When Wang Yong returned to Yunzhong County with Huanglong's tens of thousands of people, he could only smile bitterly after learning about this incident.
He went to Niu Gui and said: "Brother Niu, what you are doing is not honest. I went to help Huang Long, but you poached me!"
But Niu Gui said: "How can this be considered poaching your corner? The war is over and your army will be disbanded. I didn't poach your officers!"
"Moreover, immigrating to Shibian has always been what Qu Shuai wants to do. Now tens of thousands of people have come to Yunzhong County. Do you think it is better to let them return to Mayi, or let them stay directly? Qu Shuai knows this
People will probably agree with my approach!"
Wang Yong could only shake his head with a wry smile and said: "Brother Niu Gui deserves to be born in the green forest, I can't say anything about you!"
At this time, Huang Long, who was beside Wang Yong, raised his hands and saluted: "Thank you, Governor Niu, for sending people to support us!"
Huang Long was really in danger at that time. After the Xianbei people retreated, they naturally would not watch Huang Long leave like this. They chased Huang Long quickly, but Huang Long couldn't walk fast at all with the old, weak, women and children, and they were almost overtaken. Fortunately,
At this time, Wang Yong arrived with an army of 30,000 and scared off the pursuing Xianbei army!
When Niu Gui heard what Huang Long said about the situation at that time and what Huang Long meant, he seemed to want to repay himself, so he smiled and said, "I just mentioned it casually. I only have a small contribution. The one who really does the work is Wang."
Yong, just thank him!"
"But if Brother Huanglong really wants to reward me, I just have a small favor to ask of you! Our Yunzhong County has a sparse population and we are fighting a war with the Huns. Can the Xianbei people you brought from the desert be placed in my Yunzhong County?"
county!"
Huang Long smiled and said: "As long as they want to stay, I have no objection!"
Niu Gui said happily: "The conditions in our Yunzhong County are better than those in the desert. How could they not want to stay here?"
Then he saluted Wang Yong and Huang Long and said: "You two, I still have things to do, so I won't bother you!"
Wang Yong looked at Niu Gui as he left and said, "Brother Niu Gui has changed so much that I can't even recognize him!"
Huang Long had some such experience and said: "Now that Niu Gui is in charge of the well-being of the people in a county, there will naturally be changes!"
Then he said with a heavy heart: "The commander-in-chief also gave me a county and asked me to help him guard it. At that time, I was under a lot of pressure and my performance was very poor. The county was finally conquered by the Han army, and I could only be embarrassed.
They fled to the Taihang Mountains!"
Wang Yong had nothing to say. He was also a member of the Yellow Turban Army at the beginning, but they were even worse. Tens of thousands of people were defeated by more than 1,000 Han cavalry, and then he fled up the mountain and met Xu Wei.
However, after a long journey to Yunzhong County, the Xianbei women and children were faced with an official-like person who shouted to them in Xianbei dialect: "When you come to Yunzhong County, you have come to your own home.
Let me tell you, our Yunzhong County is currently building water canals, which can turn millions of acres of land into irrigated land. As long as we stay here, everyone will have land for farming!"
This man was the original Zhao Gui. After he became Litian, he stayed in Mayi to observe politics for a few months, and then was assigned to Yunzhong County, Yunzhong County, and became a township head.
Zhao Gui also cherished his current official position very much. He came to Yunzhong County for more than half a year, not only assisted Niu Gui in building canals, but also learned the Xiongnu and Xianbei dialects.
And now the reason why he is working hard to attract these women and children to settle in Yunzhong County is because Niu Gui told him that as many women and children can be attracted, as many young people will stay in Yunzhong County! It will ultimately determine the future development of Yunzhong County.
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So he said very hard, "Do you know what irrigated land is? It is land that does not require you to draw water yourself. The water will flow to your land by itself. Such fields have a very high grain yield, and the yield per mu can reach 4
-5 shi, let me tell you this, 10 acres of this kind of land can feed a family of five!"
These words made the uninformed Xianbei women and children exclaim. Food is also grown on the grassland, usually wheat and highland barley. Of course, their planting technology is very primitive. They find a suitable piece of land, burn the weeds, and then
Just plant with sprinkles, forget about it, and wait until the autumn harvest before buying again. In this way, you can imagine the harvest of slash-and-burn farming, with a yield of 4-5 shi per mu, which is more than ten times more than what they produced on the grassland!
Zhao Gui continued to shout loudly: "As long as you stay here and marry the people of Yunzhong County, your family can get 100 acres of land. If you don't want to farm, you can also be allocated 1,000 acres of pasture. You can't live without a house."
Don't worry, our Yunzhong County government will help you build it, and the help is better than your tent."
So if you stay in our Yunzhong County, you will immediately have land, pasture, and even work. Our Tengjia Army produces woolen cloth. If you want to work, we can also help you get a loom to weave wool.
Cloth, this is a big money-making business, let me tell you, as long as your textile skills are good, it is possible to make thousands of dollars a month!"
What Zhao Gui said made the women and children of Xianbei stunned for a moment when they came to Xianbei. Such a wonderful place in the world must not be a lie. Herdsmen like us have nothing to deceive!
But they immediately remembered that they now had more than a dozen cattle and sheep. Could it be that this Han official wanted to defraud them of their cattle and sheep?
Zhao Gui, who was in the front, didn't expect that he would be considered a liar by everyone even though he had said it all!
As the Xianbei women and children got closer and closer to Yunzhong City, more and more people came over, including soldiers from the Tengjia Army and civilians from the Tengjia Army, some of whom came to watch the fun.
"This batch of Xianbei women and children is not as good as the batch brought by General Wang Lei. There is a huge difference in appearance!"
"There is nothing we can do about it. After all, Xianbei in the west is a windy and sandy place, so the women's posture will naturally be worse. But what General Wang Lei conquered was Baitan Mountain, the royal court of the Xianbei people, which is equivalent to the Luoyang City of our Han Dynasty.
, Luoyang City naturally brings together the most beautiful women in our entire Han Dynasty, and similarly, the Xianbei Wang Ting also brings together the most beautiful women in the entire desert, and the women in Baitan Mountain are naturally not bad in appearance!"
The people chatting were obviously two married tribesmen, so they could stand and talk without pain, and the singles glared at them!
The two people who were talking saw that they had made the public angry, so they immediately shut up!
Most of the other tribesmen who came here wanted to solve personal problems. They carefully stared at each attacking woman and child to decide who to attack. Gu Shu
It was just their looks that made these women and children wonder for the first time whether they were in the wrong place!
Niu Gui led the soldiers of Yunzhong County to maintain the situation around him. He felt ashamed when he saw the looks in the eyes of the people around him.
But he held back, as long as he wanted a wife, these tribesmen would not be able to escape from his grasp.
In the days that followed, Niu Gui arranged for soldiers to protect these women and children, and learned Xu Wei's method to arrange blind dates for them. As long as a couple fell in love with him, he would immediately host the wedding, give them houses and land (they needed their own
Open up wasteland!) Send pastures, it can be said that as long as people get married in Yunzhong County, they can immediately get property. How can Xianbei women and children resist such a temptation? So in the entire Yunzhong County, thousands of people get married every month.
Hundreds of couples got married, so much so that Niu Gui wrote to Xu Wei, asking for financial support!
And just when Yunzhong County was bustling with activity every day, a cavalry team rushed to Yunzhong County! Then they broke into Niu Gui's prefect's mansion.
He came to Niu Gui and said disappointedly: "Brother Niu, you actually did such a thing, I am really disappointed!"
Niu Gui was surprised and said: "Zhao Rong, why did you show up in Yunzhong County?"
Zhao Rong said angrily: "My brother has kept the women and children of the Xianbei people. Your Yunzhong County needs people, but my Wuyuan County doesn't need them! But my brother has placed all the women and children in your Yunzhong County. Let us
Wuyuan County didn't even drink a sip of soup, brother, do you think this is appropriate?"
Niu Gui immediately said to Wang Yong: "Zhao Rong, you don't know my difficulty, brother. I want to build a canal, but there is no one, so I won't tell you. At worst, I will build it slower. But this time
The Huns came to Yunzhong County to burn, kill and loot. Our Yunzhong County suffered heavy casualties. We didn’t have much population in the first place, but now tens of thousands of our tribesmen have died, all of them young and strong. I am just trying to save money on women and children now.
It’s just the development of Yunzhong County!”
After hearing this, Zhao Rong shed tears directly and said: "Brother, you don't know the difficulties of my little brother. Wuyuan County is not as big as Yunzhong County, and its population is not as large as Yunzhong County. The support it receives is even less than that of Yunzhong County."
county.
When I went to Wuyuan County, I saw at a glance that there were deserts everywhere, and the area close to the Yellow River was only a little popular. I was tremblingly trying to think of ways to develop Wuyuan County.
But I didn't expect that the Xianbei people suddenly came and killed me. I was caught off guard and could only hide in Jiuyuan City to resist the Xianbei army of 30,000 people. However, the Xianbei people burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. The entire Wuyuan County was ruined by them, and half of them died.
The current population of Wuyuan County is probably not even as good as that of Yunzhong County. Brother, seeing that my younger brother is in such misery, please support me with a little more population!"
This makes the listeners sad and shed tears! So much so that Niu Gui felt that he had gone too far.
But he would not give up the population: "It is not easy to deal with the lack of population. You go to Qu Shuai. Now we have 500,000 people in Mayi, and the entire population of Yanmen County has exceeded one million. Now Mayi is the capital of
We are a little overwhelmed, which is why Qushuai asked us to divert the population. If you go to Qushuai, Qushuai will definitely help transport the population!"
Zhao Rong continued to cry: "Of course I also found Qu Shuai, but the water from far away can't quench my thirst. Brother, there are 60,000 to 70,000 more people here. I think Yunzhong County will not be able to bear such a large foreign population.
It’s better to divert some of them to my brother’s Wuyuan County. I’m not greedy either. Only 30,000 people are enough, and I’m not old or weak!”
Niu Gui heard this and said: "Don't think about it. I am cultivating the fields now. Not to mention these tens of thousands of people. Even if another 100,000 people come, I, Yunzhong County, can swallow them up!"
Zhao Rong also said with a cold face at this time: "Brother, this is going too far. These Xianbei people are the tribes around our Wuyuan County. Logically speaking, they are the population of our Wuyuan County."
Niu Guidao: "But now that they have arrived in our Yunzhong County, they are our Yunzhong County tribesmen!"
Zhao Rongdao: "Brother, don't forget, these are not the prisoners of your Yunzhong County, but the people brought by Captain Huanglong. They are not the prisoners of your Yunzhong County, nor are they members of your tribe. Strictly speaking, what do they want to do?"
The freedom of these Xianbei women and children is everywhere. You must know that Qu Shuai values military discipline the most. If I know that you have detained Xianbei women and children, I am afraid that you, the prefect of Yunzhong County, will not be able to continue to watch!"
Niu Gui nearly spat out his blood and said, "Don't wrongly accuse good people. I didn't restrict their personal freedom at all. Instead, I gave them houses, land, and pasture!"
Zhao Rong nodded and said: "It's best if there are no restrictions. In this way, it's okay for me to contact them. Isn't it just a gift of a house, land, and pasture? Don't we have these things in Wuyuan County!"
So Zhao Rong began to contact these Xianbei women and children, and then kept telling them about the conditions for immigrating to Wuyuan County. As long as they were willing to go to Wuyuan County, they would not only get houses, farmland, and pasture, but he, the prefect, could also help them buy farm tools.
, help them sell cattle and sheep. In short, the conditions are better than the cattle being more expensive for them.
Zhao Rong even played the fellow villager card, saying that if people leave their hometown and are humble, it is best to live in their hometown. Most of these Xianbei women and children are herdsmen from Shuofang County near Wuyuan, and many Xianbei people
The women and children also thought this was reasonable. Why should they stay in Yunzhong County, a place they were unfamiliar with, when they could graze in their hometown?
So with such a hometown card, Zhao Rong really attracted thousands of Xianbei women and children to decide to return to his hometown, and this in turn attracted thousands of bachelors to decide to follow Zhao Rong and settle in Wuyuan County.
Zhao Rong even lent Niu Gui's land to these newlyweds to get married. After the wedding, he asked Fan Xian to transport these people by boat to Wuyuan County to settle down.
These actions of Zhao Rong almost made Niu Gui angry to death! This was a slap in the face.
A few days later, Wang Lei came to Yunzhong County by water and joined the battle for population. The discounts they gave each other became increasingly stronger!
In the end, the people of Yunzhong County couldn't stand it anymore. This was not bullying. They came to Yunzhong County to get a bride. This was looking down on someone!
As a result, the atmosphere among these three groups became increasingly tense, even to the point of becoming tense. Every day, the three groups would curse each other and then engage in fist fights.
After all, Shuofang and Wuyuan County were outsiders and did not have an advantage in numbers, so soon the people of Shuofang County and Wuyuan County began to form an alliance to resist the people of Yunzhong County.
And this matter eventually evolved into a fight between Zhao Rong, Wang Lei and Niu Gui. Zhao Rong teamed up with Wang Lei to beat up Niu Gui. Now the matter was considered the boss.
Wang Yong and Huang Long stopped them, reported the matter to Xu Wei, and asked him how to solve it!