Not to mention how Emperor Song reacted when he learned that Yunzhou County had encountered a Tatar invasion.
When Li Wei's letter arrived in Bianjing, the group of refugees who had left the customs had also successfully arrived outside Yunzhou City.
The Yunzhou City at this moment is different from before. Surrounding the city wall, dense white felt tents are spread all around the city.
You must know that the 300,000 refugees who first arrived in Yunzhou County have already integrated into Yunzhou County during this period. The 300,000 people have successively found corresponding jobs and moved into the city. Yunzhou City It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a scene of felt tents everywhere.
But with the recruitment of refugees this year, this scene once again appeared outside Yunzhou City.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees all gathered around Yunzhou City and surrounded it tightly.
This also made Zhao Jun, who learned about the situation, understand that Yunzhou City should be expanded, otherwise the refugees recruited again and again would have no place to live.
The current recruitment of refugees has so far reached nearly 700,000. The previous recruitment of civilian husbands and escorts has continued to recruit nearly 100,000 people, but there are still nearly 600,000 people gathered outside Yunzhou City. .
It is urgent to expand Yunzhou City.
But Zhao Jun doesn't plan to use all the 600,000 people to expand Yunzhou City. He has other ideas.
First of all, there is not much land that can be cultivated in Yunzhou County. After all, the grassland here is more suitable for grazing.
Otherwise, with the population growth capacity of the Song people, 50 years would have been enough for the Song people to build many cities everywhere in Yunzhou County. The reason why this was not done is because the arable land in Yunzhou County was not enough for the Song people to build many cities here. Rapidly multiply on the grassland.
Therefore, Zhao Jun has never carried out other construction, not because he doesn't want to, but because it is not necessary.
Your newly built city has no land for people to cultivate, so the city cannot function just by grazing.
Because grazing requires living in pursuit of water and grass, it is impossible to stay in one place for a long time. This kind of life is not used to the people of the Song Dynasty. The people of the Song Dynasty prefer to live a stable life in a certain place.
But things are different now. For the refugees, they now have a new choice, and that is Nanli County!
That's right! It’s Nanli County!
Zhao Jun wanted to send most of the people to Nanli County. Most of the people in Nanli County today are local aborigines. Although Yunzhou County has captured some areas, its rule over them is not stable.
If a foreign race wants to completely occupy a new land, first of all, the population of your own race must not be small. To be able to completely suppress the local indigenous people.
Previously, Yunzhou County could only rely on the army to suppress it, but this was not possible.
This kind of increasing behavior can be carried out for a while, but it cannot be carried out for a lifetime.
When Yunzhou County is strong, there will naturally be no problems, but if it happens to be when Yunzhou County is weak and does not have enough troops to suppress the local area, then these still honest natives will definitely cause trouble.
After all, they are just outsiders and have no local roots.
But if this group of refugees were to be fleshed out, it would be completely different.
Once this group of refugees successfully establishes a foothold in the local area, it can first solve the problem of too many people and Yunzhou County cannot accommodate them. Later, it can also lay the foundation for the Song people to settle in the local area. As long as the number of Song people in the local area gradually increases, then The local people's voice in the local area will gradually become smaller.
In addition, Prince Yun's Mansion took some measures to control the population of the indigenous people, and finally reached a situation where there were more Song people than poisonous people. At that time, Yunzhou County could truly and completely control Nanli County.
Even if there is a problem with Yunzhou County's army in the future, it will not be as strong as before.
With the local support of these Song people, Zhao Jun did not have to worry about the local indigenous people causing trouble, nor would he give them the opportunity to cause trouble.
Furthermore, the current population of Nanli County is not enough to fully develop the arable land in Nanli County. Today, most of the arable land in Nanli County is still uncultivated.
Once a large number of Song people arrive in Nanli County, the remaining land can be fully developed. When the newly developed land begins to be officially produced, Yunzhou County's annual tax revenue in Nanli County can at least be doubled. !
That's not a small amount.
There are other benefits too.
Some people may say that the land in Nanli County is limited. If you send so many Song people there at once and divide the remaining land, then when the Song people settle down and start to multiply, the existing land will soon be It is no longer enough to feed the people of Song Dynasty, so what should we do now?
Zhao Jun was not worried at all about this.
No matter how fast it reproduces, as long as the pace of expansion of Yunzhou County is never faster than reproduction.
Not to mention anything else, Shen Du still has ten provinces of land waiting for Yunzhou County to attack.
At least so far, in Zhao Jun's eyes, the ten provinces in the hands of the poisonous royal family are only temporarily in their hands.
Now Yunzhou County can't control it even if it is taken, so let him continue to hold it first. When his control increases, he can take it from the other party's hand at any time.
With ten provinces as reserve land savings, Zhao Jun does not have to worry about the problem of not having land at all.
Moreover, the secret guards are not just doing it these days. After understanding the general scope of Shendu's influence, the secret guards were dispatched to explore unknown areas outside Shendu.
Under the investigation of the secret guards, Zhao Jun learned that there was not only Shendu in this land, not to mention that there were Turks bordering on the north of Shendu!
Yes, they are the Turks who disappeared in the Central Plains hundreds of years ago. After the former dynasty carried out a genocidal war against the Turks, everyone thought that the Turks had become extinct, but no one expected that there were still Turks coming. This land.
Moreover, according to the investigation, it was learned that the Turks who came here actually started farming. They no longer lived by herding and plundering as they did in the past on the grasslands around the Central Plains.
Instead, they live on this land as part-farmers and part-grazers. They have lost their previous skills and cannot even make iron tools. They are often attacked by the poisonous army and seize large tracts of land.
Although there is a large dense forest to the west of Shendu, it also has power. After investigation by the secret guard, it was discovered that one can directly reach Yelang by following this dense forest!
Where is Yelang?
It was a small country in the Western Region that was rich in gems. It was located in the most remote place in the east of the Western Region.
This poison actually borders on it. After learning this news, Zhao Jun was really shocked for a while.
But then excitement set in.
The vast unknown territory did not scare him, but instead made him feel excited!
With the advanced knowledge he brought, he was confident that he could bring these areas under his control. To him, these lands were like pieces of tempting cakes waiting for him to conquer!
Go occupy!
And now is the first step to solidify the foundation for the conquest!
Add people to Nanli County!
Thanks to the book friend, A Yang, who is a daily fisherman, for the 100 starting coins reward! Thank you, Piaoxue!
(End of chapter)
