Zhang Xi is so worried because his daughter is getting married.
Now, it is already the autumn of the fourth year of Jianxing.
After two consecutive years of recuperation, Guanzhong has finally gradually restored people's livelihood.
Youfufeng has basically returned to its heyday in Guanzhong. Both its population and taxation have returned to the level when Cao Cao governed Guanzhong.
Zuo Fengyi's farm work is also going very well.
Part of the land transferred to Jingzhou and the Yizhou family has now begun to establish a foundation. Due to the restrictions of the fish scale atlas, it is already very difficult for the family to hide Dingkou.
The number of farmers has increased from 100,000 two years ago to 200,000 today.
Of the extra 100,000 people, about half were hidden Dingkou released from aristocratic families in Jingzhou and Yizhou. Under the escort of the imperial court, they came to Chang'an to make a living as farmers.
After all, Chang'an's farming system is four citizens and six citizens, which is more conscientious than Cao Wei's. Although the land is still not their own, they can at least survive.
The remaining half is somewhat risky.
The climate from Guanzhong to Beidi has become increasingly colder in the past two years, and there have been snowstorms for two consecutive years.
The Guanzhong land is further south, and Zhang Xi made a lot of preparations for disaster preparedness early in the morning. Finally, the big disaster in the first year of Jianxing was not repeated, and the snow disaster was successfully overcome.
But the life of the barbarians on the grassland was very difficult.
In the past two years, the northwest region has been unstable. The Hu people near Qinzhou and Liangzhou have been going back and forth. Without rebellion and plunder, they simply cannot survive.
At this time, Xu Miao, who was the governor of Liangzhou, came up with an idea. Together with Jiang Xu, the governor of Qinzhou, he wrote to the court and carried out a migration of the foreign barbarians in the two states.
The destination of migration is Yongzhou.
In other words, some Hu people were allowed to come to Yongzhou to work as farmers.
On the one hand, it is due to the security needs of the northwest region.
Regardless of whether it is Qinzhou or Liangzhou, after hundreds of years of fighting with foreign races, it has long been that you have me, and I have you.
To give a simple example, in Wudu County next door to Hanzhong, except for Bian County, the rest of the counties are surrounded by Qiang and Di tribes, and Didao leads directly to the settlements of the Hu people. There are countless Qiang people, Di people, and even Xianbei tribes that have migrated over in the past ten years.
The same situation also exists in Longxi County and Nan'an County in Qinzhou.
Not to mention Liangzhou, where Han and Hu people basically live together.
There were so many barbarians living in the prefectures and counties, and there had been natural disasters in the past two years, Xu Miao was really worried.
This is a real rebellion by the Hu people, endangering the situation of the state and county.
Therefore, Xu Miao wrote to the court and suggested that the Hu people be moved to Guanzhong. On the one hand, they could be collectively controlled. On the other hand, Yongzhou was short of people to farm. Other Hu people might not be able to farm, but the Qiang and Xianbei people , in fact, there is still a certain amount of farming genes.
Especially the Qiang people, who account for the majority of the Hu people in the two states. They have lived together with the Han people for too long, and they also know how to farm. In addition, it is said that the Qiang people are the descendants of Emperor Yan, and they can be regarded as half of their own family. This kind of The tradition of farming has not been lost.
After these foreign barbarians entered Guanzhong, they could obtain subsistence food every year by farming, which was better than grazing in the northwest.
Moreover, once these Hu people accept this farming lifestyle, after a few generations and intermarrying with the Han people, will they still be considered Hu people? It is estimated that they themselves will not admit it by then.
Xu Miao's strategy, to a certain extent, is to eliminate internal hidden dangers and at the same time increase the labor force of Dingkou in Yongzhou. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
The only drawback is that Zhang Xi wrote a letter against it.
Yes, Yongzhou is short of Dingkou, but we can't use barbarians to make up the number.
Not to mention how long it takes to teach these Hu people to farm, and how long it takes to let them develop an identity. Just say that now, if you gather more than 50,000 Hu people in the Zuofengyi area, he itself is a hidden danger.
Don't forget, Zuo Fengyi faced Cao Wei's threat of harassment.
The new king of Cao Wei, Cao Rui, has been in power for almost two years. The domestic political situation has basically stabilized and a smooth transition of power has been achieved. Before the autumn of the third year of Jianxing, he once again launched an attack on Guanzhong. The fourth year of Jianxing was updated. It does not stop for a year.
To some extent, Cao Rui is much more difficult to deal with than his father Cao Pi.
Although Yongzhou has not had a major war in the past two years, it has only been fighting small battles. Small-scale battles on the border have almost never stopped. It is not a quiet time for itself. Why did you send so many barbarians over? !
Moreover, you have left so many foreign people to migrate to Guanzhong to live together with the Han people, and all kinds of cultural differences and contradictions are left to me, the Yongzhou Governor's Office. Isn't it a bit too much? !
What if this intensifies the conflict between Han and Hu and causes internal chaos? !
Aren’t you leaving the problems that Liangzhou and Qinzhou should face to me, Yongzhou, to solve?
Therefore, Zhang Xi sincerely wrote a letter against this matter.
But unfortunately, Zhuge Liang rejected Zhang Xi's petition, and took advantage of the situation and wrote a letter to Zhang Xi explaining the reasons.
The 50,000 Qiang and Hu aliens are really not a hidden danger in Zuo Fengyi's territory. With just such a small number of people, even if they rebel collectively, they are not a big threat.
Moreover, the fact that these foreign races are willing to travel across mountains and rivers to leave the grasslands and abandon their long-standing survival mode to enter Guanzhong as farmers means that they are not actually willing to fight the big men.
As long as Zhang Xi can guarantee their survival, they will not rebel.
As for teaching foreigners to farm, this is not a troublesome matter in this era. In the eyes of foreigners, it is even a great gift.
Today's era is the era of the Han people.
Although the Han people themselves tore the country into pieces, they still mainly suppressed the surrounding foreign races. Therefore, the foreign races in this era generally do not have any sense of superiority and feel that their way of life is amazing.
The people of Changshengtian had their backbone broken by Emperor Xiaowu a long time ago, and they were unable to get up from lying down.
Besides, anyone with a discerning eye can see at a glance that the farming technology of the Han people is obviously more advantageous than the herding technology of the Hu people in fighting natural disasters. It takes several years for a sheep to grow up, which is enough time for the Han people to harvest several crops of grain. Yes.
It’s not that the Hu people don’t want to farm, it’s that they don’t know how to farm. If a Han people were willing to teach them farming, they would be eager to give up their current way of life immediately and change to the same farming life as the Han people.
This is also the most important reason why Zhuge Liang was called "Zhuge Grandpa" in the Nanzhong region in history.
It wasn't Zhuge Liang who conquered all the people in Nanzhong. The most important reason was that Zhuge Liang taught the Yi people farming skills in Nanzhong, which allowed the people of Nanzhong to survive. Therefore, he has been grateful for thousands of years.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang felt that although it was somewhat risky to allow the Hu people to move inland to Guanzhong, as long as they were dealt with appropriately and changed their way of life and no longer existed in a tribal situation, then moving inland to enrich the population would not be a bad thing.
As for the conflicts caused by cultural differences, in Zhuge Liang's opinion, Zhang Xi is completely overthinking.
When will foreigners really raise their heads on the territory of the Han people? As long as Zhang Xi treats them a little better and treats things a little more fairly, that will be enough for them to be grateful. Why do they care about cultural differences? !
After reading Zhuge Liang's letter of explanation, Zhang Xi suddenly realized that this era was not the era of equality in later generations. Being able to treat the foreign races of this era as human beings was already considered an advancement of the times.
Originally, after seeing this letter, Zhang Xi had no objection to Zhuge Liang. After all, Zhuge Liang had already considered it very comprehensively.
But the problem is that this Zhuge Shiyutou changed the subject on the last page of the letter and actually asked about his stepson Zhuge Qiao's living situation in Chang'an.
Originally, this was considered normal. Although Zhuge Qiao was not Zhuge Liang's biological child, he was the heir to the Zhuge family. It made sense for Zhuge Liang to care about his stepson's life.
Not to mention that Zhuge Liang talked about business first, and then mentioned his son a little after finishing the business.
But the problem is, when Zhuge Liang asks how his son is doing, he can write a private message to Zhuge Qiao himself, and there is no need to go through Zhang Xi's roundabout way of asking.
Zhuge Liang wrote such a letter to Zhang Xi. On the one hand, he hoped that Zhang Xi would stand in Zhuge Qiao's position and evaluate Zhuge Qiao's work in the past few years. On the other hand, Zhuge Liang was reminding Zhang Xi not to forget This is the agreement we made when we left Chengdu.
Qiaoer is already 23 this year, and your daughter Xiaoxuaner is almost 18 this year. Should there be some explanation? !
There should be a conclusion as to whether these two children will be successful, otherwise it will be a delay for both children.
And when talking about this matter, Zhang Xi is really worried.
Although Zhuge Qiao's abilities were a little immature, he was delicate and considerate. He deeply trusted Jiang Wan and recommended him to Zhang Xi several times, but was always suppressed by Zhang Xi.
To be honest, Zhang Xi also admires Zhuge Qiao's temperament. After all, his way of doing things is very suitable for Zhang Xi. He never makes decisions without authorization and always considers a few more steps when encountering things. With Zhang Xi's The way of thinking is simply outrageous.
But... who makes this guy think about his daughter?
But the problem is, I can suppress Zhuge Qiao and continue to train at the grassroots level for a while, but I can't suppress my daughter's heart.
This girl, I guess, I scolded her a little bit two years ago, but she actually restrained herself a little, knowing to avoid suspicion.
But this awareness is limited after all.
In the past two years, this girl has been hanging around Zhuge Qiao a lot. She just knows how to bring a maid to avoid suspicion. Once it comes to spring outings or lantern festivals, she will definitely ask Zhuge Qiao to play together.
It happened that Sun Shangxiang publicly supported this matter, and because Zhang Xi had told Sun Shangxiang his attitude in private before, he wanted to lose face and regret it. As a result, the relationship between this girl and Zhuge Qiao caused a commotion in Chang'an City. Almost no one knows it.
Half of the city of Chang'an is looking forward to the two of them getting married. At that time, Zhang Xi, the governor of Liangzhou, is not allowed to open the flowing water banquet. Can everyone take the opportunity to have a meal? !
It can be said that under the current situation, it is impossible for Zhang Xi to want Xiao Xuan'er to marry Zhuge Qiao.
And there is a saying that in the past two years, Zhuge Qiao has been traveling around Guanzhong to repair water conservancy facilities. He has become a lot more pragmatic and lacks the temperament of a handsome young man, but his physical fitness is getting better and better.
He goes on inspections in the countryside without riding a car. He either rides a horse or walks. He is better than Zhang Xi, a "warrior" who rides a car when he goes out.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like you are in poor health.
After much deliberation, on the one hand, it was her daughter's thoughts, and on the other hand, she was forced by the situation. Zhang Xi had to write a reply to Zhuge Liang, asking Zhuge Liang to ask someone to choose an auspicious date for the marriage of the two children.
But Zhang Xi insisted on one thing.
After the marriage, Zhuge Qiao must still serve in Chang'an. Even if Zhuge Liang wants to transfer Zhuge Qiao, it must be approved by Zhang Xi.
God knows if this kid will have any accidents in the future. If he stays in Chang'an and is under Zhang Xi's nose, if serious illness or accidents happen, at least there will be Wei Xun who can save his life in time.
Zhang Xi didn't want her daughter to lose her husband at such a young age.
(End of chapter)
