Chapter 1065: Recruiting people
Hulao City has become particularly lively these days, especially outside the city, one military camp after another has been established. The garrisons under Hulao are coming from all over the place and setting up camps outside the city. They will complete the reorganization here. Nearly 90,000 troops will be reduced to 30,000 and six battle camps. The remaining 60,000 will be scattered and resettled. This is a huge project. Neither Qin Feng nor the generals of Hulao who were newly invested in the Ming Dynasty dared not neglect any of them.
So many people are a huge powder keg, and if they are not handled properly, they will cause trouble. Qin Feng didn't want to kill him in the Huzhu and he lost his original intention.
Hulao, he wants, but these young and strong young men are also the source of financial and taxation for the future of the Ming Dynasty. As the saying goes, I want whatever fish I want, and I want what I want. He wants both.
Just in case, when these troops arrived at Hulao City, they all put down their weapons. Except for the general's own personal army, the rest of the people were all disarmed. Everyone is now a role to be chosen. Even if you were an officer before, it is unknown whether you can continue to stay in the army in the next reorganization.
Lu Dayuan's 10,000 troops, Zou Zheng's Baoqing Camp, Yu Chao's Fengfeng Camp, and the Liehuo Death Camp that arrived later were stationed around the Huzhu just in case.
However, except for the unexpected surprises of the Ming generals and ministers such as Qin Feng, the reorganization work was carried out successfully, and the first group had left the military camp. They had family members in the local area. They received a severance money and put it in their arms and returned home happily.
For them, they joined the army because they really couldn't afford to eat. Although they worked hard to join the army, they could get some salary, which could at least make their family live. Now they can get ten taels of severance payment at once, which is equivalent to their original salary of half a year. With the buffer of this six-year, they can find another family to support their family. The Huzhu is very different from before. What can support people is that they have more livelihoods, and the family still has some land and can always produce some food.
In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has spared no effort to penetrate into Qin, but in fact it has unknowingly influenced the thoughts of the Qin people. The arrival of a large number of merchants has hired a large number of Qin people, and subtly allowed the Qin people to see a broader future in front of them. Especially the many Ming merchants brought about by the Ming businessmen, the Qin people felt envious and fascinated. I wonder how many people looked at themselves and could become a Ming person and enjoy the incredible benefits that the people of the Ming people felt. This idea initially influenced the workers employed by the Ming people, and then spread to their families, slowly began to ferment at the bottom, and then spread to the outside little by little. Although the army was finally affected, it was finally affected. These soldiers who had families in the local area were naturally the first to be brainwashed.
If you yearn for becoming a wise man, now that your dreams come true, you really become a wise man, then what else is there to be unhappy?
Qin Feng changed into a dress, and his face was slightly moved by Qianmeng. At this moment, he was sitting in a tea shed outside the city, smiling at the row of straw huts opposite him. Each straw hut represents a county seat in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, they came here to recruit people.
Each county governor must send people. This is the death order of the chief minister Quan Yunxia. The dispersed resettlement of tens of thousands of Qin troops is not a trivial matter. Of course, they cannot let them return to the area ruled by the Qin court. When they return there, they will become soldiers again, but they are afraid that they will become enemies on the battlefield of the Ming Dynasty. Such behavior of investing in the enemy is naturally not allowed. However, taking them back to the Ming Dynasty for resettlement cannot be placed in large quantities in the same area. Otherwise, they may be a hidden danger if they are picked up. Therefore, Quan Yun ordered each county governor to have a portion of the people. If the county governor needs people, they can get a little more back. If it is not needed, they will have to bear some obligations to express their loyalty to the court.
What Quan Yun was considering was not just Hulao, but also thought that the 100,000 Qin troops in Qingzhou County would definitely be subject to large-scale disarmament, and then he would have to share it.
Qin State is poor, but there are so many people. The poorer the more you live, the more you live, the poorer you live, the more you live, the poorer you live, this is a vicious cycle.
Of course, places like Zhengyang County and Shayang County are naturally dissatisfied with this task. They do not lack people. If these people are brought back, it will be a burden. But the imperial court's orders have to be implemented, otherwise you will be wearing small shoes every minute.
As time goes by, batches of students who graduated from the Beijing University of China went to local officials, and the imperial court's control over local areas became increasingly powerful. Places like Zhengyang, where local forces are relatively powerful, have now been suppressed and cannot raise their heads.
The centralization of the Ming Dynasty is taking shape step by step.
But it is naturally impossible for you to expect them to make great efforts to recruit people. One shed, and several officials sat there lazily, and ignored the people who came to consult. The attitude of keeping people thousands of miles away directly made the front of their sheds deserted. These officials who came to do business had no choice. They knew that His Majesty the Emperor was here. If the emperor looked at him in this way, they would be afraid that there would be no good results to eat.
But there is no way. Before leaving, the superiors made it clear that it would be better to complete the indicators assigned by the court. No one is allowed to recruit more people. Although the emperor is noble and powerful, he is too far away from them. Shangguan is now in charge. If his head is hot, like those counties, he is afraid that the front of the stall will be immediately squeezed out. Who doesn’t know that the places like Zhengyang and Shayang are rich? As long as you make a false statement, you will immediately be unable to stop.
In fact, what these officials are worried about is not unreasonable. At this moment, the emperor is watching them not far from them, but the emperor still understands their attitude. Originally, the Qin people were not expected to be as dilapidated as Taoyuan County!
At this moment, Qin Feng looked at the stall in Taoyuan County and couldn't help laughing.
If we say that the county governor in the Ming Dynasty is the most destructive, poorest and worst, it is undoubtedly Taoyuan County. Taoyuan County is located on the border of Mingqi. When Qi and Ming Dynasty negotiated to retreat, this county governor was almost swept away by the Qi people because they had enough time to prepare. Even the people were swept away. What was left for the Ming Dynasty was only a huge empty land. In the following time, some people hiding in the mountains and remote areas finally returned to their hometowns, but this little manpower was completely a drop in the bucket for Taoyuan County. Even if people who fled to other places returned to their hometowns one after another, Taoyuan County could still be said to be uninhabited for a hundred miles. At the beginning, the entire county of Taoyuan County could not match a county in other county. It can be seen that Taoyuan was miserable.
In the following time, a large number of troops entered Zhaoguan, which was located on the border of Taoyuan County. The arrival of tens of thousands of troops finally made Taoyuan County a little popular. Wu Ling, the general of the Wuling War Zone, which set up the base camp in Zhaoguan, was a person who was afraid of hunger. After the army entered Zhaoguan, he ordered all troops to reclaim some land for military purposes, but 70% or 80% of Taoyuan County was still deserted.
Then the large immigration of barbarians began, and Taoyuan County only added tens of thousands of barbarians to farm. But for this hungry guy in Taoyuan County, this was still far from enough. Taoyuan County was trying his best to divert the Qin army this time, and the court also knew the predicament of Taoyuan County, and this time they gave them 10,000 places.
However, Ben Kuan, the governor of Taoyuan County, had more than this. He had not been able to sell humans in the past. This time, he finally managed to recruit people openly. He naturally had to do more. There were only 10,000 soldiers who were laid off, but this did not prevent him from recruiting more Qin people to Taoyuan County.
His target is those who are with their families. After these people go there, they are not only easy to control, but also give birth to children for him!
So the young governor Ben was very attentive to this task. He led the team to come in person. At this moment, he stood on the table regardless of his image, boasting loudly about the superior geographical location, fertile land, and generous conditions for immigration.
Not to mention that the county magistrate came forward to recruit people in person, and the effect was indeed great. The front of the shed in Taoyuan County was not only filled with representatives of the army, but also attracted a lot of local people.
"It's really not like a court official!" Qin Feng was overjoyed in the tea shed. While drinking tea, he couldn't stop smiling. Looking at Ben Kuan standing on the table, dancing and saying to the horse monkey beside him. "If the chief minister saw it, he would definitely be in a bad face."
"I'm just a good official!" Ma Hou said with a smile.
"Oh, how do you know that he is a good official? Just because of this today?" Qin Feng smiled: "The standard of a good official is not that simple?"
"Your Majesty, this Ben Kuan came out of Changyang County. The first group of officials who followed Ma Xiangnan to open up the situation in Changyang." Ma Hou said.
"How do you know?" Qin Feng was stunned.
"Your Majesty, you forgot that year. Changyang County was not much better than Taoyuan County now. There, I saw Ben Kuan, a scholar and a dignified county magistrate, and helped the people farm in the fields with the county's constables and yamen runners. That was the first time I saw such an official, and the impression was very deep." Ma Hou said.
"So that's the case. If you don't say it, I really can't remember it. What a shame, the officials brought out by Ma Xiangnan were made from the same mold as him. It's really good. At that time, the imperial government appointed this group of officials. I saw them together when I took office. He was not outstanding. He looked very sarcastic. Today, he looked like a lotus. Taoyuan County has as good as he said, but I'm afraid that the people who were fooled by him would regret it on the spot."
"That's not necessarily your Majesty!" Ma Hou shook his head repeatedly: "At least there is too much land in Taoyuan County, and there are garrisons there to help him, so there is no problem with any house or something. Wu Ling will definitely help him repair it. Wu Ling is stationed in Zhaoguan, which is Taoyuan's territory. Taoyuan has developed, which is also beneficial to him."
Chapter completed!