Chapter 190 Hidden Population Divided and Divided
On the second day after Mi Yang's meeting with Shen Yi, in order to test Mi Yang, Shen Yi took the initiative to personally send the household registration and field registration in Xicheng to the boat for Mi Yang to inspect.
Mi Yang is the prefect of Xing County in Han Dynasty, and Shen Yi is currently the magistrate of Xicheng County. It is proper for him to hand over the household registration and field registers in the county to Mi Yang for inspection.
It's just that what Shen Yi gave Mi Yang for inspection was just an overall number.
After all, the detailed household registration and field records were recorded on bamboo slips, almost covering the entire archives, and it was impossible to move them all to the boat for Mi Yang to inspect.
When Mi Yang was checking the household registration and total farmland in Xicheng, Shen Yi had been carefully observing Mi Yang's expression.
He saw that Mi Yang was just flipping through the household registration and field records in his hand, with a look on his face that seemed to be indifferent to these.
After quickly flipping through the household registers and field registers in his hands, Mi Yang just asked Shen Yi if he could supply food and grass if he came to Japan to lead his army on an expedition.
Shen Yi is a human spirit, and he heard the hidden meaning in Mi Yang's questions.
During Mi Yang's questioning, Shen Yi seemed to realize that Mi Yang didn't care about the population and farmland under his rule.
He only cares about whether Xicheng can bear part of the military food supply when he goes on an expedition in the future.
Seeing that Mi Yang really cared about this, Shen Yi breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as he doesn't have any thoughts about the population and farmland of Xicheng, he is a good prefect in Shen Yi's mind.
As for Mi Yang's request, Shen Yi can certainly meet it.
Although he would not use all the food stored in the mansion to supply Mi Yang's army for the expedition.
But as long as a part of it is taken out, it should be able to meet the needs of Mi Yang's army.
But Mi Yang's performance fell into Shen Yi's eyes, and Shen Yi felt it was reasonable.
After all, Mi Yang was close to him. It can be said that Mi Yang was approachable, but someone who could defeat a hundred thousand Jiangdong army could not be as easy to deceive as an ordinary nobleman.
If Mi Yang showed that he didn't care about anything, it would arouse Shen Yi's suspicion.
Maybe Mi Yang saw some problems with the population and total farmland he reported, but with Mi Yang's identity, his stage should be a battlefield of gold and iron.
The small Hanxing County may be just a temporary stop for him, so what he is most concerned about is the supply of military rations.
As long as he Shen Yi can provide military supplies for Mi Yang's army in the future, then Mi Yang will naturally not interfere in government affairs.
Both parties took what they needed and lived in peace and harmony in Hanxing County.
When Mi Yang leads the army and leaves Hanxing County in the future, everything will return to the way it was before.
This is a transaction, and this kind of transaction is what Shen Yi wants.
It can be said that the growth of the Shen clan in Hanxing County was achieved through step-by-step transactions with various forces.
Therefore, after Mi Yang's questioning, Shen Yi immediately solemnly promised that when Mi Yang needs military rations in the future, he will supply them with all his heart and will never let Mi Yang's army be in danger of food shortage.
After Shen Yi made this guarantee, Mi Yang also promised Shen Yi, "I will go east today and never return west."
Hearing Mi Yang's assurance, Shen Yi showed a satisfied smile on her face.
Mi Yang's words are a guarantee that as long as you can provide me with food for my army so that I will have no worries in the future, I will not easily interfere in the government affairs of Xicheng in the future.
Under the mutual guarantee between Mi Yang and Shen Yi, both of them were very satisfied.
So on the day Shen Yi left the building ship, Mi Yang fulfilled his promise and led the army down the river.
After seeing Mi Yangzhen lead all the troops to leave, Shen Yi finally felt relieved.
After all, there is an army of unknown meaning stationed outside their base camp, and anyone will feel the pressure.
What Shen Yi didn't know was that just after he got off the boat, Mi Yang on the boat threw the Xicheng household registration and field register he left behind heavily on the ground.
The bamboo slips hit the deck and made a crisp sound.
Mi Yang said bitterly to Zhang Yi and Deng Aiyan who were standing aside: "Shen thief is bullying people too much!"
"Are you treating me like a three-year-old?"
Zhang Ni and Deng Ai saw Mi Yang's angry look. They picked up the bamboo slips at Mi Yang's feet and looked at it carefully.
When Mi Yang and Shen Yi met just now, they did not see the content on the bamboo slips.
So they didn't know what kind of content made Mi Yang angry.
When Zhang Yi and Deng Ai picked up the bamboo slips on the ground and looked at them, their brows were deeply furrowed.
Leaving aside the total amount of farmland recorded in this bamboo slip, the number of household registrations recorded in this volume is unusually small.
There are only more than 3,000 households!
The standard for a household in the Han Dynasty was about five people, so Xicheng County currently only has a population of about 15,000 at most.
Not to mention that Deng Ai and Zhang Yi expressed doubts about such a population, even Mi Yang, who had never been exposed to political affairs, felt that this population was definitely inaccurate.
The three counties of Hanxing County were originally separated from Hanzhong County. According to later records in the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", in the fifth year of Yonghe, Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Hanzhong County had more than 50,000 households and a population of nearly 50,000.
Three hundred thousand people.
That was nearly eighty years ago!
Hanzhong County originally had nine counties under its jurisdiction, namely: Nanzheng County, Chenggu County, Xicheng County, Baozhong County, Mianyang County, Anyang County, Jin County, Shangyong County, and Fangling County.
Due to its special geographical location, Hanzhong County had no major wars for nearly 70 years from the fifth year of Yonghe to the twentieth year of Jian'an, when Cao Cao conquered Hanzhong, and the population should have continued to grow.
In addition, when the swarms of heroes rose up in Guanzhong, Han Sui and Ma Chao raised troops to resist Cao Cao, many people in Guanzhong fled to the relatively stable Hanzhong area.
There are records that tens of thousands of Guanxi people fled from Ziwu Valley to Hanzhong.
Most of the people who are able to flee thousands of miles are definitely young and strong.
Ziwu Valley is located near Xicheng. As soon as you leave Ziwu Road, you can reach Han River. Not far downstream of Han River is Xicheng.
Under such circumstances, many of the tens of thousands of people who fled back then must have flowed into Xicheng.
When Zhang Lu was governing Hanzhong, some of his subordinates persuaded him to call him King of Hanning. Yan Pu, his great meritorious officer, advised him: "The people of Hanchuan have a household income of one hundred thousand, and their wealth is fertile and the land is dangerous."
It can be inferred from Yan Pu's words and the facts that the number of households in Hanzhong County already exceeded 100,000.
However, Hanzhong County has only nine counties under its jurisdiction. At that time, most of the county towns that were not the capitals of large countries could only accommodate more than 10,000 households, and any more would have to be moved to other counties.
Moreover, during the Chuping period, the Shen brothers had been sending envoys to communicate with Zhang Lu. At that time, a large number of people from Guanzhong poured into Hanzhong.
In this case, the Shen brothers who separated Xicheng and Shangyong counties were probably making a deal with Zhang Lu. Zhang Lu gave them population, and they chose to obey Zhang Lu's rule.
Although Cao Cao originally moved a lot of people from Hanzhong, they were mainly from Nanzheng counties.
Due to the terrain, the population in Hanxing County is easy to enter and difficult to leave.
Therefore, judging from Cao Cao's emergency evacuation of the population at that time, there was not much time for Cao Cao to move the population to Hanxing County.
In addition, Xicheng had already become an independent county at that time, and historical records only recorded the fact that people migrated from Hanzhong County, but did not record the migration of people from Xicheng County.
Based on all these inferences, the population of Xicheng is actually only 3,000 households?
I'm afraid eighty years ago, during the reign of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, there were more than this number.
A large number of household registrations must have been hidden by Shen Yi, and the household registrations hidden by Shen Yi may be several times more than those reported by him.
Mi Yang looked at Zhang Yi and Deng Aiyan and said:
"I originally thought that Shen Yi was just a powerful man with evil intentions. I never expected that he would be so bold and hide so many people. If this thief is not eliminated, Hanxing County will be in chaos sooner or later."
When he was in Chengdu, one of the crimes that Liu Bei executed Zhou Qun for was that Zhou Qun hid a population of more than a thousand households and did not participate in the corvee.
Judging from the current situation, if Zhou Qun deserves to be killed, then according to the law of "Shu Ke", Shen Yi should be executed by the clan!
Originally, Mi Yang wanted to get rid of Shen Yi. The main reason was that Shen Yi in history was a double-dealing person. It was impossible to keep him in his heart because he was a hidden danger that could start a rebellion at any time.
But now it seems that if Shen Yi is not removed, let alone build Hanxing County into his Northern Expedition base in the future.
I am afraid that soon, the food supplies for his army will be tightly blocked by Shen Yi.
After all, there is no population, so what fields can be cultivated?
Seeing that Mi Yang was getting more and more murderous, Zhang Ni quickly admonished Mi Yang: "The army has not been trained and its fighting strength is not yet strong. I hope you will be patient for the time being."
Of course Mi Yang understands what Zhang Yi said.
Historically, when Shen Yi rebelled this year, the army sent by Cao Pi to attack Liu Feng had not yet arrived, but Shen Yi led his private soldiers to defeat Liu Feng alone.
Although Liu Feng had serious character weaknesses, he was still quite good at fighting, and most of his men were elite soldiers.
In this case, with the advantage of defending the city, he could still be defeated by Shen Yi head-on.
This is enough to show that Shen Yi currently has a private army with good combat capabilities, and this does not include the possible private soldiers in the hands of his brother Shen Dan.
Although Mi Yang currently has more than 10,000 soldiers in his hands, these more than 10,000 soldiers have not been trained and their orders have not yet been unified. Now is not the time to use force rashly.
After Zhang Ni's admonishment, Mi Yang told Zhang Ni and Deng Ai: "You two must step up your army training. You must train a war-ready army as soon as possible."
Deng Ai has the talent to be a famous general at a young age, and when Zhang Ni was a state official, he was responsible for training new soldiers.
With the cooperation of these two people, the training speed of an army of more than 10,000 people will be accelerated a lot.
Under Mi Yang's orders, Zhang Yi and Deng Ai retreated.
After Zhang Yi and Deng Ai left, Mi Yang sat alone in the attic of the boat, thinking about the next step.
Compared with Zhang Yi and Deng Ai, his greatest advantage is that he knows history.
Although history has changed a lot now, history will change, but people's hearts will not.
Just like Cao Pi, even if Ji Han's power did not suffer heavy losses in this life, he would still do so if he wanted to be emperor.
The overall development process of the Dongsanjun Rebellion in history is as follows:
Meng Da, who was stationed in Dongsan County with Liu Feng, was worried that Liu Bei would blame him because of Guan Yu's death and Fazheng's death, so he first led more than 4,000 tribes to surrender to Cao Pi.
After Mengda surrendered, Cao Pi believed that the Three East Counties had an opportunity, so he ordered Xiahou Shang, Xu Huang and Meng Da to lead an army to attack Liu Feng in the Three East Counties.
At this time, Shen Yi, one of the Shen brothers, took the lead in raising the rebel flag and sent troops to attack Liu Feng.
Caught off guard, Liu Feng was defeated by Shen Yi, and Xia Houshang's army had already arrived at that time, so Liu Feng had no choice but to escape back to Chengdu.
It can be seen from the facts in history that Shen Yi is a refined egoist. Once he sees a profit, he will not hesitate to launch a rebellion.
Later, when Meng Da wanted to return to Jihan, Shen Yi cut off the west route and blocked Zhuge Liang's reinforcements.
Shen Yi is like a venomous snake that is ready to move at any time. He keeps repeating himself. As long as his interests are infringed, he will not hesitate to bite you.
For poisonous snakes, the best way is not to invade his territory for the time being, so that he can temporarily let down his guard. This is also the reason why Mi Yang made that "promise" just now.
While thinking about what happened in history, Mi Yang suddenly discovered a very crucial point.
In history, when Shen Yi launched a rebellion, Shen Dan was forced to send troops under coercion, which meant that Shen Dan had no intention of rebelling against Liu Bei at first.
The historical Dongsanjun Rebellion is not far from the current point in time, so it has a strong reference value.
It is very likely that at this time, the Shen brothers have already had disagreements due to different ideas.
In this case, Mi Yang can take advantage of this and make a good plan.
On the second day after Mi Yang led his army to leave Xicheng, Shen Yi received a reply from Shen Dan.
Among the two Shen brothers, the elder brother Shen Dan is more peaceful than Shen Yi.
Therefore, the contents of the letters he wrote to Shen Yi mostly contained words to advise Shen Yi to behave.
When this letter was delivered to Shen Yi, Shen Yi felt that Shen Dan was a little too weak.
He originally wrote the letter to inform Shen Dan about Mi Yang's performance, and wanted to discuss with him whether Mi Yang's performance was true or false.
What he didn't expect was that Shen Dan didn't care about Mi Yang's performance, but instead advised him to behave himself. This made Shen Yi even more dissatisfied with his eldest brother.
When Meng Da and Liu Feng attacked Hanxing County, among the Shen brothers, Shen Dan was the one who advocated surrender, while Shen Yi was more inclined to support his own troops and take charge of the county.
Because Shen Yi believed that the location of Hanxing County was very important, it would be unworthy to surrender directly without negotiating a good price first.
Moreover, after Shen Dan surrendered, he also moved his wife's clan to Chengdu, which made Shen Yi even more dissatisfied.
However, the prefect of Shangyong at that time was Shen Dan. Although Shen Yi criticized Shen Dan's behavior, she was unable to resist.
But it's different now. With Liu Bei's seal, Shen Yi occupies the west city alone, and he and his brother Shen Dan each occupy a city.
Under this situation, Shen Yi was no longer as obedient to Shen Dan as before.
After reading Shen Dan's letter, Shen Yi threw the letter into the brazier and burned it.
Seeing her brother's well-meaning words of warning turned into ashes in the flames, Shen Yi's eyes were filled with unknown meanings.
In troubled times, there is no loyalty at all, only profit is the right way!
The great cause of farming in the Han Dynasty must first start with clearing up the restless local wealthy families.
Otherwise, there is no way to free up a lot of manpower and farmland.
Origi.
Today’s chapter is about some personal matters in life that need to be dealt with.
I'm extremely sorry.
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