"Order, a brand new order!" Zhou Xing was overjoyed and kept talking: "There is still no order along the Wuchi Road. There are hundreds of large and small robber groups, sometimes hundreds of people. There are as few as dozens of people, some are seeking money, some are seeking death, some are only robbing a part, and some are robbing them all. What I have to do is to unify the standards, not to prevent the big guys from robbing again, but not to allow this kind of robbing. Fa, we need to change the way. After you join me, I will give you a certain monthly salary, and you no longer need to rob merchants. Not only will you not rob, but you will also fight against those robbers who dare to rob our designated merchants. Your children are all sent to my fief to study. If any of you are sick or injured, you can go to my fief for treatment. If any of you don't want to live in the mountains, you can also move to my fief..."
At the same time that Zhou Xing was subduing Yong Kai and others, in the easternmost part of Qingzhou, which was thousands of miles away from him, there was also a man who took his slaves by boat to a small island offshore and defected to a group of enough people. There are five hundred pirates.
He was not as verbose as Zhou Xing. He just revealed his identity as Lord Ting and showed his superb martial arts skills. The bandits all bowed down and worshiped him.
"Hahahahaha," Qingzhou Leopard King Bi laughed and said to the pirates: "Follow me, Wang Bi, and you will become a general and a marquis in the future."
Since then, Wang Bi first conquered pirates on several islands, and then began to lead this group of mainland abandoned people who had to flee to the sea for various reasons to continuously attack the counties and counties along the Qingzhou coast, and began his Years of professional rebellion.
"Father-in-law, my son-in-law has completed the statistics on the spiritual fields and monks in Shu County." Jordan's handsome face showed a tired look, but his eyes were still very firm. In these days, he took advantage of the east wind of public opinion to break through many obstacles and led his subordinates to work day and night with an unimaginable enthusiasm for work. Today, he finally completed the statistics of Shu County.
"There are 3,473 monks registered in Shu County, including two county marquises, 11 township marquises, 37 Ting marquises, and 112 Guannei marquises. The rest are not There are 1,931 male monks with titles and 1,360 female monks. According to the new measures, the above-mentioned monks should occupy a total of 43,430 acres of spiritual land. And Shu County ( cd country)’s spiritual fields amount to more than 221,300 acres, which means that the spiritual fields that can be used as well fields amount to more than 177,800 acres.”
Speaking of this, Jordan showed an excited look on his face, and his voice couldn't help but become louder. "This is such a huge number! There are so many spiritual fields in the prefectures and counties. Even if there is no need to collect taxes every year, it is enough to support the use for several years. Judging from my son-in-law's investigation over the past month, there are many spiritual fields among poor families. There are many people who fail to become monks due to lack of grain. As long as the prefectures and counties have such abundant spiritual fields, it will be easy to double the number of monks in Yizhou in the next few years. This is already the case in every Shu county. Not to mention the entire Yizhou, let alone the entire Jin Dynasty."
"Okay," Luo Shang said after hearing Jordan's description, he felt refreshed even though he had been in officialdom for a long time. For more than a month, the people who came to him to discuss matters had almost crossed the threshold of his governor's office, and these people were either his old friends or family members who were also officials. Even though he holds a high position of power, he really feels the layers of resistance. "My dear son-in-law, you have worked hard this time. With your detailed report, I think there will be more people supporting us."
"Father-in-law, I recently heard a rumor that after we built the mine field, we would let the refugees farm it."
"Humph, these are all rumors spread by people with ulterior motives." Luo Shang also heard this message recently, but he did not take any measures other than ignoring it.
"My father-in-law and my son-in-law also know that this must have been deliberately spread by someone to stop the New Deal, but now everyone outside is panicked, and everyone is saying why our spiritual fields in Shu should be cultivated by these refugees from Yongqin. According to my son-in-law, our new policy originally made many people resentful. If the factor of refugees is added to the mix, my son-in-law is worried that the subsequent work of recovering spiritual lands will be more difficult to implement. The current plan is to repatriate the refugees as soon as possible, so that Wait until the rumors are proven to be self-defeating.”
Luo Shang couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he heard Jordan's words.
There are many reasons why he did not deport the refugees.
Yizhou had just gone through Zhao Min's rebellion, the state army was in ruins, and even Yizhou's treasury was looted by the refugees. Although Li Xiang later came to complain and claimed to have returned all the weapons, armor, grain, grass, grain and other items he had robbed, these items could not be verified as the accounts had been destroyed.
It is easy to ask God but difficult to send Him away. Luo Shang had experienced the world for a long time, how could he not know that the refugees who had been living in Shu for nearly a year no longer wanted to return to Yongqin. In fact, in Luo Shang's heart, he did not agree with the repatriation of refugees. With the vast and fertile land of Liangzhou and Yizhou, and the current population of Liangzhou and Yizhou, even if there are twice as many refugees, these two states can easily accommodate them. Whether these refugees are in Yongzhou or Qinzhou or Liangzhou and Yizhou, they are all subjects of the Jin Dynasty. When he was in Liangzhou, he submitted a memorial to the imperial court, asking for permission to classify the refugees scattered in Yizhou, Liangzhou, into local households. His old boss Wang Rong supported his proposal, but King Zhao Huangfulun and Shen Xiu at the time were firmly opposed to it. Moreover, after the governors of Yong and Qin states learned of the news, they immediately impeached Luo Shang, saying that he deliberately undermined the imperial system.
Luo Shang knew in his heart that the reason those people disagreed with his proposal was not because they were destroying any court system, but because of their own interests.
Yong and Qin prefectures did not originally have a large number of households. However, they have experienced two turmoils in recent years, as well as several consecutive years of drought. The population has been dying and fleeing. Although he didn't know the specific data, he had heard people say that the existing population in some areas with serious population loss during the Yong and Qin Dynasties was only one-tenth of what it was when the Jin Dynasty was first established. Changing places, if he were the governor of Yongzhou in Qinzhou, he would never allow his exiled refugees to completely become registered households in other states.
Forcibly repatriating refugees is not easy!
Last time, he followed the plan of Yan Shi, a refugee, and asked the Yong and Qin states to send their own people to take back their respective refugees. There was another quarrel at the court, and finally, on the grounds that the Yong and Qin states were now sparsely populated, he Let him be in charge of repatriating refugees from Yizhou and Liangzhou, which gave Luo Shang a headache.
We know our own difficulties best.
The refugees were really forced to rebel, and with Yizhou's current dilapidated military strength, victory or defeat was still a matter of uncertainty. What's more, among the refugees there is a hero like Li Xiang who is very popular among the refugees.
If it were not for Li Xiang, the refugees would be nothing but scattered sand. Naturally, Luo Shang would send people to forcibly repatriate these refugees without any hesitation. But Li Xiang has been doing things for so long that most of the refugees are willing to accept him as their master. Especially after Li Xiang defeated Zhao Min and looted the CD, the refugees who defected to him gathered around him like thousands of people returning to the sea. The number of refugees in his Mianzhu camp more than doubled than before.
The guest overpowers the host!
His long history, Song Kuo, once suggested to him that he should imitate the story of Shang Gaozu's capture of Chu King Han Xin, summon Li Xiang and other refugee leaders when he went to Dujiangyan to watch the water, and then capture them all in one fell swoop. In this way, the refugees would naturally be leaderless. Not enough to be afraid of.
However, when the matter came to a head, Luo Shang did not break the cup as a sign and let the warriors who were ambushing around swarm him. Instead, he and Li Xiang traveled together and had a good time.
"In my life, I, Luo Shang, have the most admiration for the former Lord Shu Shang and Zhuge Wuhou. In life and work, integrity should be the basis. I, Luo Shang, disdain such conspiracy."
"I don't know who spread this rumor. It is really vicious." Luo Shang sighed in his heart. Now that things have happened, he can no longer hesitate. I hope Li Xiang can be grateful for having supported the refugees in Shu for more than a year, and can return to his hometown with a clear understanding of justice.
"Deng'er, go and summon Chen Sima. Pass my order and order the refugees to pack up and prepare to return home. Anyone who doesn't obey this order will be killed!"
But in the Mianzhu refugee camp, Li Te was eating with his family. When he received the order just given by Luo Shang, his expression changed drastically and the bamboo chopsticks in his hands fell to the ground.
As mentioned earlier, Li Xiang and the others are descendants of the Ba people. When the State of Ba was destroyed by the State of Chu, the land of Ba returned to Chu. Later, the Qin State first destroyed the Shu State, and then occupied Ba Di, and established Shu County to control the people of the original Shu State and Ba State. Later, after the former Shang Emperor and other princes destroyed the Qin Kingdom, he was sealed in Hanzhong by the Chu Overlord. Later, when Shang Gaozu and Chu Overlord were fighting for the world, almost all the men over the age of fifteen in every household of their Ba people fought for Shang Gaozu, and they were famous for being brave and not afraid of death. According to the legend passed down through generations in Li Xiang's family, the Ba Kingdom has been living in Badi for more than 600 years. The Chu people were greedy for the richness of Ba land, and they had been at war with Ba country for many years. Although the people of Ba are brave and good at fighting, Chu is a big country. Chu's repeated defeats are not hurt, but Ba's defeat will never gain the upper hand again. After more than two hundred years of war and peace between the two countries, the Ba State was finally destroyed by the Chu State. So when Shang Gaozu fought against the Chu Overlord, the original people of Ba joined Shang Gaozu's army to fight the Chu army with the determination to avenge their past humiliation. Finally, when Shang Gaozu unified the world, the Ba people made great contributions and ordered Badi to never pay taxes. It is also said that Shang Gaozu liked the dances and songs of the Ba people the most. After he conquered the world, he specially asked Yuefu to go to Badi to learn Ba people. People's dance songs and then often perform them to themselves.
This is the history that the Ba people talk about the most, and they have always been proud of it.
At the end of the Shang Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the only areas that never paid taxes were Bajun and Peixian, the hometown of Shang Gaozu.
In their view, they were the closest disciples of Emperor Liu of the Great Shang family.
After Shang Zhaolie re-erected the banner of Great Shang in Shu, the people of Badi had huge differences. Some people say that the Shang Dynasty was still in Shangluo, and the one in cd was rebellious. But some people say that the Great Zhou Dynasty is about to usurp Houshang. It is simply known to everyone. As the closest disciples of the Liu family of the great businessman, we should work hard for the Liu family clan in CD. The business has been in the world for more than four hundred years, and the Liu family has never treated us Ba people badly, so naturally we Ba people cannot let down the old Liu family.
Some of the Ba people finally chose to fight for the Shu merchants, and some, like Li Xiang's great-grandfather, chose to join Emperor Wu of Zhou. Of course, more people are drifting and fighting for whoever occupies Badi.
"You must keep in mind the history of our Ba people and the Li family, and understand that the imperial court in the Central Plains is extremely powerful, and it is far beyond what we Ba people can fight against. We Ba people are brave and good at fighting, but our numbers are just this small. Compared with the Central Plains, It’s just like a drop in the ocean. No matter what time, don’t go against the court and uphold the concept of loyalty.”
Li Xiang's great-grandfather first led more than 500 tribesmen from Bajun to Hanzhong during the chaos of the Zhou, Shang and Wu Kingdoms. During the war between Zhou, Shang and Hanzhong, his great-grandfather chose to defect to the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains and was worshiped as a general by Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty, Sima Cao. After Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty failed in the Hanzhong War, he moved these people to Lueyang.
Whenever businessmen from Yongzhou and Qinzhou disdainfully call them Badi, they will retort: You are the Qiang Di, and your whole family is Qiang Di! We are from Ba, and we are the soldiers of the great merchants.
However, these were of no use. People there still called them this way. By the time Li Xiang arrived, even the original Ba people who had moved far away and lived for hundreds of years all accepted the title of Ba Di.
We are not Di people, we are Ba people!
Li Xiang has always been full of resentment towards Ba Di's title.
The Ba State was a vassal state of the Yin royal family at that time. Not to mention the Chu State and the Qin State, which had nothing to do with the Yin royal family, even the Qi State and the Wu State were not as good as the Ba State and the Qin State. Da Yin's relationship is close. According to what the elders of Li Te's family have said since ancient times, the body-refining techniques he practiced came from the Yin royal family. Although the Li family is not the direct descendant of Bawang's royal family, they are also descendants of Bawang's royal family.
Although Da Yin has been dead for more than 600 years, and although it has been almost 1,500 years since the Ba Kingdom was enfeoffed, Li Xiang has always been proud of being a descendant of the Da Yin royal family.
The reason why he made up his mind not to return to Lueyang County in Qinzhou was not only due to the water, soil and climate there, but also this was more important.
I cannot let my descendants be regarded as barbaric and backward Di people in a few years. We are the descendants of the noble Ba people, not the descendants of the Di barbarians who were simply uncivilized in the eyes of Da Yin.
He knew in his heart that no matter who you were, as long as you were born in Lueyang, no matter who your ancestors were, you would be despised as a Di person. Even if those people know that you are not a traitor, the advantages you talk about are in vain.
You are barbarians, rubes, and uncivilized people!
If you don’t say so, you won’t be happy. As long as I am happy, I don't care whether you are a traitor or a country bumpkin. And the more you say this, the blusher you blush, the happier he becomes and the more he likes to say this.
Di dog, wild pig, these are the two words that the descendants of the Ba people in Lueyang hear most often when they argue with others.
Li Xiang often thought that if he was really a descendant of the Di barbarians, he would admit it. But I really am not a descendant of Di barbarians!
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