Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 340 Population Explosion

In addition to the land route north of the Yellow River, from Lutai County, through Pingzhou, and through the Shanhaiguan Pass under construction to Andong, Li Fei also continued to send fleets to move refugees across the coast of Dengzhou, Henan Province, south of the Yellow River.

Henan Road is located in the south of the Yellow River, and it is the first stop for the refugees who escaped from the war to cross the Yellow River. Moreover, although Henan Road was captured by the rebels in Bianzhou, Chenliu and other parts, most of them are still in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, so The number of refugees gathered in Henan Province is very large, at least 200 million.

Li Fei asked Jin Yiwei to release the news in places where there are many refugees in Henan Province. There are a lot of food and clothing prepared along the coast of Dengzhou. , will distribute fields, arrange work, and ensure a comfortable life.

Just like in Hebei, the common people don't really believe that the news is as good as the legends say.

But they crossed the Yellow River from Hebei, fled all the way, and ate everything they could eat along the way, but many people still starved to death on the road. Even if they fled to Henan Road, they still couldn’t find enough food. Since then, it has become even worse, with hunger and cold, and people continue to starve to death.

They are numb, but if they see any hope of survival, they will move in that direction.

Li Fei's reputation is excellent, he won many victories, and he was newly crowned King of Beiping County, with a great reputation. These refugees who gathered in Henan Road were desperate, and they were willing to trust Li Fei once.

As a result, refugees are constantly converging towards the South Road from all directions.

Li Fei's goal is population.

In order to allow the generals of Henan Province to open the door of convenience, they turned a blind eye and closed one eye.In addition to coercing with his right to control the military forces of Henan Province, Li Fei also sent people to secretly contact the generals of Henan Province, telling them that as long as they open the door to convenience, every five people from Dengzhou will cross the sea to Andong , he gave the generals of Henan Province "aid" of one stone of grain.

Originally, the generals of Henan Province did not intend to take care of this kind of thing. They had their own selfish intentions, and they only wanted to keep Qingzhou, Yanzhou and other rich places in Henan Province.

The gathering of too many refugees fleeing the war is a hot potato and a factor of instability. They are too happy that Li Fei can help them solve it.

As for Li Fei's purpose and ambition for doing this, it's not in the scope of their concern at all.

What made them even more delighted was that Li Fei even promised them "aid" food. Every five refugees who successfully cross the sea to Andong will "aid" them with a stone of food. If 100 million refugees successfully cross the sea to Andong, then they Wouldn't it be possible to get 20 shi of grain?

What Henan Province lacks most is grain. If they have 20 shi of grain, they can support an additional [-] troops, and their strength will almost double by then.

For the food that Li Fei promised, Henan Province not only opened the door to convenience, but even spontaneously led all the refugees gathered in Henan Province to Dengzhou.

Seeing more and more refugees gathering in the coastal direction of Dengzhou, it is estimated that the final number will exceed 100 million. Many refugees.

"Li Fei has huge ambitions, this is his performance!" The only person who expressed dissatisfaction with this was Suiyang Zhang Xun.

Zhang Xun also believes that Li Fei has ambitions. Judging from Li Fei's actions at the moment, Zhang Xun is even more convinced of his guess. With Li Fei's ambitions, even if Li Fei does not follow An Lushan's rebellion in the future, he will definitely separate himself and split the Tang Dynasty .

For this reason, Zhang Xun was very worried. He once wrote to the high-ranking generals of Henan Province, hoping that they could stop Li Fei from doing what he did.

However, Zhang Xun is just a small censor Zhongcheng, guarding Suiyang, with only a few thousand soldiers under him, he is not taken seriously by the generals of Henan Province, and even the generals of Henan Province intend to suppress Zhang Xun, and are even more lazy His alarmist talk prevented Li Fei's plan to extradite refugees to increase the population of Anton.

Zhang Xun didn't get a response, so he sent someone to send a message to Lingwu, hoping to alert Suzong Li Heng and stop Li Fei through Suzong Li Heng.

It's a pity that Zhang Xun's every move has been watched by Jin Yiwei, and his messenger was intercepted within less than ten miles.Zhang Xun's autographed letter was torn into pieces and remained on the ground, and the messenger was taken away by Jin Yiwei. Instead, another person re-passed Zhang Xun's "other party's autographed letter" to Lingwu, and the content inside was directly replaced by a letter to Li Xun. Flying songs of praise.

It is conceivable that after Suzong Li Heng received this letter, his impression of Zhang Xun must be even worse.

From Lutai County by land, pass through Pingzhou and Shanhaiguan.The sea route directly crosses the sea from Daodengzhou in Henan Province to Haizhou City on the Liaodong Peninsula.

With the influx of tens of millions of refugees into Andong, the whole of Andong is functioning.A large amount of food was also continuously dispatched from the granary to feed the incoming refugees.

With so many refugees, the daily consumption is huge.

Only Li Fei took precautions before the An Lushan rebellion, and exchanged all the money he earned for food in advance.At the beginning, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was fooled by Yang Guozhong and emptied the huge amount of grain in the Yicang, and at least half of it was bought by Li Fei to Anton.

It is roughly estimated that Li Fei purchased nearly 2000 million cans of grain before the Anlushan rebellion, enough to feed millions of people for a year.

No matter how many refugees flooded into Anton, Li Fei could afford it.

Every incoming refugee is registered.Those who can read and write will be arranged to enter the school to teach.Those who know other technologies will be arranged in industrial workshops for production.More people distributed good land for farming.

With the continuous construction of water conservancy projects for several years, the amount of fertile land in the Anton Governor's Mansion has doubled compared to when Li Fei first came to Andong.

With more and more people influx in the future, Li Fei will continue to build water conservancy along the Liaohe River to the north and open up more fertile fields.

You must know that the Northeast Plain formed by the Liaohe River Basin and the Songhua River Basin will be the most famous black land in China in later generations, Beidacang. If all of them are developed, even if the grain yield per mu is limited in the Tang Dynasty, it will be no problem to feed a population of more than 2000 million. of.

Of course, the premise is that Li Fei first solves the Shiwei tribes that occupy the Songhua River Basin for a generation.

However, the influx of people is not too large, and the plains of the Liaohe River Basin have not yet been developed. Whether to develop the Songhua River Basin to the north is a matter for the future.

As batches of refugees were resettled, villages sprang up one after another, and the land that had only been repaired with water conservancy but no one cultivated it was constantly being opened up.

After owning his own land, building his own house, and preparing for the spring plowing in a few months, the peace and tranquility of the Andong Governor's Mansion are beyond the imagination of the refugees from Hebei and other places who came to escape the war.

Some time ago, they were still fleeing their homes to escape the war, living a life of starvation, starvation, and freezing to death.But after they came to Anton, they not only distributed free clothes to keep out the cold, but also distributed fertile land and cattle. They settled down like this, and everything was developing in a direction worth looking forward to.
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