But Xu Wei's troubles are getting bigger. The early victims Xu Wei have all been resettled nearby. In addition to the victims working in various industries, the entire Taiyuan County has resettled about 500,000 victims. There are still many wastelands on both sides of the Fenhe River in Xihe County that have not been reclaimed. Xu Wei arranged
300,000 people came to cultivate the land.
These 800,000 disaster victims have filled up the entire Taiyuan County and Xihe County. It is not impossible to continue to cultivate other areas, but most of them are mountainous areas. Not only is it difficult to cultivate, but the harvest is not high!
After Xu Wei's logging team cut down the trees to build tracks and houses, they arranged for people to plant various fruit saplings. After a few years, these fruits can be sold, and it can also reduce the number of canned fruits sold to herders who lack vitamins, and the industrial chain has also been improved.
Extension, in short, Xu Wei's experience has extended the industrial chain and placed more workers!
Coming to Taiyuan County, the coal and steel industries are indispensable. Xu Wei asked Old Man Niu to bring the elites of Mayi Steel Plant to Taiyuan County, preparing to build a steel plant that is ten times larger than Mayi Steel Plant. The steel plant alone needs
There are more than 30,000 workers. In a word, there is no way to resettle the victims in agriculture, so we will resettle them in industry to try our best to provide employment opportunities for the people.
Xu Wei thought that the maximum number of people who came to Bingzhou would be about 1 to 2 million. If Guangxin occupied Taiyuan County and Xihe County, most of them could be resettled. If hundreds of thousands more people were resettled in other places, the refugee problem would be solved.
So after the resettlement in Xihe County and Taiyuan County was completed, Xu Wei allowed the refugees to continue going north. Yanmen County had no land for cultivation, but the handicraft industry was developed, and it could even be said to be the most developed area on the planet.
Xu Wei also asked various workshops in Mayi to recruit as many workers as possible, and each workshop recruited one-tenth of the workers. At the same time, Xu Wei also contacted Zhen An and other textile manufacturers in Mayi to reduce taxes and help
In exchange for loans to expand workshops, etc., they allowed them to recruit more victims. Although Yanmen County has a large population, it should not be a problem to resettle 500,000 victims. In this way, the problem of victims will be solved.
But Xu Wei did not expect that there would be so many victims. Even after Bingzhou received millions of people, there was no decrease. Instead, the number of people entering per person soared to 100,000 per day! Judging from the current situation, the number of disaster victims in Dahan is at least 500-
More than 6 million!
This caught Xu Wei a bit off guard. After resettling millions of victims in Yanmen County, Taiyuan County and Xihe County, they were already overcrowded. To continue to resettle the victims, they could only rely on the three counties of Hetao, which are vast and sparsely populated.
There is a large amount of land that can be cultivated in the Hetao. Xu Wei, Wang Lei, Zhao Rong and Niu Gui have now issued orders, asking them to find ways to resettle millions of refugees in each county!
After Zhang Baiqi accepted millions of refugees, he persuaded Xu Wei to stop, because the current number of refugees was most beneficial to the Tengjia Army. It could increase the strength of the Tengjia Army without affecting the subsequent development of the Tengjia Army. And if
If it continues to increase, it will be too much pressure on the entire Tengjia Army.
Zhang Baiqi settled the accounts for Xu Wei: "Due to the sudden increase in the number of refugees and the lack of land, we have arranged a large number of refugees to become construction workers and let them build roads, tracks, and resettlement houses for refugees in various places. This alone has cost a billion dollars."
, this is still in nearby places such as Taiyuan County and Xihe County.
If we really want to move the victims to Shuofang County, which is almost 3,000 miles away, it will cost about 5 billion yuan to move more than a million victims and settle in Hetao. Wuyuan County may be a little less, but it will probably cost 4 billion yuan.
The least is Yunzhong County, but it is estimated to cost more than 3 billion yuan.
Moreover, as the population of these counties increases, the number of soldiers to protect them will increase accordingly. The current 5,000 soldiers in one battalion is obviously insufficient. At least, it must be increased to 20,000 in 4 battalions. The three counties are 60,000. The additional
The annual expenses of these soldiers will be more than 2 billion yuan. It is conservatively estimated that we will have to fill in 15 billion yuan for disaster relief this year. This is equivalent to the tax of the imperial court for 5 years. Even we in Mayi can be considered rich for two years, but Qu Shuai
Even if this consumes all the savings of the entire Tengjia Army, it won’t be enough!”
Xu Wei earned a lot, but he also spent a lot. It cost more than 10 billion just to build Mayi into what it is now. In addition, he purchased a large amount of grain from his tribe every year, and Mayi had a surplus of 30 million shi of grain.
, even the purchase price is worth 3 billion, so Mayi's financial balance is not very large, only about 5 billion. If most of the victims are not satisfied with what they have to eat, Mayi's bankruptcy would not be able to complete such a large project.
!
But Xu Wei said with a smile: "Not all of them need to spend money. At least for the millions of victims of the reclamation, we only need to spend some food and farm tools to let them survive this year. Next year they can feed themselves alone, and we can still
Shangjun has hundreds of thousands of refugees settled there, which leaves almost 3 million refugees who only need food and don't need to spend money.
We in Mayi have the help of various chemical fertilizers, and the yield per mu is generally 2-3 times that of other places in Dahan. As long as half of the refugees here can farm, it is enough to feed all the refugees, and the rest can become workers, and there are many prefectures and counties.
It is remote and there is nothing except a few small counties. We can conduct militarized management of the remaining victims and turn them into an infrastructure army to build roads, tracks, houses, city walls, water conservancy facilities, etc. throughout Bingzhou. As long as we have money,
I’m afraid they won’t be able to find work! Right now we have only hosted more than 1 million refugees. Don’t underestimate Bingzhou’s potential. According to our plan, if everyone works harder, Bingzhou as a whole can accommodate more than 5 million disaster victims!”
Zhang Baiqi was stunned when he heard it, and it took him a long time to say: "Qushuai, if we really follow your approach, I'm afraid that our 30 million shi of food in Mayi will be consumed. Qushuai really wants to let us in Mayi."
Bankrupt!"
He had heard the word bankruptcy from Xu Wei. He thought that the Tengjia Army could have a healthy financial balance of more than one billion yuan every year. The word bankruptcy could only appear in the Han Dynasty court, but he did not expect that the word would be used so soon.
to their own heads.
Compared with money, Zhang Baiqi pays more attention to the production of food. Now the world is obviously in chaos. Even if you have money, you can't buy food. So Zhang Baiqi doesn't care if you run out of money, but Zhang Baiqi doesn't care if you run out of food.
It's time to jump up and down.
"Qu Shuai, you are drinking poison to quench your thirst. Bingzhou can only accommodate a maximum of 2 million people. Now we have saved millions of people. No one in the world can point our fingers at us! Continuing to accept refugees will exceed the capabilities of our Tengjia Army.
. Qu Shuai has spent all his money and still cannot shake the foundation of our Tengjia Army. If there is no food, not only will Bingzhou be in chaos, but even our Tengjia Army will be in chaos!"
Xu Wei sighed and said: "This year's flood in the Yellow River has created millions of refugees. If we don't save them, with the corruption of the Han Dynasty, these people will not survive this winter. These victims have no way to go. They left their homes and came to Bingzhou.
, it is because our Tengjia Army gave these disaster victims hope to survive. In order to survive, they have embarked on the road to move north. If their road is cut off now, it will not mean that they will die!
"Zimeng, when you rebelled with the Great Master, you didn't just want the lower class people of the Han Dynasty to survive. Now why do you have to cut off the livelihood of these millions of refugees!"
Zhang Baiqi said calmly: "It's because I saw the failure of the Great Sage Master that I realized how powerful the Great Han is. We can't increase our strength quickly. When the Great Han recovers, only a few hundred of our Tengjia Army will be defeated."
Thousands of people.
Valley test
Compared with these refugees, I have to protect the safety of these millions of people even more. Accepting 1 million refugees can accelerate the development of our Tengjia Army. If we accept more than 3 million refugees, our Tengjia Army will definitely fall into stagnation for several years.
Period, and if we accept more than 5 million refugees, not only will our entire Bingzhou be in chaos, but even our Tengjia Army will be affected!"
"The Han want us to accept their burden now! Commander Qu, we don't have many fights with the Han court, but the court attaches great importance to us. There are more than 200,000 elites around Bingzhou. As long as we show our flaws, the court will definitely
He will strike us with thunder and then kill us completely."
"We can't just follow the footsteps of the Han Dynasty. They rushed to our Bingzhou without the ability to accept the victims. We must prevent the victims from continuing to move towards Bingzhou. Commander Qu, I also know that saying this is very cruel to the victims who have not entered Bingzhou, but
If we don't do this, we will be cruel to our own people, and if the number of victims in Bingzhou continues to increase like this, our Tengjia Army will be dragged to death!"
Xu Weidao: "Zimeng, your estimate is too conservative. Human potential is infinite. If you don't push yourself, you don't know how capable you are. I think the arrival of these 5 million refugees in Mayi will not delay our Tengjia."
The development of the army will also be a boost to the growth of our Tengjia army!"
Xu Wei vaguely felt that Emperor Ling died in the past two years. Xu Wei often played "Three Kingdoms". He remembered that the Yellow Turban Uprising was in 184 AD, and that the princes challenged Dong in 190, which means that Emperor Ling was here in 5-
He died within 6 years, and Xu Wei remembered that it had been almost five years since he came to this world, which means that in less than a year, the Ling Emperor will be dead, and the world will be in chaos. By then, the situation of the Tengjia Army will be
It will be much better.
It's not like Gongsun Zan's 50,000 field troops in Youzhou, Liu Bei's 100,000 troops in Jizhou, and Dong Zhuo's 60,000 troops in Shangdang. Although the Han Dynasty has not officially attacked the Tengjia Army, it is not at all prepared for the Tengjia Army.
Not low!
Isn't it just 5 million victims? After Emperor Ling died, all the princes were busy dealing with Dong Zhuo. If I only robbed Youzhou or Jizhou, how many refugees would not be able to be resettled!
Does the entire Han Dynasty have a large population now? It only has a population of 50 to 60 million. Compared with the Han Dynasty, the country is obviously very vast and sparsely populated!
Zhang Baiqi hesitated and said: "Shuai Qu, do you want to arm them and become our vanguard against the big Han? Are you going to start an all-out attack on the big Han?"
He thought that Xu Wei wanted to recruit cannon fodder and officially planned to start an all-out war with the Han Dynasty! Not only would people die in a battle, but if they occupied new territory, they could also kill the nobles and harvest a sum of money and food, and they could also divide the fields to resettle the refugees! It seemed like
The only way to solve the problem of too many disaster victims in Bingzhou.
Xu Wei said helplessly: "The autumn harvest is about to begin now. How can there be a war? Do we have to go through it next year?"
Zhang Baiqi saw that he could not persuade Xu Wei and said helplessly: "Shuai Qu, how about we summon the top management of Mayi and discuss how to deal with the problem of refugees?"
Xu Wei thought about it and knew that he wanted to unify the differences within the Tengjia Army, so he agreed!
Ten days later, except for Wang Lei who was too far away and did not come, the other high-level officials of Mayi gathered in Taiyuan County, and the Taishou Mansion held a high-level meeting of the entire Tengjia Army!
As a supporter, Zhang Baiqi told everyone about the current situation faced by the Tengjia Army, and told everyone that the number of disaster victims who have entered Bingzhou has exceeded 2 million, and the number is still increasing! For every extra day of delay, Ma Yi will
We need to take care of 100,000 more disaster victims!
Old Man Wang said strangely: "What is there to discuss? Of course we have to save people. A few years ago, our lives were worse than these victims. Now that everyone has lived a good life, they have become the kind of people we hated back then."
People who are rich and unkind!"
Old Man Niu also said: "If we do this, it's a waste of human life, isn't it?"
Zhang Baiqi knew that Old Man Wang and Old Man Niu were kind-hearted, so he said: "Now two million people, even if they eat 10 shi of grain each, will eat up our 20 million shi of grain in one year. And if the number of disaster victims doubles,
Our food reserves are not enough, and now there are more than 4-5 million victims in the Han Dynasty. It’s not that I don’t agree with the treatment, I just want our Tengjia Army to do what we can!"
Xu Wei said: "That's not how the accounts are calculated. A year ago, we in Mayi could harvest 30 million shi of grain. Now we occupy most of Bingzhou. Even if the water conservancy facilities have not been fully rolled out, the entire Bingzhou
It seems that Bingzhou can harvest more than 60 million shi of grain. If calculated based on 10 shi, Bingzhou's grain is enough to feed 6 million people. Moreover, our water conservancy facilities and chemical fertilizers have been fully spread in Bingzhou. The entire Bingzhou harvest of 150 million shi of grain is enough.
It shouldn’t be a problem! So Bingzhou’s population is far from reaching its limit!”
Zhang Baiqi retorted: "Qu Shuai calculated the best case scenario. What if there is a drought in Bingzhou? All our food has been used to help the victims. What if we don't have food in stock and encounter a disaster? Although we have not had enough food in the past two years,
The government of the city is well managed, but natural and man-made disasters continue to occur in other parts of the Han Dynasty. Who can guarantee that natural disasters will not come to Bingzhou."
Old Man Wang and Old Man Niu immediately stopped talking. Although they were kind-hearted, they could not help these refugees by harming the interests of the Tengjia Army!
Niu Fu said: "It's not as exaggerated as Brother Zimeng said. I'm looking at building water conservancy facilities in Yunzhong County this year! Now there are 3 million acres of irrigated land in Yunzhong County, and the grain growth is also very good. As long as there are no surprises, Yunzhong County will be built this year."
Not only can Zhong County be self-sufficient in food, but it can also provide food to the surrounding herdsmen. I am worried about the lack of labor every day, and many plans are difficult to carry out. If Qu Shuai supports 5 million stones of grain and grass, I, Yunzhong County, can accept 1 million.
Refugees!”
Zhang Baiqi couldn't believe it and said, "Yunzhong County really has a grain harvest of tens of millions of dan this year?"
Did he know that Yunzhong County has always been a poorer place than Mayi? It can't grow much food at all and can only graze!