Just a few days after Xu Wei got married, he started working normally. Now the Tengjia Army is very busy. In the past few years, Bingzhou has resettled more than 6 million disaster victims and relocated more than a million Hu people.
Bingzhou, which only had a population of 2 million, has seen its population surge to nearly 10 million. Such a large population has put Bingzhou under tremendous pressure.
The mountainous area of Bingzhou is not suitable for reclamation. Many disaster victims have joined the engineering team and make a living by helping Bingzhou do basic projects. It can be said that the Tengjia Army is completely supporting these people.
After Youzhou was captured, the Tengjia Army continued to transfer people to Youzhou. The number of engineering team members in the hands of the Tengjia Army alone exceeded one million. People here came to Youzhou to build Youzhou's tracks, roads, and reclaim new lands.
fields, build new cities and ports, and become workers on new projects.
It is precisely because of the efforts of these workers that Youzhou has undergone rapid changes in the more than half a year since it was taken over by the Tengjia Army, and the discovery was extremely fast!
The Youzhou region is vast and open, with relatively flat terrain and many plains. Of course, because of the sparse population, these plains are all wasteland, but such land can be reclaimed in time.
Millions of people moved out of Bingzhou, which reduced the pressure on Bingzhou's population. However, these million people could not fill the vast Youzhou, especially the Liaodong region. The area was only slightly smaller than Bingzhou, but it did not even have a population of one million.
, it can be said that the city is a wilderness, and there are even more barbarians around it than the Han people. You must know that this is the scope of the three eastern provinces in later generations, the granary of the Celestial Dynasty. As long as it is developed, it is easy to support a population of tens of millions, so
The current development direction of the Tengjia Army is from Youbeiping County to gradually moving towards the Liaodong area, striving to move more than half of the population of Bingzhou to Liaodong! Reduce the population pressure on Bingzhou.
Of course, due to the lack of food by the Tengjia Army, most of the current relocated population is in areas with a higher degree of development such as Yuyang, and the Liaodong area can only be developed after the Tengjia Army does not lack food.
The Tengjia Army did not restrict the herdsmen on the grasslands from entering and exiting the Han Dynasty. The horse market that had been practiced by the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years had basically been abolished. In Xu Wei's view, the so-called horse market was just a few profiteers who got rich, and it would not
How much change it brings to the situation on the border will not bring much benefit to the increase in the number of people of the two ethnic groups on the border. Even the merchants on these borders colluded with the cholera men internally and externally, and the horse market policy of restricting herdsmen simply outweighed the gains and losses. Then Xu Wei
Simply abolish it. In Xu Wei's view, doing business requires dividing the territory, which is simply sick.
Now the herdsmen on the grasslands have the same status as the Han people. They can freely enter and exit the territory of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, they can also leave the market freely like the common people of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, there is no need for a special horse market.
Since the entire Youzhou was occupied by the Tengjia Army, Yuyang City has become the favorite market for herdsmen in the entire eastern grassland. The herdsmen drive their cattle, sheep, and war horses here to buy various products from the Tengjia Army.
Ironware, daily necessities, and food can be said to be the same as those in Mayi Market, but there are two more specialties in Yuyang that are not even available in Mayi. One is salt.
Since Xu Wei developed the salt-drying technology, Tengjia Army established several salt-drying fields along the coast of Youzhou. These salt fields allowed the entire Youzhou to produce 100,000 stones of refined salt per month at its peak, and as the salt fields continued to grow
Expansion, this number is still increasing. The refined salt from the salt farm meets the needs of the entire Tengjia Army, and even the needs of the entire grassland herdsmen. The low price of three yuan per catty shocked the entire grassland, which is cheaper than the original price.
More than ten times, a large number of Hu merchants came to Yuyang to buy refined salt and transport it to other parts of the grassland.
In addition to refined salt, Yuyang's dried salted fish is also the favorite product of the herdsmen who come to Yuyang. The dried salted fish can not only be used as food but also as table salt. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone, and the price of dried salted fish is also high.
It is very close to the people, and most herdsmen can afford to buy it. Many herdsmen store dried salted fish for winter!
So when Xu Wei came to Yuyang Market, people were coming and going, it was bustling, and it was very lively. In terms of the flow of people, it was not inferior to the market in Mayi.
Officials in Yuyang City told Xu Wei that because of the Han Dynasty's warning, local businessmen no longer went south, and businessmen from the Central Plains also went to Youzhou and Bingzhou because the Tengjia Army pacified the desert and there were risks in doing business on the grasslands.
The price was greatly reduced, and with the addition of wool in the grass, which was a highly profitable specialty, merchants began to operate grassland trade routes. The number of merchants in Mayi and Yuyang increased sharply, and the markets were overcrowded and merchants gathered.
The arrival of some businessmen accelerated the exchange of materials between Damo and the Tengjia Army, and also increased the taxes on the Tengjia Army's territory. Now the city tax on the Tengjia Army's territory has become the third largest in the Tengjia Army's territory.
It's a tax.
Xu Wei looked at the lively market. There were crowds of people of all colors. Xu Wei could even see many white people from later generations. It was very difficult to see white people in this era. White people in the Han Dynasty
, either they came from the Western Region thousands of miles away, or they were Dingling people from beyond the North Sea.
In other words, the white people Xu Wei saw were all caravans who came to the territory of the Tengjia Army from thousands or even tens of thousands of miles away. In terms of the conditions of this era, every Hu who came to the Han Dynasty
It can be said that Shang had a narrow escape from death. Being able to come to Yuyang required not only strength, but also luck.
A Hu merchant selling gems saw Xu Wei surrounded by people, thinking that Xu Wei was a big shot and said: "Sir, do you want gems? The gems I have here are brighter than the sun and more gorgeous than the rainbow!"
Xu Wei looked at the white-looking businessman and asked, "Are you from the Western Regions?"
Hu Shang nodded and said: "I am from Wusun! Sir, your status is so high, only these gems in my hand can be worthy of you!"
Xu Wei saw some sparkling diamonds. He didn't care, but he thought that Zhang Ning should like these sparkling diamonds, so he said, "How can I sell these two diamonds?"
"100,000 yuan each!" Hu Shang said happily. Diamonds are the most difficult to sell among his gems. The rich people in Han Dynasty don't like these transparent stones.
He was originally doing business in Luoyang City, but he encountered Dong Zhuo's warning. As a Westerner like him, he naturally became a first-class fat pig. All the goods in his shop and manor in Luoyang City were robbed, and he only
He took these gems and fled to the territory of the Tengjia Army.
Xu Wei took out the woolen cloth tickets and said: "These are woolen cloth tickets worth 200,000 yuan. You can take these cloth tickets to the bank and exchange them for 200,000 yuan!"
Under Xu Wei's promotion of woolen cloth tickets, one piece of wool is worth 1,000 yuan, which can be said to be a child's fault. Now such woolen cloth has spread all over the territory of the Tengjia Army, and merchants also like to receive these woolen cloth tickets, because wool
The value of cloth is high, even if they don't get any money, they can still make a lot of money by getting these woolen cloths!