After the hurricane disaster in Guangling subsided in April, Mitsukoshi sent envoys to Chang'an. On the one hand, they wanted to express their stance, and on the other hand, they wanted to see Chang'an's attitude.¤,
Among the three Yue people, the Dongou people are the most anxious.
The hurricane devastated society and the economy in an area as large as one-third of the country.
A conservative estimate is that more than a thousand people died in the hurricane.
If that’s all, then that’s it!
For a country like Dongou, it is not harmful at all for thousands of people to die.
The key is that the hurricane destroyed a large number of villages in Dongou, and the heavy rains and floods that followed made the situation worse.
As the main grain-producing area of Dongou, the northern plains are destined to have no harvest this year.
After the flood, the disease came as expected.
The high temperature in summer aggravates the growth rate of bacteria.
In just half a month, the number of people infected with the disease in Dongou quickly increased to more than 30,000.
This is only what people in Dongou can count.
Patients in mountainous and remote rural areas are left to fend for themselves.
Wind disasters, floods and epidemics have turned nearly one-seventh of the Dongou people into a burden for the small government of Donghai.
In the face of disaster, the people of Dongou, who believed deeply in witch gods, did not have the perseverance to strengthen themselves and face the disaster. Instead, they believed that their country was cursed and fled one after another.
Wherever you can survive, flee to that place.
Most of them fled to the Han Dynasty.
These refugees have no identity, no household registration, and no sponsor.
This means that they are not protected by Han law.
The powerful and wealthy merchants of the Han Dynasty who smelled the smell of blood suddenly thought of their "sense of social responsibility", and many of them brought their domestic slaves, cooking utensils, and clothes to wait at the border of the Han Dynasty.
Just beside the Chi Road. Start a stove, boil water, and make porridge.
A refugee came over and was immediately greeted warmly.
Asking for help and caring in every possible way.
Using all kinds of sweet words, they fooled or encouraged these poor refugees to sign a deed.
Then, let him have a full stomach, put on clean clothes, and take him home.
Today, the imperial court levies a head tax of up to five times on slaves with Han household registration, and adopts a progressive tax rate.
But there is no such restriction for Yidin slaves.
Yidin slaves only need to pay the normal head tax, which is one hundred and twenty yuan per count.
In addition, the price of Han Dynasty slaves has continued to rise in recent years.
Five years ago, the price of a mature male slave was only about 10,000 yuan.
Now it has soared to fifteen thousand yuan.
In other words, these guys are picking up money at the border.
Moreover, it was a joy to pick it up.
It is impossible to count how many refugees from Dongou these guys have taken away.
However, the population in Dongou Kingdom has continued to decline. It has fallen to a level that is unacceptable to the small government of Dongou.
The people of Dongou had no choice but to cry and cry in Chang'an City, begging the emperor of the Han Dynasty for his decision.
But Liu Che didn't want to care about this matter.
He finally understood why the population of Dongou in his previous life dropped to an unbelievable number in just a dozen years.
I'm sorry. Disasters are just a driver. People fleeing in panic are the main cause.
However, in the previous life, the Dongou refugees should have fled to Fujian and Yue, which shared the same language and religious beliefs with them.
This allowed the national power of Fujian and Yue to grow rapidly.
More than ten years later, he actually took the initiative among Mitsukoshi.
He dared to go south to beat Nanyue without Zhao Tuo, and he also dared to go north to provoke the Han Dynasty.
Nowadays, because Liu Che accurately predicted the disaster, the people of Dongou who believe in witch gods will certainly not seek refuge with their poor relatives Minyue. What if another such terrible disaster happens without the blessing of gods?
Moreover, the Han Dynasty was always a superior state with a good economy and stable society.
Even slaves can eat white rice.
Of course you don’t have to think about how to choose!
The influx of refugees revitalized Jiangdu's economy.
Replanting food, rebuilding homes, etc. are now secondary to the people of Jiangdu.
How to find a way to recruit more Dongou people has become everyone's main idea.
In this feast, even civilians also joined in.
Some local families in need and men who could not find wives also appeared at the border.
They dress themselves up as energetically as possible.
When encountering a refugee family from Dongou, as soon as they find that there is a young woman among them, they immediately get close to them and do their best to attract their attention.
Benefited from this storm.
The original fixed social order was pushed back to a certain extent.
The officials responsible for presiding over the reconstruction work in the Jiangdu disaster area followed Liu Che's orders to clear the land, conduct a population census, and redistribute the land. If the land was not redistributed, there would be no way to sort out many things.
In particular, hurricanes and subsequent floods destroyed large amounts of farmland and homes.
By the way, the originally fixed boundaries on these lands were also washed away.
What's more important is that the original vested interest groups, such as squires and landowners, now have land and no one to farm it for them.
The tenant farmers and landless farmers who were among the refugees who were moved to Pengcheng and Huaisi during the disaster were all deceived by local landlords and powerful people with many preferential policies.
What makes these guys even more troublesome is that the government has also stepped in.
As soon as the reclamation policy of Liaodong, Xinhua, and North Korea was announced, farmers who regarded land as life quickly abandoned their original landowners and signed up one after another.
In this way, when the landlords and gentry in the disaster-stricken areas of Jiangdu returned to their hometowns, they were ready to roll up their sleeves and rebuild their homes.
They discovered that the land was there but the people were gone.
Many villages that were originally densely populated even lost all their tenant farmers and landless farmers at once.
Under such circumstances, landowners also had to consider their own food habits.
If you continue to worry about it, those farmers who still care about their old land will be scared away.
Who farms their own land?
So they wisely made concessions.
As a result, many farmers who originally lost their land now have a small piece of land to live on.
Although it is not as good as the land granting in the early Han Dynasty decades ago, where anyone can apply for a hundred acres of land.
However, there are still some ten or twenty acres of middle land.
In this way, although they still have to rent land from landlords to make a living, at least they have land that belongs to them.
After obtaining his own land and a new house, the government also distributed materials and sent craftsmen to guide the construction.
These guys naturally want to marry a wife and continue the family line.
I don’t know who took the lead, but overnight, many bachelor men appeared on the border between Jiangdu and Dongou.
These guys, wearing new clothes issued by the government and holding their land deeds, house deeds and other documents, stood on the side of the road and used all their abilities to seduce the fleeing Dongou women and their families.
It is of course better to be a free man than to be a slave.
As a result, many refugee families were brought home by their hairy sons-in-law.
As soon as I arrived at my son-in-law's house, I looked at the newly built new house, then at the son-in-law's dozen acres of land, and then at the son-in-law's rice vat. There were several jars full of the grain that had just been received from the government.
Smiling from ear to ear.
He immediately regarded his son-in-law's home as his own.
He greeted his family, helped clean up the house and tidy up the housework, and got married immediately that night. The next day, they all went to the fields to replant crops with his son-in-law.
Of course, the landlords and gentry in Jiangdu couldn't bear to see the mud-legged people coming to rob people.
However, government officials and even officials stood on the roadside and watched.
For these guys who are crazy about political achievements.
When the landowners and gentry get rich, they don't interfere.
However, they will be anxious to anyone who hinders their promotion!
In the performance evaluation of Han Dynasty officials, an important indicator was the increase or decrease in population.
In addition, there are too many refugees. Even if some are snatched away by mud-legged people, most of them will still be eaten by these guys.
Moreover, there were quite a few who were overstuffed.
These situations were eventually reported to Liu Che.
After Liu Che learned about this, of course he would not stop writing and turned his elbows outward.
What's more, the efficiency and ability of Dongou people are really too low.
Even if Liu Che puts up a barbed wire fence at the border and prohibits all refugees from entering.
Dongou State cannot retain these refugees, and these people may eventually flock to Fujian, Vietnam or even South Vietnam.
Naturally, Liu Che would not do anything about making enemies.
Therefore, the people of Dongou were in tragedy.
Facing the request of the Dongou envoy, Da Honglu of the Han Dynasty and the officials of the vassal state all looked surprised: "Ah, there is still this matter, let me investigate..."
After this investigation, it must be found that the Year of the Monkey and the Moon of the Horse are gone.
But it happened that the weaker Dong Ou was, the more it needed the protection of the Han Dynasty.
Even the people of Dongou have already planned to include it.
Therefore, after a few days of wrangling, the Dongou Mission wisely gave up and continued the wrangling.
Because Luo Yue, the king of Donghai and the king of Dongou, wrote to Liu Che and asked for it to be included.
Dongou, I really can’t hold on any longer!
People are fleeing in large numbers, social order is in chaos, reconstruction of disaster areas is far away, and epidemics are spreading across the country.
In essence, the Dongou regime has been paralyzed.
Had it not been for the fact that the leader of the Dongou Kingdom had controlled the army, and the Jiangdu Kingdom had sent an army of 2,000 men to Dongou.
At this time, Dongou Kingdom no longer exists.
However, now Dongou is indeed at the end of its rope.
In addition to internal attachment, Dongou people have no other choice.
Faced with the Dongou people's request for annexation, Liu Che only hesitated a little and approved Dongou's request for annexation.
Luo Yue, king of Dongou, was granted the title of Marquis of Guangwu, his prime minister and generals were granted the title of marquis, and the main nobles and officials in the country were granted the title of Marquis of Guannei.
Incorporate Dongou State into Jiangdu State.
Order Liu Yan, King of Jiangdu, to take over the territory, people and troops of Dongou.
Although, in this case, the Han Dynasty would have to bear a burden.
Especially the victims of disasters and epidemic diseases in Dongou must be borne by the Han Dynasty.
But in feudal society, to be honest, this burden was not heavy.
It is no exaggeration to say that if Liu Che had not jumped out personally.
In the end, only a short sentence may be left in the history books of this hurricane in Jiangdu: In the summer of April of the second year of Yuande, a big storm in Jiangdu came from the west, damaging the city for ten feet.
As for the casualties of the people and the impact of the disaster, we will not even mention it.
The people of this country are still like this. The victims of the disaster in Dongou will not even be given a chance to make soy sauce, let alone record it.
Not even qualified to be a data and background board!
Now that Dongou is within reach, the victims of the disaster in Dongou are finally qualified to serve as background boards and data.
But that's all. (To be continued...)
ps: I feel like I have become a sick person.
Shoulders, cervical vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, there is no place that does not hurt, hey~u
