Because he had been in the capital for many years, when the refugees heard that the imperial court had appointed a new governor of Yizhou, many people asked him to come and find out whether the imperial court had any new policies for the refugees. So, he came here.
To Ma Yuan's left stood a sixth-grade monk dressed as a scribe in a green brocade robe. This man was young, handsome and handsome, with a face like a crown jewel, but the arrogance on his face made people afraid to get close to him. His name was Qiao Deng, and he was the great-grandson of Qiao Zhou, the most famous scholar in Shu. He was less than twenty years old when he was hired as his boss by Zhao Min, the governor of Yizhou who had just arrived in Shu.
Jordan originally looked down upon this Yizhou governor who came from a poor family and spent a lot of money to buy him through Shen Xiu's family, but this man actually hired him with generous gifts. He really couldn't shirk it, so he reluctantly became Zhao Min's master is thin. A few days ago, the governor came to report that the imperial court had recruited Zhao Yu, the governor of Yizhou, to come to the capital for the Great Changqiu period, and appointed Cui Can from the Boling Cui family as the new governor of Yizhou.
After learning that Cui Can was about to arrive at Jiange, more than a thousand civil and military officials from Yizhou discussed going to the junction of Yizhou and Liangzhou to welcome the newly appointed envoy of Yizhou.
According to the laws of the Jin Dynasty, officials do not cross the line. This Jiange belongs to Liangzhou, and officials from Yizhou are not allowed to cross the border to Liangzhou to greet their envoys. Jordan was able to come here because he resigned as governor of Yizhou first. With the reputation of his Qiao family in Yizhou and his talent as a sixth-grade monk before the age of twenty, he was recommended by more than a thousand colleagues to come to Jiange to welcome Cui Can.
The Bolingcui family is one of the eight most famous wealthy families in the Jin Dynasty. Jordan and others had admired the Central Plains since childhood. Now that he thought about meeting the governor of Yizhou who came from a wealthy family like the Bolingcui family, his always proud face could not help but show a look of fascination.
Ma Yuan is an old man here, so he naturally knows that the person next to him does not seem to have any official position now, but there is no guarantee that he will rise to the top as soon as he meets the new governor.
The Qiao family in Shuzhong has an unparalleled reputation in Shu. Both Qiao Zhou and his son were great Confucian scholars. More than half of the officials and celebrities from Shu had listened to the lectures of Qiao and his son at Qiao's house. Their network of contacts was unparalleled.
For such a famous person from a famous family, Ma Yuan treated him wholeheartedly, but the other party ignored him and looked disgusted.
But even so, although Ma Yuan was depressed, he was happy with it. This is the current atmosphere of the Jin Dynasty, and this is the style of celebrities. Anyone who behaves like Jordan is called a celebrity. Don't bend down for the rich and powerful, don't look at the other person's identity, just look at whether you can see through the world and live freely in the world. What Ma Yuan didn't know was that the more humble he was in front of Jordan, the more Jordan looked down on him. Not because of his origin, but because of his vulgarity.
Ma Yuan is just a layman.
He treated Jordan with great hospitality, and after many pleas, Jordan reluctantly picked up a brush and wrote for him. This made Ma Yuan feel like he had found a valuable treasure. After it dried, he carefully collected it and said that he would hang it in his home in the future so that his descendants could admire the handwriting of celebrities.
Not to mention that he was just a guard general at Jiange Pass, he was also a prefect, governor and even a town general. He greeted these celebrities in advance and saw them off without daring to show any slights.
It was already past July, and the weather was no longer so hot. Among these mountains, gusts of mountain wind blow continuously, making people not feel the sweltering heat at all.
Ma Yuan and Jordan just stood there, not talking, just looking at the distance of the mountain road.
Finally, at the far corner of this mountain road, a group of figures began to flash out. The leading knight held up a golden gilt scepter with one hand. The top of the scepter was inlaid with a round white jade ball, and under the ball was tied a string of beads of different colors. Another knight following this knight held a flag with several large characters written on it: Cui Shi, governor of Yizhou. There were also some knights holding evasive and solemn flags to guide the way. In this winding mountain road, this team seemed to be extremely large and long.
"Jiange guard Ma Yuan, Yizhou monk Qiaoden, and Qinzhou monk Li Yang respectfully welcome the envoy!" When the two of them saw the team approaching, they bowed to the middle-aged man in a green-covered car. Salute.
"Yizhou monk Qiaoden?" Cui Can in the car heard the two introductions and said with a smile: "Qiao Guanglu of Shu County (Qiao Guanglu presented to Doctor Guanglu) who are you?"
"It is my great-grandfather."
"It turns out you are really a queen from a famous family. No wonder you are so handsome and talented." Cui Can said happily: "Are you a descendant of Qiao Taizhong (Qiao Xi's official gift to Taizhong), or Qiao Zitong (Qiao Den once served as Zitong's prefect)? people?"
"Taizhong is my grandfather."
"My father was a minister in the same court as Taizhong. He respected his ancestors very much and often asked me to worship him. Jordan, if you don't mind, you can call me uncle Shi in private."
"The elder's order, I don't dare to say anything." Jordan said, bowing to the ground again, and sang in a clear voice again: "My nephew Jordan has met Uncle Cui Shi."
"Okay, nephew, come, I will introduce you to my family members." Cui Can laughed and walked out of the car, leading Jordan to introduce them one by one. Ma Yuan, who was watching on the side, was very excited.
"This is Wang Zhan, the governor of Jianwei, who comes from the royal family of Jinyang."
"I've met Governor Wang."
"This is my chief minister Geng Mi."
"I've met Geng Changshi."
"This is my Sima Yuchun."
"I met Yu Sima."
"This is my son Cui Ye."
"I've met Brother Cui Shi."
Just as Jordan was greeting everyone one by one, two girls got out of a beautiful car behind the team and stopped to look at him. The two of them were pointing at him while still playing and laughing.
Although Jordan is young, he is already a sixth-grade monk and has very sharp ears. Looking up following the voice, I couldn't see the two girls in the distance. One was as beautiful and refined as an orchid in the valley, and the other was as gorgeous as a dewy peony. They had different delicate faces and different beauties.
"One over there is the little girl Cui Wen, and the other one is from the Wang family in Jinyang, named Wang Tianyun."
At this moment, Jordan's heart was pounding.
At this moment, he couldn't help but secretly chant the poem he had learned since childhood:
Guan Guan Jujiu, in the river island.
A graceful lady, a gentleman is fond of quarrels.
Ma Yuan, the guard of Jiange, diligently took care of everyone. He had already sent people to clean up the pavilions in Guan Nei. After Cui Can and others had lunch, everyone went into different pavilions to rest for a while before continuing on their way.
"Li Yang, why are you here?" Cui Can was familiar with this palace tiger when he was a censor in Shangluo. He knew very well about this person's cultivation.
"Replying to your Majesty, I am here specifically for the refugees. I don't know how you made it all the way. What do you think of us refugees from other states?"
Another thing Cui Can did when he went to Yizhou this time was to deal with the refugees who were widely scattered in Liangzhou, Yizhou. Since four years ago, Western soil has suffered from successive years of severe drought, with many places experiencing almost no harvest. A large number of hungry people begged for food, eventually leading to riots. This riot started in April of the third year of Yonghe, and was put down in October by the troops sent by Zhao Wang Huangfulun, who was still guarding Chang'an at the time. It's just that the refugee issue has remained unresolved.
Since the war, the Shang world has been in chaos, and it has developed into three parts of the world. Yizhou and Liangzhou belong to the Shu Shang Kingdom, which was separatist in Western Shu at that time. The Shu merchants and the Zhou Dynasty had been fighting for many years, and the residents of Hanzhong were either killed in the battle or moved to other areas by the two sides. To this day, the population of Liangzhou has been greatly reduced compared to the post-Shang period.
Most of the refugees who came here were like Li Yang, and many of their ancestors actually migrated or fled from Hanzhong back then. Although almost a hundred years have passed, when I return again, the scenery is still different. For these refugees, the locals in Liangzhou were relatively enthusiastic at first. After all, many of them were also former locals. After escaping to this point, everyone helped them get through the difficulties a little bit.
But no one can stand the thought of these refugees staying here for a year without any intention of returning. And because these refugees live here, they are particularly united and strong. Whenever there was a dispute with the locals, these refugees would unite with the outside world, but suppressed the locals so that they did not dare to move.
Originally, these refugees were only in Hanzhong, and were prohibited by the imperial court from passing through Jiange Pass. But at the beginning of the third year of Yongtai, the imperial court sent an envoy to inspect the situation of the refugees. The envoy was bribed by the refugees, and finally reported that there were hundreds of thousands of refugees, and Hanzhong alone could not support them. So, when this report was submitted, the imperial court decided to allow the refugees to pass through Jiange to beg for food in Yizhou.
Then, a series of coups took place in Shangluo, and the matter was delayed. After Zhao Wang Huangfulun was ousted, Qi Wang Huangfu Ji took the lead in assisting the government, and the problem of refugees from the two states arose again.
Needless to say, Shu is rich. Even Hanzhong has a mild climate and fertile land. In addition, many of the refugees were originally natives of Liangzhou. Over time, many of these people did not want to return to Yongzhou and Qinzhou.
It's just that the population of Yongzhou and Qinzhou has dropped sharply after several years of severe drought and the Qi Wannian Rebellion. The governors and county guards of these two states could not bear to have no one under their control. They repeatedly requested that the people living in Yizhou be removed. The refugees in Liangzhou were repatriated back to their hometown.
Cui Can knows all this very well.
The imperial court has made a decision that since the severe drought in Yongzhou and Qinzhou has passed, these refugees should return to their place of origin. When he passed through Nanzheng, Luo Shang, the governor of Liangzhou, had already begun to repatriate the refugees scattered throughout Liangzhou. The first thing Cui Can did when he arrived in Shu was to repatriate the refugees scattered in Yizhou.
Repatriating the refugees and winning over the local people's hearts is a matter of killing two birds with one stone. Why not do it?
In his opinion, the refugees have been begging for food in Liangzhou and Yizhou for more than a year, and they should be grateful. Taking advantage of the fact that summer has just passed, we can return to our original location in time. If the speed is fast, it will be just in time for winter sowing, and there will be a harvest the next year.
Every time he thought about this, Cui Can felt that he had a heavy responsibility and needed to get the refugees back on their feet as soon as possible. Otherwise, winter sowing will be delayed and a year's harvest will be lost.
But Li Yang's relatives who have lived here for a long time don't think so.
Although Li Yang has been back for less than a month, he has already learned about the specific situation of the refugees.
Although it has been more than fifty years since the Jin Dynasty pacified Shu, the population of Yizhou and Liangzhou is still so sparse compared to the Post-Shang Dynasty. The refugees have taken root here and have begun to open up wasteland, farm, get married and have children. The climate here is far better than that in Yongzhou and Qinzhou. The vast majority of refugees have gone through the most difficult period and are unwilling to return to their hometown.
According to Li Yang's eldest brother Li Xiang, we are all citizens of the Jin Dynasty. Wherever we go, we are not paying taxes and serving the Jin Dynasty. So many refugees, who had gone through untold hardships and traveled thousands of miles to come to Liangzhou, Yizhou and other places, finally settled down. Why do we have to travel thousands of miles to support the elderly and children back to their hometown? So many people had already died when we came here, and we don't know how many more people will die on our return trip.
When he came this time, one of the plans Li Xiang discussed with him was to ask the court to allow them to return to their homeland of Badi Danqu. In their opinion, this request is not excessive at all. Danqu is their hometown, not Lueyang.
And the more important thing is that Li Yang believed that the King of Qi could not help the government for a long time if he was not related to the clan, and Shangluo would be in chaos again. Yizhou, Liangzhou and other places are separated by mountains and are really good places to take refuge.
This is the ultimate goal of their brothers. As long as it lasts another year and a half, no one can move them away.
Cui Can didn't know these thoughts in the minds of Li Yang brothers, but he had experienced the world for a long time and knew that this matter could not be delayed any longer. Now there is such a big resistance, if we delay any longer, everyone will be able to solve it.
"Li Yang, you also served in the imperial court before. You should know that since the imperial court has made a final decision, this matter cannot be changed." Cui Can directly refused Li Yang's suggestion to move to Danqu, "I heard that your brother These people have a high reputation among the refugees, and they should assist the court in the relocation work. There are laws in the country, and merit will be rewarded. You know this best. As long as the refugees can be successfully relocated back to their original place, it will be a great achievement. . This government will report the truth to the court when the time comes and reward you for your contribution."
"As for what you said about worrying about the old, weak, sick and disabled, I will allocate some manpower and materials to you as appropriate. You and others are also citizens of the Jin Dynasty, and the court does not want to lose each of you. Please, please Please explain to everyone. It's already July now, and the sooner you leave, the more advantageous it will be. Li Yang, you go back and prepare quickly. After this is over, I want to hire you as my tooth guard."
Seeing Li Yang leaving, Cui Can pondered for a while and then asked someone to call Jordan in.
"My dear nephew, you are from Shu. You may understand the situation of the refugees in Shu."
When Jordan heard this, his spirits were lifted. He was a precocious young man, and his family was full of people. He was surrounded by important people in Shu. He could be said to know everything about Shu.
"Your Majesty, the specific situation of the refugees is this." Jordan kept talking as soon as he spoke, "Because they migrated from other places, in order to protect their own interests from being infringed by the locals, they are basically They form camps to protect themselves. Some of them are seventy or eighty families together, and some of them are thousands of people. Each camp has a leader, who is usually a big family in Qinzhou, the original Yongzhou. Many of them have served as court officials and have great reputations. It’s very widespread. In addition to the food distributed by the state and county, their daily diet consists of fishing, hunting and picking wild fruits and vegetables.”
7017k
