On the grassland to the west of Zhangye City, there are two huge military camps. The white domes are illuminated by the rising sun, glowing with a dazzling halo.
Two days ago, the follow-up army escorted more than 200,000 people from the grassland to this place, but this was only their temporary stop. The government had to screen them here first, and then relocate them to various counties in Liangzhou.
It is inevitable that the old man cannot find his children, the husband cannot find his wife and children, and the wife and children cannot find their husband and father. Before going south, Yang Ji divided these people into two parts: one part was the surrendered soldiers and their families in the Great Lakes area, and the other part was the East Turkic prisoners; the former, when they were resting in Wulan Lake, had been divided according to tribes. After arriving here, as long as the soldiers who are about to go to the fields search according to tribes, they will find their relatives; the latter is even simpler, go south At that time, they "marched" as a family unit, so there was no case of any relatives getting lost.
The left camp here was to house the people of the Great Lakes area in tribal units. The situation was more complicated, so Yang Ji put Yang Shidao, who had been an official for many years, in charge. The right camp was for the Turks in household units. It was relatively simple, so Du Ruhui was in charge.
"These students still lack experience!" Yang Ji, who was wearing regular uniforms, led a brigade of elite cavalry to inspect the camp. He looked at the busy scribes and said to Yang Shanhui beside him.
These scribes who are doing their own thing are students from Liangzhou University. They were sent here by Yang Ji three days ago to help and train them. Because in Yang Ji's view, if students don't have practical talents, no matter how good they are at studying, they are not qualified to be officials. For example, Xue Daoheng is the most typical example; Xue Daoheng was knowledgeable, well-informed, and had unique insights into the political situation, but when he was a local official, he handled simple things in a mess. Yang Jianjing said he was The world-famous poet and calligrapher was transferred to the court. From then on, there was an additional poet and an idealist above the court.
"Take your time, there will always be some practical talents!" Yang Shanhui was more open-minded. He smiled and comforted: "We do not have the power to appoint state officials. Even county-level officials only have the right to recommend. As long as Liangzhou It is enough for the university to produce some talents from counties and villages. But what we lack are not the officials who work at the grassroots level?"
Yang Ji was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "That's right."
"Your Majesty, Chang Shi!" Yang Shidao came on horseback. When he got close, he slowed down his horse and saluted Yang Ji. Then he took out a thick list of names from his horse bag and said, "To your Majesty, the population of Zuoying has been The statistics are about 90%. This is the list, please take a look at it, Your Majesty."
"No need!" Yang Ji shook his head and asked, "What's the situation here? How did you arrange it?"
"Basically, areas are arranged together by tribes, and each area is divided into countless communities. There are fifty households in each community. Each community elects an elder to maintain order, and is assigned a student and a fire soldier. "Yang Shidao said: "In other words, the people in each community will live in one or two townships in a certain county in the future."
"How is the food situation?" Food consumption has been staggering in the past few days, so the issue of eating is Yang Ji's biggest concern.
As for the tents, there are a lot of them, because when they attacked Murongbei and Ashinaqilifushu this time, they captured more than 500,000 tents. Only one roll of these tents can be placed on a cart or a horse. Very convenient. After that, two caps will be given to each household, allowing them to use them as a temporary home or house after they arrive at the place, and local officials will help build it.
The remaining tents will be stockpiled as strategic materials.
Yang Shidao said: "The people here come from the Great Lakes area, and their young men are on the Turkic side and have made contributions to our Sui Dynasty, so they can all have enough to eat. However, the people in Youying come from the Turks, so it is impossible to eat enough. It can only be said that they will not die of hunger. This division can sustain the people of the two camps for about half a year."
"This method is feasible, let's do it like this." Yang Ji breathed a sigh of relief. The food allocated was already at its limit. Although it was still enough to cope with the current situation, even if the food and grass were turned into actual labor force through the work-for-relief method, But it will not increase the amount of food. It is best to evacuate these people to the states as soon as possible, and let the state official warehouses share the pressure of the state pastoral government. This can save Ganzhou's food and save the state transportation. Food support transportation capacity.
Yang Shidao glanced at Yang Ji and said worriedly: "The people here are very much looking forward to their new identities. When their relatives came to the camp to get together, their emotions became stable. But according to Du Ming, the three young men in the right camp Five groups gathered together to chat, and he was worried that the Turks would gather to make trouble while they had nothing to do. This was one of them."
"Secondly, the living conditions are relatively crowded now, and these people are not as disciplined as the people of the Sui Dynasty. They are prone to competing for food, spreading diseases, extortion and other bad phenomena. We all hope to evacuate these people as soon as possible."
"Then evacuate Zuoying first!" Yang Ji said to Yang Shanhui: "Divide Zuoying into three parts. Dunhuang County and Changle County of Guazhou will each place one part, and Rouyuan County of Yizhou will place one part. Let Xue Ju and Po Chaoqi and Yang Tie each led an army to escort them respectively. At the same time, they divided the number of households and population into two parts and sent them to the state capital and three counties respectively, so that the officials of the two states, state soldiers, and relevant county officials took action immediately. "
"As soon as they settled down, Xue Ju and other three generals immediately gathered the troops and went to Shanshan to farm. As for the families of the troops, the county officials organized local labor to help build homesteads and houses and teach them to farm."
Yang Shanhui responded quickly: "Here."
"Have they all been registered according to their specialties?" Yang Ji asked Yang Shidao.
"The craftsmen, masons, blacksmiths, tool makers, etc. have been separated separately, and these people have been arranged in another area." Yang Shidao said with a smile: "These families all stay."
"That's good!" Yang Ji pondered for a long time and said to Yang Shidao: "Go to the imperial court and the Ministry of Punishment to find some officials and form three temporary teams to supervise the officials of the two states and three counties throughout the process. If someone is doing labor or building a house, Corruption, or local bullying of these new residents, will be punished by me."
"Here!"
"If there is a problem with your team..." Yang Ji looked at Yang Shidao and said coldly: "What do you think I should do?"
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Facing Yang Ji's malicious gaze, Yang Shidao felt awe-inspiring and quickly expressed his stance: "If there is a problem with my team, the laws of the country and the family will greet me."
Yang Ji nodded: "I'm looking forward to it!"
Yang Shidao said seriously: "Your Majesty will not have this opportunity."
"I am looking forward too."
"..." Yang Shidao took a deep breath and asked, "Your Majesty, there is something I don't understand."
Yang Ji was about to walk towards a big tent, when he heard Yang Shidao ask, he stopped and looked at him: "What's the matter?"
"There is a risk of unrest in the right camp. Why not evacuate the right camp first?" Yang Shidao was a county magistrate in Yizhou before, and was then hired by Yang Ji to work as a butcher and a handyman. He had never been exposed to such a large population. Because of this, I am still unsure about some things, or I know about them, but I don’t have the courage to do them.
On this issue, Yang Ji did not make it difficult for him, and patiently explained: "Those who want to make trouble and dare to make trouble are just the small group of bad sheep. They are hiding well now, but once they get to the place, they will do the bad things they should do." I still do it. It ranges from stealing and abducting to killing and setting fires at worst. The problem caused by this is that the local people are repulsive and hostile to the new people, which eventually turns into a duel between two gangs. In order to avoid these hidden dangers, I I hope they cause trouble here.”
"Since Duke clearly said that the young Turks are full of energy and have nothing to do, then find something for them to do. Their parents, wives and children are all in our hands. We feed these women, children and the elderly, and we mean to take these people as hostages. If they don't want to If my family members are implicated and starve to death, they can only work hard for us; of course, when they lose their temper after being tortured, I will evacuate them, allocate fields to them, and let people teach them to farm."
Speaking of this, Yang Ji sneered and said: "The captives should have the consciousness of being a prisoner. If they are not conscious, there will be a sword to teach them how to realize it. And this time the Turks' whole family was captured. In theory, they are more vulnerable than the prisoners of war who are alone. Easy to control.”
"I understand!" Yang Shidao suddenly nodded.
It was not that the previous prisoners of war had never made trouble, but Yang Ji first had a group of black sheep killed in public to scare the prisoners, and then enslaved them severely for a period of time, so they all became honest; then he promoted a group of good performers in public Or report the black sheep, which leads all prisoners of war to want to use the least laborious and fastest reporting method to get promoted; when everyone is wary of each other and distrusts each other, naturally they will not cause trouble.
Yang Shanhui looked at the densely packed tents and thought of the possibility of Yang Guang Yujia personally conquering Tuyuhun. He couldn't help but sigh: "But so many people are also a heavy burden!"
"I think this is a rare asset." Yang Ji said with a smile: "In Liangzhou, including the Hexi Corridor, the infrastructure closely related to people's livelihood is not as good as in the Central Plains, and Yizhou, Tingzhou, Shan There is no such thing as Shan, Qiemo, and Xizhou. In addition, from the late Han Dynasty to the early Kaihuang period, they were poisoned by foreigners for a long time, causing the irrigation canals here to be completely destroyed. If there is no farmland water conservancy, how can we achieve high food yields? How can we achieve a bumper harvest every year?”
"Although we have worked hard to repair abandoned farmland and water conservancy in the past few years, Liangzhou's agricultural infrastructure is weak. In addition, there are straight roads to be opened, cities to be built, and mines to be dug. This has led to slow progress in agricultural facilities. This is why we One of the important reasons for the lack of food every year. However, other things are also urgent and cannot be stopped, so we need more people to come to help. It is a little more difficult now, but as long as we persevere, I believe that one day It gets better every year.”
There is another point that Yang Ji did not mention, that is, after Yang Guang moved the capital to Luoyang, he immediately became an infrastructure maniac.
According to the "history book" compiled by his family, Yang Guang arrived in Luoyang not long ago. First, he built large monasteries in various beautiful places in Luoyang. Then, in order to have a better time and wine, and pick up girls everywhere, he not only built the Yongji Canal in Zhuo County in the north, Go south to the Jiangnan River in the south of the Yangtze River, and build straight roads and official posts everywhere...
Regardless of whether Yang Guang’s purpose was to strengthen communication between the north and the south, or to spend his days drinking and picking up girls, it is an indisputable fact that he carried out large-scale construction projects. Judging from the incomplete historical data, Yang Guang actually paid sufficient wages for each project. , food was given, and corvees were mobilized, why did so many people die in the end? Because the money and grain given by the court and the corvee labor mobilized all enriched other people.
Let’s not talk about who gained weight. However, if Yang Guang invested a lot of money and food in the east, his support for Liangzhou would definitely not be as strong as it is now. Therefore, Yang Ji must take advantage of Yang Guang's construction work to carry out large-scale construction and get more "money" for the project.
At least, the supervision on his side is strong enough to ensure that every payment is properly implemented and truly taken from the people and used for the people.
At this time, a soldier galloped on his horse and said to Yang Ji: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister Pei is also here."
Yang Ji asked in surprise: "Where is Xiangguo Pei?"
The soldier cupped his hands and answered: "Xiangguo Pei is at the northernmost end of the camp, where the roster is registered."
"I know!" Yang Ji said to Yang Shanhui and Yang Shidao: "I'm going to see Xiangguo Pei. Just follow what you said before and evacuate the people of Zuoying as soon as possible. If you encounter any problems, just go to me. In addition, please pay attention What’s more important is that there is a big temperature difference between morning and evening, and the air is humid in the morning and evening, so we need to pay special attention to diseases and epidemics in the camp and on the eve of the trip.”
"Here!" Yang Shanhui and Yang Shidao responded with their hands raised.
"Lead the way!" Yang Ji ordered the soldier and led the team towards the north.
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