New princely states! !
Hearing these words from Liu Xu's mouth, the whole hall was boiling.
You know, there are countless people in the hall waiting for this news.
So far, there are only 5 vassal states in the empire when it was first created, namely Cao Cao's Wei State, Sun Jian's Wu State, Yuan Shao's Zhao State, Liu Bang's Han State, and Liu Bei's Ren State.
This division of vassal states met the needs of all the reflected characters when it was created, but it is no longer enough.
In fact, Wei, Wu, Zhao, and even Ren are all fine, and their land is enough.
But as the entire Han Dynasty's civil servants, military generals, and emperors appeared one by one, so many talents were crowded into the land of the Han Kingdom, it was obvious that some talents were rich, and the entire Han Kingdom was recently flooded. Many famous ministers, generals and ministers can only stay in a small room and live their lives reading books every day, which is really a waste.
As for the emperors, they all thought about how to break away from the control of their ancestors, own their own country, become emperor again, and control the supreme power. Anyway, none of them were safe.
Now that they finally heard the plan for the new vassal states from Liu Xu, these people were naturally extremely excited.
Liu Xu went on to say, "Many dear friends may already know that the world will of the White Elephant World has begun to recover. A large amount of frozen land is thawing every day. The land that can be cultivated has reached nearly a province." area. In the future, there will be more such land. After one year, the number of unblocked lands will reach three provinces, two years later, it will increase to five provinces, and three years later, the newly added land will be more than We have more land than we have now.”
"So I plan to create eight new vassal states along the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest. They will make their own way in this new land and create more land!" Liu Xu said.
"There are eight vassal states!" Everyone's eyes lit up. This number was more than they expected.
"But everyone also knows that these lands are newly added. There is no population on them, let alone various materials and resources. Therefore, these resources must be acquired from the existing five vassal states. Each old vassal state , it needs to be paired with two new vassal states and provide corresponding resources and population for the new vassal states to develop!" Liu Xu continued.
And these words made the smiles disappear from many people's faces.
As mentioned before, except for the old Liu family, the national fortunes of the other three vassal states are so poor. Zhao State has never even established a country in history, so they have no talents at all and can barely hold on to their current territory. It was not enough, let alone creating a new vassal state.
Therefore, they are definitely not included in the quota of vassal states this time, but they have to hand over the population and resources of their own country to help develop new vassal states. This makes them feel a little unbalanced no matter what. , naturally it is difficult to see a smile.
People are selfish, and they are originally tyrants. It is naturally normal for them to have such thoughts and attitudes.
Of course, they have no ability to disobey Liu Xu's orders. As long as Liu Xu forces the order, they will obediently hand over the corresponding population and resources. But in this way, when Liu Xu is out of control or not in the empire, all kinds of fun will probably pop up between the old and new vassal states.
Liu Xu himself knew this very well, so after seeing everyone's expressions, Liu Xu directly added, "But naturally the resources of the old vassal states cannot be given away in vain, and as the old saying goes, you can't borrow again if you borrow it." It’s difficult, so I think it’s better to borrow these people and resources!”
"First of all, I ask the old vassal states to lend each new vassal state at least 5 million people and various materials worth 10 billion imperial coins. This is the minimum limit. If the old vassal states are willing to borrow more, I will not Opinion."
"After you borrow it, you have to pay it back, and the time limit is 30 years. After 30 years, the new vassal state must return half of the land developed during this period to the old vassal state, and it will become the new territory of the old vassal state. , and the new vassal states can also take the remaining population and land to continue to develop more land and resources to expand their territory."
"Before I decide to create the third batch of vassal states, you can expand your territory without limit. As long as you can settle and build villages on these territories according to the standard of at least 100 people per square kilometer, then these lands are yours. That's it!" After Liu Xu finished speaking, all the old princes had completely changed their previous attitude. They all stared at the new princes eagerly, eager to lend out all their populations and resources immediately.
After all, for these princes and kings, they have an uncontrollable desire to expand their territories. However, Liu Xu suppressed it very hard before and did not give them any additional opportunities to develop their territories. Currently, they can only guard their three provinces. live a peaceful life.
Now the opportunity to reasonably increase territory has come. As long as the population and resources are loaned out, half of the other party's territory can be taken away in thirty years. This is probably the only opportunity in thirty years.
As for whether there are more human resources to take over these territories, the old princely states have nothing to worry about.
Because after 30 years, the empire's indigenous officials have completely grown up, and some of them may not be much weaker than the role of reflection. These indigenous officials can support the official system of the new land, instead of just being able to Rely on those mirroring characters.
As for those who aspired to become new princes, they also admired Liu Xu's policy.
First of all, with this policy, they are not afraid that those old princely states will not be willing to lend resources.
Because the total harvest of the old vassal states lies in the total amount of new territory they opened up after 30 years. The more initial resources and population provided by the old princes, the faster they will develop the land. After 30 years, the old princes will naturally gain more territory.
Therefore, these old princes will definitely try their best to give them various populations and resources, so as to ensure that they can harvest more land in 30 years.
Then will these new princes become passive and slow down their work? After all, it seems like I have spent the past 30 years working for others!
That is also impossible, because half of the developed land belongs to them. If they have developed less in the past 30 years, they will naturally be allocated less land in 30 years. This is not worth the loss.
Moreover, what he has paid back is only the land, but he does not have to repay the people and resources he borrowed before. In these 30 years, it is natural that he must try his best to make these people and resources generate more people and resources.
Therefore, the new princes will definitely try their best to develop new lands, and the entire system of old and new princes will be completely revitalized, full of vitality from top to bottom, which can be said to be a conspiracy that no one can refuse.
"How did my lord come up with such a cruel trick!" Several princes looked at each other, and then locked their eyes on Zhuge Liang behind Liu Xu. Well, it must be Prime Minister Zhuge’s clever plan.
In response, Liu Xu could only roll his eyes helplessly, because this was really his own idea!
"Then the most critical step comes next, who are these eight new princes!" Liu Xu said cheerfully, squinting his eyes.
(End of chapter)
