Chapter 596 The Dragon Slayer Becomes an Evil Dragon
Before Liu Bei's large-scale development of the entire Jiangnan area, the Jiangnan area of the Eastern Han Dynasty was a barren land with an extremely large number of tigers, crocodiles and other wild beasts. Not only was it extremely difficult to develop, it was also extremely dangerous. Naturally, there was a lack of population.
So he began to pay attention to these Baiyue mountain people. At the beginning, he used fair and just policies to attract these mountain people to settle in Jiangnan and become common people of the Han Dynasty. This is also the reason why there are tens of millions of people in the remote Jiangnan, because Liu Bei moved More than 3 million people from Shanyue were taken away, which expanded the population of the entire Jiangnan area, unlike the Han Dynasty who simply pretended that these people did not exist.
For these people in Shanyue, they can have a household registration of a Han Dynasty, which is more attractive than a household registration in Hope Country. Anyone who doesn't come is a fool. In addition, Liu Bei treats the people of Shanyue fairly. After everyone has an example, they believe in Liu Bei even more. , only then did the current large-scale development in Jiangnan occur.
But there are really many people who were deceived by the big man, or who were stubborn mountain people who were not willing to come out. Instead, they continued to fight against the big man. Liu Bei was also polite and directly let these people taste the iron fist of the big man. Naturally, the captured mountain people could not They enjoyed the benefits of Dahan household registration, so Liu Bei learned the policy of Daqian and made them prisoners to open up wasteland for three years before they could become common people of Dahan.
At the beginning, Liu Bei wanted to use these three years to let these savages go wild, and at the same time let them adapt to the life of the Han Dynasty so that they could become common people of the Han Dynasty. After all, the pressure Xu Wei brought to him was extremely great. With less than a thousand people in the south of the Yangtze River, With a population of 10,000, to deal with Dagan, which has a population of more than 30 million in the Central Plains, he desperately needs allies, even if these people are savages!
At the beginning, the effect of this policy was extremely good. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others brought a large army together with Wu Lingman and other leading parties. The Han army quickly eliminated these tribes who were unwilling to cooperate with Liu Bei and purged the entire Jingzhou and Yangzhou. The savages also received a large amount of labor force, allowing the development of Jiangnan to proceed smoothly!
The population of Jiangnan increased by more than 3 million, adding a million young and strong labor force. At the same time, he also recruited nearly 100,000 barbarian soldiers. Although these soldiers had poor discipline, they were extremely powerful in combat and the recruitment cost was extremely low. It can be said that In the battle with Dagan, Liu Bei was defeated repeatedly, but he could still fight again and again. It was thanks to such cheap but powerful barbarian soldiers that he did not damage Jiangnan's roots and allowed him to quickly Reply strength!
But any policy will change due to interests, but Liu Bei set off a wave of development in the entire Jiangnan area, and Daqian drove the powerful nobles from the Central Plains to Jiangnan to let them join this wave. So, just like the historical trip to the south, these The powerful nobles in the Central Plains had no choice but to take matters into their own hands and began to change the barbaric scene in the south of the Yangtze River little by little.
And this has caused a huge gap in the labor force in Jiangnan, especially those who do dangerous work (you will encounter tigers and wild boars in the wild, and crocodiles in the rivers, especially during this time period, there will be no shortage of crocodiles in Jiangnan, otherwise there will be There will no longer be a story about Zhou Chu getting rid of the three evils, this is after Jiangdong has experienced a hundred years of development), and there will not be much trouble if he dies. At least for the wealthy nobles and others, the labor force will not bring big trouble.
The people of the Han Dynasty were strongly protected by Liu Bei. They were taught by Liu Bei's iron fist how to deal with the powerful nobles who challenged Liu Bei's bottom line. Everyone watched Liu Bei resisting the Thunder God, but they did not dare to go too far. More important things, they
Can't beat Liu Bei.
So they set their sights on these prisoners of war. Not only were they not common people of the Han Dynasty, but they were also against the Han Dynasty. It would not be a pity for such people to die. The most important thing is that there are countless such people in the endless mountains in the south of the Yangtze River.
Tribes, if they were captured, their own Wubao would not have enough labor force for farming.
So the entire Han Dynasty set off a trend of arresting mountain wild people. Liu Bei saw that this would be beneficial to the development of Jiangnan, and these savages were not Han people, so he turned a blind eye, but he never
I thought that this trend would expand so much. In Yangzhou, all the savage tribes in Jingzhou were captured, and these slave-catching teams began to go deep into Jiaozhou. Even the number of savages in Jiaozhou has become less over the years, and the slave-catching teams of the Han Dynasty began to go deep into Jiaozhou.
In the deep mountains and old forests outside.
Nowadays, a slave in the Han Dynasty is worth 50,000 yuan. In the face of such huge wealth, the slave catching teams of the Han Dynasty have become popular. As long as they capture a tribe, people can find out. Under the temptation of money, even in dangerous places, these people can
Dare to go!
The largest slave-catching team among them was Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping's. After all, they had the support of the Han army, and they also recruited retired soldiers of the Han Dynasty. At first, Liu Bei thought that the two of them wanted to help him solve the problem of placing soldiers, but for a while
He felt that, but soon he discovered that Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping were leading people to capture savages outside Jiaozhou!
Of course Liu Bei hated this kind of thing. Originally, he wanted to stop the actions of Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, and even wanted to stop the habit of catching slaves in the Han Dynasty. After all, the Han Dynasty was a feudal country, not a slave country. Everyone's
Nor do moral habits like forcing people to be slaves in this way.
It's a pity that Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping handed the account book to Liu Bei and said: "Now the slave-catching team's annual income exceeds 1 billion, and it is still increasing. It is difficult for the general to develop Jiangnan. It can even be said that this is a
There is a war, and there is blood under every acre of land, and this blood is inevitable."
"Now the general does not want us to capture prisoners of war and use these prisoners of war to carry out the most arduous and dangerous reclamation work. Then we, the Han people, will have to do these tasks, and the only thing left behind will be the blood of our Han people!
Is it because the general saw the blood and sacrifice of my fellow Han people, or because he saw these savages bleeding and dying!"
Liu Bei was speechless when he said that the Han Dynasty was indispensable for its population both economically and for practical needs, especially under the oppression of the Da Qian. If the Han Dynasty could not develop rapidly and increase its strength, it would definitely be annexed by the Da Qian.
Faced with this situation where development is slow and will perish, Liu Bei can only lower his moral bottom line. He can only focus on the people of the Han Dynasty not being persecuted by the noble clans! At the same time, he believes that as long as all the barbarians in the south of the Yangtze River are captured,
This trend will stop.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But Liu Bei would have thought that in the face of interests, morality is just a footcloth. The entire Jiangnan spans five thousand miles of rivers and mountains, and 10 million people are not enough, even for the entire continent.
It would be difficult to complete the important task of Jiangnan development if all the people involved join in.
Therefore, with the deepening of the development of Jiangnan, more and more wealthy nobles felt that they had too little labor force, which led to the price of prisoners of war getting higher and higher, so the demand became greater and greater, and this is how the Han slave-catching team appeared.
Such a thing as going deep into the south beyond Jiaozhou!
Today's Han Dynasty has somewhat returned to the appearance of the previous Han Dynasty. Not only is it full of martial virtue, but the powerful men below also have groups of slaves. With the efforts of these slaves, forts have been built one by one, and pieces of land have been reclaimed.
After Liu Bei came out, Jiangnan's economy increased by more than 5 times, and tax revenue increased by more than 10 times under Liu Bei's hands.
It was because of the sharp increase in strength of the big man that Liu Bei turned a blind eye to such a situation, but he never imagined that just Su and Zhang Shiping could provide 100,000 prisoners of war, so the entire Jiangnan could only have a million
Such a slave!
Liu Bei closed his eyes, and what he thought about was that he wanted to get rid of the evil government of the Han Dynasty and help the world and the people. But now that he has finally become the kind of person he looked down on at the beginning, it is difficult for him to refuse the benefits of being a prisoner of war.
Liu Bei's inner activities are something Yuan Ji and others don't understand, especially Yuan Ji. Their family has a lot of slaves, and there are hundreds of thousands of people attached to his family in Runan County. This is what Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu can easily pull out.
The reason why tens of thousands of people are against Dong Zhuo is that the powerful gentry in Jiangnan each have hundreds or thousands of savages who are not even noticed by him.
He continued to talk: "Apart from Kuaiji County, the most important thing is the defense of Wu County and the Yangtze River Estuary. If these two places are broken through by Fan Xian of Daqian, Yangzhou will be completely surrounded by Daqian."
, if Yangzhou is occupied by Dagan, our defense system in the south of the Yangtze River will be completely broken. Dagan is dispersing its main force to Yangzhou to facilitate their attack on Jingzhou! But now the only way we can think of is to fight Dagan at sea.
It is possible to build solid defenses along the coast to delay Daqian's attack. After all, there is not enough food in these places, and our attack on Daqian's food road is our only chance to win!"
But when Yuan Ji spoke, he realized that Liu Bei was still closing his eyes.
This made Jian Yong worried and asked: "Xuande, what's wrong with you?"
After a long time, Liu Bei shook his head and said: "It's okay. We don't need to be too nervous now. Daqian has not mobilized troops yet. Even if they are currently stationed in Ryukyu, it will be difficult to attack our base in a short time due to the remoteness of Ryukyu! And Yangzhou
In comparison, I am more worried about the problem in Hanzhong. Zhang Lu and we are not of the same mind. He has a complicated relationship with the Yellow Turban Army. In the past, he only joined us to deal with Dagan for self-protection, but now he sees that it is difficult for us big men to deal with Dagan, so he may not
He will not surrender to Lei Gong. After all, they are all members of the Taoist sect. With this relationship, Lei Gong may not do anything to him! If Zhang Lu surrenders to Daqian, Hanzhong will definitely not be safe. If Hanzhong is not safe, Shuzhong will definitely not be stable, so
The problem in Hanzhong is what we should be most concerned about at this stage."
Yuan Ji nodded slowly. He also believed that Zhang Lu was an unstable factor, especially since Hanzhong was the gateway to Shuzhong, which was extremely important to the current Han Dynasty. However, he still hesitated and said: "The soldiers in Zhang Lu's hands are
We are vulnerable. It will not be difficult for us to defeat them. However, the terrain in Hanzhong is so dangerous that it can be said that one man can't break it. Even if we have hundreds of thousands of troops, it will be difficult for us to invade Hanzhong, not to mention that there is a huge enemy watching us.
Do it!”
"If we make even the slightest move, Zhang Baiqi from Guanzhong may break into Hanzhong. Then we will be really in danger, because we can defeat Zhang Lu, but it will be extremely difficult to expel the army from Hanzhong." !”
Liu Bei said: "So this time I will lead the soldiers into Hanzhong. Before Zhang Lu can react, I will directly capture Zhang Lu and occupy the entire Hanzhong! Yangzhou will be handed over to Yunchang and let him establish a solid defense line in a dangerous place. , we must not let Daqian’s army march straight in!”
Liu Bei finally figured it out. He had given up his moral bottom line, but the big man must be saved!
But Liu Bei didn't know that because Daqian occupied Ryukyu, the entire Kuaiji County and even Yangzhou were in commotion.
Everyone was frightened at the beginning, and the wealthy nobles in Kuaiji County immediately abandoned their property and fled to Jingzhou before Daqian's army even landed in Yangzhou.
In the eyes of the powerful nobles, Da Gan was so scary, and the people of Kuaiji County were also afraid of Da Gan's soldiers because of the insults of the powerful nobles. After all, although the world had been in chaos for decades, Yangzhou had not been affected. It can even be said that the people of Yangzhou have been a little transparent for thousands of years. Even the conflict between Chu and Han did not reach this point.
Both the common people and local powerful people here have continued to live according to the 400-year-old habits of the Han Dynasty. In the past ten years at most, under Liu Bei's governance, Yangzhou has changed with each passing day. The population has doubled in ten years, and the land has increased several times. All parts of Yangzhou have It's bustling during the day, and it can be said that everyone has a good impression of Liu Bei, the great general.
But the arrival of Daqian's army made them finally understand that the world is now in troubled times, and the war has burned their homes. Now the Han Dynasty and above are in peaceful times, but are in troubled times with wars.
For a time, the whole of Yangzhou was in turmoil. Those with money tried to escape from Yangzhou, while those without money tried to hoard food. In this way, they withstood the military disaster.
Guan Yu, the governor of Yangzhou, followed and led soldiers to patrol around Yangzhou to suppress the unrest. After several months of panic, the people of Yangzhou discovered that Daqian's army had not settled on the land of Yangzhou.
Everyone also relaxed and began to resume their previous lives. After all, even if there is a war, everyone's life will continue, and ordinary people cannot afford to stay at home all the time!
Kuaiji County, Dongzhi County!
Zhu Hai brought his buffalo to his own field and continued to cultivate the land. Although the fields were still a bit cold in early spring, Zhu Hai was still sweating profusely.
At this time, a strong man shouted: "Zhu Hai, you started plowing so early?"
When Zhu Hai saw the person coming, he stopped what he was doing and said, "Brother Marlow, why do you have time to see me?"
Marlow approached him and whispered: "Brother, there is a way to make a fortune, I don't know if you dare to do it!"
Zhu Hai asked in a low voice: "What kind of deal?"
Marlow said: "You know about Ryukyu, right?"
Zhu Haidao: "Who in Yangzhou doesn't know this?"
"There are people coming to the island. They buy our grain, grass, and various chickens, ducks, and fish at three times the price. They don't want us to transport them. They just transport the goods to the sea for three times the profit!"
Then he said excitedly: "This is the way God has given us to make a fortune!"