Chapter 194 Repairing Government Affairs

Liu Ye is too young, but he is too good at fighting, just like Huo Huoqi in the Emperor Wu Dynasty. Although his contribution is not as remarkable as that of Huo Qubing, in the two battles of pacifying the Yellow Turban and managing the Northwest, he has won many battles. .

Liu Ye has just been promoted to the governor of Tianshui County, and it would be too fast to be promoted further, so we can't let him be the governor of Liangzhou, right?

Be the governor when you are weak? Gan Luo was the only one who worshiped his prime minister at the age of twelve.

However, He Jin's proposal moved Emperor Ling for no other reason. Isn't Liu Ye good at fighting? In this case, it is better to improve his military rank, anyway, he can fight.

Moreover, Liu Ye is still a descendant of the great ancestor, so it can be found out from the royal genealogy. Although the ancestor has fallen, the blood flowing in his body must be the blood of the great ancestor.

Although nepotism is not good, most people tend to prefer their relatives in the choice of important positions, just like the company's financial managers are basically relatives of the chairman.

Ever since, Emperor Ling resisted all opinions and appointed Liu Ye as Anxi Zhonglang General.

Liu Ye became a rising star in the military of the Han Dynasty.

But now Liu Ye has no time to take care of him, because he is dealing with another matter, which is quite tricky.

"Nan Rong, how many residents have flooded into Tianshui?"

Liu Ye stared at the map in front of him and said to Fu Xie.

Fu Xie was holding a scroll of bamboo slips, on which was the number of people recorded by the county officials.

"As of yesterday, the number of immigrants from several other counties in Liangzhou has exceeded 5,000 households, close to 20,000 people."

"How did the resettlement work go?"

"Please don't worry, the sheriff. Someone has arranged manpower and counted the number of people, but the refugees have built a long shack."

Liu Ye nodded worriedly. The relocation of the people is a major event, but if it is not handled well, it may become a disaster. If these relocated people are not properly resettled and turn into mobs or even rebels, then he But I have to be overwhelmed.

After the Qiang rebellion, the prefectures and counties of Yongliang and Liangzhou suffered a lot and held on to the city, but the Huqi of the Qiang divided up their troops and raided the four fields, and the people were in dire straits for a while.

And Liu Ye was famous for guarding Tianshui, and the Qiang people did not dare to bother—because Tianshui was located in the rear of Liangzhou, very close to the Han army camp, so the Qiang people did not come to attack.

Of course, the civilians who suffered from the war could not sit still, and they dragged their families to Tianshui one after another.

Liu Ye made a decisive decision: "Organize the county officials, register the relocated people, and distribute the land."

If Liu Ye served as the sheriff of Hebei or the Central Plains, he might be helpless to deal with so many people, because the land annexation in the Han Dynasty was actually quite serious, and there were many big landlords and noble families, not to mention tens of thousands of fertile land. , Still thinking of ways to buy land, some farmers were forced to go bankrupt.

In the northwest, first of all, the land area is vast, and there are uncultivated land everywhere. As long as a little development is done, it will be ten thousand mu of fertile land. We must know that in the northwest of the Han Dynasty, the natural environment was far worse than it is now. The land is fertile and the rivers are wide. At that time, there were many large lakes and marshes in northern China, and the emperor chose these places for hunting.

The most important point is that the powerful clans in the Northwest are not as deep-rooted as in the Central Plains. They can at most be called powerful clans rather than noble clans. Although they have their own private armed forces, it is basically impossible to fight against court officials.

After discussing for a while, Liu Ye and Fu Xie formulated the following strategy.

First of all, food and grass were allocated from the treasury of the county guard to help the refugees live, and the county officials were sent to register, and tens of thousands of people were registered in the register, which was completely transformed into the population of Tianshui County.

The second is to organize the people to open up wasteland. As the saying goes, food and grass go first before the three armies are mobilized. It is impossible for people not to eat. As for the army lacking food and grass, it is inevitable to repeat Zhou Shen's mistakes, so it is necessary to vigorously cultivate wasteland.

Fu Xie is a professional and is good at handling government affairs, so Liu Ye didn't intervene much, he just pointed out the general direction, and then he handed over all matters to Fu Xie and many of his officials of the Diannong family, the government treasury officials and so on.

The county officials set off immediately, and there were several long queues in the refugee camp. Even the registration of these subordinate officials who worked overtime was too busy. Fu Xie had no choice but to borrow all the subordinate officials of the soldiers and Cao. As long as they were able to read and write in the county, and they were free and idle, they were basically arrested by him.

And Liu Ye sent Guan Hai to lead 500 soldiers, on the one hand to deter the rioters, and on the other hand to maintain order.

More than a dozen subordinate officials worked hard and registered for three days in one go, finally registering all these refugees.

Moreover, there is still a steady stream of refugees in Tianshui County, Liu Ye has been busy this year, and he has not had time, either caring about farming or training military horses.

In the end, Fu Xie explained to him that a total of more than 9,000 refugee households have flooded into Tianshui County, with a total of 32,000 people. Including the former aborigines, today's Tianshui County has a total of more than 40,000 households with a population of 16. More than ten thousand.

Fortunately, the war in the northwest is urgent now, and no one can take care of it. Otherwise, Liu Ye would definitely be criticized for such a large-scale migration of people. But now that he just won the battle, no one would impeach him for this kind of thing. Even if he said it, Emperor Ling would not be able to criticize him.

What's wrong? Your other counties can't stabilize the people, and the people moved to Tianshui. Is it wrong for Liu Ye to protect them?

And this is not only Liu Ye's responsibility as the county guard to stabilize the people, but it will also be of great benefit in the future.

Zhuge Liang is a genius, why did he fail to go out of Qishan seven times, and finally returned to Wuzhangyuan? The reason is very simple, that is, the national power is not enough. When the Shu Han perished, the registered population was only 900,000, while the population of the Wei State was more than 2 million, which was nearly three times the gap. Therefore, the number of soldiers of the Wei State far exceeded that of the Shu State.

Especially in this ancient time when there were no machines and the productivity was backward, the size of the population represented the size of the productivity, and the more populous the local economy was, the more prosperous it was.

Therefore, Liu Ye had to collect people regardless of the cost, because population=soldiers=food production, especially in the Northwest, the situation here is different from that in the Central Plains. In the Central Plains, there are people who have no land to cultivate, while Tianshui County has land and no one to cultivate.

Fu Xie specially drafted the Anmin Announcement: For those who reclaim wasteland, the tax will be halved in the first two years, and the land will belong to private individuals after the third year.

As soon as this order was released, there was an upsurge of land reclamation in Tianshui County. Some people even opened up nearly a hundred acres in one go, and even powerful families sent tenants to reclaim wasteland. Fu Xie reported it to Liu Ye in time. And put forward new countermeasures.