Guo Wei issued an edict that all refugees from the north would be provided with food and humanitarian aid by the local government. Those who were willing to stay would be provided with ownerless land and exempted from rent and taxes.
Under the temptation of this policy, Han refugees in Khitan territory (especially in Youyun Sixteen Prefectures) moved their families south one after another and settled in Hebei, bringing a large population and valuable productivity to the later Zhou Dynasty.
A year later (952), serious floods occurred in Youzhou, Mozhou, and Yingzhou. Hundreds of thousands of refugees migrated south. The Khitan did not send troops to stop them and allowed these hundreds of thousands of people to move south. , Guo Wei took advantage of this opportunity and ordered the states in Hebei to make proper arrangements. According to statistics, more than half of the Han people who were kidnapped by the Khitans in previous wars took this opportunity to escape.
Guo Wei did not waste a single soldier, but achieved brilliant results that the later Jin and Han Dynasties failed to achieve even if they used hundreds of thousands of troops.
4. Hou Shu wearing shoes
Hou Shu was a rare rich man in that period. Different from the financial constraints of the above-mentioned forces, Hou Shu was extremely wealthy and had a highly developed economy. To match this, the culture was also highly prosperous.
Historical records record that "Sichuan has been peaceful for a long time. A fight of rice cost three coins. The children in the capital did not know the seedlings of soybean wheat. Gold coins were abundant. Strings and strings were chanted in the alleys. The banquet society was connected day and night."
One bucket of rice and three coins was one of the standards in the prosperous times. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, if there were no natural disasters or wars and the kings were more open-minded, the price of a bucket of rice should be around four or five qian, which was already a very ideal situation. If it could be reduced to 3 qian, it would definitely be peaceful. The standard of prosperity.
According to the "New Book of Tang", before the "An-Shi Rebellion", the price of rice nationwide was 13 qian per dou, which was considered a normal range, while in Shandong it was 3 qian per dou, reflecting that at that time the grains in Shandong were abundant and the people were striving for a well-off society.
Young people living in the city have never seen crop fields or food and vegetables other than on their plates. With material affluence, people have begun to pursue the enjoyment of the spiritual world, dancing to disco and karaoke in the streets, and drinking a few cups of wine without incident.
According to "Savage Gossip" (Northern Song Dynasty), in the territory of Houshu at that time, some urban residents in their thirties did not know how to grow wheat. Every spring and summer, people could still travel; people's clothes were also gorgeous It is grand, both the princes and nobles and the common people are all wearing silk wraps and jingle rings; the rich are already playing with yachts (Huaxuan Colorful Boat), driving yachts in Baihuatan; all the kings and heroes are there His own private garden is filled with exotic flowers and plants, and every home is a botanical garden.
As the capital city of Chengdu, hibiscus flowers are planted at the top of the city. When they bloom in autumn, they look like a beautiful flower. The Lord of Shu, Meng Chang, was extremely pleased and said to the people around him: "Chengdu has always been known as the 'Jincheng'. Looking at it today, it really is a Jincheng!"
The economic base determines the superstructure. Meng Chang issued an edict to carve the "Nine Classics" on stones to facilitate recitation. Later, Prime Minister Wu Zhaoyi used his own money to set up a school and asked the "Nine Classics" to be engraved to spread to prefectures and counties. It greatly promoted the spread and development of culture.
Meng Chang also personally wrote the "Official Admonitions", warning local officials "If you don't order to invade, don't cause devastation", "You have a salary and a salary, the people care for the people, and as a parent, you must not be merciful." Later, Zhao Kuangyin, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, picked out these two sentences as his motto. At the same time, he ordered local officials from various places to carve them on stones and put them on their desks to be alert at all times.
Hou Shu finally gave us a feeling of spring breeze. When the Central Plains region - especially the Hebei region was hit by war, Hou Shu created a paradise for us.
Of course, the powerful Hou Shu expanded externally, took advantage of the situation, annexed some of the territory under the Central Plains Dynasty, pushed the border to Dashan Pass, and tried to continue to annex Fengxiang, Chang'an, and even Tongguan. It was once ambitious to aspire to the Central Plains. However, he encountered a series of blows outside Dashan Pass. Dashan Pass became the agreed dividing line between the two sides.
In June of the second year after Guo Wei proclaimed himself emperor (952), Hou Shu suffered a rare flood. The city gates of Chengdu were washed away by the flood, thousands of people were displaced, and more than 5,000 people drowned. The Royal Ancestral Temple and Si Tianjian were also Washed away by the flood. Meng Chang issued edicts to provide relief, and sent prime ministers to Taoist temples to pray, and to disaster areas to issue edicts to punish others.
Since July, Hou Shu has been busy with disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction. In September, urgent military information came from the border: Hou Zhou assembled a large number of troops in the Guanzhong area and requested the imperial court to increase troops for assistance.
Meng Chang was shocked and quickly sent troops to Lizhou. Halfway through, I got the exact news. The next week was to attack the Northern Han Dynasty, not the Hou Shu. It was a false alarm.
At the end of this year and the beginning of the next year, there was another earthquake in Houshu.
The peace and stability of Hou Shu promoted economic prosperity and development. The painful lessons of the Great Sanguan, floods, earthquakes and other disasters made Meng Chang not keen on external expansion, which also allowed Hou Zhou to temporarily have no worries about looking to the west.
Meng Chang enjoyed this peaceful and prosperous age very much. Not surprisingly, he continued to play music and dance, and eventually lost his fortune. This is something.
5. Northwest Guzhong
Guo Yanqin, the governor of Qingzhou (now Qingyang City, Gansu Province), was corrupt and unkind, and increased taxes without permission, causing public dissatisfaction.
Fifteen miles north of Gyeongju, there is Widow Mountain. At the foot of the mountain lives a minority tribe called the Pheasant Tribe. There are prosperous sheep and horses. Guo Yanqin coveted it, so he deliberately created some frictions and conflicts, and then used mediation People's identities are extorted from them.
The Pheasant tribe has a tough folk custom and will not accept Guo Yanqin's tricks. Guo Yanqin then reported to Guo Wei that the Pheasants tribe had plundered merchants and withheld tribute, and asked the imperial court to send troops to attack.
Guo Wei sent Pizhou Jiedushi to follow Ruan, and Ningzhou governor Zhang Jianwu led his troops to the princes, and conveyed to them the highest instructions of the central government: If the Pheasant tribe repented, they would still be rewarded with official positions, gold, silver, silk and satin, and good words to appease them. If you insist on going your own way, use force to suppress it.
However, Zhang Jianwu of Ningzhou was greedy for military glory. Without finding out the truth or appeasing him, he brazenly used force to massacre hundreds of people from the Pheasant tribe, killing good people and taking credit for their crimes.
There was another tribe nearby called the Killing Niu Tribe, which had a long-standing grudge against the Pheasant Tribe. When they heard that the imperial court was coming to attack the Pheasant Tribe, they were very happy and offered good wine and meat to the king's master.
As a result, Zhang Jianwu also coveted the Niu Killers' property and plundered the Niu Killers as well. The Niu Killers were very angry, so they designed to lure Zhang Jianwu into an ambush. The ambushes came out in all directions and defeated Zhang Jianwu, losing hundreds of people.
Only Zhe, who had strict military discipline, escaped from Ruan and told the court the truth.
Guo Wei was furious and dismissed Guo Yanqin and Zhang Jianwu from their official positions.
