indoor.
Ji Heng had already put on thick fleece clothes.
There was a fire burning in the house.
Fusu entered the room alone, bowed to Ji Heng, and placed the wine in his hand on the table.
But before Fusu could speak, Ji Heng stretched out his hand.
Fusu was stunned.
"Money." Ji Heng said directly.
Fusu's eyelids twitched.
Ji Heng ignored this and said to himself, "When you entered the house just now, you should have seen something extra in the courtyard, a stone mill."
"This is something the North came up with."
"After I heard about it some time ago, I had someone build one too."
"It cost more than a hundred dollars."
"There is also the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt during this period."
"A total of one hundred and ninety-two dollars."
Fusu smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "I went out in a hurry this time and didn't bring any money. I have written down Mr. Ji's more than one hundred dollars and will send someone to deliver it as soon as I return to the palace."
Ji Heng nodded and said, "Tell me, what did you do this time?"
Fusu said sternly: "Fusu came here this time not to ask for advice from Sir, but just to express some thoughts to Sir."
"Fusu has been deeply moved by the idea of 'restoring the national road' proposed by Mr. Fusu along the way, and has gained a real understanding of the current shortcomings of the Qin Dynasty."
"Fusu is grateful for Mr. Fusu's guidance."
Fusu bowed respectfully to Ji Heng.
Ji Heng's expression remained normal and he had no unnecessary reaction.
Fusu has long been accustomed to it.
He told Ji Heng everything he had seen and heard along the way.
According to Fusu, the Qin Dynasty's strategy of consolidating China has achieved initial results. The roads are smooth, business travel has become more frequent, the Sichuan defenses have been eliminated, and the river boats are also much denser. However, under this seemingly vibrant scene, it is actually... There is an undercurrent.
Fusu sighed: "Sir, I mentioned it before, what you see is worth seeing what is lacking."
"Right now, Da Qin is lacking in many aspects."
"The first thing missing is people!"
"Old Qin people."
"If it hadn't been for Mr. Fusu's intentional reminder when he left last time, Fusu might not have paid attention to it. But it was precisely because he had noticed it in advance that when he went to Yongcheng, Jingyang, and Yueyang counties, he went out of his way to ask After a while, the result was shocking.”
"When I first heard about it, I couldn't believe it."
"There is no one in the pass."
"The current population of Guanzhong is around five million."
"Among them, Lao Qin people only account for about 20%, barely a million people."
"Most of them are old, weak, women and children."
"The remaining 70% to 80% are all immigrants from Kanto."
"What a heart-stopping amount."
"The people of Old Qin, on whom the Qin Dynasty relies for its fortune and prosperity, only have a million people on the land they have cultivated for generations."
Hear the words.
Ji Heng frowned slightly.
He didn't say anything, just took a sip.
Fusu took a deep breath and continued: "I specifically asked for the reason."
"Mainly Lishan Mausoleum, Great Wall and Afang Palace."
"In the past, the conscripts mainly targeted the nobles and civilians from the Six Kingdoms of Kanto who had moved into Guanzhong. However, since the unification of the world, the Lishan Mausoleum began to be overhauled. At first, there were only more than 100,000 criminals from the Six Kingdoms. People say that there will be 100,000 prisoners. If we continue to The young nobles of the six kingdoms in the Kanto region will continue to move into the army and march on Mount Li. Lishan will gather hundreds of thousands of elites from the Kanto region."
"If the nobles of the six countries take the opportunity to cause chaos, it will be a disaster."
"at the same time."
"A few years ago, there was a tattoo riot in Lishan."
"In order to prevent another rebellion, the imperial court no longer conscripted the young nobles of the six kingdoms of Guandong, but instead conscripted the old Qin people in Guanzhong."
"At present, there are four to five million old Qin people in Lishan."
"In addition, the construction of the Great Wall began in the past few years, and the construction of Afang only started last year. The government decided to recruit the old Qin people for the sake of stability. This is the place in the ancient Guanzhong area, and the old Qin people who are still there are already young and strong. there is none left."
Fusu's eyes were full of worry.
Without an in-depth understanding, you don’t know the dangers at all.
Fusu looked solemn and said: "Since my father came to the throne, there have been tens of millions of people in the old Qin Dynasty. Among them, the population of Longxi, Hexi, Bashu, and Guanwai counties accounted for about 60% of the Qin people. The population of the hinterland of Guanzhong accounted for about 40% of the Qin people. Since the beginning of the War to Destroy the Six Kingdoms, the main force of the Qin State, together with the garrison of Xianyang and various fortresses, plus the royal family and various official bodyguards, etc., totaled nearly one million."
"Based on the total number of Qin people, there are roughly ten soldiers per soldier."
"Based on the population base of the army, there were nearly two to three men per soldier at that time."
"This is also the confidence for Qin to pacify the world!"
"In the war that swept across the Six Kingdoms, the Qin Dynasty lost two to three hundred thousand soldiers, and they were replenished by subsequent conscripts. After the Six Kingdoms were pacified, more than three hundred thousand civilians were conscripted into the South China Sea, 80% of whom were Qin men and women. Later, we started to conscript the nobles and commoners of the six countries, and several more times we conscripted the old Qin people to go to Beihe to guard the border."
"There were several more exchanges and migrations with the Kanto population."
"In total, the number of Qin people who moved out of Guanzhong was as high as one million, and there were more than 800,000 casualties before and after entering the army. The total number of levies was nearly two million."
"At present, 80% of the old Qin people in Guanzhong, except for the men in the army, have dispersed to the border areas."
"The only ones left are basically in Lishan, Afang and the Great Wall."
"Mr. Ji."
"There are no more old Qin people in Guanzhong!"
"If something happens in the world and changes occur in the country, who can the court rely on?"
"Why did Da Qin go to An Tianxia?!"
Fusu looked uneasy.
He truly felt the crisis.
In the past, even if he heard about local troubles, he didn't take it to heart. The power of the Qin army has long been spread throughout the world, but the foundation of the Qin army is in Guanzhong. Now that Guanzhong is so frivolous, once there is turmoil, it will inevitably affect the army. Isn't it dangerous?
If the army is unstable, how can the world be at peace?
And the more he learned about the world situation, the more he understood that the restoration of the nobles of the six countries was bound to come, and there was bound to be a decisive battle between Guanzhong and Guandong.
If that day comes, Guanzhong will not be able to pull out even 100,000 soldiers.
How can we stabilize the world?
Fusu's thoughts were racing, and his heart was filled with fear.
Ji Heng looked calm. He looked up at Fusu and nodded slightly. Fusu was very good at understanding so much, but he still had a sense of 'craftsmanship', and he also believed too much in the information given by local officials. , these data may be correct, but how can the people of Guandong and Lao Qin be divided so easily?
Ji Heng put down the wine bottle and said slowly: "I don't know where this data comes from. It must be from local officials, or directly from the Prime Minister's Palace."
"But as far as I'm concerned, those numbers are not objective."
"It's also unconvincing."
"Perhaps the dissipation of the old Qin people does indeed exist."
"It's also very serious."
"But placing too much emphasis on the people of Lao Qin and Guandong may not be without hidden evil intentions."
Hear the words.
Fusu was startled.
He sat upright and listened solemnly.
Ji Heng said: "Numbers do not lie, but the person who records the data, or the person who tells you the numbers, may not lie to you."
"So you have to have your own screening skills."
"It is true that the old Qin people have exaggerated their military expeditions in recent years."
"But how do the old Qin people define it?"
"How to divide it?"
“Who defines and who distinguishes?”
"The hinterland of Guanzhong and Longxi, where Qin first established its foothold, are the Ying Qin tribe and should belong to the old Qin people. But what about other places in Guanzhong? What about Bashu and outside Guanzhong as you mentioned? Do the Qin people in these places count? Old Qin people?"
"What is the difference? Time? How long will it take for Qin to annex it?"
"Or something else?"
Fusu was silent.
He thought about it in his mind and couldn't give any basis.
Ji Heng smiled and said: "If you can't make a distinction, you can make the assessment as you wish."
"For the Ying Qin tribe, except for people with the surname Ying, they are all 'New Qin people', while for people from Xihe Bashu and other counties, those who were annexed by Qin are all 'New Qin people' ’, if we take the time when the First Emperor came to power, all the people in Guandong were ‘New Qin people’.”
"But the First Emperor reigned for nearly thirty-six years."
"Qin occupied Nanjun, Shangdang and other counties much earlier than sweeping the world."
"What about these people?"
"The distinction between the old and new Qin people is actually a game of interests."
"Some people are using this to attract power and gain benefits for themselves, and such a situation has actually happened in Daqin."
"The order to expel guests is not the same as admonition to expel guests!"
Hear the words.
Fusu's pupils suddenly shrank.
He actually listened in a daze, but after hearing the order to expel guests and the order to remonstrate and expel guests, he instantly figured out the whole story.
He reacted immediately.
Ji Heng said: "When the First Emperor first came to power, he issued an order to expel guests."
"Drive out the officials in Guandong."
"At that time, when the banishment order was issued, the Qin government was almost paralyzed. The reason was that it was difficult to distinguish between "Qin" and "guests". At that time, 30 to 40% of Xianyang officials were from Guandong, and 50% to 60% of the officials were from Guandong. , all the people from Guandong were expelled from Qin."
"That's why all the government offices in Xianyang have become lame and blind."
"Official affairs are paralyzed, many things are in chaos and there is no clue, and no one can straighten them out in time."
"The people who are expelled are the people from Guandong."
"But how people from Kanto distinguish it is ambiguous."
"Those who live in Guandong are counted as guests, but those who settle in Qin are counted? There are also civilized and prosperous countries that perished in the past, such as Lu, Song, Yue, Wu, Xue, etc. These people are from Guandong, but they have already The country was subjugated, so they traveled thousands of miles to Qin to serve in Qin, looking for a job. Are these people considered people from Guandong?"
"In a hundred years, because of the strength of the Qin State and the extensive absorption of the population of the Guandong Province by the Qin State, the number of people from the Guandong Province who entered the Qin Dynasty reached millions."
"Under the expulsion order, they were all classified as Kanto people."
"You know the final result."
"Under the banishment order, the Qin court was in chaos and the official office was completely paralyzed."
"Within a few days, the First Emperor abolished the eviction order, and even ordered the army to intercept the people from the Qin officials, and gave preferential treatment to win the hearts of the soldiers."
"It's actually the same thing now."
"You can have a distinction between the old and new Qin people in your heart, but you can't take the initiative to say it, let alone use it as a basis to favor one over the other, because you can't control this. Once you open the mouth of the old and new Qin people, the following Officials will only selectively implement things based on whether it is beneficial to them or not, and in the end the situation will only continue to get worse."
"The people of Old Qin have indeed suffered many injustices. As the eldest son of the Qin Dynasty, even if you have fluctuations and worries in your heart, you can only think of the 'people of Qin'."
"Change and solve the problem from the perspective of 'Qin people', rather than one-sidedly delineating new and old Qin people."
"Fusu, you need to remember."
"An open secret does not mean the secret is made public!"
(End of chapter)
