeared.

While the battle was raging on the front lines of Wu, the Wu government also began the great policy of reviving the Wu!
That’s right, Puyang Xing is going to farm!
Puyang Xing immediately summoned the local people and the soldiers stationed in Jianye to go and do this major project. He even ordered the county governors and county magistrates in various places to share the responsibility and start together.

If anyone's progress is slower than others, they will be punished.

So, the State of Wu started this major project.

The people were arrested from their houses by officials and forcibly sent to Danyang Lake. For a time, people from all over the country were forced to do forced labor.

Not only the common people, but also the soldiers have to do this.

This caused a lot of resentment among the local people, who felt that the corvee labor was increasing. The soldiers were especially dissatisfied with this.

In order to realize his idea, Puyang Xing ordered the local big families to contribute money and manpower.

Puyang Xing attached great importance to this matter and took charge of it personally. For a while, Jiangdong seemed to become lively.

And those officials promoted by Puyang Xing, in order to flatter better, did not care about anything. Originally, one person was required from each household, but in order to show their own abilities, they directly required one person from each household, men, women, young and old, to do labor service. They stopped doing their own work, took food with them, and followed the temple to do labor service!
In pursuit of efficiency, officials arranged a large number of supervisors.

These people would keep an eye on those who were doing labor service, and if anyone was dissatisfied or negligent, they would start beating them.

Within just a few days, a lot of casualties had occurred. The soldiers were the first to flee, and some even committed suicide due to exhaustion.

Puyang Xing's image in the eyes of the people became extremely bad. They cursed and scolded him, and public resentment was boiling.

But Puyang Xing doesn't care about this. As long as he can complete the project and prove his ability, who cares about the lives of these common people?

P.S.: Then all the soldiers and civilians were gathered to work. The cost of labor was incalculable. Soldiers died, or were killed by the bandits. The people were deeply resentful. - "Records of the Three Kingdoms"

The construction of Puyang Xing was a major project in history, and it had disastrous consequences. Afterward, many rebellions broke out in the Wu Kingdom. However, Sun Xiu, for his contributions to the project, appointed him Prime Minister.
(End of this chapter)